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Garden cabins, rural sprawl and tiny apartments: housing has become a numbers game

Garden cabins, rural sprawl and tiny apartments: housing has become a numbers game

The push is for more supply, any supply – but at what cost?

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Orla Hegarty

Nothing in my adult life can match the visceral joy and ecstatic anxiety of sport

Nothing in my adult life can match the visceral joy and ecstatic anxiety of sport

There is a pure escape, a total transportation, that no other field of human endeavour is quite so capable of providing

yesterday 10

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Mark O’connell

Ann Widdecombe defended free speech. But it’s hard to defend some reactions to her death

Ann Widdecombe defended free speech. But it’s hard to defend some reactions to her death

AI-generated memes were posted of her in her famous yellow Strictly Come Dancing costume, being dragged into hell by the devil

yesterday 10

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Breda O'Brien

Why Simon Harris will really struggle to move the dial on income tax in the Budget

Why Simon Harris will really struggle to move the dial on income tax in the Budget

Fine Gael aspirations to help ‘people who get up early in the morning’ might be kept in check by realpolitik

yesterday 10

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Pat Leahy

Knock on the wall: A vision of Irish America in New York’s St Patrick’s Cathedral

Knock on the wall: A vision of Irish America in New York’s St Patrick’s Cathedral

A new mural at the cathedral celebrates the city’s Irish immigrant history, and features a representation of the Apparition at Knock

yesterday 10

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Felix Larkin

If you get up at a ridiculous hour to sit in horrendous traffic, there may be good news

If you get up at a ridiculous hour to sit in horrendous traffic, there may be good news

But you might not want to get too excited

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Cliff Taylor

What caused the Lorcan Murphy I knew to become a killer?

What caused the Lorcan Murphy I knew to become a killer?

Describing what they believe to be part of normal sex, teenagers name slapping, whipping, strangulation and gagging – all acts they report seeing in...

previous day 10

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Eoghan Cleary

Should you put your Dryrobe on Vinted? 11 pressing heatwave-related questions

Should you put your Dryrobe on Vinted? 11 pressing heatwave-related questions

In proof, if any were needed, of the human capacity for finding novel ways to hasten our own demise, the hashtag #tanlines is trending on social media

previous day 10

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Jennifer O’connell

Is the US AI bonanza a fundamentally secure investment or an old-fashioned bubble?

Is the US AI bonanza a fundamentally secure investment or an old-fashioned bubble?

Could China – as it has done with cars, drones and phones – simply undercut the Americans, providing better AI models more cheaply to the world?

previous day 10

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David McWilliams

Will Donald Trump get a bigger Irish welcome than Ronald Reagan?

Will Donald Trump get a bigger Irish welcome than Ronald Reagan?

It will be interesting to see if those disgusted at his monstrous rule can make their voices heard

friday 10

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Diarmaid Ferriter

Trump’s Irish visit will be choreographed to avoid protests. That doesn’t mean no protests

Trump’s Irish visit will be choreographed to avoid protests. That doesn’t mean no protests

It will be interesting to see if those disgusted at his monstrous rule will manage to make their voices heard

friday 10

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Diarmaid Ferriter

Italia 90 changed Ireland, but the untold story of that year was the women’s game

Italia 90 changed Ireland, but the untold story of that year was the women’s game

While the country partied, the Girls in Green overcame neglect and prejudice. Now they could be off to the World Cup

friday 10

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Dermot Hodson

Neither Martin nor Harris dared rebuke the US ambassador. Varadkar had no such qualms

Neither Martin nor Harris dared rebuke the US ambassador. Varadkar had no such qualms

Are we going to go on ducking behind clichés to safeguard the economy or, when needs be, are we going to speak and act against injustices?

friday 10

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Justine McCarthy

Common Travel Area can’t become an excuse for hard borders on land or sea

Common Travel Area can’t become an excuse for hard borders on land or sea

Mainstream parties of government should be able to sell the CTA as a way to regulate immigration while minimising internal borders

16.07.2026 10

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Newton Emerson

Despite renewed strikes and Trump’s bluster, both sides want an end to Iran conflict

Despite renewed strikes and Trump’s bluster, both sides want an end to Iran conflict

Points of contention and much ambiguity surround the memorandum of understanding that underpins the ceasefire, but there are some positive signs

16.07.2026 10

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Vincent Durac

The hosepipe snitches of suburban Ireland: It’s just not very ‘love thy neighbour’

The hosepipe snitches of suburban Ireland: It’s just not very ‘love thy neighbour’

Every country has its psychic hang-up. Is inter-citizen policing Ireland’s?

