Is there a season for spokespersons to spring up like dandelions suddenly showing on a lawn? They are sprouting everywhere at the moment. Must we have spokespersons? Let the individual or the leader of the organisation come out and make the statement, the one who, in the words of tax havens, is the beneficial owner of the problem. He or she did something that caught our attention. We would rather hear the explanation from the mouth, not from the mouthpiece. By now we are ab

A prominent scientist asked if I would ever write about euthanasia. It was an open question along the lines of – would you be prepared to...

How do religions attract paedophiles, extremists, bullies and holy warriors? At the same time, how can they foster mystics, the fervent,...

I was asked yesterday evening – “what is the one single step we could take to stop the abuse of children?” The question came at the end...

In the middle of a live radio interview on WRJN, Wisconsin, about my book, The Devil to Pay, the interviewer, Glenn Klein, said, “I was...

I choose to open my video blogs with one of my favourite artists, Christie Moore. His music builds on Irish folktales, tells stories of...

Welcome to my blog where I will be posting short stories, points of view, examples of my writing, along with photos and narrated videos....

The film Spotlight hit the headlines this weekend. Walking off with the award for Best Film at the Oscars, the film has turned the spotlight once more on the evil of covering up sexual abuse in many organisations. The impact of the cover-up is all the more shocking when the organization is one that is revered and trusted. Churches, police forces, educational institutions, ethnic and religious groups and political parties have been paraded across our TV screens for their fail