COMMENT: Stop being weird about Raheem Sterling
Raheem Sterling did something of note on Monday. He made the day, week and possibly year of excited young England fans who came to visit the national team’s St George’s Park base. He was polite, courteous and generous with his time, and showed a genuine warmth towards his beaming guests. On Tuesday morning, he was […]
8 years ago
COMMENT: What happened to Maurice McCabe is too serious to be trivialised by politics
By the end of the week, the Maurice McCabe affair was becoming something more trivial, it was becoming the Enda Kenny story. The unpleasantness or – if you prefer to use the McCabes’ words – the systematic attacks “by agencies of the state” on citizens of the republic, which had been facilitated by some in […]
9 years ago
COMMENT: The international community has failed Syria – Colm O’Gorman
“The world has betrayed Syria, and nothing can make up for the lives lost or shattered.” By Colm O’Gorman, Executive Director, Amnesty International Ireland Seventeen years ago, Kofi Annan stood before the United Nations and apologised. The then-secretary-general acknowledged that the UN had failed the people of Rwanda during the 100-day genocide in which almost […]
10 years ago
America, this is what you’ve voted for
America has voted for racism. America has voted for sexism. America has voted for homophobia. America has voted for anti-Semitism. America has voted for white supremacy. America has voted for the KKK. America has voted for global warming. America has voted for abortion to be punished. America has voted for building the wall. America has voted […]
10 years ago
COMMENT: We need to talk about Louise O’Neill, and her shoulders
“Saddest that, in one paragraph, neither gender is shown any respect.” Recently, my colleague Carl Kinsella and I were asked to participate in the RTÉ documentary, Asking For It: Reality Bites, to be presented by the author Louise O’Neill. The documentary centred around Irish attitudes to sex, to how sexual assaults are reported (or not, […]
10 years ago
COMMENT: Removing money from mental health services is dangerous and short-sighted
“We’re going to have more suicides.” by Lizzie O’Malley Siobhan Murray works for Dublin Counsellors. She and her colleague Lynn Agnew provide reduced rates for counselling for students and free mental health talks in schools because they know that young people are struggling. I asked her about the consequences of removing money from our mental […]
10 years ago