Sinn Fein's silence on IRA killingHarry Feeney was standing in the doorway of his house on Quarry Road in the Brandywell in Derry on November 14th, 1973.Tue Jun 28 2005 - 01:00
Stung into poetryBiography: In the preface to his engaging and illuminating account of what he believes to be a crucial year in Shakespeare's…Sat Jun 25 2005 - 01:00
Ireland - simply the worstHovering around much of the Irish debate on the crisis in the European Union is a smug belief that Old Europe has a lot to learn…Tue Jun 21 2005 - 01:00
A cynical political gestureThere's the 15-year-old boy with Asperger's syndrome, an autistic disorder, who was served with an Antisocial Behaviour Order…Tue Jun 14 2005 - 01:00
ReviewsLady Windermere's Fan Gate Theatre, Dublin Take out a dozen scintillating lines, and, if you were told that Lady Windermere'…Thu May 19 2005 - 01:00
M3 and the uglification of IrelandIn Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the Mock Turtle proudly proclaims his learning in the different branches of arithmetic: "…Tue May 17 2005 - 01:00
Martin should resignI have always regarded Micheál Martin as the most intelligent and progressive member of the CabinetTue Apr 26 2005 - 01:00
Standards were lower in 1979The sense of loss generated by the Pope's death has many sourcesTue Apr 12 2005 - 01:00
ReviewsWorstward Ho, Public Museum, Cork: There are some very good arguments against the staging of Samuel Beckett's prose works, especially…Fri Apr 08 2005 - 01:00
Shaking off trappings of empire'The Papacy," wrote Thomas Hobbes in the 17th century, "is nothing other than the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting…Tue Apr 05 2005 - 01:00
Walking all over our rightsFew notions generate as much hypocrisy and cant as that of private propertyTue Mar 22 2005 - 00:00
Let's count the cost of real wasteLater today the Travers report on the illegal charges levied on more than 300,000 people in nursing homes will be published.Tue Mar 08 2005 - 00:00
Myth of IRA's role exposedLast weekend, like the weekend before, Gerry Adams was out on the circuit, honouring the IRA deadTue Mar 01 2005 - 00:00
Legacy of 30 years of thuggery"My vote was out of recognition for Sinn Féin's efforts in the peace processTue Feb 22 2005 - 00:00
Lessons of the HolocaustThere are two kinds of absence, and the tension between them is part of the memory of the HolocaustTue Jan 25 2005 - 00:00
Cherish all the childrenOne of the most eloquent moments at the funeral Mass for Robert Holohan was when the great Cork hurler, Seán Óg Ó hAilpín, read…Tue Jan 18 2005 - 00:00
What the IRA is really fighting forIn 1923, shortly after it had won the civil war, the Free State government had a 40-foot-high Celtic Cross erected on Leinster…Tue Jan 11 2005 - 00:00
Disasters not beyond our controlIn March 1964, an earthquake measuring 8.5 on the Richter scale hit western AlaskaTue Jan 04 2005 - 00:00
No way to start health revolutionThough you wouldn't know it from the amount of media attention given to the issue, the biggest single change in the governance…Tue Dec 14 2004 - 00:00
Time for US to see realityI lived on and off in the United States for three years in the late 1990sTue Nov 02 2004 - 00:00
Our Third World healthcareHere are some extracts from reports on hospital conditions in developing countries: "The South African Human Rights Commission…Tue Oct 26 2004 - 01:00
What is a 30-year-old apology?The Floral Hall at Belfast's Bellevue Zoo was a particularly ironic place to dump the body of a childTue Oct 19 2004 - 01:00
The salvation of home grown theatre?Dublin Theatre Festival suggests Irish drama's future lies as much outside the national theatre as within it, writes Fintan O…Wed Oct 13 2004 - 01:00
Are we now party to kidnap?On the night of December 18th, 2001, a small private Gulfstream 5 jet landed at Bromma airport near the Swedish capital Stockholm…Tue Sept 28 2004 - 01:00
