Alan Shatter served as a TD for more than 30 years. For three of those years, as Minister for Justice and Defence (2011–2014), he introduced a wide range of reforms. These included the creation of citizenship ceremonies and an Act criminalising the failure to report child sexual abuse. He was wrongly vilified, condemned and forced to resign from government in May 2014; in his book Frenzy & Betrayal, recently published by Merrion Press, he tells the extraordinary story of his lonely and successful five-year fight for justice and truth. In offering an unprecedented insight into the dysfunctional world of Irish politics and its problematic relationship with the media he takes few prisoners. He will be in conversation with Myles Dungan.
