An unauthorised payment made to a coach and a review into the board's effectiveness are causing disquiet at Tennis Ireland

The farrago, at Cosgrave's international web summit in Lisbon this week, suggests something is up

Mick Clifford wonders if one of the ostensibly more straightforward and uncontentious elements of the climate action plan can be scuppered by a lack of resources, what hope for the rest?

Mick Clifford is concerned about a controversy in Waterford where justice had not been seen to be done and a worrying dispute between the gardaí and a judge

Politicians' instinctive tactic of kicking the can down the road won't suffice at a time when the planet is facing an existential crisis, writes Mick Clifford.

Even the cats are getting fleeced now as developers and investment funds make vast profits at the expense of a generation of losers, who have to fork out a completely disproportionate amount of their income in order to rent a home in which they will only have basic rights of tenure

Democracy is the big loser when faux emotion trumps reason and, inevitably, the quality of people entering public life will diminish in such an environment. Maybe that’s what some people want

Rebecca Price and Pat Kiely 'have exhausted all avenues' in trying to get an independent inquiry into the misdiagnosis of fatal foetal abnormality and subsequent termination of their unborn son at the National Maternity Hospital in 2019. Three years on, no review has taken place

The revelations made by whistleblower Frances Haugen have once again shone a light on the damage done by social media giant Facebook

As national and regional planning guidelines are repeatedly disregarded, the setting up of a regulator in 2019 has proved to be a good move, writes Mick Clifford