Fintan O’Toole: New government must stop throwing good money after bad

Conversation about BBC’s future will sound familiar to RTÉ watchers

Fair Deal nursing homecare leaves little for bills and gifts

Conor Pope: My first Parkrun and it was mortifying

Fintan O’Toole: It is politically easier to keep spending on bad policies than to shift to good ones

Getting out from under ‘never-ending’ Celtic Tiger debt burden

Stocktake: Investors should stay ‘irrationally bullish’ on stocks

Markets show ‘once in 48 years’ show of strength

Stocktake: Will China’s coronavirus infect stocks?

Thankfully, fewer women today are willing to settle for lives of wasted potential

My mother was a typical woman of her generation, a stay-at-home wife and mother whose life revolved around her family.

A likeness of Seamus Mallon would be fitting replacement for James Craig's forbidding statue at Stormont

Stormont 2020 has surely had one of the shortest ever political honeymoons.

Mary Kenny: 'When it comes to marriage and partnerships, the options on the menu are ever expanding...'

Mary Kenny: 'Like Harry and Meghan, doesn't everyone want to have their cake and eat it?'

Gerard Howlin: Election likely to signal end of dominance by big two parties

Fergus Finlay: We must change the Constitution if we want to end homelessness scandal

Photos, journalism and cherishing our heritage

How the choice of an IrishCentral editor's photo led this journalist in Paris to explore the Irish Traveller heritage. “A picture is worth a...

The poultry police are coming

County View John Healy A pal of many years’ acquaintance, a lifelong member of his local credit union, recently had occasion to visit the...

Trevor Laffan: Scammers and con merchants who are a cancer on society

HARDLY a day goes by now when I don’t get a call on my landline at home from some guy advising me that my broadband is about to be disconnected...

We’ll get the government we deserve

An Cailín Rua Anne-Marie Flynn Have you ever known an election campaign to whizz by like this? While it felt like we were waiting for at least a...

The pensions time bomb

De Facto Liamy MacNally It’s a classic case of do as I say and not what I do. In other words, ‘We’re in charge, not you!’. That’s how the...

Heidi's Happy Feet

Pamela and Tom Griffin are appealing for help for their two year old daughter Heidi. Heidi has been diagnosed with Spastic Diplegia which affects...

Miriam Lord: SF and Labour unveil manifestos – but is it art?

Una Mullally: Those attacking Sinn Féin have become cheerleaders in reverse

‘Life is busy . . . this can be difficult for a new vegetarian such as me’

Pilita Clark: When a rude boss keeps you waiting, why not walk out?

John Downing: 'In an era of murder and carnage, the only 'weapon' that Mallon used was his words'

Terry Prone: Ordinary workers not allowed keep up with Jones in their retirement

Opinion: How would I, a refugee in Ireland, vote in this election?

I AM A stateless person. This means no government on our little planet will allow me to vote for or against it. I am a refugee in Ireland. This...

Holocaust should remind us we need to give refugee children a place of safety and hope

As I write this column, it is Holocaust Memorial Day.

A new Ireland can only succeed when its people are reconciled with each other as equals

For decades Sinn Féin has promoted national reconciliation with unionists as a primary objective in its peace strategy.

Unfortunately, when you learn cursive writing and then it goes rusty, no one can read your handwriting. I was like a drunk doctor

Fergus Finlay: We must change the Constitution if we to end homelessness scandal

We’ve been measuring stupidity incorrectly

Ian and Carol in no Rush for their big day

Ireland may be on the cusp of a political earthquake this election season

It'll be 100 years since the foundation of the Irish Republic soon but Patrick Pearse's foundational promise to “cherish all the children of the...

The truth about Irish bog bodies

Experts tell of ancient Irish kings violent and gruesome deaths but what is the truth behind these amazingly well-preserved bog bodies house in...

Donal Lynch: 'Micheal canvassing is excruciating in a different way to Leo'

John Dolan: It’s official, I am now Irish, but feel free to still call me a blow-in and Plastic Paddy, I’ll not take offence!

TOP o’ the morning to you... from one Irish person to another. Yes, this week, 50 weeks after I first applied, I became a fully-fledged Irish...

Thinking about taking on 'Veganuary'? Here's why it's easier than you think...

VEGANISM - it’s a word that most people probably couldn’t even pronounce twenty years ago. Ab...

Bringing the magic of Opera to Cork city

RECENTLY, I have been having a lot of fun as Opera Ambassador for the Everyman Theatre. As a result of this role I am frequently asked “what is...