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Jobs for the Boys

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Who said poltics was going to be reformed? Oh, wait, Fine Gael did. In their election manifesto for 2011 they aimed for a ‘New politics’ to eliminate cronyism and the like. Fine words, but then along came a Seanad by-election, and as Eamon Delaney notes, (“Art museum appointment shows political cronyism has not change”) a […]

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Empires Love Their Dissidents Foreign

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Any regime, no matter how repressive, will gladly fête its enemy’s critics—while homegrown versions of those critics occupy concrete cells. Cooing over foreign dissidents allows establishment hacks to pose like sexy rebels—while simultaneously affirming that their own system is the best. The dissident fetishist takes a brave, principled person, and uses them like a codpiece […]

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Common Ground

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I’m in the unusual position of agreeing with Ronan Mullen (“What is to be done about direct provision? – Irish Times”), someone I generally don’t find common ground with. Perhaps best known for his anti-abortion views, Mr Mullen has struck out from the pack with a proposal to radically overhaul direct provision. He is calling […]

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