Ryan Tubridy is a polished broadcaster, and I wish him success with his new London-based job with Virgin Media, where he will present a morning radio show from 10am until lunchtime, starting in January. After leaving RTÉ, he has embraced his new role with the right attitude: pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start…
The ‘gender pay gap’ – differences in earnings between men and women – must now be monitored by the authorities following the Gender Pay Gap Information Act of 2021. Irish companies with more than 250 employees must report on the differences between male and female average pay. Subsequently, smaller companies, first with 150 employees, and…
According to that global innovator, Elon Musk, the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) will mean that in the future no one will need to work. The robots will do everything, while men and women will go on to live the life of Riley, without the need to labour for their daily bread. Would such a…
“Census highlights waning power of Catholicism” ran the headline, reporting the demographic changes in the latest census records.
Perhaps the strongest argument for legalising – or at least decriminalising – cannabis (and other recreational drugs) is that this measure takes it out of the hands of criminal drug-dealers. If people are going to smoke weed anyway, let it be through a legal route – just as cigarettes remain legal, even if unhealthy. And…
Piers Paul Read is one of Britain’s most distinguished novelists and writers – author of such best-sellers as Alive (the story of the Andes survivors), The Templars, and 17 novels in all, including A Married Man, Monk Dawson, and The Free Frenchman – the last being a riveting account of a French family during the…
The Irish pub has been a feature of our landscape and society for many a long year. ‘The Brazen Head’ in Dublin’s Merchant’s Quay dates from the year 1198 AD
The proposed project of a National Women’s Museum – announced recently by Culture Minister Catherine Martin – is admirable, in my view.
We have heard much, in recent times, about ‘far-right’ and ‘far-left’ tendencies in politics; but are these terms really meaningful in the modern age? As everyone knows, they originate from the time of the 1789 French Revolution when deputies supporting the monarchy and the ancien régime sat on the right of the National Assembly, and…
When former president Mary McAleese was asked – on The Late Late Show – about the prospects for a united Ireland, she was judicious in her reply: she would stick by the Good Friday Agreement, which stipulated that it must happen by democratic consent. But, she added, the demographics “were going in the right direction”.…