Both Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael appear to be playing a dangerous game of political brinkmanship over water charges.

The State’s formal recognition of Irish Travellers as an indigenous ethnic minority is an historic day for Ireland.

WHEN, on Monday, he offered opening remarks at the tribunal considering allegations that there was a campaign led by senior garda officers to discredit whistleblower Sgt Maurice McCabe, Supreme Court judge, Mr Justice Peter Charleton, set some ground rules and underlined the absolute need for truthful testimony.

DEFENCE spending, or, if our spelling is to reflect the reality of our world, defense spending, is one of the lines in the sand permanently separating opposing world views.

FANTASY has all but achieved parity of esteem with reality in political debate, so maybe it’s possible to use it, even if a nightmarish kind, to make a point.

It has long been suggested that our obsession with owning our homes is a cultural insecurity left over from the days when we were a colonised people, when the idea of a secure home of your own only existed underneath a gravestone. 

The decision by Viktor Orban to make it more difficult for immigrants to enter Hungary epitomises the greatest challenge facing the EU. How does it, how do we, deal with immigration? 

A WEEKEND opinion poll shows Sinn Féin is enjoying its strongest support in over a year. 

YOU don’t have to be a member of Greenpeace to understand that chemicals thought of as game-changers when introduced — DDT or Thalidomide say — might, in the fullness of time, be viewed differently. The law of unintended consequences applies to chemicals in a very forceful way.

IN an environment where opposing traditions sustain their animosity by clinging to very different versions of the past, access to historical documents assumes a particular importance.