Ireland’s long-standing traditional thinking of a woman’s place being the home has drastically affected the number of women being elected to public office.
Jumping into the slot of Dublin GAA football team manager, taking over from five-time All-Ireland champ Jim Gavin, there's no hiding for Dessie Farrell.
For a country that has had such a long and painful history of emigration, the growth in racism and hate crimes over the past couple of years has been unprecedented.
The wildly ill-advised State commemoration for the RIC isn't just historical revisionism, it's a mind-bending effort to stand reality square on its head.
What Ireland is left with now is a solution that avoids a land border but risks an economic meltdown. Whether we made the right choice will become clear later this year.
This is actually the twelfth successful year of the annual theater festival, a month-long series of Irish arts events in New York City that runs from January 7 to February 3.
Irish government deferred their commemoration of the Royal Irish Constabulary, the Irish police force who kept the peace for the British from 1822 to 1922.
For this child of 1960s Ireland listening to Larry Gogan play pop songs was a lifeline, bring the beautiful music of the swinging sixties into Irish homes before the arrival of record players.
