THE decision by British Prime Minister Theresa May, reached during a walking holiday in Wales, to set aside assurances that she would not call an early election, has turned out to be one of the most disastrous in modern European politics.

JUST as one man’s meat is another man’s poison, one man’s radicalisation is another man’s awakening; one man’s conversion is another man’s apostasy.

It is more than unlikely that a plant as complicated as the Poolbeg incinerator in Dublin could be commissioned without even a minor glitch — and that glitch occurred on Wednesday night.

Our obsession with all things foodie has grown in tandem with the growth of secularism.

It is less than five months since Donald Trump was sworn in as president but even in that time he and his billionaires’ junta have made fundamental changes to the relationships that sustained American hegemony and, more often than not, championed the liberal, tolerant values that defined the Western world.

LESS than a week ago, anyone who had predicted that the Labour Party would win the British general election would have evoked concern for his or her sanity.

ANYONE reflecting on the horrific events in Britain will have felt not just sympathy for but also empathy with our friends and relatives in the UK. 

COMMUTERS will be familiar with the injunction to ‘mind the gap’. It is well known to users of the London underground, Dart stations in Dublin, and intercity rail services.

Apart from parenthood, there are few nobler expressions of human optimism or ambition than a commitment to education.

The decision by more than 130 British Muslim religious leaders to refuse to offer funeral prayers for the men who went on a murder rampage in London on Saturday night is an unambiguous declaration.