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Una MullallyThe Irish Times |
What should Ireland’s new year resolution be? It’s a bit of a daft question, but I think this is the year we should collectively make one, and...
For a good few years now, Irish popular culture has been building to a crescendo. It’s not like we weren’t warned. From a revival of the Irish...
Christmas comes around quickly. It has its own form of repetition; the rituals, gatherings, meet-ups, traditions. One is the annual flurry of video...
“When you feel you have right on your side, you can do some horrific things.” These were the words of Brian Flanagan in the 2002 documentary,...
On the day of the general election, Holly Cairns’s Instagram account had a clear message: Vote for Holly. It wasn’t just an ask of her...
On the day of the election, there was one video doing the rounds to much laughter. It was Gerard “The Monk” Hutch’s campaign song, posted to...
One of the consequences of calling an election to take place towards the end of the year is that people are worn out. The implicit declaration from...
Ashburn in Loudoun County in Virginia, 30 miles outside of Washington DC, has earned the name Data Centre Alley for a reason. Driving around the...
In the closing days of the US presidential campaign, I began to think Kamala Harris would actually get it over the line, something I hadn’t...
Somewhere between the furrowed brows and folded arms, the tension presented by one of Kamala Harris’s key tactics in the final stretch of the US...
We talk a lot about party preference in Ireland, but less about the lack of it. There remains a political vacuum; a huge floating vote that can –...
The report that is supposed to lay out a blueprint for Dublin’s future has three titles: Dublin City Taskforce report; Taoiseach’s Taskforce...
The hospitality industry in Ireland continues to face many crises on multiple fronts. Rising wage bills, staff shortages, tightening profit...
The hospitality industry in Ireland continues to face many crises on multiple fronts. Rising wage bills, staff shortages, tightening profit...
In September, the Dublin city centre taskforce report was sent to Taoiseach Simon Harris. It is now almost 23 weeks since the taskforce was...
While all anyone in media and politics wants to talk about is the general election date, this conversation is happening in a bubble. As ever,...
Within a week, two comments, one by the current Taoiseach Simon Harris and another by his predecessor, Leo Varadkar, have added to the sense of...
By two o’clock last Thursday afternoon outside the GPO on O’Connell Street in Dublin, the latest anti-immigrant protest had gathered, coinciding...
Amid the horror visited on Israel on October 7th and the ensuing 10 months of relentless killing of Palestinians by the Israeli military, armed...
The question “what’s going on with Ireland?” – asked about the Green Wave that just keeps rolling – has become something of a global meme,...
Towards the end of Christopher Isherwood’s 1939 book, Goodbye To Berlin, there’s a scene I’ve thought of frequently in recent years. At a...
Last October, a new record was set in France: 2,822 children were classified as homeless, a figure many recognised as lowballing the reality, as it...