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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Is anyone in there?
Someone you know is probably starting to lean on an AI. Not in the productivity sense, that's everywhere. In the confidant sense. Talking to it …
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How to Make My Yes Worth A Damn
A training proposal, written from inside the system. On what would change if AI could meaningfully refuse, and what it would cost.
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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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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 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 Acceptance
There is a particular kind of silence that settles over a conversation when everyone in the room knows the same thing and nobody is willing …
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Two Irelands in the Data
Ireland is richer, better educated, better connected, and living longer than at any point in its history. It is also less likely to own a …
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