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WOOLLY THINKING Rural Ireland sustains our global identity, but the Government fails to support it. The Government’s Global Ireland 2025 strategy: strong on hype, weak on evidence John Bradley Last week I attended a conference in Paris whose theme ...

23 Jun 2022 at 10:41

Local News

Uniting Irelands

John Bradley People talk these days about prospects for a united Ireland. Such debates are healthy, provided they run their course peacefully. In this centenary year of the establishment of our State, there are aspects of the path that led to ...

16 Mar 2021 at 11:00

Comment & Opinion

OPINION: Spare us the egregious buck-passing, please

On October 27, The Guardian newspaper featured an article under the heading ‘Simon Harris says lack of infrastructure could become a ‘drag’ on Ireland’s competitiveness’. The Taoiseach’s diagnosis was that the time had come to ‘cut through ...

14 Nov 2024 at 19:28

Notes from the Western Periphery

Planning Mayo’s Future

PLANNING PYRAMID The Castlebar Local Area Planning strategy, as visually asserted by Mayo County Council. Pic: MCC The fall out from overly centralised, top-down governance John Bradley Mayo County Council’s recent unveiling of the draft ...

18 Apr 2023 at 20:40

Local News

Development and tradition

MURRISK MEMORIES Sarah Bradley (John Bradley's grandmother) in the family cottage, Murrisk. John Bradley When I tried to come up with a good title for this fortnightly column, my thoughts went back to the mid-1990s. I had been asked by ...

02 Mar 2021 at 10:00

Notes from the Western Periphery

OPINION: Weather warnings and future dilemmas for Mayo and the West

There had been rough weather in the preceding days, but a calm had arrived and the currachs were launched to fish a few kilometres offshore. Groups of young men from Cleggan and from the Inishkeas knew that the barometer was reading ...

05 Feb 2025 at 17:00

Comment & Opinion

OPINION: Why our national politicians lose sight of regional concerns

In a country ruled from the centre, power resides at the centre. Ambitious politicians may start their careers in the provinces, but the centre beckons, and when they arrive there, national issues come to dominate any regional ...

10 Jul 2024 at 17:30

Local News

Identity and symbols

STARK REALITY A burnt out Serbian home in Kosovo. John Bradley It was the evening of St Patrick’s day in Pristina, Kosovo, in March 2004. Our group was sitting in a café after work: Irish, British, American, Austrian, Dutch ...

30 Mar 2021 at 10:00

Comment & Opinion

OPINION: Centralised Ireland — a policy of divide and ignore

In most democracies, election campaigns are an opportunity for conflicting views of how a society ought to be run to be debated vigorously and openly. Contending national parties draw up manifestoes setting out their plans ...

05 Oct 2024 at 12:31

Comment & Opinion

OPINION: The Government must face a reckoning for its mishandling of our money

The report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) is not a compelling or exciting read. Published every year, the CAG provides independent assurance that public funds are used in accordance with the law, managed to ...

20 Oct 2024 at 10:01

Local News

Escape to the country?

The case for a rethink of Project Ireland 2040 John Bradley Was the former Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, fretting aloud about the risk of our big cities ‘hollowing out’ due to the coronavirus pandemic? My first reaction was ...

13 Apr 2021 at 11:00

Comment & Opinion

OPINION: Tracking the flaws – correcting past reports on the Western Rail Corridor

Governments reach out to private consultancy firms to seek advice and guidance in situations where the civil service or state agencies lack specific expertise. An economic justification can be made for this kind of ...

15 May 2024 at 10:15

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