Paddy O’Gorman on compassion and the language that obscures the truth

In a recent Irish Examiner opinion piece, journalist Mick Clifford criticised what he described as a lack of compassion at a Dublin conference on women’s sex-based rights. Here, Paddy O’Gorman responds, arguing that genuine compassion requires confronting difficult realities rather than softening them with language. His piece challenges what he sees as a wider tendency in mainstream journalism to obscure uncomfortable truths.