The demeaning photographs used to characterise older people during the pandemic drove me nuts

An anti-book club would work the opposite way to the “buy me” clubs. It would warn potential buyers off truly God-awful offerings

One of the saddest threads running through Ireland's economic stagnation and abject poverty 80 years ago was the paradoxical self-esteem drawn from concealing it

By exposing a bizarre financial system, the actor — in a small way — is helping to reverse the generational damage debt can deliver

It’s a fear added to by the fact that one of the US president’s close supporters — Elon Musk — responded to an event which carries profound life-and-death implications for the people of Ukraine with a laughing/crying emoji

Somewhere along the line, the notion of the public space as worthy of careful design and implicit respect for the passerby has died

The communication of our TDs and senators would be greatly improved if they reconsidered, and in some cases removed, certain phrases from their vocabulary 

Mainstream media has treated him with a pally respect rarely accorded to a member of the clergy, especially one on the board of, and board secretary to, a body with a billion euro budget

In politics, principles are often temporary. Mandelson, RFK Jr, and others show how back-pedalling is a survival strategy

RFK Jr, Trump’s pick as health secretary, claims that Lee Harvey Oswald was working for the CIA when he killed his uncle