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Over the last two years, through all the cultural and political convulsions that have arisen out of Israel’s destruction of Gaza – a campaign of...

Tuesday’s inauguration of President Catherine Connolly paraded one of the essential elements of our democracy: after fiercely contested elections,...



THIS week sees the 40th anniversary of the Anglo-Irish Agreement. Despite reactions at that time, this proved to be a cardinal political...


Dr Chris Luke explains why suspected cases of drink spiking can sometimes go unheeded in emergency departments – and why that should change.


Over the past four decades, the family car has grown taller, wider and heavier — and the consequences are playing out everywhere from rural roads...


Niamh O’Reilly discovers what the hell the phrase that all the kids are saying is all about, and shares how parents can get their children to stop...



Garry Walsh lets us in on why he’s taking part in the national climate march happening in Dublin this afternoon.

LABOUR’S Troubles legacy plan is becoming politically unsustainable in Britain. The backlash from senior military figures has broken through in...

THE Anglo-Irish Agreement – 40 years old today, November 15 – was, I think, the greatest psychological blow to unionism in my lifetime. Fair...

WILL Catherine Connolly prevent Ireland from going to war? That was the unspoken question at this week’s inauguration of Ireland’s tenth president....

I WOKE up the next morning and it took a while for me to twig where I was. The ceiling was like an upside-down boat, and the window that the dull...

Last month British Vogue published a piece arguing that having a boyfriend has become “embarrassing”, which subsequently went viral due to its...

THE town of Bardala sits at the northern end of the Jordan Valley and as you climb the hills out of the town, it opens up into high plains of...

In August last year, Donald Trump described the former US President Joe Biden as a spokesperson for ‘the radical left movement’ that was out to...


Kids today are told to buy as much as possible, and a new skincare line by Shay Mitchell targeted at young children is the latest example, writes...

Billionaire Denis O’Brien thinks university graduates are “entitled”, remote working is a bad idea and HR professionals are “weak” people who “also...

At Dublin Airport beyond US immigration lies a piece of America and today the place is buzzing with tourists, students, business people and Irish-...





A difficult period lies ahead for the Coalition on housing after the publication of its latest plan. The political problem is that it will be a...







That old saying about a week being a long time in politics is a load of baloney, when you think about it. It was coined in the 1960s and belongs to...

TOMORROW is the 40th anniversary of the Anglo-Irish Agreement (AIA), signed at Hillsborough by Garret FitzGerald and Margaret Thatcher with hordes...


I work as a finance collections lead in a tech company but I’ve been volunteering with Mellon Educate since 2009. I took a break for a few years...

SOMETIMES you just have to admire the sheer chutzpah of a party press office. The ability to pump out what amounts to nothing more than epically...

IT is disturbing that, despite the advances which have been made on many fronts since the worst days of the Troubles, the dark shadow of...

MY granny Nora was an avid reader of The Irish News. Every morning, she would put on her duffle coat and walk, rain, hail or snow, from her house...
