# read-me - Yesterday’s News
The boom in renting and the decline in home ownership are remarkable developments in Ireland, writes Professor Tony Fahey.
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# read-me - Saturday 10 November, 2018
The war was never forgotten among those who had fought it or those who lost loved ones, writes historian Donal Fallon.
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# read-me - Thursday 8 November, 2018
Given the political realities, Nancy Pelosi must simultaneously do battle and business with President Trump, writes Larry Donnelly.
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# read-me - Monday 5 November, 2018
The Democrats need to retain Senator Joe Donnelly’s seat if they are to have any chance of taking back the Senate, writes Eunan McKinney.
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# read-me - Sunday 28 October, 2018
Darach Ó Séaghdha talks us through the meaning of some spooky words like Cendail, a collective noun for the heads of one’s decapitated enemies.
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Bigotry never openly acknowledges its existence, writes Caoimhín De Barra.
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# read-me - Saturday 27 October, 2018
Ireland may be resistant to the temptations of populism but we are not immune, writes Larry Donnelly.
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# read-me - Friday 26 October, 2018
Barrister Anthony Moore writes about whether deportation law reform is throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
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# read-me - Thursday 25 October, 2018
After yesterday’s cúpla focal in the House of Commons, Neil Glackin takes a look back at the first occasion Irish was spoken in the British parliament.
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# read-me - Wednesday 24 October, 2018
It is hard to quantify grand corruption but the fact is that what evidence we have speaks against Ireland being a particularly corrupt country, writers economist and corruption expert Dr Robert Gillanders.
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# read-me - Sunday 21 October, 2018
How effective has the strategy been and what is the legacy we are left with when so many people are on the drug for so long?
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# read-me - Wednesday 17 October, 2018
There has been much debate and anger, some of it stemming from a misunderstanding of the Supreme Court decision, writes Aoife McMahon.
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# read-me - Sunday 14 October, 2018
Macedonia and Greece have been involved in a decades-long dispute over the name Macedonia and Alexander the Great.
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# read-me - Saturday 13 October, 2018
Each week, photographer and filmmaker Donal Moloney shares a small piece of Ireland that reflects the bigger picture.
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A new documentary looks at how a 23-year old introvert from east Belfast overcame the mob, US Immigration, poverty, and his own tricky personality, to make one of the most enduring and best-loved albums ever recorded.
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# read-me - Thursday 11 October, 2018
As a general principle, politicians should not engage in any activity where they would do better from the State doing worse, writes Conor Crummey.
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# read-me - Tuesday 9 October, 2018
Listening to the Budget speech from Pascal Donohoe today you would have no sense we are at such a historical turning point, writes Eamon Ryan.
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# read-me - Monday 8 October, 2018
The US mid-terms will be the first nationwide referendum on Donald Trump, writes Larry Donnelly.
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# read-me - Sunday 7 October, 2018
Sugar should be an occasional treat but it shouldn’t be an everyday habit for our young kids, writes nutritionist Ciara Wright.
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# read-me - Saturday 6 October, 2018
Each week, photographer and filmmaker Donal Moloney shares a small piece of Ireland that reflects the bigger picture.
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# read-me - Friday 5 October, 2018
The landscape has changed since the VAT rate was cut for the hospitality sector in 2011, writes Eamon Murphy.
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Security expert Tom Clonan raises concerns about why Ireland is one of the last EU member states not to have an air ambulance service.
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# read-me - Wednesday 3 October, 2018
Let’s hope our romance with the donut ends before it really does some lifelong damage, writes nutritionist Ciara Wright.
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# read-me - Tuesday 2 October, 2018
Fianna Fáil’s Darragh O’Brien writes about why affordable housing is key to this year’s Budget and a priority for his party.
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# read-me - Monday 1 October, 2018
Students are growing in confidence about their immediate job prospects, writes Ruairi Kavanagh, editor of Gradireland.
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# read-me - Saturday 29 September, 2018
The Tánaiste also used tonight’s speech to the the UN to state the Israel-Palestine conflict is a big foreign policy priority for the Irish government.
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# read-me - Tuesday 25 September, 2018
The Sinn Féin spokesperson defends his party’s motion of no confidence in the Housing Minister.
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# read-me - Monday 24 September, 2018
What strategies and tactics can we expect from the candidates for the presidential race, asks Larry Donnelly.
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# read-me - Sunday 23 September, 2018
I fully support peaceful protest and direct action as a legitimate form of democratic participation, writes Brendan Howlin.
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# read-me - Friday 21 September, 2018
Those who benefit from the way Ireland is organised would love us to believe we have no power, that we can’t win, that there’s no reason to act, writes Siobhan O’Donoghue.
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# read-me - Thursday 20 September, 2018
The Leaving Cert is strange in the sense that it is something we all experience, and yet it’s something that we all seem to try to repress, writes the 2FM presenter.
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# read-me - Wednesday 19 September, 2018
Dr Tom Clonan outlines his reasons for protesting at Leinster House today.
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# read-me - Sunday 16 September, 2018
Ryan Lynch hadn’t been sure if he would ever attend college due to his long-term illness – until he was given the support that he needed.
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# read-me - Friday 14 September, 2018
As Ian Paisley Jr endures a 30-day suspension from the House of Commons, Thomas Muinzer writes that it’s likely he’ll win back his seat in a possible by-election.
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# read-me - Thursday 13 September, 2018
For now the trip is on the back-burner but if he does land on our shores we need to protest – massively, Unite’s Brendan Ogle writes.
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# read-me - Monday 10 September, 2018
Young Fine Gael wants its senior party colleagues to change conditions for soldiers being paid ‘the lowest average wage in the public sector’.
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# read-me - Thursday 6 September, 2018
The mid-term elections in the US could become a referendum on Trump’s presidency, writes Larry Donnelly.
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# read-me - Wednesday 5 September, 2018
Simon Foy examines politics in the era of Donald Trump, taking in fake news, allegations about Jeremy Corbyn, and the behaviour of Boris Johnson.
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# read-me - Sunday 2 September, 2018
‘Being in business means paying taxes on earnings’, writes Barry Flanagan.
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# read-me - Monday 27 August, 2018
Why doesn’t the government fund special classes for secondary school students with autism, asks Graham Manning.
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