There are different ways in which people choose to interpret the Covid-19 pandemic. Is it simply another epidemiological “event” – one that was an inevitable eventuality of our globalized world? Or is it a pandemic which we signally failed to anticipate because of ‘bias’ in our thinking and policy making – the kind of bias […]
The Programme for Government talks a good show about political reform. It remains to be seen whether they deliver in the one area that matters: removing the subjugation of the Conscience of TDs to the hegemony of the Whips office. We need, once and for all, to exorcise the oppressive culture of fear that corrodes […]
Fianna Fáil sat around a Cabinet Table as the economy, with the Banks holding the rudder, was swept over the cliff and into the maelstrom of the economic crisis that scarred a generation. They watched from the sidelines as the Irish Constitution was ripped into pieces and the Dail legislated for non-medical abortion. Then, notwithstanding […]
Religious freedom and political freedom are woven from the same cloth. Reflecting on Irelands experience under the cosh of the Covid-19 pandemic there are very real reasons for concern. The scientific evidence justifying authoritarian edicts restricting freedom of movement and of religious practise– enforced by an unsettling show of armed force–have not been properly set […]
Economist, Professor Ray Kinsella, writes that a recent decision by the German constitutional court will finally force the ECB – and the EU – to confront the dire failings of the Euro, which are once again being exposed by Coronavirus. The decision by German Constitutional Court (GCC) sitting in Karlsruhe to challenge the ECJ […]