The death of Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani has robbed the world of one of the greatest minds of the last 100 years. 

Tony Blair believes that EU leaders would be willing to tighten up the free movement of the bloc’s citizens to accommodate the UK, thereby allowing it to remain in the union.

THIS week marked two anniversaries of tragedies — or atrocities if you’d prefer to be more direct — where too many lives were needlessly lost. 

THE economy contracted by 2.6% in the first quarter of 2017 but continues to grow at a reassuring 6.1% in annual terms, according to the latest figures from the Central Statistics

JUST before the Dáil rose for the summer yesterday, it passed a Fianna Fáil bill to strengthen the rights of mental health patients, a group of citizens very often numbered among the most vulnerable in our society. 

WHEN NBC spokesman Mark Kornblau said recently he “never imagined a day when I would think to myself, ‘it is beneath my dignity to respond to the President of the United States’,” over President Trump’s attacks on journalist Mika Brzezinski — who Mr Trump described as “low IQ, crazy Mika” and as “bleeding badly from a face-lift” at a Mar-a-Lago party — he did what most of us would do when confronted by a boorish bully. He disengaged, hoping not to

IT is far easier to remember the times when the use of Dáíl privilege seemed an abuse — and that is always a subjective assessment — than it is to remember the many occasions the principle served our democracy well.

THERE is a sharp contrast between interviews given in recent days by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and British prime minister Theresa May. 

THE future of the help-to-buy scheme for first-time house buyers has been put in doubt, after Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy, said he was “concerned” that it could be inflationary.

From Shell to sea to Shell to go.