Why Martin’s self-serving ard fheis speech left me in a spin

THERE was a great little campaign in Ireland for media literacy a few years ago.

It was led by a number of academics and by a young man called Dave Dunn. Dave is one of those highly collaborative and idealistic young people who would probably reject the idea of himself as a leader.

But he had a strong idea, and was single-minded in his pursuit of it for as long as he could. His commitment was to the idea that everyone in Ireland should be enabled to be media literate. There were conferences and symposia — several academics in DIT produced an excellent paper.