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(Ar)Lean times in North
No more chuckles as Foster flounders and McGuinness weakens
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Offence Against a State in Denial
No one ever charged with murderous 1972 Dublin bombings
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Stacking Up
The Stack family were satisfied that the meeting had led to some closure about their father’s murder. That was until the general election
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The Irish media and national politicians are facilitating cover-ups of a range of issues – from the issues missed by feeble tribunals to Sugarman, Ansbacher, CRH and planning in Donegal
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Ireland can be Germark
I have been leafing through the Global Youth Development Index 2016 published recently by the Commonwealth Secretariat, London. It deals with the all-round wellbeing of people aged 15 to 29 in 183 countries inside and outside the Commonwealth. It measures the general condition of that national cohort using five criteria: Civic participation, Education, Employment and […]
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Unclaimed Future
Claiming Our Future was ‘waked’ on 10th December in Tailors Hall in Dublin. There was a good attendance, some sadness, and, as ever, a bit of deliberation. It was felt the deceased had had a good life and that longevity was never the appropriate ambition for such a creation. It had a potential that was […]
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Legal Change
Organisations that support victims of domestic violence have been calling for many years for legal reforms to offer greater protection for victims. Victims of domestic violence who are not cohabiting, or do not have a child in common with an abusive partner, are not eligible to apply for court safety orders. Even where they are […]
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Genderisory
This November marks the second anniversary of my successful gender equality case at the Equality Tribunal against NUI Galway for its failure to appoint me to the post of Senior Lecturer. It was hailed as a landmark case and should have been a call to arms, not just for NUI Galway, but for all third-level […]
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An Offence Against The State
On 1 December 1972 a car bomb exploded beside Liberty Hall in Dublin. Fortunately no one died but George Bradshaw, a CIE bus driver, and Thomas Duffy, a bus conductor, perished in a second explosion at Sackville Place. No one has ever been charged with these crimes. The UVF belatedly claimed sole responsibility for them […]
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Published in the November 2016 issue of Village Why has rebel-held East Aleppo taken so long to fall, despite being besieged for months by Syrian Government soldiers, backed by Russian war-planes? Will ISIS-occupied Mosul hold out similarly against Iraqi troops supported by the Kurds and Americans? Or will agreed escape corridors in either case help […]
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Deprived of humanity and respect
Government action shows asylum-seeker Working Group vision sold short as Direct Provision keeps allowances low, denies employment and marginalises children
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Trump/Slump
By all possible measures the US presidential election of 2016 has set a record low in the quality of political discourse. However, with the outcome handing the Republicans a decisive victory in the White House, Senate and House of Representatives contests, the election will have a lasting and systemic impact on the development of economic […]
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Poverty shapes abortion
A woman in poverty is damned from two perspectives when it comes to pregnancy. She can’t afford to continue a pregnancy but she can’t afford to stop it either. Constitutional reform; investing in women; trusting women; reversing austerity; treating all mothers equally; addressing poverty, low pay and childcare and all the other social and economic […]
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Enda(ngered)
The election of Donald Trump is just the latest headache for an already precariously balanced Irish government. The election of the man whose words were described as ‘racist and dangerous’ by Enda Kenny just a few months ago does not in itself pose an imminent threat to the Taoiseach’s political survival but it certainly intensifies […]
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Social Europe: needs teeth
EU denies symbiosis of economic with other rights. Juncker’s European Pillar actually relegates Social and Environmental rights.
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McKinseygalitarian
Stephen Donnelly is an accidental politician. There he was sitting in front of his TV minding his own business, watching the news pictures of IMF officials striding the streets of Dublin. He saw the threat. “I’m trained in this stuff – what happens when the IMF arrives in your country, the mistakes that get made, […]
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The big day The sun shone, marquees fluttered, caterers bustled. Everybody who was anybody was there, ‘old boys’, former nurses, family friends. The No 1 Army band heralded the arrival of the Archbishop of Dublin; His Grace was followed five minutes later by the Tánaiste and Mrs Childers. The Archbishop said Mass for some 1200 […]
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In which Denis gets himself sued
Perhaps the strangest event on the Irish media landscape last month was prompted by Sinn Féin MEP Lynn Boylan’s publication of a report into media ownership in Ireland, commissioned by the European United Left/Nordic Green Left (GUE/NGL) grouping in the European Parliament. The report itself – by Belfast solicitors Gavin Booth and Darragh Mackin of […]