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Coalition got this right - Marriage equality

Coalition got this right - Marriage equality

MORE bells than usual — chiming marriage bells — will be ringing across the country at Christmas after yesterday’s passing of all stages of the Marriage Bill 2015 in the Seanad and will be signed into law when president Michael D Higgins returns from America. 

Fri, 23 Oct, 2015

Report on North’s terror groups - Another test for Sinn Féin credibility

Report on North’s terror groups - Another test for Sinn Féin credibility

SOME of those well-suited worthies of the right who hope to represent America’s Republican party in next year’s White House race vociferously deny climate change — even if they recognise the science and the evidence behind the phenomenon as valid. 

Thu, 22 Oct, 2015

Conflict in Middle East - Hate changing face of Europe

Conflict in Middle East - Hate changing face of Europe

THE Middle East is so divided, so scarred by war and hatred that it sometimes seems a miracle to even get opponents to sit in the same room and talk about the future rather than the atrocities of past. Sometimes it’s hard to believe the protagonists even want to talk. 

Thu, 22 Oct, 2015

Mulvey’s plain speaking - Honesty is best

Mulvey’s plain speaking - Honesty is best

HOW very refreshing and cheering the direct intervention of Kieran Mulvey, the new chairman of Sport Ireland, was in the Billy Walsh/IABA fiasco.

Thu, 22 Oct, 2015

Counting cost of financial crisis - Immorality of bank deal highlighted

Counting cost of financial crisis - Immorality of bank deal highlighted

IT is, still, almost impossible to have an objective analysis of the measures imposed on this small country to ensure that our banking system did not collapse and start a destructive domino affect right across the eurozone.

Wed, 21 Oct, 2015

Billy Walsh fiasco - Explain or have funds frozen

Billy Walsh fiasco - Explain or have funds frozen

ANY organisation lucky enough to have a leader who is an agent for change is indeed blessed. Any organisation lucky enough to have a leader that sets and realises new targets by motivating those around him to give of their best is indeed doubly blessed.

Wed, 21 Oct, 2015

Ringing the changes - On reflection

Ringing the changes - On reflection

JUST as Ireland is changing, religious observance is changing. If Pope Francis does visit Ireland he will find a country very different to the one his predecessor Pope John Paul charmed so dramatically in 1979.

Wed, 21 Oct, 2015

The Irish love of sports - Reaching for the stars was never easy

The Irish love of sports - Reaching for the stars was never easy

IF the communist economist Karl Marx was to frame his famous and oft-hijacked phrase — “religion is the opium of the people” — today he’d probably swap the word religion for sport. Sport is a modern religion venerated through the high altar in the corner of our living room or, occasionally, a sideline or a terrace.

Tue, 20 Oct, 2015

Drink-driving conviction rate - Close these loopholes

Drink-driving conviction rate - Close these loopholes

EVADING a conviction for drink driving has long been a national sport of sorts, albeit one confined to an ever- narrower age group and one that does not shout its successes — or failures, if you prefer — from the rooftops.

Tue, 20 Oct, 2015

Fighting cancer - It’s a no-brainer

Fighting cancer - It’s a no-brainer

ONE of the truths underlying healthcare policy is that prevention is always better than cure — nip an illness in the bud and the threat to the patient is reduced, and pressure is taken off doctors and maybe scarce hospital beds.

Tue, 20 Oct, 2015