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PROFILE: PADDY DUNICAN

June 15, 2023

THE NAME Paddy Dunican may not ring too many bells outside the horseracing world but events off the turf over the last year... Read more »

PROFILE: ANNE HARRIS

May 18, 2023

THE IRISH TIMES prides itself as leading debate on the big issues of the day and down the years has acted as the... Read more »

PROFILE: MARY LOU MCDONALD

May 4, 2023

THERE WAS a time when the question mark over Mary Lou McDonald was whether she could adequately replace her predecessor, Gerry Adams –... Read more »

PROFILE: NEASA HOURIGAN

April 19, 2023

THERE WAS a time when Green Party members would have been calling for smelling salts to revive themselves if its TDs and other... Read more »

PROFILE: BARRY CONNELL

April 6, 2023

SINCE THE beginning of this year, racehorse trainer Barry Connell had been telling everyone who would listen that his horse, Marine Nationale, would... Read more »

PROFILE: HOLLY CAIRNS

March 23, 2023

THE NEW leader of the Social Democrats has enjoyed a media reception of the kind normally enjoyed by a triumphant, first-time, incoming taoiseach.... Read more »

PROFILE: EDWARD HORGAN

March 8, 2023

RECENTLY ACQUITTED of criminal damage to a US navy warplane in Shannon Airport six years ago, the 77-year-old ex-military officer, commandant Edward Horgan,... Read more »

PROFILE: DOUGLAS TAYLOR

February 22, 2023

FANS OF Goldhawk will be familiar with horseracing fanatic and scourge of the bookies Douglas Taylor, whose day job is CEO of the... Read more »

SPECIAL REPORT: WAR IN UKRAINE

February 9, 2023
IS NATO HELPING UKRAINE TO FIGHT RUSSIA OR IS IT USING UKRAINE TO FIGHT RUSSIA? THE BLOC could help end the conflict at any... Read more »

PROFILE: ROSSA FANNING

January 26, 2023

THE LATEST hot-shot lawyer to be appointed Attorney General is Rossa Fanning SC, one of the top commercial barristers in the Four Courts... Read more »

PROFILE: JENNIFER CARROLL MACNEILL

January 12, 2023

While the media-hyped ministerial reshuffle turned out to be the damp squib that cynics had predicted, it was still interesting that Jennifer Carroll... Read more »

PROFILE: MALACHY STEENSON

December 15, 2022

TO SOME, Malachy Steenson is a political buffoon who careers around Dublin’s north inner city posturing as a modern James Connolly and other... Read more »

PROFILE: JOHN COONEY

December 1, 2022

THE LATEST flood of revelations about the horrific scale of previously unaddressed historic clerical sexual abuses at Blackrock College has spread to other... Read more »

Mary Lou McDonald espouses liberal values that are in tune with most SF members and with the electorate north and south.

ANNUAL 2022: PROFILE – MARY LOU McDONALD

November 17, 2022

MARY LOU McDonald perplexes the pundits. For decades they warded off support for Sinn Féin’s message down south by appealing to a liberal... Read more »

PROFILE: RUADHÁN MAC CORMAIC

November 2, 2022

“HONOURED… DELIGHTED” and “beyond proud” to have been appointed editor of the Irish Times was how Ruadhán Mac Cormaic expressed himself on landing... Read more »

PROFILE: CHRISTOPHER HEATON-HARRIS

October 19, 2022

LIZ TRUSS appointed Christopher Heaton-Harris, an arch eurosceptic, as her secretary of state for Northern Ireland, after others turned down the post. His... Read more »

PROFILE: WILLIE MULLINS

October 6, 2022

THERE ARE few personalities who have ever matched the dominance in Irish sport of the current number one national hunt trainer, Willie Mullins.... Read more »

PROFILE: FRANCES BLACK

September 22, 2022

CIVIC GROUP Ireland’s Future may still be a little hazy and fraught with antagonism from most unionists and southern partitionists, but south it... Read more »

PROFILE: EAMON MARTIN

September 8, 2022

AGED 61 with already a decade of donning the purple behind him and 15 years to go before his retirement in 2037, Eamon... Read more »

PROFILE: NORMA FOLEY

August 25, 2022

THE ANNUAL back-to-school drama festival is kicking off with an all-star female cast in Dublin’s Marlborough Street, home of that venerable institution that... Read more »

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PROFILE: JOHN BURNS

August 11, 2022

THE CLEAR OUT of Sunday Times journalists leaves the Irish edition of that august institution in the last-chance saloon under the tutelage of... Read more »

PROFILE: SUSAN MCKAY

July 28, 2022

NEWLY APPOINTED Press Ombudsman, Susan McKay, has had a more dramatic career than most Irish writers, even those in the sometimes dangerous frontline... Read more »

PROFILE: SALLY ROONEY

July 14, 2022

When Conversations with Friends was unleashed upon the world in 2017, Sally Rooney’s editor at Faber & Faber dubbed her a “Salinger for... Read more »

PROFILE: HELEN MCENTEE

June 30, 2022

WAS THERE ever a politician that is so much a product and beneficiary of their own family as minister for justice, Helen McEntee;... Read more »

PROFILE: PATRICK COSTELLO

June 16, 2022

IF GREEN Party leader Eamon Ryan thought Cllr Hazel Chu was a pain in the butt in recent times he ought to have... Read more »

PROFILE: PAUL O’NEILL

June 2, 2022

THE IRISH TIMES appears to have mutated from its decades-long liberalism into a right-of-centre strain, judging by its increasingly hawkish views against neutrality... Read more »

PROFILE: SEÁN CLANCY

May 19, 2022

THE NEW chief of staff of the Defence Forces, Seán Clancy, has had an exciting introduction to public life. First, he was castigated... Read more »

PROFILE: CLARE DALY AND MICK WALLACE

May 5, 2022
THE DEMONISATION of Clare Daly and Mick Wallace is essentially a political witch-hunt but the media has created the impression of a political Bonnie... Read more »

PROFILE: PETER BURKE

April 20, 2022

LEO VARADKAR clawed back 2% in his own personal ratings and, more importantly, saw the same increase for Fine Gael in the latest... Read more »

PROFILE: IVANA BACIK

April 7, 2022

PARTY LEADERSHIP heaves, especially on the left, are supposed to involve impassioned speeches from candidates – usually to the left and right of... Read more »

PROFILE: MARIAN KEYES

March 24, 2022

IT’S ALMOST impossible to avoid the media frenzy that continues to accompany the release of Marian Keyes’s Again, Rachel, with wall-to-wall fawning coverage... Read more »

PROFILE: JENNIFER CARROLL MACNEILL

March 10, 2022

JENNIFER CARROLL MACNEILL is the latest female Fine Gael TD to emerge as a possible party leadership candidate – in the medium term,... Read more »

PROFILE: DÉSIRÉE FINNEGAN

February 24, 2022

LAST WEEK Désirée Finnegan – the chief executive of the state’s film and television funding agency, Screen Ireland – delivered yet another close-up,... Read more »

PROFILE: SIMON COVENEY

February 10, 2022

UNTIL RECENTLY the presumption inside and outside Fine Gael was that if any disaster – political or legal – should befall Leo Varadkar... Read more »

PROFILE: OONAGH O’HAGAN

January 27, 2022
TWO DECADES after buying Meagher’s Pharmacy, Oonagh O’Hagan has been engaging in a publicity blitz. This will come as no surprise given her uncanny... Read more »

PROFILE: PADDY COSGRAVE

January 13, 2022

IS PADDY COSGRAVE a spoilt child of the techie boom, a born again socialist-republican or a prodigious, canny businessman? If it is the... Read more »