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Lucinda Creighton

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Lucinda Creighton: Fix our infrastructure or watch the economy die – the coalition’s choice is clear

10.11.2025 8

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Lucinda Creighton: A Nobel prize for Donald Trump would be a small price to pay if peace plan works

19.10.2025 9

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Lucinda Creighton: Why the US and EU must come together on digital and security policy to combat China

05.10.2025 10

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Lucinda Creighton: Taxpayers paying too high a price for codology around infrastructure for too long

14.09.2025 10

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Lucinda Creighton: American voters deserve honesty about the health of their president

08.09.2025 10

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Lucinda Creighton: Maybe Europe could learn something from Putin’s tummy-tickling of Trump

17.08.2025 8

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Lucinda Creighton: Trump respects power and aggression, but the EU showed neither in negotiations

04.08.2025 10

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Lucinda Creighton: Why, oh why, can we not get a serious government to sort the country

14.07.2025 10

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Lucinda Creighton: Trump was right to bomb Iran, but now needs to kickstart a new diplomatic effort

04.07.2025 9

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Lucinda Creighton: We must ape Polish example during EU presidency and reassert ourselves

16.06.2025 10

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Lucinda Creighton: Fresh deal with UK will strengthen Europe overall amid trade chaos

24.05.2025 9

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Lucinda Creighton: US and EU need to realise transatlantic trade war which ignores China only benefits China

20.05.2025 10

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Lucinda Creighton: Europe and Canada find a safe haven in each other with Carney at helm

Trump’s isolationism is hitting his own voters, destabilising the bond markets and making the international trading environment unpredictable for...

04.05.2025 10

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Lucinda Creighton: Recent moves to help businesses are welcome but more radical action is needed

Signals are emerging from the government that the economy is finally back at the forefront of political minds

27.04.2025 10

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Lucinda Creighton: EU has a stronger hand than Trump thinks and must not be afraid to show its cards

It is not European diplomacy that brought us to this point, rather it was Chinese strong-arming, and the EU needs to follow suit

11.04.2025 10

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Lucinda Creighton: Europe must not be afraid to leverage its strength in dealing with Trump

We need to understand that it is not European diplomacy that brought us to this point, rather it was Chinese strong arming

11.04.2025 9

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Lucinda Creighton: Dáil buffoonery makes a mockery of Irish politics

Politicians on all sides need to sort out this ridiculous mess and with the threat of tariffs looming, actually put the national interest first

30.03.2025 7

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Lucinda Creighton: Ireland’s post-Brexit stagnation in Europe will cost us against Trump

Now, in the face of a devastating trade war, we do not have the British to lean on the Commission to fight for the interests of open, trading nations...

23.03.2025 8

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Lucinda Creighton: The guarantee of peace in Europe is gone and Ireland must be prepared

We are more vulnerable than even some of those in Central and Eastern Europe in the likely scenario of hybrid warfare against European countries

09.03.2025 10

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Lucinda Creighton: Red C poll shows public is ahead of politicians on defence spending

Not one politician has had the gumption to state the obvious, which is that Ireland needs to be part of a formal defence alliance

23.02.2025 10

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Lucinda Creighton: Red C poll shows public is ahead of politicians on defence spending

Not one politician has had the gumption to state the obvious, which is that Ireland needs to be part of a formal defence alliance

23.02.2025 5

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Lucinda Creighton: Ireland’s on highway to hell as it finds itself in Trump’s tariff crosshairs

This country needs to become a solution for the erratic US president, and fast

16.02.2025 10

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Lucinda Creighton: How China’s Deepseek blew major hole in Nvidia and US AI complacency

Huge sums of money may not be needed to build new AI models, which could be good news for Europe, depending on how it responds

02.02.2025 10

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Lucinda Creighton: Chambers must end the ‘dead hand of DPER’ and reboot reform mission

For too long, the department has been one of the greatest obstacles to progress instead of the engine of economic transformation

26.01.2025 10

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Lucinda Creighton: Absence of Greens will allow stymied ambition and potential to be unleashed

New government in fact represents an opportunity to break with a sorry record of missed deadlines and regulatory strangulation

19.01.2025 8

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Lucinda Creighton: We should be fearful of Facebook founder’s cynical courting of Trump

The Meta chief executive’s kowtowing to Trump should be of little surprise to anyone

12.01.2025 10

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Lucinda Creighton: Why the next European minister needs to sit at cabinet

Challenges facing Ireland at EU level are rising and we need to, as a country, up our game to meet them

15.12.2024 10

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Lucinda Creighton: Reliable independents are the only credible option for Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael

A stable government is far more likely to be achieved with independents than with Labour or the Social Democrats

08.12.2024 5

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Lucinda Creighton: Why Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil have lost ground to Independents

Right of centre voters who once choose Fine Gael, Fianna Fail or Progressive Democrats are now politically homeless

30.11.2024 4

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Lucinda Creighton: Trump triumphed as Democrats simply failed to learn lessons from 2016

The party has talked down to the blue collar workers, while allowing itself be consumed by an agenda aimed at and by liberal elites

10.11.2024 3

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Lucinda Creighton: A second Trump term will raise stakes for EU’s inaction on trade and defence

The establishment of a ‘Trump Taskforce’ in the European commission is a sign that officials fear that the anti-EU potential US president will be...

02.11.2024 4

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Lucinda Creighton: Ireland’s tech needs means trade deal with Taiwan is not only desirable but needed

Opportunities are opening up for major companies such as Intel, Qualcomm and Analog Devices which have large bases here

27.10.2024 5

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Lucinda Creighton: High time that EU treats Iran as the terrorist state that it is

The threats posed by Iran are multifaceted but European leaders have been rewarding its regime with futile diplomatic efforts

13.10.2024 10

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Lucinda Creighton: Fine Gael no longer stands for sane, rational and responsible politics

Where, oh, where is the proud tradition of fiscal prudence and sound economic management people expect of my former party?

06.10.2024 4

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Lucinda Creighton: Growing French and Spanish influence in Brussels spells trouble for isolated Ireland

Ireland’s economic priorities are increasingly reflecting the minority perspective within the Union, particularly since the departure of the UK

22.09.2024 3

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Lucinda Creighton: Apple case latest blow in Ireland’s bid to remain competitive for investment

EU Commission clearly has Ireland in its crosshairs and our edge over our neighbours is being massively eroded

15.09.2024 3

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Lucinda Creighton: Rise of far-right AfD in Germany is a cause for concern for Ireland

We are not immune to the phenomenon of extremist and increasingly polarised politics we have seen in other parts of Europe

08.09.2024 1

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Lucinda Creighton: Ukraine’s surprise victory rekindles calls for greater aid

Europe must step up to offer all possible military support to end this war, for our own self-interest if for no other reason

25.08.2024 1

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Lucinda Creighton: Taylor Swift concert terror plot hits at heart of western culture and economy

American star represents everything that radicalised Islamist fundamentalists despise

10.08.2024 2

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Lucinda Creighton: How Michael D got it so badly wrong on Iran, and he was not speaking for me

Taoiseach should make it clear that the president does not speak for Ireland on this matter and to remain silent is to implicitly endorse this...

04.08.2024 2

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