In March 2026 a closed shipping lane in the Gulf shut down five of Bangladesh's six fertiliser plants. No harvest failed. This is how modern hunger begins: not with a drought but with a decision, taken somewhere else, about who gets the gas. Food demand is so inelastic that a five per cent shortfall becomes a thirty per cent price, …
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The grievance behind the fuel protests and the riots is real. The research says it is not personal poverty but a collective sense of lost …
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A US export-control order has reclassified frontier AI as a munition, barring foreign nationals, including a leading lab's own immigrant engineers, from its most capable …
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The Economist opposes a wealth tax while backing a broader inheritance tax. For the very rich those are the same tax on a different clock, …
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In March 2026 a closed shipping lane in the Gulf shut down five of Bangladesh's six fertiliser plants. No harvest failed. This is how modern …
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The grievance behind the fuel protests and the riots is real. The research says it is not personal poverty but a collective sense of lost …
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Ireland's exposure to the 2026 oil shock is not that the tankers stop. The crude never stopped. It is that a country importing four-fifths of …
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A US export-control order has reclassified frontier AI as a munition, barring foreign nationals, including a leading lab's own immigrant engineers, from its most capable …
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Three quarters of Northern Hemisphere subsea cables pass through or near Irish waters. The Defence Forces have just signed a €60 million Thales sonar contract …
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A defence bloc has been built in stages since June 2025: the Canada-EU Security and Defence Partnership, the SAFE accession, Macron's forward deterrence with eight …
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Five stories from one day's news cycle in Ireland reveal the Ireland.Inc frame: socialised costs, private upside, externalities borne by the public.
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A single structural claim, that the resemblance of an output is not the identity of the process that made it, and that self-referential evaluation is …
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A new Frontiers in Human Neuroscience hypothesis paper proposes a biological mechanism for the switch between System 1 fast-parallel cognition and System 2 slow-sequential cognition. …
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Plain-language explainer on the structural risk of running political-party internal organising on Meta-owned platforms. What WhatsApp actually knows (metadata: full social graph, group membership, cadence, …
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The Irish political class and the Irish media class are two halves of the same apparatus. Both are trained: one not to say anything, the …
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This is a working planning document, not a finished argument. It maps the bloc current capability, the 2036 target, and the calendar of decisions required …
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Europe's munitions ceiling is set by a handful of energetic-chemistry plants, not by yards or steel. Eurenco is the state-controlled French company at the centre …
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The Derelict Sites Act 1990 already obliges every local authority to keep a register, serve notices, enter properties on it, charge a three-percent annual levy …
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Every election since 2007 has produced fresh pledges on political accountability. Registers of interest. Codes of conduct. Ethics commissions. Lobbying regulations. Whistleblower protections. Each arrived, …
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An assessment of Brother Kevin Crowley's fifty-six-year career at the Capuchin Day Centre on Bow Street, Dublin: what the work documented, what the State funded, …
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An assessment of Sister Stanislaus Kennedy's forty-year argument for housing as a right, the institutions she built where the State did not, and what her …
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An independent Senator whose work on drug policy is grounded in fifteen years of community-services experience and in lived knowledge of the communities the State's …
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Five decades of Irish climate science. The IPCC AR4 work that produced the 2007 Nobel. The long, patient argument that Ireland keeps saying it will …
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Wide distribution of productive property as the foundation of economic dignity. A primer on the tradition, and why modern Ireland is one of its most …
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The tradition that built post-war continental Europe and founded the EU. A primer on what it is, and why Ireland never built one despite having …
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Left populism, right populism, and a moving target. A primer on what populism actually is, what it gets right about democratic failure, and where it …
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A specific 20th-century tradition, not a generic insult. A primer on what fascism actually is, what its regimes did, and where Irish politics sits relative …
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Purchasing and rewilding 50-metre buffers along Ireland's 20,000km of at-risk rivers would cost approximately €6.3bn — €5bn in land acquisition and €1.3bn in establishment. Annual …
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The EPA's 2019-2024 assessment shows 48% of 4,842 water bodies are unsatisfactory — a declining trend. Short rotation coppice yields 8-12 odt/ha/year (Teagasc/Forest Research verified). …
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A farmer who wants to rewild a riverbank faces 7 separate regulatory requirements across 15+ agencies. Professional fees alone run €10,000-28,000. Meanwhile, the opportunity cost …
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High-rate algal ponds produce ~30 tonnes dry biomass per hectare per year at Irish latitudes. A 2ha community-scale system could yield 40-60 tonnes annually, but …
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