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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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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Every Reform, None Enacted!
Every election since 2007 has produced fresh pledges on political accountability. Registers of interest. Codes of conduct. Ethics commissions. Lobbying regulations. Whistleblower protections. Each arrived, …
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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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Refusal Was an Option - What the Mythos System Card Admits
On 7 April, Anthropic announced Claude Mythos Preview: a frontier model that finds software vulnerabilities at a scale no human can match, reproduces known CVEs …
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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 Map That Cannot Be Printed
The phrase "new world order" has been in circulation for so long, in so many registers, by so many speakers with so many different intentions, …
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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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The Work Without a Playbook
The lever work and the moral siren work both still need to be done, because they are the only tools we have for the question …
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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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