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Eddie is probably best known for co-writing and presenting
RTE’s $,,' blockbuster Rip O( Republic, a hard-hitting polemic
that closely examined how Ireland is run. He also presented
RTE’s award-win ning personal "nance series Show Me The Money,
entertainment programme )' Things to do with your SSIA,
The Consumer Show, and My Civil War. He has written four best-
selling books on personal "nance and investments and edited
Own Our Oil, an anthol ogy of articles from !' contributors.
His latest book is Breaking the Silence on the Return of Totalitarian-
ism. He is a regular contributor to national debates on radio and
TV programmes on matters relating to economic manage ment,
competition, natural resources, and personal "nance. He is patron
%--.% ,.//0 of The Jack & Jill’s Children Foundation. He has been awarded
honor ary membership of both Trinity Philo sophical Society and
UCD Law Society for his contrib utions to public life. He is married
with four children and lives in County Kildare.

Tom is an Independent Senator elected to Seanad Éireann, Dublin
University, Trinity College Dublin Panel. He is an academic, writer,
and journalist, and as an independent security analyst he provides
defence and intelligence analysis for international broad cas ters.
As an Army O8cer (Captain) Tom has direct experience of armed
con#ict in Ireland, the Middle East, and former Yugoslavia. One of
Ireland’s foremost whistleblowers, his PhD revealed shocking lev-
els of sexual violence within Ireland’s armed forces. He provides
consultancy on gender-based discrimination and violence. Tom is
one of Ireland’s leading public advocates for citizens with disabili-
ties. He is a parent of four children and is carer for his son Eoghan
who su3ers from a rare neuromus cular disease. He has been Chair-
(%*,+Íu 12 +Í' 12.343 man and Board Member of Dogs for the Disabled (Ireland). He is
Chairman of the Board of dance theatre company, Junk Ensemble.
He is author of two books, Blood, Sweat and Tears (Liberties Press,
$,!$) and Whistleblower, Soldier, Spy (Liberties Press, $,!%).

Eve is involved in psychoanalytic practice, training, education, and
research. She is a co-director of a busy Dublin city centre psycho -
therapy practice, and has published over (, essays on psychoanal-
ysis, sexuality, film, culture, and literature. Her co-edited books are:
Freud’s Principal Case Studies Revisited: Freudian–Lacanian Psycho-
analysts Reconsider the Legacy ($,$', Routledge); Critical Essays on
the Drive: Lacanian Theory and Practice ($,$(, Routledge); Clinical
Encounters in Sexuality ($,!*, Punctum); and there is a collection
on James Joyce’s writing forthcoming in $,$+. In $,$$ was the
Erik Erikson Scholar-in-Residence at the Austen Riggs Centre in
Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and is currently the academic direc-
tor of the Freud Lacan institute (FLi) in Dublin. She will be the
1u 3)% 54+0.3 Burns Scholar in Irish Studies at Boston College in late $,$'.

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