SEE them strolling along the platforms of Heuston Station with smiles so wide it almost hurts to watch because you’re sure their faces are hurting too. They’re announcing the Metro North project which they themselves binned four years ago.

Most native speakers of Irish probably find the English versions easier to understand, writes Victoria White

Our schools need to teach Arabic. The act of trying to speak another’s language is a respect, writes Victoria White

There is no natural border between Europe and Asia. Divisions between them are in our heads, writes Victoria White

NANNIES must be proven innocent, not guilty. They transgress our ideals of motherhood and raise in us fears we cannot name, writes Victoria White.

For too long people accepted the terrible toll of infant deaths like Little Nellie’s. Victoria White says we shouldn’t be trying to exhume her, but rather remember her with a fight for universal health care.

If she’d been fat, now, that would have been real news. But there won’t be a fat Rose, writes Victoria White

We have managed to overlook this huge centenary of Irish sacrifice on the world stage, writes Victoria White

IMAGINE my surprise when I saw a sign for the Gaeltacht from a roundabout somewhere deep in Dublin 18.