While the Facebook chief sat through hours of questioning over two days, the share price of his great invention was soaring, making investors happy and adding to his own personal net worth
It might have been easier to protect sources and other sensitive information in the pre-data age, but we have to keep journalism safe, regardless of technology - democracy depends on it
For some, the fodder crisis seems about as remote as being attacked by a Russian nerve agent, but Ireland remains an agrarian nation, with food production providing massive exports and creating jobs
The casual acceptance of men treating women badly must be challenged each and every time it happens
Despite the outrage and argument about what Cambridge Analytica said and what Facebook knew, the technological advances made will not be reversed and regulation will be a puny line of protection for voters
‘Empire of misogyny', former President Mary McAleese’s short summary of the Catholic Church’s attitude to women, is a powerful phrase which will become part of the story of the church in Ireland
May's solutions melting faster than the snow as the chaos from the EU draft document drowns out John Major's Brexit intervention
A week after the collapse of power-sharing talks, Northern Ireland risks drifting back to the familiarity of two-tone hate politics
Whatever chance there was to put all the pieces back together has passed. Too much has been said, publicly and certainly privately, for either side to gather itself to try to drive an agreement through
As the centenary of women's suffrage is marked, Theresa May faces a full-on political power battle with three 'unlikely lads' trying to find a way to heave her out of Number 10
Donald Trump treated the State of the Union address as another episode in the long-running soap of his own life
The National Planning Framework has an urgency about it, but taking time to listen carefully to the people and the experts is more important
We know how little progress we have made – even after stories like Joanne Hayes's became public, writes Susan O'Keeffe
If the unions ballot for strike action and it succeeds, the public – paying passengers – will not hold back, writes Susan O'Keeffe
Long-term issues such as the National Planning Framework, new personal data rules and measures to improve the nation's health risk being sidelined in 2018 by the drama of Brexit and Trump
