US president has convinced voters that they can reap the benefits of the global economy while building tariff drawbridges on that two-way street

According competence to the EU in relation to external migration and asylum seeking has turned out to be a disastrous error.

Big Jim is best in class, although sluggish start means new intake of TDs are yet to get much of a look-in - and as for Tipperary’s kingmaker...

Planned demolition of the €200 million Derrybrien windfarm will lead to destruction of potential green energy source for 30,000 homes

Treatment of the so-called ‘on-the-runs’ later became a major controversy

Why can’t Sinn Féin spell out exactly what it means by a united Ireland and allow unionists to consider it?

Reviewed: The Radical Thinking of Desmond Fennell; and The Definite Article: Collected Writings of Michael McDowell

Thirty organisations including RTÉ, NUJ and Council for Civil Liberties urge Seanad to amend Bill

US-Israeli long-term strategy flouts all notions of international law and amounts to a programme of war crimes

Broken system places further emphasis on State to focus on increasing supply

Wicklow man (22) took his own life after discharging a firearm in Carlow shopping centre

Investigators concerned about inability to determine source of items, which may have been from burglary or online

If the White House capitulates to Putin on Ukraine, it will grossly and perhaps fatally betray the principles on which Nato was founded

The Victorian model of having the legislature authorise major infrastructural development is the answer

I find it hard to understand how public opinion in America is not revolted by events such as the $200 million ‘gift’ of a jumbo jet that will become the president’s private property

Garda Commissioner Drew Harris was questioned by politicians about Evan Fitzgerald’s case

Fundamental change is not merely possible or probable; it is becoming an existential necessity

Just as Trump folded his tent in the Doha discussions on Afghanistan and gave up threats to forcibly end North Korea’s missile programme, his boasts about doing deals look empty

The pattern of when presidential candidates are announced is not consistent

Independent senator believes Seanad Éireann is where he can most usefully serve