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Diarmaid Ferriter

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This German thinker sounded an alarm about the EU and the US – are we ready to listen?

This German thinker sounded an alarm about the EU and the US – are we ready to listen?

Jürgen Habermas insisted that ‘rearmament is the existential self-assertion of an EU that can no longer count on the protection of the US’

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Decades after motorists camped overnight for petrol, Ireland is still too dependent on oil

Decades after motorists camped overnight for petrol, Ireland is still too dependent on oil

The current crisis highlights the sad longevity of the toxic combination of hubris, power and corruption the control of oil has generated

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Dolores Keane’s honesty about her demons was as piercing as her singing

Being the custodian of so much was no easy path, but she knew she could not stop singing

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Real legacy of Elvis may be contested, but his story recalls a better America

It is the vitality and soulfulness of Elvis on stage that lingers in Baz Luhrmann’s film, a powerful antidote to the usual preoccupation with his...

13.03.2026 30

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Donald Trump’s pressure-cooker approach to Iran was always going to explode

It suits Iranian militants to prolong confrontation by drawing their enemies into protracted regional conflicts

06.03.2026 30

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Fianna Fáil’s founding aims haven’t aged well for the party

Unity, a social system offering equal opportunities and fair distribution of land were among them

02.03.2026 20

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Garret FitzGerald had flaws but he also had something novel: a vision for Ireland

He badly mishandled the abortion referendum in 1983 and failed to oversee the legalisation of divorce in 1986, but what he always had was a vision

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Micheál Martin’s caution has become a screen he hides behind

06.02.2026 10

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Ireland needs a better strategy than ‘hope’ when it comes to flood prevention

30.01.2026 10

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Irish ignorance about the Holocaust isn’t new but social media has supercharged it

22.01.2026 20

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Diarmaid Ferriter: Trump’s coveting of Greenland is an update of Danish imperialism

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Irish people have always demanded too much of RTÉ – and it usually delivered

09.01.2026 20

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Here’s one thing to look forward to this year: the release of the 1926 census

02.01.2026 20

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Iris Murdoch went to pains to hide poems on her bisexuality. Was it wrong to publish them?

26.12.2025 20

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Catholicism may be raising its head high but the body underneath is ailing

19.12.2025 20

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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 accept...

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Border was confirmed a century ago but the blame game is still a live issue

05.12.2025 20

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Enoch Burke’s ferocious desire for martyrdom has roots in Irish life

27.11.2025 20

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Catherine Connolly makes a strong case against political spindoctors

21.11.2025 20

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Anglo-Irish breakthroughs have always been intentionally vague

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Diarmaid Ferriter: Sr Stan asked a question in 1985 – it still hasn’t been answered

07.11.2025 10

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Talk of reforming the presidential nomination process is likely to fizzle out

31.10.2025 10

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Giving all artists a basic income means they can get on with the bloody work

24.10.2025 20

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Jim Gavin’s name on the ballot paper raises troubling questions

17.10.2025 20

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Charles Haughey’s fate was sealed by the 1990 presidential election. Is Micheál Martin next?

10.10.2025 10

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Martin Mansergh: Mandarin who quietly nudged this island towards peace

03.10.2025 10

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Two out of three candidates for the presidency can’t speak fluent Irish. That matters

26.09.2025 20

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UCD’s debating society rescinding an award to John Boyne is an odd decision

19.09.2025 20

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What’s the point of party think-ins when the same social problems persist?

12.09.2025 20

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Teachers should refuse to pass pickets of secretaries and caretakers

05.09.2025 20

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Motivation for Netanyahu’s hideous war on Gaza is not only self-interest. It’s far worse

29.08.2025 20

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Inevitability in presidential elections of over-promising and under-reading of the Constitution

22.08.2025 30

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Entrenched views remain barrier to a proper discussion about Irish unity

15.08.2025 20

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Daniel O’Connell: A ‘coward’ with a complicated legacy

08.08.2025 10

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The people who gave Ireland back part of its past

25.07.2025 10

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Ulster is well acquainted with those who leave their homes on boats for hope of a better life

18.07.2025 20

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Michael D Higgins showed having a vocal president can be risky. Has the public had enough?

11.07.2025 20

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

04.07.2025 20

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Ireland was a place where ruthless husbands were free to ‘bounce a boot off’ their wives

26.06.2025 10

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How can we stop corporate gombeen men running amok again? Credit unions could be the answer

20.06.2025 20

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The great tragedy is there’s no political pendulum to restrain Israel’s Cromwellian impulses

13.06.2025 20

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Ryanair is greenwashing to a comical degree

30.05.2025 20

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If waterways are neglected, they become undrinkable, unswimmable and then untouchable

23.05.2025 10

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Was it for this craven display that London endured the Blitz?

16.05.2025 20

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Donald Trump’s chilling assault on universities mirrors that of the Nazis in 1930s Germany

09.05.2025 10

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In Ireland, we are obsessed with the land – owning it, not roaming it

02.05.2025 10

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The hurt that dripped from Michael O’Brien and others has to be part of Pope Francis’s legacy

25.04.2025 20

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Forget an apple for the teacher. What they really need is a Valium

17.04.2025 20

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We are constantly told to shop around and switch utilities providers. Easier said than done

11.04.2025 10

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From ‘Damned Englishman’ to ‘f**king a**hole’: A history of Ireland in 25 Dáil insults

04.04.2025 10

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