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Sinéad O'SullivanThe Irish Times |
Six easy steps, plus appendix, to root out foreign intelligence assets operating in Ireland
Every discretionary referendum is a government declining to exercise the judgment we hired it for
Pyongyang built real train stations that seemed fake. In Ireland, we are building a fake train station that will, for a brief period, seem real
There’s been strangely little talk of the fact that Dublin is the European home of several increasingly militarised technologies
A firm that is a rocket-maker, broadcaster, chatbot and arm of the Pentagon is many things, but a foundation for national infrastructure is not one of...
Trump’s strategic chaos and Ireland’s strategic ambiguity are effectively two sides of the same coin. But ours is no longer sustainable
Devoid of that critical integration, our State retains no institutional memory, as lessons from failures remain trapped inside whichever department or...
‘Not Fine Gael’ is not a policy platform for Ireland’s opposition, any more than ‘not Trump’ helped the US Democrats
Ireland spends up to €180,000 training doctors to work in Australia. That’s one symptom of a much bigger problem
Kneecap, Sally Rooney and the comedian Vittorio Angelone ask a question the State has avoided for years: what is all of this for, if not for us?
The State takes in €126bn a year and cannot create a civil protection agency, a gas storage facility or a train to Donegal
Citizens are told Ireland is rich, but their daily lives say otherwise, and last week’s protests were just a symptom of a deeper malaise, writes...
By invoking the threat of the army to move tractors, the Government has proved every sceptic of increased defence spending right
And when we’ve done them, we need to build an energy security strategy
Last year, one person died every 35 hours in a crash on the island