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Judge the Strength of a Democracy by its Treatment of Whistleblowers
In light of recent developments, not least, the announcement of Michael McGrath as the next EU Commissioner, it is timely…
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Ireland Urgently Requires a Covid Inquiry
It should be a source of embarrassment that in Ireland we still have had no public inquiry into the State’s…
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ENOUGH! Confronting Woody Allen
These are extraordinary times. Last month serial sexual abuser Harvey Weinstein, had his 23-year sentence squashed; a Channel 4 documentary…
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Bunker Mentality
I was en route to Leitrim for a second time in a month when ‘Zooropa,’ the U2 song from the…
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Podcast: Musician of the Month John Cummins
We have a special edition in our Musician of the Month series as Frank Armstrong interviews John Cummins of the…
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Poem: ‘They Have Gained An Audience’
THEY HAVE GAINED AN AUDIENCE with the divine. The plumbline is vertical as the resulting verse, so that neither agony…
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Ivor Browne R.I.P
It’s hard for those of us who work in the field of psychedelic-assisted therapy to put into words how much…
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My Team / Your Team
In the first part of his essay concerning his enduring lifelong fandom of Manchester City FC, and the club’s current…
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The Relevance of Jurisprudence to Law Part 1
This article is a response to Supreme Court Justice Gerard Hogan’s Annual Hale Lecture in Trinity College, Dublin in November…