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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 ...
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.
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?
Cutbacks are as pernicious as hard drugs
(Irish Examiner, 2014)
The Leaving Certificate 'leaves' too many people behind
(Irish Examiner, 2014)
Law and Order meets Love/Hate in the battle to fix our gangland culture
(Irish Independent, 2016)
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
(Irish Independent, 2016)
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?