Una Mullally: Not only democracy but reality is being dismantled in USMidterm elections reveal voters and politicians in States as unhingedMon Nov 07 2022 - 05:00
Una Mullally: Elon Musk’s ownership of Twitter makes a bad situation worseThe billionaire now owns a social media company that was already broken and his chaotic approach will accentuate the platform’s negative attributes.Tue Nov 01 2022 - 19:37
Una Mullally: At least the activists ‘desecrating’ art works are doing something. What are you doing?If one thinks a protester is doing something incorrectly, it’s always good to ask oneself, ‘well, what am I doing?’Mon Oct 31 2022 - 05:00
Una Mullally: Why has street life in Dublin city become so depressed?Four things have been prioritised: hotels, offices, unaffordable student developments and luxury apartments for tech workersMon Oct 24 2022 - 00:40
Listen to the Land Speak review: Fractal account of myth, history and lossManchán Magan brings us on a journey into the wisdom of what lies beneathSat Oct 15 2022 - 05:00
Una Mullally: What does it mean to say ‘up the ’Ra’? And why does it keep happening?The women’s soccer team knew what they were doing: it’s just that what they’re doing means something different nowThu Oct 13 2022 - 12:16
Una Mullally: Berlin has dimmed the lights while Dublin’s are still blazingIt feels as though we are still sleepwalking into a three-pronged crisis that will dominate the winterThu Oct 13 2022 - 00:57
Creeslough explosion: There is no closure with tragedy, but there can be comfortThe feeling of apartness in Donegal, gives rise to a sort of tight-knit-ness that is, even in Irish terms, utterly uniqueSun Oct 09 2022 - 11:14
Una Mullally: It has been clear for some time that Britain is colonising itselfLast week’s market freakout was merely what happens when a Tory government’s chaosonomics meets realityMon Oct 03 2022 - 01:00
Road to Repeal review: A vital account not just of a movement but of a societyWhat emanates from the huge number of images in this book is the bravery of those who fought misogynyThu Sept 29 2022 - 04:44
Una Mullally: In a city starved of artist space, Dublin City Council is attempting to erase some it createdFormer music college on Chatham Row being used as artists’ studios, but council has other (bad) ideasMon Sept 26 2022 - 00:00
Una Mullally: The kids are not alrightIreland has the largest generation gap in trust in government in the OECDMon Sept 19 2022 - 00:01
Una Mullally: Queen’s death is another tentpole removed from ever-collapsing marquee called the UKBBC and Boris Johnson leap into bombastic mourning auto-pilot from which land will awake to grim realityMon Sept 12 2022 - 05:00
Una Mullally: Ireland is seeing a new form of housing activism - and it is building momentumWith Government failing to tackle the housing crisis, grassroots movements are starting to exert their influenceMon Sept 05 2022 - 01:10
If Dara Calleary gets Robert Troy’s gig, the public will roll their eyes in rage again Rage flows through public political discourse. The quest for accountability has great momentumMon Aug 29 2022 - 00:05
Dublin’s dying nightclubs: ‘I’ve no idea how people in their 20s are navigating this city’Housing crisis and crisis in cultural amenities have sparked a wave of emigration of young people in search of affordable rent and access to a broader cultural offeringSat Aug 27 2022 - 05:00
Una Mullally: Empathy fuels Ireland’s welcome for Ukrainians The care extended to people contains a memory of the constant cycles of mass emigration we have been made endure.Mon Aug 22 2022 - 05:00
Una Mullally: There’s more to Sinn Féin’s sunny new outlook than meets the eyeThe party’s message of hope is a recognition that it must branch outMon Aug 15 2022 - 05:00
Una Mullally: Big Tech says ‘Jump’, Fine Gael responds ‘How high?’The risk to both our energy security and our climate targets is seen as secondary to the risk of corporation tax receipts drying upMon Aug 08 2022 - 05:00
Una Mullally: Seeing the pandemic from both sides now Joni Mitchell’s iconic song resonates as we process the wear and tear of recent yearsMon Aug 01 2022 - 05:00
Una Mullally: Sitka spruce dominates Irish ‘forests’ — this is both wrong and dangerousMore broadleaf forests means fewer and smaller forest fires. Why the drive to prioritise conifers?Mon Jul 25 2022 - 05:00
What we learned about lobbying in Ireland from the Uber FilesIn Ireland’s case, we can see how lobbying can quickly morph into political ventriloquism.Mon Jul 18 2022 - 00:00
Una Mullally: We are losing teachers who cannot afford to live hereYoung educators face insecure housing or long commutes from the same kind of childhood bedrooms their students go home toMon Jul 11 2022 - 01:00
Una Mullally: The positive upside to media fragmentation Important stories untouched by big organisations have been highlighted by smaller playersMon Jul 04 2022 - 07:19
