Institutionalisation – No Place in Modern Ireland?

By vividly bringing to life the “bystander effect” and its attendant social forces, Keegan avoids these binaries of past and...
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Institutionalisation – No Place in Modern Ireland?

Confronting AMOCalypse

If you trace the lines of longitude on a map of the world, you discover something counter-intuitive about Ireland. Dublin...
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Confronting AMOCalypse

5 Key Things to Learn from the Bishops’ Pastoral Letter on Migration

Introduction Last weekend, the Irish Catholic Bishops published their latest pastoral letter, which is entitled ‘A Hundred Thousand Welcomes?’. It...
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5 Key Things to Learn from the Bishops’ Pastoral Letter on Migration

The State of the Environment

Last week the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published its State of the Environment Report 2024 which outlines, in no uncertain...
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The State of the Environment

Budget 2025 – A Pathway to More Homelessness and Prisons

On Tuesday, the Government outlined its spending priorities for 2025. I am not sure if past Budgets have ever been...
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Budget 2025 – A Pathway to More Homelessness and Prisons

Where We Live and How We Get Around

Housing and transport are intrinsically linked. They influence so many facets of each other that considering one without the other...
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Where We Live and How We Get Around

The Forbidden Fruit of Apple’s Taxation

Back in 2016, the EU Commission decided that Ireland had given an unfair advantage to Apple through the provision of...
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The Forbidden Fruit of Apple’s Taxation

What Thomas Aquinas has to do with Oasis

It is easy to dismiss the recent furore over surge pricing of tickets for the Oasis reunion gigs. The product...
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What Thomas Aquinas has to do with Oasis

Why You Should Want More Religious People in Politics

A report on Faith and Politics 2024 Considering Ireland’s history, the mere suggestion that we need more religious people in...
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Why You Should Want More Religious People in Politics

Extreme Weather – the new normal we need to get used to

This time last year I penned a piece which could nearly be reproduced word for word today – “We sit...
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Extreme Weather – the new normal we need to get used to

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Institutionalisation – No Place in Modern Ireland?

By vividly bringing to life the “bystander effect” and its attendant social forces, Keegan avoids these binaries of past and present and encourages us to ask whether we would say anything or, instead, turn a blind eye to pervasive institutionalisation in our own time.

The Irish and UK 2009 snowfall on a car with a smiley face drawn on it

Confronting AMOCalypse

If you trace the lines of longitude on a map of the world, you discover something counter-intuitive about Ireland. Dublin is at 53.3498° N, which means it is further north than Winnipeg. The daily mean temperature in Winnipeg in January is -16.3°C. Introducing the AMOC Every Junior Cert student in the country can explain why… Read more »

Refugees Welcome street art in Dublin

5 Key Things to Learn from the Bishops’ Pastoral Letter on Migration

Introduction Last weekend, the Irish Catholic Bishops published their latest pastoral letter, which is entitled ‘A Hundred Thousand Welcomes?’. It seeks to explore what hospitality for migrant people means in contemporary Ireland. A “pastoral letter” is an open letter written by the bishops as a group that seeks to guide and encourage the faithful on… Read more »

The State of the Environment

Last week the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published its State of the Environment Report 2024 which outlines, in no uncertain terms, the degraded state of every part of our environment and tracks its downward trends since the last publication in 2020. The 2020 report came out early in the current Government’s term and was an… Read more »

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