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Donald Trump is like a child pulling the wings off flies – all means and no end

Donald Trump is like a child pulling the wings off flies – all means and no end

We are seeing something new in human history: the relishing of annihilation as entertainment

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Peter Vandermeersch ignored his own golden rule about using AI

Peter Vandermeersch ignored his own golden rule about using AI

A journalist using AI-generated quotes in articles about AI is like a doctor injecting one virus in the hope of curing another

24.03.2026 20

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Trump’s war on Iran could spell the end of the EU

A deep economic crisis, shocking terrorist attacks in EU cities plus an unprecedented wave of refugees would lead to a far-right surge that the EU may...

17.03.2026 20

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Donald Trump is not mentally ill, but he is mad

Someone needs to tell him the truth or swathes of the world could be turned into Gaza writ large

10.03.2026 20

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If there’s so much buyer’s remorse about Brexit, why is Nigel Farage the rising figure in UK politics?

27.05.2025 20

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If you want to see how democracies cede to autocracies, watch as US universities bend to Trump

20.05.2025 20

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Ireland is running out of priests. There is an obvious solution

13.05.2025 20

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Fintan O’Toole: Kneecap and Boris Johnson have a lot in common

06.05.2025 20

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Is nothing sacred, even at a pope’s funeral?

29.04.2025 20

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State has reached crisis of irresponsibility that resonates far beyond Grace’s grim story

22.04.2025 30

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There’s a psychosexual dimension to Trump’s tariffs. You don’t have to be Freud to see it

15.04.2025 40

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The voice of the Almighty Dollar is shouting stop, Mr Trump

08.04.2025 20

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Boys want love, trust and intimacy just as much as girls do

01.04.2025 10

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Ireland’s delightful love triangle is ending in a nasty divorce

25.03.2025 20

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Donald Trump is right about Ireland’s relationship with Big Pharma

18.03.2025 20

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A cunning plan to bring Saint Patrick’s writings to the White House

11.03.2025 30

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The idea of Trump the dealmaker avoids a monstrous truth

04.03.2025 20

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Trump and Musk’s war on science presents a startling opportunity for Ireland

25.02.2025 20

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Omagh victims and their families deserve better than ‘there was no alternative’ to violence

18.02.2025 10

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Fintan O’Toole: Trump’s adoption of imperial manner is a function of failure

11.02.2025 20

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Does Micheál Martin understand his own brand?

04.02.2025 30

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An unfortunate incident of photobombing at the Áras highlights big problem for our democracy

28.01.2025 30

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What’s the dirtiest four-letter word in Irish politics? ‘Deal’

21.01.2025 20

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Five years after Covid, we scorn health workers, ignore vaccines and work in our offices

14.01.2025 20

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It’s a national indignity that the new government will rely on Michael Lowry

In 1944, when France was liberated from the Nazis, its restored republic faced a dilemma. The normal process of law could not deal with the tens of...

07.01.2025 30

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