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This week, a letter from Kenmare to the editor outlined the plight of small businesses in small Irish towns. The writer explained how the heart has...
One of the more striking contributions in the Dáil’s long debate on the Stardust apology on Tuesday was from Catherine Connolly, the left-wing...
It didn’t exactly do what it said on the tin. A survey of filmgoers leaving Civil War found that most, like your correspondent, went to the film...
Five years ago, in the unhealthy tradition of columnists who mine their children’s lives for material, I wrote about how my then 13-year-old...
In the five years or so that semaglutide, commonly known by its brand name, Ozempic, became available in Ireland, it has transformed not just how...
As some MEPs faced the final curtain, others girded themselves for June’s elections
Peter Murtagh shares his story of travel adventures on his trusty motorbike.
This week, a letter from Kenmare to the editor outlined the plight of small businesses in small Irish towns. The writer explained how the heart has...
The hapless UUP is making a mess of what should be its most promising election in years. It has a solid chance of taking South Antrim from the DUP...
There is a question in Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov that has haunted me ever since I first read it in my 20s. The question is put by Ivan...
A FELLA started a thread on social media recently where he posed a simple question: ‘What is the No.1 problem that is making our roads more...
We best saddle up.
We are planning for our beautiful niece’s wedding. She is the eldest grandchild; the adored first granddaughter of her granny. Ma was known to...
So, have you heard the news? If you haven’t, you’re probably living in an isolated house high in the mountains with no electricity, although even...
The lighter evenings have brought brighter aspirations and thus the racer was turned upside down on the grass, cleaned, oiled and readied for its...
Delivering a balanced budget was one of the Treasury’s three conditions for wiping a £559 million debt built up by Stormont departments...
If only I knew then what I know now. On St Brigid’s Day 2023, I spent 24 hours in the Emergency Department of Wexford General Hospital with an...
During goodbye drinks for a former colleague some years ago, the departing journalist took me aside to offer friendly career advice. If you want to...
As a book reviewer, Hilary Mantel was captivated by John McGahern’s final novel That They May Face the Rising Sun, published in 2002: “This is a...
One of the characters in the ‘Nonsense Novels’ of Stephen Leacock, the Canadian humourist, was Lord Ronald. On one occasion “he said nothing;...
Let me begin with three tweets which arrived on my timeline this week. “Why does it look like every facet of government-run services here are...
TOMORROW (Saturday April 27) is 40 days until the European Elections. Nearly 450 million citizens across Europe will go to the polls from June 6 to...
THE unspoken rules of social media can be challenging to keep up with. People never regret taking social media breaks. Celebrities including...
An upcoming decision could effectively criminalise those with nowhere to go
British real estate investment market conditions improving in early months of 2024
“Ross appears on Browne’s Map, 1584, as part of Mayo, but this was disputed by Co Galway and it was dealt with as part of the latter county in...
The Spanish lender will need time to grow its market share in Ireland as it seeks to erode the dominance of the two big pillar banks
If Translink was being abolished so Stormont could take direct control of public transport, it is likely you would be aware of it. If it was...
Bradley Bytes – a sort of political column by Dara Bradley Mike Cubbard, the Independent Councillor gunning for an unprecedented three-in-a-row...
Fintech’s claim that anything Irish banks can do, it can do better, will be put to the test in its ambition to enter the mortgage market
The present crisis in unionism offers the opportunity for a new beginning. You might say there’s only a crisis in the DUP, and the DUP isn’t...