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
EU cannot ignore what’s happening in Poland and The Netherlands
Fundamental change is not merely possible or probable; it is becoming an existential necessity
For all his bragging, Trump knows he has little leverage with either Putin or Netanyahu
Just as Trump folded his tent in the Doha discussions on Afghanistan and gave up threats to forcibly end North Korea’s missile programme, his boasts about doing deals look empty
Migration policy is the EU’s biggest weakness and Donald Trump is aiming to exploit it
Across the member states, there is growing recognition that the much-vaunted EU migration pact is too little and too late
Military axis of Russia, China and North Korea will test what the West stands for
Issue of migration – especially economic migration disguised as asylum-seeking – is a growing issue for the political viability of the EU
Ministers need to stop pointing out obstacles to delivery - and start tackling them
Constant headlines about housing schemes being struck down by councils, the planning board and the courts are chipping away at public confidence
There’s a simple reason why building projects - from the petty to the transformative - take so long in Ireland
This State must start thinking outside the box to deliver key housing and infrastructure
There is no ‘right’ to subvert women’s freedom to have their own events and spaces
UK ruling on meaning of ‘woman’ is reassuring for those alarmed by claims that gender is, somehow, entirely separate from sex and is a social, psychological construct