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John McManus: Griping about the cost of tribunals is missing the point

After seven years, the Siteserv inquiry has crossed the finish line with the publication of by Mr Justice Brian Cregan of his final report. It...

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John Mcmanus

Newton Emerson: The threat of joint authority in the North is a scare story unionism has heard before

The DUP is being threatened with joint authority again, this time by former leaders of Alliance and the UUP. Since the previous collapse of...

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Newton Emerson

As a society, we still prefer to pretend pregnancy loss doesn’t happen

In Ireland, we congratulate ourselves on our caring approach to end of life, but this does not extend to pregnancy loss. It is the most common...

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Prof Keelin Odonoghue

Finn McRedmond: Ireland, of all countries, shouldn’t be too quick to celebrate the decline of religion

The precipitous decline of religion in Ireland is a defining moment in the country’s history. Census 2022 recorded that 14 per cent of the...

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Finn Mcredmond

Kathy Sheridan: Fine Gael’s squeezed middle are actually the country’s top one third

A campaign to unsquash the poor “squeezed middle” is a top feature in any pre-budget brood of kites. So no surprises there. What is slightly...

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Kathy Sheridan

Stephen Donnelly: Should school smartphone pacts be considered nationwide?

A few weeks ago, a group of parents in Greystones, Co Wicklow, whose children are in second class, made a pact – while their children were in...

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Stephen Donnelly

Michael McDowell: Asylum conventions are outdated and in urgent need of a rethink

The results of a Red C poll published in the Business Post at the weekend probably spoiled breakfast for many ministers and their advisers. Apart...

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Michael Mcdowell

Una Mullally: Is the RHA trolling viewers with this AI-generated Magdalene selfie?

There are plenty of artworks that stand out at this year’s RHA Annual Exhibition, now in its 193rd edition at the gallery on Ely Place in Dublin...

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Una Mullally

Fintan O’Toole: What if Sinn Féin makes Northern Ireland viable?

Forty years ago last weekend, Gerry Adams, who was then about to become president of Sinn Féin, explicitly endorsed the IRA’s tactic of shooting...

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Fintan O&x27Toole

Fact-checking the claims about ‘unvetted’ migrants

After a brief hiatus in media coverage of people arriving without passports to Dublin Airport, the topic has been back in the headlines recently....

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Emily Cunniffe And Keire Murphy

Phillip Schofield was too beloved and too big to fail. But the warning signs were there

Rumours had been circulating for weeks about a rift emerging between Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby – long-time co-hosts of ITV’s This...

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Finn Mcredmond

Una Mullally: It wasn’t until we were a rich nation that tents on streets became commonplace

Somewhere in the overlap of years where boom turned to bust, about a decade and a half ago, the Sunday Tribune was still chugging along on Baggot...

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Una Mullally

Without immigration there would be no Glasgow Celtic

Immigrants have many faces. This boy left home as an unaccompanied minor when he was 15 to escape the aftermath of a famine. He crossed the water to...

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Alison Healy

Malachy Clerkin: Unpopular opinion - I miss the office

To begin, a list. It’s not a comprehensive list. It wouldn’t survive any sort of forensic audit. But nonetheless, a list it is, comprising...

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Malachy Clerkin

Will Fine Gael’s tax plan to favour its base of higher earners survive the white heat of budget negotiations?

A central job of politics is how to raise and spend money. Ireland’s rollercoaster economic history has made this contested territory. The legacy...

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Cliff Taylor

John McManus: Ireland really did not want Meta’s €1.2bn. There are good reasons why

The Data Protection Commissioner, Helen Dixon, once again seems to be at odds with her European counterparts. This time it is over the size of the...

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John Mcmanus

Irish rebel music is more than the soundtrack to paramilitary violence

Sinn Féin celebrated last week’s spectacular victory in the Northern Ireland local elections carefully, mindful perhaps of the criticism they...

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Jack Sheehan

Irish rebel music is more than an endorsement of the IRA, it is a way to connect with the past

Sinn Féin celebrated last week’s spectacular victory in the Northern Ireland local elections carefully, mindful perhaps of the criticism they...

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Jack Sheehan

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