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Sterling slides as reality bites - Brexit battle lines drawn

Sterling slides as reality bites - Brexit battle lines drawn

THE phoney war around Brexit is over and an entirely different kind of engagement has begun. The consequences have been immediate. They have also shown how delicately balanced our economic relationship with our nearest neighbour and main trading partner actually is.

Tue, 23 Feb, 2016

We tolerate it - Homelessness increasing

We tolerate it - Homelessness increasing

WHEN Bob Geldof pricked the world’s conscience with Band Aid in 1984 and tried to end famine in Ethiopia he set one of the great popular movements of the last century in train.

Tue, 23 Feb, 2016

General election 2016 - Last throw of the dice for moderates

General election 2016 - Last throw of the dice for moderates

Three weekend opinion polls varied to such a degree that making predictions about how the next Government might be formed — or even led — became even more problematic.

Mon, 22 Feb, 2016

US presidential race - How can toxic tide be turned?

US presidential race - How can toxic tide be turned?

The US population stands at around 320m, exactly half that of the EU, but it is uncertain whether that figure includes the millions Donald Trump would deport if he were elected.

Mon, 22 Feb, 2016

Ceasefire deal on Syria? - A welcome step

Ceasefire deal on Syria? - A welcome step

Sometimes it is necessary to clutch at straws, and even if yesterday’s announcement from US secretary of state John Kerry, that he and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov have reached a provisional agreement on Syria, falls into that category, it must be welcomed and supported.

Mon, 22 Feb, 2016

Church has a duty to challenge drug gangs

Church has a duty to challenge drug gangs

THE contrast between the Pope’s clear-eyed commentary on America’s presidential race and the fawning, wrong-headed, and offensive indulgence afforded to those who turned the funeral of murdered gangland figure David Byrne into a three-ringed circus contrived to express untouchable power and indifference to the victims of crime could not be greater.

Sat, 20 Feb, 2016

It’s time to make that call to US, Taoiseach

It’s time to make that call to US, Taoiseach

TENS of thousands of words have been published by this newspaper about the difficulties facing Cork Airport. 

Sat, 20 Feb, 2016

Almost time to decide

Almost time to decide

AT this point in an election campaign, it is tempting to quickly turn the radio dial when yet another party political broadcast is announced.

Sat, 20 Feb, 2016

EU must be reformed for all of Europe - Britain challenges a behemoth

EU must be reformed for all of Europe - Britain challenges a behemoth

As British prime minister David Cameron struggles to win concessions that might placate, or quell for a time at least, Tory eurosceptics, he is faced with 27 national leaders growing weary of Britain’s demands for concessions and licence to avoid core EU commitments. 

Fri, 19 Feb, 2016

Let’s hear it for MacMinisters! - People Before Profit proposal

Let’s hear it for MacMinisters! - People Before Profit proposal

Electioneering is like a developing courtship. 

Fri, 19 Feb, 2016