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Una Mullally

Una Mullally

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Ireland can make the world a better place. But first it must look in the mirror

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...

06.01.2025 50

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Una Mullally

From Paul Mescal to Bad Sisters to Claire Keegan, the green wave keeps rolling

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...

30.12.2024 60

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Una Mullally

Emigration to Australia is at its highest level for a decade. We need to ask why

Christmas comes around quickly. It has its own form of repetition; the rituals, gatherings, meet-ups, traditions. One is the annual flurry of video...

23.12.2024 40

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Do you cry for a dead health-insurance boss, or for the victims of his industry?

“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,...

16.12.2024 4

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Five strategies to get more people voting in elections

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...

09.12.2024 3

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Politics is an attention economy and Gerry Hutch garnered plenty of it

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...

02.12.2024 3

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A new energy? A new lethargy might be more accurate

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...

25.11.2024 6

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The man in Data Centre Alley couldn’t conceal his shock: ‘You’re screwed’

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...

18.11.2024 3

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At rallies for Trump and Harris, it was hard to know who was less authentic

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...

11.11.2024 10

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Una Mullally

For Kamala Harris, wooing anti-Trump Republicans might work. But then what?

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...

04.11.2024 3

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Una Mullally

I can’t see voters buying Simon Harris’s message that everything is great

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 –...

28.10.2024 6

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Back to the future with the Dublin City Taskforce report

The report that is supposed to lay out a blueprint for Dublin’s future has three titles: Dublin City Taskforce report; Taoiseach’s Taskforce...

22.10.2024 3

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Four ideas to save Ireland’s pubs, restaurants and cafés

The hospitality industry in Ireland continues to face many crises on multiple fronts. Rising wage bills, staff shortages, tightening profit...

21.10.2024 3

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The 9% VAT battle is lost, but here are 4 ideas to help save the hospitality industry

The hospitality industry in Ireland continues to face many crises on multiple fronts. Rising wage bills, staff shortages, tightening profit...

21.10.2024 2

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Una Mullally

Dublin’s Liberties has everything. Except vision, planning, care and attention

In September, the Dublin city centre taskforce report was sent to Taoiseach Simon Harris. It is now almost 23 weeks since the taskforce was...

14.10.2024 3

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When you’re struggling to make ends meet, it’s hard to watch the Government throwing cash around

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,...

07.10.2024 2

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Una Mullally

Varadkar and Harris spoke foolishly. Immigration is not to blame for homelessness. Evictions are

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...

30.09.2024 3

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Watching Dublin’s anti-immigrant and counter protests: The grimmest moment came near the end

By two o’clock last Thursday afternoon outside the GPO on O’Connell Street in Dublin, the latest anti-immigrant protest had gathered, coinciding...

23.09.2024 1

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Una Mullally

Lack of action to stop attacks on Gaza is a moral injury to us all

Amid the horror visited on Israel on October 7th and the ensuing 10 months of relentless killing of Palestinians by the Israeli military, armed...

19.08.2024 1

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Una Mullally

Ireland is now familiar with success. It’s so different from the begrudging country I grew up in

The question “what’s going on with Ireland?” – asked about the Green Wave that just keeps rolling – has become something of a global meme,...

05.08.2024 10

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If 2016′s US election was all shock and panic, 2024 is a rumbling terror

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...

22.07.2024 2

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Una Mullally

Rolling housing crisis has taken a morally unacceptable toll on small children

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...

15.07.2024 2

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Una Mullally