The New Experiment in Gaeltacht Education
In 2016 the Department of Education and Skill’s outlined its latest scheme for Gaeltacht (designated…
Browsing: Current Affairs
Occupied Territories Bill: Government Defies Dáil Majority Leaving the Jaber Family to their Fate
On a crisp, sunny morning in Hebron in January of this year my friend Atta…
Palestine – To Exist is to Resist
I have just returned from Hebron in the West Bank, a city where nearly sixty…
Bull Moose: Recalling Roe v. Wade in the face of Alabama’s ‘Human Protection Act’
Earlier this month Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed into law ‘The Alabama Human Protection Act’…
Bull Moose – A Monthly Column from Across the Pond
Temperature Rising ‘Give them enough rope and they’ll hang themselves.’ That’s what a wise ex-colleague…
White American Pathology
We don’t discuss white America’s common pathology. What we’ve begun, within limits, are discussions on…
When Home is an Untouchable Beloved
The cruellest aspect of protracted displacement is a descent into the realms of collective forgetfulness,…
‘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…
The Wrong End of Gun Karma
In the time it took him to close the three yards of separation between us,…
The Shadow of Italian Justice
Nowhere that I have visited has quite the charm of Umbria, Italy’s throbbing green heart,…
A Spectre Worse than ‘Brexocide’ for the British Establishment
Fact is a poor story-teller. It starts a story at haphazard, generally long before the…
Could Southern Ireland Accommodate Unionist Culture?
Just a few years ago the prospect of Irish unity seemed remote. However, things are…
Bull Moose – A New Monthly Column from Across the Pond.
Bull Moose is a monthly bulletin discussing the politics and society of the United States.…
‘Discourse of Pollution’ from the ‘Trump of the Tropics’
The use of xenophobic language by Brazil’s new president, Jair Bolsonaro, known as the ‘Trump of…
‘Focused on Phibsborough’ – An Interview with local election candidate Sean McCabe
After working for the Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice at global conferences, Sean McCabe…
The Limits of Multiculturalism
I have previously warned that austerity economics and moral relativism are giving rise to a…
Brazil Special Report: Families Still Seeking Bodies after Brumandinho Dam Disaster
Last January 25th a dam burst over the town of Brumandinho from a height of…
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…
Brazil’s Struggle for Life is a Global Concern
The year began darkly in Brazil. On January 1st, 2019, Jair Messias Bolsonaro was sworn…
Fintan O’Toole’s Brexit Myopia
As a freshly UK-embedded Irish barrister I am adjusting from confronting Ireland’s problems to addressing…