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China's failed strategy on Tibet
IN AN extraordinary demonstration of how modern communications empower such movements, Tibetan protesters have demanded greater freedom from the Chinese rulers of their country over the last week, creating a worldwide awareness of and sympathy for their struggle. This protest has rapidly become the most serious challenge to Chinese rule for a generation and has been answered with a characteristic dismissal of its claims and customary repressive action. p
Homes fit to live in
GOVERNMENT AND local authorities were warned three years ago about the high incidence of sub-standard private accommodation leased to thousands of vulnerable families and individuals who qualified for assistance under the rent supplement scheme. Since then, the situation has worsened and the great bulk of these properties at the lower end of the market now fail to meet legal minimum standards for proper heating and ventilation. p
Opinion
Reign of greed has brought banks to their knees
OPINION: Fear has taken hold in the banking sector
as a consequence of its own greed. Soothing words from the
Financial Regulator would help, writes
Michael Casey pNatural History Museum facing another betrayal
I LAUGHED out loud driving to work, so preposterous seemed the
idea I'd just heard on the radio. Due to the renovation of Leinster
House, the Seanad would be moving into the Natural History Museum,
itself now closed for renovation. pWestern prejudice gets under the skin of the average Mandarin
NEWTON'S OPTIC: FOLLOWING LAST night's broadcast of the RTÉ evening news, I feel it is important to join all the other important writers in Ireland by voicing my support for China's actions in Tibet, writes Newton Emerson pExploitation makes the capitalist world go round
It is not just Cathal Ó Searcaigh who should bear the burden of exploitation of vulnerable people, writes Vincent Browne pLocal arts have social value as well as cost
SOMETIMES YOU find something that's pretty ordinary, something you thought you knew the run of, that turns out to be pretty extraordinary. pLisbon Treaty debate risks being framed by the politics of fear
The Yes side needs to focus on what the treaty offers Europe, writes Ciarán Toland p
An Irishman's Diary
LIKE Michael Hills (Letters, Monday), I first met my old friend
"The Crack", as he was then known, in Ulster. It was the late
1970s, or thereabouts. And not only was The Crack still using the
original spelling of his name, he still spoke with an accent - from
the north of England or possibly Scotland - that betrayed his
etymological origins, writes
Frank McNally p
