This is not “moral” leadership. It is the opposite.
Voters are neither stupid, nor blind
In our view, the stifling consensus in Irish politics must be broken open for the sake of the health of our democracy.
From the beginning of time, people have believed to some degree or other that the world is flat. This is a view that is scientifically incorrect, and provably false, but there are no laws against holding it, or expressing it. The reason for this is that it is so obviously false to say that the […]
Ireland now has its own class of powerful, favoured nobles, who hold the ability to lobby our rulers while the rest of us are excluded.
There was never any first hand evidence, of any kind, that a teacher or teachers in Presentation College Carlow had told female students in November of last year that their leggings were causing male teachers to be sexually distracted by their anatomies. Despite that, the story travelled around the world, as far as Australia, New […]
In that Ireland, public displays of piety and conformity were fundamentally expected. Those who openly lived in contravention of the dominant culture were at best regarded as eccentric, and at worst denounced from the pulpit, or openly scorned. Bishops and Priests were not just religious leaders, they were political and economic patrons, capable of swinging elections, or helping your child get a job.
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