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Tuesday 19 June 2018

'The Government's scoping inquiry, headed by Dr Gabriel Scally, is tasked with finding out some of the basic facts.' Photo: Mark Condren

Playing blame game sets us up for failure

The State giveth, the State taketh away. If it's taking away a square metre of your front garden this could net you €25,000. Those less lucky, whose cancers were not detected in a screening programme, and who were then not informed when it was discovered that their...

Fortnite: ‘It’s not like the game where they kill prostitutes,’ said one parent

Comment

Addictive Fortnite fad is so much more than the latest craze for young children

Have you seen a kid do the Floss yet? Even the kids who aren't playing Fortnite, where it originated, are doing this dance which, if you think about it too much, seems to be about flossing your crotch.

SEEKING POWER: Mary Lou McDonald with Michelle O’Neill after giving her keynote speech at the Sinn Fein Ard Fheis last night. Photo: Charles McQuillan/Getty

Comment

Sinn Fein has lust for power but just can't find a partner

Lust is a strange emotion that brings endless potential - but none of the risks of true love.

Eoghan Harris

Prince Charles not the only one who needs history lessons

Charles and Camilla's visit was another small blow against the Anglophobia that continually lurks at the lumpen level of Irish society.

Comment

College apartheid continues, 40 years after we voted for change

Few residents of north, west and inner-city Dublin, and similar communities throughout the country, will get to attend NUI or Trinity College Dublin. If you live in Dublin 4, 6, or Dublin South County and some parts of North Dublin, you are many times more likely to go to university than residents of other postal...

INCLUSIVE: Arlene Foster wants DUP to broaden appeal Pic: AFP/Getty

Ruth Dudley Edwards

The plates may be moving, but who knows in which direction

As I was ruminating on the implications of Leo Varadkar allegedly telling Fine Gael TDs that "the plates are shifting in Irish politics", I accidentally came across a news item about a Dungannon hurling club that made me laugh - but also provided insight into the big issue.

'There was further related good news last week, with news that the pace of rent increases is slowing, up less than 2pc in the last six months, the numbers of homeless 'rough sleepers' down 40pc, and the numbers in emergency accommodation also levelling off.' Photo: Brian Lawless

Editorial

Looking for a light at end of the tunnel

Authoritative analysis by the Central Statistics Office that the number of new homes built in the State has been overstated for several years by almost 60pc is dismaying but not surprising to the many engaged in the property market seeking to purchase a home, but neither should sight be lost of the fact that there has been an increase of 75pc in the number of new...

Trader Gregory Rowe feels the strain as he works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange — US stocks fell with other markets around the world last Friday after the Trump administration stepped up the trade dispute with China. Photo: AP

Dan O'Brien

The truth about globalisation - and its mistaken discontents

Ireland is the biggest tax haven in the world. That was the claim made by two foreign academics in recent days. They say that globalised companies here and elsewhere around the world are dodging taxes in mind-boggling amounts.

Water features are in big demand as are exotic garden statues like Buddhas and naked women. Photo: Gerry Mooney

Comment

A garden boom is in full swing as we splash out on grooming home grounds

Last week, some Irish homeowners were informed they might have to sacrifice part of their gardens for Dublin's new rapid bus network - but for the rest, it's boom time in the home grounds

Declan Lynch

By now, the writing is on the wall - or at least it's on the World Cup wallchart

In the film Invictus, the fictional Nelson Mandela was starting to get absorbed in the Rugby World Cup of 1995, filling in the wallchart in his office as if performing a solemn duty of State.

A statue of Pope Francis in a shop window in Knock, Co Mayo. Photo: Tony Gavin

Comment

Fervour, faith and a fibreglass Francis as Knock gets ready

It was the lavish refurbishments, rather than any particular apparition in the sky, that gave the people of Knock the impression they were in for The Second Papal Coming.