COLUMNISTSAlison O'Connor: Availability of abortion to Irish citizens is a sign of a mature societySo many of us knew women who'd had to travel for abortions and understood the pain that involved, writes Alison O'Connor
COLUMNISTSAlison O'Connor: The portrait of Michael Collins will be back in the Taoiseach's office... but will Leo?Micheál Martin had hardly received his seal of office from President Michael D Higgins but his Twitter bio was changed to reflect his new status: “Taoiseach and Uachtarán Fhianna Fáil. TD for Cork South Central.”
COLUMNISTSAlison O'Connor: No masking the fact we haven’t escaped virus threat completelyWe have a major win on our hands against Covid-19. We don’t want to lose that now by being stupid or careless, writes Alison O'Connor