The reversal of plans to raise the pension age to 68 shows appalling political handling and leaves us to pretend we can continue as is by hiking PRSI, writes Mick Clifford

Leo Varadkar's call in the wake of the Ashling Murphy case to build more prisons is a deflection from his government's failure to act on giving judges more sentencing powers

Sometimes the future can be writ large. So it was for music journalist Jon Landeau one evening in 1974, when he went to a gig in Cambridge, Massachusetts and was blown away. “I saw my rock and roll past flash before my eyes,” he wrote.

At the party ard fheis in the Athlone-based Technological University Shannonside (TUS), there was standing room only

America's operation as a democracy must be having the autocratic heavyweights around the world falling around the place with mirth

With sufficient funds, a certain ‘elasticity’ in the US legal system means that outrageous claims can be entertained in court

Mark Lawlor’s violent death is likely to elicit recommendations on how better to do things in the future but there have been many before, and the future looks no better

After 50 years of dealing with a societal issue through the lens of the criminal justice system, change is not going to be easy — but the Citizens' Assembly has made a good start

A Garda team is reviewing a cold case murder, an associated revenge murder, and potential garda brutality and perjury. But will they investigate one of their own with a legendary reputation, even if they are deceased? Mick Clifford writes

Last Saturday an outrage against humanity was committed when Hamas fighters crossed from Gaza into Israel and went on a killing spree.   Civilians were shot dead randomly. Women were sexually assaulted.