Public Affairs
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Political Platform: Fianna Fáil’s Lisa Chambers TD
How did your political career begin? About nine years ago, I ended up on Pat Kenny’s show ‘The Front Line’…
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Bring back the guillotine
Once censured by critics as a government tool to prematurely curtail parliamentary debate, since the abolition of the guillotine, Dáil…
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The authority to speak
Following the first public lecture organised by An Roinn Ghaeilge agus Léann Cheilteach/the Department of Irish and Celtic Studies in…
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Sinn Féin Ard Fheis 2018
Media focus at Sinn Féin’s 2018 Ard Fheis was primarily concerned with two key junctures: the first was the party’s…
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‘Players and crap-hats’
The deployment of militarily aggressive British Army units to Northern Ireland – bristling with experience of colonial counter-insurgency tours…
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Waiting in the wings: Michael McGrath, TD
Michael McGrath, the highly regarded TD for Cork South-Central, is regularly hyped by the political commentariat as a Fianna Fáil…
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An Irish political Moses
March 2018 marked the centenary of the death of John Redmond. In recent years, a concerted effort has been made…
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The Loneliness Taskforce
Fianna Fáil Senator Keith Swanick, a GP who runs his own family practice in Belmullet, County Mayo, writes on the…
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The future of the Seanad
The continued existence of Seanad Éireann makes Ireland atypical. Globally, the majority of parliaments are now unicameral and of those…
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Trades Union desk
It remains one of the enduring mysteries of the post-2008 world as to why ratings agencies remain widely trusted and…
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