Finn McRedmond: Wholesale boycott of Russia a dangerous departure from Western valuesMaking pariahs of silent Russians under rule of a dictator is a step too farThu Mar 31 2022 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: Bono, Boris and a sorry tale of bad analogiesSinger was crass and British PM offensive in comparisons made with horror in UkraineThu Mar 24 2022 - 01:00
Cheltenham 2020 was a turning point in our relationship with BritainIreland began to take its cues from the EU and not the UK with the pandemicThu Mar 17 2022 - 01:12
Britain used to welcome refugees fleeing dictators. What happened?Finn McRedmond: UK seems unashamed of dearth of humanity of its home officeThu Mar 10 2022 - 01:41
Russian attacks on Ukrainian culture and identity backfireFinn McRedmond: Putin justifies claims by arguing land not a real countryThu Mar 03 2022 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: Contempt levelled at Anna Sorokin is beyond all proportionWomen are permitted to succeed but we would rather watch them failThu Feb 24 2022 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: Pessimism that shrouds marriage difficult to ignoreIt seems, for better or for worse, we are living in an era of the anti-marriage ideologuesThu Feb 17 2022 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: Fake snow cannot whitewash Winter OlympicsClaims of detention, forced labour and torture of Uighurs overshadow ChinaThu Feb 10 2022 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: Spotify has chokehold on music industryYoung vs rapacious streaming service is proxy war on not paying artists properlyThu Feb 03 2022 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: Ardern’s mode of leadership is not simply outdated, it is irresponsible tooArdern can enact national policy but failing to adapt to change is not heroicThu Jan 27 2022 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: Boris Johnson should pay more heed to the classicsThe prime minister’s hero Pericles was brought down by misplaced self-confidenceThu Jan 20 2022 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: We don’t need our athletes to be thought leadersWhatever Novak Djokovic thinks of the Covid vaccine is really irrelevantThu Jan 13 2022 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: How do you know when a pandemic is over?Point at which majority deems case rates acceptable may mark turning pointThu Jan 06 2022 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: Truths can still be found in fictionNovels have a deep power to tell us of society’s complex moralityThu Dec 30 2021 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: Amid this lengthy Covid era, where did all the empathy go?This far into the pandemic, belief persists that contracting illness is down to moral weaknessThu Dec 23 2021 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: You don’t have to like Elon Musk to admire himNeat testament to complexity makes us consider role hyper-wealthy play for planetThu Dec 16 2021 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: Why should we expect Britain to mark the centenary of the Treaty?Irish outcry over Westminster’s apathy towards the anniversary is myopicThu Dec 09 2021 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: Ireland has lessons to learn from UK on antigen testsGovernment must hold the population’s risk-management capacity in low regardThu Dec 02 2021 - 01:00
Elgin Marbles highlight Ireland’s complicated role in British empireGreek treasures in British Museum open up questions about our role in historyThu Nov 25 2021 - 02:31
Finn McRedmond: British politics is blind to the rise of Sinn FéinWestminster just cannot accept what happens in Ireland matters over thereThu Nov 18 2021 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: Climate anxiety not the only cause of declining birth ratesWith homeownership a pipe dream for many, having a child feels irresponsibleThu Nov 11 2021 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: No end in sight to the new age of anxietyAmid Covid, climate, Brexit and housing crises, is it time to take a deep breath?Thu Nov 04 2021 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: Is Facebook a scapegoat for all society’s ills?Whistleblower news provides a target for anxiety about the world’s fragile stateThu Oct 28 2021 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: Experience of pandemic in Dublin and London worlds apartBoth countries diverged when it came to adopting policies on CovidThu Oct 21 2021 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: It is cruel to dress birth control