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Gerry ‘the Monk’ Hutch Challenges Gangsters Inc.

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At their inauguration, public leaders must swear to uphold unwritten law and weep to atone for their presumption to hold office – Seamus Heaney, ‘From the Republic of Conscience’ With a Dublin Central by-election on the horizon, Irish politics appears to be descending into GUBU. The ‘grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre and unprecedented’ prospect of alleged crime … Read more

When will Micheál Martin’s epitaph be written?

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Last November, in one of his final outings as Taoiseach, Micheál Martin delivered the annual Romanes Lecture at Oxford University. It’s unusual to find a senior Irish politician laying out a political philosophy, and for this he deserves credit, even if I take issue with his claim to occupying a ‘liberal’ middle ground. It reveals … Read more