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Surrealing in the Years: This week we mourn Ireland's World Cup that never was

It hurts so much.

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Surrealing in the Years: You are watching the obliteration of standards in real time

If this is escaping with our dignity, that’s only because dignity ain’t what it used to be.

21.03.2026 10

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Surrealing in the Years: Solution to the housing crisis was in the French Riviera all along

It’s always in the last place you look, eh?

14.03.2026 20

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Surrealing in the Years: Is it the biblical End of Days? Yeah, sure, why not?

What’s the difference, at this point.

07.03.2026 20

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Surrealing in the Years: There was never any chance that we wouldn't draw Israel

14.02.2026 10

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Surrealing in the Years: Oh good, something else that Magic Wand Micheál is powerless to solve

07.02.2026 9

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Surrealing in the Years: Climate change is on our doorstep in the least metaphorical way possible

31.01.2026 40

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Surrealing in the Years: We've found out we know nothing about a lot of Very Important Things

17.01.2026 30

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Surrealing in the Years: We're entering a new era of lawlessness. Don't expect much help from our leaders

10.01.2026 20

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Surrealing in the Year 2025: Let's hope 2026 is absolutely nothing like that, then

31.12.2025 20

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Carl Kinsella: 'Instead the song took on the characteristics of an English football chant'

20.12.2025 20

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Surrealing in the Years: 'How To Suffer Indignity' - a documentary by the Department of Housing

13.12.2025 30

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Surrealing in the Years: Government could learn something from RTÉ's delayed bravery

06.12.2025 20

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Surrealing in the Years: Looks like you win this round, Ranelagh

29.11.2025 10

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Surrealing in the Years: Paschal Donohoe leaves government unscathed, but how?

22.11.2025 20

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Surrealing in the Years: Yates' Fianna Fáil dealings an open kimono moment for Irish politics

08.11.2025 10

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Surrealing in the Years: Sorry Simon, maybe Ireland doesn't want to be a 'centrist' country

01.11.2025 10

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Carl Kinsella: ‘I’m sorry, sir. I am Irish. I have no idea what’s going on.’

31.10.2025 10

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Surrealing in the Years: Fianna Fáil once again aggrieved that their actions have consequences

11.10.2025 10

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Surrealing in the Years: Things are not as simple as Micheál Martin might like us to believe

04.10.2025 10

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Surrealing in the Years: You know who was really blocked from getting on the ballot? Me

27.09.2025 10

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Surrealing in the Years: Jim Gavin's answer on Gaza makes his Áras run look like a real gamble

13.09.2025 20

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Surrealing in the Years: The vibes of this presidential election are badly off

06.09.2025 20

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Surrealing in the Years: Ireland's latest Australian exodus has no shortage of explanations

30.08.2025 10

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Surrealing in the Years: Starmer has chosen the wrong opponent in Sally Rooney

23.08.2025 20

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Surrealing in the Years: We're getting better at rejecting bad ideas, now all we need are some good ones

02.08.2025 20

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Surrealing in the Years: Does anyone want to go in on a four-person mortgage with me?

26.07.2025 10

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Surrealing in the Years: The American government is done pretending it respects us

19.07.2025 10

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Surrealing in the Years: At least 4,844 children homeless, and we ain't seen nothin' yet

05.07.2025 10

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Surrealing in the Years: Screw it, let's put a Carroll's Irish Gifts in the GPO then

28.06.2025 10

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Surrealing in the Years: Dublin city needs a new motto. I have some suggestions.

21.06.2025 10

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Surrealing in the Years: Mayo Pride's 'Child of Drag' is a 'dreadful blasphemy'. So what?

07.06.2025 20

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Surrealing in the Years: Wait a minute, the British Army did WHAT to Irish civilians?

31.05.2025 10

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Surrealing in the Years: You wouldn't pay €35 for a ride on the Norman Splash

24.05.2025 10

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Surrealing in the Years: Why on earth would we want to follow in Britain's footsteps right now?

17.05.2025 10

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Surrealing in the Years: Kneecap are NOT the story. And yet.

03.05.2025 10

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Surrealing in the Years: Ireland and the world at large descending into Dan Brown farce

26.04.2025 10

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Surrealing in the Years: Protect our cultural history or solve the housing crisis? Neither, thanks

12.04.2025 10

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Surrealling in the Years: Keep your filthy hands to yourself

05.04.2025 10

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Surrealing in the Years: Don't worry, they're only telling us to sit down with their fingers

29.03.2025 9

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Surrealing in the Years: Plámás is far too kind a word for what we witnessed this week

15.03.2025 10

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Surrealing in the Years: Granny flat plan would have us living like garden gnomes

22.02.2025 10

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Surrealing in the Years: Ná bí ag insint bréaga, le do thoil

15.02.2025 10

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Boyzone documentary is a refreshingly real look at relationships of all kinds between men

09.02.2025 10

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Halloween comes early thanks to ghost buses, ghost houses and Regionals ghosting the government

08.02.2025 10

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Lowry's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle approach to Dáil speaking time isn't getting anything done

01.02.2025 10

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Surrealing in the Years: There was real catharsis in watching TDs losing the rag this week

25.01.2025 10

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Surrealing in the Years: Government formation is our problem, not theirs

18.01.2025 10

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Surrealing in the Years: Met Éireann succeed in diabolical plot to warn us that it's cold

11.01.2025 10

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Surrealing in the Years: 2025 begins on a Dickensian note, and not in a fun way

It was not the best of times.

04.01.2025 7

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