Una Mullally

Data centres gobble 21 per cent of Ireland’s electricity, more than twice as much as all rural dwellings

‘All you scumbags... What are you going to do when the Trumpamaniacs run wild on you?’ Hulk Hogan asks

For years, as the number of homeless children climbed, people warned about the vast and severe health impact that creating and allowing a class of child destitution would cause

Minister of State has taken a reactive punt on the Dublin city centre transport plan based on no data and favouring a few disgruntled business owners

If RTÉ is moving away from its DNA, outsourcing key programmes and limiting what it makes in-house, then what is it for?

So much progress has been made, and yet ... The “and yet ...” is the painful part

Sinn Féin must present voters with a left-wing coalition option to stay true to its message of ‘change’

Sinn Féin tried to fight a general election campaign in a local and European election, and it didn’t work

How could anyone frame the fundamental issue in Irish society in terms of policy as the fault of anyone but those who designed and implemented that policy?

The station needs to stop trying to import the latest quick-fix from a podcast or Instagram or TikTok

The majority of people are absolutely appalled by attacks on politicians, yet there is a sense of inertia

Why does the Government not establish emergency accommodation centres in empty office blocks until alternative accommodation can be sourced?

Philip King believes the film may have touched people 'because everything is so virtual, augmented and artificial now, whereas this is tactile, human, visceral'

Why isn’t the price of rental accommodation linked to the size of a property?

Big, booming hotels are paying the same VAT rate as small cafes. That’s not fair, say smaller operators

Local elections are mostly about local concerns but that does not mean they should only be about small thinking

Fine Gael is making the same mistake with Harris it made with Varadkar, convincing itself that the personal ambitions of an individual are compatible with a strategy for the country

You don’t need to go to Berlin or Paris to see what could have been. You only need to get the Dart to Dún Laoghaire

Reasons for No votes are nuanced, but several things are now crystal clear

‘There cannot be one special level of scrutiny for our national broadcaster and a broad lack of scrutiny of others’

The proposed amendments are important, and voting No just to stick it to the Government would be like kicking the cat of someone you want to get back at

Why are we hearing only now that the director of strategy received an exit package? Have others received such payments?

Where are the workers to take up all the jobs required to fill all the empty office space supposed to live?

Sinn Féin's support has fallen in rural Ireland and to a lesser extent in Dublin, where it should be gaining

Imagine how it feels for immigrants - people in our own families, our neighbours, our coworkers, our friends - to be seen as “an issue”

At least 83 journalists and media workers are among the 27,000 who have been killed in Gaza since October 7th

There’s a strong case for seeking Unesco recognition of the uniqueness of Irish pubs

We need a protest movement like the one that saved the Cobblestone

The hospitality industry is about to be hammered again by the deadline for paying tax warehoused during Covid

Put bluntly, the spats and point-scoring episodes are boring people

The housing crisis will live in the bones of children who grow up having had nowhere to play, nowhere to invite their friends over, nowhere appropriate to do their homework

Germany and America present themselves as open and progressive societies where people can express themselves freely. But not if you want to call out Israel’s abhorrent bombardment of Gaza

Clean toilets, street caretakers, library booths and conversation pits - how would you improve life in the capital?

In Waterford, more than 140 units have been brought back into use or converted

I am worn down highlighting the systemic and structural issues in the city’s fraying fabric

Many people - those marching, fundraising, refuting the propaganda, begging for peace - are saying they have had enough

If RTÉ fails in this rescue plan, if it strips itself bare, it’s not just employees who will suffer, it’s all of us

Unless musicians organise and build powerful union structures, they will remain at sea

Her death felt like a turning point. How many turning points do we need before we acknowledge that without a profound cultural shift, we’re going around in circles?

The Road Safety Authority previously relied on the late broadcaster Gay Byrne’s ability to cut through to the public - now it needs to look beyond traditional media