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Growing old disgracefully: The older I get, the more I understand my granny

Margaret Lynch looks forward to the day when, like her granny, who despised the TV remote, she can simply opt out of engaging with any more new...

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TheJournal

Margaret Lynch

Why the IRA strategy still echoes today

Why the IRA strategy still echoes today

WHEN I was young the IRA was a historic legend. Sixty years ago I was 15 years old and deeply impressed by the fiftieth anniversary celebrations of...

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The Irish Post

Malachi o'doherty

A conflict between the US and China now looks inevitable

A conflict between the US and China now looks inevitable

Beware the Thucydides Trap – referred to this week by Xi Jinping – the simple but dangerous arithmetic of a rising power and an anxious incumbent

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The Irish Times

David Mcwilliams

Newton Emerson: Could Scotland and Wales decide when a border poll is called?

Newton Emerson: Could Scotland and Wales decide when a border poll is called?

SCOTLAND and Wales want a Good Friday Agreement-type mechanism for independence referendums. That is the goal of the constitutional cooperation being...

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The Irish News

Newton Emerson

Brian Feeney: The ICRIR is a shambles and its leaders should resign

Brian Feeney: The ICRIR is a shambles and its leaders should resign

THE report by former civil service permanent secretary Peter May into the workings of the satirically named Independent Commission for Reconciliation...

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The Irish News

Brian Feeney

Irish must be part of a new Ireland — but first let it unite the present

Irish must be part of a new Ireland — but first let it unite the present

WHAT a sad society we live in when there are those among us who deface or destroy street name signs because they are in Irish or in English. Our...

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The Irish News

Patrick Murphy

Change is coming — but to what end?

Change is coming — but to what end?

THE latest Irish opinion poll shows a consistent trend. Sinn Féin are the leading party, while Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael make up a rump that only...

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The Irish Post

Joe Horgan

Meta workers are bracing for another round of job cuts. We should all be nervous

Meta workers are bracing for another round of job cuts. We should all be nervous

The immediate fallout will hit a number of sectors, but the longer-term implications for Ireland are troubling

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The Irish Times

Cliff Taylor

Social partnership can work – but not if it becomes another magic ATM for public servants

Social partnership can work – but not if it becomes another magic ATM for public servants

We can’t have all the short-term solutions we want and all the long-term investment we want

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The Irish Times

Pat Leahy

Surrealing in the Years: How is Bertie Ahern still finding new ways to disappoint us?

It was a tale of two Taoiseachs this week.

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TheJournal

Carl Kinsella

Sophie Clarke: Northern Ireland has become a real staycation destination

Sophie Clarke: Northern Ireland has become a real staycation destination

Like a lot of people during the pandemic, my family bought a dog. Five years later, Ferdy has accidentally become the central decision-maker in almost...

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The Irish News

Sophie Clarke

Drink-driving: If your chance of being caught is 1 in 77, where is the deterrent?

We are doing two thirds fewer breath tests than we did 15 years ago, despite having nearly a million more drivers on the road. The results are exactly...

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TheJournal

Paddy Comyn

What Eurovision boycotts and a weirdly silent Late Late Show audience have in common

What Eurovision boycotts and a weirdly silent Late Late Show audience have in common

As Boy George said: ‘If you don’t know any Jewish people, maybe that’s the problem.’

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The Irish Times

Oliver Sears

How did Nigel Farage go from marginal crank to Britain’s possible next prime minister?

How did Nigel Farage go from marginal crank to Britain’s possible next prime minister?

Farage’s carefully crafted persona plays on nostalgia for an imagined world sourced from the golden age of British TV

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The Irish Times

Hugh Linehan