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January 2010

Strong local government

Amid the challenges of trying to implement the Dublin Waste Management Plan and the Poolbeg incinerator, dealing with the recent…

January 2010

David Begg General Secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) spoke to Meadhbh Monahan about his view on…

January 2010

Budget 2010 saw the introduction of a carbon tax. eolas looks at what the carbon tax will mean for the…

January 2010

Aileen Murphy suggests how the health care system can fairly implement the McCarthy report’s recommendations that people contribute more to…

January 2010

Health Minister Mary Harney promised 1,000 beds would be created through co-location, a scheme where private hospitals would be built…

January 2010

While the Health Research Board has found that many terminally ill patients would prefer to die in a hospice than…

January 2010

Financial journalist Eamon Quinn examines the National Competitiveness Council’s latest report which urges Irish export companies to take steps to…

January 2010

The pros and cons of reducing the number of TDs. As the state’s population has increased, so too has the…

January 2010

Macdara Doyle, of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU), analyses Budget 2010 and argues that it is a “charter…

January 2010

Fergal O’Brien, senior economist in IBEC’s policy division, argues that by “frontloading” the fiscal adjustment into the 2010 Budget, the…