Ireland's Edge - Trust Issues / Muinín Faoi Amhras

Ireland's Edge - the ideas and discussion strand of Other Voices returns home to Dingle this December as part of #OV2023!

Taking place from 1 - 2 December, this year's programme, ‘Trust Issues / Muinín Faoi Amhras’, considers the breakdown of trust in the structures that uphold our society - public institutions, parliaments, hospitals, universities, broadcasters, the technology industry and business, and asks if and how it can be restored. Growing levels of distrust in key public and private institutions present profound challenges to our future, both on home shores and beyond. As we are constantly confronted with conflicting information, deciding what to do and who to believe becomes all the more difficult, and threatens to deepen divisions in all aspects of civil and social life.

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// FEATURING //

Fiona Hill, Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy, Brookings Institution; Chancellor, Durham University; former senior director for European and Russian affairs, U.S. National Security Council // Tony Connelly, RTÉ Europe Editor; Author // Mark Little, Founder of Storyful and Kinzen; Member of the Future of Media Commission Ireland // Rachael Lavelle, Singer; Composer // Professor Orla Feely, President, University College Dublin // Mark O’Connell, Writer // Aoife Moore, Journalist; Author of best-selling The Long Game: Inside Sinn Féin // Alex White, The Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA); Former Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications of Ireland // Dr Monica Peres Oikeh, GP with Special Interest in Women’s Health // Sinéad O’Carroll, Editor, TheJournal.ie // Ambassador Claire D. Cronin, US Ambassador to Ireland // Professor Sara Burke, Associate Professor of Public Health & Primary Care, Trinity College Dublin // Brian Irvine & John McIlfuff, Dumbworld // Professor John O’Halloran, President, University College Cork // Phil Ní Sheaghdha, General Secretary, Irish Nurses and Midwives Association // Siobhán Holliman, Deputy Editor of Tuam Herald; Future of Media Commission // Professor John Naughton, CRASSH, Cambridge University

The full day-by-day schedule will revealed very soon.

This special strand of Other Voices provides a unique space during the weekend’s festivities for curious minds to connect, share ideas and explore new perspectives from the furthermost edge of Europe. Ireland’s Edge is now in its ninth year and as always, it will bring together curious minds, passionate voices and diverse outlooks for a weekend of thought-provoking discussion. There will also be music and performance for the head and heart.

Ireland’s Edge - Trust Issues / Muinín Faoi Amhras has been made possible by AIB, Reed and the U.S. Embassy Dublin

Join us at the Edge // Bígí linn.

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