celtic tiger

€11.26, some lint and an expired voucher for Burger King. These are Steve and Richies combined total assets. Surely, with such meagre wealth, the politics of capital is nothing of their concern? Aidan Reagan joins the lads to discuss why we…

Stones crunch under my feet as I step off the main road onto the track that jackknifes into the bog. The land is flat. And the wind has swept the clouds from the sky so that the horizon is a clear blue. It comes to rest on the distant…

“Is it hard to see death when it is disguised and tricked out in the surface trappings of life?” These words were written by a journalist named John Healy in 1967 in reference to the decline of his native Charlestown in Mayo over the…

Last week on RTÉ’s Today with Sean O’Rourke show, leading homelessness campaigner Peter McVerry gave his reaction to the 500 ‘modular units’ that might soon – that is, next year - be made available to homeless families. The Peter McVerry…