Diarmaid Ferriter: Varadkar needs to change our approach to climate changeThe Taoiseach should define climate change as the most important challenge we face, because it isSat Jul 22 2017 - 05:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: how OECD reports came to replace the papal encyclicalsChurch, State and Social Science in Ireland review: Peter Murray and Maria Feeney details the church's attempts to control researchSat Jul 15 2017 - 06:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Irish Constitution stands the test of timeDe Valera and his team created a robust, adaptable and sophisticated documentSat Jul 08 2017 - 05:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Judicial appointments Bill just an ego tripShane Ross’s Bill will not serve justice and is not designed for balance in decision-makingSat Jul 01 2017 - 05:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Wanted – independent civilian Garda chiefIrish policing is firmly wedded to politics but it has not been a successful marriageSat Jun 24 2017 - 05:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Ireland is back on the menu in WestminsterWill Theresa May’s newfound interest in Ireland pay dividends?Sat Jun 17 2017 - 05:00
The Unholy Trinity review: View of failing Irish health system reads like a comic novelLiam Kirwan’s ‘inside’ look is repetitive, hectoring and devoid of nuance or contextSat Jun 10 2017 - 06:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Will anyone stop another housing bubble?State may be on the verge of a new property collapse as the last one remains unresolvedSat Jun 10 2017 - 05:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: How did Irish religious orders get so rich?The orders have profited spectacularly at the expense of community welfareSat Jun 03 2017 - 05:00
Self-promotion trumps thought in Fine Gael leadership raceDiarmaid Ferriter: Duracell-bunny Fine Gaelers lack philosophical reflectionSat May 27 2017 - 05:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: There was more to Kenny’s success than luckKenny as Taoiseach mostly presided and chaired rather than initiatedSat May 20 2017 - 05:00
The Auxiliaries: Churchill’s vengeful anti-IRA strike forceDiarmaid Ferriter reviews ‘Havoc: The Auxiliaries in Ireland’s War of Independence’Sat May 13 2017 - 06:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: So, what is a university for?Can a university have a soul and be driven by priorities other than rankings?Sat May 13 2017 - 05:00
Smugness over Theresa May’s EU difficulties is misplacedWith a ‘bloody difficult woman’ negotiating Brexit, Ireland will need to play hardball tooSat May 06 2017 - 05:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: St Vincent’s was built with public moneySisters of Charity benefited greatly from the sweepstakes yet retain ownership of the hospitalSat Apr 29 2017 - 05:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Teaching unions must unite on payTeachers subjected to two-tier pay system that is compete antithesis of equalitySat Apr 22 2017 - 01:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: cute hoorism has cast a long shadowFianna Fáil’s somersaults on the water issue are as cynical as anything seen in Irish politicsThu Apr 20 2017 - 16:41
Diarmaid Ferriter: Women’s soccer players evoke past rebelsFAI row shows how female protesters always raise the hackles of the men in chargeThu Apr 20 2017 - 16:36
Diarmaid Ferriter: Ross on the doss is no keeper of Lemass flameMinister is wrong: former taoiseach was a hard-working, interventionist politicianSat Apr 01 2017 - 05:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Unpicking McGuinness legacy will take timeRuthless he was, but crude stereotypes do not do justice to the man or the timesSat Mar 25 2017 - 05:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Bishop Casey – activist and sexist hypocriteFormer Bishop of Kerry was a highly compartmentalised man in his 1970s heydaySun Mar 19 2017 - 10:52
Diarmaid Ferriter: a history of partition and Europe’s roleThe British establishment lacked consistency while the Free State washed its handsSat Mar 18 2017 - 06:58
Diarmaid Ferriter: Tuam scandal was due to a unique obsessionIreland’s long moral panic led to extraordinary and dehumanising situationsSat Mar 11 2017 - 05:00
Inglorious Empire: what the British did to IndiaBook review: Shashi Tharoor’s angry history of British rule in India is a timely response to empire nostalgiaSat Mar 04 2017 - 06:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Catholic Church remains out of touchThere are still powerful bureaucrats in the Vatican who think they know bestSat Mar 04 2017 - 05:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Boris should spare us the patronising praiseBritish foreign secretary’s response to 1916 celebrations betrays an empire mindsetSat Feb 25 2017 - 01:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Truth may out in McCabe tribunal, but don’t expect justiceLatest inquiry recalls State’s controversial handling of Kerry Babies caseSat Feb 18 2017 - 05:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Ireland’s health system is a sorry taleIts history is one of turf wars, appeasing vested interests and scaremongeringSat Feb 11 2017 - 01:00
