Politics/Current Affairs
Fine Gael: Party at the Crossroads
Defeated and demoralised, Fine Gael was a broken political party after the 2002 general election. Opponents mocked and critics sneered when the party turned to a relative unknown as its new leader.
Irish Apartheid: Healthcare Inequality in Ireland
Health services are top of the public and political agenda in Ireland, yet much of the rhetoric is confused, and most people cannot understand why the system is the way it is.
60 Years, 30 Perspectives: Ireland and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Donncha O'Connell
A Divided Paradise: An Irishman in the Holy Land
A Divided Paradise: An Irishman in the Holy Land is a vivid account of ordinary life in one of the world’s most contested and volatile regions. Award winning journalist David Lynch brings to life stories from both the Palestinian and Israeli street.
Drive Like a Woman, Shop Like a Man: Greener is Cheaper
"An entertaining, easy read filled with loads of genuinely good ideas which will save you a packet." Conor Pope, Irish Times consumer champion
Chernobyl Heart - 20 Years On
On 26 April 1986, Reactor No 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear processing plant exploded, releasing radiation 90 to 150 times greater than that released by the Hiroshima bomb.
Unhealthy State: Anatomy of a Sick Society
With its genesis in a series of articles entitled “An Unhealthy State” which ran in The Irish Times over five days in October 2000, this polemical and controversial book is the definitive statement on the health care scandal in Ireland.
