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Restoration of Notre Dame shows hard things can be achieved if we’re not afraid to be ambitious

Who can forget the scenes in April 2019 of Notre Dame cathedral fully ablaze against the inky midnight Parisian sky? The next day newspapers across...

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To the French, Germans and even the Brits, Ireland is blessed with boring politics

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I cringed at Paul Mescal’s Brit-bashing. Not because it’s insensitive but because it’s boring

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MasterChef star Gregg Wallace’s bad behaviour was not ‘uncovered’. It was loud, lewd and widely known

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The thought of Conor McGregor draped in an Irish flag on a global stage is shameful

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I could live with celebrity politicians if they were all like Jeremy Clarkson

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Ireland needs its own Joe Rogan, someone to question liberal orthodoxies

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Young, aggrieved men may not have won the election for Trump, but he knows how to speak to them

In the run-up to the US election, one trend caught the imagination of the media more than anything: the apparent rightward drift of young American...

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