16.07.2026 20

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Finn McRedmond

The ‘rough sex’ defence didn’t work for Lorcan Murphy. He wasn’t the first to try it

The ‘rough sex’ defence didn’t work for Lorcan Murphy. He wasn’t the first to try it

Jailed for murder last week in Budapest, the Dublin man is clearly a dangerous, determined predator, but the kind of violence he used is normalised in...

15.07.2026 10

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Kathy Sheridan

Politicians are more interested in looking tough on RTÉ than deciding how to fund it

Politicians are more interested in looking tough on RTÉ than deciding how to fund it

No enterprise could absorb an 18-year price freeze on its primary revenue stream while costs keep climbing

15.07.2026 10

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Daire Hickey

If 166 brothels can operate openly in Ireland, the ban on paying for sex is not working

If 166 brothels can operate openly in Ireland, the ban on paying for sex is not working

There is a lot of money to be made from prostitution. The legal twilight world we have created suits the purposes of unscrupulous figures

15.07.2026 10

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Michael McDowell

We live on an island where we drink, swim and wash in water laced with our own excrement

We live on an island where we drink, swim and wash in water laced with our own excrement

Some 800,000 rural dwellers rely on their own private wells, and 38 per cent of these regularly fail to meet contamination standards

14.07.2026 10

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Eamon Ryan

What Vienna and Marino can teach Ireland about making housing affordable

What Vienna and Marino can teach Ireland about making housing affordable

The lesson from Austria is that tenants here pay too much for cost rentals. But as the past examples of Marino and Cabra showed, there is a better...

14.07.2026 10

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Lorcan Sirr

Politicians who shrug their shoulders at children in poverty are morally bankrupt

Politicians who shrug their shoulders at children in poverty are morally bankrupt

Feckless inertia has become actively malign

14.07.2026 10

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Fintan O’toole

My World Cup hero: The Norwegian who wouldn’t conform

My World Cup hero: The Norwegian who wouldn’t conform

Whatever the situation, you have the power to fold your arms and say: I’m not going along with this

13.07.2026 10

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Joe Humphreys

A neuropsychologist’s advice on how to win a World Cup penalty shoot-out

A neuropsychologist’s advice on how to win a World Cup penalty shoot-out

Why do goalkeepers dive right and left equally often – except when their team is losing?

13.07.2026 10

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Ian Robertson

Referendums aren’t always a good idea. Ever tried to vote out ‘the people’?

Referendums aren’t always a good idea. Ever tried to vote out ‘the people’?

Every discretionary referendum is a government declining to exercise the judgment we hired it for

13.07.2026 10

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Sinéad O'Sullivan

Our justice system should have better ways of dealing with the likes of Enoch Burke

Our justice system should have better ways of dealing with the likes of Enoch Burke

Justice system is expected to remedy everything from poverty to addiction. It was never designed to carry this load - and does not do it well

13.07.2026 10

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Breda O'Brien

There are few things more life-affirming than a dancing robot going haywire

There are few things more life-affirming than a dancing robot going haywire

It functions, among other things, as an antidote to the relentless propagandising of the tech world, with its insistence on AI as an inevitable...

12.07.2026 20

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Mark O’connell

As public opinion toughens on migration, politicians have shifted to the right

As public opinion toughens on migration, politicians have shifted to the right

New system for assessing the claims of people seeking asylum is doing what was intended – turning down most of those who apply

12.07.2026 20

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Pat Leahy

I’ve had near misses as a journalist. But a holiday swim was the closest I came to dying

I’ve had near misses as a journalist. But a holiday swim was the closest I came to dying

I write this column as a cautionary tale, because most of us forget how easy it is to die

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Lara Marlowe

Irish Presbyterians still coming to terms with fallout from safeguarding issues

Irish Presbyterians still coming to terms with fallout from safeguarding issues

Rite & reason: Presbyterian Church in Ireland is still under scrutiny by the Police Service of Northern Ireland

12.07.2026 20

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Alf McCreary

Many factors contribute to rising road deaths. Squeamishness can’t be one of them

Many factors contribute to rising road deaths. Squeamishness can’t be one of them

The Road Safety Authority avoids anything that might be perceived ‘as insensitive or prematurely apportioning blame’ in reporting road deaths

12.07.2026 10

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Jennifer O’connell

Ireland’s attitude to a ‘flutter on the horses’ is wrecking lives

Ireland’s attitude to a ‘flutter on the horses’ is wrecking lives

We have spent too long treating gambling harm as a failure of character. A ruthless approach to regulation is needed

11.07.2026 10

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Brendan Kelly

The State is stepping in to revive Dublin’s O’Connell Street, but will it succeed?

