Easter recess will be a break from all the faux outrage and attempted public shaming

During a break of proceedings at a tribunal, I got talking to a senior garda. We spoke about one of the issues that were being examined by the inquiry.

Is it healthy, or even desirable, that the vast majority of mainstream politicians, media, or the public are scared stiff to broach this subject for fear of how they will be misrepresented and cast as merchants of hate?

IN ANOTHER lifetime, on the far side of the world, I once applied for a job in a handbag factory. Myself and a friend from Cork named Phil were down on our luck in Sydney.

For all the current emphasis on wellbeing, the State's primitive approach to regulation shows what a low priority it really is

Though retiring from Social Justice Ireland, Fr Sean Healy won’t be putting his feet up. He tells Mick Clifford that though the ‘social contract has been broken’ in Ireland, it is fixable

The scenes in the Four Courts for the delivery of a ruling in the Enoch Burke case lurched into farce, writes Mick Clifford

The party no longer espouses the socialist republic for which the provisional movement killed so many — but it needs to take ownership of its own history

Right now, this country has never been more receptive to the idea of a left-wing government that doesn’t include Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael — but can the left in Irish politics get its act together to form a cohesive government?

The new planning bill is moving through the Oireachtas at a fair old clip. For the last few weeks, it has been subjected to what is called pre-legislative scrutiny.