The Arts Council has recently terminated all funding to the Irish Writers’ Centre, an important national institution for the support, development and promotion of writers and writing.
Finance Minister Brian Lenihan continues to be short on specifics of how his Government intends to tackle job losses and Ireland’s public finance crisis and chooses instead to take refuge in vague and ambiguous proposals, leaving us to wonder what exactly
It would appear that the Green Party roll-over is now complete, with commuters across the Greater Dublin area still reeling from the news as Dublin Bus confirmed that its fleet will be reduced by 10 per cent, with the removal of 120 vehicles.
From his home near the Black Sea, a young man named Anacharsis made his way to Athens in the early sixth century BC. At that time, Athens was the centre of the civilised world, a metropolis teeming with innovative politicians, philosophers, poets and artists.
Bhíos ag féachaint ar Teilifís na Fraince le déanaí. Díospóireacht shuimiúil a bhí inti ina raibh roinnt fealsaimh dár linne (Michel Onfray agud Bernard Stiegler ina measc) ag tabhairt
Latvia’s ‘economic growth’ was an illusion which is now completely shattered, argues Viktor Posudnevsky in the wake of last week’s street riots in Riga.
Looking around at Bangkok in the days before I flew home, I was struck by how different it appeared in comparison to when I arrived for the first time. Living in the Land of Smiles for the best part of a year had made me see it in an entirely different light.