An obscene national exercise: Ireland tries to assuage Donald Trump’s toddler volatility
When vengeance and gold are the objectives of the world’s most powerful man, nothing and no one is safe or sacred
They wanted to vaccinate their children. Their partners refused
There may never be a metric for the number of good families thrown into chaos and left broken
We’re not the best or worst, but we could be great if we were as brave as our emigrants
Nothing like Dublin in the drizzle to ignite dreams of moving Down Under or somewhere closer
M9 crash: Grown-ups had a role to play in dangerous actions by children
No parables of good versus evil, or yelps of outrage are going to change those broken lives
How animals behave in a solar eclipse is extraordinary
Wednesday evening will bring millions of people together to gaze in silent awe at a rare celestial phenomenon
Andrew Tate’s jail journal: the surprise comedy hit of the summer
It’s no Wildean Ballad of Reading Gaol, but in its own way it is a notable ode to a very modern unravelling
Kerry’s lesson in grace was the GAA at its most sublime
In contrast to Kerry’s civility in defeat, the legend of the great Lionel Messi will forever be tainted by Argentina’s display of ugly losing
What have Wayne Rooney and Jack Chambers got in common? They both need to cut the crap
The rot starts in tiny ways. Old taboos against public cursing and crude language fall away and soon a leader calls a poor country a ‘shithole’
The ‘rough sex’ defence didn’t work for Lorcan Murphy. He wasn’t the first to try it
Murphy, jailed for murder this week in Budapest, is clearly a dangerous, determined predator, but the kind of violence he used is normalised in mainstream pornography
‘No to ID cards’ mantra is not enough given complexity of human movement
Ireland may still be a “back door to England” but according to official figures, Northern Ireland is now the back door to the Republic
Live hares used as bait for muscular 35kg dogs is a depressingly Irish bedtime story
More than 3,000 hares were captured from the wild during the 2023-2024 coursing season
Some fans won’t forgive Jérémy Doku. Others will think he has real courage
My friend was in partial agreement with France Pierron’s rant about Jérémy Doku’s plans to be there for the birth of his child. Her own husband fainted in the labour suite
Idea that some babies and mothers only survived because they went private is a myth
Many women most in need of continuity of care never see it in an unfair system
My daughter watched my husband and I go through our cancer journeys and made up her mind
No amount of money, I am convinced, would have bettered the care my daughter got giving birth. The recovery in a noisy, clammy ward was a different story
No one’s laughing at Ireland’s unsophisticated ‘peann luaidhe’ elections now
An electoral system is only as good as the people believe it to be – and Irish people rightly have a lot of faith in ours