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In Ireland, we are obsessed with the land – owning it, not roaming it

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Diarmaid Ferriter

Mark Carney’s win shows the appeal of a politician who rejects the woke agenda

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Stephen Collins

Payment of Denis O’Brien’s legal costs sounds like a bad joke

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Justine Mccarthy

It would be some irony if the two parts of Ireland taught the UK lessons in devolution

Quality of life is much the same North and South, although we tend to arrive at our similar outcomes through different ways. That is a rough...

yesterday 10

Newton Emerson

You don’t have to be religious to accept it was God who brought Trump and Zelenskiy together

One thing I like about US president Donald Trump is his magpie-like instincts. He is attracted to the opulent, the ornate, the gauche. In a...

yesterday 10

Finn Mcredmond

Even at €430,000 a year, Brendan McDonagh would be nuts to take the housing tsar job

There is, for some of us at least, a sort of irony about the notion of a man who by one measure did a lot to create the conditions for the housing...

yesterday 7

John Mcmanus

In Victorian era a railway could be built in three years, but now even planning approval would take way longer

If your next door neighbour built an extension which was 9in higher than was permitted under its planning permission, and an objection was made,...

previous day 5

Michael Mcdowell

Should commuters have to put up with interminable phone conversations, bursts of TikTok and blaring music?

A few weeks ago I barely made it on to a crowded commuter train where the only empty seat was beside a man whose numerous devices and cables were...

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Kathy Sheridan

Is nothing sacred, even at a pope’s funeral?

Is nothing sacred? The answer, we now know, is “absolutely nothing”. Watching gorgeously bedecked priests taking selfies at the funeral of Pope...

tuesday 8

Fintan O&x27Toole

Britain does not dictate Irish law. Or Irish feminism

In the aftermath of a UK court ruling on the definition of woman as that defined by “biological sex”, one of the legal challenge’s funders, the...

28.04.2025 3

Una Mullally

Was Bono morally wrong to accept a US medal of freedom? It’s not that simple

Bono has got plenty of abuse over a 40-year career straddling pop and politics. So the heat he has been feeling over his stance, or lack of stance,...

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