Willie Kealy I have a solution to the problem of libel for newspaper publishers and others in similar positions of responsibility in the media - establish the Wheel of Defamation.
Andrew Lynch Patrick Kielty used to have a lot of fun at the IRA's expense. When the peace process took hold in the mid-1990s, the stand-up comedian from Co Down (whose father was murdered by loyalist gunmen)...
Jennifer Rubin President Donald Trump tweeted, "Our relationship with Russia is at an all-time & very dangerous low. You can thank Congress, the same people that can't even give us HCare!"
Frank Coughlan First the outrage and then the contrition. Both came from the heart, and that's the crux of the problem with Kevin Myers. He's part bad apple, part good egg.
Mark Daly TK Whitaker was voted 'Irish Man of the 20th Century'. He wrote the policy that was followed by successive governments that laid the economic foundations of the modern Irish State.
John Boland The best-paid 10 at RTÉ are now getting 34pc less than they were nine years ago. That's the good news. The bad news is they're still making astronomical amounts.
Johnny Fallon Back in our school days, we learned in science class that 'for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction'.
Sinead Moriarty My cousin is pregnant with her first baby, a boy. "Any advice?" she asked me. "Any helpful hints?"
Matthew Lynn Ten to one? Five to one? Actually, it is a lot closer than that. The bookies now rate the chance of Donald Trump being impeached at just 4/6, which means it is more likely to happen than not.
Daniel Sugarman I remember it happening quite vividly. I was in a lecture theatre at university, waiting for a lesson to start, when I got into a conversation with an acquaintance of mine. The conversation...
Sinead Ryan There's a difference between being old and feeling old. I'm happy to admit the former and had suspicions of the latter until I went to the Punchestown Musical Festival at the weekend. A previous...
Dearbhail McDonald The first and last time I laughed (albeit nervously) at anything involving the word Jew was last April when Melissa McCarthy, of 'Saturday Night Live', parodied Sean Spicer, former press...
Margaret Donnelly Any moves on the Fair Deal scheme which could benefit farmers with large assets but low incomes are to be welcomed.
Gerry O’Regan A deeply troubled relationship with his father, may hold the key to the sense of inner rage, which has permeated the persona of Kevin Myers over so many years.
Eoin O'Malley Some 73.6pc of statistics are made up. I just made that one up. When we're in a pub, precise data can magically appear in our head and we sound very knowledgeable, until challenged.
Liam Collins The first time those outside the trucking business heard about Robert 'Pino' Harris was a grainy, black and white BBC documentary back in the late 1960s. It showed a priest walking along a line of Hino trucks waving his aspergillum vigorously as he shook Holy Water over the assembled fleet before they were exported from the North...
Donal Lynch In a way, maybe it was a little early for the rehabilitation of Brian Cowen. Americans are just now allowing George W Bush airtime to twinkle and reminisce, but they have Donald Trump as a present-...
Eilis O'Hanlon It was Sherlock Holmes who, investigating a tricky case, drew attention to the "curious incident of the dog in the night time".
Tim Stanley Poor Charlie has died. Whatever one thinks of the debate surrounding his life, that's all that matters now. A life is gone. Those left behind have to be given the space to grieve. Politics...
Eilis O'Hanlon Vincent Browne will be a great loss - to Twitter. Every night his TV3 show would be one of the top trending topics in Ireland on the social media site. The hashtag #vinb would draw those who are mad...
Kenneth Starr Mr President, please cut it out. Tweet to your heart's content, but stop the wildly inappropriate attacks on the attorney general. An honourable man, whom I have known since his days as a US...
Paul Melia What's perhaps most galling for the people of Louth and Meath is the fact that their current troubles could have been avoided had successive governments properly invested in the water network.
Barbara Scully A recent poll illustrated that voters are still very divided over whether to remove article 41.2 from the Constitution, a question that may well be put to the electorate in the near future. In the...
Bill Linnane 'American Psycho' is a difficult read. From its initial release more than a quarter of a century ago, it has divided readers with its jet-black satire, misogyny and violent nihilism. However, for many,...
Joe Healy If only every farmer would pause as they go about their daily tasks and ask themselves the question - what can go wrong here? Thirty seconds may be all it takes to save a life.
Ralph Riegel The graphic nature of the prosecution's murder trial opening took even veteran American reporters by surprise.
