It is an extraordinary comment on the Conservative Party that they have made Jeremy Corbyn electable.

The pushing and shoving over who really wants an election is the tribal violence of ward politics in a student union setting.

Okay folks, it’s showtime! The late PJ Mara’s open invitation to electioneer and party would have nothing on President Michael D Higgins, writes Gerard Howlin.

For all its posing as prudent, Fine Gael’s fiscal knicker elastic is not nearly as tight as its talk, writes Gerard Howlin.

Using arts to support Ireland is fine. Ireland supporting the arts is different, writes Gerard Howlin.

What for Ireland, after Brexit, will dominate the political horizon?

The assent of the people to the social contract between Church and State is now withdrawn.

Unless it’s squeaky tight, and it may be, we’ll know by lunch time on Saturday how Friday’s referendum went.

It is three weeks today since the judgment in the Vicky Phelan case sparked off the CervicalCheck scandal. Sadly, because of the seriousness of the issues, there is scaremongering about the safety of the cervical screening programme.

Those bubbles might once have been sound bites, now they are the foam formed by a minister gulping for air, writes Gerard Howlin