At no point since Seamus Woulfe was selected for the Supreme Court has the Minister for Justice stated that she sought out advice, writes Michael Clifford

The government has been reluctant to adopt a heavy-handed approach to tackling the virus. But without enforcement, the plan is failing, writes Michael Clifford

Retreating from direct state-building of houses, as happened over the last 30 years, was the easy bit. Returning to it will be far more difficult

All that tumbled out during the week would suggest that this government has turned a deaf ear to that which is being carried on the changing political winds, writes Michael Clifford

The events of the last week feel like a bereavement, writes Michael Clifford

Just after 7am yesterday, Donald Trump slipped out the side door of the Free World, trailing America after him. In a statement that was one part victory, two parts grievance, he declared the election result a fraud. 

Just as Trump was lucky in 2016 that Hillary Clinton was unpopular with swathes of the electorate, so too is Joe this year, says Michael Clifford

Elizabeth Berney was glad to see the last political embers from the Civil War that had divided her family quenched with the formation of the Government this year, writes Michael Clifford

"Last Saturday, I wrote about a gathering of the National Party outside Leinster House. I have absolutely no regrets about what I wrote"

While Ian Bailey will enjoy a huge surge of relief, Ms Du Plantier’s family will be distraught