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Cycling Environment Society

Car shaped minds

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@CyclingVillage (Keith Byrne) posted a link to an article in the Connacht Trib (“Rogue rickshaws an ‘accident waiting to happen’”). It’s a great example of car shaped thinking, one where almost nobody tries to look at the issues from any other perspective whatsoever. The default is to drive, and everything else must be bent, twisted […]

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Government Society

Unintended consequences – renters & water charge deposits?

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Renters face €1k water charge deposits | Irish Examiner: In a statement last night, the landlords’ group said that, despite Government claims that property owners could take unpaid water charge fees out of a tenant’s rent deposit, existing legislation prevents this. The association stressed this would be “a blatant contravention of tenancy and letting agreements […]

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Freedoms Human Rights Politics Society

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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History Politics Society

Why Ireland became the only country in the democratic world to have a constitutional ban on abortion

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The Irish Responsible Society, of which five key PLAC leaders were members, was the Irish branch of the group led by the English right-wing Catholic activist Valerie Riches (now a papal dame). For Riches, the degeneration of society through sexual permissiveness was a conspiracy driven by International Planned Parenthood. She and her Irish followers were especially […]

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History Society

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A Limerick A Day (Broadsheet.ie): Let’s all be dismayed and aghast, At what happened back in the “dark past”, It may be the worst, But it isn’t the first, So for now let’s pretend it’s the last. John Moynes BBC: “The Tuam home was one of 10 institutions in which about 35,000 unmarried pregnant women […]

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