A Poor Politician with Excellent Media Training
On 27 May 2026, with a fresh EPA report showing Ireland on track to deliver only half the greenhouse-gas reductions required by 2030, the Taoiseach …
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Sold the view, extinguished the path
In April 2024 Fáilte Ireland announced that the Wild Atlantic Way generates €3 billion in annual tourism revenue. Six months later the State quietly removed …
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The Evidence Nobody Brings Into The Room
In 2013 the UK Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Iain Duncan Smith, was asked on live radio whether he could live on £53 …
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Two Terms! No more!
Last Sunday, Hungarian voters answered a constitutional question Irish voters have never been asked. Should the chief executive of the country be allowed to serve …
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Irish Minister Who Thinks the Problem Is the Coverage
Patrick O'Donovan, Minister for Media, Communications, Culture and Sport, went on Limerick's Live 95 today and said he would ask Coimisiún na Meán — Ireland's …
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Ten Cent Off a Litre
On Saturday evening the government announced a €505m fuel support package in response to six days of nationwide protests. The measures include a 10c reduction …
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This Is Not Normal
You already know something is wrong. You've known for a while. The news cycle confirms it daily: climate collapse accelerating past every guardrail, genocide broadcast …
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It's the System, Stupid
In 1992, James Carville pinned a sign to the wall of Bill Clinton's campaign headquarters in Little Rock that read, in three lines, "Change versus …
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It Is Too Much
It is too much. That is the first thing to say, and most of the writing about the present moment will not say it, because …
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What the Surplus Hides
On paper, Ireland is the only Western European country currently building government wealth at scale rather than running it down. By the standard measures, the …
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The Island That Went First
So imagine this. A political movement based on a doctrine of acceptance, the kind described in our previous article, gains power in Ireland. Not in …
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The Blue Line in the Sand
On Sunday morning, an Indonesian peacekeeper was killed by a projectile that struck a United Nations position near the village of Adchit Al Qusayr, in …
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