Who cares if Catherine Martin flies business. Is she any good at her job? Obsession with ideological purity comes at the expense of legitimate accountability for what really mattersThu Jul 14 2022 - 00:00
Martin’s Ukraine visit is something of a double-edged sword Taoiseach risks a row over neutrality at home as he asserts an Irish post-Brexit identity that’s far closer to the EUThu Jul 07 2022 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: Why you should do an arts degreeStudying humanities helps us understand the world, allowing society to express and explain itselfThu Jun 30 2022 - 05:00
Climate fatalism should not stop anyone from having childrenPropagating doomsday narratives that strip young people of hope is no way to save the planetThu Jun 23 2022 - 05:00
The intractable problem is that Britain does not understand the EUJohnson doesn't understand and doesn't careThu Jun 16 2022 - 05:00
Brexit may be a bust but British carpets will have never been cleanerRees-Mogg’s efforts to reap economic benefits from Brexit has come up woefully shortThu Jun 09 2022 - 05:00
Catholic is back, it’s countercultural, and it’s coolThe world’s most famous reality TV family have begun to accessorise with holinessThu Jun 02 2022 - 05:00
Finn McRedmond: Rubbing calorie counts in diners’ faces is going too farThe Government needs to look after people's health but insisting on calorie counts on menus just destroys a night outThu May 26 2022 - 05:00
London could teach Dublin a thing or two about transport infrastructureMetroLink is put on long finger yet again while the Tube continues to expandThu May 19 2022 - 01:00
Did Sally Rooney tap into the Irish zeitgeist or did she create it?All of a sudden, it seems, Ireland wields outsized influence on the international stageThu May 12 2022 - 01:00
Met Gala 2022 was especially revolting: Roe v Wade competed with a starved Kim KardashianFinn McRedmond: They were hardly going to theme it Down the Coal Mine, were they?Thu May 05 2022 - 12:40
Finn McRedmond on ‘nuclear tsunami’: A cartoon villain is still a villainDmitry Kiselyov’s radioactive tidal wave only distracts us from real horror in UkraineThu May 05 2022 - 01:00
People who make laws do not use TikTok. That’s a problemTikTok is accessed more than Google; Twitter can only dream of achieving that reachThu Apr 28 2022 - 01:00
Irish should try to understand why Britons believe in monarchyWe don’t need to believe in the British monarchy in order to appreciate the systemThu Apr 21 2022 - 01:00
Johnson should go but maybe not now and maybe not like thisPandemic sagas show sometimes our best interests are not served by baying for bloodThu Apr 14 2022 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: Wholesale boycott of Russia a dangerous departure from Western valuesMaking pariahs of silent Russians under rule of a dictator is a step too farThu Mar 31 2022 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: Bono, Boris and a sorry tale of bad analogiesSinger was crass and British PM offensive in comparisons made with horror in UkraineThu Mar 24 2022 - 01:00
Cheltenham 2020 was a turning point in our relationship with BritainIreland began to take its cues from the EU and not the UK with the pandemicThu Mar 17 2022 - 01:12
Britain used to welcome refugees fleeing dictators. What happened?Finn McRedmond: UK seems unashamed of dearth of humanity of its home officeThu Mar 10 2022 - 01:41
Russian attacks on Ukrainian culture and identity backfireFinn McRedmond: Putin justifies claims by arguing land not a real countryThu Mar 03 2022 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: Contempt levelled at Anna Sorokin is beyond all proportionWomen are permitted to succeed but we would rather watch them failThu Feb 24 2022 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: Pessimism that shrouds marriage difficult to ignoreIt seems, for better or for worse, we are living in an era of the anti-marriage ideologuesThu Feb 17 2022 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: Fake snow cannot whitewash Winter OlympicsClaims of detention, forced labour and torture of Uighurs overshadow ChinaThu Feb 10 2022 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: Spotify has chokehold on music industryYoung vs rapacious streaming service is proxy war on not paying artists properlyThu Feb 03 2022 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: Ardern’s mode of leadership is not simply outdated, it is irresponsible tooArdern can enact national policy but failing to adapt to change is not heroicThu Jan 27 2022 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: Boris Johnson should pay more heed to the classicsThe prime