Anthony Clare

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Michael D was a leading light in the Lit & Deb Society at UCG (President of Ireland website)
My debating days: By Michael D Higgins, Mary Harney, Dara Ó Briain and more

Michael D Higgins President of Ireland Finalist for 1966 individual award I have clear recollections of a wonderful debating year when Michael Farrell(...)

Team winner Hugh Guidera from TCD Phil during the Irish Times Debate Final in 2015 held at Maynooth University. Photograph: Aidan Crawley
The Irish Times Debate at 60: How changing topics reflected the ages

1960 “That this house regrets the divergence of the sciences from the humanities in the modern university.” Team winner: Charles Lysaght and Aidan B(...)

The Irish Times debate semi-final at UCD in 1966.
Wit and warmth: The secret weapons of Irish debaters

It was January 1960. Seán Lemass had recently taken over from de Valera. The arrival of television was just around the corner. The Catholic Church’s v(...)

Mairead O’Leary from UCD LawSoc speaks during the semi-final of the Irish Times Debate 2019-2020 in the cadets’ mess at the Curragh Camp. Photograph: Crispin Rodwell
TCD and Sadsi speakers secure places for Irish Times Debate grand final

Speakers from Trinity College Dublin and the Solicitors’ Apprentice Debating Society of Ireland (Sadsi) have secured the last three places in the 60th(...)

Irish woman Bridget Lawlor in St Chad’s Hospital in Birmingham in 1955. Photograph: Raymond Kleboe/Picture Post/Getty Images
The NHS and its Irish staff: 70 years of service

“No society can legitimately call itself civilised if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means,” said Mr Aneurin Bevan, UK ministe(...)

Professor Ivor Browne: presented as a sort of mystical guru
Meetings With Ivor review: a tie-dyed in the wool, almost mystical guru

Professor Ivor Browne, now in his late 80s, has managed to remain controversial and divisive throughout his long career. As chief psychiatrist with th(...)

Homestead: Ivor Browne at Rathronan, in Co Wexford. Photograph: Alan Gilsenan
In praise of Ivor Browne: groundbreaker, lifesaver

When William Ivory Browne was a boy he would take the train from Dublin to spend holidays with his aunts Kathleen and Maisie at Rathronan Castle, the (...)

Elaine O’Hara: She had extremely low self-esteem, believed herself to be worthless and valueless, and was prone to self-harm.
Vulnerable Elaine O’Hara in psychiatric care from age of 16

On the day she was murdered, the same day she was released from St Edmundsbury psychiatric hospital in Lucan, Elaine O’Hara was pictured on CCTV at he(...)