In the coming week the Public Health (Alcohol Bill) will go to committee stage in the Seanad.

The Late Late Toy Show is coming up in early December and the audience will comprise of adults instead of children, on the one night of the year supposed to be all about children.

I have friends in Barcelona, and when we go there, a must-see with them is the traditional dances and music outside of the parliament building on the square.

Wednesday’s strike by Irish Rail workers affected 150,000 commuters and four more strikes are planned over the next six weeks (Tuesday, November 7; Tuesday, November 14; Thursday, November 23; and Friday, December 8.)

We have a free legal aid system and because those who represent criminals are assured of payment they are happy to put forward a case on the criminal’s behalf. 

The Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment may have made the inevitable referendum official, but campaigners have already been in referendum mode for months. 

The results of the Charity Institute of Ireland’s ‘Charities 2037’ survey makes for both measuredly welcome and sobering reading for charities in Ireland today, writes Adi Roche

October 28 marked the fifth anniversary of the tragic death of Savita Halappanavar,  As a young woman from Galway, her story has stuck with me for the past five years, and served as a reminder of the dangers of the Eighth Amendment, writes reader Suzanne Coombs

I reckon that only one in six students (4,540) on UCD’s Belfield campus in Stillorgan voted to fire their student union presisent, Katie Ascough. 

Between Donald Trump’s toddler antics, Boris Johnson’s inability to tell the truth (where’s the £350 million for NHS), and Harvey Weinstein’s ‘mental illness’ (which only appears to affect those with a Y chromosome), it is clear that men’s reputations in politics and public life have been damaged (perhaps irretrievably) for years to come.