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Unionists are enjoying the pile-on over the Republic’s defence freeloading

yesterday 8

Newton Emerson

Why do so many Irish men – from the rugby team to Paul Mescal – look Australian?

yesterday 10

Finn Mcredmond

Why women are having fewer babies, in Ireland and worldwide

International Women’s Day was not just about celebrating women. It was also a nudge to look at the big picture. And that picture is confusing....

previous day 10

Kathy Sheridan

Will no one shout stop as the MetroLink bill heads past €20bn?

The scandal that is MetroLink illustrates everything that is intellectually rotten in modern Ireland. Across 30 or 40 years, hundreds of millions...

previous day 10

Michael Mcdowell

A cunning plan to bring Saint Patrick’s writings to the White House

Vassals can’t be virtue signallers. The help cannot rebuke the master. But on Wednesday, when Ireland has its sweaty moment of exposure to the...

tuesday 20

Fintan O&x27Toole

Three things we give up when we turn away from Catholicism

What does St Patrick’s Day mean to you? Boozy streets and sports fixtures? Parades of drummers and mock Donald Trumps? What was once a feast day...

10.03.2025 10

Joe Humphreys

Trump’s supporters count themselves as conservatives, but what he’s doing is radical

What a week. Last Friday night Donald Trump and his vice-president, JD Vance, ambushed the embattled Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskiy in the...

09.03.2025 3

Pat Leahy

Don’t be fooled by the movie poster - Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a committed pacifist

This weekend marks the 80th anniversary of US troops capturing the Ludendorff Railroad Bridge, one of the last intact bridges across the Rhine....

09.03.2025 2

Breda O&x27Brien

St Patrick’s Day is a celebration of the bits of our culture that are not worth celebrating

It is because of my affection for my country, rather than in spite of it, that I harbour feelings of deep ambivalence about our day of national...