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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A working financial model for ending Irish modern homelessness in approximately three years: capital cost, financing terms, the transition profile, and the comparison with continuing …
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84,178 returns across 11 years on the Irish lobbying register. The access patterns are visible in the data. Business lobbies dwarf labour and civil society. …
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What 'the right' actually means in Irish life in 2026, mapped carefully: distinct strands, the recent drift, the electoral picture, structural drivers, and the empirical …
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Around €900 million flowed from the Irish State to private emergency-accommodation providers and HAP landlords in 2024, producing no permanent public asset. The same money …
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The ESRI is the State-funded independent research institute Ireland established in 1960 to provide evidence for public policy. The State engages its work selectively — …
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Ireland is the country that won the Land War and removed landlordism across eighty years. In 2013 the State legislated a new landlord class into …
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Ireland built over 60,000 social homes in the 1970s and sold most of them off in the 1980s. The current crisis is the consequence of …
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A working definition of Irish politics in 2026: the party whip, the parish pump, the cross-party consensus, the lobbying architecture, and the gap between the …
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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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How Ireland's public forestry agency, Coillte, came to operate a Gresham House private forestry fund. The 1988 Act gated both access and financial upside.
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