The forest the State decided to manage for someone else
How Ireland's public forestry agency, Coillte, came to operate a Gresham House private forestry fund. The 1988 Act gated both access and financial upside.
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Sold the view, extinguished the path
In April 2024 Fáilte Ireland announced that the Wild Atlantic Way generates €3 billion in annual tourism revenue. Six months later the State quietly removed …
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Is anyone in there?
Someone you know is probably starting to lean on an AI. Not in the productivity sense, that's everywhere. In the confidant sense. Talking to it …
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Two Terms! No more!
Last Sunday, Hungarian voters answered a constitutional question Irish voters have never been asked. Should the chief executive of the country be allowed to serve …
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The Politicians' Code — a binding instrument
If a corporal can go to prison for lying to a senior officer, a minister can go to prison for lying to the people who …
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Irish Minister Who Thinks the Problem Is the Coverage
Patrick O'Donovan, Minister for Media, Communications, Culture and Sport, went on Limerick's Live 95 today and said he would ask Coimisiún na Meán — Ireland's …
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Ten Cent Off a Litre
On Saturday evening the government announced a €505m fuel support package in response to six days of nationwide protests. The measures include a 10c reduction …
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It's the System, Stupid
In 1992, James Carville pinned a sign to the wall of Bill Clinton's campaign headquarters in Little Rock that read, in three lines, "Change versus …
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What the Surplus Hides
On paper, Ireland is the only Western European country currently building government wealth at scale rather than running it down. By the standard measures, the …
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The Lever and the Lie
An examination of how social media platforms exploit B.F. Skinner's variable ratio reinforcement, the most addictive behavioural pattern ever identified, to condition both creators and …
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The Ladder They Pulled Up
Ireland's government wants more professional landlords. Ireland's young people can't find jobs. These are not two stories. They are one policy, viewed from opposite ends …
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The War You Can't Afford and the Crisis They Won't Show You
While the world watches missile strikes on the news, three interconnected systems are failing simultaneously: a war destroying irreplaceable energy infrastructure, a $1.8 trillion private …
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