We watched a great little Irish movie on the telly the other night. Called Herself, it’s a movie full of hope and ambition, recovery and friendship.

I’m in Hudson Park, trying to banish negative thoughts, when something Vicky said occurs to me. Vicky is my daughter, and she works in backroom politics (not quite my backroom, alas, but that doesn’t stop her being a progressive and deep thinker).

It makes a villain out of no one, but would, I suspect, be genuinely inspiring to a lot of girls and younger women — and boys too

Joe Biden must stand up to Donald Trump's attempt to wrest power back or else the unthinkable will happen

Our present Government is getting closer and closer to an election in which it will be attacked every day for its failure to address the quality of life issues that beset us.

We must learn how to implement better to avoid going down the road that Trump and Johnson put their countries on

Libraries, and librarians, don’t just transform young lives. They offer shelter, comfort, warmth to older people, poorer people, lonely people

The biggest job is the restoration of RTÉ’s authority. That will never come again from any sense of entitlement among its leading lights

We all know who needs better protection from the law, and it’s not comfortable middle-class senators

Twenty-four minutes. Twenty-four painful, empty minutes. That’s precisely how long RTÉ devoted to RTÉ during the first half of RTÉ’s flagship radio news programme This Week on Sunday.