Dissatisfaction with the status quo is a convincing campaign short of assent to actual change, writes Gerard Howlin

Motorways are ramparts from which surrounding pastures can be pillaged for votes writes Gerard Howlin

By teatime on Saturday, Mary Lou McDonald will be president of Sinn Féin. It will have been 35 years since Gerry Adams took over from Ruairí Ó Brádaigh.

The stakes could not be higher for Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, writes Gerard Howlin.

The ultimate cost of every product includes the financial and environmental cost of disposal, writes Gerard Howlin

Fianna Fáil began the New Year behind. The difference is more important than the five seats that separate the two main parties in the Dáil.

In Burying Peter Sutherland tomorrow, we lay to rest one of very few who rose out

Last Thursday theMinister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Simon Coveney announced on Twitter that he is “looking forward to finalising” a proposal “allowing Irish citizens all over the world have the option to vote in presidential elections — it will change and broaden the nature of the presidency for the better...”

I’d put cutting out social media on a par with giving up smoking. The fruit of putting the gadget down is reading, enjoying live shows, and participating in real life, writes Gerard Howlin

This Dáil, with input from senators, is driving debate and to some degree actual decisions to an unprecedented degree, writes Gerard Howlin.