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Keeping student fees down and reducing VAT would cost €3 billion we don’t have

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Gerard Howlin

The GPO is not ‘sacred ground’. It’s so much more than that

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Diarmaid Ferriter

For over 30 years, George Gibney has lived as a free man, without having to face a trial

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Justine Mccarthy

Middle class parents are the winners in third-level fee cut. That’s why Fine Gael don’t want to touch it

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John Mcmanus

Republic’s students pay 50% less than those from Britain to study in NI. Should they pay more?

With uncanny timing, given the proposed rise in student contribution fees, the DUP and Sinn Féin have been discussing students from the Republic....

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Newton Emerson

How to work smarter: get up early, do your work diligently, have a long lunch, go home

I had been reading about artificial intelligence (AI), and the effects it will have on entry-level employment roles. I was formulating thoughts to...

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Finn Mcredmond

Folly of abolishing bedsits only to promote co-living is now becoming clear

A letter published in this newspaper yesterday reminded me of the decision, made by the then-housing department in 2009, to ban bedsits with effect...

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Michael Mcdowell

Kneecap owe Keir Starmer, the BBC and Helen from Wales a thank you

Helen from Wales won Glastonbury. She didn’t sing or dance or chant a death threat. She held up her phone and live-streamed the whole Kneecap show...

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Kathy Sheridan

I have had more wives than Henry VIII. It’s news to me too

Frankly, I don’t know what women see in me. But I have got through more of them than King Henry VIII. My first wife was “the actress Siân...

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Fintan O’Toole

Read the headlines and wonder if everyone is on Ozempic and has ADHD? It’s all a bit overwhelming

You already know that absurdity is embedded in our digital world, and yet the constant bombardment confirming as much can be utterly overwhelming....

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Laura Kennedy

These five factors are how Zohran Mamdani took New York by storm

Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary is the outcome of a campaign that will be pored over, with elements...

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Una Mullally