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Downsizing: All the noise and fury about the issue misses the point

Whatever you do, don’t call it “downsizing”. This seemingly harmless word is now part of the generational culture wars. Its very mention has...

yesterday 10

Cliff Taylor

In Trump’s America, it can be dangerous to criticise the president’s friends

Mahmoud Khalil, Mohsen Mahdawi, Rumeysa Ozturk and Kseniia Petrova are foreign graduate students in their early 30s. All were in the US legally to...

yesterday 9

Lara Marlowe

Elon Musk sees humanity’s purpose as a facilitator of superintelligent AI. That should worry us

During an interview published earlier this month on the website Vox, the American technologist and writer Jaron Lanier came out with one of the...

yesterday 20

Mark O&x27Connell

Dublin city is the biggest victim of Ireland’s ludicrous taxation system

When it came to the art of taxation, there were few more adept than the Roman emperor Vespasian, who understood that was better not to have all...

yesterday 20

David Mcwilliams

Brace yourself as world’s leaders make holy show of themselves at Pope’s funeral

Who is that person the mighty are coming to bury in Rome tomorrow? Is it for the man who preached against burning fossil fuels that the great and...

previous day 10

Justine Mccarthy

The hurt that dripped from Michael O’Brien and others has to be part of Pope Francis’s legacy

Born a few years before Pope Francis, Michael O’Brien, who also died this week, will be remembered for his appearance on RTÉ’s Questions and...

previous day 10

Diarmaid Ferriter

The markets could yet save us from Trump’s worst excesses

On the third page of the slide deck issued by Tesla to its investors on Wednesday was a sentence that spoke volumes. “This dynamic, along with...

previous day 9

John Mcmanus

Micheál Martin would be a more credible leader of Fine Gael than Simon Harris and that’s a problem

Simon Harris is not Fine Gael’s biggest problem, but neither is he necessarily the solution. Last week’s Irish Times/Ipsos B & A opinion poll put...

previous day 20

Gerard Howlin

Downsizing is fine in theory. In reality, it’s rearranging property deckchairs on the Titanic

Even Stormont knows downsizing is stupid. In 2013, the British government introduced “social sector size criteria” – deductions in housing...

thursday 2

Newton Emerson

The child of a globalised world, I grew up with Chinese-made smartphones and problematic fast fashion

At the beginning of this month, Donald Trump’s “liberation day” tariffs sent markets into a tailspin. The Nobel Prize-winning American economist...

thursday 3

Finn Mcredmond

Michael McDowell: There is no ‘right’ to subvert women’s freedom to have their own events and spaces

The decision by the UK’s supreme court on the meaning of the term “woman” for the purposes of its Equality Act created a small but noisy reaction...

23.04.2025 10

Michael Mcdowell

Pope Francis was an equal opportunities thorn in the side

On Easter Sunday morning, social media posters happily confirmed that Pope Francis had declined a meeting with US vice-president JD Vance. Social...

23.04.2025 3

Kathy Sheridan

State has reached crisis of irresponsibility that resonates far beyond Grace’s grim story

It is now almost 30 years since a woman wrote a letter to the South-Eastern Health Board pleading with it to investigate an allegation of the...

22.04.2025 9

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