Faulty assessments, unrealistic expectations and hazardous decisions are UK’s norm

Planning deadlines loom, building costs rise and not a block has been laid

Why every October, as nature is facilitating a natural adjustment to fading light, do we voluntarily hasten the onset of darkness?

In our rush to sympathise and praise we almost forgot Brexit is about immigration

Women-only posts plan triggers outrage but figures show deep-seated problem

McCabe and CervicalCheck episodes show harm done by political posturing

No heroic crusader, businessman knows very little and does not bother to find out

No individual should be allowed glide, unquestioned, through 14 years in the nation’s most prestigious job

Presidential campaigns often take a bad turn but this one is damaging the dignity of the office

Public realises bankers and politicians choose to keep them in the dark

US supreme court aspirant’s claims about his behaviour are not credible

Big political lies such as those in Brexit blight democracy by killing voters’ trust

Why can’t we just be pleased about the latest the UN development rankings?

Dissimulators, delusionals and fantasists get weeded out as competition intensifies

US president’s draft-avoider reaction to death of hero John McCain far from normal

Former president’s powerful intervention this week highlights the Church’s warped structure

Dogwhistle signal sent not by hack or clown but by former foreign secretary

A courteous, predictable and genteel version of England exists in the dreams of many who voted for Brexit

The coronation of the Leave-voting actor for his tirade about David Cameron is a new low

The behaviour of politicians such as Donald Trump and Boris Johnson reflects well on the Taoiseach

The devices are wonderful but they have evolved into a noxious antisocial habit

Latest ‘unguarded’ speech being ‘leaked’ at a moment of great vulnerability for his PM is quite a coincidence

Leavers finding rationale for their No decision under heavy challenge

Bishop Kevin Doran, John McGuirk and Declan Ganley just not accepting Yes vote

Referendum vote is set against a culture of women being shamed and silenced

Role of the church and its acolytes in public policy has cast long shadow over Irish life

Religious exploitation of toddler’s short life serves as warning ahead of vote on Eighth Amendment

Martine experienced two fatal foetal abnormalities – and made a different choice for each

Proposal shows bankers’ sense of entitlement has survived the banking winter

Belfast rape case generated charged exchanges between women

If people shrink from public debate due to its abusive tone that is a loss to democracy

Kathy Sheridan: Decent men who have influence stand up for those who don’t

A recent case in Ireland shows how workplace sexual harassment is alive and well

Cambridge Analytica exploited Facebook to get Donald Trump elected

Evangelical pulpit-thumping fanboys unlikely to be too impressed

Latest threats to supply highlight argument our politicians are too scared to make

Vested interests behind distorted Brexit reporting in British newspapers

Cyberattacks and social media threats show the benefits of traditional democracy

Kathy Sheridan: Why does Ukip’s chief dog whistler still accept a €100,000 EU salary?

Ex-‘Daily Mirror’ editor simpers where credible journalists bring predators to account

Fianna Fáil leader gives party pause for thought by rejecting easy certainties

Kathy Sheridan: #MeToo is a revolution, and ‘guilty because accused’ has kicked in

Kathy Sheridan: Ignorant shoutiness emerged as the motif of 2017

Everyone deserves a few days free of anger, home truths, sniping and whataboutery

Blustering have-your-cake-and-eat-it Brexit brigade blunders on regardless

State aged 100 near top of world rankings for education, innovation and quality of life

Infantile ideas like Ireland should pay for Border part of UK cultivating obtuseness

Common thread of responses to recent revelations is to attempt to minimise them

Laurence McKeown is using a blanket from the Maze to make a different kind of statement

Varadkar’s shared Twitter photo with a llama could be media savvy or just a bit childish

Kathy Sheridan: It is vital to distinguish targeting a gender from brutal abuse of power

Social media users who dislike the law should campaign to have it changed

Comments by politicians with no scientific basis must be exposed in public as fake

Weinstein scandal could be a watershed moment in the fight against sexual harassment

As usual, the focus is already shifting from the accused to the behaviour of his accusers

The Dubliner on the savagery of school, how being famous is easy in Ireland, and getting older

Twenty years on from Diana’s paparazzi- hounded passing, Kathy Sheridan looks behind the myth

Yiannopoulos, Scaramucci and now the US president have all got in touch with their feelings

The writer has been spewing evidence-free bile about women for decades

The issue of gender pay equality comes down to fairness and fundamental social values

If age is only a number, when is it okay to use that culturally loaded term ‘old’?

Labour leader may have handled the Grenfell disaster better but he is flawed too

Prime minster has shown contempt for the 48 per cent who voted Remain

Irish hubris, Portuguese charm and British arrogance were all in the contest’s limelight

From Karen Pence to Philip May, the relevance of political partners is at a low

She claims Bill Cullen’s business and thousands of others could have been saved

Says coverage of her court action against Bill Cullen over house in Kerry is missing the point

A decade of reporting without ‘conscience’ has persecuted the missing child’s parents

Facebook's Sandberg on coping with the sudden death of her husband Dave Goldberg and why she wrote her new book 'Option B'

Kathy Sheridan: Support for hard-right candidate a sign of media desperation

When we dump traditions we should at least be clear about our reasons for doing so

Trump and Brexit supporters seem unconcerned by breaches of trust with electorate

The city’s story is encapsulated in a short walk from the centre along the Ormeau Road

Many who kill in the name of religion have a history of assault on wives and partners

Shame has long been used to control women in Ireland so why won’t it work on Trump?

The UK has been sold down the river in a proxy war between Tory public schoolboys

Scandal disproves defence that the Catholic Church did wrong but was trying to do good

In the social media world the heart always wins over the head – but it shouldn’t

The not-grumpy-at-all director on being nominated for a best picture Oscar for ‘The Crying Game’ and how a serious injury led him (...)

‘Perhaps the mere talk of generational change has the handy side-effect of deleting the past’

Film shines light on trials and joys of pupils and teachers at unique Headfort school

Criminalising the purchase but not the sale of sex does not make the industry legitimate

After six years of potshots at Fianna Fáil, we must now witness the unmasking of a crush

Gail O’Rorke, acquitted of assisting in the suicide of Bernadette Forde, tells of the ‘nightmare’ that followed her friend’s death

Women’s March proved the need to keep protesting the US’s evolving horror show

TV coverage provided it all: Melania’s heels, all-white daughters and a question for Hillary

In 2009, the air in Washington DC was filled with joy - Friday will be different

US president-elect has had thousands of hours of airtime for his flights of ignorance

Some once-notorious hospitals have battered the problem into some degree of submission

Helping homeless people is expensive, time consuming and requires real commitment

Tough and driven, the travel entrepreneur disrupted the entire Irish industry

How much have we learned about abuse, silence, societal indulgence and power?

Some 62% of female voters opted for Van der Bellen (72) who is backed by Green Party

Our elected leaders should be less effusive about foreign leaders – living or dead

‘Even when winners are caught out in direct lies, there is no shame, and none is expected’

Donald Trump won amid a complete disregard for what he was actually saying

Recent distortions recall the way an earlier female US presidential candidate was treated

We all have the right to offend but not a licence to be coarse and vulgar

Writing is bad for family life, says the Irish author. ‘You take so much. I wouldn’t have been able to live with me’

Determined Olive Foley gives extraordinary 14-minute eulogy recalling ‘true soul mate’