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Being rejected from NCAD at 17 felt devastating, but more than two decades later Rachel knows one letter did not determine her future
The existing system of unlimited free public water for all households is unsustainable in the long term and unfair
Deaths of five teenagers linked to popularity of high risk-taking for ‘likes’ and affirmation
Memoirs of notable athletes contain triumph, but most are punctuated with much punishment
Citizenship is mocked by near-identical forms of non-citizenship for non-citizens
Private health insurance firms are entrenched behind slick advertising, reminding people they will be safeguarded as long as they can pay
Participants subtly try to distance themselves from their 2020-2023 behaviour in shaping groupthink mindset
No parables of good versus evil, or yelps of outrage are going to change those broken lives
If we are serious about every child feeling a sense of belonging in school this needs investment and political leadership
The idiot king has stabbed his South Korean ally in the back because a nuclearised North Korea is showing him respect
The Coalition could invest wisely in building more social housing directly, as just 16% of this valuable stock was built by councils last year
Plans and strategies will pave the way to climate hell, unless they are actually implemented
Unlike the soccer team’s bad luck in being drawn against Israel, Cricket Ireland did this – excuse the pun – off its own bat
Denmark no longer has an agriculture minister – Ireland should follow suit
It is a park that neither accentuates Dublin city nor switches it off; it is merely a way to commute through the middle
US philosophy graduates are more likely to have jobs than their computer science peers
Knox was wrongly convicted of the murder of Meredith Kercher before being acquitted in 2011, yet she seems to be the only person not entitled to have...
Its water levels have sunk so low that dozens of wrecked Nazi warships have been exposed. It’s hard not to see this as an extreme metaphor
Just two banks, INBS and the much larger Anglo Irish, account for all of the net cost to the government of €37 billion
Europe cannot ethically base its economy on the availability of cheap migrant labour while demonising those who seek better lives
Rite & Reason: What must it be like for the small number of men who are still in the Order to have this ignominy poured on them?
A former news editor from Russian state television claims journalists prepare a special news broadcast for Putin nightly, shorn of anything which...
For 14 of their 23 years of existence, the PDs were in government. Whatever you think of their ideology, they came with an agenda and they changed...
Ceuta exemplifies how political surprises cut through the best diplomatic preparation
The fetishisation of the Troubles by Kneecap is part of the same normalisation
We are witnessing a State takeover of the construction industry. Socialism is happening under a so-called centre-right Coalition
People’s memories, and the way they choose to recount them, have worth beyond the confines of what we consider to be capital-H History
In an internal memo, an executive at AI firm Anthropic wrote that ‘Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world’
There are climate lessons buried beneath the Céide Fields and in the stories of our forbears
Annoying the party when it threatens devolution would be a far more helpful contribution
Jobs losses are accelerating, with more AI-related cuts on the horizon. But there are things we can do
Arday stands accused of being a charlatan, fabulist, plagiarist – allegations he denies. For Cambridge, it’s all a huge embarrassment
Wednesday evening will bring millions of people together to gaze in silent awe at a rare celestial phenomenon
Belfast can be a claustrophobic place, but not last week, as what was once the most bombed hotel in Europe was booked out with ceilidhs
Does this justify the use of political violence by anyone today in Northern Ireland? Emphatically, no
The public service compensates for its technical shortcomings with seemingly unlimited recourse to expensive external consultants
Idea that climate action is about individual responsibility is as ridiculous as suggesting everyone can equip themselves to fight in war
Its lack of candour on big issues such as Aughinish and data centres is rust that corrodes trust in democracy
Housing and planning policy here are largely designed by men and fail to address daily needs of the rest of the population
There is already enough information in the public domain to put together some informed calculations
For philosopher William Desmond, being Irish is bound up with a ‘sense of doubleness’
Humans have three things the multibillionaire’s machines will never have
Objections to Dunsink are not about what’s in the plan. They’re about what’s missing
Pro-natalists in the US and Europe blame women for population decline, but the data tells a different story
Andy Burnham went from mayor to prime minister, but the challenges facing Limerick’s mayor make a similar ascent unlikely in Ireland
Rite & Reason: The temperance movement originated in the United States in the 19th century
In the biggest housing crisis in peacetime Europe, residents are intent on obstructing a solution to the housing shortage
On the list of all the things ‘pressurising women’ into caring roles, Hannah Neeleman and her bone broth hot cocoa are not in the top 50
Nobody believes these fantasy targets, but as they are still ‘policy’, everyone has to pretend they are relevant
If Tusla were a parent in the community, it would be prosecuted by gardaí and pursued by social workers. But the real responsibility lies with...
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