How can we stop corporate gombeen men running amok again? Credit unions could be the answer
AIB said this week it owes an ‘immense debt of gratitude’ to the Irish taxpayer. Indeed it does
The great tragedy is there’s no political pendulum to restrain Israel’s Cromwellian impulses
What was deemed politically unacceptable by British imperialists a century ago is permitted today at hideous cost to the people of Gaza
Ryanair is greenwashing to a comical degree
Airlines will not reduce their carbon footprint if they dramatically increase the number of flights, whatever they say about cutting emissions per passenger
Ireland must not follow England’s example on maintaining waterways
England is accustomed to seeing rivers as a filthy threat, but we can’t let the same thing happen here
Was it for this craven display that London endured the Blitz?
The relentless focus on trade has skewed any determination to confront the terrifying echoes of the 1930s. Europeans should be much more vocal about it
Donald Trump’s chilling assault on universities mirrors that of the Nazis in 1930s Germany
Expect book burnings soon to further scapegoat the “enemies of the nation”
Mary MacSwiney by Leeann Lane: A revealing, well-researched and compelling biography of this patriot
Diarmaid Ferriter: A layered overview of what drove the formidable republican and how she was perceived
In Ireland, we are obsessed with the land – owning it, not roaming it
Ireland has no equivalent of the Swedish concept of Allemansrätten (everyone’s right to roam) or the 225,000 km of public rights of way in England and Wales
The hurt that dripped from Michael O’Brien and others has to be part of Pope Francis’s legacy
The personal experience he vividly outlined on RTÉ television in 2009 was part of the reason Francis’s visit to Ireland nine years later was so different from the previous Irish papal visit
Too many Irish teachers are wrecked and hate their jobs
There are too many wrecked teachers out there; too many hate their jobs; too many depart prematurely
Life admin has become more irksome as many utility firms treat customers with contempt
In a country where many utility companies treat their customers with contempt and consumers pay 42 per cent more for goods and services, life admin can be eviscerating
From ‘damned Englishman’ to ‘f**king a**hole’: A history of Ireland in 25 Dáil insults
The language has become coarser but it is striking how fuelled by testosterone the Dáil has always been
A century after the Monto, street prostitution has been replaced by sordid networks run by pimps
Ireland was never pure, but our 21st century ‘new order’ - with women human trafficked into the sex trade and much focus on toxic masculinity - is alarming
The vagina detector test at the entrance to the Vatican is not about to be decommissioned
Pope Francis’s pontificate has been about evasion as well as empathy, and he has made it clear holy orders are reserved for men
Nobody should be mocked or lampooned for decrying the consequences of the new arms race
The Irish approach to foreign policy should not be to exaggerate our purity or indulge dictators, but neither should we parrot criticisms of our neutrality from miliary aligned states