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The Dublin Riots: The Denial of Dignity and the Rage of the Unloved – Episode 132

In this episode, Dara tries to get his head around the riots that took place in Dublin recently after a violent knife attack on young children outside their school in the middle of the day. The subsequent outpouring of shock and anger escalated into a night of destruction, rioting and looting in the city centre, fuelled by anti-immigrant rhetoric.

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Why You Shouldn’t Bring an Axe to a Party, or How to Sit Down with Others – Episode 121

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In this episode, Dara argues that in the process of ‘othering’, many are guilty of thinking only in monolithic terms, i.e. attributing unchanging characteristics to all members of the othered party. This reduces people to stereotypes and cliches, and robs them of both their individuality and the presumption of no bias. He wonders if this isn’t a huge part of the problem with discourse around identity politics, woke culture and gender wars.

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Safety First! – The Benefits of Safe Places, Safe People, and a Safe You – Episode 105

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In this episode Dara looks at the idea of safety as a keystone of wellness. In particular he concentrates on environmental and interpersonal safety. This pertains to the places we live and the people we share our lives with. Are they safe? How do we understand and recognise safety? And why is it so important, anyway?

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Stirring the Masculinity Pot and Countering Dubious Male Voices – Episode 89

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In this episode, Dara is all stirred up as a result of the theatre production he is currently working on. The subject of the work is masculinity and the nurturing and shaping of boys into men. Dara admits that the process of examining this subject closely is leaving him exhausted but also inspired and full of almost uncontrollable thought processes and emotional impulses around what masculinity means to him

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The Hateful Power of Hipsters, or Today’s Letter is ‘H’! – Episode 72

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In this tonally-light episode, Dara weaves a thread through 4 apparently unconnected words to create (what he hopes is) meaningful content. As they like to say on Sesame Street, “today’s letter is ‘H’. What begins with ‘H’?”

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The weight of expectations and accepting loss of control – Episode 16

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In this episode, Dara gets stuck into expectations and how imposing they can be if they are too rigid. He draws a connection between unmet expectations and the loss of control, and the anger that results from that.

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You do the math

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When writing for this blog I typically start with the kernel of an idea in my mind that I trust will carry enough discursive and imaginative heft to justify the thousand or so words that follow. What I have discovered though is that by the time I press ‘publish’ that kernel may not be in

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Good grief!

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Has there ever been a Miss World candidate who hasn’t declared her wish for world peace? How admirable, how marvellous, to behold the nobility and compassion of the bikini-clad, doe-eyed tiara-aspirant! Such ambition! Such gravitas! Such shiny teeth! But imagine the ripples through the universe of beauty pageantry if one of these paragons of female

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Go ahead, hit me.

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Here’s a question. How angry do you think you are? You can give yourself a mark out of ten if you like – ten being volcanic, uncontainable rage, one being the last glowing ember in the grate. We may agree that the upper end takes lives while the lower end has the potential to give

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anger

The Dublin Riots: The Denial of Dignity and the Rage of the Unloved – Episode 132

Why You Shouldn’t Bring an Axe to a Party, or How to Sit Down with Others – Episode 121

Safety First! – The Benefits of Safe Places, Safe People, and a Safe You – Episode 105

Stirring the Masculinity Pot and Countering Dubious Male Voices – Episode 89

The Hateful Power of Hipsters, or Today’s Letter is ‘H’! – Episode 72

The weight of expectations and accepting loss of control – Episode 16

You do the math

Good grief!

Go ahead, hit me.

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