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The Equality Agenda
The Equality Agenda
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A literary fascism.
By Frank Armstrong. Literary deities loom over Ireland like US Presidents carved into Mount Rushmore. It isn’t philosophers, engineers, chefs, painters or even composers who summoned the Irish nation, but poets. Yet conversely their hovering presence barely registers; just as most contemporary Florentines scurry about unmoved by Brunelleschi’s dome, few here look to the sky […]
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The Politics of Disillusionment.
Ronan Burtenshaw explores four of Ireland’s new anti-austerity organisations, asking where they came from and where they are going.
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Arising from Ashers.
By Niall Crowley. If I am a baker am I really going to run the rule over all my customers to see how they intend to use my cakes before I make a sale? Baking would get a lot harder and a lot less commercial if I took on that task. I would not be […]
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Sierra Leone after Ebola.
By Frank Armstrong. In Sierra Leone an amusing assortment of greetings has evolved to replace ‘pressing of the flesh’ that could give rise to Ebola contagion. From elbow jabs to clasped-hand bows, a gallows humour has derived. The reality of Ebola is hidden from visitors: the main reminder the hand-held, infra-red thermometers that assail passers-by […]
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By Gerard Cunningham. Daniel O’Donnell best showed RTÉ’s literalist interpretation of broadcasting balance in its full absurdity. In an afternoon interview with Ray D’Arcy the Donegal crooner was asked about the referendum, and spoke on the topic for three minutes. As he finished, D’Arcy asked “have we got a stopwatch on that?”, and made a […]
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