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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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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The Wrong Form of Protest
Three senior ministers, three statements, all on message, all in the same forty-eight hours, all addressed to a movement whose members are not in any …
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The Fab and the Island
For two decades, the strategic conversation about Taiwan has been organised around the wrong question. The wrong question is whether China will invade Taiwan, and …
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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 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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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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