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Margaret Lynch looks forward to the day when, like her granny, who despised the TV remote, she can simply opt out of engaging with any more new...
WHEN I was young the IRA was a historic legend. Sixty years ago I was 15 years old and deeply impressed by the fiftieth anniversary celebrations of...
Beware the Thucydides Trap – referred to this week by Xi Jinping – the simple but dangerous arithmetic of a rising power and an anxious incumbent
SCOTLAND and Wales want a Good Friday Agreement-type mechanism for independence referendums. That is the goal of the constitutional cooperation being...
THE report by former civil service permanent secretary Peter May into the workings of the satirically named Independent Commission for Reconciliation...
WHAT a sad society we live in when there are those among us who deface or destroy street name signs because they are in Irish or in English. Our...
THE latest Irish opinion poll shows a consistent trend. Sinn Féin are the leading party, while Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael make up a rump that only...
The immediate fallout will hit a number of sectors, but the longer-term implications for Ireland are troubling
We can’t have all the short-term solutions we want and all the long-term investment we want
It was a tale of two Taoiseachs this week.
Like a lot of people during the pandemic, my family bought a dog. Five years later, Ferdy has accidentally become the central decision-maker in almost...
We are doing two thirds fewer breath tests than we did 15 years ago, despite having nearly a million more drivers on the road. The results are exactly...
As Boy George said: ‘If you don’t know any Jewish people, maybe that’s the problem.’
Farage’s carefully crafted persona plays on nostalgia for an imagined world sourced from the golden age of British TV