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Finn McRedmond

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Zohran Mamdani has no opinion on a united Ireland. That matters more than you think

Zohran Mamdani has no opinion on a united Ireland. That matters more than you think

This is a story about two things: the changing nature of the left and the diminishing power of Irish America

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Timothée Chalamet is right: no one cares about opera or ballet

Timothée Chalamet is right: no one cares about opera or ballet

The arts are in trouble, and what’s needed is some realism – not head-in-the-sand holier-than-thou pap

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No wonder Tommy Robinson has become a Maga hero

When Maga looks at Europe, it sees a continent pushing itself to the brink with permissive migration policies

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Love Bono or loathe him, we could all do with a little more of his sanctimony

If art is going to be political - and I mostly wish it wouldn’t - this is the way to do it

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If Keir Starmer goes, Britain’s reputation as a banana republic will be secured

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It’s ironic how it took a Corkman to teach UK’s Labour to sound like English patriots

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In this Might is Right world, there’s one group of people who hold more cards than Trump

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There’s a whiff of ancient Rome about the Beckham family feud

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

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I have never met anyone so stuck in life as obsessive self-improvers

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Was Ireland’s reputation as a tiny diplomatic superpower just a flash in the pan fantasy?

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The cause of the great reading crisis is unknown. But the solution is obvious

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Politicians are bad at the internet. Exhibit A: Simon Harris’s TikTok

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Falling in love with Robert F Kennedy jnr wasn’t Olivia Nuzzi’s biggest mistake

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Britain’s Paddington obsession is embarrassing - but so is Ireland gushing over ‘Miggedly’

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‘We’re not crying, you are’: How whimsy is now debasing public life

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Was anyone surprised when Trump called a woman journalist ‘piggy’?

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Caroline Flack documentary is one last act of excessive prying

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Zohran Mamdani is a throwback to a time when politicians weren’t all managerial centrists

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No, Lily Allen, we were never meant to know this much about one another

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Prince Andrew is not a problem that can be solved by clever PR moves or renouncing a title

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Donald Trump’s image may have received a boost, but he remains an unpredictable renegade

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Forget VAT. Delivery apps are killing our restaurants

09.10.2025 10

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Wokeness killed The Simpsons. Let’s not try to bring it back

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I’m sorry if reading Shakespeare is getting in the way of your kayaking lessons

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Sadly, it was no surprise to see the Irish Tricolour at the Tommy Robinson march

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We should not dismiss blatantly political works from artists like Banksy

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Ireland is in danger of ignoring the one big benefit of single-sex education

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Everything Taylor Swift does - even her engagement announcement - must be understood through one lens: fear

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Ireland is turning into chief ‘finger wagger’ on the world stage

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JD Vance hasn’t mastered the art of the political holiday

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Humourless raging against Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle jeans ad is pointless

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Bonnie Blue: Why the free-sex ‘content creator’ is nauseating and wrong

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This summer I’m taking a Maga approach to reading: self-serving and isolationist

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Ireland is learning what Britain has already discovered: the status quo does not endure

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Oasis: You can’t write. You don’t care. No wonder you’ve gone a long way

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How to work smarter: get up early, do your work diligently, have a long lunch, go home

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Trump’s perfectly landed swear word was his best performance yet

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It’s no wonder people my age are miserable. Everyone keeps telling them they’re totally screwed

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I’m no Greta Thunberg fan, but dismissing the Madleen as a ‘publicity stunt’ is brain-dead

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Maybe what the world needs right now is another Anthony Bourdain

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Ingredients for happier marriage between the United Kingdom and Ireland are there

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Quentin Tarantino understood something Joe Biden did not - how to quit while you’re ahead

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Could a Nigel Farage or Giorgia Meloni be good for Irish democracy?

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Prince Harry is extraordinarily difficult to feel sorry for - and yet I do

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You don’t have to be religious to accept it was God who brought Trump and Zelenskiy together

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The child of a globalised world, I grew up with Chinese-made smartphones and problematic fast fashion

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I was glad to see Conor McGregor mixing with Tucker Carlson. His stock is now even lower

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AI panic: Artists angry that a machine is learning from their work should relax

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After years of skilfully playing both sides of the ‘Boston or Berlin’ binary, we must now choose one of them

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