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Malachi Odoherty

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An Irish outsider fails to be bowled over by quintessentially British sports

FRIENDS raise sceptical eyebrows when I tell them that I used to be the sports editor of the More...

10.01.2025 9

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Malachi Odoherty

Why principled opposition to violence transcends political camps and specific causes

WHEN you express strong opinions, you find yourself with allies and detractors. Then when you exp...

03.01.2025 4

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A Christmas tale of broken toys and second chances

OUR first Christmas in a new house. The estate around us was still a building site. Our floors we...

25.12.2024 3

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Ireland's beauty faces environmental challenges

NOSTALGIA for Ireland among exiles perhaps conjures occasionally unrealistic images of a distant ...

13.12.2024 3

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New television series offers dramatised reassessment of a troubled history

I HAVE problems with drama which is ‘based on’ a true story. Others reassure me that audiences ca...

06.12.2024 2

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Echoes of Trump’s victory in Ireland’s general election?

THERE is a theory about the Trump victory which, if applied to Ireland would augur major change i...

23.11.2024 1

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Facing up to the shadow of antisemitism

I DON’T know why, when we were children, we told jokes about Jews but we did. We didn’t know any ...

13.11.2024 2

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Surprising rhythms in rural Ireland

As an Atlantic storm rages outside and the wind rattles the windows, inside it’s waltzing and whi...

16.08.2024 1

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Holding the lens of history up to anti-immigration demos

I AM uncomfortably reminded of the early days of the civil rights agitation in Northern Ireland w...

13.08.2024 1

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Malachi Odoherty

The story of change in Catholic schools

I STARTED school in 1955 in the Babies Class of a school in Ballycastle run by the sisters of the...

08.08.2024 2

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Malachi Odoherty