An Irishman's DiaryTHE coroner for West Galway, Dr Ciaran McLoughlin, recently returned a verdict of “sponaneous human combustion” in the case of…Tue Nov 22 2011 - 00:00
The day we woke up to apartheidHISTORY: Sharpeville: An Apartheid Massacre and its Consequences , By Tom Lodge, Oxford University Press, 423pp. £20Sat Jun 18 2011 - 01:00
Royal invitation for me may have had silver lining for QueenMEMOIR: A summer spent working in Buckingham Palace presented an opportunity to see who took the royal cutleryThu May 12 2011 - 01:00
The Seanad has protected us from the herd mentality: it can do so againOPINION: We should celebrate those who resisted running with the mob and who had the courage to challenge those in powerThu Apr 14 2011 - 01:00
Tullamore in words and pictures Illustrated history brings the town to lifeWith its planned streets laid out by the earl of Charleville and its rich stock of period buildings, Tullamore is architecturally…Sat Dec 18 2010 - 00:00
Reeling in the yearsHISTORY: Down, Down Deeper Down: Ireland in the 70s & 80s By Eamonn Sweeney Gill & Macmillan, 442pp. €16.99Sat Oct 30 2010 - 01:00
Did the media fail to sound alarm bells before the financial crisis?Many people in key positions were aware of problems before our financial tsunami struck, yet these did not make it into the mainstream…Sat Mar 06 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryWHAT DOES the notorious Judge Norbury have in common with Brian Cowen, the Earl of Rosse and former attorney general Harry Whelehan…Tue Mar 31 2009 - 01:00
Policing styles from the past no longer have a placeOPINION: Getting policing right in the modern world is a multi-faceted processTue Mar 03 2009 - 00:00
Writing himself into Irish historyMEMOIR: Tim Pat Coogan - A Memoir by Tim Pat Coogan Weidenfeld Nicholson, 356pp, £18.99Sat Oct 11 2008 - 01:00
Writer who touched ordinary livesAN APPRECIATION: NUALA O'FAOLAIN'S great gift as a journalist was that she could write as EverywomanMon May 12 2008 - 01:00
Warrior armed with wordsMedia: He was the greatest American controversialist of the first half of the 20th century and arguably its most influential…Sat Apr 08 2006 - 01:00
A tour of honour worth takingIrish Politics: The Festschrift is a problematic genreSat Jun 05 2004 - 01:00
Hark the National Herald speaks PoliticsFor more than half a century, Garret FitzGerald's intellect and energy have infused Irish public life.Sat Nov 16 2002 - 00:00
A teller's taleThe scene is a bank in a small west of Ireland town in the late 1960s or early 1970sSat Dec 08 2001 - 00:00
Dublin's first boys in blueThe Dublin Metropolitan Police, A Short History and Genealogical Guide. By Jim Herlihy. Four Courts Press. 288 pp. hbk £39Sat Aug 18 2001 - 01:00
Ireland's silent assassinationsWhen I was a schoolboy - perhaps eight or nine years old - Brother Creed, the gentle and learned man who was the superior of …Sat Sept 02 2000 - 01:00
Sowing the seeds of successWith the passage of time it becomes easy to forget how grim it was; how gloomy the public dialogue; how low the national morale…Sat Mar 25 2000 - 00:00
A lost generation of Irish manhoodThe Irish Constabularies 1822-1922 by Donal J. O'Sullivan. Brandon Books, 412pp, £30Sat Feb 19 2000 - 00:00
A fair copThe Garda ana Siochana - Policing Independent Ireland 1922-1982. By Gregory Allen. Gill & Macmillan. 306pp. £19.99Sat Oct 09 1999 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryIn the Irish language they are Na Manaigh Liath, the grey monksWed Jun 17 1998 - 01:00
Old days Book Of The Dayin the barracksIt is remarkable that although some hundreds of men (and two or three women) have served as superintendents of the Garda since…Tue May 05 1998 - 01:00
A police force to be proud ofSEVENTY FIVE years ago this spring the young men of the newly formed Civic ard began to move out in small groups to the towns…Sat Feb 15 1997 - 00:00
Opening up the PostMOST journalists writing in English on this side of the Atlantic could probably name half a dozen of their celebrated American…Sat Jan 13 1996 - 00:00
