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Let’s get our house in order‘Which part of Nigeria is Uganda?” That was the question an Irish man once posed a Ugandan woman in Monaghan a few years ago as they were introducing themselves to each other.
Judge Bryan McMahon’s words should be taken to heart‘You, too, are Ireland.” Those were the words of retired High Court Judge Bryan McMahon while presiding over the citizenship ceremony that took place in the Dublin Convention Centre on 14 December 2015. Some 3,000 people from 121 countries were naturalised on that day: many had come to Ireland as migrants, immigrants, refugees or asylum seekers, while others were descendants of such.
Religion is the ticket to world peacePolitics isn’t necessarily a dirty game; dirty politicians play dirty politics and clean politicians play clean. But obviously politics is a game, and a gamble. It’s the real opium of the masses — not religion, as the saying goes.