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John Augustine Waters is an Irish columnist and author. He started his career with music and politics magazine, Hot Press, and also wrote for the Sunday Tribune newspaper. He later edited the social magazine In Dublin, and the investigative and current affairs magazine Magill. He became a regular columnist at the Irish Times and then the Irish Independent, while authoring some works on non-fiction, and developed The Whoseday Book, which raised 3 million euros for charity. He has also been a member of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland.

Waters was an unsuccessful independent candidate in the 2020 Irish general election for Dún Laoghaire constituency. Wikipedia  

✵ 28. May 1955
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John Waters (columnist) Quotes

“What is really happening is the reinvention of family not to favour either women or men but to promote new and radical models of family as remote as, so to speak, conceivable from the normative, natural model. And the more remote, the more likely to be preferred.”

John Waters (columnist)

A 'Yes' to the introduction of post-parent parenting? http://www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/a-yes-to-the-introduction-of-postparent-parenting-31209759.html (2015)

Family , Nature , Women , Men

“For the wound of poverty to be soothed, it's inadequate to undo the material disadvantage inflicted by the original blow: it is also necessary to reach out and lead the wounded person back into the human family.”

John Waters (columnist)

Power and poverty: two extremes of existence going head to head http://www.independent.ie/opinion/power-and-poverty-two-extremes-of-existence-going-head-to-head-30567525.html (2014)

Family , Personality

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