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
We’re heading for the second biggest fiscal disaster in the history of the State
The idea that the Green Party was making us all go too far too fast is the exact opposite of the truth
‘Spit on me Dickie!’ scandalised the Church. But Rock was more safety valve than satanic threat
There were soon much more exotic ways to be a teenager than going into violent hysterics for Dickie Rock, but for a time, he filled the gap between who Irish teenagers were and who they were supposed to be
Fintan O’Toole on his career: ‘You had to learn to live with the fact that some people despised you’
The Irish Times columnist has made a new documentary about his life for RTÉ. Here he looks back on a career that he began as the Michelangelo of Tipp-Ex
Irish voters keep doing the same things and expecting different results
The State is entering a holding pattern, circling a future somewhere between high anxiety and extraordinary opportunity
Ireland may soon be expelled naked from the fiscal Garden of Eden
State’s short-term future is shaped simultaneously by wild optimism and existential anxiety
The three transparent election lies even politicians can’t pretend to believe
The extremely self-conscious uncoupling of the two centre-right parties is so obviously an act, it’s like a game of cards in which the stakes are matchsticks. But Sinn Féin isn’t much better
The Routledge History of Irish America: A vast and comprehensive study of all aspects of the Irish-American experience
Vigorous and critically minded history proves that the shifting and sometimes contradictory ‘social construct’ of Irish America cannot be reduced to one singular identity
We have entered a no man’s land, an age of dizzying transitions
The far right has been much better than the left at giving voters the illusion that it has an accurate map across these liminal spaces
An unhappy Ireland prepares for a general election
The expansion of the State is no longer a lefty position in Irish politics. It is pretty much everybody’s position
Donald Trump’s openly authoritarian instincts are about to be unleashed
It is no longer possible to batten down the hatches and think 'this too will pass'
What has happened to the cowboys who built defective apartments? Absolutely nothing
No prosecutions, no financial costs, no names and damn all shame