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Words like ‘humanitarian’ have lost all meaning. Let the images speak instead
The photographs coming in on the wires are unfathomable: children with horribly protruding ribs, hollow eyes, scabbed lips and noses, distended bellies
It’s a relief to know young CMAT was taking notes, saving up her rage at Bertie
Construction workers who ‘vanished’ from the sector after the Celtic Tiger were humans whose way of life was obliterated
Dublin’s EV chargers row is pretentious, self-destructive nonsense
Ireland, I have often thought smugly since my return from California, wouldn’t tolerate such pretentious, self-destructive nonsense as a ban on clothes lines. Enter the row over EV charging arms
House raffles are a big, beautiful, awful sign of the times
Their popularity is a grim statement about a property market in which your best prospect of owning a house may well be to win one in a lottery
The story of Sunny Jacobs was never as straightforward as the media suggested
We should be wary of narratives that present women – especially those accused of crimes – as either the evil witch or Snow White
The Macron shove is not a sign of a very French love story, but something more disturbing
A conspiracy of coyness around the troubling origin story of Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte extended to the incident filmed in Vietnam this week
Ruth Coppinger seems to think free speech applies only to views she likes
Do you believe in free speech? Do you believe in it for views and people you loathe? Unless you answer ‘yes’ to both questions, you don’t believe in it
Is mine the first generation thicker than our parents?
Just as every generation is a little taller than the previous one, each is mentally sharper than their predecessors. Until now
Image of Grace clutching her toy keys is a painfully fleeting glimpse of her humanity
Amid more than 2,000 pages of dense legalese and Beckettian obsession with process, there are few glimpses of Grace and even fewer answers
Sorry if my heart doesn’t bleed for straight white men at work
It will be a bitter pill to swallow if we only decide do something about the parenthood penalty now that men are suffering it too
In today’s America, the Burkes of Castlebar are the establishment
Family of Enoch Burke: The adjective that best describes their fundamentalist views, victim complex and arrogant manner is ‘presidential’
The women I am celebrating on this International Women’s Day are those in a rage
Time to pay tribute to the sisters who are not trailblazers in science, politics or entertainment but are taking no more crap from anyone
Murdoch family empire built on disrespecting people’s privacy is now getting a taste of it themselves
The vanity, political machinations and mind games are eye-popping, but it’s the little details that make you most grateful not to be a Murdoch. Unfortunately, their dysfunction is our dysfunction
Council’s all-out offensive on Airbnb style-lockboxes won’t solve the mess that is Dublin
The boxes attached to bicycle stands are seen as a symbol of overtourism – that sounds like wishful thinking where Dublin is concerned
I recently bought an EV. Here are some of the pros and cons so far
The plan was to continue to drive my 10-year-old diesel until the wheels fell off, and ideally beyond. That day came sooner than I thought
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