Saving lives is the first priority, but allowing people to enjoy life also mattersLetting people have social lives is a key aspect of revitalising an economy on its kneesSat Jul 11 2020 - 05:02
Finn McRedmond: Best time to visit art galleries may be nowTired of virtual aesthetics, we can gaze on artworks before tourist crowds returnFri Jul 03 2020 - 01:00
Coronavirus and the rise and rise of the celebrity scientistFinn McRedmond: Some experts may be reluctant to get off the stage as their influence wanesFri Jun 26 2020 - 01:00
Britain is bigger than the anti-Irishness of the Daily ExpressWe are far more ready to accept the bad as definitive of our closest and most valuable neighbourFri Jun 19 2020 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: Britain is courting catastrophe by designBrexit as an ideological project has stripped the government of any sense of basic pragmatismFri Jun 12 2020 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: Millennials entitled to some righteous indignationFlames of intergenerational conflict will not help anyone post-Covid-19Fri Jun 05 2020 - 01:00
Boris Johnson had little choice but to back Dominic CummingsThe controversy over Boris Johnson’s aide exposes the government’s basic design flawFri May 29 2020 - 01:00
Lockdown: the privileged few versus the ordinary many?Pandemic restrictions becoming a new front in the culture warsThu May 21 2020 - 01:23
Women leaders are doing better, but not for the reason you might thinkIt is wrong to assume feminine qualities make for a better pandemic responseFri May 15 2020 - 01:00
Coronavirus: London-Irish groups play a vital roleElderly Irish face new challenges amid the Covid-19 crisisMon May 11 2020 - 18:06
Don’t burden Sally Rooney with voice of a generation labelCritique of her work amounts - in the eyes of her legions of fans - to a critique of all successful young womenFri May 08 2020 - 09:09
Great crises produce great art – so where is it?The art world’s response to Trump fell flat but the Covid-19 crisis may spur creativityFri May 01 2020 - 01:00
Ryanair is being mean again but we don’t really carePeople may complain about getting vouchers not refunds but they’ll still return for moreFri Apr 24 2020 - 01:00
Boris Johnson’s power grabs created a government incapable of tackling Covid-19Finn McRedmond: Brexit-geared cabinet is not equipped to cope with pandemicFri Apr 17 2020 - 01:15
Finn McRedmond: Now we know the true meaning of freedomThe concept of liberty is a lot more nuanced than we realisedMon Apr 13 2020 - 01:00
Eurovision: Not even coronavirus can kill the campAn alternative version of the song contest should be welcomed as crucial frivolityFri Apr 03 2020 - 01:55
Finn McRedmond: No one is sick of experts nowThere is less room for Brexiteer-style bluster and windbagging when people are dyingFri Mar 27 2020 - 01:00
Cocktails over Skype? Can virtual-socialising ever be normal?People are now turning to the like of Zoom and Skype for face-to-face contactFri Mar 20 2020 - 08:03
Cheltenham shows Boris Johnson not at the races on Covid-19UK prime minister’s response to crisis contrasts with that of EU counterpartsFri Mar 13 2020 - 01:16
Cheltenham returnees to face ‘health conversation’ at airportCoveney says racing festival would not have been held if it was in IrelandThu Mar 12 2020 - 23:03
Victorious Geraghty and McManus back in the Cheltenham spotlightMixed views among town residents as to whether event should have been cancelledWed Mar 11 2020 - 21:20
Coronavirus fears cast aside as Cheltenham Festival kicks offBritish authorities say ‘no reason’ to cancel sporting events as Irish punters flock to racesTue Mar 10 2020 - 22:10
Are the Brexiteers now weaponising coronavirus?As they struggle to define Brexit they are deliberately deviating from EU guidelinesSat Mar 07 2020 - 01:41
Britain is uncomfortable because Ireland has the upper hand for the first timeFinn McRedmond: UK cannot see the State as a nation realising its voice on the international stageFri Feb 28 2020 - 01:58
Finn McRedmond: Johnson pulls up drawbridge on immigrationEfforts to cast himself as a liberal Conservative now sullied beyond repairWed Feb 19 2020 - 17:09
