It used to be Ireland which aped the worst ideas of the US, five years after those same ideas had fallen from fashion and shown to be useless and a waste of money. Now it’s the EU’s turn. The EU is to consider introducing automated border-crossing facilities within the EU for EU citizens and the [...]
What exactly are we reforming in this treaty? (The Lisbon Reform Treaty). Vincent Browne in The Sunday Business Post gives a refreshingly precise answer. I’ve good reason to be pro-European. In fact I’ve many good reasons, and I am all for the European project; but it appears that our mainstream politicians are being profoundly undemocratic [...]
Re the dreary turf war between Luas and Irish Rail over Broadstone, which according to today’s Irish Times Luas and the RPA have won (sub. required), what a pity there isn’t the imagination in Dublin that the Brazilian city of Curtiba was fortunate enough to have in the person of Jaime Lerner. With maverick flair [...]
The Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, has named Brian Lenihan, John Gormley and Eamon Ryan among his new Cabinet. The full list is: Brian Cowen – Tánaiste, Minister for Finance Mary Harney – Minister for Health and Children Mary Coughlan- Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Seamus Brennan – Minister for Arts, Sport & Tourism Noel Dempsey [...]