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Surrealing in the Years: Well Simon, the jamboree period is over

Also this week: a TD speaks about guns.

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€1.90 for bag of Tayto is proof that the social contract is broken

Et tu, Smokey Bacon?

06.04.2024 40

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Sinn Féin and Fine Gael having a hard time being themselves

Confusing words for a confusing time.

30.03.2024 10

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Varadkar feels sorry for whoever has to write about his legacy. Same.

It has to be SOMEBODY’S legacy.

23.03.2024 10

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Irish diplomacy differs greatly between Texas and DC

The kind of diplomacy that gets you barred from Texas.

16.03.2024 6

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The results are in ... referendums remain nation’s messiest pastime

At least until these new nightclubs laws come into effect.

10.03.2024 6

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Snow nice but nation could use heads up next time

Yes, Met Éireann. You.

02.03.2024 9

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UK Pleasure Boys can teach us all a valuable lesson

The theme of this week’s column? Hardcore nudity.

24.02.2024 8

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This was a really good week to embarrass yourself on TV

Stories piling up, like so many cans ineligible for the Deposit Return Scheme.

17.02.2024 10

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Joe Brolly and Kneecap join forces against the Tory government

The ultimate courtroom drama.

10.02.2024 30

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End of 'Global Greening' a brave step towards becoming less embarrassing

Also this week: marijuana.

03.02.2024 7

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Story of giant Luke Kelly head vandalism comes to a sad end

Also this week: Toy Show musical back on the agenda somehow.

27.01.2024 9

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Finally, a national conversation about throuples

The age of the throuple has come.

20.01.2024 10

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First week of the new year marked by "preventable trauma"

We’ve also lost a lovesick monkey.

06.01.2024 10

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New retirement plan means 40 more years of this column

You’re welcome!

30.12.2023 8

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Ireland has had a weird year, and absolutely not in a good way

2024 promises, or threatens, to be even stranger again.

23.12.2023 7

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Tornado in Leitrim steals the show during a season of extreme weather

Also this week: RTÉ asked to make a choice on boycotting Eurovision.

16.12.2023 6

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President Conor is unlikely, but we're still in for a long two years

We are not immune to electing an absurd president.

09.12.2023 9

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Good news! The weird online loudmouths are here to save Ireland

Thank you, Russell. Thank you, Tucker.

02.12.2023 10

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Dublin riot shatters many of our shared delusions about Ireland

We cannot allow this cynical vision of Ireland to consume us.

25.11.2023 20

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Irish public knows the moral event horizon has been crossed in Gaza

Also this week: David Cameron and Ryan Tubridy prove that London is the city for comebacks.

18.11.2023 7

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Only Suella Braverman knows what on earth she meant by Ulster comments

Suella Braverman’s comments about Northern Ireland were so strange that nobody even knows how to respond.

11.11.2023 10

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Smaller venues not enough to hold Irish solidarity for Palestine

Irish politicians are facing pressure to take more concrete steps to push back against Israeli attacks.

04.11.2023 10

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RTÉ should utilise 'surprise Dolly Parton' strategy more often

Also this week: flood defence situation doesn’t exactly inspire confidence, does it?

21.10.2023 6

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Thoughtless celebrity commentary on Gaza crisis will make things worse

Popular commentary on the crisis is leading us to the precipice of something even more dangerous.

14.10.2023 7

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Bedbug apocalypse the least of our worries when it comes to neighbours

We don’t want France’s bedbugs, but the UK is offering even worse.

07.10.2023 9

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Leo Varadkar is not good at pop culture references

Bono is going around calling us all frogs, by the way.

30.09.2023 10

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Has the establishment finally noticed the far-right?

The far-right have been doing this, in public, for months.

23.09.2023 10

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Legacy Bill apparently not as juicy as three old men

I was supposed to be off this week.

08.09.2023 10

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