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I am tired of explaining Michael D Higgins’s words to incredulous English people

30.01.2025 10

Finn Mcredmond

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

23.01.2025 20

Finn Mcredmond

Could religion be the antidote to declining birth rates, celebrity worship and political polarisation?

16.01.2025 20

Finn Mcredmond

Ireland cannot rely on a soft and woolly international reputation anymore

09.01.2025 30

Finn Mcredmond

The worst of this strange decade of wokeness is over

Donald Trump will be inaugurated soon enough, and with him he brings a lesson for 2025. As the great essayist Christopher Caldwell noted in the New...

02.01.2025 3

Finn Mcredmond

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...

26.12.2024 6

Finn Mcredmond

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

Modern Ireland is relatively resistant to political disruption. The centre holds; even the fringe parties usually end up adopting some centrist...

19.12.2024 4

Finn Mcredmond

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

A non-comprehensive list of jokes that are both ubiquitous and unfunny: Britain’s performative dislike of the French; I hate my mother-in-law...

12.12.2024 20

Finn Mcredmond

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

I love MasterChef. I reckon I have spent more hours of my life watching MasterChef than any other television programme. I cannot decide whether I...

05.12.2024 3

Finn Mcredmond

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

I have been enjoying a recent spate of arguments with my friends over who can claim the mantle of the most famous living Irish person. Paul Mescal?...

28.11.2024 2

Finn Mcredmond

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

There has been plenty of worthy hand-wringing over the past eight years about the spectre of the celebrity politician. Donald Trump is the standard...

21.11.2024 3

Finn Mcredmond

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

The liberals of Ireland have a lot to learn from the United States. In the wake of the US election and Donald Trump’s easier-than-expected victory,...

14.11.2024 60

Finn Mcredmond

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...

07.11.2024 4

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Finn McRedmond: We’re meant to bask in Saoirse Ronan’s feminist triumph, but I find it all a bit nauseating

I am happy to wager that the celebrity chatshow is the worst product of contemporary popular culture. Amid all the slop and dreck we manage to...

31.10.2024 3

Finn Mcredmond

The genius of Donald Trump’s McDonald’s stunt

On Sunday in Pennsylvania, Donald Trump took up post in McDonald’s for the afternoon. In a white shirt, red tie and blue apron, the former...

24.10.2024 3

Finn Mcredmond

God help us all, Russell Brand has found religion

The one thing going for Russell Brand and his strange Christian conversion is that, despite his evident distance from the Kingdom of God and his...

17.10.2024 4

Finn Mcredmond

It’s worse than George Orwell imagined. There’s no need to ban books no one wants to read

Last week, the Atlantic published a story that was disheartening, but not surprising. Students were arriving at elite colleges – Princeton,...

10.10.2024 10

Finn Mcredmond

Varadkar seems intent on ensuring Ireland continues to haunt Starmer’s Britain

It is much easier to make lofty political interventions from outside office than from within. Leo Varadkar, as former taoiseach, no longer has to...

03.10.2024 2

Finn Mcredmond

Events such as the Southport and Dublin knife attacks expose a country’s fault lines

Three girls – at time of writing – have died after a knife attack in Southport, a town just north of Liverpool, on Monday. Bebe King (6), Elsie Dot...

01.08.2024 2

Finn Mcredmond

Knowing when to quit is a truly inhuman quality - just ask Joe Biden or Andy Murray

Andy Murray is a reluctant British hero. His clipped and quiet (grumpy?) persona off court makes way for a hot-headed player on court. Images of...

25.07.2024 1

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I am tired of explaining Michael D Higgins’s words to incredulous English people

Finn Mcredmond

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

Finn Mcredmond

Could religion be the antidote to declining birth rates, celebrity worship and political polarisation?

Finn Mcredmond

Ireland cannot rely on a soft and woolly international reputation anymore

Finn Mcredmond

The worst of this strange decade of wokeness is over

Finn Mcredmond

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

Finn Mcredmond

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

Finn Mcredmond

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

Finn Mcredmond

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

Finn Mcredmond

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

Finn Mcredmond

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

Finn Mcredmond

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

Finn Mcredmond

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

Finn Mcredmond

Finn McRedmond: We’re meant to bask in Saoirse Ronan’s feminist triumph, but I find it all a bit nauseating

Finn Mcredmond

The genius of Donald Trump’s McDonald’s stunt

Finn Mcredmond

God help us all, Russell Brand has found religion

Finn Mcredmond

It’s worse than George Orwell imagined. There’s no need to ban books no one wants to read

Finn Mcredmond

Varadkar seems intent on ensuring Ireland continues to haunt Starmer’s Britain

Finn Mcredmond

Events such as the Southport and Dublin knife attacks expose a country’s fault lines

Finn Mcredmond

Knowing when to quit is a truly inhuman quality - just ask Joe Biden or Andy Murray

Finn Mcredmond