If men were killing beetles at the rate they’re attacking women, something would be doneThey were daughters, mothers, sisters, aunts, women with histories and plans for the lives they had yet to liveFri Mar 14 2025 - 06:00
Manspread for Ireland and don’t ask about Trump’s Russia trip: How Taoiseach should approach US visitHave a fanfare sound as you unfurl some paper decorated with squiggles. Tell him it is an invitation written in ancient Ogham from the Little People inviting him to visit the land of the leprechaunsFri Mar 07 2025 - 06:00
Elon Musk’s brutal rampage through the US government should be a warning to our politiciansA State that wastes the guts of €7m on an unusable computer system is rubbing salt in the wounds of citizens who have delayed starting families because of the housing crisisFri Feb 28 2025 - 06:00
Micheál Martin should go to Washington and remind Donald Trump what Ireland stands forMerrion Street’s promised “charm offensive” will have as much traction as water on a duck’s back in the madness of the court of King TrumpFri Feb 21 2025 - 06:00
Amid all of the toxic masculinity, no one mentions the toxic femininity that supports itWhen the institutions of the land imply women are inferior, it’s hard not to doubt yourselfFri Feb 14 2025 - 06:00
If the Government capitulates to Donald Trump, it will have the blood of children on its handsThroughout the general election campaign, voters were assured that a future Fianna Fáil-Fine Gael government would support the existing Bill. Yet soon after Christmas, the mood music changedFri Feb 07 2025 - 06:00
Trump is a throwback to days when destitute Ireland gazed at Haughey and thought he’d make us richThe worship of mammon and mammon-makers has brought us to the point where a rich felon purports to rule the world and carve it up to his likingFri Jan 31 2025 - 06:00
Irish politicians’ lack of urgency contrasts poorly with Trump’s up-and-at-it attitudeEuropean leaders are bracing themselves as Trump’s return to the White House has plunged the Continent into a precarious era. Evidently, the memo has failed to reach Dáil ÉireannFri Jan 24 2025 - 05:00
Michael Lowry and Elon Musk know kingmaker is more powerful than kingHow can our new government claim to be an international referee of political integrity when it has shamelessly thrown away its moral compass?Fri Jan 17 2025 - 06:00
We won’t realise how much we’ll miss Michael D Higgins as President until he’s goneMichael D Higgins, a funny-sounding little poet heaving with lofty thoughts, was exactly what the doctor ordered for Ireland in 2011Fri Jan 03 2025 - 06:30
If I have my way, 2025 will have no manspreaders, bagspreaders or texting pedestriansI’m taking the Julius Caesar approach to resolutions: here are the ways I’d like the rest of you to adopt better habitsFri Dec 27 2024 - 07:15
Irish Government needs to stay resolute in the face of Israel’s slanderous claims of anti-SemitismFlinging the anti-Semitism slur around is an injustice to the many Israeli citizens who decry their government’s protracted killing spree in Gaza and the illegal settlements in the West BankFri Dec 20 2024 - 06:00
Fianna Fáil needs to explain why it can’t talk to Sinn Féin if it will talk to Michael LowryIf 14 years’ tribunal work by a High Court judge can be so readily air-brushed by successive governments, what’s the point of bothering?Fri Dec 13 2024 - 06:00
Sherin’s mother prays she won’t be left lying in the street to be eaten by scavenging dogsIn all the Mercs-and-perks talk about who will get which Cabinet portfolios, there has been scant appetite to face down the warmongers in Jerusalem and WashingtonFri Dec 06 2024 - 06:00
Fianna Fáil rising: Even Lazarus couldn’t have pulled off the Micheál Martin miracle It’s just 14 years since Fianna Fáil and Martin were being written off completely, and four since his leadership was being publicly challengedSun Dec 01 2024 - 18:34
Conor McGregor was facilitated by a culture of entitlement and cheered on by adoring fansIn the space of a single week, two sports stars were before the Irish courts having behaved despicablyFri Nov 29 2024 - 06:00
