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An unfortunate incident of photobombing at the Áras highlights big problem for our democracy

There was an unfortunate incident of photo-bombing at Áras an Uachtaráin last week. The picture was meant to record a moment of history – the...

yesterday 20

Fintan O&x27Toole

Why won’t millennial women grow up? Because they already have

Millennials make us collectively uncomfortable. As the youngest and oldest of them hit 29 and 44 respectively this year, they’re far from the...

previous day 10

Laura Kennedy

Nicole Kidman’s Babygirl isn’t the ‘hottest film this year’. It might be among the most depressing

The fourth instalment of the Bridget Jones’s Diary series is out next month, and the original from 2001 has not aged well. It is rife with...

sunday 1

Breda O&x27Brien

If the Government does its job right, the comfortable classes won’t be happy

A new Government has taken office in the wake of a dramatic few days in Washington. This has led to an inevitable – and correct – focus on the...

25.01.2025 10

Cliff Taylor

David McWilliams: Some are getting rich from the housing crisis, because one person’s mortgage is another’s piggy bank

The Programme for Government accepts that rising house prices are a given. Nowhere is the new Government talking about falling house prices over...

25.01.2025 1

David Mcwilliams

Angry scenes were partly the result of Sinn Féin’s determination to be a more aggressive Opposition

One of the questions we political journalists get asked a lot on the rare occasions we are invited into polite company is about the true nature of...

25.01.2025 5

Pat Leahy

It’s degrading to have to take anything Elon Musk says seriously, but he’s right about one thing

Perhaps unsurprisingly, I am compelled this week to consider the inauguration of Donald Trump as US president, and what it signals for the future....

25.01.2025 1

Mark O&x27Connell

Irish politicians’ lack of urgency contrasts poorly with Trump’s up-and-at-it attitude

Humpty Dumpty sat in the Dáil Humpty Dumpty watched it fall As all the whips’ resources and all the whips’ ken Tried putting it back together...

24.01.2025 8

Justine Mccarthy

Scenes of chaos and bullying in Dáil will have done nothing for the reputation of politicians

The chaotic scenes that marred the Dáil this week arose from a confluence of events that created the perfect political storm. An inexperienced...

24.01.2025 1

Stephen Collins

Storm Éowyn triggered a sense of pandemic PTSD - especially for parents of primary pupils

There was more than a whiff of the Bad Times about it all. Supermarket shelves stripped empty. Public transport cancelled. Restaurants and shops...