How persuadable people think seems to form a bit of a blind spot for those to whom it should matter most – people who are ...

For those of us who have spent decades in the private sector, watching the financial mismanagement within the Northern ...

The North and South series is a collaboration between The Irish Times and ARINS (Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South), a joint research project of the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) and the ...

The idea for Open Sunday is to let you discuss what you like. Just two rules. Keep it civil and no man/woman playing.

Back in 1986 I was teaching a night class in Desktop Publishing (the use of computers to typeset newspapers or magazines). I was enthusiastic about the new technology, but one person in my class who ...

On Monday (3 February) Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald TD was in Parliament Buildings to announce a significant reshuffle of the party’s front bench at Stormont. The move followed confirmation ...

Head Coach Simon Easterby has made three changes to the team for the Scotland match. Peter O’Mahony replaces Ryan Baird at 6, with Baird displacing |Iain Henderson on the bench, while Henshaw rotates ...

Last week on the same day I was involved in two very interesting conversations about the way forward for this island. I had lunch with a young Belfast-born, Dublin-resident solicitor called Ross Neill ...

In 2008 and 2009, Slugger O’Toole has managed a set of awards designed to ‘catch people in public life being good’. It was intended as an antidote to the world-weary cynicism and negativity that often ...