OURSA conference more secure on gender balance

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Ireland abortion debate heating up as Ireland decides its next step

The referendum to introduce abortion into Ireland is now just over a month away -- the vote will be on May 25 -- and the national campaigns are...

Motoring: Doing the Donegal

Shares If you have the luck as a child to meet someone or something to inspire you in a positive way it can set your belief of what you can...

Syrian attack leaves Ireland uncomfortably on the fence

World of Politics with Harry McGee – harrymcgee@gmail.com Almost thirty years ago Iraq invaded Kuwait. It was a local dispute and there had been...

Have it, got it, want it – welcome to the world of football card fever

A Different View with Dave O’Connell n a time so long ago that there used to be a petrol station across from the Regional Hospital on the site...

Mullins and Elliott are primed for another big Punchestown battle

Inside Track with John McIntyre THE backdrop to the upcoming Punchestown National Hunt Festival is virtually the same as 12 months ago. Just like...

How should Ireland respond to Emmanuel Macron’s plans to reform Europe?

The unborn are people too, but I will vote to repeal, for mothers

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Brace yourself for financial impact of a baby

This week’s article is inspired by a client of mine, whose wife gave birth to two baby boys last week. Despite being born six weeks premature,...

Feel sorry for the poison pen letter writer, not angry

ANONYMOUS letters again this week. This week there is a long one, a poison pen epistle from London. I gave it away after the first two pages. It...

Kilkenny mosque debate: 'This could become dangerous. Tensions could escalate'

WHAT WOULD HUBERT Butler make of his native Kilkenny in the week that has passed? In 1941, our internationally celebrated humanitarian and essayist...

Irish students on track for Elon Musk locomotive challenge

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Windrush scandal has implications for post-Brexit border

“If you lay down with dogs you get fleas."

Hearing both sides of the debate: What would ‘right-thinking people’ say?

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Post Podcast: Bonuses for bankers?

Ian Kehoe is joined by Ian Guider to discuss the policy and the politics of bank bonuses

Irish innovators determined not to be kept out of Elon Musk’s loop

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Ethical as well as technological challenges to robotics and AI

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A secret White House hero who made Irish peace possible

Nancy Soderberg is not a name many associate with the Irish peace process but for my money, she was absolutely critical. So, while all the kudos...

Targeting of women turning Twitter into a toxic place

It was heartening this week to see the support offered to DUP assembly member Carla Lockhart, the latest politician to be targeted by an online mob.

Street art is million miles away from ‘tagging’

FOR the past couple of years, as a co-founder, street artist, and volunteer with Mad About Cork, I’ve seen first hand how street art can bring...

How should Ireland respond to Macron’s challenge?

Rearranging chairs can’t save North’s sinking bureaucracy

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Peace in the Basque Country cannot be built by only one side

It’s a brave while from I last played hand ball. Last Saturday I had a game with my friend Igor in a little village called Gatzaga in the Basque...

Trump for Nobel Peace Prize if he pulls off this deal

The news that Mike Pompeo, former CIA head and prospective Secretary of State has met with Kim Jung Un, the North Korea dictator, has the...

Womenomics: 7 steps to make gender equality the new normal

YOU CAN’T BE ‘a little bit pregnant’, as the saying goes, but you can be ‘a little bit equal’. 2018 could be another big year. The fallout...

Lost Toys: Whatever happened to Bunny Sweeney Logue?

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EU funding fiasco raises serious questions

QUESTIONS TO ANSWER Leo Varadkar and Michael Ring – Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport and Minister of State for Tourism and Sport in 2011...

Global growth is built, alas, on shaky foundations

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We are at a precarious moment in history

World politics is arguably in its most dangerous phase this century.

Why Cork doctor will be voting no to Repeal

I AM proud to have worked as a medical doctor in Cork for the past 12 years. During my training to become a GP, I have been fortunate enough to...

Kathy Sheridan: Women must not turn on each other

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The long and winding path of ceasefires, talks, walk outs

The hand of history on Tony Blair’s shoulder, Bertie Ahern returning to talks having buried his mother. Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness in...

The life and times of Bunny Sweeney Logue – he’s some rabbit for one rabbit

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Not A Funny Word, but a very funny show at very serious time

“I’m controversial, but only because of what other people say,” says Tara Flynn, ahead of her show Not A Funny Word in Cork’s Everyman...

British move away from Good Friday Agreement is stupid and dangerous

Simon Coveney is going to have another go at persuading the British to agree to a British Irish Inter-Governmental Conference (BIIGC) meeting when...