Paul Laverty
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Sorry We Missed You: One of Ken Loach’s best films
- Film
- November 1, 2019, 06:00
Over the last 50 years, as the faces in cabinet shifted and the slogans at party conferences mutated, Ken Loach has continued to tease out the various(...)

Ken Loach: What’s Britain doing owning part of Ireland?
- Film
- October 30, 2019, 06:00
We can safely assume that Ken Loach wouldn’t like to be thought of as any sort of institution. For more than 50 years, he’s been poking the British es(...)

Six ways to save money when you don’t have very much
- Personal Finance
- October 9, 2018, 05:30
It’s like anything. If you have money, it’s easy to save. If you don’t – or don’t have a lot – it’s much more difficult. We’re not talking about ways (...)

New EU regulations exclude Irish investors from certain investments
- Financial Services
- January 3, 2018, 10:43
The introduction of new European wide regulations on Monday aimed at making investment products more consumer friendly will see Irish investors tempor(...)

‘Jimmy’s Hall’ review: Movement presented as political dissent
- Stage
- July 26, 2017, 11:00
At an early point in this handsome, lively and sonorous stage adaptation of Ken Loach’s recent film, one character relates an anecdote that is nowhere(...)

Abbey Theatre to stage premiere outside Dublin for the first time
- Irish News
- June 22, 2017, 19:48
The Abbey Theatre will stage its first ever premiere outside Dublin when it hosts Jimmy’s Hall in Co Leitrim. The play about Jimmy Gralton, the only(...)

A story of austerity, but not as we know it
- Film
- March 16, 2017, 22:00
The Santander complex outside Madrid houses the headquarters of the eurozone’s largest bank and a landscaped garden neatly dotted by imported, thousan(...)

I, Daniel Blake review: Ken Loach at his most moving - and most vital
- Film
- October 20, 2016, 12:30
“My name’s John Ford. I make Westerns.” Thus one of the great directors (slightly disingenuously) summed up his career. Here is the latest film from (...)

Man loses challenge to PSNI sacking for ‘spying in tanning salon’
- Crime & Law
- March 19, 2015, 13:06
A policeman sacked after being investigated for allegedly spying on a woman in a tanning salon has lost a High Court challenge to his dismissal. Paul (...)

Ex-PSNI officer challenges sacking over alleged spying on woman
- Courts
- November 10, 2014, 20:49
A PSNI officer sacked after being investigated for allegedly spying on a woman in a tanning salon has won legal permission to challenge his dismissal.(...)