I leaned over to the man beside me and asked him to put on headphones. Everyone looked away
Most people know incivility when they see it - and can do something about it without any need for fines or heated confrontation
In many ways, Francis reminded me of another senior Catholic figure who died recently in Ireland
For all their shortcomings, the recently deceased pontiff and the late Bishop Willie Walsh left the world a better place
Conor McGregor is the weirdest objection yet to plans for an elected Dublin mayor
Irish electorate has time and again proven itself to be sane and rational
Don’t blame all Americans for Donald Trump
That liberal, decent, brave America many of us used to know, the one that is deeply flawed but still full of generosity is still there, clinging to the wreckage
Ireland’s parliamentary standards have been trashed in recent weeks
Democracy is fragile - the consequences of politicians breaking with parliamentary norms and standards are not just theoretical
Healthy over-70s had no idea they were old until the order came to ‘cocoon’
It was a cuddly, infantilising word for what many believed was effectively house arrest
Why women are having fewer babies, in Ireland and worldwide
In Ireland, during 2024 the birth rate fell to 1.5 per woman – even lower than the United States rate of 1.6
Nathan McDonnell’s carry-on-as-normal behaviour suggested a profound dissociation from the €32m of crystal meth in his yard
Nathan McDonnell couldn’t see the consequences of his crimes. How many middle-class drug users can?
Kathy Sheridan: Zelenskiy embodies the sacrifice of his people
Ukrainian leader has offered to step down in exchange for Nato membership or if it brings peace
Ten people died in a furnace of twisted metal in Creeslough. Now the owner wants to build another filling station
‘They plan to install petrol pumps on part of the site where my wife took her last breath,’ wrote Derek Martin, whose wife Martina died in the explosion
What we need are weekly Nphet-style television briefings on housing
Where are the greedy fossils desperate to keep house prices soaring? We just want the truth
The public may not care who gets to speak in the Dáil, but they do care about being taken for fools
Problem ultimately wasn’t about low-stakes speaking time or terrible political nous: it was over a proposal that utterly failed to pass the bulls**t test
Tech bros welcome masculine energy back to workplace. It’s news to me it ever went away
There was overreach after the #MeToo movement but the backlash against women we’re seeing now is ferocious
It’s a good time for a wealth tax on Ireland’s 11 billionaires
But what are the chances of a co-ordinated international approach now? Take a look at Trump’s inauguration images. The whole event could as easily have been rendered in the form of a gigantic crypto coin
Mark Zuckerberg’s pronouncements confirm that ‘woke’ is dead
Household names turn back the clock to darker times as they fall into step with the next occupant of the White House