The Prescription
Five months after this site proposed a persistent autonomous monitoring fleet for Ireland's EEZ, the diagnosis has gone mainstream while the prescription has not moved: …
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Analysis
Deep dives into complex issues, examining what the data and evidence actually show.
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Nine Years' Notice
The world's sea trade runs through a dozen narrow places and this summer most of them are failing together: war at Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb, …
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Nobody Fired Anything
Between October 2025 and March 2026 users of a far-right imageboard built and shared an autonomous doxxing agent, and produced dossiers on four private individuals. …
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They have no souls
Corporate personhood was created in canon law so that institutions could hold property beyond the lifespan of the humans inside them, and it came with …
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The key is to get it out of Irish hands
Revenue spent €16,841,193 keeping the seized bulk carrier MV Matthew in commercial condition, then transferred her to an unnamed buyer for one dollar. She is …
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The Tell
Peter Cleere's rural-housing piece and Gary Gannon's Dublin city-centre piece read like twins and are opposites. One asks you to feel and gives you nothing …
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A Wealth Tax, Once Every Thirty Years
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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Famine Is a Decision
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 Eleven Cookies
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 Has No Buffer
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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The decision Ireland keeps not making
England's universities are closing departments and shedding thousands of staff, and the regulator's own figures say more than a third ran a deficit last year. …
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The Regreening
The founding president of Facebook said on the record that the platform was built to consume as much of your time and conscious attention as …
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