HeyJaredGareth O'Callaghan
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Gareth O'Callaghan: G-Zero world â how a power vacuum could lead us to apocalypse (opens the original)
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Be Emergency Ready is the title of a new booklet thatâs due for delivery to every Irish household in the coming days. My mother, a sprightly well-informed nonagenarian, or wise elder as I call her, with whom Iâm staying while working in the Big Smoke this month, handed it to me last week. It bears the official harp insignia. It looks ominous. Information and advice in case of emergencies. Iâm intrigued. This is exclusive subscriber content. Already a subscriber? Sign in Six months of digi
Gareth OâCallaghan: Would there have been a Good Friday Agreement without the 1981 hunger strike? (opens the original)
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Martin Luther King Jr once famously said we are not makers of history, we are made by history. I doubt if he realised he would eventually become one of the greatest makers of history. Recently, during our sweltering summer, I spent a few days in Belfast. Like hundreds of other visitors every week, I stood below the most photographed mural on this island on the corner of the Falls Road and Sevastopol Street, just like I did 25 years ago when the current portrait was unveiled by artists Danny Deve
Gareth OâCallaghan: Is racism becoming more accepted in Ireland? (opens the original)
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Am I racist? Itâs a genuine question â surprising, but genuine. In fact, I canât ever recall asking the question so deliberately. Considering the subtleties of racism run deep and wide, I donât believe I am racist. I have never felt comfortable around the topic of racism. Even looking at the word written down unnerves me. Why is that? Iâm at ease writing about human interest topics because itâs a way of life. I tend to notice moments in any given day which in turn feed into this col
Gareth O'Callaghan: I nearly died because I couldn’t breathe. Children shouldn’t have to face the same risk (opens the original)
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Breath is not just nature’s greatest gift, it’s the key to life. Just think about it — the ability to breathe. Without that power, none of us would exist; and yet every single breath is taken for granted. I never knew how much I valued breathing until one morning five years ago when it was no longer possible. I was having an acute asthma attack; so severe it was in the “near fatal” zone, an emergency medicine consultant at Cork University Hospital later told me. I came within minutes of dying. Y
Gareth O'Callaghan: Ireland's education system still fails too many Leaving Cert students (opens the original)
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You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. It’s a proverb often attributed to the Irish writer Jonathan Swift (although its use predates him). Swift was a scathing critic when it came to the inequality at the heart of society, including in education. The saying suggests that you can’t turn something inferior, or ugly, into something of value, or attractive. During my school days, it was a phrase that one teacher took great pleasure in trotting out, usually when he was handing out exam resul
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