The Irish Heart Foundation puts it simply: ‘Stop targeting children’

Some disturbing practices flourished when Cosgrave’s government was in office

Republicans have a long history with Catalan nationalists, despite their significant differences

Vote on contraception backed up reputation for having ‘deeply pious old head on young shoulders’

Diarmaid Ferriter on ‘Wounds: a memoir of war and love’ by Fergal Keane

Diarmaid Ferriter: Even with Brexit looming both sides opt for hand-holding

Diarmaid Ferriter: We’re in for more of the same. The human cost will be devastating

Diarmaid Ferriter: This book distills a huge range of perspectives in an accessible format

There is no more appropriate place for the Yeats papers than the National Library

Governments have the desire to solve housing issues, but refuse to face down vested interests

The line about the Public Services Card is part of a grand Irish tradition

Conflict constructs societies and we must respect statues that articulate history

Pluralism was a strength but he never pushed himself – or others – hard enough

Liam Weeks’s overview of Independent politics since 1922 rectifies a long-standing neglect

Kevin Myers, Brian Cowen and fairy forts – my holiday listening was a revelation

The Taoiseach should define climate change as the most important challenge we face, because it is

Church, State and Social Science in Ireland review: Peter Murray and Maria Feeney details the church's attempts to control researc(...)

De Valera and his team created a robust, adaptable and sophisticated document

Shane Ross’s Bill will not serve justice and is not designed for balance in decision-making

Irish policing is firmly wedded to politics but it has not been a successful marriage

Will Theresa May’s newfound interest in Ireland pay dividends?

Liam Kirwan’s ‘inside’ look is repetitive, hectoring and devoid of nuance or context

State may be on the verge of a new property collapse as the last one remains unresolved

The orders have profited spectacularly at the expense of community welfare

Diarmaid Ferriter: Duracell-bunny Fine Gaelers lack philosophical reflection

Kenny as Taoiseach mostly presided and chaired rather than initiated

Diarmaid Ferriter reviews ‘Havoc: The Auxiliaries in Ireland’s War of Independence’

Can a university have a soul and be driven by priorities other than rankings?

With a ‘bloody difficult woman’ negotiating Brexit, Ireland will need to play hardball too

Sisters of Charity benefited greatly from the sweepstakes yet retain ownership of the hospital

Teachers subjected to two-tier pay system that is compete antithesis of equality

Fianna Fáil’s somersaults on the water issue are as cynical as anything seen in Irish politics

FAI row shows how female protesters always raise the hackles of the men in charge

Minister is wrong: former taoiseach was a hard-working, interventionist politician

Ruthless he was, but crude stereotypes do not do justice to the man or the times

Former Bishop of Kerry was a highly compartmentalised man in his 1970s heyday

The British establishment lacked consistency while the Free State washed its hands

Ireland’s long moral panic led to extraordinary and dehumanising situations

Book review: Shashi Tharoor’s angry history of British rule in India is a timely response to empire nostalgia

There are still powerful bureaucrats in the Vatican who think they know best

British foreign secretary’s response to 1916 celebrations betrays an empire mindset

Latest inquiry recalls State’s controversial handling of Kerry Babies case

Its history is one of turf wars, appeasing vested interests and scaremongering

Brian Murphy’s book show how Ireland’s first president set the tone for the office

New three-year plan contains too many commitments and not enough priorities

Irish negotiating about Brexit should look to lessons from history

TK Whitaker, who has died at 100, said things to ministers that other public servants would not, and his hard-hitting memos often (...)

There is growing resistance to the notion that the sale of people’s debts was necessary

What may be an enjoyable slice of nostalgia pie for Trinity graduates may leave others with indigestion, suggests Diarmaid Ferrite(...)

There is precedent for Taoiseach taking on foreign affairs challenge but he must bring coherence and planning

Priorities include an end to direct provision, child poverty – and Roy Keane’s beard

Hundreds of internees from the Rising returned to an already changing Ireland

Since the foundation of the State, its relationship with the arts has been ambiguous

Questions over ownership of historic note that was up for auction will come up again

Irish policy towards Cuba hardened under Lemass and did not soften until 1995

Ireland has long history of destroying documents and understaffing institutions

Kenny is a ruthless survivor with no vision and Martin’s FF is entrenched in tribalism

In dealing with the incoming US president, Ireland should not let self-interest rule

Dismissals of claims that Brexit could damage peace process are worrying

How the whip system has reduced the Dáil to a galley of whipped voting slaves

We have had a number of ‘mission statements’ over the past 100 years, but have any visions become reality?

The former president should follow the practice of her predecessors and donate her papers to the National Library, the National Ar(...)

Ryanair boss is an ideological soulmate for the party that talks centre but thinks right

In ‘The Battle’, the Munster, Ireland and British and Irish Lions powerhouse has written an honest memoir of his battle-scarred li(...)

They may have experienced racism but Irish migrants have a history of attacking others too

Mary Mitchell O’Connor’s blunder latest in series of botched efforts to connect with emigrants

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Selected personal testimonies make for a picture of Irish life that undercuts ‘official’ history

Many library users need assistance and libraries have to be staffed by those with knowledge to be true to their mission

The determination of politicians, not to do what is best for the environment or what is equitable, but what is most popular is und(...)

Abuse survivor Mannix Flynn wants name changed, but is that such a good idea?

Dollar Exports Advisory Committee called for tax concession on profits from exports

President was right to speak of the need to recognise the atrocities committed by both sides

Diarmaid Ferriter on Tom Inglis’s book unravelling why we Irish are the way we are

On this day 35 years ago, INLA hunger striker Michael Devine died in the Maze prison, the tenth and last of the hunger strikers to(...)

‘Ironically, given his profile during and after Bloody Sunday, Daly was wary of political involvement’

I wonder where all this data goes. What is done with it and by whom?

Blair believed he had a moral certainty and a purpose that was superior to the anti-war movement

Younger unionists keen to stay in EU may feel less trenchant about their unionism

Thatcher insisted that it was highly damaging ‘to try to suppress nationhood’

Arrogant self-certainty is central to Trump’s campaign, but it is more sinister than that

Civil servants kept the ‘boastful, bombastic man’ away from ageing president

Mistakes made dealing with subversion in the 1970s should not now be made in reacting to gangland crime

Winston Churchill’s long, complex, contradictory relationship with the Irish is explored in a new book. The conclusions are intere(...)

There is a shallowness and hypocrisy about the Irish Government’s current mission

One Inishbofin fisherman’s battle is relevant in Brexit debate

But it is unacceptable that some un-baptised children are treated like second-class citizens in school choice

The State got a lot of things right during the 1916 commemorations, including the decision to invest in the Military Archives

This great, mammoth collection shows how Irish revolutionary writers sang from one hymn sheet, writes Diarmaid Feritter

But he believed the answers to Ireland’s problems lay in the here and now

The letters sent to Luas workers invokes the ghost of the 1913 Dublin lock out

The challenge is to provide a contemporary response to the points addressed by Blythe in 1927 and Kelly in the 1970s

It is time to face up to the fact that we still have to make good on the promises of 1916

A visceral collection of pieces by modern Irish writers depicts another side of 1916

“Trump voters are a coalition of the dispossessed. The American system is not working for them”

Insightful studies of the men who signed the Proclamation are undermined by lack of rigour

We could all benefit from women discussing how we should be governed

Missing home? Not feeling your Irishness? Here come Luke Kelly, Christy Moore and The Blades to the rescue

This week schoolchildren will be asked to draw up their own proclamations

‘Richie Ryan had no time for well-heeled whingers who formerly owned posh department stores’