We know, or we suspect, that one of Putin’s objectives right now is to see Zelenskyy killed, writes Fergus Finlay.

The people of Britain have made it clear they want to help but the generals who led the country into Brexit are incapable of seeing outside the blinkers that they wear

You couldn’t be up to them, could you? The religious orders in Ireland, I mean. Let’s talk about one of them in particular, the Holy Ghost Fathers. Or the Spiritans, as they’re grandly called.

Every now and again tortured expressions of ideology need to take second place to simple concepts, like right and wrong. Otherwise, totalitarianism wins

WHERE has our resilience gone? How come we seem to have suddenly lost the ability to pull together? Have we just used it all up, just got exhausted?I’m asking because suddenly I can hardly bear to open a newspaper or turn on the radio ...

People who know Ivana Bacik well all say the same thing — she is really about other people and fundamentally empathetic

We need to do whatever we can to ensure no safe havens for Putin and his henchmen, writes Fergus Finlay.

Russian president Vladimir Putin appears to be on a mission to rebuild some kind of Russian empire, but there are diplomatic options open to the West that could dissuade him from doing so, writes Fergus Finlay.

Those attacked in their home recently were made vulnerable only by being overwhelmed by the callousness of their attackers

Focus on these issues: a living wage, cost of travel, and the crippling expense of children's education