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Joe HorganThe Irish Post |
A REPORT a few years ago by the European Commission found Ireland to be the loneliest country in Europe. Twenty per cent of Irish people stated that...
BEING an insignificant country has its benefits. It is not like we can do much about it anyway, but being a small island on the western edge of the...
THE ESRI, the Economic and Social Research Institute, recently revealed some very interesting facts about immigration in Ireland. Indeed, some of what...
THE racist abuse of Edwin Edogbo after he made his debut for the Ireland rugby team should surprise absolutely nobody. The IRFU had to turn off social...
JUST after the New Year I did two of the most Irish things simultaneously - I saw someone off at the airport and then went straight to a funeral. I...
WHEN Luke Kelly sang For What Died the Sons of Róisín, what do you think he meant? Of course, there is always a problem with interpreting the past...
SOME twenty years ago we nearly moved to an offshore island. We were living in a rented wooden c...
I NEVER really thought about it until one day I was sitting in a church and wondered why it is I ...
THE National Economic and Social Council recently pointed out the challenges Ireland is going to ...
I SAW a few things in 2025 I wasn’t expecting to see on the streets of Ireland anytime soon. I sa...
THIS is quite a frightening time in Irish politics. In Irish society. Not since the 1930s have we...
IS INISHEER one of the most beautiful songs there has ever been? I’ve heard it played on an acco...
YOU’LL have heard the phrase blow-in. It’s used here in Ireland to describe those who move into a...
FROM where I was sitting on a fine sunny day I looked back at a landscape I’d roamed as a child. ...
ONE of the most characteristic aspects of growing up Irish in England was that it was primarily h...
WHAT time is it there? That was the first one that seemed to confuse them. This was around the ti...
THERE are quite clearly some people who were born and raised in Irish families in England who con...
THE roll call in the classroom of a morning went along these lines. Condon, Daly, Egan, Horgan, ...
THIS Ireland might be a small island on the edge of Europe. An often wet, windy, place facing ou...
WE ARE in a time where we are told that what concerns most people is migration. Not just here in...
ONE of the things about Ireland, or at least rural Ireland, and we still have one of the highest ...
WHAT’S happening to the pub? Over the last twenty years more than 2,000 pubs have closed. Here in...
IF WE had the summers they have elsewhere, the consistent, reliable sun and heat, what would our ...
I’M NOT a journalist. I think I could say I’m a columnist and I think I could say I’m a writer o...
SHE was originally from a country in Africa but the pride with which she spoke when talking about...
I SPENT a couple of lovely days in the city of Galway recently and while I was there I read a boo...
THERE’S an awful lot of rhetoric about immigration these days, isn’t there? There’s a host of po...
DO you have the cúpla focal? To be honest isn’t that just what the vast majority of us have? Jus...
Straddling two cultures — an Irish childhood lived in the shadow of English floodlights and Irish...
I WAS in the lovely city of Galway recently. For a while I sat in a car park outside a Lidl and t...
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