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Jim Gavin’s name should not be on the ballot paper for the presidential vote next week. It has been suggested that the decision not to remove his...
Heather Humphreys says the first visitor she will invite to Áras an Uachtaráin if she is elected president will be Michael D Higgins because “he...
The outlook for the Government parties is beginning to seem ominous after less than a year in office. This is despite the fact that they won a...
A policy so bad it causes a sectarian argument in Shandon Park has achieved a whole new level of failure in Northern Ireland. The tree-lined east...
For US president Donald Trump’s first state visit to the United Kingdom in 2019, 100,000 people turned up on the streets of London to protest. In...
I recently listened to a fascinating The Irish Times podcast interview between Hugh Linehan and Ronan McCrea, a law professor in the University...
It’s time to bury Seamus Brennan’s famous analogy for the high-stakes political face-off. It took Jim Gavin’s hapless foray into the arena to...
What the presidency is now reduced to is a question of damage limitation. We have one candidate who is harmless. And one who has the potential to...
If coming across as natural and personable counts in a presidential election – and it does – then Catherine Connolly is winning that particular...
The ancient world gave us lots of things: Democracy, science, literature. It also gave us the columnist. Before Fintan O’Toole there was Simeon...