Can Dündar The police came in the early hours. Everyone was asleep. It was twilight.
Ryan O'Rourke When I got an internship straight out of college I was beyond delighted, but there were two problems; it was minimum wage and it was in Dublin.
Maria Steen What do Ryan Gosling, Agatha Christie and the Williams sisters have in common? They were all homeschooled. Irish interest in home- schooling is rising. Figures published last week by Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, suggest that the number of children educated at home has almost doubled since 2011.
Brendan Murphy Yesterday the Central Statistics Office released the Small Area Population Statistics dataset (SAPS), the most fine-grained geographical population data available from Census 2016. This...
Frank Coughlan Anyone of a certain age will remember the excitement and anticipation when they first slid the album out of its sleeve and gently, carefully and precisely put it on the turntable.
Michael Kelly Pope Francis recently caused amusement when he erected a sign on the door to his Vatican apartment, reading "No complaining!" and warning that violators suffered from "a syndrome of always...
Eddie Cunningham Mercedes' decision to recall three million diesel vehicles for an emissions software update is being regarded in some circles as an attempt to take the heat out of a sustained investigation by...
Letters to the Editor Some 300 Irish people have grown their wealth by more than €100bn, our national media stated in April 2017. There is stark contrast when one reads in the Social Justice Ireland report of an...
Sinéad Moriarty I recently called into a friend, a teacher, for coffee. I could barely get in the front door due to the towering boxes of scented candles. The smells were mingling together and frankly making an awful...
Philip Ryan It used to be all about the people but now it seems to be all about Paul. Paul Murphy that is. Paul is Ireland's modern day Nelson Mandela with a megaphone.
Niall Stanage The eldest son has done most damage. US President Donald Trump was pitched into the biggest crisis of his controversy-plagued White House tenure last week. His namesake, Donald Trump Jr, was...
Declan Lynch I had a summer job working in a pub in the West End of London. And every morning a couple of fellows from the insurance business would arrive to take their places at the end of the bar, where I would...
Sophie Donaldson It's been a heated week in the world of celebrity offspring. To celebrate her sixth birthday, Harper Beckham, daughter of Victoria and David, was thrown a princess-themed party, complete with a real-life royal princess in attendance (it was only Eugenie though). But it was in a real-life castle - the bash was held in Buckingham...
My Dear Son, You were born 52 years ago; 9lbs 8ozs. Sadly you died during labour. I never got to hold you in my arms. They took you away quickly. When I asked to see you all sorts of excuses were given. That's the way it was done in those days. Your dad had a little mahogany coffin made for you. The gravediggers were on strike so your daddy and an uncle took you in a taxi to Glasnevin...
Donal Lynch It was one of those headlines that was supposed to send a chill down the spine: 'Government think tank says we should work until we're seventy.' And, at first glance, the ESRI's latest prediction of the...
Darragh Gannon One hundred years ago, on July 11, 1917, Eamon de Valera, the senior surviving commandant of the 1916 Rising, was declared victor in the East Clare by-election, defeating his opponent by 5,010 votes to 2,035.
Miriam O'Callaghan Paris, July 16, 1942
Jody Corcoran There are a few politicians here who are almost always worth listening to. In general, though, the political system is not set up for what we might call interesting discourse. Maybe that is why...
Philip Ryan There are remarkable similarities between the tragic cases of Charlie Gard and Ava Barry. In both instances, the emotional turmoil endured by the parents of a severely ill youngster has pulled...
Eilis O'Hanlon Solidarity TD Paul Murphy seems to be on a one-man mission to prove Andy Warhol wrong. In the future, the New York pop artist predicted, everybody would be famous for 15 minutes.
Brendan O'Connor For some reason it was particularly noticeable last week. They were gone. Who? That's the weird thing. We're not quite sure. But for some gilded class of people who make up much of the traffic and many of the goings-on around the place, summer is here and they have disappeared somewhere. Which is odd, because most of us...
Eoin O'Malley In the summer of 1994 I found myself somewhere in rural west Limerick, canvassing for my father's failed attempt to get elected to the European parliament.
Niamh Horan If the build-up to Conor McGregor's fight against Floyd Mayweather has taught us anything, it's that - even for the world's toughest fighters - words hurt more than fists.
Eoghan Corry It was great, it was Gaelic, but, to paraphrase Pádraig Pearse, it was not free.
