One of the country’s most decorated sports stars talks to Donal O’Keeffe about life off the pitch — and what it feels like to be a modern-day work of art.

The pioneering political theorist’s warnings about the inequities of capitalism are still relevant and will not be erased by the defacing of his tomb, writes

A memorial to German philosopher Karl Marx has been attacked with a hammer and "will never be the same again", a charity has said.

China’s digital system overtly seeks to monitor the behaviour of its 1.4bn people, writes John Lloyd

At the height of the debate about opening up Croke Park to ‘foreign’ games, a hurling aficionado of my acquaintance offered up a soundbite for the ages.

So we’re going to have an election for the office of the presidency. That’s very good news. As of now, it’s likely to be a two-candidate race, with a strong possibility of a third (maybe even a fourth) comingthrough the local authority route. That’s better.

There is a lack of serious engagement with how we could swiftly transition to renewable sources, writes Gerard Howlin

Paul Murphy has been the poster boy for the water charge protest, which has seen main parties twist in the wind for two years, writes Michael Clifford.

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The Nobel Prize winning economist Amartya Sen is a keen student of Adam Smith he tells JP O’Malley. But that doesn’t make him a blind follower of free market thinking

Yanis Varoufakis explores the strange new world where money is intrinsically worthless and how the solution to tackling this must come from a change in definition for currencies.

Consumerism isn’t just about buying goods and services. It has come to define the way we shape our identities and how we interact socially every day, as JP O’Malley discovers in a supersized tome that traces its history.

SINCE receiving his PhD from St John’s College, Cambridge, in 1961, David Harvey has had virtually unchallenged standing as the most insightful and innovative voice on modern Geography and social theory, and is generally considered the world’s foremost authority on the works of Karl Marx.

If there is to be greater equality, the price will have to be paid by ’middle income’ earners, writes Michael Clifford.

The opposition’s solution to a creaking infrastructure is to get the rich to pay for it, writes Michael Clifford

Mark O’Halloran explains to Padraic Killeen how the central character of Davoren in The Shadow of a Gunman echoes O’Casey’s view of his younger self

“NO-ONE understands men better than the women they don’t marry,” declares Lizzie Burns, the eponymous narrator of Gavin McCrea’s debut novel Mrs Engels.

To hear HSBC bank’s chief economist echoing Karl Marx is surely a significant event. At the recent Left Forum in New York, Chris Hedges recalled Marx’s observations on capitalism. 

This McDonald’s worker is clearly feeling a little under appreciated and unsatisfied in his role.

My dictionary tells me that the word marriage is “the ceremony whereby a man and a woman become husband and wife; the union of a man and a woman as husband and wife in matrimony.” There is no other definition anywhere available.

WOMEN, eh? Can’t give them too much political power, can’t win elections without them.

John Daly rounds up the best and most informative business, management, and financial books of the year

The latest winner of the Turner Prize – now in its 30th year – will be announced tonight at Tate Britain.

Will Irish artist Duncan Campbell win the Turner Prize tonight? He talks with Alan O’Riordan

Households in the UK will finally see a real terms boost to their pay packets next year as wages growth accelerates and inflation dips below 1% for the first time in more than a decade, Bank of England forecasts suggested today.

Irish political giant Daniel O’Connell has been celebrated as the Nelson Mandela of his day as the newest of London’s famous blue plaques was unveiled in his honour.

Irish political giant Daniel O’Connell has been remembered as the Nelson Mandela of his day as the newest of London’s famous blue plaques was unveiled in his honour.

100 years ago today Bernard Shaw’s ‘Pygmalion’ shocked class-ridden Victorian Britain, writes Robert Hume.

KARL MARX famously remarked that major historical events occur twice — the “first time as tragedy, then as farce”.

Be that as it may, millennia of faith has already been observed so it seems likely we will continue to see a blurring of the lines between religion and sport.

THERE is a chink of light and it is not an oncoming train. It is at least an irony and perhaps a pun that Ireland exited the bailout on Gaudete Sunday.

Excessive salaries in the public sector in a time of austerity, are they justifiable, what is the worth of a man?

KARL Marx, who died of a chest complaint in 1883, was buried on St Patrick’s Day at Highgate Cemetery in North London.

40 years ago today, Ireland joined the EEC. Richard Fitzpatrick revisits the referendum campaigns — and de Valera’s rueful regrets

I wish to warn all thinking people in this country about this proposed change in law regarding children’s rights.

Reflections on Crisis:The Role of the Public Intellectual

Con Houlihan was a philosopher who masqueraded as a sports journalist.

Daniel Levy has been responsible for many things in 10 years as Tottenham’s chairman, but he probably never expected to have inverted Karl Marx’s famous phrase about history repeating itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

SOME people went without meat.