Budget 2025 – A Pathway to More Homelessness and Prisons

On Tuesday, the Government outlined its spending priorities for 2025. I am not sure if past Budgets have ever been...
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Budget 2025 – A Pathway to More Homelessness and Prisons

Where We Live and How We Get Around

Housing and transport are intrinsically linked. They influence so many facets of each other that considering one without the other...
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Where We Live and How We Get Around

The Forbidden Fruit of Apple’s Taxation

Back in 2016, the EU Commission decided that Ireland had given an unfair advantage to Apple through the provision of...
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The Forbidden Fruit of Apple’s Taxation

What Thomas Aquinas has to do with Oasis

It is easy to dismiss the recent furore over surge pricing of tickets for the Oasis reunion gigs. The product...
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What Thomas Aquinas has to do with Oasis

Why You Should Want More Religious People in Politics

A report on Faith and Politics 2024 Considering Ireland’s history, the mere suggestion that we need more religious people in...
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Why You Should Want More Religious People in Politics

Extreme Weather – the new normal we need to get used to

This time last year I penned a piece which could nearly be reproduced word for word today – “We sit...
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Extreme Weather – the new normal we need to get used to

Not All Deaths are the Same

In 2023, there were 184 deaths on Irish roads. This tragic loss of life included 44 pedestrians, eight cyclists, and...
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Not All Deaths are the Same

Citizen Juries: A Way to Restore Ireland’s Hospitality?

In recent years, Ireland has experienced a surge in anti-immigrant protests. These protests are driven in a large part by...
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Citizen Juries: A Way to Restore Ireland’s Hospitality?

Ceasefire for our Common Home

‘Children in Gaza are being shot by snipers’ This is a sentence that should never have to be uttered or...
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Ceasefire for our Common Home

The Opportunity Cost of Prison Expansion

When campaigning finally begins in earnest for the next General Election, debates around criminal justice, policing and prisons will dominate....
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The Opportunity Cost of Prison Expansion

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Economic justice is perhaps the fulcrum around which all social justice debates in contemporary society rotate. In our political discourse, every question of human flourishing seems to be reduced to bottom-line thinking.

Environmental Justice

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Care of creation or protection of the environment emerged as a key element of social justice in recent decades. The science of ecology has described the intricate web of relationships in which people play an active part for good and bad.

Housing Crisis

Housing Crisis

The right to a safe and secure place to live is one of the most basic human rights, it is fundamental to enable people to live a dignified life. Without the security provided by having somewhere to live, physical and mental health is at risk.

Penal Policy

Penal Policy

People in prison are amongst the most marginalised and vulnerable in our society. The majority have left school early, experience literacy and learning difficulties and have a history of unemployment.

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Budget 2025 – A Pathway to More Homelessness and Prisons

On Tuesday, the Government outlined its spending priorities for 2025. I am not sure if past Budgets have ever been properly transformative—or even had the potential to reimagine a fairer society—but Budget 2025 has firmly put this notion to bed.

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Where We Live and How We Get Around

Housing and transport are intrinsically linked. They influence so many facets of each other that considering one without the other is folly. Everything from where we locate homes and accommodation, the number of parking spaces, the space given over to access roads and driveways, green space in urban areas, bus routes, train capacity and where… Read more »

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The Forbidden Fruit of Apple’s Taxation

Back in 2016, the EU Commission decided that Ireland had given an unfair advantage to Apple through the provision of tax loopholes. Before Irish people could plan a tunnel to Wales or a 100-metre-tall golden statue of Michael Flatley, the Irish government launched an appeal, costing millions, arguing that they should not be forced to… Read more »

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What Thomas Aquinas has to do with Oasis

It is easy to dismiss the recent furore over surge pricing of tickets for the Oasis reunion gigs. The product for sale is hardly essential, even for people like me, diehard fans from the olden days (who also support Man City). The targeted consumer is hardly oppressed – most Oasis fans are likely to be… Read more »

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