Bunker Roy explains his solar-engineering college and castigates the vested-interest aid industry to Samuel McManus (Simon Cumbers Award) It is is Diwali, the most important festival of the Hindu calendar,…

Where’s the interest in creating money? We’ve become used to the idea that a society based on loans is normal and sustainable     ‘In most countries, about three per…

Irish Election Literature: Hardiman blooded for FF in Dun Laoghaire Supreme Court Judge, Adrian Hardiman Libertarian, scourge of the state and political correctness. by Kyran Fitzgerald ‘Politically promiscuous, he was…

Village is promoting an initiative to assess the viability of pursuing prosecutions of tribunal villains and dishonest bankers   Like you, Village is sick of the Director of Public Prosecutions…

ÉAMON Gilmore will not lead Labour into the next General election, if this government goes full term. That’s a racing certainty. Go down to Paddy Power right now while the…

Online Anonymity is irrelevant: the only currency is truth   By Sheila Armstrong The Irish Times, in May 2012, announced that its online policy was to change. Before this, comments…

Ireland considers submitting to worldwide frack-up   By Eibhir Mulqueen     Reserves of natural gas that could produce a multiple of what has come from the Kinsale gas field…

Article by Niall Crowley     Minister Jimmy Deenihan, speaking recently in the Seanad, identified the opportunities in the coming decade of multiple commemorations. These included the possibly contradictory potentials…

UniCredit breached liquidity requirements in 2007.  Matthew Elderfield nods.  The interconnectedness of banking dysfunctionality. Michael Smith There is a general official view that Ireland’s ethical delinquencies are in the past. …

We need a ‘Social Europe’, not just Stability, Jobs and Growth   By Niall Crowley Mario Draghi, President of the European Central Bank, did for it last year, in the…

Overturned decisions, over-zoning, vacancy, one-off housing, one-off wind farms and car-dependence make Donegal Ireland’s worst-planned county.   By Anton McCabe Last year An Taisce judged Donegal to have the worst…

INTERVIEW: Before her appointment as special UN envoy to Africa Michael Smith interviewed Mary Robinson  about her Foundation which seeks to shift the climate debate from science and environment to…

Unions should sponsor research as to their impact on the equality measure, the gini co-efficient; or risk being seen as a force, sometimes, for the already relatively privileged   By…

Nineteen-thirteen was the year of the Dublin lockout and the courageous if unsuccessful struggle of Jim Larkin and the ITGWU against William Martin Murphy and the Dublin Chamber of Commerce….

Though famously dynamic, centralised and booming China is an environmental crisis   By Jennifer Duggan Heavy smog has shrouded a number of Chinese cities since the start of the new…

13 January 2013 http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/280/1754/20122845 —————————————————————————————————————————— Can a collapse of global civilisation be avoided? By Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Review by Tony…

The battle to protect our climate appears lost, with humanity condemned to a slow and strange form of collective suicide   By James Nix Suicide is a controversial word to…

Early acceptance of the life-changing science on climate, resources and biodiversity curtails the stages of grief for the doom of humanity   By John Gibbons Once upon a time the…

Kevin O’Sullivan and The Irish Times   By Gerard Cunningham When Kevin O’Sullivan took over from Geraldine Kennedy on 23 June 2011, as the 13th editor of the Irish Times,…