|
The Irish Times |
The push is for more supply, any supply – but at what cost?
There is a pure escape, a total transportation, that no other field of human endeavour is quite so capable of providing
AI-generated memes were posted of her in her famous yellow Strictly Come Dancing costume, being dragged into hell by the devil
Fine Gael aspirations to help ‘people who get up early in the morning’ might be kept in check by realpolitik
A new mural at the cathedral celebrates the city’s Irish immigrant history, and features a representation of the Apparition at Knock
But you might not want to get too excited
Describing what they believe to be part of normal sex, teenagers name slapping, whipping, strangulation and gagging – all acts they report seeing in...
In proof, if any were needed, of the human capacity for finding novel ways to hasten our own demise, the hashtag #tanlines is trending on social media
Could China – as it has done with cars, drones and phones – simply undercut the Americans, providing better AI models more cheaply to the world?
It will be interesting to see if those disgusted at his monstrous rule can make their voices heard
It will be interesting to see if those disgusted at his monstrous rule will manage to make their voices heard
While the country partied, the Girls in Green overcame neglect and prejudice. Now they could be off to the World Cup
Are we going to go on ducking behind clichés to safeguard the economy or, when needs be, are we going to speak and act against injustices?
Mainstream parties of government should be able to sell the CTA as a way to regulate immigration while minimising internal borders
Points of contention and much ambiguity surround the memorandum of understanding that underpins the ceasefire, but there are some positive signs
Every country has its psychic hang-up. Is inter-citizen policing Ireland’s?
Jailed for murder last week in Budapest, the Dublin man is clearly a dangerous, determined predator, but the kind of violence he used is normalised in...
No enterprise could absorb an 18-year price freeze on its primary revenue stream while costs keep climbing
There is a lot of money to be made from prostitution. The legal twilight world we have created suits the purposes of unscrupulous figures
Some 800,000 rural dwellers rely on their own private wells, and 38 per cent of these regularly fail to meet contamination standards
The lesson from Austria is that tenants here pay too much for cost rentals. But as the past examples of Marino and Cabra showed, there is a better...
Feckless inertia has become actively malign
Whatever the situation, you have the power to fold your arms and say: I’m not going along with this
Why do goalkeepers dive right and left equally often – except when their team is losing?
Every discretionary referendum is a government declining to exercise the judgment we hired it for
Justice system is expected to remedy everything from poverty to addiction. It was never designed to carry this load - and does not do it well
It functions, among other things, as an antidote to the relentless propagandising of the tech world, with its insistence on AI as an inevitable...
New system for assessing the claims of people seeking asylum is doing what was intended – turning down most of those who apply
I write this column as a cautionary tale, because most of us forget how easy it is to die
Rite & reason: Presbyterian Church in Ireland is still under scrutiny by the Police Service of Northern Ireland
The Road Safety Authority avoids anything that might be perceived ‘as insensitive or prematurely apportioning blame’ in reporting road deaths
We have spent too long treating gambling harm as a failure of character. A ruthless approach to regulation is needed
A key test of infrastructure and housing ambitions is about to take place in the north inner city
Worldview: Paris has invested heavily in efforts to mitigate the urban heat island effect – planting trees and redesigning public spaces – but...
Scandinavian nation’s mature political system in stark contrast to greed, cronyism and economic mismanagement
We should do what the Finns do: give ourselves a pat on the back for all that is good in this country of ours
Doing it well is important for the country’s standing in the world, but there is little or no political bonus for getting it right
EU presidency a chance for Ireland to depart from vacuous scripts on underpinning the bloc’s ‘shared values’
Such tournaments are an excuse to flaunt nationalistic tendencies in a low-stakes way
The potentially irreversible impacts of climate change will be experienced by our children and grandchildren
Unhappy voters stay at home, so unionism could cease to be Stormont’s largest designation next May
MetroLink resonates deafeningly in cost terms with what went wrong with the children’s hospital project
State promotes value-based approach abroad, but fails to take action on the Occupied Territories Bill at home
Somehow 25 of the 27 EU member states issue a national ID card to citizens without regular spontaneous combustion
Public participation and environmental scrutiny are not the enemies of progress
Pyongyang built real train stations that seemed fake. In Ireland, we are building a fake train station that will, for a brief period, seem real
William Johnson - aka Chief Warraghiyagey - was the only authorised mediator between the British empire and the Indian nations
Would it remain Northern Ireland, though under the ultimate jurisdiction of Dublin, rather than London? Or would it be subsumed into a united Ireland?
A theory among unionists is that knowledge of Donaldson’s Mr Hyde nature was used to push him down a path that suited Westminster
Unthinkable: For some, football is a pointless, thuggish distraction; for others, it’s everything