The news shapes the world around us, there is no denying the power the role of journalism has played in democracies and non-democracies alike and yet the more I read newspapers the less informed I am starting to feel. Recently,… Read More ›
Thoughts on social issues
It starts with a conversation
Debates surrounding climate change or global warming have come to a head. Over the last number of days the group called the Extinction rebellion (XR) have been protesting in different countries from the UK to New York in the hopes… Read More ›
Pothole politics
Ireland is having a local election soon. And I have no one I want to vote for. The strangest thing I have found about my local representatives is that it doesn’t matter who is voted in, the party that the… Read More ›
The problem with feminism
There is an interesting story surrounding the patronage of Athens and it goes like this: Under the reign of Cecrops, men and women could vote equally. Society in Athens at that time was sexually freer. This freedom was undermined when… Read More ›
Irish Government built 18,000 new homes
18,000 new homes were built over the last year in Ireland, according to the Central Statistics Office (CSO), 30 percent less than the minimum number the Government says is needed to meeting housing demand. Taoiseach Leo Varadkar posted on Twitter… Read More ›
The Health sector disaster
Health minister Simon Harris is facing mounting problems within the health sector as 37,000 nurses go on strike. Not only are nurses demanding a competitive wage, we learn that yet to be built children’s hospital costs are spiraling out of… Read More ›