‘High treason in the park’: Douglas Hyde’s presidencyBrian Murphy’s book show how Ireland’s first president set the tone for the officeSat Feb 04 2017 - 06:00
Rural Ireland plan is so ambitious it is hard to take seriouslyNew three-year plan contains too many commitments and not enough prioritiesSat Jan 28 2017 - 15:59
Diarmaid Ferriter: Ireland must ensure it does not become pawn in British gameIrish negotiating about Brexit should look to lessons from historySat Jan 21 2017 - 05:00
The TK Whitaker archives: a career of answering backTK Whitaker, who has died at 100, said things to ministers that other public servants would not, and his hard-hitting memos often – though not always – won their respectSat Jan 14 2017 - 06:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Vultures will come back to bite GovernmentThere is growing resistance to the notion that the sale of people’s debts was necessarySat Jan 14 2017 - 01:00
Trinity Tales: dripping with privileged nostalgiaWhat may be an enjoyable slice of nostalgia pie for Trinity graduates may leave others with indigestion, suggests Diarmaid FerriterSat Jan 07 2017 - 06:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Kenny must justify his lead role on BrexitThere is precedent for Taoiseach taking on foreign affairs challenge but he must bring coherence and planningSat Jan 07 2017 - 05:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: 50 things we’ll need in Ireland in 2017Priorities include an end to direct provision, child poverty – and Roy Keane’s beardSat Dec 31 2016 - 07:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: The 1916 prisoners released on Christmas EveHundreds of internees from the Rising returned to an already changing IrelandSat Dec 24 2016 - 07:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Creative Ireland must heal a historic riftSince the foundation of the State, its relationship with the arts has been ambiguousSat Dec 17 2016 - 07:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Pearse sale blurs line between patriotism and profitQuestions over ownership of historic note that was up for auction will come up againSat Dec 10 2016 - 07:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Haughey and Castro, cigars but not closeIrish policy towards Cuba hardened under Lemass and did not soften until 1995Sat Dec 03 2016 - 07:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: The State’s harmful ambivalence towards record-keepingIreland has long history of destroying documents and understaffing institutionsSat Nov 26 2016 - 07:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Ireland needs a new leader in critical timesKenny is a ruthless survivor with no vision and Martin’s FF is entrenched in tribalismSat Nov 19 2016 - 07:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Civility has withstood Trump’s assaultIn dealing with the incoming US president, Ireland should not let self-interest ruleSat Nov 12 2016 - 01:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Brexit vote denies North’s freedom to chooseDismissals of claims that Brexit could damage peace process are worryingSat Nov 05 2016 - 07:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Blame Parnell for the Citizens’ AssemblyHow the whip system has reduced the Dáil to a galley of whipped voting slavesSat Oct 29 2016 - 07:00
Visions of Ireland: Diarmaid Ferriter’s guideWe have had a number of ‘mission statements’ over the past 100 years, but have any visions become reality?Sat Oct 29 2016 - 06:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Mary Robinson’s legacy in no need of a vanity projectThe former president should follow the practice of her predecessors and donate her papers to the National Library, the National Archives or a universitySat Oct 22 2016 - 07:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Fine Gael’s adoration of Michael O’Leary is troublingRyanair boss is an ideological soulmate for the party that talks centre but thinks rightSat Oct 15 2016 - 07:00
Diarmaid Ferriter on Paul O’Connell’s ‘absorbing, compelling’ autobiographyIn ‘The Battle’, the Munster, Ireland and British and Irish Lions powerhouse has written an honest memoir of his battle-scarred life in rugbyWed Oct 12 2016 - 06:00
Diarmaid Ferriter: Irish-Americans will not all vote as immigrantsThey may have experienced racism but Irish migrants have a history of attacking others tooSat Oct 08 2016 - 07:00
