I learned recently a prolific Irish Times letter-writer had died — his correspondence was a tonicUna Mullally: Remembering Graeme Guthrie: ‘Funny, inquisitive and charming’Mon Feb 27 2023 - 00:00
Una Mullally: Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil had no visible presence at Ireland for All marchSeveral Coalition politicians have lined up against racism, but both parties still unsure of public mood on immigration.Mon Feb 20 2023 - 05:00
We should all be concerned about decent people like Nicola Sturgeon leaving politicsThere is a big difference between holding power to account, and attacking people simply because they hold powerWed Feb 15 2023 - 14:50
Bertie Ahern’s return is par for the course for Fianna Fáil, a party that frequently rejects historyRepeating his previous criticisms of Bertie Ahern would disrupt the maintenance of powerMon Feb 13 2023 - 05:30
New York’s new Irish bars: ‘It just works, this timeless feeling of romance and hedonism’New venues are pushing the boundaries of Irish culture in New York, as well as the city’s culture itselfSat Feb 11 2023 - 06:00
Some protesters appear to be in denial about their role in unlocking racist sentimentBest way not be perceived as racist is not to engage in protests where racist rhetoric is rampantMon Feb 06 2023 - 05:00
The comforting theory Irish people won’t coalesce around far-right has disintegratedUna Mullally: This is not ‘standing up for’ communities. This is xenophobic vigilantismThu Feb 02 2023 - 18:17
Una Mullally: Who gets the carbon credits generated by Coillte’s controversial deal?Privatisation of forestry raises serious questions about this increasingly valuable assetMon Jan 30 2023 - 00:00
Far-right’s goal is to misdirect anger to divide and oppressSome people involved in anti-refugee protests aim to misdirect anger and capitalise on resentment to demonise, divide and oppressMon Jan 23 2023 - 05:00
Una Mullally: Inequality between city-centre school access and wealthier suburbs is starkFormer DIT Aungier Street building could have capacity for some 5,000 of different schools sharing sharing resources, space, and facilitiesMon Jan 16 2023 - 00:00
Dolores O’Riordan: Legacy of vulnerability again pulls star into collective consciousnessIt’s five years on from the Limerick singer’s death, a tragic, premature loss of a talent so robust that it’s painful now to think ofSun Jan 15 2023 - 06:00
Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin: ‘It was important to me to get a formal apology from UCD’One of Ireland’s best-known academics reflects on closing the door on a painful period of her life, and her role as chair of the Citizens’ Assembly on Biodiversity as it prepares to report to GovernmentSat Jan 14 2023 - 05:00
Una Mullally: A nouveau-bedsit for €2,120 per month? Welcome to Dublin’s new rental hellRetrograde regulations of recent years have predictably led to offensively expensive Insta-cellsMon Jan 09 2023 - 05:00
Una Mullally: This will be the year of Fine Gael’s phoney epiphaniesParty creates ramshackle policy and makes mistakes in a haze. It is vital the adults in the room start to focus on children and their wellbeingMon Jan 02 2023 - 00:01
Una Mullally: Our ancient language is being made modernThe days of a resistant or derogatory attitude towards the Irish language and traditional music are over in youth cultureMon Dec 26 2022 - 00:01
Una Mullally: Skateboarding isn’t a nuisance and should be part of Portobello Plaza’s futureSkateboarding is a creative, healthy and positive activity. It's also an Olympic sportMon Dec 19 2022 - 00:00
Una Mullally: Crack cocaine is ‘huge’ in Dublin. We are past the warning sign phaseBudget 2023 allowed for just €10.5m, with strings attached, for the national drug strategy It’s not enoughMon Dec 12 2022 - 05:00
Una Mullally: Confessions of a Spotify hypocriteIf you want to support musicians starved by puny per-stream payouts, buy their T-shirt for ChristmasMon Dec 05 2022 - 00:01
Scale of drug-dealing outside Dublin cafe is ‘relentless’, says owner speaking out in ‘act of desperation’Inside people type on laptops and newly arrived tourists walk in. Outside the front window about half a dozen drug deals take place over 45 minutesSat Dec 03 2022 - 05:00
Una Mullally: Leo Varadkar is gaslighting the victims of the housing crisisWhen a crisis becomes this acute it doesn’t stay in its lane: it bleeds out in all sorts of waysMon Nov 28 2022 - 05:00
No one in Ireland was immune from abusive Catholic priestsSocial class is only relevant insofar as how it showed how untouchable these members of the clergy felt they wereMon Nov 21 2022 - 00:00
Una Mullally: No surprise Big Tech in the vanguard of corporate lay-offsFirst Twitter reaches for the redundancy button, followed by Meta with Stripe bringing up the rearMon Nov 14 2022 - 00:01
It’s abortion, stupid. How Democrats can win the US presidential election in 2024 Abortion was on the ballot in five states this week. What if that took place ten-fold?Thu Nov 10 2022 - 14:51
Una Mullally: Not only democracy but reality is being dismantled in USMidterm elections reveal voters and politicians in States as unhingedMon Nov 07 2022 - 05:00
