Sometimes the memories are all you take with you into older age. And then dementia comes after them, stripping them away one by one

During every critically important sporting event, every ad break features an ad for gambling

I’m sorry to swim against the ride of conventional wisdom, but enough already. We don’t need more TDs. We need better politics. Our parliament is over-stuffed, over-male, over-middle class.

We watched a great little Irish movie on the telly the other night. Called Herself, it’s a movie full of hope and ambition, recovery and friendship.

I’m in Hudson Park, trying to banish negative thoughts, when something Vicky said occurs to me. Vicky is my daughter, and she works in backroom politics (not quite my backroom, alas, but that doesn’t stop her being a progressive and deep thinker).

It makes a villain out of no one, but would, I suspect, be genuinely inspiring to a lot of girls and younger women — and boys too

Joe Biden must stand up to Donald Trump's attempt to wrest power back or else the unthinkable will happen

Our present Government is getting closer and closer to an election in which it will be attacked every day for its failure to address the quality of life issues that beset us.

We must learn how to implement better to avoid going down the road that Trump and Johnson put their countries on

Libraries, and librarians, don’t just transform young lives. They offer shelter, comfort, warmth to older people, poorer people, lonely people