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DUP’s first attempt to use the Stormont brake ends in humiliation

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The Irish Times

Newton Emerson

Maybe Mark Zuckerberg is right - it’s time to celebrate ‘masculine energy’ again

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The Irish Times

Finn Mcredmond

‘Repeated public requests’ can get things done — but not for bus routes

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Irish Examiner

S Michael Moynihan

How long will it take to break this version of Gaelic football?

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Irish Examiner

S Tommy Martin

Are too many consultants spoiling the message for FAI?

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Irish Examiner

S The Pitch

Five for 2025: Marsh McLennan’s top priorities for Irish employers this year

Rising business costs, employee wellbeing and technology adaptation are among the key issues businesses should focus on over the next twelve months

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The Business Post

John Mercer

Johnny Fallon: This Dáil circus was entirely predictable, so why was the government blindsided?

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TheJournal

Johnny Fallon

Five for 2025: Mercer’s top priorities for Irish employers this year

Rising business costs, employee wellbeing and technology adaptation are among the key issues businesses should focus on over the next twelve months

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The Business Post

John Mercer

Lord Mayor: ‘Let’s make a better Cork now’

Lord Mayor: ‘Let’s make a better Cork now’

The future Cork city will be a city with a lot of more people. We currently have a population of 225,000 people. We will have passed quarter of a...

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Evening Echo

Evening Echo

Cork Views: 'Us ladies want our own public toilets - not the unisex option'

Cork Views: 'Us ladies want our own public toilets - not the unisex option'

I’d never really given the issue much thought, but suddenly I knew exactly where I stood. You can’t really avoid unisex toilets on airplanes or...

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Evening Echo

Evening Echo

News of Ireland’s 11 billionaires makes this a good time to talk about a wealth tax

The latest Oxfam report should make cheerful reading for some. The Irish billionaire club rose from nine to 11 last year and their combined wealth...

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The Irish Times

Kathy Sheridan

It’s a good time for a higher tax on Ireland’s 11 billionaires

The latest Oxfam report should make cheerful reading for some. The Irish billionaire club rose from nine to 11 last year and their combined wealth...

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The Irish Times

Kathy Sheridan

Meta smart glasses are shady new tools for predatory behaviour

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Irish Examiner

Sarah Harte

Donald Trump can learn much from principled Pope Francis - The Irish News view

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The Irish News

The Irish News

OPINION: Tracing rural Ireland’s woes to the Congested Districts Board’s dissolution

OPINION: Tracing rural Ireland’s woes to the Congested Districts Board’s dissolution

Concern about the decline of rural Ireland didn’t start in the 1950s. Today’s neglect of the northwest region had origins in the colonial period...

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The Mayo News

John Bradley

FAI on back foot in Colin Healy debacle

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Irish Examiner

S John Fallon

EDITORIAL: Mayo team not expected to challenge for Sam Maguire glory this year

EDITORIAL: Mayo team not expected to challenge for Sam Maguire glory this year

IT’S HARD to believe, but it has been almost seven months since Mayo last played a championship match. It was June 22 when Derry came to Hastings...

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The Mayo News

The Mayo News

The literary spark from family, culture and contention

Does Ireland’s literary heritage emerge from big families, sibling conflict, cultural discord — o...

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The Irish Post

Malachi Odoherty

Micheál Martin has assembled the most right-wing Irish government in decades

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The Irish News

Brian Feeney

Céline Place: Time for European firms and politicians to tackle the key challenges of AI revolution

The landmark AI conference will aim to tackle many of the key challenges of the AI revolution by bringing industry leaders and government...

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The Business Post

Céline Place

As long as a border exists, so will barriers to true all-island tourism

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The Irish News

Cormac Moore

Eamon Ryan: Trump’s ‘golden age’ of climate destruction would be a disaster

It is insane to think there can be another new “golden age” of oil and gas expansion in America. No matter what President Donald Trump may say,...

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The Irish Times

Eamon Ryan

What’s the dirtiest four-letter word in Irish politics? ‘Deal’

Radio Kerry’s Jerry O’Sullivan: “So a deal has been done?” Michael Healy-Rae: “I never used the word ‘deal’.” The Year of the Snake...

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The Irish Times

Fintan O&x27Toole

‘Super junior’ ministers are politically convenient but constitutionally dubious

The incoming government will be the largest in the history of the State, with a total of 38 ministers. Given the controversy around the rapidly...