The State is stepping in to revive Dublin’s O’Connell Street, but will it succeed?

A key test of infrastructure and housing ambitions is about to take place in the north inner city

11.07.2026 10

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Cliff Taylor

Life under Paris’s zinc roofs: It’s less romantic when the thermometer hits 40 degrees

Life under Paris’s zinc roofs: It’s less romantic when the thermometer hits 40 degrees

Worldview: Paris has invested heavily in efforts to mitigate the urban heat island effect – planting trees and redesigning public spaces – but...

11.07.2026 10

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Sharon Gaffney

Norway the clear economic winners after England’s own goal with North Sea oil

Norway the clear economic winners after England’s own goal with North Sea oil

Scandinavian nation’s mature political system in stark contrast to greed, cronyism and economic mismanagement

11.07.2026 10

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David McWilliams

Irish people are 13th happiest in the world yet loneliest in the EU. It doesn’t add up

Irish people are 13th happiest in the world yet loneliest in the EU. It doesn’t add up

We should do what the Finns do: give ourselves a pat on the back for all that is good in this country of ours

10.07.2026 10

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Justine McCarthy

EU presidency is a double-edged sword for the Government

EU presidency is a double-edged sword for the Government

Doing it well is important for the country’s standing in the world, but there is little or no political bonus for getting it right

10.07.2026 10

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Stephen Collins

The big questions we’re busy ignoring about what it means to be European

The big questions we’re busy ignoring about what it means to be European

EU presidency a chance for Ireland to depart from vacuous scripts on underpinning the bloc’s ‘shared values’

10.07.2026 10

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Diarmaid Ferriter

Anti-Englishness is Ireland’s dullest pastime, but during the World Cup it’s fine

Anti-Englishness is Ireland’s dullest pastime, but during the World Cup it’s fine

Such tournaments are an excuse to flaunt nationalistic tendencies in a low-stakes way

09.07.2026 10

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Finn McRedmond

The Government is trying to undermine climate laws. President Connolly could stop it

The Government is trying to undermine climate laws. President Connolly could stop it

The potentially irreversible impacts of climate change will be experienced by our children and grandchildren

09.07.2026 10

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Orla Kelleher

There’s a thread that runs from Jeffrey Donaldson’s downfall to a Border poll

There’s a thread that runs from Jeffrey Donaldson’s downfall to a Border poll

Unhappy voters stay at home, so unionism could cease to be Stormont’s largest designation next May

09.07.2026 10

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Newton Emerson

MetroLink: Are we are setting in motion another financial runaway train?

MetroLink resonates deafeningly in cost terms with what went wrong with the children’s hospital project

08.07.2026 20

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Michael McDowell

EU presidency may expose hypocrisy at heart of Ireland on everything from Ukraine to defence

State promotes value-based approach abroad, but fails to take action on the Occupied Territories Bill at home

08.07.2026 20

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Alanna O'Malley

‘No to ID cards’ mantra is not enough given complexity of human movement

Somehow 25 of the 27 EU member states issue a national ID card to citizens without regular spontaneous combustion

08.07.2026 20

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Kathy Sheridan

Ireland can’t decide whether to protect the environment or undermine it

Public participation and environmental scrutiny are not the enemies of progress

07.07.2026 20

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Sadhbh O Neill -

All aboard the golf train to Adare, Ireland’s answer to North Korea

Pyongyang built real train stations that seemed fake. In Ireland, we are building a fake train station that will, for a brief period, seem real

07.07.2026 20

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Sinéad O'Sullivan

The Irish-Mohawk chief at the centre of a great what-if in US history

William Johnson - aka Chief Warraghiyagey - was the only authorised mediator between the British empire and the Indian nations

07.07.2026 20

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Fintan O’toole

What happens to Northern Ireland after unity? Answers are starting to emerge

Would it remain Northern Ireland, though under the ultimate jurisdiction of Dublin, rather than London? Or would it be subsumed into a united Ireland?

06.07.2026 10

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Pat Leahy

Was Jeffrey Donaldson being blackmailed by the British government?

A theory among unionists is that knowledge of Donaldson’s Mr Hyde nature was used to push him down a path that suited Westminster

06.07.2026 10

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Alex Kane

If you think football is ‘just football’, you’re missing out

Unthinkable: For some, football is a pointless, thuggish distraction; for others, it’s everything

06.07.2026 10

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Clare Moriarty