01 July 2026
Pat Solutions, Irish Times political editor
The Irish Times’ Pat Leahy is the establishment’s favourite storyteller
05 March 2026
International Leaders
World leaders turned toadies as Trump dismantles international law and pollutes the discourse, without...
05 March 2026
Massive Zack Attack
Six months ago Zack Polanski was a lively London Assembly member known mainly for his theatre background...
05 March 2026
PEAK TRUMP
By February 2026, the idea that Donald Trump represents an endlessly renewable force of disruption moved...
05 March 2026
From pastifism to pacifism
As the government prepares to jettison the triple lock, clear thinking could make Ireland a power for...
05 March 2026
Joycean Blooms: Altman again
A new way of reading ‘Ulysses’ may be found, which will harmonise all its symbols and references to...
05 March 2026
The ascent of Man-child nerds
In an age of limitless distractions, adulthood is now just one lifestyle option among
05 March 2026
Beware of Pity
Lessons for those who are too civilised for tormented times from Stefan Zweig, friend of Joyce, technology...
05 March 2026
Review: Patrick Healy’s ‘Beyond the Pale’
Recreating an entire universe: Brendan O’Byrne reviews ‘Beyond the Pale’ by Patrick Healy
05 March 2026
RTÉ’s signal lost
RTÉ needs security so it can do the stuff other broadcasters can’t but it should modernise including...
05 March 2026
The Living Skeleton: Irish Famine Poems
Kevin Kiely reviews ‘The Living Skeleton: Irish Famine Poems’, edited by Pamela Mary Brown with an Introduction...
05 March 2026
Open Letter to the Press Council of Ireland
Press council of Ireland. Office of the press Ombudsman
05 March 2026
AI: five synonyms for slop
Journalism needs trust not algorithm-based truthiness and pervasive hallucination
05 March 2026
False non-prophets
Behind the compassion, Ireland’s non-profit ts are machines to outsource responsibility for a State that...
05 March 2026
Overboard band
Ireland now has rural fibre but the NBP remains a monument to bad planning, political avoidance and a...
05 March 2026
Speaking power to truth
As a student, I’d hammered on the doors of the BBC’s Natural History Unit, insisting there was a major...
05 March 2026
The main problem with Irish media
The main problem with Irish media isn’t newspaper closures it’s lack of investigation, narrow-ranged...
05 March 2026
Dublin City Council’s cynic offices
Michael McDowell’s recent opinion piece in The Irish Times rehearses, with characteristic confidence,...
05 March 2026
Lessons for Ireland from China’s housing machine
Ireland’s housing debate is strangely insular. We compare ourselves obsessively with the UK, Vienna and...
05 March 2026
The Jury on Trial
Juries: redundant lawyers’ bauble or the last bastion — Starmer’s Labour doesn’t seem to know
05 March 2026
Expert Evidence on Trial
Lucy Letby case suggests need for: legal aid for equal expert evidence for defence; code for experts;...
05 March 2026
Law Unto Itself: legal digest
Increased sentence was appropriate for false imprisonment of former partner
05 March 2026
Rental breakdown
Ireland’s rental regime forces tenants into a permanent state of precarity, the threat of homelessness...
05 March 2026
Broken Archangel is basement Casement
Reviewing Roland Philipps’ unoriginal but hyped biography of Roger Casement and his podcasts.
05 March 2026
Collision of Abundance with Accountability
A critical examination of John Collison’s imported ‘abundance’ narrative shaping Ireland’s housing debate.
05 March 2026
PsyOp2026
Understanding the MI6-NATO carrot and stick PsyOp against Irish neutrality
05 March 2026
My Spectator legal action
UK Press Standards body (IPSO) abdicated duty to assess truth about Irish antisemitism.
05 March 2026
Immigration policy shifts
February-March 2026 PBBy Aoife LungrenIreland has quietly transformed its migration and asylum regime...
05 March 2026
The Manager who broke Donegal’s planning system
OBITCHUARY: Michael McLoone who broke Donegal’s planning and ethics systems.
05 March 2026
Frank Fitzpatrick joined GERRY ADAMS for a partisan ramble
February-March 2026 15Frank Fitzpatrick joined GERRY ADAMS for a partisan rambleReflections on friendship...
05 March 2026
Whistleblownout
Dympna Waldron still reels more than twenty years after she blew the whistle on opioids in Irish hospitals.
05 March 2026
Village refuses to ‘return’ bank statements and tells Bus Éireann it is abusing court process
The controversy over the finances of the School Transport Scheme has taken a dramatic turn following a...
05 March 2026
Co-opted but not co-operative
Post-Troubles leaders in Northern Ireland are bad-tempered and a bit second-rate.
05 March 2026
Scott free, Martin does nothing on garda medal to wife-abuser
Domestic abuse by gardaí is in the news with the shocking case of former garda Margaret Loftus whose...
02 March 2026
Villager News Miscellany
There’s a bang of the Apocalypse about everything, under Trump and his gang, with raging climate change...
