Author: Frank Schnittger

So why should the world care about institutionalised child abuse in Ireland? Because it was widespread, systematic and endemic and woven into the very fabric of an authoritarian religious culture.  This wasn’t a case...

        I had a 50 minute on camera conversation with Dick Roche, the Irish minister for European Affairs, in the Department of the Taoiseach beside the Dail yesterday, in which he had some strident...

Cross posted from TH!NK ABOUT IT and The European Tribune and Daily Kos In a shock development it has emerged in the last hour that the European Parliament Elections scheduled for this June are to be cancelled.  A Spokesman...

Like most non-economists I have been following the financial crisis with some bemusement and no little concern.  The numbers seem so staggering as to be beyond imagination.  The financial instruments so exotic as to be...

[Update] Despite a remarkable 17 to 4 Penalty count against them, the Irish team scored the only 2 tries of the match and won in a nailbitingly tight finish… cue national celebrations…Match report to follow. [End...