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Oct 9, 2024 | villagemagazine.ie | Mark Cullinane |Gary Lineker |with Rory

October-November 2024 11Waster BrainsWith one part in two hundred of the average human brain, by weight, now microplastics, preservation of the species suggests it’s us or them. WasterChris Comerford largely escaped obituaries when he died last month though he stilled the news cycle for a few days in the 1990s.
Corrupted Donegal planning: outgoing Minister Darragh O’Brien must ﬁnally intervene

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.
2017, when the dam broke for religious schools

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”.
Jack Chambers, Minister for Finance

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%.
Dereliction overhead: very practical solutions

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 9, 2024 | villagemagazine.ie | Cillian Doyle |Dubliner Sir Nicholas

36 October-November 2024banking assets located in the IFSC. But these assets are simply administered from Ireland, the management of them takes place in London, and other places like New York and Frankfurt. DonohoeSomeone once said that ﬁnance makes for a good servant, but a bad master. Donohoe’s ancient British honour was bestowed as a kind of lifetime service award for his assistance to today’s masters of ﬁnance.
The importance of rigour

Oct 9, 2024 | villagemagazine.ie | George Monbiot |Jews. How

The importance of rigourMost conspiracy theorists obsess about false conspiracies, but ignore the real onesBy George MonbiotPOLITICSVillageOctNov24.indb 4203/10/2024 14:27I am a conspiracy theorist. I believe that groups of people conspire secretly against our interests to line their pockets, cover their backs or achieve political goals. By this deﬁnition I suspect you are, too. We see evidence of these conspiracies every day.
Greenwashingourclimate and our future away

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)!”.
Borderline crosses the line

Oct 7, 2024 | villagemagazine.ie | Gerard Cunningham

here’s Tsome lip service to this idea in derline’, but it‘Bor’s unclear whether it’s accidental or deliberate. PSNI detective chief inspector Philip Boyd (Eoin Macken) is introduced playing a church (heorgan ’s religious, got it?) but while the clichéd southern view of a northern Protestant would be a ﬁre and brimstone Paisleyite, Boyd is instead a member of a milquetoast congregation coded like an Anglican church in the home counties, more Vicar of Dilby than Free Presbyterian.
Obituary for ‘Obituary’ - Village Magazine

Oct 7, 2024 | villagemagazine.ie | Gerard Cunningham

Obituary for ‘Obituary’Economics of freelance journalism risk a blow to our democracyBy Gerard CunninghamFilming is well under way in the Donegal town of Ballyshannon for Season 2 of ‘Obituary’, an Irish black comedy television series available on RTÉ at home and on Hulu in the USA.