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Charlie Kirk’s murder is another step in a grim cycle in which abuse increasingly substitutes for argument and trust in democratic institutions erodes

Violence and harassment towards politicians has become an urgent democratic challenge in Ireland

People in their 20s and 30s are processing the impact of the recession and questioning how it affects them today

‘Whoever is buying the houses is driving up their prices, so who could it be?’ writes David McWilliams

Arrival of Gareth Sheridan and the withdrawal of Mairead McGuinness bookended the first week of real interest in the race for the Áras

Longlist of greenest places includes towns and villages from across Ireland, as well as suburbs

Report found that some frontline gardaí working in roads policing were openly “hostile” towards doing their jobs

State plans huge investment just as the financial outlook grows more uncertain

The Irish presidency is a difficult role to fill - as we’re now seeing

What does the future hold for one of Dublin’s most popular areas?

Ireland’s population has reached levels not seen since the Famine, highlighting the need for inclusive, forward-thinking policies

The key pillar of the Government’s response to housing pressures has been to stimulate the private sector to build more

Move to reduce rate to 9% will limit room for income tax measures

What makes this attack all the more significant is not just its scale, but the geopolitical context

Ireland’s corporate tax take and manufacturing base are looked on enviously not only from the US, but from Europe

College education attainment rates among under 35s in Ireland have transformed dramatically since 2000

Resignation of CBS News CEO the latest casualty in Donald Trump’s long, slow war on mainstream media

Uncertainty over Donald Trump’s tariffs is darkening the economic outlook

He has a ‘great, great desire to help the downtrodden and the disenfranchised’

Unseemly bickering between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael suggests absence of sense of purpose that might at least ameliorate crisis over course of Coalition’s term

The election of Pope Francis’s successor will be like no other

Seeing a sportsperson try and fail so many times makes the eventual success about much more than golf, writes Malachy Clerkin

David McWilliams takes a lap of honour in his column this week but is far from sanguine about the disruption unleashed by the White House

Ireland’s business model is in need of a complete rethink, writes Cliff Taylor

While Donald Trump prepares to announce swingeing tariffs, the lower house maintains its focus on parliamentary procedure

Minister’s admission to Dáil is indication that the Government’s housing policy is struggling

Despite Trump’s pledge not to do anything to hurt Ireland, his administration seems intent on pushing ahead with significant tariffs

In the digital age, algorithms are designed to confirm our pre-existing beliefs and shield us from alternative views

Oval Office meltdown showed that Trump’s administration has more or less aligned with that of Putin

The US has granted three of Vladimir Putin’s main demands before ceasefire talks even begin

Housing proposals this week show growing realisation by Government that scale of issue is simply beyond State’s resources

The firehose of non-stop announcements makes it difficult to distinguish the outlandish statement from the radical policy shift. Perhaps the US president himself does not always know the difference

While it is easy to dismiss ‘Trump being Trump’ there are clear signs of change internationally

IT Sunday: ‘Ireland is awash with cash and the Government has the opportunity to use this to push Ireland forward’

Flicking through the new programme for government similarities with its predecessor from 2020 are clear

As we are owned by a Trust, we have no billionaire proprietor interfering in editorial decisions and we are free to pursue the stories that matter even when - especially when - the most powerful people in society seek to stand in our way

Weeks ahead of his inauguration for a second term as president on January 20th, Donald Trump is already upsetting the calculations of America’s allies as well as its adversaries

Story of student who missed out in CAO lottery tops the charts as we look back at last 12 months

A look back at the year that was with elections at home and abroad and the ongoing war in Ukraine

While mortgage holders will welcome latest rate cut, Ireland’s runaway housing market would benefit from a period of high rates