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I imagine that many people in Ireland are quietly hoping that some of the more pessimistic forecasts of what the Trump presidency could mean for...
From the beginning of January 1973, Ireland was a member state of the EEC. But for the following decade we were in the throes of despair. By the...
It should come as no surprise that the Israeli foreign minister should accuse the Irish Taoiseach of anti-Semitism. After all, the spokesman for...
If you look at large-scale maps of Ireland 100 years ago, you will see little black rectangles representing homes occupied by rural dwellers...
A novel feature of the post-election political landscape is that the new government’s life will coincide very closely with the five-year cycle for...
In the last few weeks, I have written here about Friday’s election on three occasions. I make no apology for what I have written. The first piece...
Is there an adult in the room? This is a question that is now being frequently asked among objective observers of the general election campaign...
This general election campaign is in real danger of descent into farce. The people of Ireland are not fools. They know that a general election is...
The fate of the western world lies, as I write, in the hands of American voters, as it has often done before. Or, to be more precise, in the few...
In certain parts of the midlands with which I am very familiar, local inhabitants are regularly in receipt of outages notices from ESB Networks...
In the last few weeks, there has been much publicity concerning internal disputes and disciplinary processes in Sinn Féin. Now that we are in an...
Germany’s major opposition party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), has now taken the position that the right to asylum has been too broadly...
It is natural that the public’s attention should, on the anniversary of the barbarous Hamas attack on Israeli men, women and children, refocus on...
A controversy is brewing over the content of the social personal and health education (SPHE) curriculum and materials intended for use in the...
TDs of all parties and none heaved a collective sigh of relief when the Ceann Comhairle, Sean Ó Fearghaíl, commenced the new Dáil session by...
The politics of the European Union are perplexing to say the least. The newly announced commission attracts media attention in much the same way as...
In the wake of the €336,000 bike shelter scandal and the €13.8 billion Apple windfall, it is a dangerous time for pre-election promises and...
Like most people, I was pretty shocked by the revelation that a very simple bike shelter on the Leinster lawn side of our parliament had cost the...
Last week, Kevin O’Sullivan wrote here about the risk that Ireland might find itself a victim of heatwaves, droughts and forest fires. Since I...
Anyone who thinks that the issue of immigration is going to disappear politically and be eclipsed by other issues such as housing, climate change...
The seriousness of the threat that Donald Trump poses to liberal democracy was re-emphasised in his online “conversation” with Elon Musk late...
At the end of July the Government published jointly with the Department of Infrastructure of Northern Ireland a document called All-Island...
So much depends on the outcome of the US presidential election in November. It isn’t just the Ukraine war, the war in Gaza, a possible war with...