Marching through Stephen’s Green, rolling a cigarette, buttering an apple, whistling a tune, thinking about life, thinking about death, thinking about the complex inner mobility of longing, thinking about the treacherous dimension of time, thinking about March.

The Ditch can reveal that Ireland’s most secretive military unit trained with American special forces days before the US began bombing Iranian schoolgirls.

American Airlines illegally trafficked the type of munitions used against Iran through Irish territory this month.

A controversial pro-Israel lobbying group made an “urgent suggestion” to Micheál Martin’s department about lines to include in a speech he gave – and the taoiseach complied.

Business Post editor Daniel McConnell has defended his decision not to tell readers a contributor in the paper calling for Ireland to develop its “defence sector” works for a British arms consultancy.