Ingredients for happier marriage between the United Kingdom and Ireland are there
Britain is ‘resetting’ its relationship with the EU, seeking that vague notion of ‘closer ties’ – Ireland should be the UK’s ally
Quentin Tarantino understood something Joe Biden did not - how to quit while you’re ahead
The director understood people will remember how you left with grace just as much as they remember how you performed at your peak
Could a Nigel Farage or Giorgia Meloni be good for Irish democracy?
Moving the needle on the status quo here is almost impossible. It takes a figure with a rare set of qualities
As much as I want to roll my eyes at Prince Harry’s complaining, it’s clear he’s really miserable
The prince is arguing with the Home Office and the royal family about the level of security they will provide him
You don’t have to be religious to accept it was God who brought Trump and Zelenskiy together
The world looked at the Maratta painting of Jesus and the two mortals below it, and wondered if this was Francis’s final act
The child of a globalised world, I grew up with Chinese-made smartphones and fast fashion
Trade deals with the whole world was the dream in 2016; oh, we didn’t really mean it, is the sense in 2025
I was glad to see Conor McGregor mixing with Tucker Carlson. His stock is now even lower
I like to judge people by the company they keep - call me shallow, naive - and McGregor could not find much worse
AI panic: Artists angry that a machine is learning from their work should relax
Has no one noticed that art for as long as it has existed is entirely derivative? That humans are as mimetic as machines?
After years of skilfully playing both sides of the ‘Boston or Berlin’ binary, we must now choose one of them
European capitals have arguably been better friends of Ireland for a much longer time
We have enough Sad Irish Girl Wanders Around Dublin novels
In fact, we have too many books altogether. Two hundred thousand books are published annually in the UK alone
Michael D Higgins’s grandiose statements about military spending won’t raise Ireland’s stock
The universe where Ireland can bask in our peacenik status is gone
Why do so many Irish men look Australian? Ireland is under a sort of reverse colonisation
The unholy mullet-moustache diptych is a sign that the emigrant experience works both ways
Apolitical Oscars a chilling sign of the times
Apolitical Oscars indicative of sense that world is sinking into total fatalistic malaise
Timothée Chalamet’s overt pursuit of greatness is a refreshing break from faux ‘who me?’ humility
Chalamet’s speech is a tonic to the jaded insouciance, the fear of being seen as a ‘try hard’, that has taken over
Debates over Rishi Sunak’s Englishness or Leo Varadkar’s Irishness are deranged
It’s rightly treated with the same disdain - not because it's too provocative, but because it's too weird