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Nuclear weapons have been in the Middle East for decades – not in Iran, but in Israel

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Fintan O’Toole

Ireland is becoming a country of moderate drinkers and voracious cocaine users

A major generational shift has occurred in Irish society without much fanfare. Alcohol consumption in Ireland has collapsed. A report commissioned...

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Una Mullally

We like to romanticise Ireland’s past, but too much remembering could be bad for us

There is no comparison between the Provisional IRA and the Irish Volunteers who staged the Easter Rising in 1916. Patrick Pearse’s generation of...

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Joe Humphreys

Trump and Netanyahu should beware of the unintended consequences of their actions in Iran

Between escalation and de-escalation of the Israel-Iran war there is much room for unintended consequences and miscalculations. The choices made by...

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Paul Gillespie

House raffles are a big, beautiful, awful sign of the times

“There are days I am still in disbelief that it happened and it actually happened to me. I don’t want to say I believe in miracles, but I always...

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Jennifer O’Connell

Please understand, a liveable future for humanity on this planet is really a very minor concern

Earlier this week, a coalition of environmental organisations published a report on the financing of fossil fuel companies by the world’s largest...

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Mark O’Connell

Despite being obsessed with money, Donald Trump does not understand how it works

In Dante’s Inferno, the poet reserved one of his most ghastly punishments for the crime of forgery. Canto 30 of the Inferno describes the...

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David Mcwilliams

Ireland needs to ditch empty promises and economic fairy tales and start confronting reality

The next six weeks or so are going to go a long way to defining the Government’s term in office. The printers are going to be busy. We are due an...

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Cliff Taylor

Micheál Martin and Paschal Donohoe are responsible for this Government’s lethargy

The Taoiseach and the Minister for Finance are the key members of this Government, but they are hardly its driving force. These dynamics matter...

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Gerard Howlin

How can we stop corporate gombeen men running amok again? Credit unions could be the answer

One of the pioneers of co-operative societies in Ireland, Horace Plunkett (1854-1932), established his first co-operative creamery at Ballyhahill,...

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Diarmaid Ferriter

Nurses risked everything for us during the pandemic. Now many are abandoned to its awful legacy

It’s not a question of if, but when. Scientists are warning that a new pandemic is lurking over the horizon poised to pounce on us.  “It’s an...

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Justine Mccarthy