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Ivana Bacik’s careless words are causing alarm among unionists

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Newton Emerson

Was anyone surprised when Trump called a woman journalist ‘piggy’?

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Finn Mcredmond

I split the family home with my daughter. Here’s what the Government needs to do

Too little, too late. If there is a single phrase that should be banned from the political lexicon, that’s the one, typically expressed as a world-...

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Kathy Sheridan

Britain’s asylum shake-up poses big problems for Ireland

The British home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, is Labour MP for Birmingham Ladywood of 15 years, a barrister, a former secretary of state for justice...

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Michael Mcdowell

Donald Trump made a fatal error when he invited the vampire Jeffrey Epstein in

In one of the great unmade movies, Woody Allen directs a remake of Dracula with Jeffrey Epstein as the count. To celebrate the sex offender’s 63rd...

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Fintan O’Toole

Simon Harris may be wrong about migration figures but he wasn’t dogwhistling

Simon Harris’s recent claim that “our migration numbers are too high” drew uniform condemnation from left-wing parties in the Dáil. Labour leader...

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Joe Humphreys

Why is the State selling a beautiful building on Baggot Street instead of using it?

Scrolling through commercial property listings, one is truly exceptional. Baggot Street Hospital is for sale – a huge and stunning building in...

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Una Mullally

Mark O’Connell: You’re not on the right side of history – there is no right side

Over the last two years, through all the cultural and political convulsions that have arisen out of Israel’s destruction of Gaza – a campaign of...

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Mark O’Connell

Catherine Connolly served notice on the Government – but housing is still its biggest problem

Tuesday’s inauguration of President Catherine Connolly paraded one of the essential elements of our democracy: after fiercely contested elections,...