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Circus masks real issues
I love a good election campaign as much as the next journalist, but we are in danger of letting characters, spin and incomprehensible economic waffle cloud the real issues of this election. All the...
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Waste not
I had this editorial written for last week’s paper, when the Vita Cortex news broke and bumped it! There is a lot to come yet on this story, I think… It can only be the outstanding success of worldwide...
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Markievicz School
This looks like a really interesting event, it’ll be on 18th May in Dublin and is free (although donations are welcome) Tagged: feminism, history, poverty, social justice, women
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Social conscience in the theatre
I interviewed theatre maker Pat Kinevane this week for the Cork’s 96fm and C103 Arts House. He’s got a very strong social conscience, something that’s constantly at play in his work – but I wonder – do...
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Travel Thursday: Port au Prince, 2010
In 2010 I visited Port au Prince, Haiti, with the Irish charity Haven. Branding for Denis O’Brien’s Digicel towered over UN refugee camps, cluttered market stalls, and even coated roadside shacks (I...
View ArticleLaundry apologists live among us
It’s easy to blame Church and State for all the ills that have blighted Irish society. Warehousing the poor in workhouses; separating children from their parents in industrial schools for the crime of...
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