Listening to Kerry football legend Tomás Ó Sé at the recent Western People Mayo Sports Stars Awards, one memory he shared about childhood really struck home with me and many of those present.

In today’s world of fake news, it is important to know the facts and therein lies the problem. The dictionary definition of a fact is an event or thing that is known to have happened.

Lies serve few. There are exceptions, white lies said out of kindness: “No, of course you do not look fat, honey.

In 2014, when news broke that 796 children had died in the Mother and Baby Home in Tuam and there were no burial records even though death certificates existed, it opened up an ongoing process that produced a government Commission of Investigation, ...

Sing the new year in under the blue. Last year you sang it as gladly.

You know that feeling when you're on a night out and one of the guests whom you've always relied upon, who's perhaps picked up the bill before, who's told great stories, suddenly stands up, begins ranting about buying the neighbour's garden shed, ...

The fate that befell Belmullet man Stephen Lavelle last month is the type of thing that ought to be a tipping point in discussions around reform of emergency care in Ireland.

There is something deeply unsettling about watching a life’s work reduced to a name on a list.

Putin tells the world, what we already know, that he has a nuclear arsenal that could destroy the world as we know it.

Brussels for us is more than a place. For when we say ‘Brussels’ we don’t mean the city: we mean either the European Union (EU) as an institution or use it as shorthand for a set of rules.