https://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/en-ieRTÉ 2025-RTÉ Commercial Enterprises Ltd, Registration No: 155076, Donnybrook, Dublin 4, Ireland.Tue, 24 Jun 2025 11:57:13 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/education/2025/0624/1519991-education-senior-cycle/Plans to overhaul how Leaving Certificate students are assessed will be discussed by the leadership of the ASTI teachers' union at a two-day meeting in Killarney which begins this afternoon.Tue, 24 Jun 2025 06:34:54 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/education/2025/0624/1519991-education-senior-cycle/Educationhttps://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0620/1519595-what-is-the-nuclear-world-order-and-how-did-we-get-here/US and Israeli strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities have reignited the debate over nuclear weapons. But what is the nuclear world order we live in and how did we get here?Fri, 20 Jun 2025 20:48:18 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0620/1519595-what-is-the-nuclear-world-order-and-how-did-we-get-here/Analysis and Commenthttps://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0621/1519555-politics-opposition/The sight of Opposition leaders gathering together on the plinth at Leinster House has become very familiar in recent weeks. But, overall, there are mixed views as to how long the combined opposition will last.Sat, 21 Jun 2025 07:01:00 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0621/1519555-politics-opposition/Analysis and Commenthttps://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0621/1519610-putins-counter-narratives-reflect-stalled-talks/Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered a series of counter-narratives on the war in Ukraine at economic forum in St Peterburg while Russian drones and missiles killed civilians in Kyiv this week. It comes as US-led efforts to broker a ceasefire deal in the three-year war have stalled.Sat, 21 Jun 2025 07:13:46 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0621/1519610-putins-counter-narratives-reflect-stalled-talks/Analysis and Commenthttps://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0621/1519609-connelly-analysis-eu/The review into whether Israel is in violation of its obligations under its trade relations with the European Union, due to its conduct of the war in Gaza, was shrouded in secrecy and hobbled by last minute timing. RTÉ's Europe Editor Tony Connelly looks at what reactions may be expected on Monday.Sat, 21 Jun 2025 07:00:38 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0621/1519609-connelly-analysis-eu/Analysis and Commenthttps://www.rte.ie/news/business/2025/0622/1519521-how-secure-is-your-banking-app/Mobile banking is one of the most popular internet activities in Ireland.Sun, 22 Jun 2025 07:01:00 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2025/0622/1519521-how-secure-is-your-banking-app/Businesshttps://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0619/1519366-childrens-health-ireland/Today's appearance by Children's Health Ireland before the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health was a very tense and difficult affair, writes Fergal Bowers.Thu, 19 Jun 2025 15:37:28 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0619/1519366-childrens-health-ireland/Analysis and Commenthttps://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0622/1519565-child-protection-policy/The policy - Child Protection Procedures for Schools, 2025 - is an update on its original 2017 document. One of the key innovations is, for the first time, to provide explicit guidance to schools on how they should deal with former pupils presenting with a claim of historic abuse.Sun, 22 Jun 2025 07:01:00 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0622/1519565-child-protection-policy/Irelandhttps://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0618/1519160-analysis-hiqa-health-committee/The recent RTÉ Investigates exposé, on a number of private nursing homes and the fall-out, has raised fresh questions about the extent of HIQA's powers or ability to regulate the sector, writes Fergal Bowers.Wed, 18 Jun 2025 16:35:14 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0618/1519160-analysis-hiqa-health-committee/Analysis and Commenthttps://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0620/1519428-presidency/When it comes to the race to elect what our Constitution describes as the person "who shall take precedence over all other persons in the State", expect a sprint rather than a marathon.Fri, 20 Jun 2025 06:39:14 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0620/1519428-presidency/Analysis and Commenthttps://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0617/1518975-housing-analysis/There may be no silver bullet to magically boost housing output, but the Government has certainly accelerated its own output on housing decisions.Tue, 17 Jun 2025 18:11:56 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0617/1518975-housing-analysis/Analysis and Commenthttps://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0617/1518817-iran-murray-analysis/For decades, the international community has wrung its hands over Iran's nuclear programme, fretting over the Islamic dictatorship's potential to