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The Trouble With Ireland. The Trouble With Ahern.
YOU might not know it by looking at us, but we in Ireland have a serious problem to deal with right now.Our Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Bertie Ahern is under pressure. There are calls for him to quit. Those calls, naturally, come from the opposition.He is being defended...
Ireland: A Greed and Unpleasant Land
IT is a desperate thing when the flawed make up of a country's leader is eventually reflected in everything about that country.
So it is in Ireland, where the Taoiseach (prime minister) Bertie Ahern is in charge...
created by PaddyMurray | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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960 views | 2 recommendations | 4 comments
Would you blame every parent who lost a child?
IT is a long time since this world was a compassionate place.One glance around tells you that those who care about the plight of others are in a tiny minority.This weekend, it is 100 days since little Madeleine...
created by PaddyMurray | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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Pandora's Box
I was going through my files the other day, and I found this. It is an editorial I wrote when I was editor of Ireland's Sunday Tribune newspaper back in March 2003. At the time, all of the other Irish newspapers prevaricated about the US led invasion of Iraq. But I was...More DaVinci codology
YOU may have read, here on nowpublic, about the website in Italy which crashed last week, having received 15 million hits in a day. It contained yet another Leonardo daVinci theory. This one was based on what...
created by PaddyMurray | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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460 views | 0 recommendations | 2 comments
Legalise all drugs
ALL drugs should be legal.
Just weeks after 100 million euro of cocaine was washed up on the shores of Ireland and, presumably, destroyed, that might seem like an odd thing to say.
And I know, it is a suggestion...
created by PaddyMurray | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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956 views | 20 recommendations | 5 comments
They think we're all idiots
I am sorry to go on about Tara. But every day, more of it is being ruined, every day, more of it is bulldozed away. Soon, I'll stop writing about Tara, because it will be no more. *** Politicians think we're...
created by PaddyMurray | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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390 views | 10 recommendations | 2 comments
The trouble with democracy
Those of us who live in democracies are lucky. Or at least we're told we are. And we think we are. And, in fairness, we probably are. But while I can't think of a better system, I sometimes wonder if we're fooling ourselves when we think that, once we elected our leaders,... Burying 5000 years of history
Three thousand years before Christ, man lived at Tara.
Tara is an area thirty miles or so, north west of Dublin, in Ireland. It is close to a place called Newgrange, where an extraordinary passage grave stands. It...
created by PaddyMurray | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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633 views | 30 recommendations | 3 comments
