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          FRANK CONNOLLY:   Micheál Grealy has waited almost 40 years to find out what caused the death of his wife, Kathy, just weeks after she gave birth to their first child in Dublin’s Coombe Hospital. Admitted in full health to the hospital after 39 and a half weeks of a […]

  FRANK CONNOLLY:   The conviction and jailing of former Dungarvan Fine Gael councillor, Fred Forsey (43), on corruption charges has been hailed as a great victory by the establishment although the party has maintained a dignified silence in the whole affair. And why wouldn’t they as the man from whom Forsey is accused of […]

                CONSTANTIN GURDGIEV:     Last month’s desperate deal reached by the euro-area leaders in a bid to rescue the common currency could have borrowed its cover from the famous guide. The Irish Government, coming out of the June eurozone summit, was full of conviction that Ireland will […]

  NIALL CROWLEY:   The state of our democracy is rarely a focus for public debate. ‘It’s the economy, stupid’ is the order of the day. Yet our democracy sorely needs some attention. The challenge to reinvent our democracy was the focus for debate at Claiming our Future’s most recent deliberative event. Our institutions, as […]

Democracy depends on justice. Justice must be dispensed evenly.  This democracy is subverted by the flagrancy and impunity of white-collar crime – crime committed by the upper social classes, a type of crime that has ultimately ravaged this country. At every level the criminal system has been set up to ensure maintenance of the status […]

‘if you want to understand life, don’t think about vibrant, throbbing gels and oozes, think about information technology”.   ‘Philosophers already speculate about a situation where you download your brain’s entire  contents into a computer and the computer does the thinking for you after you are dead’   Sitting in Richard Dawkins living room is […]