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Michael McdowellThe Business Post |
I was intrigued by a recent correspondent’s report on BBC World Service that Israeli citizens are applying as asylum seekers for international...
There has been some degree of public controversy in recent times concerning the role of schools in educating children about sexuality, gender...
It is a strange irony that the majority of EU states, including Nato members, are collectively considering how to deal with the threat posed by the...
There is a massive black hole in Ireland’s legislative relationship with the European Union. Our parliamentary committees do not effectively monitor...
As things stand, the Binyamin Netanyahu war cabinet plans to launch a major ground offensive on Rafah in the coming weeks. The stated purposes are to...
Not many people read our Constitution, and for many it might prove a difficult casual read. Perhaps every school leaver should have been given a...
I was at the multiparty talks convened by the leaders of the British and Irish governments, Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern, at Weston Park, a mansion on...
What is happening in Gaza is entirely predictable. It was not inevitable, however. As far back as October 11th last I wrote of the need to avoid the...
When I was studying for my arts degree in economics and politics at UCD in the early 1970s, we had a choice whether to take either statistics or Roman...
Tomorrow the broadcast media moratorium on the referendums to be held on Friday will come into effect. And for me what has been a hectic engagement...
I do not always agree with the political views of Una Mullaly as expounded in these pages. But I am in definite agreement with her suggestion that the...
There are still two weeks to go before the citizens of Ireland decide whether to amend our Constitution by the 39th and 40th amendments. Posters have...
Like the majority of people in this State, I believe in republican government. And I favour an Ireland in which all Irish people — North and South...
Dr Tom Hickey of Dublin City University’s School of Law and Government correctly points out in two recent letters published in The Irish Times on...
Now that the two referendums have been fixed for March 8th – International Women’s Day – it becomes all the more important that public debate on...
The Supreme Court decision in the O’Meara case was made in the context of articles 40 and 41 of the Constitution as they stand – before any of the...
I was reminded when reading Una Mullally’s piece on the proposal to demolish the Stephen’s Green Shopping Centre at the top of Grafton Street and...
The Government plans to have two referendums on March 8th to amend our Constitution. One is to amend Article 41.2 of the Constitution to remove the...
This is election year in the United States. As things stand, the Democrats look set to nominate Joe Biden and the Republicans seem on course to select...
It was reported recently that enabling works on the site of the new National Maternity Hospital on the campus of St Vincent’s hospital are to...
As I watched footage of Palestinian men of all ages stripped of their clothing and blindfolded, with their hands tied behind their backs, being herded...
The Supreme Court ruled that it is constitutional for the Oireachtas to prohibit by law the government from filling any vacancy in judicial office,...
Sooner or later, we in Ireland are going to have a mature national conversation about migration, free from a suffocating anxiety not to fit into glib...
Policing in Dublin is in crisis. It took an orgy of destructive rioting and looting to bring a significant visible Garda presence back to the streets....
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” The question posed in Juliet’s famous soliloquy comes to...
Professor Oran Doyle of TCD’s law school wrote recently in the Irish Independent about the significance of the Supreme Court hearing to be held this...
Professor Oran Doyle of TCD’s law school wrote recently in the Irish Independent about the significance of the Supreme Court hearing to be held this...
The announced departure from the political stage of Frances Fitzgerald has happened well in advance of the European and local elections due next June....
Looking at what is happening in Britain in the context of the ongoing destruction of innocent civilians in Israel and Gaza, I am left wondering how...
Steve Baker, a British minister of state for Northern Ireland and a former chairman of the Tory Eurosceptic European Research Group (ERG), suggested...
The atrocious Hamas massacre and hostage-taking in Israel was intended to have the exact outcome which is now unfolding before our eyes. Hamas’s...
The premeditated, evil barbarity unleashed on hundreds of innocent human beings by Hamas, a terrorist organisation, can never be justified or excused....
Liberty to exercise the right of citizens to assemble peacefully and without arms is guaranteed by the State in Ireland subject to public order and...
There has been a lot of commentary in these pages and elsewhere in relation to urban dereliction in Dublin, and the piecemeal and inadequate response...
I was intrigued to see posters featuring Vladimir Lenin and red flags featuring the hammer and sickle in evidence at a recent counterdemonstration in...
I was intrigued to see posters featuring Vladimir Lenin and red flags featuring the hammer and sickle in evidence at a recent counterdemonstration in...
A radio advertising campaign on disability rights is currently under way “brought to you by the Government of Ireland”. It carries the message:...