'Diversity' endangers equalityWhen the Equality Authority took Portmarnock Golf Club to court over its refusal to allow women to become full members, the club…Tue Jan 20 2004 - 00:00
An Emmet beyond any satireThere is a wonderful Denis Johnston play, written in 1928, called The Old Lady Says No! Near the start, an actor playing Robert…Tue Dec 30 2003 - 00:00
Perhaps not so holy but sacredIf you have kept the Sunday Times Culture section for the Christmas TV listings, have a look at the reproduction of Orazio Gentileschi…Tue Dec 23 2003 - 00:00
Charade of education for disabledRemember the Kathy Sinnott case in July 2001? Remember that the Supreme Court found that even though Kathy's son Jamie didn't…Tue Dec 16 2003 - 00:00
Exploration firms strike it rich hereWhat's the most valuable piece of real estate in Ireland? Dublin's Grafton Street, perhaps, or some exclusive resort in the west…Tue Nov 25 2003 - 00:00
The horse lobby holds reinsIn the fourth and last of his travels, Jonathan Swift's Gulliver voyages to the land of the HouyhnhnmsTue Nov 18 2003 - 00:00
Press council must be independent of State and papersRegulating the media: The challenge is to find a way of involving civic society - and not just party hacks - in overseeing the…Thu Oct 23 2003 - 01:00
Self-regulation is not the answer, as the media itself so often preachesRegulating the media The media can no longer dodge the case for a form of public accountabilitybeyond self-regulation, Fintan…Wed Oct 22 2003 - 01:00
Caught between free expression and protecting citizens from unjust attackRegulating the media Irish law rooted in the democratic nature of the Republic rather than in the heritage of British monarchy…Tue Oct 21 2003 - 01:00
An identity forged out of manyIn the first great work of what we would now recognise as the English language, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, one of the characters…Tue Oct 21 2003 - 01:00
Enough of SF's cherry pickingThe current issue of Sinn Féin's newspaper An Phoblacht has a passionate and informative piece about the terror of the early …Tue Sept 02 2003 - 01:00
A tired and cynical operatorThe week beginning July 14th last was a ferociously busy time for Tony BlairTue Aug 19 2003 - 01:00
Transport of delight, in partsI must be mistaken. Since it is not proper to imagine that a public company might actually be doing a reasonable job, it can'…Tue Jul 01 2003 - 01:00
Profit not the only motivationEverybody knows that innovation comes from the private sector. Individual entrepreneurs have great ideasTue Jun 17 2003 - 01:00
Politics of revenge don't workAgainst the wall is a huge, 20-ton double column of steel, misshapen and mangled like a dry stick thrown casually into a fire…Tue May 20 2003 - 01:00
Dr Martin sent to the rescue Fintan O'TooleThere is a famous, and therefore probably apocryphal, story about the late Frank Cluskey asking about Michael DTue May 13 2003 - 01:00
Freedom, with allies like these?The Bush administration wants us to understand that the invasion of Iraq is not an American, or even a US-UK warTue Mar 25 2003 - 00:00
No room for democrats in new IraqFor some of us who marched against war last Saturday there was, amid the euphoria of a massive, good-natured crowd, one nagging…Tue Feb 18 2003 - 00:00
Secrets and lies over our US supportIn the derision which is being heaped on those who protest against the use of Shannon Airport for the US military build-up in…Tue Jan 21 2003 - 00:00
Let's get the facts straight Mr CullenLast Friday on Morning Ireland, David Hanly interviewed the Minister for the Environment, Martin CullenTue Jan 14 2003 - 00:00
High drama on and off the stageTHEATRE: The good, the bad and the ugly - Irish Times critics look back on 2002 and assess the best and worst in the arts world…Mon Dec 09 2002 - 00:00
ReviewsFrank Pig Says Hello, Liberty Hall, Dublin: "When I was a young lad twenty or thirty or forty years ago I lived in a small town…Sat Nov 02 2002 - 00:00
ReviewsFrank Pig Says Hello, Liberty Hall, Dublin: "When I was a young lad twenty or thirty or forty years ago I lived in a small town…Fri Nov 01 2002 - 00:00
The desire to be seen doing somethingTime and again in recent years the question has had to be asked: where were the guards? Garda action on political, planning and…Tue Oct 29 2002 - 00:00
