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By Lorraine Courtney Political art is often charged with achieving the impossible: producing real, tangible change. Artists don’t pass laws or have a finger on the button, so what can they possibly do to influence governments or dislodge the structures of power? Will they ever save the world through ideas, objects and images alone? ‘Counter […]
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By Frank Armstrong. You know you are in trouble when the Minister for Health boasts about taking out health insurance although the Programme for Government stipulates a “universal, single-tiered health service, which guarantees access based on need, not income”. In his cheery way Leo Varadakar was effectively admitting that the provision of public health care […]
By Domhnall Casey. Most people now see homosexuality as ‘normal’, a big improvement on the recent past when to be gay was a criminal offence. The Government’s proposal to hold a Constitutional referendum aimed at changing the law on equal marriage for the homosexual community has, apparently, been greeted so far with almost universal approval. […]
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Driven like much colonisers’ violence by culture and religion. By Frank Armstrong and Michael Smith
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Culture committee recommend national policy, cross-departmental committee and study, on how arts can combat social disadvantage. By Ed Carroll
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President MUST be a poet, insists President Higgins. By Kevin Kiely
Mother’s resilience is unpredictable, fragile and liable to flip