Opinion

Brendan Crossan: Ciara Mageean - a proper hero we will always run with

‘The Portaferry native is a throwback to a different, more innocent time’

Cult Movies: Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter back to fight fanged fiends in 4K

Ralph re-visits unusual early 1970s Hammer offering Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter, newly restored in 4K

Letter: Claim that British suppressed Irish language is ‘exaggerated myth’

Letter to the Editor: ‘The Irish people gave up Gaelic in the exact same way as they gave up their Catholic religion in this age – they wanted to modernise the country'

Alex Kane: Fixing Northern Ireland, not the assembly, must be the priority for Stormont

The thing that reform of the devolved institutions will not and indeed cannot address is the fact that Northern Ireland appears to be broken right now

Brian Feeney: Internment and Britain’s practice of legalised lawlessness

Keir Starmer’s attempt to prevent pay-outs for unlawful detention 50 years ago is a disgrace but unsurprising for a British prime minister

Noise Annoys: Swervedriver pump up the volume, plus Stendhal Festival seeks local talent for 15th anniversary line-up

New music from Oxford shoegaze gods Swervedriver, plus how to get your chance to play at Stendhal 2025

Letter: Irish politicians fail to realise Trump holds island’s economic future in his hands

Letter to the Editor: ‘It is delusional paranoia even to think that Irish politicians, or media, will influence any decisions made in the US’

Andy Watters: The buck stops with Jarlath Burns and he showed again why he’s the right man to lead the GAA

President will stand up for the core values of the GAA and we should respect him for that

John Manley: Dáil disagreement shows marked difference in how politics works on each side of the border

Wednesday’s scenes reflected badly on TDs but there’s no lasting damage to the Republic’s democratic institutions

Newton Emerson: Why not let the ‘money follow the patient’ to help our failing NHS?

Changing the way hospitals are paid would be a major administrative task. But it could bypass politicians by freeing doctors and managers to do their jobs better