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Gordon Brown's indecisiveness
They're now calling him "Bottler Brown". But although the damage in the public eye to British prime minister Gordon Brown's reputation will be to his image of decisiveness, in truth it was not the decision to pull out of an immediate election that reflects poorly on him. Rather it was the fact that he allowed his "agonising" about the possibility of a poll to become public two years before the end of a parliamentary term. p
Our energy needs
Strong growth in the world economy has meant increasing demand for the fossil fuels that are necessary to sustain it, such as oil and gas. One consequence has been a soaring oil price, increasingly affected by geopolitical factors; namely, instability in some of the major regions of energy supply, the Middle East and the Russian Federation. p
Opinion
Modern Irish fairy tale
We have, in this country, a great talent for fiction. So great, indeed, that it cannot be confined to the realms of James Joyce, Kate O'Brien and John McGahern. Our fictions are too important to be left to the novelists, so they burst through into public policy. pCharities face new regulatory regime
A new law for charities starts its passage through the Dáil today but, argues Ivan Cooper , our 19,000-plus community and voluntary groups need support as well as regulation. pCorrymeela kept flame of peace alive during dark days
Rite and Reason: Who can dispute that the collective work of groups such as the Corrymeela community contributed to a grassroots base on which political agreement could take root in Northern Ireland? asks Alf McCreary p
An Irishman's Diary
It's a grim fate for a revolutionary who wanted to change the world. But 40 years to the day after he was executed, Che Guevara has achieved sainthood in the Bolivian province where he met his end. Not just secular sainthood, either, of the kind conferred on him elsewhere by a million teeshirts and posters. This is the fully religious kind. p