build a bomb.Tue, 17 Jun 2025 06:04:42 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0617/1518817-iran-murray-analysis/Analysis and Commenthttps://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0617/1518971-bank-bailout-analysis/The taxpayer put a total of €64.1 billion into the Irish banks during the financial crisis. The key question in 2025 is how much of that has been recovered 17 years after the financial meltdown, writes David Murphy.Tue, 17 Jun 2025 17:42:43 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0617/1518971-bank-bailout-analysis/Analysis and Commenthttps://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0617/1518996-news-report-analysis/The annual Reuters Digital News Report for Ireland 2025 offers a fascinating, if sobering, snapshot of media consumption.Tue, 17 Jun 2025 20:54:29 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0617/1518996-news-report-analysis/Analysis and Commenthttps://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0615/1518522-housing-plan-analysis/The Government and Minister for Housing James Browne's latest plans to address the housing crisis spent much of this week fighting the Dáil elements - specifically a deluge of opposition criticism.Sun, 15 Jun 2025 07:54:40 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0615/1518522-housing-plan-analysis/Analysis and Commenthttps://www.rte.ie/news/world/2025/0615/1518406-two-state-conference/The United Nations was due to play host this week to a major high-level conference, co-chaired by France and Saudi Arabia, to try to breathe life into the "two-state solution" - the international community's long held plan for Israel and Palestine to live side by side, in sovereign countries.Sun, 15 Jun 2025 08:49:29 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2025/0615/1518406-two-state-conference/Analysis and Commenthttps://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0614/1518384-eu-us-russia-sanctions/As G7 leaders converge on Kananaskis in the Canadian Rockies this weekend, the prospect of decisively tougher sanctions on Russia will loom large.Sat, 14 Jun 2025 07:00:00 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0614/1518384-eu-us-russia-sanctions/Analysis and Commenthttps://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0614/1518390-safeguarding-nursing-homes/For years, concerns have centred around safeguarding in nursing homes, writes Social Affairs Correspondent Ailbhe Conneely.Sat, 14 Jun 2025 08:26:16 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0614/1518390-safeguarding-nursing-homes/Analysis and Commenthttps://www.rte.ie/news/business/2025/0614/1518325-nama-analysis/At the height of the financial crisis in 2009 Ireland set up the National Asset Management Agency, better known as NAMA.Sat, 14 Jun 2025 07:01:03 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2025/0614/1518325-nama-analysis/Analysis and Commenthttps://www.rte.ie/news/world/2025/0613/1518342-flight-safety/The survival of a passenger who escaped through an exit door seconds after his Air India flight crashed killing everyone else on board has prompted speculation over whether his seat, 11A, is the safest.Fri, 13 Jun 2025 15:57:59 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2025/0613/1518342-flight-safety/Analysis and Commenthttps://www.rte.ie/news/world/2025/0613/1518251-iran-nuclear-programme/Before the Israeli strikes today, Washington and Tehran had held several rounds of talks on Iran's nuclear programme, as concerns mounted about its rapid expansion.Fri, 13 Jun 2025 08:37:53 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2025/0613/1518251-iran-nuclear-programme/Middle Easthttps://www.rte.ie/news/us/2025/0610/1517750-analysis-la-protests/We take a look at what powers US President Donald Trump has to invoke emergency powers to deploy US National Guard troops and active-duty marines to Los Angeles to quell protests against federal immigration raids.Tue, 10 Jun 2025 20:32:06 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/us/2025/0610/1517750-analysis-la-protests/UShttps://www.rte.ie/news/us/2025/0611/1517776-analysis-us/Was this the moment California's Governor Gavin Newsom finally threw his hat in the ring for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination?Wed, 11 Jun 2025 07:01:20 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/us/2025/0611/1517776-analysis-us/UShttps://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0610/1517749-government-rent-reform-plan-analysis/The Government's rent reform plan was hailed as a document that would provide the most elusive of political commodities - certainty, but that was in short supply as the plan's impact is difficult to pin down.Tue, 10 Jun 2025 20:18:07 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0610/1517749-government-rent-reform-plan-analysis/Analysis and Commenthttps://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0609/1517395-rent-caps-government/The Government has little choice about reforming the existing rent caps if it wants to attract badly needed investment back to the market to increase the supply of new homes, but the challenge is that it is very hard to relax them without consequences for tenants, writes David Murphy.Mon, 09 Jun 2025 06:29:22 