Friday Forum looks back on the big news stories of the week

Friday Forum looks back on the big news stori...

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Ireland's Infrastructure Delivery Inability

Electronic voting, a metro system, a children's hospital, a fleet of electric buses. These are just some of the projects a modern, forward-looking Ireland should have produced on time and within budget in the past twenty years. But it did not. Sinead O'Sullivan is an economist wh ...  Show more

What Caused the Ceuta Surge?

At least 67 migrants died this week making the crossing from Morocco to Ceuta, the Spanish exclave on the north-western tip of Africa. The world was shocked by images of an estimated 60,000 people breaching the border with the Spanish territory, and it has sparked a lot of politi ...  Show more

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