‘Why wouldn’t I vote for Gerry Hutch? All that money being pumped into bike sheds and phone covers. We’re struggling’The general election outcome in Dublin Central could point the direction Ireland takes nextSat Nov 23 2024 - 06:00
Forget politicians’ pre-election promises - here’s my 10-point manifestoMy general election wish list: No more free Dáil parking; penalty points for drivers who keep the engine running while stationary; immunity for employees who refuse to handle Israeli goods ...Fri Nov 22 2024 - 06:06
What’s the point of an election if it inevitably means the same parties get back in?The shameful and eternal truth about the Irish left is that as long as it stands apart, it falls apartFri Nov 15 2024 - 07:15
Thanks a bunch, America. Love, women everywhereUS election shows voters still demand that a woman candidate must be without faultFri Nov 08 2024 - 06:15
Blind acceptance of untruths could propel Trump back into the White HouseThe prevailing credo is that the voter is always right, even when the voter is egregiously misguidedFri Nov 01 2024 - 06:00
‘I knew ... I couldn’t stay with him any more ... I had a husband who was addicted to drugs and raping me’‘I stood up for myself and I was believed,’ says Kathleen Correia, who was raped and coercively controlled by her then husband, Sergio CorreiaSat Oct 26 2024 - 06:00
Government shouldn’t be so quick to yell Gotcha! at Sinn Féin. Its record on children is shamefulWhen election candidates coming knocking at your door, will you speak for the children so badly let down by the State?Fri Oct 25 2024 - 06:00
Had Mary Lou stuck with Fianna Fáil, she could be closer to becoming first woman taoiseach The blizzard of scandals since the Dáil returned from summer holidays is Mary Lou McDonald’s GUBU momentFri Oct 18 2024 - 06:00
‘If she stays there, she will die’: Roscommon-based Gazan woman pleads for help to get her mother out of war-torn stripSherin Alsabbagh’s mother Najwa (74) has been approved for entry to Ireland to join her in Ballaghaderreen. With Gaza border crossings closed and Israel’s battle raging, she cannot get outWed Oct 16 2024 - 06:00
Why has the Hague not issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu? Why is the International Criminal Court taking nearly five months to respond to the request for Netanyahu’s arrest warrant when it took just three weeks to grant one for Putin?Fri Oct 11 2024 - 06:00
Simon Harris is not bothered by Phil Hogan’s record of PR blundersDespite a history of public relations gaffes, Hogan’s muscular political skills seem to endear him to the party chief, with Simon Harris the fourth to entrust him with a key roleFri Oct 04 2024 - 06:00
A €560 bonus for each new baby? The Green Party must be having a laughEven the most interfering nanny state cannot guarantee that a baby boost is actually spent on the childFri Sept 27 2024 - 06:00
It’s time the Irish stopped obsessing about being universally loved. Those days are goneIreland's age of innocence as a global love object is overFri Sept 20 2024 - 06:00
Apple tax: Ireland owes its lost people €13bn worth of housesThe €13bn lying in an escrow fund could help give those hit by the homelessness crisis a way back into societyFri Sept 13 2024 - 06:00
If you laughed at the one about the Leinster House bike shelter, you’ll love the one about the loo rollsSometimes, when a problem is complex and protracted, a simple example of hubristic extravagance can become the emblem of all that is wrongFri Sept 06 2024 - 06:00
Ireland’s lousy summer: ‘The people are great,’ says the German tourist. ‘But I couldn’t live here.’ I know what she meansThe Gulf Stream that once bathed our shores in mildness has turned into a giant sunblock that could be bottled and soldFri Aug 30 2024 - 06:10
Musk’s lack of interest in truth shows why Government must act on media ownership Owning a media lodestar can be the ultimate ego trip as Elon Musk demonstrated with his travesty of an ‘interview’ with Donald TrumpFri Aug 16 2024 - 06:00
