We had a bit of a dilemma when our firstborn arrived: Do we get him baptised? I have no religion and my wife has less.

Retired detective superintendent Tom Connolly recalls reconnecting with the man he helped send to prison for his part in a robbery that resulted in the deaths of two gardaí

With those primarily responsible having walked away, it is once again up to the taxpayer to pay for the repairs to tens of thousands of apartments that have fire safety or structural issues, writes Mick Clifford

FOR Roderic O’Gorman, the timing was way off, but he was also spot on.

While the housing minister is introducing some measures to reform An Bord Pleanála, the problems go far beyond issues of management fuzziness, writes Mick Clifford

Peter Pringle claimed he was ‘wrongly convicted’ of murdering two gardaí, but there is no evidence to suggest he was not the third man involved in a crime that resulted in the two deaths, writes Special Correspondent Mick Clifford

For some reason, an annual horror show of hospital overcrowding, which was flagged well in advance this year, was not the subject of forward planing, or at least not enough to alleviate needless suffering

The year’s end brings with it time for reflection on some decent reads undertaken during the last twelve months.

What about the childer’? So went the cry of faux outrage a few weeks ago when it was announced that the crib in Dublin’s Mansion House would be without live animals.

Chaplains reports from Irish prisons, which were submitted in March, have not been published under the spin that they may be in breach of GDPR, writes Mick Clifford