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Landmark High Court judgment on suspended sentences shows urgent need for government (Pre-published version)
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Heritage, crime and inequality: understanding Limerick in the post-Celtic Tiger context (Pre-published version)
(The Heritage Council [Ireland], 2011)Debates about social exclusion are central to heritage, because heritage spaces are not blank canvasses. They are spaces where people live and work and when those residents are deeply disadvantaged, their poverty presents ... -
Democratic breakdown, inequality and populism in the 21st Century: line-cutters, ladder-pullers and unreachable elites (Pre-published version)
(MacGill Summer School, 2018)When I began my current research project, which examines as one of its components the underlying causes of contemporary populism, I started with the conviction that both deepening inequality and democratic deficits generated ... -
Why we must pay attention to Ireland’s spring of discontent (Pre-published version)
(The Irish Times, 2017)Concerns over downward social mobility mirror conditions behind Brexit and Trump. -
Third level funding and emigration
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Law and Order meets Love/Hate in the battle to fix our gangland culture
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Why there's a cute hoor in all of us (Pre-published version)
(Irish Independent, 2015)Was our tradition of 'looking after our own' to blame for the banking crisis? -
Role of community is key to understanding Irish water protest confrontations (Pre-published version)
(The Irish Times, 2015)Will confrontational campaigners provoke Government into increasingly repressive responses to their actions? -
Aspiration and actuality: childhood inequality and the legacy of 1916
(Barnardos, 2015)As we enter 2016, the controversies about how best to commemorate the legacy of the Rising have already begun. Already, various groups have claimed to be the true inheritors of the spirit of Proclamation. However, a closer ... -
The Leaving Certificate 'leaves' too many people behind
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Cutbacks are as pernicious as hard drugs
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How state policy helped create a fertile gangland breeding ground
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Can TG4 recapture some good feeling about Irish? (Pre-published version)
(The Irish Times, 2012)TG4 aims to give viewers another eye on Ireland and its language – has it succeeded, or does it perpetuate hang-ups about Irish? -
Money-lending, intimidation and the consequences of financial exclusion (Pre-published version)
(thejournal.ie, 2011)These arrests won’t tackle the root causes of crime in Limerick. On Limerick’s estates, crime is being spurred by pressing social problems – and they’re not going away. -
Limerick’s estates of fear
(Irish Examiner, 2011)Breaking the bonds of poverty, drugs and crime. Community violence in Limerick must be understood in order to be solved. -
Understanding anti-social behaviour
(Irish Independent, 2010)