Let the subscriber bewareLast week, Eircom announced proudly that it has 73,000 customers for its broadband services and expects to have 100,000 by the…Tue Aug 31 2004 - 01:00
Why Sonia should be applaudedYou will know by now, as I, at the time of writing, do not, how Sonia O'Sullivan got on in the 5,000 metres final in Athens last…Tue Aug 24 2004 - 01:00
Brazenness of Flynn is staggeringThe phrase that comes to mind is "house of lies". It was used in the High Court in 2001 in relation to Beverley Flynn TDTue Aug 03 2004 - 01:00
Stupidity on a truly heroic scaleIt's only when you look at the details that you understand the heroic scale of the idiocy, the magnificent, awe-inspiring, sublime…Tue Jul 20 2004 - 01:00
A culture of total impunityA few years ago, a young man was caught urinating on the street in front of an AIB cash dispenser in central DublinTue Jun 01 2004 - 01:00
They made us what we areMil Espaine, legendary father of the Gaels: Spanish. Palladius, early Christian missionary to Ireland: GaulishTue May 25 2004 - 01:00
Performing for the camera"I put my camera up to my eye, I was going to take a photographTue May 11 2004 - 01:00
Old, bold and mad as hellThe old joking reply to Brendan Corish's unfortunate slogan when he led the Labour Party in the late 1960s - "The '70s Will Be…Tue Apr 06 2004 - 01:00
Bulldozing history and landscapeA hundred years before the birth of Christ, the Greek writer Diodorus Siculus wrote of an island far to the north of the Mediterranean…Tue Mar 16 2004 - 00:00
Hepatitis scandal goes onScandals are 10 a penny. But one is immensely more grave than all the othersTue Feb 10 2004 - 00:00
'Diversity' endangers equalityWhen the Equality Authority took Portmarnock Golf Club to court over its refusal to allow women to become full members, the club…Tue Jan 20 2004 - 00:00
An Emmet beyond any satireThere is a wonderful Denis Johnston play, written in 1928, called The Old Lady Says No! Near the start, an actor playing Robert…Tue Dec 30 2003 - 00:00
Perhaps not so holy but sacredIf you have kept the Sunday Times Culture section for the Christmas TV listings, have a look at the reproduction of Orazio Gentileschi…Tue Dec 23 2003 - 00:00
Charade of education for disabledRemember the Kathy Sinnott case in July 2001? Remember that the Supreme Court found that even though Kathy's son Jamie didn't…Tue Dec 16 2003 - 00:00
Exploration firms strike it rich hereWhat's the most valuable piece of real estate in Ireland? Dublin's Grafton Street, perhaps, or some exclusive resort in the west…Tue Nov 25 2003 - 00:00
The horse lobby holds reinsIn the fourth and last of his travels, Jonathan Swift's Gulliver voyages to the land of the HouyhnhnmsTue Nov 18 2003 - 00:00
Press council must be independent of State and papersRegulating the media: The challenge is to find a way of involving civic society - and not just party hacks - in overseeing the…Thu Oct 23 2003 - 01:00
Self-regulation is not the answer, as the media itself so often preachesRegulating the media The media can no longer dodge the case for a form of public accountabilitybeyond self-regulation, Fintan…Wed Oct 22 2003 - 01:00
Caught between free expression and protecting citizens from unjust attackRegulating the media Irish law rooted in the democratic nature of the Republic rather than in the heritage of British monarchy…Tue Oct 21 2003 - 01:00
An identity forged out of manyIn the first great work of what we would now recognise as the English language, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, one of the characters…Tue Oct 21 2003 - 01:00
Enough of SF's cherry pickingThe current issue of Sinn Féin's newspaper An Phoblacht has a passionate and informative piece about the terror of the early …Tue Sept 02 2003 - 01:00
A tired and cynical operatorThe week beginning July 14th last was a ferociously busy time for Tony BlairTue Aug 19 2003 - 01:00
Transport of delight, in partsI must be mistaken. Since it is not proper to imagine that a public company might actually be doing a reasonable job, it can'…Tue Jul 01 2003 - 01:00
