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Seeing Israel use hunger as a weapon of war is monstrous to me as someone with a Holocaust legacy

By Oliver Sears

Is going to court worth it for personal injuries claimants? A lawyer and insurer go head to head on the issue

By Moyagh Murdock and Seán Guerin

Smoking ban has important lessons for Ireland’s approach to climate issues

By Sadhbh O'Neill

Hip surgery audit: How many more times will we hear ‘this can never happen again’?

By Priscilla Lynch

Wages for housework: If your job is working in the home, should you be paid a salary?

By Rachel O'Dwyer

Who was the real Mary of Nazareth and how did Christians come to believe she was a virgin?

By Brendan Butler

I showed my friends in Israel this photo of a starving baby in Gaza and asked them if they knew

By Paul Kearns

Sorry, kids. We blew your climate budget - but we really love our SUVs

By John Sweeney

Haiti paid France a costly ransom for independence. Some say it must be paid back

By Patrick Smyth

What the rows over skorts and public toilets reveal about Irish attitudes to equality

By Eilis Barry

‘KatKot’ chocolate and ‘Ugarit Cola’: What life in Syria was like under US sanctions

By Suad Aldarra

Why has it taken so long to develop a greenway for Dublin Bay?

By Eamon Ryan

Should you give pocket money to your children? Conor Pope and Rachel O’Dwyer debate

By Conor Pope and Rachel O'Dwyer

What Kim Kardashian and Gerard Depardieu tell us about France’s attitude to gender-based violence

By Sharon Gaffney

Is four too young to let my daughter go for a walk on her own?

By Clare Moriarty

This year is the 1,700th anniversary of a great church controversy

By Ian Ellis

Margot Friedländer’s family were murdered in Auschwitz. She returned to Berlin at 88 with a message

By Derek Scally

Donald Trump sounds more like a Chinese leader as he rejects the liberal world order

By Denis Staunton

Dublin City Council built just 35 social houses in 2024. That’s one symptom of a bigger problem

By Lorcan Sirr

Ireland says Israel is carrying out war crimes in Gaza. Now it must act

By Liam Herrick

Art can communicate messages about our dying planet that are otherwise hard to hear

By Sadhbh O'Neill

The State deploys the three Ds to silence whistleblowers: delay, deny, destroy

By Eddie Molloy

Want to understand what money does to your brain? Look at this photo

By Ian Robertson

Gazans now eat one meal every two or three days as Trump plans his ‘Riviera’

By Lara Marlowe

The US is discovering what it means to have an isolationist economy

By Patrick Honohan

Mary McAleese is right to call out Catholic Church over its exclusion of women from ordination

By John O'Loughlin Kennedy

Girls’ participation in sport falls off a cliff in their teens. The skorts row shows why

By Louise Lawless

In a world dominated by loud, divisive politics, the cardinals found an antidote in Pope Leo XIV

By Bronagh Ann McShane

James Browne has little power to fix the housing crisis. The status quo is in charge

By Gerard Howlin

Teachers want religion out of the classroom. Here’s what has to happen next

By Paddy Monahan

Jim O’Callaghan’s public theatrics mask the truth about asylum seeker deportations

By Madeleine Allen

Here’s a job for the next pope. Deliver us from climate apathy

By Eamon Ryan

Why didn’t Ireland stand up for Palestine at the ICJ?

By Alanna O'Malley

Ireland’s mobile saunas in danger of being killed off by red tape and bureaucratic confusion

By Áine Ryan

As a former beauty editor, the obsession with celebrities’ cosmetic enhancements makes me sad

By Laura Kennedy

Kneecap should be commended rather than condemned

By Vittorio Bufacchi

‘Tariffs’ is about to become the excuse for absolutely everything we don’t like

By Liz Carolan

Dietrich Bonhoeffer cast as a culture warrior for the right? That makes no sense

By Rev Martin Sauter

Donald Trump should kill off the myth of the first 100 days for good

By Hugh Linehan

In The Settlers, Louis Theroux does something we have rarely seen him do in 30 years of TV

By Mark O’Connell

Europe would be foolish to capitulate to US demands to pull away from China

By Bobby McDonagh

How China uses soft power to exert influence in Ireland

By Alexander Davey

Climate anxiety is like parenthood: you get used to living with constant worry

By Sadhbh O'Neill

Should plans to put cancer warning labels on alcohol go ahead? A doctor and a wine expert debate

By Frank Murray and Jean Smullen

The idea that immigration fuels Ireland’s housing crisis is wrong

By Michael Byrne

Airbnb landlords and holiday home owners are squeezing native speakers out of Gaeltacht areas

By Lorcan Sirr

Sorry seems to be the hardest word - but there’s much value in the honest introspection of Confession

By Alex Fegan

Race to succeed Pope Francis begins with his funeral, as informal alliances of cardinals emerge

By Bronagh Ann McShane

Returning home from Chad, I feel there’s a glitch in western empathy

By Patrick Freyne

Pope Francis was a man of love who ultimately took the timid path

By Mary McAleese