If it weren't so darned important, it would be easy to dismiss the Leaving Cert. The reason it's important is simply because it'...

Micheál Martin is a political lightweight, which was made all too obvious the past week. He's always been too keen to be seen as 'ha...

A column in the Guardian calls for a new Marshall Plan to save the EU, but unfortunately the EU's dominated by leaders who believe in u...

So the Irish government got money for training the armies of dubious regimes. Isn't that one of those charges that's always flung a...

I know Dublin Airport's Terminal 2 is new and this is the first time they've had to deal with the busy summer season and there are p...

A report in the Independent says the Department of Education will "take action on the divesting of schools if there was a delay in rea...

Another NY Times article on how hot the MLS and soccer generally is in America. This time the NY Times reports on the "hottest ticket...

A Lisburn school is leasing iPads to parents for £170 (€190) per year. The Mayo school in the news at the end of last month is selling the ...

Goats missing in Waterford may have been used to make bodhráns. I have half a memory of hearing of goats going missing before. Is this what...

I don't think I've seen it commented on elsewhere, but in the long running battle between free and paid for online newspaper content...

Walter Ellis has followed up his Irish Times column from earlier in the week with a letter to the editor in today's paper. Ellis says ...

I still cannot get over how so many Irish people found President Obama's speech inspiring or moving or just great. Whatever floats your...

Maybe I'm just too cynical, but I don't believe the story about following the messenger who led the CIA to bin Laden. What I suspect...

Kevin Myers says no one in 1981 foresaw that "microtechnology was going to transform the world." I understand what he's saying...

Fergus Finlay is asking why are young children and teenagers becoming increasingly violent. He doesn't cite any stats to show that teen...

I just read this on Twitter (from @CharlieFlanagan): Why would Judge Moriarty stitch up O'Brien, Lowry and Ben Dunne? This report is so...

If I wasn't so busy tomorrow night cutting my toenails I might have tried to get to see Ryan Tubridy interviewing Jesse Jackson at UCD. ...

I'm still shaking my head at the front page of yesterday's Irish Mirror. I only wish I'd taken a photograph of it so that I coul...

"Women are safer drivers." That's the mantra in the Irish press these past few days following the ruling by the European Court...

Okay, so Labour had their best election ever. I get it, but it would be a huge mistake for them to go into opposition now. They went into th...