Grotesque charade of Trump’s UK visit is latest sign of a world in turmoil
And Ireland can’t afford to be complacent
Here is everything that is wrong in Ireland’s planning system in one project
Delays caused by a judicial review of the vital Greater Dublin Drainage scheme are just the latest example of dysfunctional planning
Trump’s persistent idiocy has hugely diminished America’s standing in world affairs
US president confuses anxiety and obsequiousness he produces in other world leaders with respect, and confuses bullying with diplomacy
Trump shames America and Americans with his pathetic pandering to dictators
He has ‘great relationships’ with Vladimir Putin, Binyamin Netanyahu and Kim Jong-un while accusing Volodymyr Zelenskiy of being a dictator
Donald Trump is behaving like an unpredictable, selfish ignoramus and he cannot be trusted
West must ensure it delivers cast-iron security guarantees for Zelenskiy and his embattled nation
Israeli hostages not a priority for ministers planning Gaza takeover
Captives are unlikely to survive a further occupation or the annihilation of their brutal Hamas kidnappers
Donald Trump’s presidency represents a reversal of American orthodoxy on trade
US president has convinced voters that they can reap the benefits of the global economy while building tariff drawbridges on that two-way street
Whatever about his tariffs, Trump’s ‘helpful advice’ to the EU is on the money
According competence to the EU in relation to external migration and asylum seeking has turned out to be a disastrous error.
You might think a planning application for a windfarm is good news. You’d be wrong
Planned demolition of the €200 million Derrybrien windfarm will lead to destruction of potential green energy source for 30,000 homes
Many people won’t decide how to vote in a Border poll until they see what’s on offer
Why can’t Sinn Féin spell out exactly what it means by a united Ireland and allow unionists to consider it?
Israeli-American plan seems intended to kill off any hope of a two-state solution by deporting population of Gaza
US-Israeli long-term strategy flouts all notions of international law and amounts to a programme of war crimes
Folly of abolishing bedsits only to promote co-living is now becoming clear
Broken system places further emphasis on State to focus on increasing supply
The idea that the Kremlin has kompromat on Trump seems increasingly plausible
If the White House capitulates to Putin on Ukraine, it will grossly and perhaps fatally betray the principles on which Nato was founded
There is a way to unblock Ireland’s infrastructural logjam
The Victorian model of having the legislature authorise major infrastructural development is the answer
I gave my friends hats which said ‘Make America Hate Again’. That’s what Trump is trying to do
I find it hard to understand how public opinion in America is not revolted by events such as the $200 million ‘gift’ of a jumbo jet that will become the president’s private property