The Paris Games have shown we need to prioritse our athletes.

From goats to roses, the variety of festivals on offer here reflects the history, tradition, sense of community and quirkiness of life on this island

The former British Labour leader was at the annual Hiroshima-Nagasaki Peace Event in Galway last weekend where Colin Sheridan heard him urge Ireland to protect its neutrality

The treatment of Algerian boxer Imane Khelif by members of both the press and public on social media was nothing short of disgraceful, and a reminder that these Games have the ability to repulse just as much as inspire.

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