The now largely forgotten figure of John Munro Woolsey was instrumental in getting one of literature’s greatest ever works into publication in the US

Catherine Martin’s announcement of a basic income pilot scheme for artists will be popular with that hard-hit community, but the concept of a national basic income is politically divisive

Cork City Council’s failure to provide safe facilities at the Spring Lane halting site is merely the latest instance of ignoring our country’s most ostracised community

The eyes of the world were on Gaza last week, but Spain’s hardline treatment of migrants entering the enclave of Ceuta reminds us that other political and humanitarian crises are unfolding closer to home

There is a long and pernicious assumption that unionists just need to realise that they are actually Irish and that a united Ireland will then fall into place

A year into this crisis, Covid-19 still has the ability to inflict considerable suffering of the kind being witnessed in India. How did we let this happen?

Irish politics now has a choice to either follow Sinn Féin’s ever-more sophisticated profiling of voters, or return to traditional reliance on local intelligence

The questions being asked of the party by the Data Protection Commissioner on Sinn Féin‘s alleged gathering of intelligence on political opinions on a national level are legitimate ones

For all the gnashing of teeth over schools and vaccinations, the figures show that the vaccine delivery rate is set to surpass projections by a distance

The recent RTÉ expose of state information-gathering is a disturbing reminder of the increase in surveillance on our lives. But protecting our privacy against that has a cost

It’s the Double Irish that defines us in the eyes of the world, and this can have unintended consequences

By not thinking explicitly about how their decisions will have an impact on women’s safety, city designers and engineers, largely male, design for men by default

Research in education shows children quickly internalise their place in the pecking order and the Leaving Cert has merely reinforced this order, rather than providing the means to challenge it

Six decades on from the days when NSPCA inspectors could have Traveller children placed in institutions, they are still subject to discrimination, as the Pontins scandal showed last week

Covid-19 restrictions say you should not leave home at all ‘without reasonable excuse’ – a rule that‘s broader than it need be, is widely misunderstood and of dubious effectiveness

As the former Anglo boss walked free from prison last week, it became apparent that every time we focus on the sins of his bank, we lose sight of where else to lay blame

The Data Protection Commission is now the primary data protection authority for half a billion European social media users. It needs extra resources, and quickly

The comedian’s unorthodox chat show has been a sensational success. With an extended run continuing this month, the host, writer and stand-up shares his meditations on life, sex, and not following the money

So-called ‘vaccine nationalism’ means richer countries have a surplus at the expense of poorer nations

An unintended consequence of the government’s ‘hammer and dance’ pandemic strategy is that our educators no longer trust the state to keep them safe