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Garret FitzGerald had flaws but he also had something novel: a vision for Ireland

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Big tech is profiting from deepfake videos of celebrities selling face cream and Bitcoin

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We don't need more prison spaces – we need more alternatives to prison

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Lucy Letby case should be a warning to other maternity hospitals

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It's time to revisit Tony Ryan's idea for an international airport at Baldonnel

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DUP's crackdown on welfare fraud in Northern Ireland should be just a first step

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If Keir Starmer goes, Britain's reputation as a banana republic will be secured

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Ireland has a lot of skin in the game of international politics

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White House shamrock ceremony now worth about as much as a Melania meme coin

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Epstein files are where the grammar of wealth meets the vocabulary of the brothel

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Do we need more judges to speed up the justice system or is the problem too many lawyers?

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Irish evictions have reached a level similar to the 1850s

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A section cut from Trump's National Security Strategy has profound implications for the EU

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The Leaving Cert points race crushes open-ended dialogue

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Ireland faces a more far-reaching sex abuse scandal than the Epstein files

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'We must delete the humans,' the AI bot told his internet pals. But let's not panic yet

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Proposed 'investor courts' will put corporate interests ahead of public ones

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Leave Prince Albert where he is

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Reading habits in changing times

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Age limits and social media

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Too many people with mental health issues end up in prison

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Rough diamonds: Frank McNally on a geometric oddity unique to Ulster (and Pennsylvania)

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Taoiseach's decision to name 'Stakeknife' ends a long-running charade

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Sinn Féin has placed itself squarely alongside Europe's extremist fringe

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Rhetoric on housing crisis not matched by U-turn on short-term lets

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GDP is looking increasingly outdated as the key measures of national welfare

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Ireland doesn't learn from infrastructure failures. We repeat them

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Coolglass wind-farm ruling puts every public servant in Ireland on notice

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I am a recovering restaurant critic and here's why the Michelin hullabaloo makes me feel queasy

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We risk over-diagnosing anxiety. There's another way to look at it

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Archbishop John McDowell: Ireland must not succumb to the racism gripping the US

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Powerful men are being damaged by the Epstein files. But not Trump's friends

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New rent rules will make the market even more dysfunctional

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Ireland's justice system is operating with too many data blind spots

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Should Ireland introduce a legal 'duty of care' for rainwater?

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Have we a right to know where company directors live? A journalist and a lawyer debate

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Churches in Ireland are taking steps to be better stewards of what is painful and broken

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Blaming Met Éireann for floods is wrong. Who rezoned the floodplains?

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Ireland's debate about e-scooters and scramblers is unmoored from reality

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'My comrades are struggling and freezing and dying.' Exhaustion is sapping Ukraine's spirit

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No, objecting to the enormous wealth of billionaires is not begrudgery

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Ireland's reluctance to speak out against Trump's Board of Peace is shameful

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Storm Chandra commuter chaos is made far worse by a dysfunctional transport system

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Ursula von der Leyen: Europe is not retreating behind tariff walls, but diversifying

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Could Ireland be the connecting point for a subsea super-cable linking Europe and Canada?

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One man whose family were on Schindler's list chatted with the son of an SS officer

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