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13 Billion Questions

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Tonight all across Ireland, many parents are unable to sleep, fearful of the morning which will bring another day of worry and stress about losing their home, or feeding their children, or paying an electricity bill, or finding some work, or finding somewhere safe for themselves and their children to sleep,  or paying for their…

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A Conscious View: Irish Politics where to from here?

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In exploring how we ‘Create Conscious Societies’ we must also consider how we do Conscious Politics, because the two go hand in hand. In doing so we are brought into a new focus of how we respect and value people. Just as in how we create, live in and share our communities with each other,…

1916 Realising the Dream and Vision

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As the light lessened in the sky and the dusk was slowly replaced with the coming of nightfall on the most momentous of days. After watching the commemorations one hundred years after the 1916 Easter Sunday Rising in Ireland, my mind and heart and soul felt a mixture of great pride and great sadness. Pride…

‘No Room At The Inn’ Insights of the First ‘Christmas Story…’

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With ‘no room at the inn’, with no place to lay their heads, and at the mercy of the elements and the hope of some kindness from strangers. As the first Christmas Story is told and unfolds, Mary and Joseph took refuge in a stable, their only source of heat to take shelter in the…