While the current US president takes to social media to hurl obscenities at his enemies, politicians have not always been so graceless

Migrants’ council chair says it is deeply regrettable that Act provides for detention of children, even if as a last resort

Inquiry is not limited to schools run by religious orders, says chair

Groups funded by ‘ideological entities, many from outside the State’ are spreading distorted narrative, chair of bishops’ council says

Much of the opposition to divestment has been at local level, strongly felt and expressed, even by non-practising parents happy with the status quo

Pity the Iranian people caught between a barbarous regime at home, Washington and an Israel bent on elimination once again

To date, we’ve survived radio, the car, the gramophone, and TV – I have every confidence we will survive AI

Pope Leo spoke of praying for peace as ‘a bulwark against that delusion of omnipotence that surrounds us’

Omelette was a scrambled version of Shakespeare’s play that we staged as students at the then University College Galway

In a Word ... Informer

Mario Durán Domínguez and Joy Adedokun are among 129 people of mostly foreign backgrounds who are joining the church in Dublin this year

A grand old term of the Irish-English language

This is the story of how three men were found guilty of a train robbery after justice was derailed

70 years of ministry

In a Word ... Ancestry