As support for both the impeachment inquiry and President Trump’s removal rises, opponents of Mr. Trump’s presidency are experiencing a long-dormant emotion: hope. With each new poll, social media ripples with excitement. A majority supports impeachment. A plurality supports removal from office. And almost every day brings new details from the transcripts of the impeachment […]

The political reaction to the Taoiseach’s divisive comments on immigration were surprisingly muted given the reactionary age of outrage we live in. When US President Donald Trump singles out nations as being responsible for rising levels of illegal immigration into America, social media goes into meltdown. Think back to the introduction of Trump’s very troubling […]

In Auschwitz recently as part of a school tour, I was struck by the importance of the decision Minister for Education Joe McHugh made in overruling the recommendation that history should no longer be a compulsory subject at Junior Cycle. Imagine our young people growing up without the knowledge of what sheer horrors were perpetrated […]

‘Very often when somebody adopts a child, their personalities might not be so closely matched with the parents. Ana and Geraldine and Patric were just so right for each other. They got such fun and joy from each other. Geraldine said in their victim impact statement that Ana was the love of their lives and […]

My father grew up with few material possessions. As a result, he appreciates things far more than anyone I know. Throughout my life, I watched him meticulously clean and repair just about everything we owned, be it a radio, a coat or a blender. His attention to detail extended particularly to cars. No matter what […]

The terrifying pre-meditated murder of Ana Kriegel by two 13-year-old boys has set a new precedent as one of the most shocking murders in the nation’s living memory. There has been a considerable amount of analysis and debate around why two apparently well-reared children with no history of psychological or developmental disorders could perpetrate such […]

A couple of weeks after the breach of the Berlin Wall, I wrote an article about rabbits. The wall through Berlin was actually two parallel cement barriers with a no man’s land between, and in the in-between haven of this strip rabbits had multiplied like, well, rabbits, often fed by tourists from the observation platforms […]

To the Editor: Re “Bloomberg Bid for Presidency Starts to Rustle” (front page, Nov. 8): Michael Bloomberg may be the Democrats’ best and only chance to capture the White House in 2020, and I’m super-psyched that the former three-term mayor of New York City appears to be throwing his hat into the ring! In this […]

Micheál Martin will have no problem securing an overall majority in the Dáil after the next general election. It doesn’t matter how many seats he wins, he can just get his Niall and Lisa to push the buttons for enough TDs in the Dáil. Fianna Fáil’s phantom votes was one of those touchstone topics that […]

(Reuters) – Sydney-listed investment fund Zeta Resources Ltd (ZER.AX) on Friday said it did not intend to accept nickel miner Independence Group NL’s (IGO) (IGO.AX) A$312 million ($214.6 million) takeover bid for Panoramic Resources Ltd (PAN.AX). Zeta Resources is managed by Bermuda-based hedge fund ICM Ltd, which holds a controlling 34.7% of Panoramic. “The offer […]