Santa Claus is coming. If you believe, he can really help to ease whatever pain and heartache is hurting you, writes Fergus Finlay

So-called sport that gets €20m of taxpayers' money annually promotes gambling and animal cruelty

Our imperfect democracy seems to be the best we can do. And it’s always going to be that way

It was social democracy that founded the welfare state, led the fight for equal pay and rights for women, and insisted on the right of workers to join trade unions

Why is abuse tolerated? Why must we rely on the courage of brave and often alone women to speak out?

There is an entire generation at risk of becoming increasingly alienated from ordinary democratic politics

Tens of billions of euro is spent chaotically by a number of government departments and hundreds of agencies with no transparency, very little accountability, and no real direction

All the bad stuff that could happen to the world if Trump becomes US president will not happen, because he is going to lose the election

Government needs to make the capital investment that would future-proof our water and help to future-proof our environment

If a campaign requires 1,000 units of energy, the last two weeks is when you need 900 of them