Mary Lou McDonald channels Father Ted with new naughty word in Dáil
Mary-Lou McDonald brings a new naughty word into the chamber, possibly inspired by Father Ted
Michael Collins
Gloves off as Dáil deputies square up for a slot on Katie Taylor’s Croke Park barney
Richard O’Donoghue challenges Taoiseach to a bout of street debate, while Roderic O’Gorman stings like a bee
Two-for-one deal comes back to bite Healy-Raes
Cries of ‘Justice for the Kilgarvan One’ in the Dáil as TD mounts his doomed defence
Danny Healy-Rae loses committee seat after vote against Government confidence motion
Kerry TD appeals in Dáil to be allowed remain on Agriculture Committee
Fianna Fáil’s founding aims haven’t aged well for the party
Unity, a social system offering equal opportunities and fair distribution of land were among them
John Redmond should have accepted the inevitability of partition
If Redmond had agreed to home rule, we might have been spared 1916 and all that followed
Miriam Lord: Driven demented by the infernal Dáil bells – and Danny Healy-Rae’s Nokia
FF’s Malcolm Byrne wants a composer-in-residence in Leinster House, which might distract from the constant ding-donging
The Dáil’s floodgates have opened and led to some Michael Collins cussin’
The Independent Ireland leader seemed to momentarily forget where he was during a watery Uisce Éireann debate
Independent Ireland leader ‘not happy at all’ with councillor seeking to halt Bob Vylan gig in Dublin
Linda de Courcy took legal proceedings to try to stop a Dublin concert by controversial punk-rap duo
Conor Gearty: Law professor, barrister and globally acclaimed human rights scholar
Longford-born civil liberties advocate was appointed honorary queen’s counsel in recognition of services to law in England and Wales
Harsh life of soldier Johnnie Haughey bore privileged fruit in son Charles
One hundred years on from his birth, all the late former taoiseach’s biographers have speculated on the impact of his impoverished childhood
Michael Collins’s legacy honoured by sending Irish troops on peacekeeping missions, says Carroll MacNeill
Minister for Health addressed risks of violence against politicians during Béal na Bláth oration
The new IRB: a band of conspiracy theorists who have set up a parallel Irish ‘government’
This fringe group, drawn from the ranks of anti-lockdown protesters and business people laid low by the crash, have a cabinet, local co-ops and even a network of ‘courts’
What did Éamon de Valera ever do for us?
Ireland’s memory of Éamon de Valera is complicated by many factors. Diarmaid Ferriter assesses the competing perspectives
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Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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