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Prepare to defend our priceless democracy

IN his 1938 work Murphy, Samuel Beckett assured us that “the sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new”.

Sat, 04 Feb, 2017

Galloping through both sides of history

A GROUP of county councillors is to ask the National Army Museum in London to repatriate — if that’s the right word — the skeleton of Napoleon’s charger Marengo.

Sat, 04 Feb, 2017

Seize the day today

AT the peak of his prowess as a golfer, Tiger Woods was magnificent. He dominated his peers so elegantly, so gracefully — and so mercilessly — that he was easily described as beautiful.

Sat, 04 Feb, 2017

$Another last throw of the dice delusion - Oireachtas considers fracking$

Another last throw of the dice delusion - Oireachtas considers fracking

The Canadian writer Naomi Klein is one of the influential public figures to link today’s destruction of our planet with the insatiable appetites of capitalism.

Fri, 03 Feb, 2017

Bigger picture solution needed - Bus strike threatened

The threat of a bus strike should Bus Éireann impose pay cuts is as inevitable as the need for Bus Éireann to take radical action to restore solvency.

Fri, 03 Feb, 2017

Sleepless in FG: Delicious coup for Micheál Martin

Securing Stephen Donnelly’s signature is a considerable coup for Micheál Martin.

Fri, 03 Feb, 2017

Children deserve better - Foetal abnormality scans

IT is a scandal that an ultrasound pregnancy scan offered routinely to pregnant mothers in the UK and other countries is only available on the same basis here in Dublin but not elsewhere in the country.

Thu, 02 Feb, 2017

The Illusion of transparency - Olympic Council election

HEARD the latest one about the Olympic Council of Ireland’s notion of transparency?

Thu, 02 Feb, 2017

Golden memories - Statue of Wogan

TERRY WOGAN must be giggling in his grave at the idea of a statue depicting him sitting on a bench, microphone in hand, is to be erected in his home city of Limerick. 

Thu, 02 Feb, 2017