Mnajdra is a Temple on a precipice. It is sacred and it is ancient. Right at the foot of the temple, the rocky precipice tumbles down a sharp ragged rock-face, hurling itself deep into the...

Corruption has become an increasingly powerful and controversial issue, and not just in Europe. In Peru, it dominated the presidential election, when the daughter of former President Fujimori...

I watched a recording of Andrew Neil’s interview with UKIP leader Nigel Farage, for the BBC last Friday night. I thought I would be bored by all the little-isolationist-islander arguments, and...

It is astonishingly, mind-blowingly, easy to get away from it all – away from the daily grind, from the daily repetitious catalogue of spin and counter-spin, from all the stories about Konrad...

I really do not agree with this pitiful idea of some people who are clamouring for measures to curb criticism – often mistakenly interpreted as “an attack” – of the judiciary...

On Friday 3 June, the Irish Ambassador, Pádraig MacCoscair, opened an exhibition of books written by Irish authors who, in one way or another, were connected to the Easter Rising that took...

From one picture of one lifeless boy to another, an image is finally emerging of the realities and circumstances around migration, illegal, forced, or voluntary.  The monotone colour has assumed...

On 4 July 2013, the Clinical Chairman of the Primary Health Care Department issued a circular addressed to all general practitioners who work in the health centres. The chairman gave clear guidelines...

As time passes, I increasingly convince myself that the globalisation we have been experiencing over the last thirties years, has been a mistake. In practice, the way by which the world economy...

It is useless to say how admirable and resilient Willa is. This 8 year old has shown character that most of us won’t manage to garner over a lifetime.  Let’s face it, thebuoyancy and...