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One large developer could quickly scale up to meet our housing needs. But there is an obstacle
Will Republicans benefit from low expectations? Could a big win for the Democrats convince them to choose a progressive like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez...
The midterm elections are not just about America. They’re also about the future of democracy
The pain is the living memory of their presence. Its recession takes them with it
James Browne said people shouldn’t get ‘hung up on a little thing about whether house prices increase or decrease’
Even those utterly opposed to the US president’s politics are subjected to his fawning if they are objectively good-looking
Worldview: Any potential peace deal will necessarily involve robust security guarantees for Ukraine. Would Ireland be prepared to allow Russia to...
A trend of anti-corruption sentiment became a genuine force for political change in the Balkan country
Number of Irish students wanting to board is in decline, but the opportunity to foster independence appeals to many families
‘We are grateful no one was harmed, and the globe is being repaired,’ the Pentagon said. If only it were so simple
Rite and Reason: God is praised as the culture collapses, mired in pretence, corruption and a callous abuse of the poor
Midterm elections next week are a referendum on the unpopular US president. They could herald the end of ‘The Donald’ era
Controversy between Simon Harris and Patrick O’Donovan was a badly handled storm in a teacup
The State’s relatively low debt has insulated it so far. But political turmoil abroad and a speculative AI boom could still hit the economy hard
If the opposition refuses to go into coalition with the Arab parties, it will not only squander a decisive victory, it will be guilty of moral...
She took out the loan in 2003, the year Ireland was entering peak madness
Ireland is using the European presidency to help Andy Burnham bring the UK closer to the EU
NAZA documentary shows how modern warfare is pushing man’s inhumanity to man to terrifying new frontiers
The musician and composer was a master of inventiveness who never wanted to be centre stage
Influencers like King Kenny and Maya Jama have something people like McNally and actor Richard E Grant do not – an ability to manufacture intimacy
Government only has itself to blame if triple lock is wrongly conflated with neutrality
If next week’s poll shows a further fall or has the UUP still in the lead, there will be panic inside the party
Fake corpses and dismembered body parts – when did Halloween become so horrible?
The short term outlook for the war-torn region remains very gloomy
Despite ratcheting up tensions over Drumcree, it is clear the party has neither a plan nor the appetite to act on it
A straight-up depiction of suicide is not ideal street decor, even at Halloween
‘Truthfulness is sort of out of fashion’, says Sinéad O’Shea, maker of film about communist activist Fergie Chambers
We will all pay for this negligence. And it doesn’t have to be this way
Siloed mindset of Government departments makes it difficult to join the dots and look at the underlying causes and solutions
The Government is now bored with it all. Emotional spurts don’t sustain themselves
`Truthfulness is sort of out of fashion’, says Sinéad O’Shea, maker of film about communist activist Fergie Chambers
What makes someone a murderer? Irish-born philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe believed she had the answer
The success of You Can See Everything shows people are looking for something deeper
Markets becoming nervous about the scale of borrowing by ‘hyperscalers’
‘No! You don’t understand!’ I typed, feeling like K in Kafka’s The Trial, if K had simply been trying to return an ugly blouse
Rite and Reason: Who are the controversial children trying to impress? Could it be their mother?
Political failure around protests is a result of the left being unable to take Irish economic dysfunction and turn it into a larger project of reform
The tedium and banality of the experience gives way, at a certain point, to a sense that I am reading my own autobiography
The country is being pushed closer to the once-unthinkable possibility of bankruptcy
You Can See Everything, a new documentary about the disgraced tech entrepreneur, is breaking box office records
The scale of the violence, high stakes of the upcoming presidential election and international reach of the protests distinguish them past riots
The traditional dividing lines have returned to Westminster. In Ireland, things look rather different
The more we tolerate mé féinism the less likely we are to treat each other as human beings
Adjustments to backpacker visas could make staying on less attractive
Seán Canney was right to stand down an RSA plan to install breathalysers in pubs and hotels
Why does politics feel more parochial than ever, at a time when global affairs are king?
As debate raged in Brussels about dependence on US tech firms, Google celebrated Ireland’s EU presidency
Riots drove out three-quarters of Ballymena’s Roma population. One in three left Northern Ireland altogether
There are people of both political extremes who crave street politics just because it has potential for violence and confrontation
Former colonies are increasingly seeking the return of their ancestral heritage. The Annals of Inisfallen are part of ours – a reminder of a...