Why the middle classes are afraid of Sinn Féin
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How Republicans came to deify the presidency
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Although some neurosurgeons are gung ho about the possibility, many ethical questions first need to be addressed
Björk: ‘Let’s break this curse so it won’t fall on our daughter and her daughter’
The Icelandic maverick wants to ‘break the chains of the f***-ups of our fathers’
Aristotle got it wrong: We have a lot more than five senses
Unthinkable: Philosophers need to grapple with the ‘symphony of senses’ being discovered by science
‘What to do about the man on the train sucking a chicken leg?’
Coping: Many philosophers stress the importance of seeing people as individuals, not stereotypes but it’s hard
Politics introduced as Leaving Cert subject next year
Students will learn about key thinkers such as Karl Marx and concepts such as capitalism
The moral sense of Down man Francis Hutcheson
The forgotten Irish philosopher liked to think the best of people
Imagine all the children thinking in the classroom
A John Lennon song provides the inspiration for fifth-class pupils to think in questions
Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea, by Mark Blyth
Do austerity policies ever work? Not according to the author of this illuminating new economic history
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