The campaign to save the Moore Street 1916 battlefield site has reached a crucial stage. At the time of writing, we await the decision of An Bórd Pleanála on whether to confirm permission for plans that would see much of historic Moore Street and the surrounding streetscape demolished to make way for a shopping precinct to be developed by British-based property company Hammerson. Free article

I am often asked to tell my story of how we escaped from the H-Blocks in 1983, who was the key person, etc. Well in truth, there was no ‘key person’ and the escape was complex in that so many things had to fall into place. Free article

In the midst of a climate and biodiversity crisis, and at a time when there have been repeated amber alerts on our electricity grid, when energy prices have been brutally high and when rates of energy poverty have been at unprecedented rates, it is clear that transformational change is needed in the Irish energy system. Free article

I am sure that the question of where Unionism is at today has occupied the minds of many of the public, political commentators as well as the political establishments across these islands and beyond. Free article

News that a British judicial body known as the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) is to examine a complaint by two Irish journalists that they were subject to surveillance by police and secret services deserves the widest possible publicity. Free article

International treaties must not come at the expense of farmers and our environment Free article