International

The Taoiseach got our man at the UN, David Donohue, in to co-chair the process. That looked good and he seemed to do a great job. We need more than rhetoric now though. It would have been better if in addition to signing it he had meant it. There are enough good intentions around to […]

Everyone I have spoken to says Ibrahim Halawa is a character: a joker who, like many teens, always wanted to be famous. A sad irony that fame has come to him in such awful circumstances: Ibrahim Halawa, along with 492 other protesters, faces the death penalty. Human Rights NGOs Amnesty and Reprieve have both investigated […]

The historic UN Summit on the new Sustainable Development Goals is only weeks away. Everything is all but agreed. The final-outcome document has been in wide circulation since early August and all that remains now is a photo shoot with world leaders and a massive corporate party in Central Park to usher in a new […]

The political Left, whether social democratic, communist or Trotskyist, has always found the European Union problematic. This is because supranational EU ‘integration’ poses the issue of national independence and national democracy so acutely, something many on the Left find embarrassing. They prefer to concentrate on economic issues, for on political ones like national independence they […]

          Key is implementation. Do we really intend to keep our promises? It’s a question that begs to be answered as the international community unveils the new global development agenda for the next 15 years, because meaningful provisions for monitoring and accountability are notable by their absence from the framework. What’s […]

The long and miserable route from Syria to Germany, via Greece.

Where the EU is a force for division.