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• Monday, 8 November 2010

  Wistful nostalgia for former figures

  You know you're in trouble when you feel wistfully nostalgic for the days when the budget was "only" going to take €3bn out of the economy. Now it's twice that, so where will the axe fall? Can universal payments like child benefit, old age pensions and free third level education continue? Can we continue to keep nearly half of workers outside the tax net?

  And on the day that Olli Rehn comes to town, does the man who's really running Ireland have this country's best interests uppermost in his mind? Or are we just pawns in a much bigger game ? Let us know what you think by posting your comment below or emailing thefrontline@rte.ie

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• Monday, 1 November 2010

  Campaigners v companies

  Some of the most passionate arguments in Ireland in recent years have been about local communities objecting to incinerators, pylons, wind farms or roads.

  These campaigns have often been successful in delaying or scuppering a project that many people feel will damage their health or their environment. But business groups and others say we live in a "culture of objection" where it's nearly impossible to get anything done.

  Tonight we'll bring the two sides together - campaigners against incinerators and pylons will put their case directly to the companies involved, Covanta and Eirgrid, and we'll deal with wind farms and roads too.

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• Wednesday, 20 October 2010

  Some Facts About The Frontline

  David Nally - Editor

  There’s been some interesting media coverage of The Frontline today so I thought it might be a good idea to fill in some of the background on how we put the programme together. It’s an occupational hazard that sometimes the normal processes of producing a TV debate programme can be mischaracterised as somehow untoward.

  I really don’t think the vast majority of our viewers are under any such misconceptions but hopefully the below will be useful to some.

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• Monday, 18 October 2010

  Our future

  David Nally - Editor

  Tonight The Frontline is about Ireland's Future - when (hopefully) the anger has subsided, the banks have been rescued, the deficit has been reduced and the unemployment lines have shrunk what will be the lessons from this crisis? Is it a question of putting the petrol back in the engine and enjoying the ride once more? Or do we need to become a fundamentally different type of country and if so, how?
  
  Claiming our Future is a movement that aims to bring together "civic society" - i.e. voluntary groups, trade unions and various people and organisations who want fundamental change - to start putting some radical ideas on the political agenda. Is that just pie-in-the-sky thinking or is it realistic? Do we need to start with a new set of values as a people - and with the church's influence on the wane - where will the moral leadership come from?
  
  Archbishop Diarmuid Martin will be among those on our panel and we think we can promise you a lively and entertaining debate. You can make your own contribution by posting your comment below or by emailing thefrontline@rte.ie

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• Monday, 18 October 2010

  Jobs, jobs, jobs...

  After last week's show on entrepreneurship a number of viewers contacted us looking for information on the jobs some audience members said they had available at their companies.

  The list below is a number of the responses we received when we put these enquiries to our audience. They include vacancies for roles as diverse as operating theatre nurses and paddywagon bus drivers.

  We hope they're some benefit. Many thanks to those who got in touch, click 'Comments' below to see the rest of this post....

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• Thursday, 14 October 2010

  Entrepreneurship and Ireland

  Dave Nally
  Editor

  Tonight we're on earlier than usual with a special edition about entrepreneurs, the challenges they face and how we can use their energy to get us out of this mess. We'll be joined by Ray Nolan, who is often cited as Ireland's number one dotcom entrepreneur. When his "hostelworld.com" business was sold in 2009 it had generated more than $500m return for shareholders on just $150k invested.

  He'll be telling us what he thinks Ireland needs to do to get the most out of our talents and our people and we'll be joined by entrepreneurs young and old, big and small - many of them international success stories - who will tell us about the pluses and minuses of trying to create jobs and money in Ireland in 2010. You can take part by posting your comment below or emailing us at thefrontline@rte.ie

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