Facing doom
If we take extraordinary and immediate steps we may avoid catastrophic runaway global warming, but it may be too late; climate change will pre-empt peak oil; species loss on its own could be the...
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Mary Robinson: prisoner of optimism
INTERVIEW: Before her appointment as special UN envoy to Africa Michael Smith interviewed Mary Robinson about her Foundation which seeks to shift the climate debate from science and environment to...
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Are Irish unions still a force for equality?
Unions should sponsor research as to their impact on the equality measure, the gini co-efficient; or risk being seen as a force, sometimes, for the already relatively privileged By Michael Smith A...
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Iffy on Liffey: proposed 9-storey hotel seems to breach height standards
Solicitor and daily-communicating boomtown property developer, Noel Smyth, has submitted plans for a nine-storey hotel in Dublin city centre. His company, Fitzwilliam Real Estate Properties, is seeking...
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Corbyn’s Labour is exciting. But it needs to think big.
The inept , ugly and cleft Tory government could topple at any moment. Mrs May teeters. The favourite to lead the next administration is Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn. If he gets an extra 64 seats he will...
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Media failed in its duty on Covid
Government should focus on the elderly, as it should have done in March; Varadkar and Martin both outrageously breached the lockdown. By Michael Smith Perspective The Covid-19 infection rate of Irish...
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