THERE is a scene in the 2007 low-brow, crooks-spooks-and-assassins film Shooter when Levon Helm, a decent actor but a great musician, assures lead actor Mark Wahlberg that the 1963 Kennedy assassination was a conspiracy involving a platoon of assassins. 

AN Bord Pleanála is rarely given to hyperbole, but remarks by its spokesperson, in the wake of yet another deferment of a decision on an incinerator in the Cork harbour area, is straight out of the Donald Trump book of quotable quotes.

THE two-and-a-half-year sentence imposed on Tom Humphries has drawn widespread criticism, some of it hysterical but most of it measured and appropriate, with many commentators attacking not just its leniency but comments made by the judge during sentencing. 

ANY appraisal of how the office of President has fared under recent incumbents — and President Higgins too — must come to a positive, warming conclusion.

THE Environmental Protection Agency yesterday published a third damning report in a matter of weeks on abused water resources.

THE tracker mortgage swizz is one example of how vulnerable people are in a society where consumers’ interests are set aside to allow businesses prevail.

Some sports, or some expressions of values within some sports, can still move, inspire, or challenge. 

HUMANITY passed a milestone in recent decades. For the first time, more of us live in cities than in rural settings. 

IT has become part of the choreography of all European Union reviews of stop-start meetings over Brexit that an EU spokesperson underlines that Europe has far bigger fish to fry than the John-Bull-and-camp-followers divorce.

The crisis in Catalonia has gathered a dangerous momentum.