Cosy consensus leaves whistleblowers out in the cold

You never know when you've got a national scandal on your hands until it's blown up completely. Someone should have warned Alan Shatter about this about a year ago, round about the time he stood up in the Dáil and repeated an allegation about Deputy Mick Wallace that he'd heard from the Garda Commissioner as if [...]

2018-12-01T09:57:16+00:00 February 20th, 2014|Categories: Opinion|Tags: , , , , , |

Society is about more than money

Unmarried mothers, and children with no mothers. Children whose mothers weren't deemed suitable and women who weren't deemed suitable to be mothers. Girls whose fathers weren't working, or girls whose children were their father's. Little girls whose crime was to give cheek to a nun or be from the wrong family. Latter day prisoners [...]