
Opinion
Gary Gannon: "You don’t get to stand in the Dáil, beat your chest and play the tough guy, whilst not realising we have a crisis in multiple forms here"
Hailed for his deft stewardship of the Joint Committee on Drugs who’ve recommended full decriminalisation for personal use, Gary Gannon is one of the reasons why the Social Democrats are surging in the polls. The Dublin Central TD tells Stuart Clark about why Simon Harris has to stop the macho chest beating, growing up in the inner city, the scourge of far-right extremism, taking on the tech bros and why religious orders need their assets seizing.