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Some of us are old enough to remember the regular edgy inquiries 10 years ago as to why this paper was so damned preoccupied by the activities of...
On New Year’s Day it should be possible to dredge up some inspiring thoughts about the year ahead. It’s difficult to do anything but peer fearfully...
It’s a year since the Ross Lake House Hotel in west Galway was set ablaze, nine days before Christmas. A year since an elected county councillor...
Leo Varadkar was probably delivering the eye-popping news that a lot of policymakers do not understand things like percentages, medians and means...
Images of women from election 2024 are destined to show up repeatedly on Reeling in the Years. Holly Cairns’s leadership of a hugely successful...
Does it matter if Simon Harris or Mary Lou McDonald dance a cringey jig in a gift shop or if Micheál Martin climbs awkwardly onto a buffalo on a...
In fairness to James Browne, Fianna Fáil’s Minister of State at the Department of Justice, he did not say that his boss, Helen McEntee, had been...
The legitimate agitation about the direction of young men and boys found its apotheosis in the hours after Donald Trump’s re-election. In a segment...
This column is being written early on Tuesday, hours before the US polls open, but I am “nauseously optimistic” about Kamala Harris, as Democrat...
It’s just a few weeks since a young professional at a noisy party tried to explain why a huge swathe of Americans will vote for Donald Trump. Had I...
Vox pops rarely produce anything useful, which is hardly surprising. They mainly entail a young reporter dashing around a street or two not far...
Celebrity candidates are back in the news, raising the old question of what precisely constitutes such a creature. Handy shorthand for anyone who’s...
There is always an echo. Twenty-two years ago on a comically relaxed election canvass in a north Kildare housing estate, a laughing young mother...
Very soon – probably around November 15th – hordes of stir-crazy politicians will be barrelling out of Leinster House like store cattle liberated...
The term sanewashing has entered the terminology of the US presidential race, and not before time. A portmanteau of “sane” and “whitewashing”, it...
It’s poignant to watch middle-aged Oasis fans railing about greedy ticket pricing when raging Swifties turned a Ticketmaster website debacle a...
Among the many tragedies of Gaza is how it has consumed the bandwidth of activists and protesters in the West. In many ways they’ve done their job,...
A reliable way of staying relevant is to rail at something or someone a lot of other people admire. A jibe at Simon Harris’s phenomenal energy or...
The most boring interviews in recent times have involved tennis legend and renowned gentleman Roger Federer. He talks about the primacy of shot...
If the politics of public face-masking was fraught in pandemic times, watch what happens next. Back then the “freedom” boys swaggered through...
Back in 2012 an Irish friend volunteering at the London Olympics rang after witnessing the opening ceremony rehearsal. Watch it, he said, there’s...
Saturday’s shooting was not “un-American”. Gun violence and mass killing followed by thoughts and prayers and Republican resistance to gun...