David Mcwilliams
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We must plan for a better society as we wade through a Slough of Despond
- Opinion
- January 12, 2021, 01:00
Government files under embargo have been opened and people are no doubt looking back, as we do every year, with that customary range of reaction to th(...)

Sinn Féin is still trying to wish away economic realities of a united Ireland
- Opinion
- November 19, 2020, 00:00
Economics should be the interesting and constructive part of discussing a united Ireland, elevating debate above sterile or dangerous arguments about (...)

Coronavirus response must not kill the futures of Ireland’s young
- Business
- September 25, 2020, 05:02
Regardless of whether you view the pandemic from a medical or economic perspective – or ideally, both – it is obvious Ireland is in a critical phase. (...)

Where Is George Gibney? raises the podcast bar but how to measure it?
- Culture
- September 5, 2020, 07:00
We’re still only in the second week of Where Is George Gibney?, the heartstopping new serial podcast produced by Mark Horgan and Ciaran Cassidy for BB(...)

David McWilliams: John Hume understood the power of credit
- Opinion
- August 8, 2020, 06:00
In Mickey Bradley’s book Teenage Kicks: My Life as an Undertone, the bass player reveals that without Derry Credit Union, set up by John Hume in 1960,(...)

Róisín Ingle: Do your patriotic duty and give in to your raging consumerist instincts
- People
- June 24, 2020, 06:00
Later, when the documentary we are living through is finished, part of the soundtrack of this particular episode will be all those radio ads telling u(...)

Virgin Media’s Gavan Reilly named most influential Irish journalist on Twitter
- Technology
- May 29, 2020, 01:00
Virgin Media political correspondent Gavan Reilly has been named Ireland’s most influential journalist on Twitter for 2019, topping a list of 100 user(...)

Pricewatch: Coronavirus has given us four categories of shopper
- Retail & Services
- May 25, 2020, 00:00
Over the last two months the speculation about where we are now and just how we will be scarred by the Covid-19 pandemic and the resulting economic co(...)

‘I’ve never seen anything like this in my 84 years but I’m not afraid’
- Health & Family
- May 24, 2020, 06:01
I’ve never seen anything like this in my 84 years. My father was alive in 1918. School pals of his, three of that family, lost their lives to the Span(...)

Paint, plants and paddling pools: what Ireland went wild for at the hardware store
- Homes & Property
- May 23, 2020, 06:00
When the doors finally opened at Woodie’s DIY after weeks of lockdown, buyers went wild for flowers, buying bagloads of geraniums making this old-fash(...)