up as freedom-enhancing for all womenLiberty must afford women the economic capacity to have children if they wantFri Oct 15 2021 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: Casement statue says more about us than himOur commemoration of a gay, anti-imperialist republican speaks volumesThu Oct 07 2021 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: Instagram for kids is an outrageously cynical ideaImagine trying to get children as young as 10 hooked on the photo-sharing appThu Sept 30 2021 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: Met Gala unmasks a crisis of inequalityMuseum costume party lays bare stark divide between US rich and poor in Covid eraThu Sept 23 2021 - 01:00
Criticism over Varadkar’s festival-going reflects increasing comfort with constructed outrageFinn McRedmond: We have become comfortable with allowing trial by social mediaThu Sept 09 2021 - 01:00
Brexit Britain currently carries a national insecurity usually associated with smaller nationsFinn McRedmond: Johnson has opted for gimmicks: patriotic coins, bridges, blue passportsThu Sept 02 2021 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: Myth of global Britain laid bare in utter shallownessBoris Johnson chronically confuses culture and economics of affair called BrexitThu Aug 26 2021 - 01:00
Covid’s greatest byproduct could be a shared ethical stanceFinn McRedmond: Wearing masks for each other’s benefit was not a hard message to graspThu Aug 19 2021 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: Meghan makes an unparalleled bid for obnoxiousnessIt will take more than a pet project to help women the pandemic has affected mostThu Aug 12 2021 - 01:00
Remember when boybands ruled the world. Where have they all gone?Finn McRedmond: It is hard to see the likes of Westlife and One Direction ever happening againFri Aug 06 2021 - 05:00
Olympic Games that nobody wanted confound criticsPerseverance of US gymnast Simone Biles is an apt metaphor for the past 18 monthsThu Aug 05 2021 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: Dominic Cummings will hold on to the limelight at any costBoris Johnson’s former adviser has maintained his place in the public eye, but why?Thu Jul 29 2021 - 01:00
Space launches of Branson and Bezos show how out of touch some of world’s wealthiest areEarth is too busy to marvel at the billionaire space raceThu Jul 22 2021 - 01:00
The anyone-but-the-English crowd look exactly like the BrexiteersOur Irishness is not undermined simply by celebrating EnglishnessThu Jul 15 2021 - 01:00
Gossip Girl reboot: like Breaking Bad with no methWorld of Blair Waldorf could not be less appropriate to discuss class consciousnessSat Jul 10 2021 - 05:00
Finn McRedmond: UK culture war gaining speed and momentumWoke and non-woke may be biggest dividing line between voters in futureThu Jul 08 2021 - 01:00
Fairness not the ultimate virtue in a pandemicWhat is best for everyone often has to come at the expense of a fewThu Jul 01 2021 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: Come on you fascinatingly boring England!Why I support England in the Euros and why you should tooThu Jun 24 2021 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: I want to be uncool and enjoy stuff I’m bad atLearning to cede dignity and enjoy yourself nonetheless is liberatingSat Jun 19 2021 - 06:00
Finn McRedmond: A politician’s choice of poet tells us a lotThere seems a certain genre of leader inescapably drawn to trotting out a few lines of verse when inspiration strikesThu Jun 17 2021 - 01:00
Boris Johnson right to ditch ‘special relationship’ tagUK leader caught between rock and hard place over US trade dealThu Jun 10 2021 - 01:00
Why did Taylor Swift suddenly get all woke? She capitulated to our one-note cultural landscapeFinn McRedmond: Without dissenting voices, all we are left with is hitmakers’ vaguely political popFri Jun 04 2021 - 05:00
Finn McRedmond: Boris Johnson, a man-child for all seasonsCynics may snort at his Catholic wedding, but he is more complex than we thinkThu Jun 03 2021 - 01:00
Empowerment is not the ultimate goal for most womenPerhaps there is a quiet defiance in not striving for world dominationThu May 27 2021 - 01:00
It just feels way too soon for Coronavirus, The MusicalNovelist Jodi Picoult and playwright Timothy Allen McDonald teamed up to write a musical, chronicling the pandemic experience from five couples’ perspectivesThu May 20 2021 - 08:54
Finn McRedmond: Sock puppet twitter accounts part of a wider problem in public discourseFear of cancel culture may be stifling free speech, but there’s no easy solutionThu May 13 2021 - 01:00
