Offensive display by a self-centred generation

Vittorio Bufacchi says the behaviour of some young people is disturbing.

It is often said there are two certainties in life — death and paying taxes.

I’m prepared to speculate on another near-certainty: That amongst the 80,000 who attended the concert of the American rapper Eminem at Slane Castle last Saturday, I was the only one with a PhD in philosophy, who teaches full-time and is the head of Department of Philosophy at one of Ireland’s most prestigious universities.

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