Mairia Cahill

4 weeks ago | independent.ie | Mairia Cahill

It’s a British tradition so antiquated that even they have banned it. Oscar Wilde once called it “The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable.” The British aristocracy introduced it to Ireland in the 1840s, and now hundreds of their descendants holiday here to partake in it with us and to spill blood on Irish soil. Yet, Danny Healy-Rae, Michael Collins and Sinn Féin are not in favour of legislation to outlaw it.

1 month ago | independent.ie | Mairia Cahill

Máiría Cahill: People like me with holiday homes are not to blame for shambolic planning and the housing crisisTom Gilligan suggested holiday homes should be boycotted. Photo: Michael McLaughlinWe never knew the man who lived around the bend, but he grew the most spectacular purple flowers in pots and trained honeysuckle around his cottage door. He’d wave at every car as they passed, tipping his hand to his hat, shirtless and basking in the sun with a beer after his labour.

1 month ago | independent.ie | Mairia Cahill

Máiría Cahill: Letting learners drive unaccompanied is a dangerous idea – Fianna Fáil’s Cathal Crowe should know better Fianna Fáil TD Cathal CroweMy uncle Jim was 36 when he was killed on September 16, 1998. The sun hung low in the afternoon sky, rays shimmering above the tarmac, making it hard for drivers to see. He was in slow-moving school traffic, which snaked up Belfast’s Falls Road, on a motorbike he had bought just weeks earlier.

1 month ago | independent.ie | Mairia Cahill

Máiría Cahill: Skirting around the camogie skorts fiasco is an insult to our sportswomenThe row about camogie skorts has led to a final being postponed. Photo: SportsfileIreland, 2025. Can you believe Munster’s Camogie Council postponed yesterday’s championship game between Cork and Waterford simply because players signalled their intention not to wear an extra panel of material converting shorts into a skirt? Well done for courageously standing up for your players’ rights, Munster Council.

1 month ago | independent.ie | Mairia Cahill

Máiría Cahill: Painfully slow wheels of justice add to Kingsmill sufferingKingsmill massacre survivor Alan Black in Belfast following the publication of the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland report into one of the most notorious incidents of the Troubles.