'With a bit of imagination, we could do this — make the budget last three months and keep our promises at the same time'

We need one agency to run Ireland’s 50 or so hospitals, one to provide services in the community, and one to provide mental health, disability, and wellbeing services

So what’s going to happen next week? Tomorrow? Later today? In this craziest, least predictable election ever.

Not a single organisation has said they want to put all of the wealth at their disposal into helping people who have been traumatised and abused. And they won’t.

It’s as if Northern Ireland has stopped mattering, even to the people who live there. Never mind what are they fighting about — what are they fighting for?

'I love to hate my opponents. Or maybe I’m just fashioned by years of bitter experience to believe that all campaigns have to be about fighting.'

Now I have the dilemma that I can sleep normally again, but there’s a Democratic Convention to watch all this week

The generation that is experiencing dementia now is the generation that built this independent little country and left a legacy to be proud of

Far-right agitators stir up hate on social media such as Twitter/X. Governments should instruct internet service providers to shut them off until there is an independent audit of their algorithms

This presidential election will be like no other, not least because of the dramatic twists and turns we’ve already seen