The government should loudly condemn the Riyadh regime and push for embargoes, rather than trumpeting trade partnerships
Theresa May is way ahead of her global peers on this issue - just like our young people who don’t want to inherit a catastrophe
It is time we had an education system that fosters creativity and citizenship instead of hot-housing our children for the rat race
The #SwingGate TD deserved ridicule, but online shaming of this magnitude can be more damaging than any formal sanction
Making vaccination mandatory won’t persuade distrustful people to trust the system, and could just end up making things worse
Taking faith formation out of schools is a good idea – after all, it worked last time round
Severe climate change could prompt a political lurch to the right and an isolationist strategy, but Ireland is better off fighting to save the planet
The climate crisis is much worse than you think - so why isn’t it our top priority?
In the wake of the Sri Lanka suicide bombings, the media has been accused of downplaying the persecution of Christians. But the facts don’t bear this out
The life of onetime Man Utd captain and Barcelona coach Patrick O’Connell ended in sad obscurity, but his story exemplifies the power of sport to transform society
Like him or loathe him, deporting Julian Assange to the US would threaten both our free press and liberal democracy
Colin Murphy’s new play, A Day In May, harks back to the liberating moment of gay marriage being legalised in Ireland. This week, it will be staged in Belfast – a city where, in the old days, veteran gay activists like Jeffrey Dudgeon needed all their wits and courage to survive
Our schadenfreude and our unyielding policy on the border risk scuppering a soft Brexit
Charity is not enough: Ireland must maintain the capacity to intervene in events as terrible as the 1994 Rwandan genocide
Social change being driven by foreign money is a mainstay of human rights activity
