WE DIDN’T need Prime Time’s sting operation to tell us there was endemic corruption in our planning processes in this country. We only had to look at our destroyed landscapes and our ghost estates, writes Victoria White.

We may be a small brick in the wall against climate change but if we fall we destabilise the structure, writes Victoria White

Where would we be now if British prime ministers had conflated Irishness with terrorism, asks Victoria White

This toxic, Islamophobic relationship has far more chance of sending Turkey into the dark ages than Islam ever had, writes Victoria White

The size of the pay gap seems to have very little to do with the level of development of the countries involved, writes Victoria White

I CELEBRATE the feast of Samhain with religious fervour. I guess I need it. Every year when the black shroud of winter falls over us in the afternoon, I feel it like a body blow, writes Victoria White.

Travellers represent our own recent past and they won’t let us forget it. That is why we fear them, writes Victoria White

All this politically correct blather about “care in the community” means, in practice, that families are left to cope as best they can in private, writes Victoria White

As a student in the 1980s, I found one coffee shop in Galway, on Shop St — but there was also one theatre, writes Victoria White