Greece will suffer due to the EU intervention, it’s French and German banks that are getting bailed-out, says JASON WALSH

Get Irish off life support and into real life, says JASON WALSH

The trouble in Greece underlines two important lessons: austerity packages don’t have to accepted and that frustrated violent actions achieve nothing, says JASON WALSH

Newspaper designer and editor of the web-mag, The ColdType Reader TONY SUTTON on the future of news in the digital era

The era of the ‘paywall’ is upon us but publishers need to provide something worth paying for, says ADAM MAGUIRE

The Penny’s moral panic is a sideshow – the real story is the infantalisation of adult women, says DAN JEWESBURY

Complaints about news being distorted by commercial interests are frequent but the tendentious vainglory of news editors is less well understood. By involving themselves in news, journalists do a disservice to the public, says STEPHEN RAINEY

Vincent Browne wants to know why the public isn’t angry – it’s because they don’t exist, says JASON WALSH

Google is a business and that’s why it acts the way it does – so why single it out for critique?

Typical of internet sensations, the fuss surrounding print-on-demand ‘newspapers’ from the Newspaper Club misses the essential ingredient of a newspaper – news, says JASON WALSH

We have to defend Lars Vilks because free speech matters but he’s a fool and his alleged would-be assassins arrested in Ireland are bumbling idiots, says FINBAR ROSATO in Sweden

Why is modern Ireland home to some of the most conservative politics in Europe, asks JASON WALSH

Google is not the newsmonster – nor is it omniscient, says JASON WALSH

Social vampire and art critic Waldemar Januszak can now fondly remember the conflict in Ireland – but only because it’s over, says JAMES HEARTFIELD

The UK government’s science policy isn’t just contradictory, it’s used a stand-in for politics, says science journalist TIMANDRA HARKNESS

They may offend liberal opinion but tabloid newspapers are the first line of defence for a free press, says JASON WALSH

A report from the Magazines Ireland annual debate

Tiger Woods’s apology was an ugly, forced pantomime and his private life is none of our business, says JASON WALSH

Official censorship pales in comparison to unofficial censureship, says BRENDAN O’NEILL

YAEL MAURER says her country’s foreign assassination antics would be funny – if they weren’t so serious

The lesbian, the Pope and the right to free speech

The new lowered speed limit of 30 kilometres per hour is not about traffic management or road safety, it’s an assault on mobility – and the statistics prove it, says JASON WALSH

IT journalism is crap, says JASON WALSH

The crime story that ‘gripped Ireland’ tells us a lot about ourselves, but not quite what the press is claiming

The Republic of Ireland has a lower population than major cities – the only reason anyone cares about Ireland is because of the conflict

Martin Cullen is being torn to pieces (not literally) in the press for using a metaphor. Both his critics and Cullen should grow up, says JASON WALSH

As the Ukrainian presidential election goes to round two, candidates’ “pro-Western” or “anti-Western” leanings are not what actually matters, says NATALIA ANTONOVA reporting from Ukraine

England’s politicians and pundits are thrilled to see the skeletons in Northern Ireland’s closets, says JAMES HEARTFIELD

Despite sounding like a German discount retailer, Rod Liddle is the Waitrose of boring, right-wing ‘controversialists’, says PADDY HOEY

Political consultant ROBERT CASSIDY considers Brian Lenihan’s contradictory insider-outsider status in politics and notes his response to the TV3 debacle fits a pattern of both Lenihan’s behaviour and pubic perception of him as a man

Public life is still dominated by the idea that the Irish are unique – uniquely stupid – but there is nothing unique about Ireland. Isn’t it about time we admitted that, asks JASON WALSH

The problem with TV3’s coverage was that it held the story out of the news for too long, says JASON WALSH

RICHARD DWYER says that lurking behind our supposedly ‘democratic’ culture old-fashioned snobbery exists in spades

Treating redheads as though they have disabilities – or suffer from ‘racism’ – is worse than ‘kick a ginger’ day

If there aren’t enough convictions for rape it’s because we need fine-grained definitions of sexual assault, says DR GERARD CASEY

Jason Walsh lists a few dodgy themes that bubbled-up during the trial of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito

The appalling abuse of children by Catholic priests should not be allowed to make children of us all, says Jason Walsh

Love them or loathe them, neither Sinn Féin nor the DUP are extremists, says Jason Walsh

A fashion shoot for an in-flight magazine taken at the Berlin Holocaust memorial was tastless and silly, but it was not anti-Semitic

Are some people enjoying the fact that Ireland is in recession a little too much?

The Irish media’s obsession with car crashes is bizarre and morbid

Terry Sanderson of Britain’s National Secular Society says arguments with religion aren’t polite – nor should they be

Jason Walsh examines Ireland’s depressing obsession with suicide and finds the current ‘awareness’ programmes lacking

British government drug policy preaches harm reduction but actually the agenda is moral and political, says Dr. Stephen Ginn

David Jackmanson argues for a political use of social media that doesn’t disappear up its own tweet

If we denied a platform to every political party that espoused idiotic views there would be no politics on television at all

But it doesn’t have to be valuable. Professor of philosophy, Gerard Casey says there should be a platform for idiots

Attacks on AIB for seeking to raise staff salaries unmask the austerity drive at the heart of Irish life, says Jason Walsh

A message from the editor of forth: shut up! Unless, of course, you think people complaining on a website is the most significant thing happening in the world

The Twitter-led virtual lynching of Jan Moir is a sad indictment of what passes for politics in these atomised times, says Jason Walsh

Ludovic Henry Coverley Kennedy, renowned British journalist, broadcaster and author has died.

This obituary comes courtesy of the British Humanist Association.

Morons are entitled to free speech too, says Jason Walsh. Even morons using Twitter

Dónal Óg Cusack isn’t the only gay in the village green – but when will we be adult enough to not care?

The only thing more predictable and irritating than the Daily Mail is the ‘offencearati’ of people outraged by it, says Brendan O’Neill

Is former Workers’ Party president Seán Garland a Hollywood anti-hero? Apparently so – at least according to one US journalist.

London-based freelance Michael Cross is running for election as editor of ‘the Journalist’. forth asked him why Irish NUJ members should support his campaign.

In the first of a series of essays entitled ‘What is to be done?’, free software activist and computer programmer Richard Stallman gives his thoughts on the state of the world and what should done about it.

Jason Walsh reports from Dublin where it seems neither the Yes camp nor the No camp voted with much enthusiasm.

The Irish establishment has decided that the Lisbon Treaty must pass and so it is stifling public debate on the issue.

By Jason Walsh

By focusing on consumption, both sides in the debate over illegal file-sharing ignore the value of creative labour.

By Jason Walsh