What’s the point of an election if it inevitably means the same parties get back in?The shameful and eternal truth about the Irish left is that as long as it stands apart, it falls apartFri Nov 15 2024 - 07:15
Thanks a bunch, America. Love, women everywhereUS election shows voters still demand that a woman candidate must be without faultFri Nov 08 2024 - 06:15
Blind acceptance of untruths could propel Trump back into the White HouseThe prevailing credo is that the voter is always right, even when the voter is egregiously misguidedFri Nov 01 2024 - 06:00
‘I knew ... I couldn’t stay with him any more ... I had a husband who was addicted to drugs and raping me’‘I stood up for myself and I was believed,’ says Kathleen Correia, who was raped and coercively controlled by her then husband, Sergio CorreiaSat Oct 26 2024 - 06:00
Government shouldn’t be so quick to yell Gotcha! at Sinn Féin. Its record on children is shamefulWhen election candidates coming knocking at your door, will you speak for the children so badly let down by the State?Fri Oct 25 2024 - 06:00
Had Mary Lou stuck with Fianna Fáil, she could be closer to becoming first woman taoiseach The blizzard of scandals since the Dáil returned from summer holidays is Mary Lou McDonald’s GUBU momentFri Oct 18 2024 - 06:00
‘If she stays there, she will die’: Roscommon-based Gazan woman pleads for help to get her mother out of war-torn stripSherin Alsabbagh’s mother Najwa (74) has been approved for entry to Ireland to join her in Ballaghaderreen. With Gaza border crossings closed and Israel’s battle raging, she cannot get outWed Oct 16 2024 - 06:00
Why has the Hague not issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu? Why is the International Criminal Court taking nearly five months to respond to the request for Netanyahu’s arrest warrant when it took just three weeks to grant one for Putin?Fri Oct 11 2024 - 06:00
Simon Harris is not bothered by Phil Hogan’s record of PR blundersDespite a history of public relations gaffes, Hogan’s muscular political skills seem to endear him to the party chief, with Simon Harris the fourth to entrust him with a key roleFri Oct 04 2024 - 06:00
A €560 bonus for each new baby? The Green Party must be having a laughEven the most interfering nanny state cannot guarantee that a baby boost is actually spent on the childFri Sept 27 2024 - 06:00
It’s time the Irish stopped obsessing about being universally loved. Those days are goneIreland's age of innocence as a global love object is overFri Sept 20 2024 - 06:00
Apple tax: Ireland owes its lost people €13bn worth of housesThe €13bn lying in an escrow fund could help give those hit by the homelessness crisis a way back into societyFri Sept 13 2024 - 06:00
If you laughed at the one about the Leinster House bike shelter, you’ll love the one about the loo rollsSometimes, when a problem is complex and protracted, a simple example of hubristic extravagance can become the emblem of all that is wrongFri Sept 06 2024 - 06:00
Ireland’s lousy summer: ‘The people are great,’ says the German tourist. ‘But I couldn’t live here.’ I know what she meansThe Gulf Stream that once bathed our shores in mildness has turned into a giant sunblock that could be bottled and soldFri Aug 30 2024 - 06:10
Musk’s lack of interest in truth shows why Government must act on media ownership Owning a media lodestar can be the ultimate ego trip as Elon Musk demonstrated with his travesty of an ‘interview’ with Donald TrumpFri Aug 16 2024 - 06:00
Moronic marriage of loyalists and ‘Irish patriots’ revives Troubles-era nightmaresAlliance of green and orange sectarian supremacists in Belfast shows fascism is on the march and is leveraging the new global weapon of mass destruction: gullibilityFri Aug 09 2024 - 06:00
Because of Lavinia Kerwick, Ireland learned about the trauma of sexual crimeThe Kilkenny woman changed how the legal system deals with sexual offencesFri Aug 02 2024 - 06:30
Derry O’Rourke: They called him God, and the room where he molested them the ‘chamber of horrors’If O’Rourke’s punishment has been going on a long time, it is still shorter than the protracted injuries he inflicted on the children he assaulted and rapedWed Jul 31 2024 - 13:04
Once the priest was a respected public figure in a crisis. Now, self-appointed supremacists fill the roleWhere once the priest was a respected public figure in a crisis, self-appointed supremacists now fill the roleFri Jul 26 2024 - 06:15
Justine McCarthy: With Ireland on a knife edge, it’s a bad time for a brain drain from the DáilPotential new TDs would need their mental acuity assessed if they were not given pause by hearing about masked protesters outside the Taoiseach’s homeFri Jul 19 2024 - 06:00
Michael D Higgins is proof that age is not Joe Biden’s biggest problemWisdom, that great compensation for the vanished stamina of youth, seems to have bypassed the US presidentFri Jul 12 2024 - 06:00
She has been abused, has had intimate photos shared online, has turned to drugs. She is 17 Regular reports of disturbing cases show the State has again been failing our most vulnerable childrenFri Jul 05 2024 - 07:00
Cathal Crotty picked on the wrong woman and that is to be his enduring punishmentThere should be monuments in all our cities to the women who have helped to civilise this countryFri Jun 28 2024 - 06:00
Clare Daly’s dog-whistle to haters of the media wasn’t just hypocritical, it was recklessElected representatives are honour-bound to explain their words and actions to their constituents who rely on professional media outlets. The alternative source is the swamp of social media and fake news websitesFri Jun 21 2024 - 06:00
Neale Richmond should know better: calling grown women ‘girls’ is inherently belittlingImagine anyone calling Margaret Thatcher, Angela Merkel and Indira Gandhi ‘the girls’Fri Jun 14 2024 - 06:00
