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About | Oliver Moran
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Passionate about changing Ireland. I’m a 37-year-old software engineer married to Aoife. In 2012, our son was born. We want him to grow up in an open and socially wealthy Ireland where everyone feels they have a part. To us, that’s a true “republic”. Below are some of the ways I’ve been working for a better Ireland over the past few years. In 2010, I founded the national campaign group, Second Republic. And continue to campaign for reform. For my work with Second Republic. As their Senior User Experience...
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Citizens’ initiatives, cave dwellers and the harsh fire of thought control. | Mark Cullinane
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PhD Candidate (Social Science) University College Cork, Ireland. Citizens’ initiatives, cave dwellers and the harsh fire of thought control. Was published on Politico.ie in May 2011 and is reproduced here in its entirety). Anyone who’s ever taken Philosophy 101 should be familiar with Plato’s famous allegory of the cave. Give ‘Irish people the chance to help renew our Republic and to contribute to new models of citizen engagement’. Essentially a series of regional brainstorming exercises on how to restor...
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