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It’s time to ban the toxic teen popularity counter

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Jennifer O’Connell

Too rich for social housing, too poor to rent or buy. Who will help Ireland’s squeezed middle?

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Cliff Taylor

We could transform Ireland by harnessing the power of our Atlantic winds

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David Mcwilliams

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

RTÉ’s corridors were throbbing with joy last Friday afternoon. Children skipped and squealed with excitement in the countdown to curtain-up for the...

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Justine Mccarthy

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

Ireland is finally waking up to the need to take the country’s defence seriously. Vladimir Putin’s threat to attack the EU and the mysterious...

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Stephen Collins

Like Neville Chamberlain in 1938, Donald Trump is the errand boy of gangsters

Understandably fearful, Ukrainian leaders are reminding Europe of the ghosts of Munich in September 1938 when Czechoslovakia was compelled to...

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Diarmaid Ferriter

The seldom-seen Dee Forbes continues to influence RTÉ

RTÉ’s corridors were throbbing with joy last Friday afternoon. Children skipped and squealed with excitement in the countdown to curtain-up for the...

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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