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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...
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...
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...
A showdown within Government is looming on the hate crime/hate speech legislation, which has been stalled since this time last year. It probably...
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...
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...
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...
It’s exhausting to have intergenerational trauma picked at and pawed over but, unfortunately, as with so much else involving the current Tory...
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...
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...
Television pictures of euphoric Gazans celebrating in the southern city of Rafah last Monday after Hamas announced it was agreeing to a ceasefire...
There will be commemorations this month of the devastating impact and legacy of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings 50 years ago that killed 33...
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...
It is less than 20 years since the British and Irish governments were discussing compatible national identity cards to manage a shared immigration...
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...
In an interview with the New Yorker, Jerry Seinfeld voiced the shared anxiety of every older comedian. That because of the “extreme left” and...
From where I live in Harlem, you could hear the screaming of sirens as legions of police descended on Columbia University. The protests against...
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...
I was intrigued by a recent correspondent’s report on BBC World Service that Israeli citizens are applying as asylum seekers for international...