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Watching the film adaptation of the John McGahern novel That They May Face the Rising Sun is a profound experience. It’s a wonderful film. If you...
Studio apartment rents should be capped at €500 a month in cities, and at €300-€400 where they exist in towns and villages. This is still...
Small independent hospitality businesses in Ireland are asking for a very simple thing. They say they need a VAT rate of nine per cent to help them...
Local elections are mostly about local concerns, which is understandable. But that doesn’t mean they should only be about small thinking. Here are...
In the end, what resonates is the unfulfilled potential of an era that promised so much. Leo Varadkar came to power as the country was engulfed in a...
A few days before St Patrick’s Day, I found myself in Temple Bar. I was walking from Smithfield to The Irish Times office on Tara Street, through...
Failures of the Yes-Yes campaign, especially those of the Government, are writ large across the emphatic result of Friday’s referendum. Complexity...
Throughout her ministerial career, Catherine Martin has been seen as a positive force for the arts in Ireland. She has leadership of a department that...
What would happen to any public body, government department, local authority, or publicly funded entity were they subject to the granular scrutiny...
We are reaching the closing stages of a referendum campaign that has so far failed to capture the public’s imagination. Nevertheless, it’s...
On Sunday, July 9th 2023, Rory Coveney announced his resignation as director of strategy of RTÉ in a statement. “I met with Kevin [Bakhurst] over...
The facts of office vacancy in Dublin are well known. It is going to get worse. Where are the policies to address this huge issue? Last Friday,...
Support for Sinn Féin has fallen six points in the latest Irish Times/Ipsos B&A poll to its lowest level in three years, and the party is losing...
For those who monitor far-right activity, extremism, disinformation and hate, and track its tactics and playbook, what has been happening in Ireland...
Irish artist Emmalene Blake — also known as ESTR — completed a mural in Dublin recently with artist Holly Pereira. It’s a painting of...
January presents a month-long version of a saying my grandfather, Pesh, used to reach for, looking out across the fields of Ballaghanea being drenched...
Once in a while – all too frequently, actually – a new plan for a “redevelopment” in Dublin city centre comes along that is so deflating and...
May 1st, 2024: it’s a date looming in the psyche of the Irish hospitality industry. That is the deadline Revenue set for paying back tax debt (VAT,...
2024 will be a bumper year for elections. More than 40 per cent of the world’s population will hold national elections across more than 40...
The end of the year compels one to take stock. Even if you’re trying to avoid reflecting on choices, decisions, mistakes and actions, there is...
If there’s one thing you read this week, make it Masha Gessen’s piece in the New Yorker, In the Shadow of the Holocaust. Gessen, one of the finest...
Arguing about Dublin isn’t going to get it anywhere. What can be offered though are solutions of various kinds. We already know the answers to...
When it comes to improving street life, having more eyes on the street, increasing footfall for local businesses and building thriving neighbourhoods,...
“A few hundred people turned the city upside-down.” I was speaking to a friend who lives in Dublin 1 and got caught up in the riots on Thursday...
It can be difficult to consider or hypothesise about the long-term impact of what has been happening in Gaza, because the immediate situation is so...
The French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry said: “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks...
The news that the music streaming platform Spotify is fiddling with its royalty model was welcomed with as much enthusiasm as, to quote Billy...
Only one person knows why he did what he did on January 12th, 2022. And only he knows why he dragged Ashling Murphy’s family through a trial, having...
As of last Friday, 157 people had died on Irish roads so far in 2023. This already surpasses the 156 killed on our roads in all of 2022. That figure...
When the album Kid A by Radiohead was released in 2000, I recall the exact moment one of the song’s lyrics stopped me in my tracks. On How To...
When the album Kid A by Radiohead was released in 2000, I recall the exact moment one of the song’s lyrics stopped me in my tracks. On How To...
It seems trivial to talk about the European Union’s reputation at this moment but it does matter. As Israel geared up to drop countless bombs on...
At some point during one of the pandemic’s lockdowns, I reminisced about places I had travelled, and thought about where, once the opportunity was...
Last week, the trailblazing Irish LGBTQ activist Edmund Lynch died. His impact on Irish queer life was huge. He was one of the founding members of...
There are a lot of silly plot holes in the Dáil, plenty of shoddy lines, and a sense that we’re in a constant cycle of “Haven’t I seen this one...
Hopefully last Wednesday’s chaos outside Leinster House will be a turning point in countering hate on our streets. Now we have footage of a...
As summer turns to autumn, and politicians dust themselves off in preparation for returning to the Dáil and the Seanad, political messaging in...
Owen Keegan recently retired from heading up Dublin City Council. “All dictatorships must come to an end, even benevolent ones,” Fine Gael...