Children featured prominently in one of the most controversial fracas of the 1913 Dublin Lockout . Tellingly the actual children’s interests were instrumental, not really a matter of concern for the grown-ups and their politicking. One hundred years later, has anything changed in the status of children in Ireland, asks Niall Crowley, commissioning editor of this Lockout special [one of a series]
The erudite, scrupulous, good-natured and occasionally humorous NAMA-scrutinising blog disappeared before its anonymous author could be traced, or tire
David Quinn insists that change be driven only by evidence, but when it suits him he cites a discredited author who ignores recent research and relies on distortions