Having written about the corruption of family law for nearly a decade, I came recently to the conclusion that I might be doing more harm than good. This is because of a mob tendency in the media to adopt a caricature of somebody and repeat it ad nauseam, regardless of the opportunism of its creation.
Two great Irish writers were well remembered this week on TV. Flann O'Brien's 40th anniversary was featured in Lives of Brian, while an Arts Lives documentary was re-run on the eve of McGahern's funeral. By Dermot Bolger
My father used to demand silence at the dinner table for “an important” programme at one o'clock every...
The CPI has failed to get alternative funding and has laid off its staff. Colin Murphy reports
On 2 April the Sunday Independent 'exclusively' revealed a 'secret' Sinn Féin speech that had been on the party's website for weeks. By Scott Millar
The murky world of the three P's - propaganda, politics and PR.
It happened as we were driving into Yongning, the provincial capital of northwest Yunnan, deep in southwest China. As we...
Frank Bascombe is a sportswriter, or so the first lines of Richard Ford's 1984 novel, The Sportswriter, tell us. L...
I was watching Ian Paisley on the television news. Ian had just finished his meeting with British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Myself and Martin McGuinness and Gerry Kelly had been in Downing Street the day before. So I was particularly interested in what the DUP leader had to say, especially so close to Thursday's visit (5 April) by the Taoiseach and Tony Blair to Armagh, where they are to launch proposals about re-establishing the political institutions.
Jim Cusack, Sunday Independent security correspondent, claimed this week that mandatory minimum sentences “will win the crime war”. His experience has taught him that “five years is the length of sentence that breaks all but the truly hardened criminals”, writes Chekov Feeney.