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The great tragedy is there’s no political pendulum to restrain Israel’s Cromwellian impulses

yesterday 20

Diarmaid Ferriter

Humanity might yet prove the species that was too stupid and greedy to save itself

yesterday 10

Justine Mccarthy

The Government is finally showing some political courage in tackling the housing crisis

yesterday 8

Stephen Collins

The DUP couldn’t have chosen a worse moment to get tough on immigration

Hours before racist violence broke out in Ballymena on Monday night, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) had warned that the north Antrim town was...

previous day 10

Newton Emerson

I’m no Greta Thunberg fan, but dismissing the Madleen as a ‘publicity stunt’ is brain-dead

There is little to like about Greta Thunberg: the ghoulish climate doomerism, the omni-cause activism, the fervour she inspires in the worst...

previous day 10

Finn Mcredmond

Remembering Housewife of the Year, deadbeat husbands and patronising Gay Byrne

For many of us who lived through the era covered by the recent Housewife of the Year documentary, the viewing was always going to trigger a dull,...

wednesday 10

Kathy Sheridan

I gave my friends hats which said ‘Make America Hate Again’. That’s what Trump is trying to do

Back in my youth we were taught in Latin class about the problems faced by Rome because of neighbouring wetlands known as the Pontine Marshes....

wednesday 20

Michael Mcdowell

At a time when the boom is even boomer, this statistic should mortify us

I’ve written before about Ireland’s unknown knowns, our singular talent for wilful absent-mindedness. We have been very good at rendering invisible...

10.06.2025 20

Fintan O’Toole

Maybe we shouldn’t be quite so smug about Trump’s tariffs

The hysteria surrounding Trump’s tariffs prompted me to dust down my old economics textbook. I was reminded that tariffs are a legitimate, albeit...

09.06.2025 2

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