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Patrick Smyth

Patrick Smyth

The Irish Times

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We owe Mark Carney thanks for the reminder that the arc of history doesn’t bend to bullies

02.02.2026 10

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Patrick Smyth

What’s behind the Trump administration’s war on typefaces?

21.12.2025 30

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Andrew Windsor should be thanking his lucky stars instead of feeling sorry for himself

08.11.2025 10

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Denial has become a standard tool of strongmen leaders but the truth will out

29.09.2025 10

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Donald Trump’s plan to make America beautiful again

08.09.2025 10

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After French prime minister’s political hara-kiri, Macron faces three unpalatable choices

31.08.2025 30

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Every Irish person contributes €53.20 a month to the EU. We should be prepared to pay more

28.07.2025 10

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Ireland will have to commit substantial funds to arms procurement whether it approves or not

14.06.2025 10

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Turkish Trump Erdogan didn’t reckon with the power of a younger generation

13.04.2025 10

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Trump’s rebranding of Afrikaners as victims is calculated to appeal to the American far right

23.03.2025 10

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By flirting with the far right, Europe’s centre-right parties play a dangerous game

15.02.2025 10

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Patrick Smyth

Mercosur will not be the cataclysm for Irish farmers they predict

Any illusions I might have had about the waning influence of Irish farming were quickly disabused when I arrived in Brussels in the mid-1990s to...

04.01.2025 10

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Giorgia Meloni masquerades as the ‘acceptable’ face of the far right, but nobody should be fooled

It was a meeting of minds, kindred souls, timed to perfection for Italy’s prime minister Giorgia Meloni. Celebrating together the magnificent...

28.12.2024 7

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Patrick Smyth

EU needs to be less ‘polite’ in resisting Russian attempts to sway elections

The unprecedented decision by Romania’s constitutional court last week to annul the first-round victory of far-right firebrand Călin Georgescu...

14.12.2024 8

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Patrick Smyth