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![]() Justine MccarthyThe Irish Times |
Ireland is a land rich with children’s fairy tales. There once was even a president of the country whose wife, Sinéad Bean de Valera, wrote books...
A pleasurable journey to south Kerry was rudely interrupted by a begrudger last Sunday. The radio had been serving up a banquet of sports coverage...
Well, that lasted all of a nanosecond. One moment, Vera Pauw is a hero, making sports history for Ireland and leading the St Patrick’s Day parade as...
The tragedies have come in remorseless succession and, every time, words fail. As the summer-that-never-was fizzles out, autumn arrives this weekend...
When Pontius Pilate washed his hands of the decision to crucify Jesus Christ, as St Matthew’s gospel recounts, he listened to the people first....
When you know you’re on the losing side of a disagreement, dream up a distraction. That seems to be RTÉ’s ploy as it prepares to foist one of the...
The autumn sunshine was sweltering in St Peter’s Square when Pope John Paul II beatified Edmund Rice in October 1996, but it was still not as hot as...
The news that four Irish novelists feature in this year’s Booker Prize long list has been raising high brows even higher, far and wide. Is it...
We know we’re in trouble when it has rained cats and dogs for a whole month of summer and yet the Irish are consoling one another that “we’re...
Despite his “enormous” salary, Ryan Tubridy has been underselling himself. The broadcaster’s marathon appearance in Leinster House on Tuesday...
British comedian Eddie Izzard memorably remarked that “celebrity opens doors and lowers drawers”. The RTÉ story shows how fame has a magical way...
Ryan Tubridy has a lovely home. It is a mirror of its owner – congenial with no excess bulk. This I know because I interviewed the broadcaster there...
When Nuala O’Faolain was dying, she told Marian Finucane in one of the most riveting interviews ever broadcast by RTÉ that she dreaded all the...
John Finucane was eight years old when two masked loyalist gunmen burst into his home, blasted bullets into the kitchen where the family had gathered...
When did children become fair game in the hatred wars? Was it in March this year when some players on the Republic of Ireland under-15 boys football...
Anyone expecting sympathy for being accused of racism while protesting against foreigners moving to their neighbourhood has a warped opinion of...
A Fianna Fáil leader might be expected to recognise a politically-partisan news outlet when he sees one, considering his own party’s history. After...
Donald Trump is correct – E Jean Carroll is not his type. The woman is way out of his league. For one thing, she takes inspiration from literary...
Expect to see a new dish of the day on a menu near you very soon – the goose that laid the golden egg, basted and battered. Ever since the...
In one of the most brilliant deconstructions of British newspaper readerships ever broadcast, Jim Hacker, the woebegone Cabinet member in Yes...
Sometimes, the old enemy can be a country’s best friend, if inadvertently. Loath though any united Irelander bred in the broth of anglophobia may be...
The Minister for Education is to be congratulated for her alacrity in establishing an investigation into sexual abuse in some schools after RTÉ’s...
It was a culture that “barely tolerated” women, concluded the independent review of the Defence Forces. Substitute the name of Ireland for that of...
Not all heroes wear a big S on their backs. One wears the number 10 on his. They call him Johnny Sexton. Ireland’s rugby grand-slam victory last...
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