‘I never expected my vote to end up in a Supreme Court challenge’
My first ever vote is likely headed into in the hands of America's newest Supreme Court Judge, Amy Coney Barret, writes Zana Zee Keough. Read more.
Diarmaid Ferriter: Demagogue Trump has exploited longstanding fissures in US
The US presidential battle is a paradoxical tale of democracy and dictatorship. Read more.
Pooing in a bucket? That's the whole point of the show: These days people frequently observe how dystopian novels like The Handmaid's Tale and 1984 are harbingers of today's unpleasant realities (see this week's election across the water in Gilead). Read more.
Thin Lizzy members on the band's rise and fall: 'Heroin was the worst mistake we made'. Read more.
Fintan O’Toole: At 2.23am, the US president launched an attempted coup
At 2.23am Washington time this morning, the president of the United States launched an attempted coup. It was not a secret plot. He did it openly and followed a script he had pretty much published in advance of the show. Close to half of Americans voted for him in the full knowledge that he was going to do it.Read more.
Helena Bonham Carter: 'People choose to sleep with powerful people. I got two children out of it' Read more.
The landlady called. We've to be out by March: I like a good race-against-time story but this is all getting too much. Read more.
Five new films to stream this weekend: About Endlessness, How to Build a Girl, Queen of Hearts, Luxor, Nova Lituania. Read more.
Michael Collins - a genius for sums as well as guns: As minister for finance, he crowdfunded a revolution with huge vision and work ethic to match. Read more.
My yearly pilgrimage to the Garda station: International students are obliged to pay an annual fee of €300 for a Garda National Immigration Bureau (GNIB) card. Read more.
