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In their haste to claim the UK’s Rwanda immigration law is having an effect, the Irish and British governments are both glossing over the question...
On day one of the hot school meals programme in a rural Galway primary school, the buzz of excitement from the children is palpable. Teachers...
Fintan, as his name naturally implies, was a person of transcendent wisdom and insight. In Irish mythology, he is the only human on the island of...
Should Ireland boycott Eurovision 2024? As the bombs rain down on Gaza, yes. As the population of Gaza is starved, yes. As Palestinians are...
Absence of proof is not proof of absence, theologians like to say. What applies to the existence of God also pertains to historical fact. We know...
The word “bloc” to describe the European Union is becoming increasingly embedded in our political discourse in Ireland. A quick perusal of the...
I’ve grown to hate those “brave” articles on regretting motherhood. Not because I don’t think it’s possible to regret being a parent –...
On Friday, China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, warned US secretary of state Antony Blinken, who is visiting Beijing, that the United States and...
Some time ago, there was a bitterly divisive social media debate about a man refusing to change seats on a plane so that a mother could sit beside...
Before the 14th century, Caesarean birth was almost exclusively about saving and baptising the surviving foetus of a dead woman. Surgical...
Some comparisons obscure more than they reveal; others tell us more about the people making the comparison. Consider the contemporary fashion for...
This week, a letter from Kenmare to the editor outlined the plight of small businesses in small Irish towns. The writer explained how the heart has...
This week, a letter from Kenmare to the editor outlined the plight of small businesses in small Irish towns. The writer explained how the heart has...
One of the more striking contributions in the Dáil’s long debate on the Stardust apology on Tuesday was from Catherine Connolly, the left-wing...
Five years ago, in the unhealthy tradition of columnists who mine their children’s lives for material, I wrote about how my then 13-year-old...
It didn’t exactly do what it said on the tin. A survey of filmgoers leaving Civil War found that most, like your correspondent, went to the film...
There is a question in Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov that has haunted me ever since I first read it in my 20s. The question is put by Ivan...
In the five years or so that semaglutide, commonly known by its brand name, Ozempic, became available in Ireland, it has transformed not just how...
If only I knew then what I know now. On St Brigid’s Day 2023, I spent 24 hours in the Emergency Department of Wexford General Hospital with an...
During goodbye drinks for a former colleague some years ago, the departing journalist took me aside to offer friendly career advice. If you want to...
As a book reviewer, Hilary Mantel was captivated by John McGahern’s final novel That They May Face the Rising Sun, published in 2002: “This is a...