Opinion
- German court ruling aims to lessen Lisbon confusion
ANALYSIS: Germany’s constitutional court has made important clarifications about the Lisbon Treaty, writes
DEREK SCALLY . - Support scheme key to tackling jobs crisis
OPINION: State support for employment is increasingly urgent – as evidenced by yesterday’s jobless figures, writes
DAVID BEGG . - Pharmacists accept gravity of economic plight but proposed cuts will undo years of hard work OPINION: Perhaps we should hesitate before dismantling a service which in fact works well and delivers value, writes
LIZ HOCTOR .
- Climate law must freeze out vested interests If business groups are not allowed a say, strong new measures can benefit the public and boost investment, writes
JOHN GIBBONS .
- Unionism must take on bigots in its midst It’s long past time that unionists acknowledge the festering problem of unchallenged racism within the community, writes
DAVID ADAMS .
- The truth of a good potato salad should be self-evident I WALKED the length of the westbound Lake Shore Limited as it left Albany last Sunday, six crowded coaches, and counted three Twitterers and a couple of phone texters, six laptoppers (two of whom were watching movies), four video gamers and 27 people reading books. Books made of paper! Turning the pages with their fingers one by one, reading the lines left to right, just as people have done for hundreds of years. Ain’t that something?
- Depilated handbook slaps real feminists in the face
BOOK OF THE DAY: ANTHEA McTEIRNAN writes
The Noughtie Girl’s Guide to Feminism by Ellie Levenson Oneworld, 216pp,£ 9.99 - Bodies believed to be victims of IRA 'executions' found
July 2nd, 1992: DURING THE 25-odd years of the Northern Troubles it was possible to become inured to the near-daily diet of violence and the accompanying propaganda war of claim and counter-claim. There were many violent incidents, though, whose motivations were murky at the time. One of them, from the later stages of the Troubles, resulted in this report in 1992. - Corrections and Clarifications A review of
Extremities in the Mill Theatre, Dundrum, in last Saturday’s edition, said that the play would finish last Saturday. It does not close until next Saturday, July 4th.
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