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In the aftermath of Storm Éowyn, I wrote about how we all need to become preppers in a climate changed world. Someone high up in the EU must be an...
When friends Féile Butler, of Sligo, and Mohammed Timraz, of Gaza, began swapping images of children’s art over WhatsApp in June last year, they...
The media in the UK has been warning British tourists holidaying on the Algarve this summer that they could face £1,250 fines if they are caught...
Forgive me if I seem churlish. On the face of it, Friday’s statement from groups planning Eleventh Night bonfires this year looks like a step in...
Who is Maroš Šefčovič, the mild-mannered company man trying to save transatlantic trade?
A focus on ‘toxic masculinity’ after the Netflix drama Adolescence misses the point, writes Dr Chris Luke.
A primary role of governance is ensuring people can meet their basic needs through properly functioning market or state provision. Shelter and...
When his GP retired, *Paul faced cancer without primary care and was left begging to be put on a waiting list.
Like, it seems, everybody else, I’ve been watching Jack Thorne and Stephen Graham’s brilliant and terrible Netflix series Adolescence. It does what...
Amid the spin, obfuscation, arguments, upcoming no-confidence motion, reaction and criticism that characterises the current Dáil, reflection on why...
The “80/20 rule” plays a key part in the Netflix series Adolescence. It says 80 per cent of women are attracted to 20 per cent of men, meaning if...
Donald Trump could hardly have talked up the importance of next Wednesday’s tariff announcement any more, dubbing it America’s “Liberation...
Huey P Long, the authoritarian, populist governor of Louisiana in the 1920/30s, nearly made it to the White House. He’s the real-life individual on...
Having endured 14 years of Tory governments which included austerity, a cost-of-living crisis, Brexit and Covid-19, the public voted for change....
I loved my granny, my source of wisdom, my inspiration. When I knelt beside her bed as she was dying she suddenly opened her dear eyes and smiled...
Pádraic Fogarty says that despite the climate crisis, Ireland’s native trees are last in line once again as unsustainable forestry practices...
Michael D Higgins has been an outstanding Irish first citizen over the last 14 years and, as he prepares to stand down, identifying a successor who...
Last year judicial reviews against energy projects trebled, as the country tried to add more assets to the grid
Artist Pamela de Brí looks at the history and changing shape of life on Ireland’s many islands.
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