Richard Hogan: It might be hard to believe - but there's more good than evil in this world

"There are more people interested in promoting the human condition than there are those who want to destroy it. The light of goodness might be flickering in a storm, but it never goes out. It is resolute."

Richard Hogan. Photograph Moya Nolan

We live in a beautiful world. That beauty is often obscured by the behaviour of its denizens. The recent escalation of terror in Gaza has been incredibly hard to observe. 

The brutal actions of Hamas, terrorising young adults celebrating the Jewish holiday Sukkot at a music festival has ignited an incomprehensible nightmare for ordinary civilians.