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‘Quiet’ weddings: My ceremony took 20 minutes and afterwards I went back to work

In early March of 2020, the world was on the cusp of falling apart. None of us knew how bad it would get but while the rumour of the first lockdown...

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Laura Kennedy

‘For us, Rwanda equals death’: an asylum seeker in England on the UK government’s deportation plan

I came through Italy before I came to England, after a long journey through the Libyan desert and the danger of the Mediterranean Sea. I lived in...

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Alex

Irish universities are running on fumes. Who can blame them for tapping tourists for cash?

No wonder Trinity College wanted to end the student protest. It earns about €17 million a year from the Book of Kells and while this is only about...

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Cliff Taylor

Nobody can answer one simple question about the hate speech Bill

A showdown within Government is looming on the hate crime/hate speech legislation, which has been stalled since this time last year. It probably...

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Pat Leahy

A politics of fairness: Transformation in how we live must come, one way or another

There is a month to go until polling day for the local and European elections, and a general election is looming. Political parties and candidates...

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Michelle Murphy

Bambie Thug’s quiet protest was more effective than any Eurovision boycott

As protests go, it was quieter than Sinéad O’Connor tearing up a picture of the Pope. Ireland’s Eurovision entrant Bambie Thug, who had resisted...

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Jennifer O&x27Connell

Apocalyptic scenes could await us if opioid pandemic hits amid housing crisis

It’s a Mad Max meets Trainspotting scene. The market district of Ottawa, the beautiful capital of the world’s second-largest country, home to the...

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David Mcwilliams

There’s too much death: Prospect of an ‘official’ British history of the Troubles is hurtful to families like mine

It’s exhausting to have intergenerational trauma picked at and pawed over but, unfortunately, as with so much else involving the current Tory...

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Karl Ohanlon

With one stupid video, Apple gave us a neat metaphor for Silicon Valley’s cultural vandalism

Earlier this week, Apple released a short social media video for its new iPad Pro. The video, which is called “Crush”, begins with a series of...

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Mark O&x27Connell

Europe is a beacon for Ukraine, but Ukraine is a necessity for Europe

Ukraine applied to join the European Union four days after Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022. It is unlikely to become a full-fledged member...

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Lara Marlowe

US, UK and Germany have sown the shame of their nations in Gaza’s blood-drenched soil

Television pictures of euphoric Gazans celebrating in the southern city of Rafah last Monday after Hamas announced it was agreeing to a ceasefire...

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Justine Mccarthy

No line can be drawn under the Troubles for grieving families

There will be commemorations this month of the devastating impact and legacy of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings 50 years ago that killed 33...

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Diarmaid Ferriter

Limerick’s mayoral election will either be an embarrassing novelty or a brave new world

Ireland is now a state of disbelief, assaulted by algorithms sent from dark places. Thirty four per cent of us believe “a small, secret group of...

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Gerard Howlin

There’s an obvious solution to the migration row: compatible national identity cards for Ireland and Britain

It is less than 20 years since the British and Irish governments were discussing compatible national identity cards to manage a shared immigration...

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Newton Emerson

Povertyism needs to be taken as seriously as racism and sexism

For the many people living in poverty in Ireland today, life is not simply a struggle to make enough money to survive. It is a daily battle against...

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Jim Clarken And Olivier De Schutter

Jerry Seinfeld is right that TV comedy isn’t funny any more - just not about why

In an interview with the New Yorker, Jerry Seinfeld voiced the shared anxiety of every older comedian. That because of the “extreme left” and...

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Finn Mcredmond

Protesting students will not be shamed, badgered or bribed into silence

From where I live in Harlem, you could hear the screaming of sirens as legions of police descended on Columbia University. The protests against...

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Jack Sheehan

An eight-year-old is leaning on the doorbell, which can only mean one thing. It’s Communion season

It’s a Saturday in early May and our doorbell rings in that way that can only mean that somebody under the age of 10 is leaning their entire weight...

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Rachel Odwyer

Ireland’s capacity to control migration in a policy-driven, sustainable way is broken

I was intrigued by a recent correspondent’s report on BBC World Service that Israeli citizens are applying as asylum seekers for international...

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Michael Mcdowell

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