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Joe Horgan

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An all too familiar tale of emigration, heartache and hope

MY youngest has left Ireland and gone to London. It’s not much of an original story. In many ways...

11.09.2023 8

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A quandary over The Wolfe Tones

AS I WRITE THIS, appearing at The Electric Picnic music festival in Stradbally, Co. Laois, are su...

06.09.2023 10

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A story of privilege, hubris and rejection — RTÉ and the Ryan Tubridy affair

RYAN Tubridy’s fall from RTÉ grace has been one of those peculiarly Irish moments. In my time liv...

25.08.2023 9

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Lost in translation — navigating accents in a changing world

WHEN I first started associating with English people I had to translate when my father spoke to t...

07.08.2023 8

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Ryan Tubridy — from hero to pariah in a dramatic but weird downfall

EVERY now and then the country you live in just goes a bit weird. We had weirdness galore during ...

14.07.2023 3

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Tubridy scandal reveals Ireland’s culture of self-indulgence

AS if like an echo, Ireland is having its Philip Schofield moment. A much-loved national present...

06.07.2023 9

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Irish opposition to refugees is a denial of identity

ON THE day I’m writing this it is World Refugee Day. Now, I’m not really one for designated days....

29.06.2023 7

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Being Irish is a complex thing

WHAT does being Irish mean?  Does it, in fact, mean anything? For instance, I’m Irish. I was born...

14.06.2023 10

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If you’re Irish, come into the parlour — if not, then clear off

I don’t know the place, Inch, Co. Clare. I don’t know any of the people in Inch, Co. Clare. But I...

31.05.2023 20

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Odd economics in the closure of RTÉ’s long wave service

THE more one looks at RTÉ’s decision to discontinue its long wave radio service the more one is s...

17.05.2023 7

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The Stardust — a tragedy made worse by class issues

TERRIBLE THINGS can happen in life, can’t they? Terrible accidents and terrible tragedies. Someti...

10.05.2023 20

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The bitter hierarchy of emigration

THERE  is an unavoidable synchronicity about the timing of RTÉ’s decision to close its long wave ...

28.04.2023 9

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An unclassy act

I LISTENED to it so that you don’t have to. I was driving peacefully through a small Irish town w...

11.04.2023 9

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Do we blame the message and the messenger?

Maybe social media does good things. Maybe it brings people together and gives people some sense ...

05.04.2023 3

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Untangling patriotism from jingoism

Increasingly, the older I get, I can’t help but see nationalism as an ugly thing, a negative thin...

23.03.2023 4

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The different faces of immigration — and discrimination

I’m not claiming any kind of victimhood but I do see the importance of being accurate. I grew up ...

11.03.2023 6

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The tactics of utter futility

Think about the north of Ireland for a moment. Think about Northern Ireland. Just think about tha...

03.03.2023 7

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Misconceptions about class and community

BORN AND REARED in working class Birmingham, of Irish immigrant parents, I lived the first thirty...

01.03.2023 7

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The onward rolling PR machine of Ireland's niche sport, rugby

First things first, I don’t like rugby. Even if Ireland are playing or Munster or whoever, I don...

09.02.2023 4

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Fake news, felines — and the far right

I WOULD not have imagined there was much of a link between cats and the Irish far right or, while...

04.02.2023 4

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