International

    Book review Don’t Mention the Wars: a Journey through European Stereotypes Tony Connelly New Island Press €19.99.   By Ronán Lynch. In late October, a Ryanair flight from Kraków to Dublin was delayed by fog, prompting an adventurous Irishman booked on the flight to take to social media to complain. After taking his […]

By Mark McGovern After the terrorist attacks that killed 12 people at Charlie Hebdo’s offices, and four innocent people in a kosher supermarket in early January, it suddenly seemed that everyone was Charlie: all the world’s leaders were Charlie, Enda Kenny was Charlie, Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán and Queen Elizabeth II were Charlie. All […]

By Frank Connolly. The High Court is about to adjudicate on the constitutionality of the direct-provision system for  refugees. This is a story illustrating who the system affects, and how. Ramesh (not his real name) was a respected journalist and talented, acclaimed, poet in Sri Lanka when he was arrested in 2008 on suspicion of […]

By Jacinta Fay and Silas Kpanan’Ayoung Siakor. Liberians are haunted by the sights they now see on their streets. Dead bodies await ambulances. Soldiers patrol in combat-ready gear. Every Liberian has been impacted by the Ebola epidemic. In three to six months the epidemic may be under control but the crisis has affected every facet […]

By Lorna Gold Whatever way you look at it, the last week of September was an extraordinary week in climate politics. The risen dust is only starting to settle. It started with over 2,000 coordinated global demonstrations, including a march of 400,000 people through the streets of New York, demanding climate justice. This was followed […]

Like our relations in the US, immigrants in Ireland cannot go home for a father’s funeral or a sister’s wedding

Rome declaration commits government departments to implement equality and non-discrimination