The election campaign has only just begun, but already there are worrying signs of a Trump-style approach, with plenty of personal attacks and dumbing down

Breast screening is fallible, and with potential extra costs due to legal actions, questions about the viability of the programme are invevitable

The lurid focus on 17-year-old murder victim Keane Mulready-Woods’s criminal history denies the complicity of wider society, and blinds us to missed opportunities

Is any political party brave enough not to bribe voters with their own money?

The smaller left-wing parties are unlikely to perform well in this election, but there is a potential way back for Labour after its 2016 disaster

It may be largely down to luck, but the finance portfolio is in good shape for whoever takes up the mantle

Attributing individual responsibility to entire system failures like Boeing’s is pointless: our entire economic model is at fault

While the death of Soleimani led to retaliation and a word of wars between Iran and the US, the vote to expel US soldiers from Iraq was a sign that the US could be starting to lose its grip on the region

The brouhaha over the proposed event to remember the controversial police force shows the importance of careful, considered planning – and keeping politics out of it

From punk to funk, grime to grunge, Larry Gogan played everything under the sun – but his genius lay in making it sound so easy

Larry Gogan, Marian Finucane and Gay Byrne are all gone, and with them the voices that brought a community together

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s lavish lifestyle and manner of announcing their withdrawal from performing royal duties suggests that privacy is not the end game, but rather a different type of fame and fortune

The utility was happy to spend more than €800,000 on a documentary but is strangely reticent when it comes to information about a boil-water notice

Ireland is the only EU country in the running for a non-permanent Security Council seat in 2021

The outgoing governor of the Bank of England is right this time: fund managers must start thinking about the long term – and quickly

The downfall of the former Renault-Nissan boss tells us something about the self-destructive nature of ambitious and successful people who surround themselves with bag carriers and platoons of cowed assistants

Marian Finucane’s career both symbolises real changes in the status of Irish women and helped to advance them

The government is to introduce legislation to prevent us buying petrol and diesel cars from 2030, but where will all these greener vehicles come from and how will we afford them?

Hand-wringing about the climate crisis and the dangers of Big Tech won’t help. We must look instead at the threats and opportunities that they bring – and keep an eye on the inexorable rise of China

Our governments are blinkered by short-termism but their campaigns show they know how to plan strategically