Part of the RTÉ show’s appeal was that it made space for the kind of people we don’t see enough of on our screens

If only Britain had been paying attention, the Irish courts offered a masterclass in how to avoid getting drawn into the culture wars

Spoiler alert: the solution, in many cases, is ‘granny’ or, perhaps less often, ‘granddad’

The photographs coming in on the wires are unfathomable: children with horribly protruding ribs, hollow eyes, scabbed lips and noses, distended bellies

Construction workers who ‘vanished’ from the sector after the Celtic Tiger were humans whose way of life was obliterated

Ireland, I have often thought smugly since my return from California, wouldn’t tolerate such pretentious, self-destructive nonsense as a ban on clothes lines. Enter the row over EV charging arms

Their popularity is a grim statement about a property market in which your best prospect of owning a house may well be to win one in a lottery

We should be wary of narratives that present women – especially those accused of crimes – as either the evil witch or Snow White

A conspiracy of coyness around the troubling origin story of Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte extended to the incident filmed in Vietnam this week

Do you believe in free speech? Do you believe in it for views and people you loathe? Unless you answer ‘yes’ to both questions, you don’t believe in it

Just as every generation is a little taller than the previous one, each is mentally sharper than their predecessors. Until now

Amid more than 2,000 pages of dense legalese and Beckettian obsession with process, there are few glimpses of Grace and even fewer answers

It will be a bitter pill to swallow if we only decide do something about the parenthood penalty now that men are suffering it too

Family of Enoch Burke: The adjective that best describes their fundamentalist views, victim complex and arrogant manner is ‘presidential’

Time to pay tribute to the sisters who are not trailblazers in science, politics or entertainment but are taking no more crap from anyone