Drumcree row is a useful smokescreen for cynical Sinn Féin and DUP
It isn’t normal to paint kerbstones, hold political parades through hostile neighbourhoods or build peace walls
Donald Trump acts as Putin’s puppet for reasons shrouded in secrecy
Donald Trump acts as Vladimir Putin’s puppet for reasons that remain shrouded in secrecy
Citizenship by descent is not racist, and language tests make perfect sense
People who regard the nation state as a fundamentally outdated bourgeois invention ignore the granularity of human existence
It is not racist to have concerns about economic migrants abusing asylum laws
Ordinary Irish voters are legitimately worried about the Government’s failure to address a costly and divisive issue
Andy Burnham is right. Holding a poll to test the waters on unity should be off the table
It would polarise politics even further and set the clock back in the quest for cross-community reconciliation, perhaps for decades
What a shameful, disreputable clown Donald Trump is
The idiot king has stabbed his South Korean ally in the back because a nuclearised North Korea is showing him respect
Political violence was the decisive factor in the creation of the Irish Free State
Does this justify the use of political violence by anyone today in Northern Ireland? Emphatically, no
Will Trump call to the Áras for an icy courtesy visit with Catherine Connolly?
His planned Irish visit is part of a pathetic strategy to hoodwink Irish-American voters into believing he is welcome and respected here. He isn’t
Trump’s most loyal supporters – white working-class men – are becoming disillusioned
Not with his displays of spiteful narcissism, but with rising prices for gas and groceries
Ireland will remain dependent on gas unless we embrace nuclear
There is every reason to plan now for SMR power generation. Repealing the ban on nuclear power generation is the first step
If 166 brothels can operate openly in Ireland, the ban on paying for sex is not working
There is a lot of money to be made from prostitution. The legal twilight world we have created suits the purposes of unscrupulous figures
MetroLink: Are we are setting in motion another financial runaway train?
MetroLink resonates deafeningly in cost terms with what went wrong with the children’s hospital project
Hints about a two-phase MetroLink should ring alarm bells
This will be one of most expensive infrastructural projects in the history of the State. Failure is not acceptable
Making predictions about the world a year from now is a risky game, so here are mine
US midterms and geopolitics spell trouble for Donald Trump, while Northern Ireland powersharing faces fresh upheaval