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Let’s not turn our backs on world’s poor

ONE of the characteristics of the modern state is the celebration of its successes.

Let’s not turn our backs on world’s poor

Fri, 26 Nov, 2004 - 00:00

With Ireland recently voted the best country in the world to live in, there might be the tendency to feel pleased with ourselves.

But nationalism could yet prove to be a passing historical phenomenon associated with the comparatively recent development of the modern state.

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