I grew up in a rural town in Ireland at a time when consensual sex between adult men was a criminal offence. As ...

Umberto Eco famously said ‘the language of Europe is translation’. Growing up in Ireland the fact that translation was also one of Ireland’s ...

It always struck me, as I watched and engaged with Irish commentators (journalists, thinktanks, academics), politicians and diplomats, how comfortable Ireland was in ...

Although the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom joined the European Community at the height of the Northern Irish conflict, the European ...

2022 is an important milestone year for Ireland. It marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Accession Treaty, signed by Ireland in January 1972 ...

If there is a positive outcome to the continuing imbroglio following the UK’s decision to self-eject from the European Union, it is that ...

Irish commitment to the European Union in 2022 marks a remarkable contrast with the case of Brexit in its nearest neighbour. Ireland joined ...

Ireland is far removed from the place it was fifty years ago when it first joined the European Economic Community (EEC). Gone is ...

The European Union (EU) and the Council of Europe (CoE) are often confused given the similarities in terminology, flag and anthem between the ...

« Ça va Patrick, as-tu tout compris?» (have you understood everything?) I’ll never forget the dread I felt on hearing these words from my ...