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‘Adolescence’ – Harrowing, Topical, and No Easy Answers – Episode 199

In this episode, Dara shares his response to the compelling drama series ‘Adolescence’ that recently launched on Netflix. Covering the harrowing events around a 13-year-old schoolboy murdering a female schoolmate, the show is an extraordinary dramatic and technical achievement that has found itself at the heart of the dark side of the zeitgeist – namely, the changed social landscape that shapes the minds of boys and young men in insidious online spaces that are ubiquitous, ever-accessible and distressingly persuasive.

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Abdicating Duty of Care and Living in the Age of Comedy Evil! – Episode 194

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In this broadly care-centred episode, Dara moves from inside to out. He wonders about the sense some people have of the world owing you something and decides a more worthwhile and potentially fruitful query is to ask what you might owe yourself. He reckons care, forgiveness and love are a good place to start. But they can be particularly difficult to effectively embed in one’s internal landscape.

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Understanding Brotherhood, or Why ‘Bro’ is not a Dirty Word! – Episode 146

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In this episode, Dara is scratching his head over the idea of brotherhood. One of four sons, he feels he has a reasonably reliable perspective on his own experience of brotherhood, one he admits was not, nor continues to be, straightforward.

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Turning 50 – If I’m Calm, It’s the Jedi’s Fault! – Episode 138

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Dara has just turned 50, and in this episode he lets his mind hover over the moment in an attempted stocktake. Even as he argues for gratitude, he acknowledges how challenging the world is right now. This leads him to consider whether enough weight is attached to softer impulses and emotions. In these times of fracture and isolation and estrangement, should we attach greater significance and worthiness to love and positivity and connection?

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

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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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Don’t Turn Off the Lights! or, Have You Made Room for Romance? – Episode 129

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In this episode Dara reveals that he is unaccustomed to the comfort of pajamas. This fact is relevant to a very recent late-night incident that he shares. That same incident concluded with an inherent contradiction relating to the presence of both love and rejection.

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Collective Heartbreak and Tears of a Clown, or How I Baptised my Baby Daughter – Episode 126

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In this pendulum swing of an episode, Dara is dancing between joy and pain. It is a journey that takes him from Ireland’s expulsion from the Rugby World Cup last week to the birth of his daughter 10 years ago.

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Foundational Beliefs of Identity and Gender-Neutral Parenting, or How I Got Cool With Being a Girl-Father! – Episode 99

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In this episode, prompted by Spike Lee’s He Got Game (1998), Dara examines his convictions as a parent, and recalls how an ill-fated Irish journalist helped him get comfortable with the idea of becoming a father to a daughter. He identifies a pillar of his parenting approach that he hopes he will manage to keep intact. He also looks at the idea of gender-neutral parenting, something he tries to adopt with his daughter.

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The Vulnerable Idealism of Living With an Open Heart, or There’s One Born Every Minute! – Episode 96

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In this episode, Dara examines the centrality of heart to his own personal philosophy. He recognises that his concept of the metaphorical heart is suffused with his natural idealism, and how that can lead him into situations where he can be easily wounded. He argues against the interpretation of open-heartedness being equal to naivete.

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‘Adolescence’ – Harrowing, Topical, and No Easy Answers – Episode 199

Abdicating Duty of Care and Living in the Age of Comedy Evil! – Episode 194

Time

Understanding Brotherhood, or Why ‘Bro’ is not a Dirty Word! – Episode 146

Turning 50 – If I’m Calm, It’s the Jedi’s Fault! – Episode 138

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

Don’t Turn Off the Lights! or, Have You Made Room for Romance? – Episode 129

Collective Heartbreak and Tears of a Clown, or How I Baptised my Baby Daughter – Episode 126

Foundational Beliefs of Identity and Gender-Neutral Parenting, or How I Got Cool With Being a Girl-Father! – Episode 99

The Vulnerable Idealism of Living With an Open Heart, or There’s One Born Every Minute! – Episode 96

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