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Returning home from Chad, I feel there’s a glitch in western empathy

By Patrick Freyne

Pope Francis was a man of love who ultimately took the timid path

By Mary McAleese

Whoever succeeds Pope Francis, the genie is now permanently out of the bottle

By Brendan Hoban

Pope Francis put women on a pedestal, where they could do no harm

By Justine McCarthy

I had to tell my mother that her father had been tortured for 11 days and murdered

By Oliver Sears

What is the reactionary international movement, Europe’s new political force?

By Lara Marlowe

On this Easter Sunday, can we roll back the stone of cynicism?

By Julieann Moran

Katy Perry’s 11 minutes as an astronaut were a waste of space. It could have been so much more

By Liz Carolan

Alarm bells are sounding over falling visitor numbers. But is tourism really in crisis?

By Trevor White and Jim Deegan

Irish and British futures are codependent and entangled

By Paul Gillespie

Senator George Mitchell: Northern Ireland’s peace must evolve. And if it is here to stay it must be shared

By George Mitchell

Neuropsychologist Ian Robertson: McIlroy’s reaction to double bogey was one of the strangest things at the Masters

By Ian Robertson

Netflix levy: A boost for homegrown television or a blow to consumers?

By Larry Bass and Conor Pope

The antidote to Trump’s tariff chaos is a clean and green trade agreement

By Eamon Ryan

As famine warning lights flash red in Sudan, US aid cuts hamper the international response

By Jane-Ann McKenna

Efforts to expel two Irish citizens symptom of a growing exhaustion in Germany

By Derek Scally

Commission on abuse in schools must examine how seminary training formed perpetrators

By Dr Tony O'Dwyer

Spinal surgeries: When no one is responsible or accountable, shocking incidents likely to happen again

By Priscilla Lynch

There is one risk to Ireland’s future progress that dwarfs even pandemics, terrorism and tariffs

By Eddie Molloy

Harris and Martin squirmed as Sinn Féin found an emotive way to expose Government duplicity

By Siobhán Fenton