Irish Examiner View: Tragedy shows our core values - Det Garda Colm Horkan

How a society reacts to an outrage, or even how a society judges an event an outrage, is revealing.
Irish Examiner View: Tragedy shows our core values - Det Garda Colm Horkan
Flowers left at the scene in Castlerea Co Roscommon where Detective Garda Colm Horkan was shot dead. Photo: Colin Keegan/Collins
Fri, 19 Jun, 2020 - 13:23
Irish Examiner editorial

How a society reacts to an outrage, or even how a society judges an event an outrage, is revealing.

Those reactions express core values more accurately than nearly any other metric.

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