Una Mullally: Elon Musk’s ownership of Twitter makes a bad situation worseThe billionaire now owns a social media company that was already broken and his chaotic approach will accentuate the platform’s negative attributes.Tue Nov 01 2022 - 19:37
Una Mullally: At least the activists ‘desecrating’ art works are doing something. What are you doing?If one thinks a protester is doing something incorrectly, it’s always good to ask oneself, ‘well, what am I doing?’Mon Oct 31 2022 - 05:00
Una Mullally: Why has street life in Dublin city become so depressed?Four things have been prioritised: hotels, offices, unaffordable student developments and luxury apartments for tech workersMon Oct 24 2022 - 00:40
Listen to the Land Speak review: Fractal account of myth, history and lossManchán Magan brings us on a journey into the wisdom of what lies beneathSat Oct 15 2022 - 05:00
Una Mullally: What does it mean to say ‘up the ’Ra’? And why does it keep happening?The women’s soccer team knew what they were doing: it’s just that what they’re doing means something different nowThu Oct 13 2022 - 12:16
Una Mullally: Berlin has dimmed the lights while Dublin’s are still blazingIt feels as though we are still sleepwalking into a three-pronged crisis that will dominate the winterThu Oct 13 2022 - 00:57
Creeslough explosion: There is no closure with tragedy, but there can be comfortThe feeling of apartness in Donegal, gives rise to a sort of tight-knit-ness that is, even in Irish terms, utterly uniqueSun Oct 09 2022 - 11:14
Una Mullally: It has been clear for some time that Britain is colonising itselfLast week’s market freakout was merely what happens when a Tory government’s chaosonomics meets realityMon Oct 03 2022 - 01:00
Road to Repeal review: A vital account not just of a movement but of a societyWhat emanates from the huge number of images in this book is the bravery of those who fought misogynyThu Sept 29 2022 - 04:44
Una Mullally: In a city starved of artist space, Dublin City Council is attempting to erase some it createdFormer music college on Chatham Row being used as artists’ studios, but council has other (bad) ideasMon Sept 26 2022 - 00:00
Una Mullally: The kids are not alrightIreland has the largest generation gap in trust in government in the OECDMon Sept 19 2022 - 00:01
Una Mullally: Queen’s death is another tentpole removed from ever-collapsing marquee called the UKBBC and Boris Johnson leap into bombastic mourning auto-pilot from which land will awake to grim realityMon Sept 12 2022 - 05:00
Una Mullally: Ireland is seeing a new form of housing activism - and it is building momentumWith Government failing to tackle the housing crisis, grassroots movements are starting to exert their influenceMon Sept 05 2022 - 01:10
If Dara Calleary gets Robert Troy’s gig, the public will roll their eyes in rage again Rage flows through public political discourse. The quest for accountability has great momentumMon Aug 29 2022 - 00:05
Dublin’s dying nightclubs: ‘I’ve no idea how people in their 20s are navigating this city’Housing crisis and crisis in cultural amenities have sparked a wave of emigration of young people in search of affordable rent and access to a broader cultural offeringSat Aug 27 2022 - 05:00
Una Mullally: Empathy fuels Ireland’s welcome for Ukrainians The care extended to people contains a memory of the constant cycles of mass emigration we have been made endure.Mon Aug 22 2022 - 05:00
Una Mullally: There’s more to Sinn Féin’s sunny new outlook than meets the eyeThe party’s message of hope is a recognition that it must branch outMon Aug 15 2022 - 05:00
Una Mullally: Big Tech says ‘Jump’, Fine Gael responds ‘How high?’The risk to both our energy security and our climate targets is seen as secondary to the risk of corporation tax receipts drying upMon Aug 08 2022 - 05:00
Una Mullally: Seeing the pandemic from both sides now Joni Mitchell’s iconic song resonates as we process the wear and tear of recent yearsMon Aug 01 2022 - 05:00
Una Mullally: Sitka spruce dominates Irish ‘forests’ — this is both wrong and dangerousMore broadleaf forests means fewer and smaller forest fires. Why the drive to prioritise conifers?Mon Jul 25 2022 - 05:00
What we learned about lobbying in Ireland from the Uber FilesIn Ireland’s case, we can see how lobbying can quickly morph into political ventriloquism.Mon Jul 18 2022 - 00:00
Una Mullally: We are losing teachers who cannot afford to live hereYoung educators face insecure housing or long commutes from the same kind of childhood bedrooms their students go home toMon Jul 11 2022 - 01:00
Una Mullally: The positive upside to media fragmentation Important stories untouched by big organisations have been highlighted by smaller playersMon Jul 04 2022 - 07:19
Una Mullally: Fine Gael is completely disconnected and does not even realise it The party’s tactic of constantly attacking Sinn Féin only serves to boost the opposition partyMon Jun 27 2022 - 05:00
We need to see the manufactured debate on trans rights for what it is: nonsenseThose who think there’s a ‘point’ to this discourse, should look at who their allies are: Putin, ethno-nationalists, fundamentalist Catholics and the Christian rightMon Jun 20 2022 - 00:01
A predictable student accommodation crisis is coming. There is no planThis autumn will be an autumn of discontent for the Government. There will be mass protests over housingMon Jun 13 2022 - 05:55
