Temperatures in Mad­rid reached 39 degrees last week. But the Spanish capital’s recently renovated Puerta del Sol was far ...

If we were to choose a monument to Irish policy failure, we could do worse than to pick the Citywest Hotel. The Government ...

My flag is back in its drawer. A week after Limerick were put out of the hurling championship, I took it down.

Eoin O'Malley. Sun 8 Jun 2025 at 03:30. The meaning of political terms change. They get ­adopted and refuted by different sides and become ­weapons in ­cultural and political ­debates.

Eoin O'Malley. Sat 15 Mar 2025 at 17:42 ‘Not very brave, minister,” the senior mandarins in the Department of Housing might have said to James Browne last week.

Eoin O'Malley. Sun 25 May 2025 at 03:30. You would think Fianna Fáil’s James Browne would have learned a lesson from his coalition partner’s foray into the RIC commemoration in 2020.

Eoin O’Malley: Down with the puritans — we should all go back to the pub. Decline in drinking could be masking other problems Pubs across the country have been struggling.

Eoin O’Malley. Sun 5 Jan 2025 at 03:30. One of the takeaways from the recent general election was that the so-called far right failed to make any significant electoral inroads, ...

Eoin O'Malley. Sun 23 Mar 2025 at 03:30. It’s St Patrick’s Day 2026 and the US president Donald Trump, in a break with tradition, ...

Eoin O'Malley. Sun 20 Apr 2025 at 03:30. If you want to understand why people are disaffected with politics, you might need look no further than Sandymount, the wealthy seaside area of Dublin city.

Eoin O'Malley. Sat 12 Apr 2025 at 16:24. Last week’s Sunday Independent / Ireland Thinks opinion poll shows that the presidential election is still wide open.

The outrage expressed at the possible salary for Brendan McDonagh as a housing tsar might have led him to withdraw his name from consideration for the role.