Finding Your Voice After Trauma
Have you ever experienced that emptiness, that deep silence, that infinite ignorance following trauma? Well,…
Browsing: Society
Irish Prison Service Whistleblower: The Strange Story of Sean O’Brien
To meet ex-prison officer Sean O’Brien for the first time I drove through a sparse…
Sport in the Neoliberal Zeitgeist
Despite all the controversies in the run-up, and as with the last World Cup in…
60 Bucks for Life
“You have no appointment.” I’d emailed, left messages, and read their mission statement: To free the…
Interview with Concetto La Malfa
This week Cassandra Voices editor Frank Armstrong sat down for a chat with veteran Italian…
A Fair Deal for Dublin
The following is a submission to the Citizens Assembly on Dublin by a former Lord…
All Black Inception
The 2010 film ‘Inception’ has scorched the innermost parts of my brain. This big screen…
Burren Bliss
During a visit to the Burren in County Clare, Oliver Cromwell’s lieutenant-general Edmund Ludlow wrote…
Notes to Self on the Pending Passing of a Loved One
1. Don’t be prepared. 2. Honour both the living and the dead. 3. Be prepared…
Covid-19 in Ireland: Pandemonium
Robert Fisk wrote: ‘we journalists try – or should try – to be the first…
War Crimes: Collective Guilt
As events in Ukraine demonstrate, ineluctably, war diminishes our humanity, possessing men – and mostly…
The Fog of Law
You enter here a taut quintet Where theorists can shift or shape How we make…
Vanishing Ireland: Taking the Waters
Today bottled spring water is an everyday drink, and sales run into the billions every…
When Did You Notice That Smoking is Over?
When discussing health these days, if we’re not dissecting the latest updates on the pandemic,…
Hooray for Jolly January!
It is coming up to one of the best times of the year; those early…
“We have Sick Journalism in Ireland”
Joe MacAnthony might be considered the greatest investigative reporter to have ever operated in the…
One Irish Son’s Journey
It was one of those frequent blustery evenings, Wednesday May 18th, 2011. I was driving…
Is Medicine Out of Touch?
In a recent review, my colleague Ben Pantrey argues Richard Kearney’s Touch is itself out…
Sunnyvale: Eviction on Prussia Street
Who Protects Landlords? It was about one in the afternoon by the time I reached…
The Most Natural Thing in the World III
To tell you the truth, I could easily have been a father, and I would…