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    • Backward step on party funds

      Will Fianna Fáil ever learn? In the teeth of tribunal revelations concerning crooked politicians, bent businessmen and political donations, the Minister for the Environment, Mr Cullen, has signalled his intention to increase the amounts that can be raised through corporate funding. p

    • Legalising Fireworks

      There still seems to be a thrill of illegality about the use of fireworks at Hallowe'en, judged by their extensive use in the last few days and a spate of violent incidents associated with them. This adds to the strong case for legalising fireworks in order to ensure safer standards, since it has not proved possible to enforce the terms of the 1875 Explosives Act, which bans their use. p
    Opinion

    • Bad days can be blamed on those devilish little details

      The prospect of war in the Middle East is frightening, and the downturn in the economy is depressing, but it's more likely the small things in life that play a determining influence on your mood on any particular day. p

    • From facts to a humane system of education

      This week I read two books, both of which have implications for every child in this country. The first (OK, I just browsed this one) is a 376-page OECD report, Education at a Glance 2002, which looks at education at the macro level, analysing and interpreting data on education from some 27 countries. p

    • McCreevy must explain the missing millions

      A table represents the best way of measuring the deterioration in our public finances over the past two years. It compares the first estimate made by the Department of Finance of next year's budgetary outturn, which was published two years ago on the occasion of the Budget  of December 6th, 2000, with the revised estimate for 2003 published by the Department a year later, and also with the latest ESRI estimate of the 2003 Budget out-turn, which was published two weeks ago. p
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    • An Irishman's Diary

      In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech in 1923, W.B. Yeats described the Irish actress Molly Allgood, who died 50 years ago today, as "all simplicity". But there was nothing simple about the life of the woman whose stage name was Máire O'Neill, a life that involved much success but also much suffering and bleak tragedy. p
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