Where is Europe going today? asks Diarmuid Martin, Archbishop of Dublin. What are the signs of hope? Which are the signs which should cause us concern? On what principles will the Europe of the future base its values? What will be the contribution of faith and of men and women of faith to the construction of those values?
Our political masters have returned to work in Leinster House with all the enthusiasm of recalcitrant Leaving Cert st...
"We are no further on," said Paisley, after the announcement that the IRA had decommissioned. He doesn't believe in history, only in apocalypse, now. It must always be Ulster's Darkest Hour. Protestants must always be the victims. But he can't keep it that way without an active and brutal IRA. It is beginning to seem as if unionism cannot survive peace.
The murder of Jim Gray was part of the internal power struggle within the UDA, and not connected to the ongoing UDA/LVF feud
If you were in any way aggrieved by your resident young ones on Sunday morning (when they feed the iPod but let...
MICHIKO KAKUTANI is underwhelmed by Salman Rushdie's latest novel, the Booker-shortlisted Shalimar The Clown
Martin Scorsese shows his understanding of the roots of American music in No Direction Home and The Blues; the judges on The X Factor cruelly break hearts for public enjoyment; Karl Spain tries to find that special someone and the BBC's antique shows really take the medal. By Dermot Bolger
Colin Murphy tells a tale of two Shakespeares at the Dublin Theatre Festival
Billy Leahy speaks to Ross McDonnell and Noel Brennan as they launch their joint exhibition, Warsaw, at the Goethe Institute, Dublin
Paul Wolfowitz is having fun. “It's fun to have the chance to be a retail politician again”, he tol...