Una Mullally: Fine Gael is completely disconnected and does not even realise it The party’s tactic of constantly attacking Sinn Féin only serves to boost the opposition partyMon Jun 27 2022 - 05:00
We need to see the manufactured debate on trans rights for what it is: nonsenseThose who think there’s a ‘point’ to this discourse, should look at who their allies are: Putin, ethno-nationalists, fundamentalist Catholics and the Christian rightMon Jun 20 2022 - 00:01
A predictable student accommodation crisis is coming. There is no planThis autumn will be an autumn of discontent for the Government. There will be mass protests over housingMon Jun 13 2022 - 05:55
Una Mullally: Money talks with Dublin City Council when it comes to spaces for artists What does it say about a broader value system when public buildings for artists seem to only be viable when there’s a large corporate entity involvedMon Jun 06 2022 - 05:00
Una Mullally: For top tier prices: Ireland, you can’t bate itIreland’s main attraction is the price of everything and the value of nothingMon May 30 2022 - 05:00
Una Mullally: Why it’s easier for female footballers to come outMen’s game – and men’s sport in general – is ignoring an obvious example to learn fromMon May 23 2022 - 01:00
Enough – The Violence Against Women and How to End It: Addressing the failingsBook review: Harriet Johnson has written a book of great lucidity, on a topic very familiar to usSun May 22 2022 - 06:00
Una Mullally: Shame and derision that strangled Irish language seems to have evaporatedThe shame and derision that once strangled the language appears to have evaporatedMon May 16 2022 - 01:00
Una Mullally: Politicians should reform libel laws instead of using themSinn Féin is misguided in placing itself in the same bracket as the elites it rails againstMon May 09 2022 - 01:00
Una Mullally: Small but sweet victories for Dublin cultural life welcome and overdueThe capital's Cobblestone pub and Capel Street saved by people powerMon May 02 2022 - 01:00
National Gallery staff told to ‘think hard’ about reaction to Aramark contractDeal with US company caused discontent among staff over links to direct provision systemThu Apr 28 2022 - 04:55
Una Mullally: What should we do when Senators go too far?Sharon Keogan has been spouting bizarre things online and in the Seanad for a whileMon Apr 25 2022 - 01:00
Una Mullally: Reaction to Sligo killings highlights a collective maturityDarkness will always descend, but does not have to be dominant tone of our landscapeMon Apr 18 2022 - 01:00
Una Mullally: Death of poster advertising another sign of Dublin’s cultural collapseOutdoor sites advertising independent cultural events are goneMon Apr 11 2022 - 01:00
Una Mullally: State must terminate ‘golden visa’ schemeBoosting coffers through sale of Irish residency is unethical filtration of migrantsMon Apr 04 2022 - 01:00
Una Mullally: Out of the pandemic, into a whole new age of fluxThe apparent end of one crisis has made way for joy but also a nagging sense of uneaseMon Mar 21 2022 - 01:00
Una Mullally: Ukraine crisis will not be solved by macho posturing against Irish neutralityBluster about acquiring military might will do little to aid UkrainiansMon Mar 14 2022 - 01:00
Sarah Grace: Sexual assault – my personal survival guideHer new book is not just an account of a vicious sexual assault, but a handbook on how to copeSat Mar 12 2022 - 06:00
Una Mullally: Labour must become the party of childcareIf Ivana Bacik replaces Alan Kelly as leader she will know key issues electorate demandsMon Mar 07 2022 - 01:00
Una Mullally: Blame for The 2 Johnnies controversy lies squarely with 2FMComedy duo were just doing their thing. The big mystery is: what was 2FM thinking?Mon Feb 28 2022 - 01:00
Demonstrators protest National Gallery links to direct provision catererSeveral groups cancel upcoming events at National Gallery in Aramark protestFri Feb 25 2022 - 20:43
Una Mullally: Planning system conspires to paint out muralsUrban landscapes are beautified by colour artistry on walls. But bureaucracy is a threatMon Feb 21 2022 - 01:00
Maeve Higgins: ‘Irish people are treated as some kind of miracle when they do well abroad’The comedian on making it in the US and Ireland’s ‘overlooked, undervalued’ womenSat Feb 19 2022 - 06:00
Una Mullally: State prefers rich Americans to struggling IrishCharlie Flanagan plan to lure US citizens to retire here insults our unhoused youthMon Feb 14 2022 - 01:00
Una Mullally: Hospitality insiders dismayed at scale of crisis facing sectorIndustry faces linked problems of inflation, low morale and a staffing crisisMon Feb 07 2022 - 01:00
Una Mullally: Banning of bedsits set in train housing disasterCheap form of city accommodation was replaced by pricey studios and one-bedsMon Jan 31 2022 - 01:00
