The leadership contest has effectively been going on for over a year, points out Alison O’Connor.

Our streets host fabulous parades by day, but scenes of vomiting, urinating, and fighting by night, writes Alison O’Connor.

As a woman listening, it was so wounding to realise what little value your country has in you, writes Alison O’Connor.

They’ve been chosen to give a ‘range’ of the experiences which can be undergone by women, rather than an absolute balance of pro and anti abortion, writes Alison O’Connor.

A result where holy Catholic Ireland has elected a gay prime minister would make international news, writes Alison O’Connor.

Enda Kenny’s approach has been to treat the whistleblower as if he had the equivalent of a political plague, writes Alison O’Connor.