Michael McDowell

There is every reason to plan now for SMR power generation. Repealing the ban on nuclear power generation is the first step

Fine Gael aspirations to help ‘people who get up early in the morning’ might be kept in check by realpolitik

There is a lot of money to be made from prostitution. The legal twilight world we have created suits the purposes of unscrupulous figures

North Co Dublin deserves infrastructure that matches its population, its contribution to the economy and its potential

MetroLink resonates deafeningly in cost terms with what went wrong with the children’s hospital project

This will be one of most expensive infrastructural projects in the history of the State. Failure is not acceptable

US midterms and geopolitics spell trouble for Donald Trump, while Northern Ireland powersharing faces fresh upheaval

Rioters focused their cruel fury on people of colour, whose ancestors were once fellow subjects of the crown

One person who spoiled their vote in Urlingford wrote on the ballot paper: ‘I would rather vote for Hitler than vote for a Tipperary man’

Outrageously, the Government refuses to answer questions on these meetings

Michael McDowell, Rossa Fanning and Helen McEntee also had birthdays recently, though Helen tried to keep mum about it

The ‘fewer politicians’ rhetoric of the failed attempt to abolish the Seanad would be turned back on the political elite

Middle East chaos, looting of public purse and collapse in respect for US just 16 months into his second term

A new way of doing things helped lift Ireland out of the doldrums in the 1980s. We need another today

With plunging approval ratings, escalating inflation and rising unemployment, Trump has let down middle America

If sustainable communities in rural Ireland are to be created, the system of planning and land zoning must be radically changed

If town and village life is so much more sensible and attractive, why do so few people choose to live over the shop?

Gerry Hutch knows he can gain ground by saying what other politicians won’t say, but what a growing part of the electorate wants to hear

Politicians are often reluctant to speak about migration for fear of being accused of racism. No such inhibitions trouble putative populist conservatism

The official ‘schools are safe’ mantra was patently false to those living it

The lesson from Covid is not that strong public-health measures should never be used again

Majority simply deferred to authority

Travel from Youghal to the Beara Peninsula,140-160km, was lawful, but travel from Shankill to Bray on a shopping expedition was a crime

Peter Magyar’s win strengthens the hands of EU members who regard the union as a partnership of sovereign states

We are well past the point at which ‘pilot’ implementation projects and ‘independent’ special-purpose vehicles are put on some vague delivery schedule

Cracks are appearing in the so-called ‘conservative’ alliance, nationally and internationally

Israel is not engaged in a ‘war of expansion’ in Lebanon

No fear that TDs will be ‘sitting on each other’s laps’ in Dáil any time soon, says Minister of State

Binyamin Netanyahu seems intent on obliterating Israel’s international standing

Officials meeting 12-week timeline for ‘safe-country’ cases and those with less than 20 per cent acceptance rate

Trump is at heart not merely cruel but a coward

One Congress member is even apparently tabling a Bill to allow the US president to serve a third term

Trump called for demonstrations against the regime and promised demonstrators support from the US. They demonstrated; they died in their thousands

Media have become obsessed with personality and trivia. Quality journalism needs input, analysis and judgment

Courage and statesmanship brought about an Irish state. Those qualities will be needed again if the North is to vote for unity

Key reforms include abolition of juries in defamation cases and more protections for journalists

What might a prime minister Nigel Farage say or do in relation to Northern Ireland?

We have ruled out nuclear and gas exploration, and stalled on wind energy. Our dependence on gas energy will continue until 2050 at the earliest

Border forces have been deployed in the American heartlands – masked, camouflaged and bristling with firearms

Are the scales of Maga delusion finally falling from the eyes of Trump voters?