Sage Bertie Ahern, wry Joe Duffy and stoned-sounding Irish Maga fan: Radio reactions to Trump’s US election win
Radio: Ciara Kelly hears differing takes on Trump victory while Kieran Cuddihy meets jubilant Maga fans in New York
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Baillie Gifford fund being held to an impossible standard on Israel and oil
The active fund giant has only 2% per cent of client money invested in companies with business related to fossil fuels, well below market average
VV Ganeshananthan and Naomi Klein win Women’s prizes for fiction and non-fiction
Brotherless Night wins Fiction Prize; Doppelganger wins Non-Fiction Prize, both worth £30,000
Climate activists turn the screw on literary festivals
The investment firm has met the ire of literary activists amid accusations of greenwashing
Leo Varadkar needs better cultural reference points than Benefits Street
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This bold, brave and expertly researched book diagnoses the big problems and offers practical, considered solutions for them
Bewilderment by Richard Powers: A call to arms for empathy and action
Book review: Booker shortlisted novel is a damning assessment of the state of the world
Revenge porn, sextortion and intimate terrorism: the past year has unleashed a war on women
It’s time to fight back against a system that allows women to be sacrificed, erased and violated
Moral clarity of young people on climate crisis is a beacon for society
Noteworthy harmony between some of the oldest sources of wisdom in our society and some of the youngest
Restarting Ireland: When and how will we ‘get back to normal’?
Optimists say July. Others September. We will return – gradually – to a much changed world
Jane Fonda, aged 81, doing weekly jail time in climate protest
Actor and friends leading Fire Drill Friday protesters on Capitol Hill
Keira Knightley: ‘I got so freaked by social media, I turned it off after about five seconds’
The actor on her new film, in which she plays a whistleblower who tried to stop the Iraq War
Naomi Klein: ‘It was hard to feel like climate change was urgent’
The author argues for a radical, anti-capitalist green new deal solution to climate challenge
Travellers and people with disabilities must use their vote for change
The upcoming local and European elections are powerful platforms for the marginalised to make their voices heard
Donald White House’s genius vision of a world without surnames
Laura Slattery: Is ‘Tim Apple’ a character from the Garden Gang or a satirical novel?
100 books by women you have to read
Iris Murdoch, Edna O’Brien, Marian Keyes and Eimear McBride all appear on the list
Everything Must Go review: Jenny Fran Davis’s millennial meat market
An inventive debut about the conflicting impulses of smart millennial women
Russell Brand’s new podcast gets under the skin
Articulate comedian serves up an interesting mixture of content
Al Gore interview: ‘We’ll show you, Donald Trump’
The Nobel-prizewinning, vegan politician on America’s inconvenient president
Naomi Klein: ‘Irish leaders drank the Kool Aid’
The writer and activist on Trump, Brexit and the risks in Ireland’s economic policies
Let us stop repeating the lie that Irish people do not protest
The legacy of Apollo House is that the public now knows change can occur
Una Mullally: US on edge of something awful – and may take Ireland with it
What happens when someone in your family starts going out with a psychopath?
Can we save jobs as we mind the planet?
Environmental campaigners and trade unions have joined forces to try to ensure that workers in fossil-fuel industries aren’t forgotten about in the move to a low-carbon society
Naomi Klein argues climate change is a battle between capitalism and the planet
Paul Gillespie: ‘These are big, bold and challenging ideas with a significant and informed following in Ireland’
Una Mullally: Nothing to admire in Healy-Rae’s bluster on climate change
TD abandoning interests of very people he claims (repeatedly) to be representing
What’s hot and what’s not this week?
We’re enjoying watching the progress of the Joan Didion documentary on instagram but not so keen on ant invasions
Worldview: Cleavage over global warming will grow in intensity
Radical critics see real opportunities for protests and social movement action against governments and fossil fuel industries
COP21: UN climate chief says swift responses required
Oxfam director warns agreement to limit warming to 2.7 degrees could not be called a success
Breda O’Brien: Pope’s views on environment echo tradition of social teaching
Francis builds on ‘human ecology’ to ask how to develop an ‘integral ecology’
‘Surprising alliance’: Naomi Klein praises Pope Francis
‘Secular, Jewish feminist’ impressed by courage of pontiff’s green encyclical
Some optimism for 2015 is justified given emerging consensus on climate change
Binding target dates up to 2050 needed in overdue Irish legislation
Naomi Klein on climate change: ‘This is our last chance’
When it comes to climate change, capitalism is the problem, says Canadian author and activist Naomi Klein
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