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Happy Black Friday, everyone. Click open those apps, stack those digital baskets to overflowing and wait for the Amazon man to stagger to your...






Carbon emissions from Black Friday returns in the US alone are equivalent to three million cars.


It’s prompted debate and discussion, but people have been voting with their feet and flocking in huge numbers to enjoy the new, reimagined Bishop...

DUP leader Gavin Robinson’s response to Baroness Hallett’s latest Covid module report was predictable in a number of ways, but most revealing in...

ON November 29 1999 – exactly 26 years ago tomorrow – the first executive of the new Good Friday Agreement institutions was nominated. It was an...


First, the good news. The Conservative government’s cruel decision almost a decade ago to limit some benefit entitlements to the first two children...

It is regularly suggested by right-wing voices, particularly in the Reform party as well as in sections of both the Conservatives and the DUP, that...

PAUL Brady played the Waterfront in Belfast last Friday. I have been a fan ever since I heard Arthur McBride and tried to work out the intricate...


Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley The University of Galway’s Israel problem is not going away. It’s getting worse....


Emma Rock is walking in the Irish Hospice Foundation’s Never Forgotten Night Walk this evening.

S i mon Harris is about to face an early test in his new role as Minister for Finance that will give him an opportunity to prove his critics wrong...


“God help us, Maurice, ’tis the workhouse for us,” was a cant, a saying, I often heard older people repeat down the years. It might have been...


As the festive season approaches, multinational retail chains flood our screens with promotions related to Black Friday tomorrow. A quieter, more...


World of Politics with Harry McGee How left is Galway West? Certainly the last two presidents have been politicians of the left who were TDs in...


A Different View with Dave O’Connell At last count, I had 11,296 photographs on my phone; if I printed them out as standard ten-by-eight pix and...


Inside Track with John McIntyre A measure of the task facing Maigh Cuilinn footballers at Dr Hyde Park on Sunday can be gauged from the bookmaker...

The UK supreme court ruled last week that religious education in Northern Ireland’s schools is unlawful indoctrination, in breach of the European...


The Legends' Avenue in downtown Heaven got a little more crowded this week when two mighty Mayo sportsmen took up residence. Joe Hennigan and Danny...




Thirty years ago this week, the second referendum on divorce resulted in a wafer-thin majority in favour of the proposal to legalise the...

Meetings can be a lot of wasted time and effort – but here’s how to fix them.


I am pure nosey, it’s a talent I have perfected over the years. So, needless to say, I just couldn’t wait to get to see the new-look Bishop Lucey...


There are nine million bicycles in Beijing, according to Katie Melua. There are also an estimated 1.1 million security cameras in that city....

All the parties represented at Stormont face a range of pressing obligations, particularly at a stage when the institutions are plainly under...

THIS year marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Daniel O’Connell – ‘The Liberator’. Arguably ranked one of the greatest Irishman ever, he led...

TODAY ends months of speculation about tax increases (will she, won’t she?), cuts, investment, and all the rest. It’s been what the former Bank of...

100 years ago today, on November 26 1925, a week of intense negotiations began between the Irish Free State, British and Northern Irish governments...


The appointment of a full-time CEO for Mayo GAA is one of the important decisions for the organisation in its recent history. Bigger than any...
