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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You Are the Transmission Mechanism
On 11 June 2026 the ECB raised rates for the first time since 2023, choosing the one anti-inflation instrument that works by squeezing mortgaged households, …
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Corruption in Miniature
A small branch of an anti-corruption party fast-tracked an insider's motion to national conference, then quietly screened out two members' motions on a pretext it …
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Months and years
The June 2025 war on Iran depleted roughly half of US Patriot, half of US THAAD and half of US SM-3 inventories, plus more than …
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Running Opposition on the Opposition's Platform
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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Have You Looked Out Your Window Lately?
On 28 May 2026 two pieces of news arrived in parallel. The UK's Alan Milburn warned of a 'lost generation' of more than a million …
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The Opening Above Labour
On 26 May 2026 Ivana Bacik wrote to the Social Democrats and Greens only, proposing a narrow left coordination on a Seanad by-election. On 27 …
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Houses for the Kids of Those Who Own Assets
On 27 May 2026, Tánaiste and Minister for Finance Simon Harris announced a rural-housing planning overhaul that removes caps on homes per farm holding, lifts …
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Cleanest and Dirtiest
Ireland sits 12th on the Corruption Perceptions Index 2025 and 9th on the Corporate Tax Haven Index 2024. Two reputable international indices, the same country, …
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The Standards Were Never Meant to Be Met
Irish public-policy standards are not aspirational goals being inadequately pursued. They are theatrical artefacts written with engineered holes by the lobbyists who help draft them, …
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Both Halves of the Apparatus
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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