A warm welcome awaits him regardless of his woe from a loyal and supportive rural community around the west Clare village

Friends of the Irish Environment claims that the hearing would be an opportunity for Mr Trump "to learn about the concerns of environmental groups and the importance of conservation"

Tucker Carlson may be silent for now, but he’ll be back. The crest of the hate waves that he has ridden are getting bigger and more violent, and he won’t give up his place at the top of the tree.

Bid for re-election

Joe Biden, as the oldest president in US history, has noted age is a ‘legitimate’ concern but scoffed at questions about whether he has the stamina for four more years in the White House, writes Will Weissert

Were he be successfully re-elected, Mr Biden would be 86-years-old by the end of his second term

Sometimes focusing on the headlines can provoke the feeling that the human race is in terminal decline

In advance of its tour dates in Ireland next year, Marjorie Brennan provides a dummy’s guide to the hugely successful musical Hamilton

Recent events, including the expulsion of two black representatives from the Tennessee legislature, underline the extraordinary state of American politics 

JFK, Nixon, Bush, Reagan, Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Trump — ahead of Joe Biden’s arrival next week, RAY RYAN looks back at some highlights of previous visits to Ireland of US presidents

While much of Joe Biden’s visit will focus on the Good Friday Agreement anniversary, we should also pause to celebrate him for starting to undo the damage done by his predecessor

Some balance needs to be brought to the discussion over the past number of weeks about the lifting of the eviction ban. Sinn Féin deputy leader Pearse Doherty’s claim that the “Government had voted to make people homeless” is just a step too far.

Trump comes out fighting after he became the first US president to see the inside of a courtroom as a defendant

I can’t recall when an Irish government last sat down to make an important decision, knew they were going to hurt an awful lot of people, and went ahead anyway, writes Fergus Finlay

Mr Trump’s personal plane landed at LaGuardia Airport on Monday afternoon after his flight from Florida, where he had been staying at his Mar-a-Lago resort.

The indictment of former US President Donald Trump sends a "terrible message" to the world about American justice and will encourage dictators to abuse power, former Vice President Mike Pence has said.

You’re going to hear these basic criticisms of the charges in the New York investigation — but they don’t stand up to scrutiny

Republicans will attempt to present the process as politically motivated and a 'weaponising' of the US legal system

Facing a reckoning

The victories of the populist agriculture-backed Farmer-Citizen Movement in last week’s senate election in The Netherlands have confused many domestic and international analysts

Silicon Valley Bank collapse

In other echoes of 2008, regulators and politicians in the US and Europe rallied to reassure that the emergency measures had worked.

The former US secretary of state made it clear in her remarks that her connection to Ireland, north and south, and to the Good Friday Agreement, remains strong and personal

Court documents revealing the private views of Fox stars about the former US president suggest there's no love lost — but experts suggest each needs the other, writes DAVID SMITH

Many Republicans still don’t believe that Trump really lost the 2020 election in the first place and his opponents are wobbling on a tricky tightrope

Fake news

Those migrating from Nicaragua, Cuba, Haiti and Venezuela dumped back in Mexico after being expelled at US border, writes Nina Lakhani in Mexico City

US general election

The Biden administration criticises conservatives as anti-immigrant — yet pursues policies not so different from Trump’s, writes Moustafa Bayoumi

It'd be good to see fitting retribution for some of the world's most vile chancers. Inspired by his daughter — and by the works of Gilbert and Sullivan — FERGUS FINLAY has a little list... 

The voting behaviour of American citizens heading into the 2016 US presidential election was not influenced by foreign disinformation campaigns on Twitter, a new study involving researchers from Trinity College Dublin has claimed.

It is sad after the violence of the attack against her husband and the ongoing threats against herself are significant features in Nancy Pelosi's decision to take a step back

It's a dark mysterious place, the Tomnafinnoge wood. It’s near Shillelagh in County Wicklow, and it’s famous as one of the last remnants of the ancient oak forests that used to cover most of that part of the county.

Russia may no longer be the totalitarian society that my great-grandfather Nikita Khrushchev ruled six decades ago, but totalitarianism seemingly remains in its DNA

Targeting of TD Jennifer Carroll MacNeill by successive aggressors highlights deplorable underbelly of Irish society and moves to provide her with protection are right and proper

I love a game that makes 9-year-olds giggle. Mikey is 9, and he introduced us to a card game on Christmas night called Kids Against Maturity.

There is a growing feeling within the Republican party that the era of ‘Trump politics’ is no longer in his hands, and that his grip on the party is not what it once was

Just this week we learned that Elon Musk has announced he will step down as CEO of Twitter, while the tax details of former US president Donald Trump are to be made public

The work of the January 6 committee proves that presidents don’t exist beyond the reach of the law — even if they are powerful and wealthy, writes Timothy L O’Brien

'We live in a world where a war has been described as a “situation” and been told that the incitement of violence is actually the practice of free speech, and therefore must be protected, in other words, allowed'

All that is needed to destroy the possibility of democratic information space for particular political issues is to provide a platform for and give legitimacy to, would-be propagandists. In the absence of such a shared space, it will no longer be possible to marshal citizens against the powerful

US midterm elections

Trump is facing an election-tampering inquiry, a civil fraud case targeting his businesses, a defamation lawsuit involving sexual assault, and probes into his role in the Capitol, writes Luc Cohen

The former president is running again but the GOP midterm meltdown has changed the primary landscape