Leader - Ireland’s media are in difficulty due to finance, ownership and … Denis O’Brien

Leader: Village is promoting an initiative to assess the viability of, and if the assessment is positive, pursuing prosecutions of tribunal villains and dishonest bankers 

Since the last edition of Village, in August, the global economy has teetered. From its foundation in 2004, Village has been one of the few local publications that systematically criticised the thrust of the direction of the economy and society. If it did not necessarily predict the at least temporary rout of capitalism then surely it would not have been surprised by it. The new Village takes up where the previous one was suspended.

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Well, Village was hardly likely to come down solidly on one side of this complex debate, where the Yes Campaign has the overriding advantage of a loaded bailout gun to…

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Among all the column inches given to the abortion debate in Ireland in recent months, the most bizarre opinion is that a pregnant woman whose life is at risk will…

Pádraig Ó Ríordáin, a partner with Arthur Cox solicitors, is recent governments’ go-to lawyer for finance and now aviation. After a seven-month search by Fine Gael’s scrupulous Minister for Transport,…

[Editorial, April, 2012] As Mahon finally grinds to a somewhat disappointing report, it is time to recognise that corruption, even more than its cousin greed, did for Ireland in our…

The ready availability of pornography and sexual imagery desensitises men to real women

The minister for Justice, Equality and Defence – Alan Shatter – has announced a working group to advise him on the merging of the Equality Authority and the Irish Human…

On Enda Kenny rests that most daunting of responsibilities in this battered society: the fulfilment of Hope In our last edition just before the general election we expressed, without confidence,…

As Village went to print, the main governing party had 13% support and its grumpy leader satisfied only 14% of voters.  The country looks likely to finish up losing 20%…

This edition we look at Ireland’s Left. We scrutinise  the Labour Party and find it a little short on radicalism. We also  look at alternative political movements – particularly on…

In this edition of Village we direct light at the Greens. Ministers John Gormley and Éamon Ryan are good influences in government. They are intelligent and articulate and seem open and honest. Unfortunately, their job of implementing a radical green and leftist agenda – with which Village is sympathetic – with only six seats out of an original eighty-seven on the government side, is exceptionally difficult. The Green ethos is diametrically different to that of their coalition partners, Fianna Fail – being idealistic, scrupulous and long-termist rather than realistic, parochial and populist.

Sexuality is complex, discrimination is controversial and sexual discrimination is an aggregate of the fraught fractiousness of its components