Ian Bailey's life sentence

I spoke to Ian Bailey last week ahead of the launch of his poetry collection at Electric Picnic. I've thought a lot about Ian Bailey over the past couple of years - his various legal cases hit the news regularly - and I've wondered, as I'm sure everyone has, what the hell the truth is. We'll [...]

Repeat offenders, kids and computer games, drunk shopping and more…

I was on the Today Show this afternoon with Newstalk's Jonathan Healy (who my mother reckons is "a nice fella". He is indeed, just don't ask for a bit of his mince pie). We had a good chat about prison for repeat offenders, whether kids should be allowed gaming consoles in their bedrooms, and drunken online [...]

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: , , , , , |