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Shooting of Renee Good by Ice agent predictably brings out the ‘anti-woke’ merchants

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Kathy Sheridan

The ground is increasingly fertile for an Irish Maga

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Michael Mcdowell

Ireland in Trump’s Western Hemisphere - do you feel owned yet?

Does anyone realise that we’ve just been claimed? Last week, after the US seized the Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, its state department...

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Fintan O’Toole

How rotten does X have to be before politicians finally leave it?

Online cesspits such as X go in only one direction. There is no saving Elon Musk’s platform, and any glimmer of perceived usefulness is far...

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Una Mullally

Why does the word ‘delve’ make me want to hurl my phone at the wall? ChatGPT, that’s why

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Jennifer O’Connell

Stranger Things-induced nostalgia for the 80s doesn’t tally with my memories

Nostalgia for the 1980s is everywhere, most potently in the Duffer brothers’ epic series, Stranger Things. I understand and share the enthusiasm...

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Breda O&x27Brien

‘Hey @Grok put a bikini on her’: what more could an incel want?

A few weeks back, while out with some friends, I got talking to a couple of people who worked at a large tech conglomerate. They were contractors...

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Mark O’Connell

Can the left alliance grow this year? Only if it answers these questions

Events overseas can sometimes make national politics look trivial. But as Tip O’Neill said, all politics is local, and the focus of politics here...

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Pat Leahy

We are witnessing a change that may be as dramatic as the end of the Cold War

In late August 1989 I travelled to Czechoslovakia by train via East Germany to witness the 21st anniversary of the 1968 Prague Spring. People spoke...

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David Mcwilliams