refugee crisis

"No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark; You only run for the border, when you see the whole city running as well." - Warsan Shire This week, Steve and Richie of What Am Politics? are joined by writer and political analyst,…

There's a whole world out there that you might just miss if you don't stop and read the papers. So with this in mind, let's take a look back at some of the week's biggest global stories. Hope for humanity It’s often hard to think that as…

The world moves fast. If you don't stop and read the papers, you might just miss a few things. So with this in mind, let's take you through a few of those global stories that you may have missed during the week. Migration in Europe The work…

You are standing alone in a small cell, 6 by 9, listening to bangs and shouts echoing down the corridor. As you look around to get your bearings – a bed with a thin mattress, a toilet, a table screwed to the floor – you hear voices. They…

So Leonardo finally won an Oscar. Experienced camera men caught the exuberant reaction of a crowd whose emotion is otherwise so tightly rehearsed. TV viewers clapped with pride, feeling a sense of ownership over this awaited award. In…

In November, the Irish State ordered for the deportation of a man in his fifties, born in a Middle Eastern country, who has resided in Ireland for fifteen years. Described by the Irish Times as “the foremost member of the Islamic State in…

It's that time of year again. The end of it. The time when Christmas has already been going on for about four months and we're just waiting for it to finally be over. When we're all trying to convince ourselves that 2016 might just be our…

Hodges Figgis Book Festival Hodges Figgis Book Festival launches this evening, and will celebrate the Irish short story. Thomas Morris will read from his book of short stories entitled We Don’t Know What We’re Doing and New Island Books…

A photograph of a little boy washed up on a beach in Turkey has made every headline last week, and has gone viral on social media. The child in the picture is 3-year-old Aylan Kurdi, who drowned along with his brother Galip, 5, and their…

A few days ago, when speaking on CNN’s ‘State of the Union,’ former Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin stated that if people wanted to live in America, they had to “speak American.” Even though she was quick to correct…