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The State deploys the three Ds to silence whistleblowers: delay, deny, destroy

By Eddie Molloy

Want to understand what money does to your brain? Look at this photo

By Ian Robertson

Gazans now eat one meal every two or three days as Trump plans his ‘Riviera’

By Lara Marlowe

The US is discovering what it means to have an isolationist economy

By Patrick Honohan

Mary McAleese is right to call out Catholic Church over its exclusion of women from ordination

By John O'Loughlin Kennedy

Girls’ participation in sport falls off a cliff in their teens. The skorts row shows why

By Louise Lawless

In a world dominated by loud, divisive politics, the cardinals found an antidote in Pope Leo XIV

By Bronagh Ann McShane

James Browne has little power to fix the housing crisis. The status quo is in charge

By Gerard Howlin

Teachers want religion out of the classroom. Here’s what has to happen next

By Paddy Monahan

Jim O’Callaghan’s public theatrics mask the truth about asylum seeker deportations

By Madeleine Allen

Here’s a job for the next pope. Deliver us from climate apathy

By Eamon Ryan

Why didn’t Ireland stand up for Palestine at the ICJ?

By Alanna O'Malley

Ireland’s mobile saunas in danger of being killed off by red tape and bureaucratic confusion

By Áine Ryan

As a former beauty editor, the obsession with celebrities’ cosmetic enhancements makes me sad

By Laura Kennedy

‘Tariffs’ is about to become the excuse for absolutely everything we don’t like

By Liz Carolan

Kneecap should be commended rather than condemned

By Vittorio Bufacchi

Dietrich Bonhoeffer cast as a culture warrior for the right? That makes no sense

By Rev Martin Sauter

Donald Trump should kill off the myth of the first 100 days for good

By Hugh Linehan

In The Settlers, Louis Theroux does something we have rarely seen him do in 30 years of TV

By Mark O'Connell

Europe would be foolish to capitulate to US demands to pull away from China

By Bobby McDonagh