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Trump for President: Who’s laughing?

ANYONE old enough to remember as far back as the 1960s may recall a weekly comedy show called Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-in. It was an American sketch comedy TV programme that ran from 1968 until 1973 and was hosted by Dan Rowan and Dick Martin.

Thu, 03 Mar, 2016

Gardaí on notice: Paramilitary funeral affront

THE deliberate and provocative display of paramilitarism at the September 2012 funeral of the gangster and protection racket thug Alan Ryan was a carefully orchestrated affront to this democracy. 

Wed, 02 Mar, 2016

Water as a political football: Time to grow up and pay up

WATER charges provoked one of the biggest protest movements of recent decades. 

Wed, 02 Mar, 2016

Europe’s migrant crisis: Targets must be far more ambitious

WHILE our attention was briefly diverted the world moved on apace taking little enough notice of our political excitements. It has been reported that the death of Frank Kelly — Fr Jack, late of Craggy Island parish — got more coverage in British media than the great, by our standrds anyway, election upheavals so animating our public discourse. A sobering reality check about our place in the world indeed.

Wed, 02 Mar, 2016

Forming the next government: Accepting real change always hard

FOR the next while those who would, and those who could but won’t, help form the next government need to be dispassionately objective and far more patient than they naturally are.

Tue, 01 Mar, 2016

New food standards: Protect and don’t apologise

NEW standards controlling how gambling, e-cigarettes, and food are advertised and promoted, especially food advertisements aimed at children, come into force today.

Tue, 01 Mar, 2016

It’s time for a new kind of coalition - The country has decided

ANYONE who suggested last week that Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael would be, more or less, on equal terms after most votes had been counted would have been dismissed as delusional. 

Mon, 29 Feb, 2016

A golden opportunity - Ireland goes to the Oscars

PRESENCE, profile, facetime, peer recognition, empathy, and internationally recognised awards all help to make an entity as successful as it might be. This week an unprecedented seven nominations with Irish connections run the Oscars’ gauntlet in Los Angles.

Mon, 29 Feb, 2016

Rugby should refocus on its core values

THIS afternoon tens of thousands of cheery Irish people wearing green wigs will invade Twickenham for what has long been one of the cherished centrepieces of a year’s sports calender.

Sat, 27 Feb, 2016

Terrorists surrender their privacy rights

TWO evolving issues come together in the row between Apple and the FBI. The FBI has secured a court order directing Apple to unlock an iPhone used by terrorists who killed 14 people in the December attack in California.

Sat, 27 Feb, 2016

Trump for President: Who’s laughing?

Gardaí on notice: Paramilitary funeral affront

Water as a political football: Time to grow up and pay up

Europe’s migrant crisis: Targets must be far more ambitious

Forming the next government: Accepting real change always hard

New food standards: Protect and don’t apologise

It’s time for a new kind of coalition - The country has decided

A golden opportunity - Ireland goes to the Oscars

Rugby should refocus on its core values

Terrorists surrender their privacy rights

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