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.

Unless our President knows something I don’t know (always a possibility!), he uttered some terrible rubbish last weekend

Boris Johnson and Donald Trump will hold special positions in the pantheon of people who built political careers on the entirely false premise that they were on the side of underdogs

While there has been discussion around the ageing population of our country, there are positives that can be taken from Census 2022 data

There is room for some modest tax changes, but there are far more important issues than that around

In some cases the fear appears to be spontaneous, in too many others it is being stoked and fomented in the name of some perverted nationalism

I haven’t been back there for a while, years actually. But I’ve been reading about it constantly, listening to stuff about it, taking what I thought was a keen interest.