Earlier this year, Ismail Al-Ghoul, a 27-year-old Palestinian journalist working for Al Jazeera Arabic, was killed in an Israeli strike. Colin Sheridan wonders what prevents so many fellow journalists from speaking up about fellow professionals being targeted, intimidated, injured, and killed in such horrific fashion

Four years after a massive explosion ripped Beirut apart, the scars have yet to heal. Colin Sheridan talks to one family rebuilding their lives after the death of their two-year-old son

The Olympic Games may not be perfect, but it’s all we’ve got.

THERE’S a scene in Gus Van Sant’s Good Will Hunting where Matt Damon scans the bookshelves of the therapist he is forced by court order to see. “You people baffle me,” he says, aghast at the conformist propaganda displayed before him.

Here's some quick wins for the decision makers in Croke Park. 

Israel blames Egypt for closing the Rafah crossing after an Israeli airstrike in May that killed over 50 people in the middle of the night. Meanwhile, the ability and manpower to go into Gaza and establish an effective medical and humanitarian intervention is all there

The more things change, the more they remain the same

This week then, as you pick your kid up from summer camp, be thankful that the skies they play under are empty, save for the grey clouds we so regularly lament.

Delaney is one of the industry’s good guys and a good example for those of us trying to stay the hell out of our own way, and get on with it all

Perhaps his last contribution to Gaelic football with Salthill is the easiest forgotten, but it tells the story of a man who put one thing above all others, the one thing he asked us all to keep; Faith.