Reclining on a couch backstage before a show in Toronto, Noel Gallagher looks relaxed, happy and content. Partly it’s because he’s feeling good about his beloved Manchester City doing well in this year’s Premier League (he tours with a club flag that’s hung first in the dressing room and then onstage) but mostly because he’s […]

Dublin Port is a giant operation with an annual turnover of €90m. It is in many ways the engine of the Irish economy, which has grown considerably in the past decade. In a post-Brexit world its role as our primary port, dwarfing our other ports, will have a pivotal role in Ireland’s economic activity. Yesterday, […]

Paschal Donohoe will deliver something of a non-budget on Tuesday, October 8. There will be no reductions in direct taxation and virtually no increases in pensions and other social transfers. The spur for the minister’s caution is the risk of a no-deal Brexit. It is a great pity that Mr Donohoe did not take the […]

Two senior ministers in the Varadkar Government – Eoghan Murphy and Simon Harris – made a show of themselves last week. Around the same time, an independent TD, Noel Grealish, publicly insulted the entire continent of Africa. Mr Grealish appears to be angry with a lot of people. Meanwhile, President Michael D Higgins said something […]

EDINBURGH — The window overlooks a neglected backyard where a few shrubs grow with their backs to the wall. Under the washing lines, grasses heavy with seed pods all incline slightly southward, and among the grasses a lone yellow plant, maybe a ragwort. It’s evening. From time to time the grasses move in the breeze. […]

There’s probably no magic number for the correct amount of leaders’ debate that ought to occur during the course of a federal election campaign. A case could be made for just one — or at least, one in each official language. On the other hand, what’s to say we can’t have several, perhaps even having […]

‘His desire to be world king was a wish to make himself unhurtable and invincible – and somehow safe from the pains of life. The pain of your mother disappearing for eight months – the pain of your parents splitting up.” These insights into the psyche of Boris Johnson, and the legacy of his anxious […]

On Thursday evening, President Trump traveled to Baltimore — a city he’d recently disparaged as a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess” where “no human being would want to live” — to give a pep talk to House Republicans. The lawmakers were gathered for their annual strategy retreat, the first since losing control of the […]

Our country’s demographics keep changing fast, and major shifts have already happened in places across the nation — including in Texas, where the Democratic presidential candidates will hold their debate on Thursday night. Texas is one of five states without a majority racial or ethnic group. And Houston, home to Texas Southern University, where the candidates […]

Paul Manafort, while managing Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign, is accused of passing private polling data to his Russia business partner, a man with alleged ties to Russian intelligence. This new information, revealed in an unsealed court filing, is likely to stoke the case in Congress for increased sanctions against Russia. Equally importantly, the reverberations […]