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I Assumed Suicide, Obviously
My brother called me a fortnight ago, on a Saturday afternoon. He asked me if I knew of a certain guy from home - ‘home’ being rural Sligo. I said that yes, I did know of him. The image of his smiling face flashed into my mind. I asked my…
Assuming Restricted Dog Breeds are Inherently Dangerous Causes More Harm than Good
Specific breeds of dogs are not inherently dangerous.
That’s not just some opinion being bandied around by a few select people who want to let their six Rottweilers lose in your local playground every evening – it’s a fact. It’s been…
#IAmAReason, And So Are You
When I was 21, I had a really exciting opportunity to live and study in Vienna for a year. I was thrilled at the prospect – a year away by the Danube felt like a real adult step.
Fast forward nine months and it was a very different story…
Hillsborough Disaster | The 96 Finally Get the Justice They Deserve
27 years ago, 94 people lost their lives at Hillsborough Stadium. April 5th 1989 saw hundreds of people either killed or seriously injured at a match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest when a human crush was caused by improper police…
Dear Minister Varadkar
Dear Minister Varadkar,
I invite you, for just a moment, to imagine a beating heart. The sound it makes. The steady, rhythmic thump-thump of a heart pumping to keep the body it exists in alive. Imagine that sound multiplied by 7,000. Let…
Dress Code Policy | The Solution to Children being Over-Sexualised is to Stop Over-Sexualising…
Last week, it was reported that a high school in New Zealand called an assembly to discuss uniforms and dress codes. There, the school’s deputy principal told young female students that the hemlines of their skirts were too high, and that…
Political Correctness is Not Harming our Society, Despite What Stephen Fry Might Think
Stephen Fry recently appeared on YouTube talk show ‘The Rubin Report,’ a current events show which claims to take a “politically incorrect approach” to politics, religion and the media. I always get that mild sense of dread when I hear the…
Bill O’Reilly’s Ireland isn’t the Conservative Haven He Thinks it is
With the chaos and drama of the American election ongoing, public figures are already wading into the fray to share their views. Among these are the celebrities publicly expressing their desires to leave the US if unhappy with the election…
For the Love of God, Please Tick ‘No Religion’
On the 24th of April this year, the Central Statistics Office will carry out a census likely to reveal that an overwhelming amount of people in this country consider themselves to be Catholic. This comes almost eleven months after Ireland…
Abortion Pills Case | Have Compassion for a Woman’s Right to Choose
In July 2014 a nineteen year old Northern Irish girl procured illegal abortion pills to self induce a termination. The woman received a three month suspended jail sentence this week after appearing at the Belfast Crown Court. She was…