'I began to feel like I wasn't meant to have a job, or to live a life of my choosing'

MY NAME IS Padraig Hannafin. I am from Dingle County Kerry and I’m the public affairs and research administrator with Rehab Group. At the age of 16...

No to Pope Francis - I am a devout Irish Catholic but refuse to see him in Ireland

Pope Francis is coming here to Ireland this week. Whilst I respect and admire this humble man I am deliberately choosing not to attend the events...

Men are often ‘the forgotten mourners’ of miscarriage

Time to end the hype around exam results

Could we all please stop making such a Big Public Thing of exam results? Could school principals resist making results day an ‘event’, with...

Sometimes people choose to believe what they know to be fibs

Fooling nobody but the most gullible, today’s Sinn Féin, descendants of the Provos, have been massaging the origins of the civil rights campaign.

Instead of cheering Pope in Phoenix Park we should stand with Peggy

Working out the tax bill on a long-delayed inheritance

Cheap mobile data turns holidays into detox disasters

Una Mullally: Irish Catholics should not endorse a toxic Church

50 Years Ago - The first Civil Rights march

THE first of the many street demonstrations of the Civil Rights movement in Ireland was the August 1968 march from Coalisland to Dungannon in...

'Ireland's decision to prohibit GM crops doesn't make sense'

TWO RECENT DECISIONS, one at a European level and one at national level, puts Irish agriculture at risk of falling far behind the rest of the...

Clues that point to the prime suspect in a 20-year mystery

Battling Luas tracks: I got on my bike, and became an embattled cyclist

It’s no joke: laughter really is the best medicine

Omagh bombing anniversary highlights Stormont's failure to help victims

ON a Saturday afternoon 20 years ago, a man was going to buy paint to decorate his home; a pregnant mother was taking her baby daughter and mother...

Citizen McAleese lacks the generosity of President McAleese

REMEMBER the nursery rhyme, "Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary, How does your garden grow?"? Well, it came into my head last week when I read that Mary...

Ex-CIA chief John Brennan an outlaw like his Irish namesake "Brennan on the Moor"

My all-time favorite Irish rebel folksong is the signature tune of the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem—Brennan on the Moor. Willie Brennan (who...

Stateside twin who stole my thunder

Opening Lines

Senior citizens don’t have the same rights ‘but it’s for their own good’

Slaintecare – just don’t hold your breath

County View John Healy Slaintecare was unveiled with bells and whistles last week. The radical plan to transform our health system and deliver the...

Donate blood, feel good, and help others

An Cailín Rua Anne-Marie Flynn A few years back when I found myself – sorry, made myself – unemployed in Dublin at the height of the recession,...

I’m not joking: laughter really is the best medicine

Do we owe Sinéad O’Connor an apology for speaking the truth about church child abuse?

Her declaration back in 1992 that the Catholic Church was rotten to its core and pedophile priests and their enablers were the real enemy was true....

75,000 CAO offers issued today

CAO Round One Offers will be issued to eligible applicants today, Monday, 20 August from 6am at www.cao.ie. Round One is the largest of the offer...