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0609/1517395-rent-caps-government/Analysis and Commenthttps://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0608/1517365-rpz-changes-government/The next few days will be fraught politically for the Government as it prepares what it believes is an intricate balancing act between renters' rights and developers' ambitions, writes Mícheál LehaneSun, 08 Jun 2025 15:54:45 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0608/1517365-rpz-changes-government/Analysis and Commenthttps://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0608/1517290-ecb-rates/As widely expected, this week, the European Central Bank (ECB) cut interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point, bringing the main deposit rate down to 2%.Sun, 08 Jun 2025 07:00:01 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0608/1517290-ecb-rates/Analysis and Commenthttps://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0608/1517119-donald-trump-crypto/Donald Trump once dismissed cryptocurrency as "a scam" but in recent months he and his family have become heavily involved in the digital currency marketplace and have reportedly made billions of dollars in the process.Sun, 08 Jun 2025 07:00:00 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0608/1517119-donald-trump-crypto/Businesshttps://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0607/1517164-trump-musk-row/Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill has caused one big beautiful bust-up with Elon Musk.Sat, 07 Jun 2025 07:01:01 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0607/1517164-trump-musk-row/Analysis and Commenthttps://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0606/1517057-chi-report/It has not been a good couple of months for Children's Health Ireland.Fri, 06 Jun 2025 11:54:47 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0606/1517057-chi-report/Analysis and Commenthttps://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0606/1516970-leprechaun-economics-ireland/One way or another, the activity of multinationals is distorting Ireland's economic figures, writes David Murphy.Fri, 06 Jun 2025 06:01:01 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0606/1516970-leprechaun-economics-ireland/Analysis and Commenthttps://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0606/1517060-hurling-split-season/In terms of hurling, this has to be one of the great weekends of the year with three blockbuster games, including two provincial finals, down for decision.Fri, 06 Jun 2025 12:12:06 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0606/1517060-hurling-split-season/Analysis and Commenthttps://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0605/1516770-eu-regulation-medicines/The EU's sweeping new rules on the regulation of medicines has been one of the most bitterly contested pieces of legislation in recent times, with fierce lobbying by the pharma sector, writes Europe Editor Tony Connelly.Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:00:00 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0605/1516770-eu-regulation-medicines/Analysis and Commenthttps://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0602/1516274-how-karol-nawrocki-won-the-polish-presidential-election/Karol Nawrocki, a 42-year-old historian and conservative, has won Poland's presidential election by a razor-thin margin. His election is likely to thwart efforts by the pro-EU coalition government to reverse rule-of-law changes made by the nationalist Law and Justice party when it was in power.Mon, 02 Jun 2025 12:49:53 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0602/1516274-how-karol-nawrocki-won-the-polish-presidential-election/Analysis and Commenthttps://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0601/1516024-will-trump-kill-americas-clean-future/President Trump wasted no time delivering on his campaign promises to the fossil fuel industry - rolling back US commitments on climate and clean energy, cutting federal funding to climate change science and lifting environmental regulations. What does it all mean for America's clean future?Sun, 01 Jun 2025 07:00:01 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0601/1516024-will-trump-kill-americas-clean-future/Analysis and Commenthttps://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0601/1515991-housing-crisis/In a week when the minister responsible for housing admitted that meeting the Government's own target for the delivery of new housing this year would be "extremely challenging", RTÉ's Economics and Public Affairs Editor David Murphy examines three key issues that must be addressed.Sun, 01 Jun 2025 07:00:00 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0601/1515991-housing-crisis/Analysis and Commenthttps://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0531/1515969-emissions-targets/Confirmation from the Environmental Protection Agency over the past few days that Ireland has gone backwards on its greenhouse gas emissions targets is hugely disappointing.Sat, 31 May 2025 07:00:00 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0531/1515969-emissions-targets/Analysis and Commenthttps://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0531/1515979-occupied-territories-bill-gaza/All day Wednesday and late into the evening