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Fintan Otoole

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Ireland has spent the last 70 years unsuccessfully trying to dethrone King Cattle

As last night’s mind-blowing documentary on RTÉ showed, the parallel planet of the cattle monarchy continues to exist

03.03.2026 10

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Epstein files are where the grammar of wealth meets the vocabulary of the brothel

10.02.2026 30

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In the Epstein files, the grammar of wealth meets the vocabulary of the brothel

10.02.2026 40

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Tony Blair and Peter Mandelson will go down in history as crawlers and creeps

03.02.2026 30

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If Trump goes after Ireland, he will also destroy a lot of US wealth

27.01.2026 40

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Why is Ireland so badly governed? Here’s why...

20.01.2026 70

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Ireland in Trump’s Western Hemisphere - do you feel owned yet?

13.01.2026 50

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Trump’s Walmart warmongering in Venezuela isn’t empire building, it’s entertainment

06.01.2026 70

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The old Irish habit of begrudgery didn’t disappear, it just turned in another direction

30.12.2025 30

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Ireland’s Christmas story is still underpinned by separation anxiety

23.12.2025 20

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This is a column about the Opium War - all resemblance to living people entirely intended

16.12.2025 40

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Eurovision glitz part of Israel’s claim to be European - and that matters

09.12.2025 20

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Ireland has two economies, one bourgeois, one proletarian. Both have problems

02.12.2025 20

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Ireland’s economic miracle is like someone riding two horses on a surfboard

25.11.2025 20

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Donald Trump made a fatal error when he invited the vampire Jeffrey Epstein in

18.11.2025 20

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Official approach to a united Ireland is ‘please, please don’t ask us to think about it’

11.11.2025 20

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Simon Harris is deliberately spreading disinformation on immigration

04.11.2025 20

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There’s a reason why Ireland votes for leftist presidents and right-of-centre governments

28.10.2025 20

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Catherine Connolly deserves her landslide victory, but it’s a hollow crown

25.10.2025 10

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Catherine Connolly is going to win. Heather Humphreys needs to be a better loser

21.10.2025 20

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This has become an election about the nature of the presidency itself

14.10.2025 20

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Budget 2026: What’s another year to a hungry two-year-old?

07.10.2025 30

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What on earth was Micheál Martin thinking? Jim Gavin clearly wasn’t ready

06.10.2025 20

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Catherine Connolly should keep her inner Basil Fawlty under wraps

30.09.2025 20

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How is it possible to live with the knowledge that you have facilitated mass murder?

23.09.2025 30

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The really nauseating thing about the Ryder Cup is how seamlessly it will all happen

16.09.2025 20

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What the presidential election needs is a candidate I wouldn’t vote for: Maria Steen

08.09.2025 30

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Ireland was once the tradwife capital of the world. Worse, they were happy

02.09.2025 30

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The pain and shame that Bertie Ahern caused this country is not forgotten

26.08.2025 30

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Sinn Féin may reject commemorating the Normans, but there are some suspiciously Saxon names in its ranks

19.08.2025 10

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We in Ireland forget how recently we were the crap-job migrants

12.08.2025 20

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Gaza is also a war on the human instinct for compassion

05.08.2025 20

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Ireland in the 1980s was bloody awful, but there was at least one good reason not to emigrate

29.07.2025 20

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Magic coins fill the coffers of paranormal Ireland

22.07.2025 30

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Tuam is a microcosm for Ireland’s history of discarded bones

15.07.2025 20

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Ireland has a proud history of opposing anti-Semitism

08.07.2025 30

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I have had more wives than Henry VIII. It’s news to me too

01.07.2025 20

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Nuclear weapons have been in the Middle East for decades – not in Iran, but in Israel

24.06.2025 20

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Official documents are quietly disappearing from departmental websites. Why?

17.06.2025 20

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At a time when the boom is even boomer, this statistic should mortify us

10.06.2025 20

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In Netanyahu’s grotesque world view, even Gaza’s four year-olds are barbarians

03.06.2025 30

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