The youth of Ireland are challenging the traditional orthodoxies that left the State with such a dearth of values, writes ELAINE BYRNE in the Irish Times November 24, 2009   They will not force us They will stop degrading us They will not control us We will be victorious   THE YOUNG audience at the recent [...]

Policy debate in Ireland involves whipping up emotions rather than cogent debate. As a result, we are in a mess Irish Times November 17, 2009   DIAGNOSIS IS derived from a Greek word meaning “to learn”. It can be defined as the investigation or analysis of the cause or nature of a situation. By being [...]

Limerick felt exotic compared to rural Wicklow when I was growing up but then I went to Czechoslovakia, writes ELAINE BYRNE in the IRISH TIMES November 10, 2009   THE FALL of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago symbolised the wider downfall of the Soviet sphere of influence and life irrevocably changed for the communist [...]

ITAY TALGAM is a renowned orchestral conductor from Israel who believes that the orchestra is a metaphor for the workplace. The conductor has the opportunity and possibility to create an organised collective sound from the untidy noise of a diverse ensemble of individual musical instruments with the nuance of a single gesture, writes ELAINE BYRNE [...]