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Losing a pet, they say, is a practice run for losing a human you love. But for something that’s only a rehearsal, the pain feels very real. In his...
The enduring story of the rape trial that has gripped France over the last three months is not the evil of the perpetrators, but the extraordinary...
At 4am last Wednesday, hours before sunrise, people began gathering along Bow Street in Dublin 7. At 7am, the doors of the Capuchin Day Centre...
It’s hard to imagine anything less likely to encourage you to rip off your clothes and start procreating than having Elon Musk held up as a paragon...
Remy Farrell SC, a lawyer of precise and occasionally vivid language, chose what might have been an unfortunate phrase to describe his client Conor...
In the bitter recriminations and soul-searching that followed Donald Trump’s first election as US president in 2016, much blame fell on the media....
If there was ever any doubt that Gaelic games were among the most athletically demanding of sporting disciplines, you only needed to tune into...
For weeks now there have been, or so I’m reliably told, spreadsheets and whiteboards tacked to various office walls in Government Buildings, as the...
It has been 20 years but, when she closes her eyes at night, Hazel Behan can still see his. On that terrible night, June 16th, 2004, that’s all...
I took two things away from the afternoon, nearly 25 years ago, that I spent in the company of Mohamed Al Fayed. The first was to prove quite...
Ceann Comhairle Seán Ó Fearghaíl began the first day of the new Dáil term by publicly distancing politicians from the Selling Sunset bike shed, to...
If I understand him correctly, Peadar Tóibín is worried the State may be encouraging 16-year-olds to encourage other 16-year-olds to have sex....
For years afterwards, I thought perhaps I had dreamed it up: the narrow plank of wood, about the length of a metre stick, hacked off at an angle on...
Kirstie Allsopp is a television presenter best known for her love of crafting and dishing out breezy advice about the benefits of knocking two...
You could almost forget there was ever a time when the words “Irish swimming” didn’t evoke joy and unity and celebration, but shame and a seemingly...
It is always surprising how rarely we question the things we want to be true, especially when those things involve alcohol. By “we”, I mean “I”: my...