DON’T you just love a neck-and-neck election? That’s what the general election in the UK is shaping up to be. It offers all the potential excitement of our favourite spectator sport. It’s just a month away, and already it looks like it will be a really tough and bruising encounter.

I SET OUT to write about Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, and about conscience and marriage, writes Fergus Finlay

IT wasn’t a funereal atmosphere on the ferry on Sunday, but it was sad and solemn. 

Gay people have suffered, not because of what they’ve done, but because of who they are, writes Fergus Finlay

THE sky cracked over Leinster House last week.

THAT was a good speech by Taoiseach Enda Kenny at the weekend. 

MY HEART went out to Terry Prone when I read her column yesterday. And even more to the man in her life. Mind you, I always envy Terry’s ability to make me smile about something that I’m certain was a scary experience.

The bank guarantee and the eighth amendment were born of ignorance and we are still rectifying the damage, argues Fergus Finlay

The Consitutional clause on the Irish family should include same-sex married couples, writes Fergus Finlay.

Fergus Finlay asks is it possible to be profound about free speech when we take it for granted.