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An optimistic take on the stasis
A minority government leading to a countervailing new political force1a
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Love over hate
Ireland is delinquent on hate-crime legislation and should now enact the bill published last year
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The problem is influence
Donations and planning corruption in Ireland and Australia
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More to be done
One in three adolescent LGBTI has attempted suicide, three times the average
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Champion of civil and political rights but enemy of social and economic rights
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Our key witness is unwell
Law Society Council apparently unaware of seriousness of Colm Murphy case
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Planning Tribunal is to kind to itself
Delay in addressing Supreme Court judgments was self-serving and scandalous
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Smur fit-up for Merrion Square
Do-gooder again seeks to do good but doesn’t
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Refugee Reality
FOI complaints show lunatics taking over the asylum-seekers
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Anti-bloodshed brothers
Connolly and Pearse were united primarily by aborrhence of WWI’s blood sacrifice
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1916 and the ongoing danger of conservative revolution
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What’s your geographical and professional background? I am originally from Carrickmacross, Co Monaghan, but moved to Dublin over 20 years ago. I have worked as an English and Music teacher in St Tiernan’s Community School in Dundrum for the past 16 years. How long have you been in the Greens and how did you first […]
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Braced for Brexit
Back in the 1960s I once stood on the plinth of Nelson’s column in Trafalgar Square, London, between Landseer’s lions, at a Connolly Association rally against anti-Catholic discrimination by the Northern Ireland Stormont regime. Lots of people were waving tricolours. Forty years later I spoke again in the same spot, at an anti-EU rally organised by […]
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If you’re looking for a chirpy, upbeat assessment of how humanity will, in the nick of time, get its clappy act together to tackle dangerous climate change, then Kevin Anderson is probably not the person you need to talk to. Professor of Energy and Climate Change at the University of Manchester and deputy Director of […]
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In recent weeks much ink has been dispensed and many moving tributes have been made to the late great Adrian Hardiman. The obituaries and commentary have been universally laudatory both personally and professionally. Certainly he was a great and unique human being. An unquenchable light has been dimmed and a degree of joy and colour […]
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Village Idiot April 2016
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Patrick Pearse loved his students not wisely but too well, if you know what I mean – what with writing poems about kissing them on the mouth and relocating his school from the healthy hustle-bustle of Ranelagh to dark woodlands in Rathfarnham. Oh, and his students didn’t necessarily reciprocate the affection: a teenage James Joyce dropped […]
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The Irish Times has had a mixed 1916 commemoration. Even its own audiences seem hardwired to expect a certain bias from the newspaper of reference, but one particular decision – or probably a non-decision no one ever thought to check for unfortunate implications – certainly didn’t help. For its 1916 anniversary issue the paper produced a […]
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The UN’s Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon, has called civil society “the oxygen of democracy” but its space is shrinking. This may be jargon, but it is inspired by a serious threat to democracy – the undermining of basic rights: freedom of expression, freedom of association, and the right to peaceful assembly. Civicus grandly describes itself […]