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Pensions fiasco reveals hopeless lack of leadership in Irish public sector
29 December 2011
LEADERSHIP. It’s a quality that was sadly lacking in the last government and, worryingly, it appears to be also absent in the current administration.
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Salary hike for ministerial advisor not in keeping with austerity
07 December 2011
THE news that a special advisor to Government was awarded a €35,000 salary increase at the behest of An Taoiseach Enda Kenny represents a disastrous piece of timing from the Government’s perspective.
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No cost must be spared in bringing Northern dissidents to justice
13 April 2011
THE shadow of the gunman has once again appeared on the Irish political and social landscape.
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Lowry debacle proves Irish voters have failed to deliver reform
06 April 2011
WHEN asked if disgraced former minister Michael Lowry should resign his Dáil seat, An Taoiseach Enda Kenny remarked that Mr Lowry would resign “in an ideal world”, before wryly observing that “we do not live in an ideal world”.
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Bev’s departure may make Ballina a ‘Two TD Town’
29 December 2010
Beverley Flynn’s decision to retire from politics says a lot about the unhappy state of Fianna Fáil in Mayo, writes James Laffey.
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Dream ticket likely for Mayo manager?
08 September 2010
THE official statement from the Mayo County Board on its quest to find a successor to John O’Mahony as manager of the Mayo senior football team is as impenetrable as a legal document emanating from the High Court.
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O Fiscal Taskmaster, give us another lash of your whip!
25 August 2010
THERE are people who make their living from churning out endless streams of statistics.
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Electronic tagging is only way forward for men like Murphy
18 August 2010
THE media furore surrounding the release of convicted rapist Larry Murphy has brought into sharp focus the State’s ham-fisted attempts at policing newly-released sex offenders.
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There are not too many jobs to be found in the cyber world
11 August 2010
JOB creation in the United States has ran out of steam less than six months after the Federal Reserve declared the worst recession since the 1930s officially over.
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Laws for provisional licence holders need to be changed
04 August 2010
ONE of the great success stories of recent years has been the Road Safety Authority’s campaign to reduce the number of deaths on Irish roads.
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Mortgage holders must unite to protect futures
28 July 2010
THERE are almost 300,000 mortgage holders on standard variable rate loans – that’s 300,000 households that have had their interest rates arbitrarily increased by bailed out financial institutions on at least two and possibly three occasions in the past 12 months.
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A funny old summer for football in the West
21 July 2010
IN A summer in which Connacht football has been turned on its head more than once, Roscommon produced the most remarkable head-spinner of all at McHale Park last Sunday by winning the Nestor Cup on the same ground where they were demolished by Mayo a year earlier.
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What’s so unthinkable about a Taoiseach from the West?
23 June 2010
THE Dublin media have it in for Enda Kenny, of that there is no doubt.
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When sorry seems to be the hardest word
16 June 2010
WE ARE obsessed with the past. That thought struck this writer on Saturday afternoon while listening to Rachel English’s excellent lunchtime current affairs programme on RTE Radio One.
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Johnno’s fate hinges on a game of Russian Roulette in the last chance saloon
09 June 2010
The shocking capitulation to Sligo has left Mayo football in a very bleak place, writes James Laffey.
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