THE crisis facing community and voluntary organisations as we go into April is not a new story. Following Brexit (remember that?) many groups, organisations and citizens warned that this would happen....

THE crisis facing community and voluntary organisations as we go into April is not a new story. Following Brexit (remember that?) many groups, organisations and citizens warned that this would happen....

It is impossible to imagine a world without violence against women. Impossible to even imagine living in a region where women might be safe. In a week where we see Natalie McNally’s murderer Gareth Mc...

Political unionism is a study in small man syndrome. You don’t even need to be male, but you do need a brass neck. Sometimes you wonder if they just do it to get some high off feeling righteous, or ar...

The issue of the definition of victims and survivors must be the most tawdry and reductive part of our political discourse.

IN this century law and society has determined that definitions of sexual violence are expanded to include the range of harms actually experienced, to ensure victims are at the heart of processes, rat...

COLONIALISM is back, baby! And it's as greedy and inhumane as it ever was.

WHEN the American Department of Homeland Security ICE militia murdered Renee Nicole Good they followed a tried and tested method for state murder: justification and cover-up.

IF you live in the South of Ireland you live in a state where 63% of young people go to third level education. In West Belfast it is 29.7%, the lowest in the North.

IN a long 164 pages that spends much time justifying its own existence and approach, the Kenova Report will leave many people wondering how £40 million could be spent by the state investigating histor...

IN August 1993, Sinn Féin in Belfast marched for the first time to Belfast City Hall. It was a seminal moment, led by republican women, when the right to march, assemble and express republican opinion...

THERE are things that seem like a really good idea at the time but then experience prompts us to ask if they really are.

WHEN Mary Robinson was first elected to the Presidency there was a sense of “shift”. The South of Ireland gave its first sign that it was breaking the hegemony of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, and was mo...

THE combined actions and inactions of the DUP and the Orange Order this week tell of a unique local psychosis of being at once deeply insecure and at the same time incredible arrogant. How lovely to h...

IDENTIFIED as firmly a voice for the dispossessed and marginalised, Uachtarán Catherine Connolly has caught a mood that has been simmering but lacking confidence for too long. Its day has come and Ire...

MAYBE Justice Lynch felt he was acknowledging the Bloody Sunday families when he spoke of the Parachute Regiment’s actions in Derry 1972 being a source of shame. However, referring to the “proud reput...

IT is so clearly not a peace deal. It is so clearly a pause of uncertainty, of unfairness, of threat and of inequality.

IT'S hard to sum up the absolute car crash of the Southern Presidential election in ways that are kind, positive or contributory right now. With what were three pretty underwhelming candidates, who co...

BERLIN 1989. The communist efidice is crumbling. Citizens of the country decide to hop over the Berlin Wall and some start taking out the Kangol hammers.

THE September air turned crisp this week as we were reminded that despite the turmoil of the world, the seasons will come, and the earth will remind us of the forces greater than our imagination.

Only a third of world’s river basins experienced normal conditions in 2024: Increasingly erratic water cycle is creating food scarcity, rising prices, conflict and migration, says UN agency Only a third of the world’s river basins experienced normal conditions last year as the climate cri...

Data showing the specific movement of tens of thousands of smartphones in Ireland is available to purchase within the digital marketing and advertising industries, an undercover Prime Time investigati...

THE democratic process is a wonderful thing – and the vote for an Irish President all the more so.

ONE of the surprises of Féile this year was the repeated reference to Irish neutrality and the passionate response every time it was mentioned. It became clear by the end of the week that this is an i...

“The last words I heard him speak were ‘Papa, I am hungry'."

AT a Féile event exploring the contents of the book Lost Gaels, GAA President Jarlath Burns began his remarks by asking the audience to remember three more Lost Gaels, Vanessa Whyte and her children J...

HANNAH Arendt spent every day at the trial of Adolf Eichmann, the miner’s son and travelling salesman who was architect of the 'Final Solution'. Her observations on the cold, mundane nature of evil be...

THE youngest sent me a shopping list recently. It included 'salad cream'. Excuse me? Ours is a mayo house (not in football of course)! What was this?

Orange lodge among those opposed to cross-community sports event due to ‘perceived move of the GAA into the local community’

THE Vice President for Research of Dublin City University, last week produced the first peer-reviewed paper on the true costs of Irish unification.