Back to basics strategy won’t be enough for Sinn FéinIt is not clear how to address the conundrum that confronted the party at the last election
Despite marginal reform, the Seanad's electoral system remains indefensibleThe old system was in many ways an affront to democracy, and the new one is not much better
Forget pandering to Independent TDs, these are the issues the new government needs to deal withThe consequences of business as usual are ever more frightening, particularly in relation to climate change
John Mullins, businessman and former Bord Gáis chief executive, diesCorkman founded Amarenco Solar in 2013
Immigration and the rise and fall of the Irish far right in 2024Violence continued to grow along with the disinformation campaigns targeting asylum seekers, but far-right candidates failed to turn their large social media followings into votes
Immigration and the rise and fall of the Irish far right in 2024Violence continued to grow along with the disinformation campaigns targeting asylum seekers, but far-right candidates failed to turn their large social media followings into votes
2024 was a year of political turbulence followed by a vote for continuityThe image which Ireland presented to the world at the end of 2024 was one of unusual stability
There is no ‘right’ to subvert women’s freedom to have their own events and spacesUK ruling on meaning of ‘woman’ is reassuring for those alarmed by claims that gender is, somehow, entirely separate from sex and is a social, psychological construct
A year on from the failed referendums, has anything changed for carers and families?Women can participate in the paid workforce if they want to, even if the work is often precarious and 'greedy'. What they often can’t do is afford a home within reasonable distance of family and workplace
Michelle O’Neill ‘not hung up’ on what to call Northern IrelandSinn Féin vice-president meeting with Conservative MPs in Westminster
Pat Leahy: We need clarity on criteria for calling referendum on Irish unitySuch a move should be part of a general re-examination of Belfast Agreement
Rise of Alliance reveals surprising facets of North’s shifting politicsParty’s supporters are not necessarily neutral on constitutional question
Independent Ireland ‘open to nominating presidential candidate’Party yet to decide if it will put forward one of its own members or join with others in backing an independent
Frances Fitzgerald rules out seeking nomination to run for presidencySimon Harris spoke to the former minister and MEP about possibility of being Fine Gael’s candidate
Tucker Carlson’s Conor McGregor interview: Pushing all buttons, blowing all dog whistles, telling multiple untruthsReview: The MMA fighter was given a soapbox on YouTube to air political views
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK beats Labour by six votes in Runcorn and Helsby byelectionReform win a blow to Keir Starmer in first election test as British prime minister
Starmer’s political image increasingly at odds with a public mood turning against liberal causes He seems himself as less ideological than Blair, but he might benefit from adopting the New Labour master’s Machiavellian streak
Liz Truss legal letter orders Keir Starmer to stop saying she crashed UK economy‘Cease and desist’ letter accuses British PM of making ‘false and defamatory’ claims on Truss’ disastrous 2022 mini-budget
