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Jan 14, 2025 | 
theguardian.com | Michael Smith |Michaël Smith
Noreen Riols, who has died aged 98, served within the wartime Special Operations Executive (SOE), which coordinated resistance operations behind enemy lines. Her main role lay in training officers for surveillance work by acting as their target. She also acted as a “honey trap” in the final test before agents were sent into the field, trying to seduce them into giving away their mission.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Katherine Duncan |Ruth Morris |Michael Smith |Michaël Smith
Under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Lead and Copper Rule Improvements (LCRI) announced on Oct. 8, 2024, EPA has shifted its focus from addressing lead exceedances in drinking water to preventing lead in drinking water altogether. Under the LCRI, EPA will require approximately 67,000 public water systems to identify and replace lead service lines within a decade.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
villagemagazine.ie | Michael Smith |Michaël Smith |Habitats law |Rory Mulcahy |John A Masterson
Timeline of planning applications at once-wild Aghadachor, County Donegal, for a holiday resort, now tellingly marketed as “Donegal Boardwalk” The scam: how it happened that almost 200 acres on the wild t of Donegal is being debased into a sprawling housidyllic coas-ing estate, hotel and the usual leisure stuff – in breach of Irish law, European Law, the ruling Donegal County Development Plan, elementary planning norms and the public interest.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
villagemagazine.ie | Michael Smith |Michaël Smith |Gemma O’Doherty |now. He |Garda Commissioner
John McCleanOn 15 November 2017, I received an email from Gemma O’Doherty, former features tor of the ediIrish Independentwho had run several popular stories in this magazine. She said she was “wondering if you might be interested in a piece about Terenure College and a sexual abuse scandal that has secretly marred the school for fifty years…I am aware of a number of settlements made. I think this has the potential to be explosive”.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
villagemagazine.ie | Michael Smith |Michaël Smith
s Ireland’Budget 2025, presented by Finance Minister Jack Chambers (33) on 1 October. Key components included tax cuts, social welfare increases, and significant investments in housing and businesses, all aimed at supporting individuals and stimulating economic growth. The budget delivers on income tax changes by increasing the threshold for the higher 40% rate by €2,000 to €44,000 and cutting the Universal Social Charge (USC) from 4% to 3%.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
villagemagazine.ie | Michael Smith |Michaël Smith |An Taisce
broken fix it don’t replace it. is You live with little slopes in some floors, you don’t have to faithfully replace every piece of dilapidated cornicing. That should be the model. An example of my approach is No 5 Ormond Quay Upper, Dublin 7, restored from dereliction 30 years ago and currently a houseshare with seven bedrooms, three shared large bathrooms with Victorian baths, shared living room and kitchen, and basement for storage.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
villagemagazine.ie | Michael Smith |Michaël Smith |Eamon Ryan
Many in the environmental sector have links to the Green Party so I felt the need to remind them of the failures of that party: “Some of the loose thinking is brought to us by the same people who actually allowed a clause in the reen PartyG’s (2011) Climate Bill that expressly said it would NOT be justiciable (because the AG, who turned out not to be their friend, told them to put it in)!”.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Elizabeth Atkinson |Carl Hartley |Michael Smith |Michaël Smith
Manufacturing, as often noted, is the backbone of the American economy. Manufacturers not only innovate and create products that contribute to the betterment of our way of life but are also critically fundamental to our national competitiveness in a global marketplace. Additionally, manufacturers offer excellent wages, and each dollar invested by manufacturers produces a multiplier effect for local economies.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
villagemagazine.ie | Michael Smith |Michaël Smith
By Michael Smithptember 2023 In SeVillage documented the experience of Seán O’Brien, a Prison Ocer in Portlaoise in the 1980s, who stopped an IRA prisoner’s attempt to avoid extradition, after he was released from the prison in apparent breach of then-Taoiseach Charles Haughey’s plans; and who was rewarded not with a medal but with dismissal, collapsed mental health, and an extraordinary succession of, ongoing, frustrated attempts to expose the truth.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
villagemagazine.ie | Michael Smith |Michaël Smith
Panning FanningBy Michael SmithRossa Fanning was born in 1976, grew up in Leopardstown and went to Blackrock College. He attended University College Dublin where he served as Auditor of the fatulous UCD Law Society and graduated top of his class, obtaining First Class Honours both in his BCL degree in 1997 and a subsequent LL.M grounded in a thesis on tedious civil procedure.
