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Justine McCarthy: The seldom-seen Dee Forbes continues to influence RTÉ

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Justine Mccarthy

If Russia attacks the EU, Ireland’s wide-open back door may give it a way in

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Stephen Collins

The seldom-seen Dee Forbes continues to influence RTÉ

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Justine Mccarthy

Real loser in row over EU observer status for Northern Ireland is the centre ground

Why did Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and Labour go along with a Sinn Féin stunt at the European Parliament? Thirteen of Ireland’s 14 MEPs signed a letter...

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Newton Emerson

Politicians are bad at the internet. Exhibit A: Simon Harris’s TikTok

Given its central importance to everything we do, it really does surprise me that politicians don’t know how to use the internet. Well, some do....

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Finn Mcredmond

Trump isn’t a peace maker, he’s a piece taker

When the Netflix bid for part of Warner Bros business hit the headlines, I wondered why Donald Trump warned of problems with the takeover bid. On...

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Michael Mcdowell

We already had a perfectly good term for ‘rage bait’ – it’s hate speech

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Kathy Sheridan

Eurovision glitz part of Israel’s claim to be European - and that matters

Genocide and glitz, torch songs and torched bodies, savagery and silliness, bombshell blondes and 2000-pound bombs, terror and trivia, nul points...

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Fintan O’Toole

Culture wars have come for Dublin’s Winter Lights festival

I’m here to report a case of mad “Xmas” disease. Elon Musk’s social media platform X, best known these days for promoting Russian...

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Joe Humphreys

The Complex is ‘the only place that does it all’: Dublin can’t let another arts venue vanish

In August 2024, former minister for finance Paschal Donohoe was fielding questions from reporters in advance of the publication of a report from...

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Una Mullally