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Sinéad O'Sullivan

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The Phoenix Park has an identity problem. But there is an easy fix

The Phoenix Park has an identity problem. But there is an easy fix

It is a park that neither accentuates Dublin city nor switches it off; it is merely a way to commute through the middle

17.08.2026 20

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Maybe it’s better if we never know the real cost of the Ryder Cup

There is already enough information in the public domain to put together some informed calculations

10.08.2026 20

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The Dunsink plan shows Ireland has a lesson to learn from the Soviets

Objections to Dunsink are not about what’s in the plan. They’re about what’s missing

09.08.2026 20

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How can Ireland build a nuclear reactor when it can’t even manage a children’s hospital?

The debate is little more than a nuclear distracter – absorbing all our energy instead of generating any

03.08.2026 20

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Meet the Irish woman standing at the most visible conducting podium in the world

Why was Handel’s Messiah first performed in Dublin? Because 243 years before Bob Geldof’s Live Aid, we had a tradition of benefit gigs

27.07.2026 20

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The Irish woman conducting the Proms is part of a long tradition. Yes, you read that right

Why was Handel’s Messiah first performed in Dublin? Because 243 years before Bob Geldof’s Live Aid, we had a tradition of benefit gigs

27.07.2026 20

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What to do if you suspect a spy in your midst in six easy steps

Six easy steps, plus appendix, to root out foreign intelligence assets operating in Ireland

20.07.2026 30

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Referendums aren’t always a good idea. Ever tried to vote out ‘the people’?

Every discretionary referendum is a government declining to exercise the judgment we hired it for

13.07.2026 30

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All aboard the golf train to Adare, Ireland’s answer to North Korea

Pyongyang built real train stations that seemed fake. In Ireland, we are building a fake train station that will, for a brief period, seem real

07.07.2026 30

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Dublin-based firms are also part of the military complex

There’s been strangely little talk of the fact that Dublin is the European home of several increasingly militarised technologies

22.06.2026 40

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SpaceX is not just too big to fail. It is too essential to be allowed to

A firm that is a rocket-maker, broadcaster, chatbot and arm of the Pentagon is many things, but a foundation for national infrastructure is not one of...

14.06.2026 40

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Ireland will be an ‘honest broker’ in the EU presidency – a bystander and abstainer

Trump’s strategic chaos and Ireland’s strategic ambiguity are effectively two sides of the same coin. But ours is no longer sustainable

08.06.2026 50

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Difficulty of a flood-warning system is precisely the reason co-ordination must be paramount

Devoid of that critical integration, our State retains no institutional memory, as lessons from failures remain trapped inside whichever department or...

30.05.2026 50

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Ireland’s politics of strategic ambiguity served us well – until it didn’t

‘Not Fine Gael’ is not a policy platform for Ireland’s opposition, any more than ‘not Trump’ helped the US Democrats

24.05.2026 50

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People in Ireland want to know where our money goes. The answer is depressing

Ireland spends up to €180,000 training doctors to work in Australia. That’s one symptom of a much bigger problem

13.05.2026 50

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The performance of Irishness for outside approval is finished

Kneecap, Sally Rooney and the comedian Vittorio Angelone ask a question the State has avoided for years: what is all of this for, if not for us?

02.05.2026 60

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Ireland’s population is told it has never been richer, yet it has never felt poorer

The State takes in €126bn a year and cannot create a civil protection agency, a gas storage facility or a train to Donegal

25.04.2026 60

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Opinion: The protests aren't just about fuel, they're a revolt against a hollow state

Citizens are told Ireland is rich, but their daily lives say otherwise, and last week’s protests were just a symptom of a deeper malaise, writes...

14.04.2026 80

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Calling in the Defence Forces against fuel protesters is a huge strategic error

By invoking the threat of the army to move tractors, the Government has proved every sceptic of increased defence spending right

09.04.2026 70

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We need a national strategy for the fuel crisis. Here are four things we can do now

And when we’ve done them, we need to build an energy security strategy

05.04.2026 90

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When will we declare Ireland’s road-death toll the public health crisis it is?

Last year, one person died every 35 hours in a crash on the island

09.03.2026 80

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