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Snobbery in Cork is like politicking among the palace eunuchs

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Irish Examiner

S Michael Moynihan

Ian Guider: DAA’s treatment of Jacobs is a red flag for anyone seeking to succeed him

5

The Business Post

Ian Guider

Regina Doherty: Whoever deemed the ETF disposal tax necessary has hurt Irish investors - end it now

6

The Business Post

Regina Doherty

I felt like a Queen for a day... then reality intruded big time!

I felt like a Queen for a day... then reality intruded big time!

Well, hasn’t life a way of taking you down (in your own view, at least) a completely unnecessary peg or two. You return from an awards ceremony...

6

Evening Echo

Áilín Quinlan

Budget must tackle our over-crowded schools

Budget must tackle our over-crowded schools

As the new school term begins in earnest in primary and special schools across the country, teachers and school leaders are growing increasingly...

10

Evening Echo

Anna Horan

Opinion: Turning this into a witch hunt helps no one - but blackface is not 'just a joke'

We all need to speak out against racism to stop racist actions being normalised, writes Dr Ebun Joseph.

6

TheJournal

Dr Ebun Joseph

Flying the flag with the Falcon and the Winter Soldier

The next chapter of the Marvel Cinematic Universe begins on Friday on Disney , promising for fans a must-see action-adventure serial. When last we...

8

The Avondhu

Donal Okeeffe

Sadly, it was no surprise to see the Irish Tricolour at the Tommy Robinson march

It is fashionable – on both the right and on the left – to preach impending societal collapse. Last summer, the French newspaper Le Figaro...

10

The Irish Times

Finn Mcredmond

FAI can bemoan timing misfortune but sometimes you make your own bad luck

10

Irish Examiner

S John Fallon

Gaza genocide finding must be turning point in war - The Irish News view

The report by a United Nations commission of inquiry declaring firmly that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza deserves to be a turning point in...

8

The Irish News

The Irish News

How Fianna Fáil and the GAA fell out over the ban on ‘foreign games’

Last week, Jim Gavin was elected by the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party to be its candidate for the Irish presidential election, due to take place...

8

The Irish News

Cormac Moore

Opinion: Cynics suggest the Church may use Carlo to boost attendance - there may be merit to that claim

Opinion: Cynics suggest the Church may use Carlo to boost attendance - there may be merit to that claim

Dublin priest Father Michael Collins charts Saint Carlo Acutis’s canonisation and the high-profile treatment it’s been given.

7

TheJournal

Fr Michael Collins

It’s not a question of if Stormont will collapse, but when

The only question now is how long? How long will the Stormont institutions last? Since the return of the Assembly and Executive after their...

10

The Irish News

Brian Feeney

Roy, Pat, Joanne, Anna... Cork candidates for future president

Roy, Pat, Joanne, Anna... Cork candidates for future president

The prospects for the tenth presidency of Ireland are becoming clearer as the nomination deadline looms. But, alas, no Cork contender. Ex-dancers,...

10

Evening Echo

Kathriona Devereux

Opinion: Preventing another genocide is how Germany should come to terms with its history

As the EU looks to take a stronger approach against the Israeli government, a change in Germany’s position would carry the most weight, writes...

10

TheJournal

Bobby Mcdonagh

A message to Dáil: Beware the health risks of cannabis

A message to Dáil: Beware the health risks of cannabis

Cannabis is in the news. At the recent US Tennis Open in New York, there were headlines about the unmistakable pungent odour of cannabis drifting...

10

Evening Echo

Dr Catherine Conlon

It's nobody's idea of a good time, but divorce is a fact of life

20

Irish Examiner

Sarah Harte

Grotesque charade of Trump’s UK visit is latest sign of a world in turmoil

The strangest side effect of Donald Trump’s foreign-policy-by-tariff methods was the participation by Indian military experts in the joint Russia-...

10

The Irish Times

Michael Mcdowell

If Starmer doesn't learn to lead now he is finished

40

Irish Examiner

S Fergus Finlay

It’s hard to stay cool in a world where tempers often boil over

It’s hard to stay cool in a world where tempers often boil over

Professional tennis player Daniil Medvedev was fined $42,500 for unsportsmanlike misconduct and racket abuse following his outburst at the US Open...

5

Evening Echo

Trevor Laffan

Curiosity is a key power in the world of business

Curiosity is a key power in the world of business

The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), the professional body for human resources (HR), has been shaping people management for...

10

Evening Echo

Mary Cummins

The really nauseating thing about the Ryder Cup is how seamlessly it will all happen

The biggest issue with the State preparing to pump another €30 million of public money into the staging of the 2027 Ryder Cup is not really the...

10

The Irish Times

Fintan O’Toole

Conor Murray told Munster what they needed to hear

9

Irish Examiner

S Kieran Shannon

Integration will happen organically, not like this

10

Irish Examiner

S Fogarty Forum

Unfit for office, Trump and Starmer are well matched

Appeasement is one of the most repugnant words in the historian’s dictionary. Although now on the cusp of what we might call living memory, the...

10

The Irish News

Tom Collins

What does it mean to be Irish today? Seeing the tricolour in London, I felt ashamed

London was not a pretty sight at the weekend. Because it was a grey, rainy Saturday afternoon, and because the streets were full of 150,000 Tommy...

100

The Irish News

Róisín Lanigan

Pippa Hackett: Farmers are being treated as pawns in the rural economy

Former Green Party minister and farmer Pippa Hackett writes that farmers should be valued for what they produce, not for what they buy.

20

TheJournal

Pippa Hackett