Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
Diarmaid Ferriter is professor of modern Irish history at University College Dublin (UCD). His books include The Transformation of Modern Ireland, 1900-2000 (Profile, 2005); Judging Dev: A Reassessment of the life and legacy of Eamon de Valera (Royal Irish Academy, 2007); and Occasions of Sin: Sex and Society in Modern Ireland (Profile, 2012)
The latest in a series of official inquiries exposes the extent of corruption in Ireland’s political elite during...