Matt Talbot and the ‘Theology of Incarceration’
The Final Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes has unleased…
Browsing: Current Affairs
Vaccination: A Matter of Trust, with Caveats
The palpable relief being felt by many over the accelerating approvals of apparently safe and…
The Mad King’s Final Stand
“If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed … and we will deserve it,” Lindsey…
When the Unthinkable Becomes the Everyday: Covid-19 and Authoritarianism
The idea that our society might be moving in a fundamentally bad direction is an…
Irish Government Requires Additional Insights
On April 28th Fintan O’Toole brought a telling revelation to light in an article entitled,…
Covid-19: What is in a Name?
In Plato’s dialogue ‘Cratylus,’ Socrates and his friends Cratylus and Hermogenes discuss the issue of…
Game Over: American Democracy in Tatters
The death of Ruth Bader Ginsberg signals the death knell of the tradition of liberal…
Lebanon’s Rotten Leadership Seems Irreplaceable
As Lebanon marked the centenary of its creation last week, it was not state-orchestrated ceremonies…
In Search of Greek Inspiration
The grip of the pandemic having loosened, Frank Armstrong travelled over land and sea from…
Spain: Vegan Jailed for ‘Glorifying Terrorism’
The jailing in June of thirteen rappers for ‘glorifying terrorism’ in their lyrics has once…
Italy: Thankfully it is Summer
Photographer Daniele Idini travelled from North to South of Italy and discovered a country in…
The Shelbourne’s Moving Statues
Editor’s Note: On Monday 26th of July the luxury 5-star Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin removed…
Multiculturalism in an Age of Extremes
I feel that Europe, in its state of degeneracy has passed its own death sentence.…
Corporate Media Bias Against the Cuban Revolution
Since the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959, the United States has inflicted various…
Confronting Ireland’s Drug Epidemic
The use of opioid-based drugs (heroin, codeine, oxycontin), increased access to opioid synthetics (fentanyl, carfentanyl)…
Covid-19: Young Lives Count Too
Doctors save lives today. It’s part of their oath and ethics. Unsurprisingly, most doctors faced…
World Refugee Day: the Importance of Storytelling
Twenty years ago the UN General Assembly made the 20th of June World Refugee Day…
Covid-19: A Simple Moral Calculus
Introduction There are still many unresolved questions regarding the pathogenesis of this disease and especially…
Repression and Covid-19
The long march of the locked-down migrants[i] (Aadesh Ravi – composer, lyric writer and singer)…
Photo Desk: Black Lives Matter Dublin Protest June 1st 2020
Photography by Frank Armstrong