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Many people have expressed a hope that the murder of Ashling Murphy will prove a watershed; that the tragedy will re-shape the pattern of Irish
Is Covid spreading from our schools? Nphet and the Government say it is not, but neither the public health czars, nor our ministers, have visited
Average consumption of alcohol in Ireland has fallen over the past decade. It’s not much of a drop, nothing to get excited about, but the
In 1978 Ireland was getting ready to produce its own nuclear-powered electricity but Christy Moore sang us out of it. He wasn’t alone. Donal Lunny,
Somewhere over the rainbow is a land called Other Jurisdictions. I can’t find it on the map and my satnav is no help, but I
And so this is Christmas, and what have we done? In my case, very little, which should at least please Nphet. Leaving it to the
RTÉ’s newsroom loves a good storm. They have all their regional correspondents out, looking at empty streets or wind-blown beaches and trying, like Dickens’s Fat
As they do every winter, the ESB has been issuing warnings about not approaching fallen wires and the Road Safety Authority is cautioning against driving
In the run-up to Christmas the streets of Dublin used to be full of carol singers. They were out in Kilkenny, too, and every city
The Panthéon, the national mausoleum in Paris, is dedicated to the great men of France. ‘Aux Grands Hommes, La Patrie Reconnaise’ (to the great men,
