(as published in The Village) What Ireland Should be ? – For the moment I am going to leave that one, to my fellow Village contributors and, given their unfortunate dominance, to the great and the good who lecture, pontificate and broadcast to us every day, from what some still quaintly call our National Broadcasting [...]

Text of Cllr Dermot Lacey’s address the Patrick Mc Gill Summer School, Glenties, Co. Donegal on Friday 23rd July on the subject of Local Government. Other speakers were Pat The Cope Gallagher T.D., Minister of State at the Department of the Enviornment, Heritage and Local Government, Rachel Kenny, Irish Planning Institute and Michael McLonne, Donegal [...]

Text of Cllr Dermot Lacey’s address the Patrick Mc Gill Summer School, Glenties, Co. Donegal on Friday 23rd July on the subject of Local Government. Other speakers were Pat The Cope Gallagher T.D., Minister of State at the Department of the Enviornment, Heritage and Local Government, Rachel Kenny, Irish Planning Institute and Michael McLonne, Donegal [...]

(Originally published in News 4 A Tribute To Joe Doyle By Dermot Lacey On June 12th next, for the first time since 1979, this area will no longer be represented at either Dublin City Council or in the Dail or Seanad by Joe Doyle. It is quite simply a record of twenty-five years unbroken, dedicated [...]

(This article was published in The Irish Times on February 25th, 2004). The Irish Times is a great newspaper. Its authority as “the paper of record”, is self-confidently expressed and, in fairness, usually deserved. However the opening sentence of the editorial “A good ruling for politics” of 21st February makes a significant dent in that [...]