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Regional policy has repeatedly failed us

UNFAIR ADVANTAGES By keeping power and its benefits centralised, the regions continue to lag – a situation conveniently obscured by economic success at the aggregate national level. We in the Northern and Western Region must demand more than futile, ...

22 Feb 2023 at 11:20

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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

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Saorstát Éireann: The first decade

The cover of ‘Saorstat Éireann - Official Handbook’, published in 1932, Official handbook shows the historical origins of regional imbalance John Bradley I greatly missed the freedom to browse in bookshops during the lockdown. One makes ...

25 May 2021 at 10:00

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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 incredulity. ...

13 Apr 2021 at 11:00

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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 and ...

30 Mar 2021 at 10:00

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Global Ireland versus rural Ireland

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 ...

23 Jun 2022 at 10:41

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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 ...

02 Mar 2021 at 10:00

Comment & Opinion

OPINION: Book culture alive and thriving in Mayo

I’VE been an avid reader all my life. As children, growing up in Dublin in the 1950s, we bought comics in the local shops and borrowed books from the local Carnegie library. This was an era before Telefís Éireann began ...

09 Aug 2024 at 19:00

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 ...

18 Apr 2023 at 20:40

Comment & Opinion

OPINION: Tracing rural Ireland’s woes to the Congested Districts Board’s dissolution

Concern about the decline of rural Ireland didn’t start in the 1950s. Today’s neglect of the northwest region had origins in the colonial period of British rule and deteriorated after the 1801 Act of Union. This ...

22 Jan 2025 at 15:00

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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 ...

05 Feb 2025 at 17:00

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OPINION: The threat posed by Trump’s policies is real, but our economy is stronger now

It took a while for the significance of Donald Trump’s victory on November 5 to sink in here. Countries such as Ukraine and the UK made pre-emptive efforts to placate Mr Trump. In light of Mr Trump’s declared ...

09 Jan 2025 at 17:00

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