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Maeve Dùghlas-Connolly

Maeve Dùghlas-Connolly

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A Duchess in Donegal

THERE are certain headlines that make you put the kettle back on. “Fergie flees to Donegal” parped the Daily Mail. It was a ‘kettler’. Now, as...

14.03.2026 10

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Maeve Dùghlas-Connolly

When the swifts come back...

MY heart lifts every year at roughly the same moment, though I can never quite predict the day. I...

07.02.2026 20

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Kneeling, standing — and missing the point entirely

THERE are days when I read about the Catholic Church and feel a strange mix of familiarity and di...

17.01.2026 20

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Why the Irish are good at leaving...

WE Irish are good at leaving. We have centuries of practice. One of the saddest things I read re...

16.01.2026 20

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Maeve Dùghlas-Connolly