From smallies hurtling towards the water the instant they arrive, to a couple embracing at dusk — it really has been a perfect day

As a society, we must be prepared to carry and share the financial burden. And we need to do it quickly, writes Anthony Foley

There's a lesson in the contrasting fortunes of Ivana Bacik and Fianna Fáil, which is struggling to find a relevant identity

If you're over 65, you're assume to be not just past it, but past everything, writes Terry Prone

The downfall isn’t seen as a once-off but as an exemplar: an indication of a wider, longer-standing problem.

Enid Blyton has been criticised for racism and xenophobia but the Grimm Brothers fairytales presented a world of poverty and sadism and Aesop's fables were doses of moral reward or retribution

There are remarkable similarities in the modern response to the coronavirus pandemic with accounts of bubonic plague in 17th century London

As the vaccination rollout continues and restrictions are slowly lifting we will devote ourselves to the trivial, the inconsequential, and the shared pointlessness denied by lockdown

The Dyson report should be a warning to us all: Con artists get away with it because their victims go halfway to meet them

Day 218 Minding my own business, doing no harm to anybody when my phone begins to fuss: I am trending on Twitter. This is rarely good.