James Plunkett described the Irish people of 1914 as the “Risen People”.

I have a friend who has mixed feelings about Easter. For Lent, he gives up sobriety.

This plan by the GAA hierarchy to broadcast our games with Sky is a wrong move.

In the wake of the recent State visit to the UK and talk of the our commemoration of 1916, how do we have the gall to remember that event when, almost within 50 years of gaining our independence (1922) we signed into another imperial power (Europe in 1973&).

One of the most invidious acts, regrettably among many others, needlessly perpetrated by this Government on Irish citizens, must be the recent sale of the 13,000 mortgages of Irish Nationwide to two American distressed fund companies.

Why was the occupation of government buildings in Ukraine a good thing in January, but a bad thing in April?

Newspaper reports indicate continuing harassment/intimidation of Sergeant Maurice McCabe.

As the summer approaches, I encourage readers to be ever-vigilant of the once migratory species, ‘The Yellow Reg’.

It was with great interest that I read about proposed ‘no-fry zones’, in which new fast-food outlets will not be permitted to open within a certain distance of a school.

Taxpayers have been informed for the first time that they are providing €80m to €90m of Rehab’s total annual funding. To put the scale and sacrifice associated with this State expenditure in context, an annual cut of €60m on special needs assistants in primary schools was prescribed by An Bord Snip Nua in 2009.