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    • Political or medical neglect

      The public treatment of women who attended breast cancer facilities at the Midland Regional Hospital in Portlaoise is shameful. Whether it alone should lead to a vote of no confidence in the Minister for Health Mary Harney in the Dáil next week, or legal proceedings against the medical professionals actually responsible, is another matter. p

    • Irish honours system

      The Taoiseach this week returned to a subject which he has raised in the past - the possibility of establishing an Irish honours system. p
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    • Hope resurgent in Iraq as jihadists are crushed

      There is a long way to go but things are looking up in Iraq and the achievements of the US and her allies in the country should be acknowledged, writes Rory Miller . p

    • Budget pledges that helped win election set to be lost

      Inside Politics: While the details of the Budget will remain a closely guarded secret until Wednesday week, one thing is already abundantly clear. Many of Fianna Fáil's key election promises will be abandoned without a backward glance and necessity will be portrayed as virtue.

    • Schools should not promote commercialism

      The Christmas season comes even earlier to the shops in Ireland than it does in the US, according to Prof Alex Molnar, the leading American expert on commercialism in public education, writes Breda O'Brien . He was speaking last weekend in Trinity College Dublin. p

    • Vigorous campaign needed to highlight reform treaty issues

      World View : The eyes of the world will be on Ireland next year as we vote in a referendum on the European Union's reform treaty, soon to be known as the Treaty of Lisbon when it is signed in that city next month. p

    • Wheels have come off our transport policy

      The fact that we have moved within 15 years from being one of the poorest countries in western Europe to becoming one of its best-off states has left us struggling with a grossly inadequate infrastructure, writes Garret FitzGerald . In particular, our transport system has totally failed to keep pace with the near-doubling of our working population since 1991. p

    • Cowen sets out his stall ahead of FF succession race

      Last Monday, Tánaiste and Minister for Finance Brian Cowen gave the Indecon Public Policy Lecture in Dublin, writes Noel Whelan . He used the occasion not only to flag some things he would and would not do in his forthcoming budget, but also to identify what he regards as Ireland's key economic medium-term priorities.

    • How we shop can make a world of difference

      Ethical consumerism can be a powerful force for societal and environmental change but we Irish are less enthusiastic than other Europeans, writes Peter Ireton . p
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    • An Irishwoman's Diary

      Arriving on the railway platform into Hiroshima, it's hard not to be sharply conscious of the self being at that spot, writes Evelyn Conlon . p
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