“These motocross bikes are going up and down the streets outside their houses because normally they'd have somewhere to go, now they've nowhere to go.”
For some, life is an inherited ache to leave Vietnam and half-remembered stories and unprocessed feelings embodied in what their grandparents said, or didn’t say, about the past.
Roe McDermott reflects on the darker side of M. Night Shyamalan’s new horror film, Split, and responds to one reader struggling with her Christian past and present sex life.
When Nicky Daly called her local Garda station to report racist harassment by a man with a baseball bat, she was told somebody would come along. Why didn’t they?
How does the publication of Nicholas Pell’s op-ed and William Reville’s column fit with the paper’s pledges to discourage discrimination, promote tolerance, and oppose hatred?
Public provision of public housing used to be commonplace in Ireland, but then we shifted to rely more on the market. It’s not working, says Andy Storey.
The decision to wind down agencies such as the Temple Bar Cultural Trust and Ballymun Regeneration Limited was questionable, argue David O’Connor and Odran Reid.
Should we pat ourselves on the back for not (yet anyway) embracing the electoral rise of the far right? Yes and no, writes UCD political economy lecturer Andy Storey.
