Tim Pat Coogan’s excellent biography of Michael Collins highlighted the method that successive British governments employed to sate public opinion when they controlled Ireland.

The proportion of children accompanying adults into homelessness is rising. Dept of Environment figures show the number of people becoming homeless in Dublin rose by five per cent in a three-month period while the number of children becoming homeless rose by almost 30%.

While various organisations such as the US Department of Justice and the Swiss government launch investigations into financial irregularities in FIFA, the true cost of football corruption should be measured not in dollars but in dead bodies.

I write to draw attention to the threatened evictions from their homes of the inhabitants of 46 villages in the Israeli-occupied West Bank in Palestine.

I note Mr Howlin is to begin an “orderly restoration” of public sector pension reductions made in recent years. This is happening when money is still being taken out of private pension funds. Another 0.15% this June.

To hear HSBC bank’s chief economist echoing Karl Marx is surely a significant event. At the recent Left Forum in New York, Chris Hedges recalled Marx’s observations on capitalism. 

No one has died in the scandal involving FIFA and Sepp Blatter. Hundreds died building infrastructure for the 2020 FIFA World Cup.

Suppose same-sex marriage is not compatible with God’s law?

In the wake of our inclusion of gay people in the Irish mainstream, via the same-sex marriage vote, can’t we raise the siege on Irish speakers and recognise their educational needs? 

When he resigned, former FIFA president Sepp Blatter sounded very much like many of those who appeared before the banking enquiry.