Contrast between Trump’s cruelty and McCain’s dignity shows how far America has fallen
The absence of an appetite to calm tensions after the storm is the most worrying thing about the American election campaign
Few would have thought a play about the fraught Belfast Agreement talks could be so gripping
The message that “contradiction is better than violence” is more relevant and urgent than ever
Sinn Féin’s difficulties should not make Fine Gael complacent
Neither party can afford to build a campaign entirely around their leader. And both need to overcome a weakness for mixed messages
The curtain is coming down on Ireland’s soft power in the US
Whether Kamala Harris or Donald Trump wins the presidency in November, Ireland will not be much of a priority
The electoral cycle decides the budget, while the fiscal advisory council is ignored
The memory of economic crises is not strong enough to withstand the primacy of elections
Instead of gushing over Joe Biden, Simon Harris should denounce US funding of Israel
It would be ahistorical to suggest that this arrangement has been without tensions. But the money kept flowing
Our Wild Atlantic Way may be about to get much wilder
Rainy day funds should surely now take on a literal meaning given the climate’s tumultuous shifts and the reality that our greatest coastal tragedies may lie ahead of us
Forelock-tugging to Trump in Doonbeg showed how far Ireland will bend for US dollars
We were bamboozled with jargon in the hope that the resultant fog would distract from what was obvious. The comfort, it seemed, was that ‘there is no single and agreed definition of a tax haven’
Sinn Féin’s housing policy ignores that climate change is already here and now
No one would campaign under the slogan ‘To Hell With the Future’ but it is starting to look like the coming election will merit such a rallying cry
Social media is destroying young people’s mental health. Why do we keep tiptoeing around this reality?
A ban for under-16s may polarise opinion, but we can’t keep highlighting the teenage mental-health crisis while ignoring the root cause
Nell McCafferty’s empathy and precision defined her, but they were a product of manifold tensions and denials
Nell McCafferty lived outside society’s norms and she never stopped challenging them
Kneecap’s use of Irish is perfectly in tune with Eoin MacNeill’s vision
The co-founder of Conradh na Gaeilge said ‘you might as well be putting wooden legs on hens as trying to restore Irish through the school system’
When the Annie Murphy revelations came out, people wore Eamonn Casey T-shirts. How little we knew
It is striking that his own betrayals were paralleled by trenchant denunciations of the supposed sins of others along with a determination to make edgy comments about celibacy
Ireland isn’t full: Our population could surpass its pre-famine peak in 33 years
The slogans ‘Ireland is Full’ and ‘Stop the new plantation of Ireland’ are comically historically illiterate
The Irish Republican Brotherhood 1914-1924: Diarmaid Ferriter on a very personal Fenian story
This book, the culmination of a very personal mission, is based on detailed research and, although it does not engage with some of the wider contextual questions posed of the IRB, is valuable and often insightful