The lengthy process of government formation will be haunted as much by the next election as by the last, writes Donal O’Keeffe.
“The people have spoken, the bastards,” said American political strategist and prankster Dick Tuck, conceding defeat in the...
Martyn Turner, the brilliant Irish Times cartoonist, told a story during the dark days of the Troubles. If memory serves, Turner had given a lecture at an exhibition of his cartoons in the United States. From the audience came...
Maybe we do too much ‘patting ourselves on the back’ around St. Patrick’s Day – but I still think that we in Ireland actually have at least some quite valid reasons for national pride. At times, we have even managed...
Ceapann gach préachán gur gheal a ghearrcaigh fhéin...
Is dócha gur sin an scéal le muintir Chiarraí leis na blianta anois mar tá an clann cháiliúil sin atá lonnaithe i gCill Garbhán, chomh suntasach i gcúrsai polaitiochta; is léir go...
An rud a scríobhann an Púca, léann sé féin é!
Is dócha go raibh na an line sin scríofa in aimsir an phinn (writing pen) agus ag féachaint siar, nach bhfuil moladh os ard tuillte ag na scríbhneoirí cáiliula a...
He has served in the army. He has led dare-devil expeditions. He has taught extreme survival skills – appearing with celebrities in his ‘Mission Survive’ TV programme.
But all the while he knows how to turn these same confrontation skills...
When a solitary spark suddenly takes fire from the ashes and bursts into flame – it supplies us with a figure or symbol of the triumph of life over death … and a symbol which is shared by civilisations...
‘Sí an mhuc is ciúine a itheann an bia’
Is dócha go bhfuil an ráiteas “muc sa phárlús” cloiste againn ó am go h-am agus ag féachaint ar an bhfógraíocht a chuireann Vodafone amach faoi láthair, shílfeá go bhfuil an...
Tá a lán buanna ag baint leis an tsaol seo,má thogaimid sos chun taithneamh a bhaint astu agus ag feachaint amach ar iontaisí an tSamhraidh, ba cheart dúinn ár scíth a ligint o am go h-am agus ailleacht timpeallachta...
Irish politics doesn't really do radical, but New Politics has picked a dangerous time to make politics seem so utterly redundant, writes Donal O'Keeffe.
Last Saturday night, the RTÉ 9.00pm News led with Trump's shameful ban on refugees and visitors...