Should Simon Harris call an early election? Gerard Howlin and Justine McCarthy debateAll attention is on when a general election should be called. Waiting until next spring carries risks – but so does an autumn electionWed Jun 12 2024 - 06:00
A pollster broke down in tears on Indian TV - pollsters everywhere know how he feelsOpinion polling is not dark force. But as it becomes more complex, its impacts needs to be examinedFri Jun 07 2024 - 06:15
Hubris of Fine Gael’s Marian Agrios reflects Ireland’s admiration of controversial politicians We voters need to consider our ambivalence about political standardsFri May 31 2024 - 06:00
European candidates on centre-left test the temperature on Dublin’s doorstepsLabour’s Aodhán Ó Ríordán and the Social Democrats’ Sineád Gibney - both candidates for the European Parliament in Dublin - knock on constituent doors to take the temperature of votersThu May 30 2024 - 06:00
Did Israel expect a country which has endured occupation and violence to stand idly by?Amid all the woes of homelessness, exorbitant rents, asylum seekers consigned to tents and climate damage, this was a moment to relish being IrishFri May 24 2024 - 06:00
There is one other measure we could take to reduce deaths from road crashesIreland chooses to be an outlier in Europe by not operating a consultant-led helicopter emergency service that would bring life-saving expertise to the scene of an accidentFri May 17 2024 - 06:00
US, UK and Germany have sown the shame of their nations in Gaza’s blood-drenched soilEven when propaganda is shown to be untrue, Israel’s backers make no apology for having blindingly believed itFri May 10 2024 - 06:00
We need to talk about why we’re all so angryWhen trust dies, anger is its natural successor. Only by regaining the people’s trust can Ireland recoverFri May 03 2024 - 06:00
Justine McCarthy: Distorted view of media not helped by exodus of journalists into government payWhen those who are supposed to be the watchdogs for the public interest become the guard-dogs at the gates of government, a country’s conversation may be guided by the dog that barks the loudestFri Apr 26 2024 - 06:00
Fine Gael leadership asked to investigate ‘entirely irregular’ motion against ex-TDSenior party member indicated that motion of no-confidence in former Waterford deputy John Deasy five years ago should be investigatedMon Apr 15 2024 - 08:00
Four years ago, we were clapping health workers in the street. Now we’re reducing their benefitsGovernment has terminated a special sick pay scheme for the tiny proportion of staff who have developed long Covid and can no longer workFri Apr 12 2024 - 06:00
Politicians demonising NGOs is fodder for extremistsAccording to the handbook of regressive extremism, social justice organisations are the devil incarnate, their hooves and horns disguised by angels’ wingsFri Apr 05 2024 - 06:00
Sudden stampede to the right by our politicians can only benefit democracyIf Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald is serious about being taoiseach after the next election, she will need the support of what purports to be the leftFri Mar 29 2024 - 06:00
We know what’s going on in Gaza, and won’t be able to say we didn’tWe have been witnessing genocide by Israel for months in Gaza, while western powers have cheered it onFri Mar 22 2024 - 06:00
Government handed No campaigners a shovel to more deeply entrench women inside the homeGovernment handed No campaigners a shovel to more deeply entrench woman inside the homeFri Mar 15 2024 - 06:15
March 8th referendums: The WhatsApp debate, by Breda O’Brien and Justine McCarthy Two Irish Times columnists argue the merits and demerits of the proposed changes to the ConstitutionTue Mar 05 2024 - 06:10
Catherine Martin’s colleagues should praise her honesty, not criticise her for going on TVMinister for Media summed up the hypocrisy when she asked: ‘What was the alternative? To conceal the facts?’Fri Mar 01 2024 - 06:00
Yulia Navalnaya and Nikki Haley embody a single truth: sometimes the act of opposing is enoughThe world’s wars were started by men and are being continued by men. Maybe only women can stop themFri Feb 23 2024 - 06:15
What did Michelle O’Neill and Emma Little-Pengelly talk about on the way to John Bruton’s funeral?Travelling together to John Bruton’s funeral was easy compared with the tightrope they must walk soonFri Feb 16 2024 - 06:15
Trust the romantic French to come up with a pragmatic solution on ‘durable relationships’France has devised a type of conscious coupling that has proven to be highly popularFri Feb 09 2024 - 06:15
If Leo Varadkar goes to the White House, it can’t be for a quiet word about GazaTaoiseach must convey Ireland’s message about Gaza publicly, unambiguously and for international consumptionFri Feb 02 2024 - 06:15
Ian Bailey could never resist having his name in a newspaper, ideally the headline Now the only suspect is gone with whatever secrets he had. And he had some, as he hinted in one of the poems he left meFri Jan 26 2024 - 06:15
Mansplainers are in full ‘listen ladies!’ voice, telling us we’re reading it all wrong as referendum nearsThe mansplainers are in full ‘listen-ladies!’ voice, telling us we’re reading the thing all wrongFri Jan 19 2024 - 06:15
By caving in to protests about asylum seekers, the Government has torched its own principlesRecent migrants found locked in a ship at Rosslare were Kurds and Vietnamese, people on the sharp end of global warming. This trend will only increaseFri Jan 12 2024 - 06:20
Keeping Enoch Burke locked in a cell, wallowing in his martyrdom, serves no oneBurke could potentially find himself spending longer in Mountjoy than some of the killers in his midst. That could not pass for justiceThu Jan 04 2024 - 14:23
