Old Headscarf
At thirty-two, after decades of sporting a headscarf, I abandoned the practice and exposed my…
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Mandatory Hotel Quarantine Alienates Immigrant Communities
Never before have I felt so far from my country of origin as when I…
A Few Good Men and Women
In the wake of the murder by a police officer of the unfortunate Sarah Everard,…
Policing Must Return to First Principles
The Garda Síochána will succeed, not by force of arms or numbers, but by their…
Is there a Doctor in the House?
Imagine if you will, a government that nobody actually voted for. A government with no…
Vaccination: A Matter of Trust, with Caveats
The palpable relief being felt by many over the accelerating approvals of apparently safe and…
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…
The Shelbourne’s Moving Statues
Editor’s Note: On Monday 26th of July the luxury 5-star Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin removed…
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…
Do Not Resuscitate
Holy Gawd, we’re back to Charles Darwin and his interpreters. In the mid-19th century Darwin…
Irish Eyes Unsmiling: Have I Got News For You Brexit-Election Special!
Bob Hope once wisecracked: ‘the choice between Carter and Regan was not so much the…
UK Election 2019: Why has common sense become a ‘radical’ proposition?
Last week two young people were stabbed to death at London Bridge while attending a…
Reviving the Language of Care in Climate Change Consciousness
As a child I had recurring dreams of great waves crashing over me. Some would…
Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders Confront Common Neo-Liberal Frenemies
The Corbyn phenomenon – and the utter media-class meltdown over it – is weirdly but…
‘Wooden Legs on Hens’ – The Ongoing Failure of the Restoration of the Irish Language
Last January, the Minister for Education, Joe McHugh, invited views from the public on the…
Is George Orwell’s England Now Home to Fintan O’Toole’s Swivel-Eyed Loons?
It was flattering to read Fintan O’Toole respond, however oblique, to my criticism of his…
Explaining the Shutdown with Trump’s Magic Eightball
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice.…