The Irish Examiner View: We must find a way to fund restrictions

It hardly seems to matter whether you’re the world’s richest man Jeff Bezos - wedge $140bn - or Fr Peter McVerry, the Belfast Jesuit fighting social injustice, particularly homelessness, for more years than he, or we, might care to remember. A truth for Bezos is a truth for McVerry even if either man uses his opinions, their beliefs to advance one understanding or another of truth.

Bezos seems a typical modest-background-to-billionaire businessman committed to tooth-and-claw capitalism. One of the ways he expresses that today is by ruthless suppression of those trying to unionise his employees. McVerry stands at the far end of the spectrum caring for the vulnerable as passionately as Bezos cares for Amazon share values.