Why honesty is the best policy when dealing with mental health
Dealing with a mental illness is tough enough, even without the stigma. Alice Kinsella advocates how honesty is always the best policy.
Why the Kim regime should start making better tv
Maurice John Casey examines the subversive effects of foreign television on North Korean society.
Children’s rights: law, theory and first ladies
‘The phrase “children’s rights” is a slogan in search of definition […] it does not yet reflect any coherent doctrine regarding the status of children as political beings. Asserting that children are entitled to rights and enumerating their needs does not clarify the difficult issues surrounding children’s legal status. These issues of family autonomy and […]
Ireland’s fright of the wild Greeks
Saying “Ireland is not Greece” is an exercise in the Saussurean semantics of negative differential relations. Manus Lenihan pulls the politics out from behind the rhetorical retreat.
Stand up? Fed up.
The Union of Students in Ireland, argues Mark O’Meara, is still failing to defend those who need strong union representation; and the rot is spreading.
What is the alternative to austerity?
With a march against austerity planned by the Dublin Council of Trade Unions this weekend Michael Taft, research officer at Unite trade union, discusses the alternative to the next round of cuts and tax increases.
No further, and never again
Ian Curran on why we should get angry at the Irish government’s failures in the Savita Halappanavar case and its inaction in the face of Israeli aggression against Gaza, and then do something about it.
Social enterprise and revolution are central to children’s rights
The need for a healthy balance and perspective when discussing relationships between adults and children is urgent and glaring, not least because of the acutely material social, spiritual, moral, physical and economic inequalities that lie at the heart of such matters. How have the People of Ireland fared during the Children’s Referendum deliberations? This article […]
Breaking down university rankings
With her experience of business backing mining and petroleum exploration over other studies, geology student Francesca Mirolo says university rankings should be taken with a pinch of salt.
The Marriage Equality Debate
By Editor on September 30, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Emma Heyn and Ryan Connolly argue for either side of the same-sex marriage debate.
Category Comment · Tags