How Can We Give a Voice to Incoherent Rage?
I was at Skainos last Thursday night for the “Listening to Your Enemies” event, part of the 4 Corners Festival.…
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The Ties That Bind: Springsteen in Belfast
In the same week that Richard Haass breezed in to help us out another, more famous American rocked into town…
Gregory Campbell, Dungiven, Loyalists and the Golden Rule
Dear Mr Gregory Campbell re: the Republican parades in Dungiven. I heard you interviewed today and I kind of understand.…
Paul Brady, The Clash and Ireland’s Woes
I am drawn compulsively to RTE radio these days, like a junkie to a hit. The financial news for Ireland…
You’ll Not Believe This! – Kilkenomics
Last week, the Pat Kenny Show on RTE Radio 1 came from the Kilkenomics event in Kilkenny, a gathering of…
Mid-terms & the Collapse of Mediating Liberalism
My good friend Phil Harrison, (designer of this blog template) emailed me a link to The World Liberal Opportunists Made,…
Garret Fitzgerald & Civic Morality in Ireland
In his most recent column in the Irish Times, Garret Fitzgerald pointed to ‘a striking absence of any sense of…
Chilean Miners and Christian Preachers – a plea
The story of the rescue of the miners is easily the story of the year. You just know it’s going…
New Site
Somehow you have found your way here through all the noise and muddle of the net. This is the newly…
Who's Leading Public Debate?
The media (admittedly a multifaceted beast) has also played a role in narrowing public discourse, to the extent that fundamental…