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Joe Humphreys

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Pete Hegseth and Pedro Sánchez both have virtues

Pete Hegseth and Pedro Sánchez both have virtues

Unthinkable: Committing publicly to a moral standpoint can change you for the better, or the worse

16.03.2026 10

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In Ireland, we’ll talk about anything except the meaning of life

In Ireland, we’ll talk about anything except the meaning of life

Unthinkable: The voice of the Catholic Church in Irish education should be commended for raising the question of ‘purpose’

09.03.2026 10

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A judge says Enoch Burke has ‘free will’. But is that true of any of us?

Tips for anyone who feels their thoughts are being polluted by their smartphone, a mad king or even an overbearing parent

02.03.2026 10

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The Leaving Cert points race crushes open-ended dialogue

09.02.2026 30

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Six qualities make you cool, according to science. Trying too hard isn’t one of them

02.02.2026 5

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Netflix recommendations, IQ scores and Duolingo streaks: the top 5 most useless metrics

26.01.2026 10

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Why Donald Trump has the mind of a cat

19.01.2026 20

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Hate growing old? This advice will help you navigate it

29.12.2025 10

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Eoin Lenihan’s Vandalising Ireland proposes an idiosyncratic new direction for Ireland

22.12.2025 10

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The chatbot will see you now: is this the future of Irish medicine?

15.12.2025 30

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Culture wars have come for Dublin’s Winter Lights festival

08.12.2025 20

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Dreading Christmas dinner with your family? You may be an otrovert

01.12.2025 10

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Think like a bee and channel the Stoics: How to stop comparing yourself to others

24.11.2025 10

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Simon Harris may be wrong about migration figures but he wasn’t dogwhistling

17.11.2025 10

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Debate about the role of the Tricolour in a united Ireland fails the logic test

10.11.2025 10

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The Catholic thinker behind JD Vance’s religious conversion

03.11.2025 10

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Maybe some of us are just not meant to be president

27.10.2025 20

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I tried to stare at this painting for three hours. And something odd happened

20.10.2025 10

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As a columnist, maybe I’m part of the problem

13.10.2025 10

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The attention economy has made us less attentive, but there is a solution

06.10.2025 10

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Meet the philosopher who thinks AI ought to have the same moral rights as humans

22.09.2025 20

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Do you suffer from FOCO, a fear of causing offence? Here’s some advice

15.09.2025 10

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Cryptocurrency is financial cocaine for the middle classes

08.09.2025 10

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You can win at life by being a good loser

21.07.2025 20

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What did you do if you were young, Irish and idealistic 60 years ago? Join the missions

14.07.2025 10

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The next president should be selected by lottery. It could be you

07.07.2025 20

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We like to romanticise Ireland’s past, but too much remembering could be bad for us

23.06.2025 10

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The Gaelic philosopher who wrote ‘one of the most influential books of our time’

16.06.2025 10

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Maybe we shouldn’t be quite so smug about Trump’s tariffs

09.06.2025 10

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Forget hope. Be a hopeful pessimist instead

02.06.2025 20

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How to avoid road rage and cyclist superiority

26.05.2025 10

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Why Donald Trump is stupid to accept Qatar’s gift of a luxury jet

19.05.2025 10

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I tried an ancient cure for procrastination for a month. It was grim

12.05.2025 10

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Was Bono morally wrong to accept a US medal of freedom? It’s not that simple

28.04.2025 20

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Don’t dismiss Peig Sayers. Her stoic folk wisdom has plenty to offer today

21.04.2025 10

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Science can’t disprove concept of an afterlife. Can philosophy make the case for its existence?

14.04.2025 20

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The ‘death drive’ exists in all of us

07.04.2025 10

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The 80/20 rule of dating is nonsense. So why do so many people believe it?

31.03.2025 10

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The 80/20 rule of dating is nonsense. So why do so many people believe it?

31.03.2025 10

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Garron Noone shows it’s hard to find the words to talk about immigration

23.03.2025 10

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Grind schools remain the great injustice of Ireland’s education system

17.03.2025 20

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Three things we give up when we turn away from Catholicism

10.03.2025 10

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The Enlightenment gave rise to a habit of worshipping ‘great men’, but they never had to worry about dying in childbirth

03.03.2025 10

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If you’re distracted all the time, is it possible to love?

24.02.2025 10

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JD Vance is right about this: Liberals and conservatives do not love the same way

10.02.2025 10

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No one is asking Meta to act as God - just not to pollute the public space with lies

03.02.2025 20

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Squid Game or Sweden? The choice Ireland faces in new economic era

20.01.2025 10

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When it comes to clutter are you more like Michael D Higgins or minimalist Marie Kondo?

13.01.2025 10

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Smartphones are an easy scapegoat for a more profound unhappiness

What makes a human life valuable? Greg Epstein, a humanist chaplain at Harvard, recalls discussing this question with a group of students at the...

06.01.2025 20

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Lessons in philosophy from Sally Rooney’s latest novel that can help us make sense of the world

This has been a disorienting year. North Korean troops are on European soil, helping to invade an EU applicant country. A convicted fraudster,...

30.12.2024 9

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