The Bard of D'Olier Street strikes backThe Bowl of Bertymandias, or a Vision in a Dream by Bertie Shelley-Coleridge (with apologies to Tom Humphries)Tue Sept 17 2002 - 01:00
Pretending we're on top of the worldThe notion that 'we' are rich and successful is an illusionTue Aug 13 2002 - 01:00
ReviewsFathers generally had a rough time in 20th-century Irish male literatureFri Jul 12 2002 - 01:00
Martin fails to end era of bad bloodThere is, let us imagine, a car which, because of massive design faults in its engine, belches out poisonous gasesTue Jun 25 2002 - 01:00
FF stands by its friends, no matter whatAs I was saying a few weeks ago, the boys are back in townTue Jun 11 2002 - 01:00
RTE deserves to be granted independenceThe result of all of this is a deep public resentment of the licence fee itselfTue Jun 04 2002 - 01:00
Let's get back perspective and recall a true World Cup tragedyThis is what it's like to have your World Cup ruined.Tue May 28 2002 - 01:00
FF is rubbing our noses in it with Burke appointmentApproached on foot or glimpsed from the window of a passing car, all you see is the smiling face and a single word, in an elegant…Tue May 14 2002 - 01:00
Le Pen vote a wake-up call for democratsIn April 1915, with the European left drowning in the tide of nationalism and militarism unleashed by the first World War, the…Tue Apr 23 2002 - 01:00
ReviewsConversations on a Homecoming Lyric Theatre, Belfast If Irish people of a certain age find it hard to believe that the good …Sat Apr 20 2002 - 01:00
ReviewsConversations on a Homecoming Lyric Theatre, Belfast If Irish people of a certain age find it hard to believe that the good …Fri Apr 19 2002 - 01:00
Naughton, Molloy and clientelismIn the wake of Bobby Molloy's resignation and the Naughton affair, there is much talk of clientelismTue Apr 16 2002 - 01:00
Nicholas NicklebyPavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire: Offacially, this adaptation of Charles Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby is set in the 1950s in order…Thu Mar 28 2002 - 00:00
Time to cut down new orthodoxy for an older, reliable woodIf the fiasco of the Abbotstown pool tells us anything it is that the new orthodoxy of privatisation is even worse than the old…Tue Mar 26 2002 - 00:00
A Delicate BalanceReview: If it were a movie, the soundtrack of Edward Albee's 1966 play would be Bob Dylan's song from the same era, Ballad of…Fri Mar 15 2002 - 00:00
Lovers at Versailles Spring AwakeningLovers at Versailles is reviewed by Fintan O'Toole and Spring Awakening is reviewed by Gerry Colgan today's Irish Times.Fri Mar 08 2002 - 00:00
Two Plays After Gate TheatreWatching any of Anton Chekhov's great plays with the benefit of hindsight, it is hard not to be haunted by the knowledge of what…Thu Mar 07 2002 - 00:00
I was a teenage ProvoAt the time of Bloody Sunday, 30 years ago tomorrow, I was 13. I remember the burning of the British embassy in Dublin.Tue Jan 29 2002 - 00:00
The Garda and the new 'gentry'Sometimes fleeting, relatively inconsequential images are more eloquent than long, detailed analysisTue Jan 08 2002 - 00:00
Claim of political meddling in job at IMMAThe former chairman of the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA)has told The Irish Times that four approaches, including one from…Thu Dec 20 2001 - 00:00
The irony of shaking a hand covered in Irish bloodOne of the things we like to say about Americans is that they have no sense of irony. It may well be trueTue Dec 18 2001 - 00:00
Rape-camp analogy for Brothers was fairThough it might surprise Breda O'Brien to hear it, I had a friend in the Christian BrothersTue Dec 11 2001 - 00:00
DogAt the beginning of the 20th century, an Irish writer had high hopes for the establishment of a new kind of theatre in Dublin…Fri Dec 07 2001 - 00:00
On Such As WeSince he emerged as a formidable playwright in 1988, Billy Roche has been the laureate of the unremarkableThu Dec 06 2001 - 00:00
Religion should not be a cover for paedophilesThere is no innate connection between Catholicism and paedophiliaTue Dec 04 2001 - 00:00
My Brilliant DivorceThe oddest sound in Druid's production of Geraldine Aron's new play is not the explosion of fireworks on stageFri Nov 30 2001 - 00:00
