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Who do you trust more with your money: Jerome Powell or Donald Trump?

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David Mcwilliams

What is the future for the new right in Irish politics?

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Pat Leahy

Diarmaid Ferriter: Trump’s coveting of Greenland is an update of Danish imperialism

Many of the Greenlanders interviewed by media outlets recently have communicated an understated dignity, a particularly admirable poise given the...

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Diarmaid Ferriter

Ireland basks in Hamnet’s success and celebrates Jessie Buckley. It should feel shame

“I would have cut out my heart and given it to him, if it would have made any difference,” Agnes avows to William Shakespeare as she lambasts...

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Justine Mccarthy

Turning Newry into a Dublin dormitory town: now there’s an idea

There has been a strangely subdued reaction to the proposal to turn Newry into a commuter base for Dublin. The Newry Next plan would see 6,000...

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Newton Emerson

Grok is awful but banning X is a betrayal of free speech

Since late December, Elon Musk’s X has become awash with deepfake sexually explicit images of women, and in some instances, children. Users ask the...

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Finn Mcredmond

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

Stuck in a long, rainy tailback on the M4 recently, a driver in the bus lane had made repeated aggressive attempts to cut in front of cars each...

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Kathy Sheridan

The ground is increasingly fertile for an Irish Maga

“America is, understandably, sentimentally attached to the European Continent – and, of course, to Britain and Ireland. The character of these...

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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