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.

The massacre at the townland outside Tralee was the outrage that came to define, for many, the brutality of the civil war

Scotland's first minister walks away at the top of her game — better to do that than burn out and fade away

The Burke family claim to be evangelical Christians but sometimes their behaviour is about as far from Christian as one can get

Every democracy requires a contest of ideas. Every society will have different opinions on aspects of culture that should be vigorously debated.  None of that, however, requires a stoking of divisions.

Every action, including expensive and protracted trips to court, is undertaken in defence of the public purse as successive cabinets keep nodding through the policy because it predated their arrival.