The Tyranny of Merit is not the sort of book that you expect to emerge from a lecture theatre at that den of wokeness, Harvard University. But the author, Michael Sandel, is one of its best-known professors, a rock star intellectual who fills auditoriums around the world with engaging and challenging lectures on justice. What makes […]
“You matter because of who you are. You matter to the last moment of your life, and we will do all we can, not only to help you die peacefully, but also to live until you die.” Dame Cicely Saunders, founder of the first modern hospice Inay (Maxima) My name is Dona Marie. I […]
Carmel Gunning is one of Ireland’s most accomplished and well-known traditional musicians, a virtuoso tin whistle and flute player, and a renowned singer and composer. She has also spent a life-time teaching traditional music, particularly in the uptempo, lifty, exciting Sligo style formed from that county’s immense tapestry of culture and tradition. I’ve had the […]
This weekend, as has become completely normal over the space of the past few months, the players of Millwall and Derby County, prior to kickoff in their Sky Bet Championship game, took a knee in the middle of the field, to protest racism. And the crowd, of just 2,000 supporters, booed them. The sporting media, […]
Kevin’s Myers’ latest book is a memoir of a life dangerously and daringly lived both on and off the printed page. Despite the title, it is not a cascade of self defence against the signal injustice the author suffered when he was summarily dismissed by The Sunday Times in 2017 on the now thorougly debunked charge […]
Following the fitting commemoration of those killed at Croke Park in November 1920, it is apt to recall that the other main stand and the terrace adjacent to Hill 16 are also named in honour of two great Irishmen, Michael Cusack and P.W Nally, who also died in the month of November. Michael Cusack, of an […]
Luis de Moya, a Catholic priest and pro-life campaigner, died in Pamplona, Spain, on November 9, aged 67 Late in his life, don Luis de Moya started to look like Superman. Christopher Reeve, that is, the Hollywood actor who starred in Superman I, II, III and IV. They both had neatly combed hair, firm jaws, […]
The author, Kilian Foley Walsh, is a writer, and former President of Young Fine Gael In early November, I wrote a column for the Sunday Times about the Government’s decision to take the country to level 5. The long and short of my argument was that the powers that be take little notice of the economic and […]
In Sweden, equality between the sexes has almost universal acceptance as a policy goal. To most outsiders, the term “gender mainstreaming” sounds like a policy of equality between the sexes — but with extra “umph”. This has also been the view of the Swedish government. What Ivar Arpi and Anna Karin Wyndhamn show in their […]
Well, look, whatever, eh, melts her butter, I suppose: British model Lottie Moss has revealed that she is pansexual. During an Instagram Q&A on Monday, Moss — who is the younger sister of supermodel Kate Moss — responded to a follower asking if she would prefer to date a woman. “I’m pansexual so I don’t […]
Mickey Harte is one of those larger than life characters who will go down in GAA folklore alongside the likes of Mick O’Dywer, Sean Boylan and Brian Cody – men who lived for those All-Ireland Sundays in the summer. Clones, Croker, Thurles, or even just an empty field, was where these master tacticians and leaders […]
PODCAST: Listen to John Aidan Byrne, Irish commentator based in New York, interview Paediatrician Dr. Irwin Redlener, on his new book The Future of Us His approach is always subtle; his banter is casual and absent any pressure to respond. But when renowned pediatrician and children’s advocate Dr. Irwin Redlener casually asks […]