Once the fog of this pandemic lifts, the urgency to tackling housing is going to return to the top of the agenda. The Government and Opposition may need to change their questionable ideologies around the issue to resolve it.

The problem with the report published last week is that there are large chunks of it with which many people have great difficulty

One primal need of adopted people is access to their birth certificates. The very least they deserve is the application of real political will to expedite that process without further delay

The publication of the final report Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes shines a light into a dark corner of 20th-century Ireland.

All the indications are that, had the Government effectively done a U-turn and cancelled Christmas, the public would have begrudgingly accepted it

On Wednesday, Donald Trump attempted his own coup in the USA’s seat of power. 

What is required is grown up thinking that is informed not by prejudices and attitudes prevalent over the last four or five decades, writes Michael Clifford

The public must be brought on board and treated as adults or a vacuum can easily open up in which misinformation about Covid-19 vaccines will thrive, says Michael Clifford

Once again a government is running away from tackling land prices, writes Michael Clifford

A unique investigation is taking place into allegations that officials failed to protect a whistleblower from penalisation