The underlying problem of boyhood is manhood
There is nothing natural about male violence. Boys are growing up in a profoundly troubled culture
Ireland’s delightful love triangle is ending in a nasty divorce
We are the Artful Dodgers of the globalised world, experts at ducking and diving - but even the Dodger gets caught in the end
Ireland is not a mere victim of Maga madness – we help to provoke it
Being honest about this helps to clarify where Ireland’s real interests lie
A cunning plan for Ireland’s sweaty moment of exposure to the glare of the orange sun king
How should Micheál Martin deal with Donald Trump when he meets him in the White House?
European leaders seem astounded by Trump’s bullying and blatant aggression
They had fooled themselves into believing what they wanted to believe
The idiot wind now howling through the US offers Ireland a transformative windfall
Fintan O’Toole: Trump is complaining that we pick America’s pocket. Fair enough – we should instead pick America’s brains
Omagh victims and their families deserve better than ‘there was no alternative’ to violence
The distress, like the devil, is in the details. And yet we owe it to those witnesses to let these details pass through the filters we use to keep the unbearable at bay
Trump’s adoption of imperial manner is a function of failure
The essential question for Ireland is: to grovel or not to grovel?
Why does Micheál Martin allow himself to look so comfortable with shady deals?
In allowing himself to appear as the creature of Michael Lowry, the Taoiseach seems oblivious to the damage he is doing to his own character
An unfortunate incident of photobombing at the Áras highlights big problem for our democracy
It’s hard to see how super juniors bringing “their own memos” to cabinet meetings for decision by Government can be lawful
Rub your head for a new university in Kilgarvan - just don’t call it a ‘deal’
In the grey zones between deal and no deal, nothing will be written down for prying eyes to discover under FOI. We are back in the land of the unknown knowns
Five years after Covid, we scorn health workers, ignore vaccines and work in our offices
What happened to the need to end commuting and presenteeism? Or to our gratitude for healthcare workers or our resolution to change how we care for older people?
It’s a national indignity that the new government will rely on Michael Lowry
There is a statute of limitations on civic virtue as Lowry is openly embraced as the power broker of the new government
Ten predictions experts made about the world in 2025. All of them are wrong
When it comes to predicting the future, you might as well ask an astrologer as a rational expert
‘My grandad is dead. I am going to tennis today’: Christmas letters to my son, 1997
My family spent Christmas 1997 in New York. I recently found the letters that my then seven-year-old’s classmates wrote to him