‘Unsubstantiated opinions’ and ‘empty rhetoric’ are not substitute for facts, says judge

High Court will rule on application to challenge coronavirus laws on Wednesday

Authority also tracking and reporting on how often the force uses new powers

Small children among crowd of around 50 supporters protesting Covid-19 restrictions

Applicants say laws amount to ‘effective suspension’ of citizens’ constitutional rights

People told to return home by officers and that they were breaking the 2km rule

Case by John Waters and Gemma O’Doherty is ‘one of most important in State’s history’, court hears

Supporters of Gemma O’Doherty and John Waters gathered as pair brought judicial review over Covid-19 restrictions

Rally by former workers was broken up, but large gathering was let remain in courts building

Kathy Sheridan: Ask hard questions but beware of dangers of change for sake of change

Political rhetoric of our time is conditioned by insult and hardly concealed violence

We hear about TV’s current Golden Age but Family was as great as anything today

Hunter embodied the clean-cut image but was forced to deny his gay sexuality for years

Naoise Nunn on the first Leviathan

When it comes to tournament telly, there’s only one Après Match

The authoritarian version of Catholicism is over. In other forms it is alive and well

In 1983, the conservative Catholic John Healy could also be a staunch opponent of the Eighth Amendment

Kerry TD reckons it’s okay to cut hedgerows, as birds are too smart to nest by busy roads

Review: The actor reaches a new level of lunacy in Brian Taylor’s film

A campaign to get Ireland to follow Britain out of the EU is doomed to fail