You become immune, don’t you? I can’t remember when I last saw anything as awful, as cruel and terrible, as the Israeli assault on the women and children of Gaza.

Bishops worried that removing the outdated and sexist language about women in the home might represent a failure to recognise the care, love, and affection that women bring to the home

We know that a significant State company was run for a number of years by a group of people who either didn’t know or didn’t care about governance

Whether it’s fair or unfair, cruel or kind, he has about a month to prove himself

People with disabilities are at the end of every queue, but a referendum no vote will do nothing whatever to remedy that

I have a black T-shirt that I’m really fond of. Sadly, my family won’t allow me to wear it in public. It’s not just barred from State occasions or anything requiring formality, I’m not even allowed to wear it around the park.

There’s a great public institution in Dublin that seldom gets much of a mention. It’s 110 years old, has been located in the same building more or less since the beginning, and it provides phenomenal services to the people of Dublin and beyond.

Seven of the 10 biggest companies in the world — all of whom have profited from the energy crisis — has a billionaire as CEO or principal shareholder

So I got it in the end. I worked through the pandemic, I was involved in all sorts of decisions about how to protect public health, I became really proud of how Ireland responded to the curse of covid.

'I can barely think of anything redemptive or uplifting that happened in 2023. It was, in all sorts of ways, the worst of years'