G. B. Thompson

Mar 20, 2024 | ontheditch.com | Niamh Cavanagh |G. B. Thompson

By Niamh Cavanagh. Originally published in The Ditch's State Failures. The result of the 2018 referendum that repealed the Irish constitution’s eighth amendment should have been monumental. It should’ve truly changed things. That’s what we were told and what we wanted to believe. It represented a rejection of church dogma and conservatism. It was to give women bodily autonomy.

Dec 5, 2023 | ontheditch.com | G. B. Thompson

A former Fine Gael election candidate has delayed a major Tara Mines project for more than a year after he submitted a bogus planning appeal to An Bord Pleanála. Tara Mines was forced to close earlier this year, resulting in the loss of more than 650 jobs.