Homelessness: Not intractable, not inevitable

It’s not news to anyone by now that there is a housing crisis. There is a homeless crisis. There is a rental crisis. There are 1500 men, women and children in Ireland homeless who need our help, today. After the death of Jonathan Corrie before Christmas last year, we were told the Government understood there was [...]

Michael Noonan and the Trump Factor

[youtube=http://youtu.be/Y9i1HHTdcXU] There was Michael Noonan out on the red carpet, curtsying to the big man from Amerikay with the shiny teeth and the improbable hair, while a a singer struggled to be heard above the groan of the big man’s jet engine. An assembled crowd, the men inexplicably wearing tails – singers and tail-wearers in the [...]