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The Irish Times

Eoin Daly

Cork can get into winning habit by targeting the league

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Irish Examiner

S Kieran Shannon

Britain must finally admit its malign role in Troubles

Secretaries of State come, and they go – some to greater things, and others to oblivion. People here just have to hope they do the minimum amount...

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The Irish News

Tom Collins

Colm Lauder: Cairn and Glenveagh investors can cash in on programme for government

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The Business Post

Colm Lauder

Portadown peace wall: An important mind shift towards breaking down all our barriers - The Irish News view

Removing a three-metre high piece of steel fencing would not normally be regarded as newsworthy, but in Water Street, Portadown, in recent days, it...

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The Irish News

The Irish News

Edna O’Brien knew what she was talking about

A new documentary on the life of Edna O’Brien, “Blue Road”, will be showing at the Queen’s Film Theatre next week and it’s a must-see. It...

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The Irish News

Mary Kelly

Let’s move from dialogue to delivery for Belfast in 2025

As the New Year progresses apace, many will be closely monitoring how well they are sticking to their personal resolutions to better themselves in...

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The Irish News

Clare Guinness

Hearing issue? Now’s the time to address it

Hearing issue? Now’s the time to address it

This is a month when the soundbite of ‘New Year, new me’ can often be heard. But if you suffer from mild to severe hearing loss, perhaps it could...

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Evening Echo

Evening Echo

Money, emotions and debt: How our psychological needs shape our financial habits

Good old January and the fear of looking at that bank statement where most of January’s wages are wiped out by the credit card bill. Miserable...

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The Irish News

Peter Mcgahan

Larry Donnelly: Trump is back with a bang. Buckle up. Uncertain times lie ahead.

Larry Donnelly: Trump is back with a bang. Buckle up. Uncertain times lie ahead.

Larry Donnelly details the broader impacts of Donald Trump’s return to the White House and how the Democrats should respond to the administration...

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TheJournal

Larry Donnelly

50 years after Tony Ryan’s Aer Lingus ultimatum spawned a sector, Irish aircraft lessors are bullish

From below 10 per cent in the early 1970s, lessors – half of whom are based in Ireland – saw their global fleet share break 50 per cent barrier...

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The Business Post

Eoin Ohare

Opinion: An Irish fossil fuel lobbyist says he's part of the low carbon transition - let's get real

John Gibbons says the fossil fuel industry has shown contempt for real environmental changes.

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TheJournal

John Gibbons

Ciarán Cannon: We cannot consider going ahead with the Galway Ring Road

Ciarán Cannon says recent legal rulings should spell the end of plans for the Galway Ring Road project.

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TheJournal

Ciarán Cannon

Trump’s inauguration address tapped into America’s violent history of expansionism

The most revealing part of Trump’s first day in office may be not what he did but what he said. Most of the executive orders he signed, while...

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The Irish Times

Daniel Geary

Opinion: Are our sporting heroes 'playing it safe' when it comes to their public image?

Paddy O’Dea of FINN Partners says Ireland’s elite athletes like to present muted and cautious public personas.

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TheJournal

Paddy Odea

Eoin Ó Broin: New government is destined to repeat housing mistakes of the past

Over the last number of weeks, newspapers have been filled with a series of reports highlighting our ever-deepening housing crisis. Housing prices...

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The Irish Times

Eoin Ó Broin

Kathriona Devereux: We need a wind of change in attitude to renewable energy

Kathriona Devereux: We need a wind of change in attitude to renewable energy

Twenty years ago, I hopped on board a boat to film the Arklow Bank Wind Farm 13km off the coast of Wicklow It was a beautiful, sunny, windy day,...

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Evening Echo

Evening Echo

Could the Trump card be America’s ace card?

In the immediate aftermath of the Easter Rising of 1916, WB Yeats observed that ‘one knows nothing of the future except that it must be very...

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The Irish News

Daniel Mulhall

Trump's inaugural address full of the same lies and same self-pity

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Irish Examiner

S Fergus Finlay

Trevor Laffan: An island where everyone is happy, smiling, and pleasant

Trevor Laffan: An island where everyone is happy, smiling, and pleasant

They call Bali the Island of the Gods. There are statues and images of strange-looking creatures everywhere, usually partially covered with black...

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Evening Echo

Evening Echo

Cork Views: 'We've turned living into a full-time job'

Cork Views: 'We've turned living into a full-time job'

In our obsession to live longer, we’ve forgotten how to live better and the power of connection. An aunt of mine, a sister in a community of...

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Evening Echo

Evening Echo