Posted by Kenneth McDonagh, Monday 6th December On Saturday afternoon last, I attended the first meeting of a new grassroots movement called ‘Second Republic’. As someone who has stared forlornly from the lectern at a mere scattering of undergraduates, the very fact that up to 80 people freely gave up their time to discuss political…
John O’Brennan (Maynooth) on Ireland’s existential crisis: a contrary view on the Open Democracy website Niamh Hardiman (UCD) on Firestone and contagion in the Eurozone: how Ireland got burned on the Out of the Crooked Timber website
Guest post by Vincent Byrne There is an opportunity in this debate about our crisis of governance to re-construct the Seanad, to provide a ‘democratic dualism’, a return to the Athenian approach of both Assembly of the people and Tribune of the people. This Dual structure would fundamentally change the democratic architecture of our state.…
Irish Politics Forum 