Tom Killalea

“When women approached the uppermost ranks at their companies, skepticism about suitability for leadership suddenly came to the fore. Their performance wasn't typically in question, but their fit for leadership was.”
― Colleen Ammerman, Glass Half-Broken: Shattering the Barriers That Still Hold Women Back at Work

“What counts is not how hard you work but how much you grow.”
― Adam Grant, Hidden Potential

“Sunrise in the Irish Sea, dawn over Dublin Bay
after a stormy night, one shivering star;
and I picture the harsh waking everywhere,
the devastations of a world at war,
airfields, radio silence, a darkened convoy
strung out in moonlight on a glittering sea.”
― Derek Mahon, The Yellow Book

“Ireland is different from the other countries that introduced institutional change in the judicial selection system. Policy changed occurred quickly and without the debate that took place in other countries. Institutional change to judicial selection processes was introduced although there was little evidence of political commitment to such change. The trigger for institutional change was the need to find a solution to a political crisis that might prevent the coalition government from breaking up.”
― Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, The Politics of Judicial Selection in Ireland