Chatting to people on Leeside about what happened in Dublin revealed some interesting attitudes

With regard to the rise of the far-right here, hysteria serves no one but complacency is not our friend

Forget all the talk about resignations, we must look into the reasons people feel anger

Just why Ireland has such a supply of men high on unjustified anger, and ready to take action on what they wrongly perceive to be injustice, is worth examination

Cloning himself in an AI experiment left our columnist feeling uncomfortable: 'There was something inexplicably dark about what was going on'

Garda management has major questions to answer, while regulation of social media companies can wait no longer

Lengthy list of sitting TDs all rumoured to be interested in Europe

Drew Harris asserts 'no one could have anticipated' the violence but to reporters on the scene it was clear major trouble was afoot and the siren call was out on social media since 2.30pm

The reversal of plans to raise the pension age to 68 shows appalling political handling and leaves us to pretend we can continue as is by hiking PRSI, writes Mick Clifford

There’s a time and place for everything and I put being kind above being right

‘Builder on the Roof’: an ingénue comes to Cork and wonders aloud why the city is full of derelict properties in the middle of a housing crisis

Our challenge remains to use the law to prevent hate speech, but not in a way that unduly curbs or politicises free speech

Some years ago, back when I worked in Barnardos, my colleague Meriel Reeves told me that David Norris had asked her for a favour (I think they had a personal connection). He was distraught, he said, because his barber had just retired.

Rich people rarely know precisely what they’re paid

Leo Varadkar's call in the wake of the Ashling Murphy case to build more prisons is a deflection from his government's failure to act on giving judges more sentencing powers

RTÉ is now in checkmate. Shrinking its extravagant output is its only way out of debt, writes Gareth O'Callaghan

It will be a slow and difficult task to reach a point where both sides in the conflict can see one another as human again

The uncomfortable truth is that murderers and rapists are humans with human stories

The council wants additional research. That means more costs, and all to establish something we all know. They’re a waste of money

Since the outbreak of Israel-Hamas war the internet has been flooded with disinformation, misinformation, fabrications, and doctored imagery

Day after day it gets worse, more merciless, more shaming. It could be a spiral into hell

Parents who ignore destructive behaviour are merely fuelling the fire

TD Chris Andrews' decision to initiate legal action against a newspaper and journalist puts further spotlight on Sinn Féin’s relationship with the media

At the party ard fheis in the Athlone-based Technological University Shannonside (TUS), there was standing room only

It’s human nature to take sides in war. But by supporting one side, we are allowing ourselves not to acknowledge that atrocities have been carried out by both warring parties.