DUBLIN—a city once described by novelist Brendan Behan as holding ‘familiarity without friendship’—now finds its residents asking the haunting question: ‘Why me?’ This comes in the wake of a series of violent attacks targeting members of Ireland’s immigrant communities throughout the summer of 2025.

RECENT comments by East Ayrshire Council’s Head of Education Linda McAulay-Griffiths regarding the merits of education in music have forced an apology after a clip went viral online for all the wrong reasons.

LIKE the Emerald Isle, Edinburgh is a very green place. Though this is on the more local scale of a city, just how many green spaces and gardening initiatives, both large and small are present within the city has always impressed me. Scotland as a whole, like Ireland, also has a rich botanical cultural history.

BEING chosen as the Edinburgh Mary 2025 has been one of the greatest honours of my life. Representing Scotland—my new home—here in Donegal, where I was born and raised, made the experience even more meaningful. It felt like everything had come full circle.

Tánaiste SIMON HARRIS looks forward to Ireland assuming its eighth presidency of the EU in 2026.

Twenty years ago, I was with colleagues in Dublin for a once -per-term meet-up of participants in a postgraduate psychotherapy course. It was organised across Northern Europe with students from Britain, Denmark, Iceland and Ireland.

IT IS perhaps the human condition to take for granted your good fortune. However, I have no excuse for failing to regularly remind myself that for the past 30 years, I’ve been able to call Ireland’s best-kept secret my homeplace.

THE British establishment is pushing the dangerous narrative that ‘mass immigration’ is the problem behind working class people’s hardship in Scotland and across Britain.

THE decision of the organisers of TRNSMT to cancel Kneecap’s appearance this summer was, in some way, not that surprising.

AMIDST glorious sunshine across Scotland, the last while also saw a blaze of activity in terms of Irish Scottish business links.

IN THIS month of May here at home, we take a moment to reflect and remember the catastrophic events that shaped the Irish wherever they first saw the light of day.

THE last weekend of March 2025 will live long in the memory of Scotland GAA and those who witnessed and participated

TWENTY years ago, this year, my first stage play premiered here in Dún na nGall. I had written The Flight of the Earls the previous year...

THE novella, Small Things Like These written by Claire Keegan was published in 2021. I read it soon after. Then a couple of months ago,...

From the first civic St Patrick’s Day parade in Glasgow to an Irish Scottish space conference, its has been a year of broken barriers

‘SAY nothing’ comes from Seamus Heaney’s poem about the culture of secrecy and restraint during the conflict in the North of Ireland

IRELAND has voted for more of the same. And why wouldn't it?

FULL disclosure, I don’t always pay much attention to the folks at Met Éireann. At this stage, I’m a bit of an expert on what the local...

AS WE enter the Christmas and New Year period, we can reflect on a very active year in Irish-Scottish relations

Is there a distinct lack of support in tackling bigotry and racism towards the Irish and Catholic communities?