Editorial
Energy independence ambitions: A new sense of urgency is required
Energy independence ambitions: A new sense of urgency is required
In a world where barbarians who imagine they honour their god, their religion, and their co-religionists by blowing up scores of innocent people whose only crime is to disagree with their fascist zealotry, and in a world where the greatest project in the modern world — the European Union, for all its fault — is destablisied by a mixture of fear, hubris, and ignorance, it may be difficult to get excited over delays in establishing alternative sources of energy. 

Mon, 04 Jul, 2016

Michael Cimino: A true master
Michael Cimino: A true master

In a year that has taken David Bowie, Prince, Merle Haggard, Guy Clarke, Alan Rickman, Caroline Aherne, and Michael Herr, author of Dispatches, one of the great anti-war books, it might be a tad difficult to get the deserved recognition for film-maker Michael Cimino, who died in Los Angeles aged 77, on Saturday. 

Mon, 04 Jul, 2016

Democracy depends on history to sustain it
Democracy depends on history to sustain it
JUST about now, 100 years ago, the scale of the carnage of the opening day of the Battle of the Somme was becoming apparent.

Sat, 02 Jul, 2016

Time to legalise and protect sex workers
Time to legalise and protect sex workers
YESTERDAY we reported on a survey that found that almost half of men who buy sex are in a relationship. As many said they paid for sex a few times a year. Some, heart-warmingly, expressed concern for women working in the sex industry.

Sat, 02 Jul, 2016

US air link delays
US air link delays
THE air is alive with talk of renewed protectionism and trade barriers and all of the limiting, opportunity sapping realities that back-to-the-future regression might bring. 

Sat, 02 Jul, 2016

Johnson won’t contest Tory job - A shameless abuse of democracy
Johnson won’t contest Tory job - A shameless abuse of democracy
IN the extremely unlikely event of Boris Johnson being asked to kneel before his monarch to be ennobled with one of those pompous-comic, Blandings Castle titles that seem debilitatingly quaint today, his choice of name would be irrelevant.

Fri, 01 Jul, 2016

Home care funding - Policy should be reviewed
Home care funding - Policy should be reviewed

THE various forms of dementia are a darkening and expanding cloud over the Western world. 

Fri, 01 Jul, 2016

Terror attacks - Minority acts
Terror attacks - Minority acts
IN recent days, at least 77 people died in just two terrorist attacks in distant and not so distant cities.

Fri, 01 Jul, 2016

Battle of the Somme centenary - European unity for the end of wars
Battle of the Somme centenary - European unity for the end of wars

AT precisely 7.25am today a salvo of artillery fire from three First World War guns resounded in London’s Parliament Square.

Fri, 01 Jul, 2016

Our real ‘ambassadors’ - Paris to honour Irish soccer fans
Our real ‘ambassadors’ - Paris to honour Irish soccer fans

SOCCER fans with long memories will remember the glory of Euro 1988, when Ray Houghton scored a looping header that secured England’s defeat against the Republic of Ireland.

Thu, 30 Jun, 2016

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