Finn McRedmond: Julian Smith pays price for dissentJohnson and Cummings are prioritising elimination of discord from their cabinetFri Feb 14 2020 - 00:59
Astrology’s comeback highlights a crisis of identityIt seems to offer its fans a tribal identity while tapping into an inherent narcissismFri Feb 07 2020 - 01:16
Remainers march in much-reduced numbers to mark Brexit dayProtesters taunted by huge crowd of pro-Brexit revellers at Houses of ParliamentFri Jan 31 2020 - 20:13
Finn McRedmond: UK rank and file too weary for forced Brexit joyLeavers more interested in public services and NHS than worn rhetoric of empireFri Jan 31 2020 - 01:06
New York Times’s spineless Democratic endorsement shows experts have lost their nerveFrom presidential candidates to Booker Prize novels, experts cannot make up their mindsThu Jan 23 2020 - 00:45
Finn McRedmond: ‘Build more houses’ a better slogan for Fine GaelParty seems to believe opting for unmemorable message is better than being memorable for wrong reasonsThu Jan 16 2020 - 00:46
Ricky Gervais was right to criticise Hollywood A-listers’ narcissistic lecturesDespite his failings, at least Donald Trump was elected, unlike moralising actorsFri Jan 10 2020 - 06:00
Boris Johnson has good reason to keep Varadkar closeFinn McRedmond: British PM’s current position is in no small part due to DublinFri Jan 03 2020 - 01:00
Cats: Just because you can doesn’t mean you shouldAs the technology for live action remakes advances, it paves an irresistible way for filmmakersMon Dec 23 2019 - 10:24
Boris Johnson’s majority is more fragile than it seemsFinn McRedmond: Tories must now appease both their traditional base and converts from LabourMon Dec 16 2019 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: If this is art, I am the idea of a bananaWe should applaud David Datuna as an antidote to the art world’s earnestnessThu Dec 12 2019 - 06:00
Political rot has spread from US to UKDonald Trump has dragged Britain down to his levelFri Dec 06 2019 - 08:32
Battleground for young UK voters moves onlineMicro-targeting with vast quantities of poor quality graphics and videos a feature of electionMon Dec 02 2019 - 01:20
British voters trapped between Jeremy Corbyn and Boris JohnsonFrom anti-Semitism in Labour to the Tories’ lurch to the right, the outlook is dismalThu Nov 28 2019 - 01:00
Derision of Taylor Swift emerges from a contempt for young womenPop star no less deserving of Artist of the Decade award than Dylan or SpringsteenFri Nov 22 2019 - 01:18
British Conservative party under fire over ‘factcheck’ stuntParty’s press office changed its Twitter name to factcheckUK during election TV debateWed Nov 20 2019 - 07:51
Finn McRedmond: Good people are leaving British politicsThere is more to the exodus than just the vitriol being directed at representativesWed Nov 13 2019 - 01:31
Finn McRedmond: Getting Brexit done is last thing Farage wantsAfter decade building cult of personality, Brexit Party man will not quit stageSat Nov 09 2019 - 01:00
Opinion: This is as close to a single-issue election as possibleBrexit has given the SNP and Lib Dems a new raison d’etre, and is responsible for forming the not to be underestimated Brexit PartyTue Oct 29 2019 - 17:45
Brexit: Emerging realisation in UK that Ireland has legitimate grievances and concernsLondon’s ignorance of Ireland’s past waning as parity of understanding evolvesFri Oct 25 2019 - 01:37
Britain’s Irish community raises its voice at Brexit protestDemonstrators play folk songs as they rally against British government’s ‘nonsense’Sun Oct 20 2019 - 15:41
Boris Johnson’s recklessness may now pay dividendsConservative leader’s past actions could help pass the Brexit deal in the CommonsFri Oct 18 2019 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: Do not mistake progress for resolutionForces released into fabric of UK’s political life will persist post-BrexitSat Oct 12 2019 - 06:00
Why is Boris Johnson giving in to Arlene Foster on Brexit?DUP support seen as crucial to keeping hard Brexiteers in the Conservative party onsideThu Oct 03 2019 - 01:19
Nothing to laugh about in the mess that is British politicsSneering at brashness of many Westminster MPs will not prevent hard borderFri Sept 27 2019 - 01:41