on the street facing Leinster House, demonstrators sang a stinging song urging politicians to find their "backbone" and to enact the Occupied Territories Bill.Sat, 31 May 2025 07:00:01 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0531/1515979-occupied-territories-bill-gaza/Analysis and Commenthttps://www.rte.ie/news/europe/2025/0531/1516016-polish-election/Tomorrow, Polish voters will cast their ballots in a tight second-round vote to decide whether centrist Rafal Trzaskowski or conservative Karol Nawrocki will become their next president. At stake is the future of the current coalition government's reform agenda.Sat, 31 May 2025 07:00:01 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/europe/2025/0531/1516016-polish-election/Analysis and Commenthttps://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0530/1515948-satchwell-jury/Richard Satchwell's trial was initially scheduled to sit in his home county of Cork but due to the "intense publicity" surrounding the case, his lawyers applied late last year to move the trial to the capital.Fri, 30 May 2025 13:59:35 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0530/1515948-satchwell-jury/Courtshttps://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0530/1515932-richard-satchwell-garda-investigation/Fri, 30 May 2025 12:50:21 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0530/1515932-richard-satchwell-garda-investigation/Analysis and Commenthttps://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0530/1515929-richard-satchwell-case-background/Tina Satchwell could never have imagined the tight space under the stairs at her home at 3 Grattan Street in Youghal would be her final resting place.Fri, 30 May 2025 13:00:50 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0530/1515929-richard-satchwell-case-background/Munsterhttps://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0528/1515535-independents-israel-bonds/The Government suffered a blow tonight as two of the TDs that have supported it in every vote up to this point backed Sinn Féin's bill to prevent the Central Bank from having any role in the sale of Israel's bonds, writes Mícheál LehaneWed, 28 May 2025 22:04:16 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0528/1515535-independents-israel-bonds/Analysis and Commenthttps://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0527/1515246-childrens-health-ireland-crisis/The pace of events involving Children's Health Ireland is truly astonishing. Given the run of events, it is difficult to see how CHI, in its current structure, can survive, writes Health Correspondent Fergal Bowers.Tue, 27 May 2025 16:38:24 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0527/1515246-childrens-health-ireland-crisis/Analysis and Commenthttps://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0527/1515295-occupied-territories-bill/Cabinet took a first step today and gave approval to Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Harris to draft an Occupied Territories BillTue, 27 May 2025 21:45:12 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0527/1515295-occupied-territories-bill/Analysis and Commenthttps://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0525/1514630-un-aid-gaza/The UN resumed aid deliveries to Gaza this week, after Israel ordered a temporary pause in the total blockade on food, water and medical supplies that had lasted 80 days. But US-Israeli plans are already underway to sideline the UN's entire relief operation in the territory.Sun, 25 May 2025 07:00:00 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0525/1514630-un-aid-gaza/Analysis and Commenthttps://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0524/1514664-eu-israel-analysis/Kaja Kallas, the EU's foreign policy chief will instruct the EU's diplomatic arm to carry out a review of the EU-Israel agreement, a small step in relative terms. But why did the Dutch request succeed where Ireland and Spain previously failed?Sat, 24 May 2025 07:01:00 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0524/1514664-eu-israel-analysis/Analysis and Commenthttps://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0524/1514693-us-eu-analysis/What is behind the US President Donald Trump's 50% tariff on EU imports to the US? RTÉ's Washington correspondent Sean Whelan looks at the latest developments on both sides of the Atlantic as well as what may happen in the aftermath following the US president's shock announcementSat, 24 May 2025 07:11:12 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0524/1514693-us-eu-analysis/Analysis and Commenthttps://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0524/1514684-politics-gaza/Political progress is sometimes described as being about inches not miles, a phrase meant to explain how change often happens slowly and incrementally rather than with sudden leaps forward.Sat, 24 May 2025 00:00:00 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0524/1514684-politics-gaza/Analysis and Commenthttps://www.rte.ie/news/business/2025/0523/1514594-ryanair-china-boeing/Ryanair's warning that it could ditch Boeing in favour of a Chinese rival is just a bluff... for now, writes Adam Maguire.Fri, 23 May 2025 15:19:12 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2025/0523/1514594-ryanair-china-boeing/Business