Can squash improve College’s standing as an innovative and creative force, a catalyst for economic, social, creative and intellectual growth and regeneration, both nationally and internationally? In this article I will answer this question with a resounding yes. However, despite …
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 …
Life in the squash pit
The benefits of membership of the Dublin University Squash Rackets Club permeate body and mind, and extend beyond the four walls to friendships and foreign lands.
Gandhi once said: ‘Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.’ As all aficionados of squash will tell you, it also needs iron self-discipline.
Four members of the Dublin University Squash Club, myself included, paid …
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 …