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Salty language in the chamber

Deputies, with all due respect, grow up

Gogarty's cod-psychological apology is worse then the odd swear word

Editor's picks

  • Google’s stupid advice to newspapers: stop being newspapers

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

  • Education’s inflated virtues

    Never mind grade inflation, expecting education to solve the country’s economic problems is a joke, says JASON WALSH

  • Dirty celebrations

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

  • Science, politics and the public

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

  • Slumming it

    A new Brand of environmentalism seeks to distance itself from its technophobic past but Stewart Brand’s paean to poverty is anything but progressive. JASON WALSH trawls through history, from the classical period to the age of Marxism to show why.

  • Ireland’s incredible shrinking (public) sphere

    forth editor JASON WALSH gives his personal view on why nothing matters in Ireland today – and suggests how we might change that

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