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Kathy SheridanThe Irish Times |
The rot starts in tiny ways. Old taboos against cursing and crude language fall away and soon a leader calls a poor country a ‘shithole’
Jailed for murder last week in Budapest, the Dublin man is clearly a dangerous, determined predator, but the kind of violence he used is normalised in...
Somehow 25 of the 27 EU member states issue a national ID card to citizens without regular spontaneous combustion
More than 3,000 hares were captured from the wild during the 2023-2024 coursing season
My friend was in partial agreement with France Pierron’s rant about Jérémy Doku’s plans to be there for the birth of his child. Her own husband...
Many women most in need of continuity of care never see it in an unfair system
No amount of money would have bettered the care my daughter got giving birth. Her recovery in a noisy, clammy ward was a different story
An electoral system is only as good as the people believe it to be - and Irish people rightly have a lot of faith in ours
These byelections were arguably the anti-immigration movement’s big moment
As lesser-known politicians prepare for their daytime TV glow-up at the Oireachtas committee hearing, licence-fee payers have other things to worry...
It’s a bit late now for the British media to start asking hard questions about the Reform UK leader
As Irish generosity to Ukrainians wanes, remember that rising costs are another result of war
Revelation that former TD Jim Glennon wrote a character reference for a convicted child abuser should prompt a wider discussion
The extreme machismo element was introduced by Christopher Duffy, the self-appointed leader who had ‘the country by the balls’
Will Trump’s evangelical and Maga base overlook his sweary Easter Sunday rant?
Manners, sympathy and empathy are being eroded - and not just in the Oval Office
The ones who should worry us are the boys who have been sold the idea of a matrix – a conspiracy designed to make men fail
Without shame, everything is possible, and for Donald Trump, the most shameless man in the world, nothing is beyond the bounds of decency
Places such as maternity hospitals and the family law courts, where women are most likely to need physical privacy and comfort, are the least likely...
Far from drowning in hatred, victimhood and despair, she has retained her faith in humanity and found new love