Brexit Blues: Ian Cooper
Exactly ten years ago this week the UK voted to leave the EU and Brexit was born. At the time there were predictions that this could spell e...
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HEALTHY PURSUIT: Niamh Griffin
After the recent row between the Minister for Health and the Rotunda Hospital over consultants doing private work, a question arises as to h...
MORALITY AND WARS: Colin Sheridan
The Occupied Territories Bill and the triple lock are going to be landing hot and heavy in the public square in the coming months. Both issu...
THE HEALY RAE SPLIT
Michael Healy Rae’s revelation that he believes his brother Danny cost him and Kerry a ministry has rocked the most fabled political dynasty...
POLITICAL PITSTOP: Elaine Loughlin
The recent by-elections in Dublin and Galway took the temperature in politics right now and delivered victories to the Social Democrats and...
THE RISE OF KNEECAP: Dean Van Nguyen
The Belfast rap trio Kneecap bring second record Fenian and their incendiary mix of Irish-language hip-hop and politics to Cork with two 'in...
BY ELECTION SPECIAL: Louise Burne
Two constituencies go to the polls next Friday in byelections created by the resignations from the Dail of Pascal Donohue and Catherine Conn...
SOLDIERING TOWARDS DESTINY: Gary Murphy
Fianna Fail is a century old this year and the party is celebrating the occasion this weekend with its Ard Fheis. But where stands a party t...
NEVER NEVER LAND: Children and that hospital.
The Irish Examiner’s Louise Burne has memories of spending time in Temple Street hospital in Dublin as a child to treat a condition with whi...
BURIED SECRET: Barry Cummins
Tina Satchwell was murdered by her husband and her body hid in the family home where he continued to live for six years before it was discov...
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT ROY: Dave Hannigan
Roy Keane is a towering figure in Irish sport and even culture. From one of the greatest footballers to ever emerge from the country, to the...
Taoiseach on the brink: Louise Burne
Pressure is coming on Taoiseach Micheal Martin in the wake of the fuel protests and following the resignation as junior minister of Michael...
ORBAN ON THE BRINK: Shona Murray
On Sunday Hungary goes to the polls in an election that should be of huge interests to all Europeans and beyond. The authoritarian leader of...
THE INFORMER AND HIS HANDLER: JP O’Sullivan
In March 1985, IRA man John Corcoran’s body was found outside Cork city. He had been shot as an informer. In the intervening years there has...
A FUGITIVE AND A PATRIOT: Rory Carroll
A new book by Guardian Ireland correspondent Rory Carroll examines the hunt by British intelligence to capture Roger Casement and his role i...
GETTING OUT INTACT: Micheal Martin
In the week that was, the question that arose was – will he make it out of there intact? The subject of course was Taoiseach Micheal Martin...
HOW IT WILL ALL END: Scott Lucas
The war in Iran is continuing and Israel is using the opportunity to pummel those it considers the enemy in Lebanon. Add to that the fact th...
The Mick Clifford Podcast - By-elections are looming
After the Presidential election last year saw Catherine Connolly elected President and Paschal Donohoe left Irish politics for a job at the...
FROM SMALL BEGINNINGS: Peadar Tobin
We are frequently being told that there is a constituency out there that is not being served by the mainstream political parties. Peadar Tob...
ADOPTING TO LIFE: Paul Cullen
Adoption was a big business in the Ireland of the middle decades of the last century, in a country where birth outside of marriage was consi...