Politics

A woman of some importance

The Labour Party's deputy leader has travelled a bewildering trajectory from privilege to architecture, to Marxism/Stalinism, back to (very) moderate social democracy. By Emma Browne

Unhappy Labour

Pat Rabbitte has disappointed expectations of him as leader and he has moved his party decisively to the right. By Vincent Browne

Gaybo ain't seen nothing yet

  • 29 March 2006
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Not a single one of the three vital measures promised by Government eight years ago has been implemented. Meanwhile, in that eight years almost as many people have been killed on the roads here as were killed through the 25 years of the Northern conflict. By Donal Kavanagh

Labour might reflect on Democratic Programme for first Dáil which reflected party's lost ethos

The Labour Party assembles in Dublin this coming weekend (31 March – 1 April) to advertise its wares in what is the start of the long 2007 election campaign. There are many signs the party has lost its way and no longer stands for anything even vaguely resembling a socialist alternative. It hardly could do better than to reflect on the Democratic Programme for the first Dáil, which we publish in this issue of Village (see Page 66).

Derry Council against disclosure

  • 22 March 2006
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Derry council has voted to take a High Court case against the FOI Commissioner, who said that the council should disclose a deal it did with Ryanair regarding the council-owned Derry airport. Eamonn McCann reports

Political amnesia

The Green Party proposed a motion in the Dáil on 21 March to deal with the 'collective amnesia' suffered by politicians before the Planning Tribunal, and calling for all parties to refuse funding from developers. These are extracts from that debate.

Examples of amnesia

Both Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael held internal party inquiries into corruption in 2000. Now it transpires that numerous councillors neglected, or forgot, to to give the inquiries details of donations they had received from the developer, Christopher Jones, and the lobbyist, Frank Dunlop, donations which the Planning Tribunal has since uncovered

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