Now is the time to ease red tape around grief
Covid-19 has fundamentally changed the operations of the State. Payments, supports and measures once deemed unreasonable by some parties are now embraced as necessary,...
Whatabout everyone out to get Sinn Féin’s Paddy Holohan?
Sinn Féin councillor Paddy Holohan was briefly suspended last year for racist and homophobic remarks about Leo Varadkar, and for describing teenage rape survivors...
Let’s postpone Paddy’s Day till September
With all respect to the man he served for eight years as vice president, there’s no-one as Irish as Joe Biden. The Covid-19 pandemic...
For survivors, disrespect has become the insult added to unimaginable injury
The Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation dissolves on Friday, but its final report cannot be allowed to stand as the State’s final...
“I live in hope that my baby Niall will know I’m...
The Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation Report was “an insult to the mothers”, and a further denial of justice, one survivor tells...
In uncertain times, conspiracy theories sing a siren song
For a year now Covid-19 has shown us how fragile our daily reality is, and some of us are finding comfort in conspiracy theories...
Six mentions of Glanworth
Spanning 1,500 years of Irish life, and containing almost 11,000 biographies, the Dictionary of Irish Biography is now available free online.
If all politics...
Banished women: There is another history of Ireland
There is another history of Ireland. Through their work, one group of historians has set a challenge to every parish in the land to...
Why would you want to shake the hand of a sex...
Character references and courtroom displays of support for convicted sex offenders are worthless, and serve no other purpose than to re-traumatise victims.
They queued up...
Credit where it’s due: Disabilities Minister did the right thing
It’s a story in itself that it was quite shocking last week to see a minister stand up to her officials, but Minister of...