Moronic marriage of loyalists and ‘Irish patriots’ revives Troubles-era nightmaresAlliance of green and orange sectarian supremacists in Belfast shows fascism is on the march and is leveraging the new global weapon of mass destruction: gullibilityFri Aug 09 2024 - 06:00
Because of Lavinia Kerwick, Ireland learned about the trauma of sexual crimeThe Kilkenny woman changed how the legal system deals with sexual offencesFri Aug 02 2024 - 06:30
Derry O’Rourke: They called him God, and the room where he molested them the ‘chamber of horrors’If O’Rourke’s punishment has been going on a long time, it is still shorter than the protracted injuries he inflicted on the children he assaulted and rapedWed Jul 31 2024 - 13:04
Once the priest was a respected public figure in a crisis. Now, self-appointed supremacists fill the roleWhere once the priest was a respected public figure in a crisis, self-appointed supremacists now fill the roleFri Jul 26 2024 - 06:15
Justine McCarthy: With Ireland on a knife edge, it’s a bad time for a brain drain from the DáilPotential new TDs would need their mental acuity assessed if they were not given pause by hearing about masked protesters outside the Taoiseach’s homeFri Jul 19 2024 - 06:00
Michael D Higgins is proof that age is not Joe Biden’s biggest problemWisdom, that great compensation for the vanished stamina of youth, seems to have bypassed the US presidentFri Jul 12 2024 - 06:00
She has been abused, has had intimate photos shared online, has turned to drugs. She is 17 Regular reports of disturbing cases show the State has again been failing our most vulnerable childrenFri Jul 05 2024 - 07:00
Cathal Crotty picked on the wrong woman and that is to be his enduring punishmentThere should be monuments in all our cities to the women who have helped to civilise this countryFri Jun 28 2024 - 06:00
Clare Daly’s dog-whistle to haters of the media wasn’t just hypocritical, it was recklessElected representatives are honour-bound to explain their words and actions to their constituents who rely on professional media outlets. The alternative source is the swamp of social media and fake news websitesFri Jun 21 2024 - 06:00
Neale Richmond should know better: calling grown women ‘girls’ is inherently belittlingImagine anyone calling Margaret Thatcher, Angela Merkel and Indira Gandhi ‘the girls’Fri Jun 14 2024 - 06:00
Should Simon Harris call an early election? Gerard Howlin and Justine McCarthy debateAll attention is on when a general election should be called. Waiting until next spring carries risks – but so does an autumn electionWed Jun 12 2024 - 06:00
A pollster broke down in tears on Indian TV - pollsters everywhere know how he feelsOpinion polling is not dark force. But as it becomes more complex, its impacts needs to be examinedFri Jun 07 2024 - 06:15
Hubris of Fine Gael’s Marian Agrios reflects Ireland’s admiration of controversial politicians We voters need to consider our ambivalence about political standardsFri May 31 2024 - 06:00
European candidates on centre-left test the temperature on Dublin’s doorstepsLabour’s Aodhán Ó Ríordán and the Social Democrats’ Sineád Gibney - both candidates for the European Parliament in Dublin - knock on constituent doors to take the temperature of votersThu May 30 2024 - 06:00
Did Israel expect a country which has endured occupation and violence to stand idly by?Amid all the woes of homelessness, exorbitant rents, asylum seekers consigned to tents and climate damage, this was a moment to relish being IrishFri May 24 2024 - 06:00
There is one other measure we could take to reduce deaths from road crashesIreland chooses to be an outlier in Europe by not operating a consultant-led helicopter emergency service that would bring life-saving expertise to the scene of an accidentFri May 17 2024 - 06:00
US, UK and Germany have sown the shame of their nations in Gaza’s blood-drenched soilEven when propaganda is shown to be untrue, Israel’s backers make no apology for having blindingly believed itFri May 10 2024 - 06:00
