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So many institutions in Ireland have been tarnished in recent decades, from the Catholic Church to the banks and recently RTÉ.
A neglected aspect of the brutal wars in Ukraine and Gaza has been the closing down of the anti-war movements in Russia and Israel.
I see the Irish Hospital Consultants Association is calling for a wider enquiry into the daily battles facing medical staff in the health system.
You enter politics to either promote the belief that civilised protest is preferable to recrimination in the pursuit of equality or you see the political arena as an opportunity to seek change through the violent demonisation of others.
Charlie Weston’s report that 256,000 residential electricity customers were in arrears at the end of June is a shocking indictment of government policy (‘One-in-eight homes now in arrears on their energy bills’, Irish Independent, September 26).