Anyone familiar with the ongoing debacle over the National Maternity Hospital might be forgiven for thinking that the Sisters of Charity is an enclosed religious order whose members take not only vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, but also a vow of silence.

The EU’s declaration on potential Irish unity has been hailed as a diplomatic coup for the Taoiseach. 

If Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office had gone to plan, the United States would be a different country.

The first thing a child discovers after learning that the world revolves around them and that everyone thinks they’re amazing is that it doesn’t and they don’t.

The revelation in today’s Irish Examiner of another protected disclosure about the endangering of Air Corps personnel is to be welcomed, but it also highlights weaknesses in the whistleblower legislation.

It has been a long time coming but at last the woman we’ve come to know as Grace has a secure future.

IRELAND has fallen five places from ninth to 14th in the latest Press Freedom Index, published by Reporters Without Borders.

The umbrella group, the Environmental Pillar, warns today that the long-overdue draft National Mitigation Plan is almost wholly inadequate to meet our climate change responsibilities, and that fundamental, more demanding changes to the proposals are needed urgently.

Many cities and towns show their best face to the world through the festivals or sports events they host each year.

Le Pen’s fall from grace breaks the mould of recent times.