Colin Coulter is Professor of Sociology in Maynooth University, and the coordinator of the inaugural Maynooth Festival of ...

I was at the fourth Shared Island Forum in Dublin Castle earlier this month when the Taoiseach, Micheál Martin, gave one of ...

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, it’s hard to ignore the growing conversation around Irish Unification. The topic now ...

Following the recent piece on reconciliation I also wanted to explore what exactly is ‘parity of esteem’ as contained within ...

Aontú Party leader Peadar Tóibín says his party will submit a bill to the Dáil which, if successful, will extend the ...

Some sad, if expected news has just appeared this morning with reports that Pope Francis, leader of the Catholic Church, has ...

In the Kate Bush song Experiment IV, she describes a secret military experiment designed to create a sound so horrifying it ...

In addition to our normal open Sunday, we have a politics-free post to give you all a break. So discuss what you like here, ...

It may be hard to believe it, but we are coming up on NINE years since the Brexit referendum (and before you know it we will surely be inundated by retrospectives of the event on the tenth anniversary ...

I’ve been reading a fair bit about the vague, abstract notion of ‘reconciliation’ here over the last while, first on Andy Pollak’s Claire Hanna piece and latterly on Open Sunday and it got me thinking ...

If you were one of the thousands who packed your bags for Spain this Easter hoping for sun, sea and sangria, you probably ended up stuck in your hotel rather than sunning yourself on the beach.

Sadly, most of us remain silent, constrained perhaps by claims of Israel’s centrality in ‘End Times’ Bible Prophecy and a movement that lobbies us to ‘Stand with Israel’. But a growing number now ...