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Malachi Odoherty

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Ireland’s other spring heralded in by Brigid

IT IS springtime in Ireland. In England it is still winter. Actually, the weather is usually much...

07.02.2026 10

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The draft is back on the table

IN ANTICIPATION of a major war with Russia in the next few years, several European countries are ...

31.01.2026 20

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Ireland’s comforting neutrality is colliding with a far harsher world

IRELAND is a country which esteems itself well. It has made a transition through several differe...

17.01.2026 20

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Why the humble bicycle still cuts through Irish weather, memory and class

IRELAND is damp and dreary at this time of year. The Irish, perhaps more than most, think it alm...

07.01.2026 30

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Why a united Ireland is easier to champion than deliver

THERE is now a lot more discussion in Ireland around the question of Irish unity. The country was...

05.12.2025 20

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Political dysfunction in Northern Ireland is halting progress

Politics in Northern Ireland is getting a little interesting. This is partly due to growing disaf...

17.10.2025 20

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Spray cans in the Gaeltacht

DRIVING through north Donegal we noticed that some of the road signs were defaced. One was a sign...

13.09.2025 80

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Ireland’s conker season blown away

NO ONE will be playing conkers in Ireland this autumn. Maybe no one would anyway. I’m not sure th...

30.08.2025 50

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Faith, theology and Irish identity

WORKING for the BBC as a religious affairs journalist in Northern Ireland meant that I had to be ...

22.08.2025 20

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Who owns the legacy of the Troubles?

MY FRIEND Lyra McKee died from a gunshot wound and became a symbol of a post-Troubles generation....

16.08.2025 20

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Can poetry by algorithm fake it?

I AM a bit freaked out by AI. I had been reading and even theorising about it in articles before ...

05.08.2025 20

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Loyalist bonfires and blind spots in Belfast

MY apologies to Jim Wilson. Jim is a truculent and argumentative champion of loyalist bonfires in...

01.08.2025 20

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Navigating Ireland’s new culinary map

I’M PROUD to say that if you come to Ireland for a holiday now you will dine well if you dine out...

18.07.2025 20

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New Belfast, new voices and fiction that outruns the past

BELFAST is a divided city. That is the most conspicuous fact about it. Walls separate Protestant...

11.07.2025 10

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The unanswered questions of Irish presidential elections

LATER this year Ireland will elect a new president. By Ireland, of course, I mean the twenty six...

05.07.2025 10

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When the blame game turns deadly

RACISTS who burned migrants out of their homes this month in Ballymena, County Antrim, have found...

27.06.2025 10

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Face to face with the Ulster warlord

I FIRST met Andy Tyrie, the leader of an armed loyalist group, who died last week, in 1986. A BBC...

06.06.2025 20

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Fault-lines, fanatics and a fragile peace

THE great historian ATQ Stewart, in The Narrow Ground, compared the violence in Belfast in 1970 t...

24.05.2025 10

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The danger of forgetting - and the risk of remembering

IF YOU travel around some areas of Belfast you’ll see wall murals celebrating the IRA and other p...

10.05.2025 10

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Language wars erupt on platform one in Belfast

PEOPLE from outside Northern Ireland tend to marvel at the pettiness of the disputes that divide ...

23.04.2025 10

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De Valera’s vanishing Ireland

ONE of the discarded ideals of the Irish revolutionaries of 1916 was that the country should be s...

19.04.2025 10

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Ideals win out over reality in Cambridge debate on united Ireland

THERE’S a little piece of advice that every exam taker has to take seriously. Yet, at a recent d...

05.04.2025 10

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A tale of two militants

In IRA mythology, the name Hughes looms large THE name Brendan Hughes is a big one in the history...

20.03.2025 10

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The policing paradox in Northern Ireland

TOWARDS the close of negotiation towards the Good Friday Agreement in 1998, all political parties...

12.03.2025 10

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The policing paradox in Northern Ireland

Despite reforms, Catholic representation in the PSNI is falling—raising questions about identity,...

03.03.2025 10

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Haunting echoes of Irish culture in a modern world

From ancient legends to modern drama, the Irish psyche still flirts with the supernatural IS THER...

27.02.2025 10

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Trump’s trade wars a new test for Ireland

IT’S hard to know if Trump has any specific plans for Ireland but his current strategy of treatin...

21.02.2025 10

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Why Bob Dylan’s relationship with Irish folk music was a complex one

I WAS in a bar in Donegal town enjoying a music session, one whose detail is now lost in the hodg...

14.02.2025 20

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Ireland's cultural and political compass in a changing world

IS IRELAND closer to Boston or to Berlin? That’s a question that used to fascinate political com...

31.01.2025 10

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The literary spark from family, culture and contention

Does Ireland’s literary heritage emerge from big families, sibling conflict, cultural discord — o...

22.01.2025 10

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