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Kathy SheridanThe Irish Times |
In case you imagined that we have only a handful of political parties, well, the news is we have 29. Yep, 29. All legally registered with the...
When a Vietnamese property tycoon was sentenced to death last week for one of the biggest corruption cases in history, Paddy Cosgrave – currently...
The growing demand for a proper right-wing party or “return to traditional values”, like whiplash, is hard to pin down. “Enough is enough”...
It’s Easter, a time when our thoughts inevitably turn to Connolly and Pearse and the current state of the kip they died for. They would be amazed...
There was no mystery in the Opposition’s barking response to Leo Varadkar’s shock resignation last week. He had opened up an appalling vista where...
This is your regular reminder that functioning human brains are capable of accommodating several ideas at the same time. Yes, the referendums were...
There are always those who preach about “freedom”, but only their own. This week three years ago, at the height of Covid, some of them paraded...
Nothing better illustrates the futility of chasing policy by Twitter/Telegram than the Irish Times/Ipsos B&A Snapshot polls. Check out the moving bar...
Maria Walsh was responding to a journalist’s question when she took a swipe at Fianna Fáil’s three confirmed European candidates as “male, pale...
Way back in 2016 TV network chiefs knew the destruction they were wreaking with their 24/7 razzle-dazzle Trump coverage. “It may not be good for...
Michelle O’Neill’s walk into history via Stormont’s imposing staircase presented an image of ownership and intent, expressed outwardly with a...
Coming up to eight years since the Brexit referendum, four to the day since Brexit proper was celebrated with Big Ben bongs and a countdown clock...
Big questions are being asked about democracy. Around two billion people – about half the world’s adult population – will have a chance to vote...
Chances of an 82-year-old Joe Biden making it through a second term? They veer from commentator Niall O’Dowd’s super-optimistic assessment in a...
“It’s the man in your bed, not the man under your bed you should be worried about,” the former State pathologist Marie Cassidy said when asked...
You will find no new year resolutions here. Make plans and God laughs. But 2024 will be an election year in many places including Ireland so, in some...
Two years on, we still do not know why Jozef Puska opted to turn the advantages he had been given in life to the destruction of a beautiful, joyful...
“The inn is full,” said Cllr Noel Thomas, after the arsonists’ handiwork on a refugee shelter in Rosscahill while carefully not defending it....
A young woman who cycles to work in Dublin describes the daily challenge when the cycleway turns left at a bridge but she has to keep straight ahead...
It is impossible to sit in company without the suffering, defenceless children of Gaza fading in and out of the conversation. A relentless news cycle...
There are no limits to human misunderstanding, wrote the historian and diplomat Harold Nicolson. “The line of comprehension runs strict and narrow...
For anyone who has risked a glimpse at social media, the images are indelible. The twisted body of a 23-year-old Israeli-German, Shani Louk, paraded...
Observing the grim parade of female Tory politicians, one is reminded of the truism that we will only have equality when there are as many mediocre...
Mention Elon Musk or his Twitter (X) platform in company and at least half the listeners will adopt a talk-to-the-hand posture. At a recent gathering,...
Eleven days in Paddy Cosgrave’s Twitter/X life reveal something beyond the fact that the former Web Summit CEO’s comment that “war crimes are...
The air of lassitude around school traffic planning is remarkable. Stand outside a primary school gate at drop-off or collection times and watch the...
One of the tragedies of the Israel/Palestine conflict is that up to this horrific weekend, it could have defined the term compassion fatigue. A friend...
Two fraud trials start in New York this week and of course Donald Trump’s is grabbing the front pages. But the case against Sam Bankman-Fried,...
How did we get here? How did we reach a point where an “angry” mob can control the movements of elected politicians in and out of our parliament?...
“That’s just who he is, that’s what he does. That’s just Russell,” said Alice, who was a 16-year-old schoolgirl when Russell Brand had her...
“That’s just who he is, that’s what he does. That’s just Russell,” said Alice, who was a 16-year-old schoolgirl when Russell Brand had her...