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If a balance in policy between pro-enterprise and pro-redistribution is to be maintained, those who believe in that balance, and the pro-enterprise part of it in particular, will need to up their game in the years ahead.  

From Mary Robinson’s “light in the window” to Catherine Connolly’s quiet momentum, political analyst Gary Murphy traces how each presidential race reflects the country’s changing sense of itself — and why, in 2025, the reflection feels unusually stark.

Budget 2026 swaps short-term giveaways for long-term investment. The challenge now is whether fiscal restraint can hold in a system used to overspending.

Garret Fitzgerald spoke of Charles Haughey’s ‘flawed pedigree’, but the two men shaped modern Ireland. Eoin O’Malley talks to Dion Fanning about the era when the two men dominated Irish life.

Sinn Féin is now leading a popular front of Labour, the Social Democrats, the Greens and the hard left. This is a historic change, which appeared to be confirmed in the first presidential debate.

Oliver Callan’s review of Leo Varadkar’s memoir criticised the former Taoiseach’s attitude towards the “housing disaster”. Complex issues deserve better than simple words.

The economic and political situations of troubled France and confident Ireland could not be more different. Or are they?

As Trump barrels into another season of purges, pressure campaigns and “peace talks,” voters are left with rally culture, binary politics and little room for a middle ground. But in Maine, a long-shot challenger hints at the appetite for something different.

Where does the medtech company that has consumed the career of Gareth Sheridan until he declared his presidential intentions stand – and who are its Moldovan and Irish backers?

The Maga movement that swept Donal Trump to victory has been seriously splintered by the Epstein sex storm. The scandal has engulfed the Republican party and emboldened the Democrats, writes Siobhán Brett in the US.