minister’s hero Pericles was brought down by misplaced self-confidenceThu Jan 20 2022 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: We don’t need our athletes to be thought leadersWhatever Novak Djokovic thinks of the Covid vaccine is really irrelevantThu Jan 13 2022 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: How do you know when a pandemic is over?Point at which majority deems case rates acceptable may mark turning pointThu Jan 06 2022 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: Truths can still be found in fictionNovels have a deep power to tell us of society’s complex moralityThu Dec 30 2021 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: Amid this lengthy Covid era, where did all the empathy go?This far into the pandemic, belief persists that contracting illness is down to moral weaknessThu Dec 23 2021 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: You don’t have to like Elon Musk to admire himNeat testament to complexity makes us consider role hyper-wealthy play for planetThu Dec 16 2021 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: Why should we expect Britain to mark the centenary of the Treaty?Irish outcry over Westminster’s apathy towards the anniversary is myopicThu Dec 09 2021 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: Ireland has lessons to learn from UK on antigen testsGovernment must hold the population’s risk-management capacity in low regardThu Dec 02 2021 - 01:00
Elgin Marbles highlight Ireland’s complicated role in British empireGreek treasures in British Museum open up questions about our role in historyThu Nov 25 2021 - 02:31
Finn McRedmond: British politics is blind to the rise of Sinn FéinWestminster just cannot accept what happens in Ireland matters over thereThu Nov 18 2021 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: Climate anxiety not the only cause of declining birth ratesWith homeownership a pipe dream for many, having a child feels irresponsibleThu Nov 11 2021 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: No end in sight to the new age of anxietyAmid Covid, climate, Brexit and housing crises, is it time to take a deep breath?Thu Nov 04 2021 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: Is Facebook a scapegoat for all society’s ills?Whistleblower news provides a target for anxiety about the world’s fragile stateThu Oct 28 2021 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: Experience of pandemic in Dublin and London worlds apartBoth countries diverged when it came to adopting policies on CovidThu Oct 21 2021 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: It is cruel to dress birth control up as freedom-enhancing for all womenLiberty must afford women the economic capacity to have children if they wantFri Oct 15 2021 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: Casement statue says more about us than himOur commemoration of a gay, anti-imperialist republican speaks volumesThu Oct 07 2021 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: Instagram for kids is an outrageously cynical ideaImagine trying to get children as young as 10 hooked on the photo-sharing appThu Sept 30 2021 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: Met Gala unmasks a crisis of inequalityMuseum costume party lays bare stark divide between US rich and poor in Covid eraThu Sept 23 2021 - 01:00
Criticism over Varadkar’s festival-going reflects increasing comfort with constructed outrageFinn McRedmond: We have become comfortable with allowing trial by social mediaThu Sept 09 2021 - 01:00
Brexit Britain currently carries a national insecurity usually associated with smaller nationsFinn McRedmond: Johnson has opted for gimmicks: patriotic coins, bridges, blue passportsThu Sept 02 2021 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: Myth of global Britain laid bare in utter shallownessBoris Johnson chronically confuses culture and economics of affair called BrexitThu Aug 26 2021 - 01:00
Covid’s greatest byproduct could be a shared ethical stanceFinn McRedmond: Wearing masks for each other’s benefit was not a hard message to graspThu Aug 19 2021 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: Meghan makes an unparalleled bid for obnoxiousnessIt will take more than a pet project to help women the pandemic has affected mostThu Aug 12 2021 - 01:00
Remember when boybands ruled the world. Where have they all gone?Finn McRedmond: It is hard to see the likes of Westlife and One Direction ever happening againFri Aug 06 2021 - 05:00
Olympic Games that nobody wanted confound criticsPerseverance of US gymnast Simone Biles is an apt metaphor for the past 18 monthsThu Aug 05 2021 - 01:00
