An Irishman’s Diary

President recalls his involvement in campaigns for women’s and Travellers’ rights

Ireland fails to preserve the records that constitute public memory

Xi Jinping suggests countries seek solution to Irish businessman’s detention

We are sorely lacking the tools to adequately address the Covid-19 challenges ahead

Catherine O’Halloran believes State has done ‘little’ in trying to free her deteriorating son

His family stayed silent for 18 months while Richard O’Halloran was held in China. Now they are speaking out

Shane Ross has a barbed confrontation with Regina Doherty... and a cosy chat with Brendan O’Connor

Signed first edition by JP Donleavy among lots from former home of Days Bazaar owners

Rite&Reason: At 90, he never ceases to generate original thought, profound and quizzical

Wife of Dublin businessman urges Government to intervene amid fears for his health

The broadcaster, who retired on Friday, looks back on his career high and low points

“At 9.19 on way back to College, at bottom Grafton St, we met Charlie Haughey”

Trinity students’ provocative decision to raise the Union flag led to riotous scenes

On a potential vaccine: ‘the air is thick with absurd promissory notes and dates of delivery’

Mark FitzGerald urges new government to prioritise building 140,000 A-rated units

Two parties rose out of Anglo-Irish Treaty but today their ideology overlaps considerably

US showing every indication it will outstrip China in cases, says Prof Garret FitzGerald

Conspiracy thriller set in counterfactual 1970s Ireland plays out as screwball comedy

There are important strategic challenges ahead in post-Brexit EU

Former Seanad member fell out with Charles Haughey, had a blazing row with Garret Fitzgerald and felt let down by Bertie Ahern

Mallon always pursued what he considered the right thing to do for Northern Ireland

Vote may be the most intense FF-FG contest since Haughey-FitzGerald – but that is not all

Former Northern Ireland secretary highly critical of Thatcher and unionists

State Papers: Haughey and Thatcher only held one hour of discussions in the year

FG leader becomes party’s fifth-longest-serving Taoiseach on Christmas Day

Sheila O’Leary shared the unique distinction with the former Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald

Kathleen Mary Napoli was so trusted during the War of Independence that she accompanied the treaty delegation to London

Biographer’s third volume on former prime minister says she viewed Ireland with some suspicion

Exhibition on Dublin Central TD’s life to run in local library for several weeks

‘Why didn’t the British focus on the fact that they had an extensive land border with the EU? Because it was in Ireland.’

From the Archives: Ann Lovett, Joanne Hayes, Majella Moynihan – all victims of the highly conservative society of 1984

The First Dogs are more than ice-breakers, ‘they’re also a great source of wisdom’

Irish representatives have one good point to make on the issue, but keep making bad ones

Collins came from ‘Redmondite tradition’, says former taoiseach John Bruton

Diarmaid Ferriter: Fine Gael needs to back up its rhetoric on the North

Former minister’s son wants to see party run candidates in North within 10 years

Analysis: Records suggest she was irascible on Ireland, shallow and very often uncertain on detail

How a former taoiseach’s efforts to save the Dublin cafe chain led to a row with a minister