It's easy to look tough on immigration. It's much harder to build empathy

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People who would never normally get bail are walking free because of the legal aid row

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Ireland's failure premium: All the property schemes do one thing. It's not help buyers

1 day ago

Do data centres pay their own way? The answer is not straightforward

1 day ago

Rollout of the reformed Leaving Cert should be suspended

8 hours ago

What would your last words be? Here are some of the best deathbed one-liners

8 hours ago

A realistic emergency preparedness booklet would say 'prepare for a slow decline'

1 day ago

People who get up early were left disappointed by Varadkar. Harris is ready to try again

1 day ago

There is a landmine posing a big danger to next month's budget

1 day ago

We need leaders with the courage of a Kennedy or a de Gaulle

2 days ago

Death of Ireland's nightlife is yet another reason for young people to leave

2 days ago

Frank McDonald was critical of Dublin because he believed it was 'well worth fighting for'

3 days ago

Northern nationalists are right to detect bias from their counterparts in the Republic

3 days ago

The Anglo-Irish relationship is best explained by a scene in Mad Men

4 days ago

What now for the Israel flags flying across the North?

4 days ago

It is not racist to have concerns about economic migrants abusing asylum laws

5 days ago

Budget unlikely to resolve surging energy prices

8 hours ago

EV charging infrastructure in Ireland is a joke

8 hours ago

Still no plan to ban vapes?

8 hours ago

Trump's visit to Ireland

8 hours ago

You talking to me?

8 hours ago

Tycoon king of the castles: Magnate Hearst built pleasure-domes from California to Galway

19 hours ago

Diplomacy took second place on Trump's golf weekend

18 hours ago

Bans on trade underline Israel's increasing isolation

6 hours ago

This weekend Ireland plays host to the worst president Americans have ever elected

2 days ago

Equality has been deferred in the GAA

2 days ago

'He was only 88': There is a cosy familiarity to Irish funerals

1 day ago

Both men and women built the GAA. It's time women were given equal treatment

2 days ago

My funny Irish-American mother would be appalled by the things done in her name since 9/11

3 days ago

Jim O'Callaghan can look to UK to see if making life hard for immigrants helps integration

4 days ago

Germany's past crashes into the present

5 days ago

The HSE has been ordered to destroy some patient records. This is wrong

6 days ago

Here is something you do not often see: an optimistic column on the climate crisis

6 days ago

Shannon is a symptom of the failure to decentralise the State

7 days ago

Gardaí spending their time peering at NCT discs is one symptom of a wider problem

7 days ago

Why I walked away from the Leaving Cert maths reform group

8 days ago

A diplomat's advice on how Ireland should approach Trump's visit

8 days ago

Northern Ireland has had several false dawns, but fleadh felt like a turning point

8 days ago

I don't regret running for president. I do regret the sectarian undercurrent it exposed

9 days ago

One in three can't afford to benefit from Government's regressive new investment scheme

9 days ago

Europe does not need Patrick Collison to 'fix' it

11 days ago

Children are turning to AI for advice. We have terrifying examples of where this can lead

12 days ago

How worried should we be about this year's 'Super-Duper El Niño'?

13 days ago

Should new citizens have to pass a language test? Peadar Tóibín vs Neil Bruton

13 days ago

Many people who use crack cocaine are presenting in shocking conditions

14 days ago

'De-demonisation' of Europe's far right clears ground for resurgence of fascist ideas

14 days ago