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Catherine Connolly must unhitch her presidential wagon from Clare Daly and Mick Wallace

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Searing summer may be telling us the race to halt global warming is lost

22.08.2025 20

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Ireland set to feel the heat from Washington’s Maga brigade over Occupied Territories Bill

15.08.2025 10

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Michael O’Leary and Dermot Desmond’s MetroLink comments show you can be rich and wrong

08.08.2025 10

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Keir Starmer and Donald Trump looked ready to put a ring on it. No wonder Melania stayed at home

01.08.2025 10

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Thirty two children from the West Bank watched the All-Ireland in Jordan. This wasn’t the plan

25.07.2025 10

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Presidency is not a Rose of Tralee contest for over-35s. Some qualities are non-negotiable

18.07.2025 10

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The cost of living in Ireland is nuts. Even nuttier are the reasons supposed to explain it

11.07.2025 10

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For over 30 years, George Gibney has lived as a free man, without having to face a trial

04.07.2025 10

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What gives Ursula von der Leyen the right to egg Binyamin Netanyahu on with his killing crusades?

27.06.2025 50

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Nurses risked everything for us during the pandemic. Now many are abandoned to its awful legacy

20.06.2025 9

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Humanity might yet prove the species that was too stupid and greedy to save itself

13.06.2025 10

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Philanderer Daniel O’Connell lies in a hero’s grave, his wife Mary in an overgrown tomb

30.05.2025 10

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This lonely, overgrown tomb of cracked stone is a metaphor for Irish attitudes to women in history

30.05.2025 10

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Leo Varadkar has more to offer than reality TV shows or doling out PR advice to mega-rich clients

23.05.2025 9

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Gaza’s starving children, their eyes growing bigger as the blockade grinds on, are not fake news

16.05.2025 20

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Anyone not coupled up gets the message – no dogs or singletons welcome

09.05.2025 40

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Payment of Denis O’Brien’s legal costs sounds like a bad joke

02.05.2025 10

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Brace yourself as world’s leaders make holy show of themselves at Pope’s funeral

25.04.2025 10

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Happy birthday, Mr President. Like Ireland, you’re not perfect but you broke the mould

18.04.2025 9

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A boycott of US goods is not cruel to Americans if it helps hasten Trump’s demise

11.04.2025 9

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Justine McCarthy: Strip-search of protesters is a scandal of unadulterated hypocrisy

04.04.2025 10

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Dear Tipperary North voter, I’m furious with you for foisting Michael Lowry on us all

28.03.2025 10

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We would not invite Putin or Netanyahu to Ireland. So why invite their idiot facilitator?

21.03.2025 8

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If men were killing beetles at the rate they’re attacking women, something would be done

14.03.2025 10

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‘Pat his little hand’ and 31 other tips for Taoiseach’s trip to the White House

07.03.2025 50

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Elon Musk’s brutal rampage through the US government should be a warning to our politicians

28.02.2025 6

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Micheál Martin should go to Washington and remind Donald Trump what Ireland stands for

21.02.2025 10

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Amid all of the toxic masculinity, no one mentions the toxic femininity that supports it

14.02.2025 30

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If the Government capitulates to Donald Trump, it will have the blood of children on its hands

07.02.2025 10

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Trump is a throwback to days when destitute Ireland gazed at Haughey and thought he’d make us rich

31.01.2025 10

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Irish politicians’ lack of urgency contrasts poorly with Trump’s up-and-at-it attitude

24.01.2025 10

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Both Michael Lowry and Elon Musk know the kingmaker is more powerful than the king

17.01.2025 10

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We won’t realise how much we’ll miss Michael D Higgins as President until he’s gone

Michael D Higgins has rung in his last new year as Ireland’s President. Before the end of 2025, somebody else will be climbing into bed in Áras an...

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If I have my way, 2025 will have no manspreaders, bagspreaders or texting pedestrians

I’m doing a Julius Caesar this new year. That chap really had it sussed. Having decreed that every year would commence on January 1st, he turned...

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Irish Government needs to stay resolute in the face of Israel’s slanderous claims of anti-Semitism

Israel’s foreign minister is anti-Catholic. That is why he decided to shut the Israeli embassy in Dublin. To him, Ireland is a culturally and...

20.12.2024 5

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Fianna Fáil needs to explain why it can’t talk to Sinn Féin if it will talk to Michael Lowry

More women might enter politics, ventured the American writer and academic Maureen Murphy, if it wasn’t so much trouble having to put make-up on...

13.12.2024 50

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Sherin’s mother prays she won’t be left lying in the street to be eaten by scavenging dogs

When the order to evacuate came from the Israel Defense Forces, Wael Abu Dalfa realised that his mother – nearly 80, frail with hunger and barely...

06.12.2024 6

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Behind Micheál Martin’s reputation for decency is an unsentimental ruthlessness

Even Lazarus could not match the miracle Micheál Martin has pulled off by managing to drag himself out of the political grave and his entire party...

01.12.2024 3

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Conor McGregor was facilitated by a culture of entitlement and cheered on by adoring fans

Oh, how the mighty have fallen, or so one might have thought as two Irish sports stars awaited their fate in separate courtrooms in the past week....

29.11.2024 9

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Forget politicians’ pre-election promises - here’s my 10-point manifesto

The word “manifesto” derives from Latin via the Italian “manifestus”, meaning “obvious”, a fact providing ample grounds for any voter to file an...

22.11.2024 4

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What’s the point of an election if it inevitably means the same parties get back in?

Ireland’s hotchpotch of left-wing parties ought to stop whingeing about Fine Gael’s and Fianna Fáil’s presumption that they will form the next...

15.11.2024 3

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Thanks a bunch, America. Love, women everywhere

Thanks a bunch, America. You’ve left no room for doubt that, yet again, your presidential preference is for anybody but a woman. Yup, even if the...

08.11.2024 50

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Blind acceptance of untruths could propel Trump back into the White House

The audience behind Donald Trump’s podium is of greater anthropological interest than any of the slime that slithers from the Republican...

01.11.2024 40

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Government shouldn’t be so quick to yell Gotcha! at Sinn Féin. Its record on children is shameful

In ancient times, crocodiles were thought to weep while they were feasting on their victims. It’s unlikely the cold-blooded creatures were...

25.10.2024 5

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Had Mary Lou stuck with Fianna Fáil, she could be closer to becoming first woman taoiseach

Mary Lou McDonald was narrating the plotline but it was Pearse Doherty’s face that told the whole astounding story of Sinn Féin’s pre-election...

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Biden privately pronounced Netanyahu ‘a f***ing liar’. Yet America keeps sending him weapons

Nearly five months of human slaughter have gone by since the International Criminal Court was asked to issue arrest warrants for Israel’s prime...

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What is it about Phil Hogan that makes him indispensable to Fine Gael leaders?

What might a Fianna Fáil-Fine Gael merger look like? Exactly like Phil Hogan — big, strategic and born to survive. If ever a person embodied the...

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