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Rwanda immigration law may turn out to be another Brexit

In their haste to claim the UK’s Rwanda immigration law is having an effect, the Irish and British governments are both glossing over the question...

yesterday 6

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Newton Emerson

Free hot lunch scheme in Irish schools falling short on nutrition and reuse of containers

On day one of the hot school meals programme in a rural Galway primary school, the buzz of excitement from the children is palpable. Teachers...

yesterday 20

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Ruth Hegarty

Catastrophic decline of wild Irish salmon is another of the slow scandals of Irish life

Fintan, as his name naturally implies, was a person of transcendent wisdom and insight. In Irish mythology, he is the only human on the island of...

yesterday 30

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Fintan O&x27Toole

Eurovision boycott: We cannot participate in an event that lets Israel ‘artwash’ its crimes

Should Ireland boycott Eurovision 2024? As the bombs rain down on Gaza, yes. As the population of Gaza is starved, yes. As Palestinians are...

yesterday 30

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Zoe Lawlor

‘No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs’: How common were such notices in Britain?

Absence of proof is not proof of absence, theologians like to say. What applies to the existence of God also pertains to historical fact. We know...

previous day 10

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Joe Humphreys

Stop referring to EU as a ‘bloc’ – this is divisive linguistic rot imported from Britain

The word “bloc” to describe the European Union is becoming increasingly embedded in our political discourse in Ireland. A quick perusal of the...

previous day 10

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Bobby Mcdonagh

I am that deeply suspect Irish creature, a mother of an only child. It was by choice

I’ve grown to hate those “brave” articles on regretting motherhood. Not because I don’t think it’s possible to regret being a parent –...

previous day 10

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Rachel Odwyer

Economic rivalry between US and China could be a problem for Ireland

On Friday, China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, warned US secretary of state Antony Blinken, who is visiting Beijing, that the United States and...

sunday 30

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Cliff Taylor

Why does no one give up their seat on public transport any more?

Some time ago, there was a bitterly divisive social media debate about a man refusing to change seats on a plane so that a mother could sit beside...

sunday 2

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Breda O&x27Brien

I took the ‘easy way out’ and gave birth by Caesarean. And yes, it was easier

Before the 14th century, Caesarean birth was almost exclusively about saving and baptising the surviving foetus of a dead woman. Surgical...

sunday 10

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Clare Moriarty

Is ‘wokeness’ really the new religion? I find that hard to believe

Some comparisons obscure more than they reveal; others tell us more about the people making the comparison. Consider the contemporary fashion for...

sunday 10

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Tom Boland

Online shopping is undermining the traditional high street but high rates are killing shops

This week, a letter from Kenmare to the editor outlined the plight of small businesses in small Irish towns. The writer explained how the heart has...

27.04.2024 7

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David Mcwilliams

David McWilliams: A small town in Co Kerry and a formula for rejuvenating rural Ireland

This week, a letter from Kenmare to the editor outlined the plight of small businesses in small Irish towns. The writer explained how the heart has...

27.04.2024 8

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David Mcwilliams

Dream of a left-wing government slipping away and not just because of Sinn Féin slump

One of the more striking contributions in the Dáil’s long debate on the Stardust apology on Tuesday was from Catherine Connolly, the left-wing...

27.04.2024 10

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Pat Leahy

What’s the right age for my daughter to get a smartphone? I asked her older siblings

Five years ago, in the unhealthy tradition of columnists who mine their children’s lives for material, I wrote about how my then 13-year-old...

27.04.2024 10

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Jennifer O&x27Connell

No wonder Americans are flocking to see Civil War. Many believe a civil war is coming

It didn’t exactly do what it said on the tin. A survey of filmgoers leaving Civil War found that most, like your correspondent, went to the film...

27.04.2024 4

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Patrick Smyth

Would even paradise itself be worth the suffering of a single tortured child?

There is a question in Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov that has haunted me ever since I first read it in my 20s. The question is put by Ivan...

27.04.2024 40

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Mark O&x27Connell

Ozempic changed the lives of obesity patients. And then we had to stop prescribing it

In the five years or so that semaglutide, commonly known by its brand name, Ozempic, became available in Ireland, it has transformed not just how...

27.04.2024 10

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Francis Finucane

We now know which hospitals are overspending and which are delivering. Let’s fund them accordingly

If only I knew then what I know now. On St Brigid’s Day 2023, I spent 24 hours in the Emergency Department of Wexford General Hospital with an...

26.04.2024 1

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Gerard Howlin

Why are so many journalists leaving to work for the Government?

During goodbye drinks for a former colleague some years ago, the departing journalist took me aside to offer friendly career advice. If you want to...

26.04.2024 20

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Justine Mccarthy

Themes in McGahern’s That They May Face The Rising Sun have never been more relevant

As a book reviewer, Hilary Mantel was captivated by John McGahern’s final novel That They May Face the Rising Sun, published in 2002: “This is a...

26.04.2024 10

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Diarmaid Ferriter

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