A long Road to Travel
In recent years, the Irish electorate has legalised gay marriage, has a gay leader, has overwhelmingly voted in favour of repealing the Eight Amendment’ and generally moved out from being under the di ...
Author Archives: Martin O'Dea
Dear Bernie
Dear Bernie Someone asked me recently why is it that I am interested in the presidential election in the USA while living in Ireland. My answer was that unfortunately in the world we have inherited at ...
Children
When we consider the future and the future of the future, it can all be overwhelming, dizzying and almost frightening. But, yet a brief glance at the things we can now do, the capacity we have develop ...
Past Ignorance
So, you’re middle aged, your parent or grandparent is in their 80s…you’re halfway there. While you appreciate that 80+ years is not a short period of time, as you enter into the seco ...
Choose Life
Your most cherished loved one is in a horrible car crash The news initially is really not good….major head trauma…they are unlikely to make it As the hours pass things start to get a lot b ...
Let’s Get This Straight
If you were offered a pill that would greatly reduce your chance of getting Alzheimer’s, would you take it? If you were offered a pill that greatly reduced your chances of getting Cardiovascular ...
The Room in the market for OPEN
Most everyone agrees that there is a role for a Market economy and that there is a role for social provision of services. The landscape of politics is largely concerned with degrees of involvement, fr ...
Combinatorial Technologies
Two undoubted upcoming realities of technological advance are technological underemployment and technological unemployment, the transition from agriculture through the industrial revolution did see a ...
Torture & Death
When the possibility of finding medical ways of counteracting the bodily failures associated with old age is first introduced to people they often require repeat exposures to become comfortable with t ...
Letting them Fall – The Greatest Urgency of Now
Letting them Fall The Greatest Urgency of Now It’s arguably the worst condition that affects humanity. It comes to most all of us. It turns the possibility of youth into an ever increasing list of thi ...