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Justine MccarthyThe Irish Times |
Michael D Higgins has rung in his last new year as Ireland’s President. Before the end of 2025, somebody else will be climbing into bed in Áras...
I’m doing a Julius Caesar this new year. That chap really had it sussed. Having decreed that every year would commence on January 1st, he turned...
Israel’s foreign minister is anti-Catholic. That is why he decided to shut the Israeli embassy in Dublin. To him, Ireland is a culturally and...
More women might enter politics, ventured the American writer and academic Maureen Murphy, if it wasn’t so much trouble having to put make-up on...
When the order to evacuate came from the Israel Defense Forces, Wael Abu Dalfa realised that his mother – nearly 80, frail with hunger and barely...
Even Lazarus could not match the miracle Micheál Martin has pulled off by managing to drag himself out of the political grave and his entire party...
Oh, how the mighty have fallen, or so one might have thought as two Irish sports stars awaited their fate in separate courtrooms in the past week....
The word “manifesto” derives from Latin via the Italian “manifestus”, meaning “obvious”, a fact providing ample grounds for any voter to...
Ireland’s hotchpotch of left-wing parties ought to stop whingeing about Fine Gael’s and Fianna Fáil’s presumption that they will form the...
Thanks a bunch, America. You’ve left no room for doubt that, yet again, your presidential preference is for anybody but a woman. Yup, even if the...
Mary Lou McDonald was narrating the plotline but it was Pearse Doherty’s face that told the whole astounding story of Sinn Féin’s pre-election...
Nearly five months of human slaughter have gone by since the International Criminal Court was asked to issue arrest warrants for Israel’s prime...
What might a Fianna Fáil-Fine Gael merger look like? Exactly like Phil Hogan — big, strategic and born to survive. If ever a person embodied the...
True-life Irish jokes stretch credulity more than the old Paddy-goes-to-London gags. They’re not half as funny either, despite the awfully low...
The view out the window in Margaret and Jim’s B&B is sublime. If only we could see it. There is an exceptional cruelty in knowing west Cork is...
Elon Musk was the star attraction at last December’s Atreju festival in Rome, an annual gathering organised by the Italian prime minister Giorgia...
One February afternoon in 1992, two UDA sectarian killers burst into Seán Graham bookmakers on Belfast’s Lower Ormeau Road and sprayed the place...
Lavinia Kerwick’s brown eyes are blue with disappointment. Those eyes never could lie. “My trust in everyone is gone now. I am just so sad,” she...
They called him God. That tells a story in itself about the coach who devastated their childhoods. For Derry O’Rourke, in their young eyes wide...
While womanising ex-bishop Eamonn Casey was attending first Communions as a Catholic curate in England in 2001 – the year Limerick diocese received...
Leo Varadkar’s announcement that he is quitting politics brings the number of departing TDs to 28, including four who have been elected to the...
Until Joe Biden started tottering – you know that quickened walk he does at a precarious tilt as if an aide has put batteries in his shoes? –...