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    • People power at local level

      NOBODY WOULD deny there is an urgent need to reform our system of local government to make it more accountable and provide citizens with up-to-date information concerning ongoing projects and development plans. p

    • Excluding Hamas

      'THE PRESENT strategy of excluding Hamas and excluding Syria is just not working", according to former US president Jimmy Carter, speaking in Jerusalem after he met their representatives in Damascus. p
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    • Grand plans for local government need cash

      ANALYSIS: POLITICAL TALK about local government reform in Ireland is as old as the hills. Yet even as the talk continued intermittently over decades, the State became one of the most centralised in Europe, with more and more powers stripped from local authorities, leaving a bare carcass. p

    • Awards to public sector the toughest for unions to take

      VIEWED FROM a trade union perspective, the structures underpinning social partnership are creaking under the weight of corporate avarice. The sense of common purpose that informed the initial partnership agreements from 1987 onwards has been sundered gradually by greed. p

    • Appalling incidence of sexual abuse virtually ignored

      OUR CAPACITY to find controversy on side issues tangential to substantive problems is unbounded. There is a moral panic for a few days on the tangential issues and then nothing at all afterwards about the substantive issues. p

    • Failure to disclose accounts undermines parties' propriety

      We still do not know the annual income of political parties and individuals, nor have we a full picture of how elections are funded, Dr Elaine Byrne investigates. p

    • CND still on the march to nowhere

      EASTERTIDE MARKED the golden anniversary of the much lionised Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND). In February, Canon Patrick Comerford, now president of Irish CND, wrote it a birthday eulogy in this newspaper. p

    • Votes to blame for TD's trial in court of public opinion

      NEWTON'S OPTIC: I AM WRITING this letter in support of Kathleen Lynch, who is currently on trial in the court of public opinion. p

    • Corrections & Clarifications

      An article in the edition of April 17th, concerning an appeal by the Law Society over the High Court's refusal to strike off two solicitors, wrongly stated that Henry Colley continues to practise with the firm Roger Greene & Sons. Solicitors for Mr Colley have pointed out that Mr Colley ceased to practise on February 15th last. p
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    • An Irishman's Diary

      IN THESE exciting days for Dublin architecture, when every new building seems to make a bold visual statement, spare a thought for the Irish Yeast Company on College Street. p
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