Charlie Haughey

The writer and broadcaster Sam McAughtry, formerly of this parish among others, would have been 100 on Wednesday. Born in Belfast on March 24th, 1921,(...)

You just cannot overstate how important this week was for the Greens. The Climate Action Bill was published. This is not just another programme for (...)

Tributes have been paid to one of the country’s longest serving RNLI volunteers who is stepping down after almost half a century of life saving includ(...)

More than four decades – shamefully – now separate us from the initial, courageous effort made by Mary Robinson and others to spotlight and remedy the(...)

RTÉ catches a lot of flack over the uneven quality of its scripted drama and comedy but one genre at which the broadcaster has long excelled are docum(...)

Career politicians and highly paid sports people writing their memoirs should not get significant tax exemptions aimed at “starving artists in the gar(...)

In one respect at least, Margaret Thatcher has caught up with her political hero. Like Winston Churchill (always “Winston” to the eventual Baroness), (...)

The row over the treatment of sensitive information currently in the possession of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation has raised mu(...)

Late on Tuesday evening, 10 or so Fianna Fáil TDs, mostly drawn from those elected to the Dáil for the first time last February, congregated in a corn(...)

There was no Puck Fair in Killorglin this year, for obvious reasons. To misquote Bach, goats could safely graze in the surrounding mountains, for once(...)