Our rights and freedoms are at stake in times as perilous as the late 1930s

The global omni-crisis has the capacity to numb us into a catatonic mental state; many people say that they tune out of news coverage  because they need to avoid worry, stress and unease in the face of events utterly beyond their control or influence. Therse are indeed dangerous times. Rulebooks and values are being thrown […]

No European city would tolerate the decay and dereliction visible in Dublin

The Government has no hope of tackling the homelessness crisis unless it faces up to a number of difficult but fundamental issues. If we aspire to making it possible for people to own their own homes or to rent them at affordable rates, we must increase the supply of serviced land for building them in places where people want to live and work. […]

Will no one shout stop as the MetroLink bill heads past €20bn?

The scandal that is MetroLink illustrates everything that is intellectually rotten in modern Ireland. Across 30 or 40 years, hundreds of millions have been wasted on a project or, more correctly, a series of different versions of a project, to build some form of underground rail system for Dublin. Before a shovel is put in the ground, […]