Comment: The right is unified in opposing the worthy successor to Higgins – Sinn Féin should support her
The political right hates Michael D Higgins – with good reason.
Paulie Doyle
Comment: Jim O'Callaghan is delivering the kind of cruelty against migrants promised by the extreme right
About two weeks ago in Tallaght a gang of young men brutally attacked a man from India as he walked down the street. Falsely accusing him of behaving inappropriately towards children, they ripped off his clothes and left him lying naked and bloodied on the pavement.
Comment: The Independent's 'misleading and self-promoting chronicle' of Veronica Guerin's death
On this day 29 years ago investigative journalist Veronica Guerin was driving on the Naas Road. As she waited at a red light a motorbike carrying two male passengers appeared next to her. They’d been tracking her after a court date about a speeding offence earlier that day.
Comment: Why did it take Micheál Martin almost two years to state the obvious?
He finally said it. After 19 months of avoidance and prevarication, taoiseach Micheál Martin acknowledged in Dáil Eireann what the public has known since October 2023: the state of Israel is committing genocide in Palestine.
Comment: Brendan McDonagh couldn’t fix a housing crisis he profits from and helped create
When I was 22 I applied for a job in Dunnes Stores, Rathmines. During the interview in a small office above the supermarket, a manager looked at my CV. “Seems fine – can you start tomorrow?” I was in luck. They needed someone.
Comment: The housing crisis is an attack on the possibility of community
A few years back I was spending a lot of time in a house in the Liberties. It was the residence of a woman I was dating and her roommate. I use the word residence because it didn’t feel like a home – it felt like the landlord might choose, at any moment, to turn it into an Airbnb.
Comment: Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are attacking democracy
In September 2023 Michael Healy Rae was walking on Kildare Street when he encountered a small group of protesters.
Comment: The Occupied Territories Bill – and its misrepresentation – is a matter of sovereignty
Micheál Martin has repeatedly misrepresented the status of legislation that would ban trade with Israeli settlements deemed illegal by the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
Comment: Special advisers are just higher paid political correspondents
In February 2019 political correspondent Hugh O’Connell wrote a piece about a trend that had “raised concerns” of a “brain drain”: Fine Gael hiring half a dozen journalists as special advisers in 18 months – a "brain drain", wrote O'Connell.
Comment: Denying Gerry Adams compensation protects British national myths
In March 1972 state forces in the north of Ireland arrested and interned a young man in Long Kesh. There, alongside dozens of other prisoners – mostly Catholics and Irish republicans – he endured imprisonment without trial.
Comment: Regulating soup runs is about hiding homeless people – not helping them
A spectre is haunting businesses across Dublin city – the spectre of visible poverty.
Comment: Trust me, I’m a professional
Professionals who regard time in politics as just another CV entry should be considered with suspicion.