Author: Frank Schnittger

The debate around clerical child sex abuse continues to reverberate around the Irish polity with the Vatican calling for a more “objective” debate and withdrawing its ambassador to Ireland for...

As the news from Somalia worsens and the shock from the Norway attacks sinks in, its easy to become a bit of a bad news junky. However in recent times there have been a few signs that there may be light at the end of the tunnel...

Poulaphouca reservoir In Driving a dual carriageway through my home I documented the extraordinary process by which planning officials proposed to build a motorway standard road from the outskirts of Dublin to Hollywood –...

Bishop John McGee is the only man ever to have served as private secretary to three Popes – Pope Paul VI, Pope John Paul I, and Pope John Paul II. He was thus at the heart of the Vatican establishment for almost two...

Kader Asmal and former president Mary Robinson at a meeting of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties in September 1976. Kader Asmal, founder of both the British and Irish Anti-Apartheid movements, Cabinet Minister in...