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Perhaps politicians should check their own houses are in order before attacking the church?

Mick Fealty on May 8, 2012, 12:33 pm

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On Saturday, I remember reading Noel Whelan’s sage, but ultimately hopeless, advice to politicians to steer clear of beating up on Cardinal Sean Brady, and shaking my head thinking, why would he think they could ever resist the temptation to get in on the act? As a former FF politico he knows the creature better than most. Yet, there’s no doubt it was worth saying. For one, the Catholic church is not the only organisation that has played an ignominious …

In a cause and effect world interruption is key to violence prevention

Mick Fealty on December 15, 2011, 4:19 pm

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I was in Washington last week, speaking at a conference on the prevention of violence (you can still pick up some of the content on Twitter, if you put in the hashtag #mPreventViolence). It was organised by the US Institute of Medicine. I partnered up with John Pollock, who has been writing about the digital revolution that’s been driving revolt against dictatorships in countries across the Middle East. John spoke about the ways in which ordinary people co-operated both offensively …