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George Morrison
August 3, 2013

Double Murder

The news this week has been dominated by the deaths of two young boys whose bodies were found in the boot of their father’s car. The alarm had been raised by their mother when they did not return from a trip to Carlow where their father was taking them bowling. That was last Sunday and […]

July 27, 2013

Impunity

The ink was scarcely dry on the journalist’s article outlining a couple of cases where crimes had been committed with impunity when the news broke on Thursday of the collapse of the Planning corruption trial. Following a Tribunal which took 12 years and a trial which lasted 4 weeks the chief witness for the prosecution […]

July 20, 2013

The Sun

“In the heavens God has pitched a tent for the sun, which is like a bridegroom coming forth from his pavilion, like a champion rejoicing to run his course. It rises at one end of the heavens and makes its circuit to the other; nothing is hidden from its heat” (Psalm 19). We have been […]

July 13, 2013

Conscience

The voice of conscience, so seldom heard in the land, rang out this week in the Dail debate on abortion with the resignation of four TD’s and the junior minister Lucinda Creighton. The latter took her time to reflect on the amendments which were instigated but eventually fell on her sword over the inclusion of […]

July 6, 2013

Abortion on Demand

The goal of the Liberal Agenda, to have abortion readily accessible, is likely to take a step forward this coming Wednesday. The news all this week has been focussed on who would join those who have already voting against the Bill. Four TD’s already have, contrary to the party whip, resulting in their immediate expulsion […]

June 29, 2013

Banker Boys

The ability to shift vast sums of money around the globe has made the modern banker look like a croupier at the gaming tables of an expensive casino. There is important distinction however, the casino has some rudimentary rules which if broken result in immediate sanctions being applied to the transgressor. The modern banker, on […]

June 22, 2013

Guantanamo Prison

The publicity surrounding the pre-trial hearings of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-styled planner of the September 11th 2001 attacks, has raised the question of justice again. Taken from his native Pakistan in 2003 he has spent the last 10 years locked up. His fate was shared initially with 460 prisoners but their number has reduced […]

June 15, 2013

Big Brother

In a week where Obama asked Xi Jinping to curtail Chinese cyber espionage and allow freer access to the internet it has been revealed that the US is tapping into our phone calls and emails! The American public have been reassured that “nobody is listening to your calls” which may be reassuring for the folks […]

June 8, 2013

The Great Gatsby

There is nothing like a mystery man to whet the imagination and Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel, The Great Gatsby, which reached our cinemas this week, does just that. Jay Gatsby’s origins are unknown. The source of his wealth is unknown. His occupation is unknown. How he came to throw these […]

June 1, 2013

Crèche Control

The first time I came in contact with the word “crèche” it referred to the practice of Eider Ducks in corralling their chicks under the supervision of two or three mothers. The chicks had made an arduous journey to the sea, dodging marauding foxes, stoats and weasels and were left together in a tight group […]

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