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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

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. Irritation ...

13 Apr 2021 at 11:00

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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 ...

22 Feb 2023 at 11:20

Comment & Opinion

OPINION: Politics, power and peaceful transitions

Irish general elections have become rather dull affairs. It was very different in 1932, the first election in the Irish Free State, when the anti-Treaty Fianna Fáil party won more seats (72) in the Dáil than the ruling pro-Treaty Cumann na ...

05 Sept 2024 at 20:00

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 concerns ...

10 Jul 2024 at 17:30

Comment & Opinion

OPINION: The unification debate must move beyond economics

The recent report by Professors John Fitzgerald and Edgar Morganroth on the ‘costs’ of unifying Ireland has sparked a debate that produces more heat than light. The professors show that Northern Ireland (NI), currently a UK region, ...

03 May 2024 at 19:01

Comment & Opinion

OPINION: The power of iconic images

The attempted assassination of former US President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, and the dramatic images that emerged from it, are dominating world news. This set me thinking about the important role that ...

26 Jul 2024 at 19:00

Comment & Opinion

OPINION: Local Government – Irish style

One of the downsides for National governments of being a member of international organisations (the EC, OECD, the Council of Europe) is that they submit to regular audits of how they are performing and whether their actions ...

15 Jun 2024 at 17:30

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

Comment & Opinion

OPINION: Murrisk Greenway consultation a sham, box-ticking exercise

I was recently a guest at the Mayo Association in Dublin where Rita Casey was honoured as Mayo Person of the Year and the Meitheal Award was made to West-on-Track for its campaign to restore rail services terminated ...

21 Mar 2024 at 18:00

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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, ...

30 Mar 2021 at 10:00

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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 ...

16 Mar 2021 at 11:00

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