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Populism does not deal with “experts” very well. We all looked on as Britain sidelined the people who actually knew what they were talking...
The Cabinet – and everyone else – skedaddled out the door this week as fast as they could as the August break beckoned after a long political...
Alliance environment minister Andrew Muir has criticised Going For Growth, the 2014 Stormont strategy that aimed to almost double the size of...
“We are done sacrificing supply chains to unlimited global trade, and we’re going to stamp more and more products with that beautiful label,...
Given the price of a drink at restaurants near the Eiffel Tower, the unwitting English tourist presumably thought he was getting a bargain. After...
Last weekend, I was supposed to attend the wedding of a very dear old friend in Belfast. I had been looking forward to it for months. I planned to...
Mary Lou McDonald’s party is running out of time to move the dial on key issues such as immigration and housing ahead of the general election
In view of the weekend that’s in it, now might be a good time to ask how well the GAA is performing as an organisation. Behind the scramble for...
What a time to be alive, if you’re a fan of sport. We’ve had a fabulous hurling season - all the way to its dying embers at least! - the Euros...
Let’s be honest: technology has improved my life in ways that still surprise and delight me on a daily basis. My phone is also a torch, my TV...
The journalist visits Uganda and meets some of the Irish who have made their lives there, including an Olympian rower.
Kamala Harris’s father, Donald Harris, an eminent economics professor at prestigious Stanford University in California, was described by the...
Poor oul’ Joe had to go and this was clear long before his disastrous televised debate with Trump on June 27, so that it took 25 days for that...
Michael McGrath was in Brussels this week to lobby for a serious portfolio in the next European Commission but his prospects have been undermined...
Oh, how we laughed in the summer of 1992. The T-shirt vendors made hay while the Bishop Eamonn Casey revelations shone. “Wear a condom just in...
While womanising ex-bishop Eamonn Casey was attending first Communions as a Catholic curate in England in 2001 – the year Limerick diocese received...
The Conservative Party has just begun the process of selecting its tenth leader since November 1990, when John Major succeeded the defenestrated...
You have only to peruse the personal finance pages of this newspaper to realise how deeply the middle-class obsession with inheritance runs....
A couple of years ago, think tanks and economic experts in Britain began to agree that the country is in what they called a ‘doom loop’ in...
Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley Oh, how we laughed when Michael McDowell suggested Ireland should embrace a café...
The attempted assassination of former US President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, and the dramatic images that emerged from it,...
Less than a year ago, immigration into the UK had never been higher, yet public concern about it had rarely been lower. In the 12 months up to...
Andy Murray is a reluctant British hero. His clipped and quiet (grumpy?) persona off court makes way for a hot-headed player on court. Images of...
Sinn Féin’s answer to underinvestment in the water system is that developers should pay for it. That was the view of the party’s...
The recent International Court of Justice legal opinion on Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories marks one of the strongest legal...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell I never knew any of my four grandparents because they were all gone to their reward before I was born, and...
World of Politics with Harry McGee The oldest person to become Taoiseach was Seán Lemass, who was just shy of 60 when he succeeded Eamon de Valera...
Three trends threaten to kill our economic competitiveness - but we can mitigate their impact
We never went on family holidays back in the days of my youth. I’m not saying that in any ‘poor mouth’ manner - no, back in the 1960s and early...
Inside Track with John McIntyre HOW can you do justice to a match which had everything. All we know is what Clare and Cork hurlers produced at...
Inside the main gate of the Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires stands the imposing monument marking the burial place of Admiral William Brown,...
The Lee Baths closed in 1986, the same year I was born. So many Cork people have fond memories and stories of the baths, which were a big part of...
When she was born, one of our friends bought our baby girl a half and half jersey: half Tyrone, half Armagh. This was a symbol of four generations...