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<p>Handala of the Freedom Flotilla Mission leaving Santander, Spain. The ship is visiting European cities in protest against genocide in the Gaza Strip, before trying to break the Israeli siege of the strip and carrying humanitarian aid. <span class="contextmenu emphasis CaptionCredit">Picture: Celestino Arce/NurPhoto/Getty</span>
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Maeve Higgins: The ship that left Cobh to help the fight for Palestinian freedom

Handala is part of the Freedom Flotilla, a project of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition made up of civil society organisations and grassroots groups across the globe who use non-violent tactics to physically challenge Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza

<p> Colin Barrett and Kevin Barry were interviewed by author and activist Maeve Higgins at the West Cork Literary Festival's Bantry event. Picture: Karlis Dzjamko</p>

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Review: Kevin Barry and Colin Barrett light up Bantry

<p>'I told the people gathered there that American doctors were reporting from Gaza that Israeli soldiers were shooting small children in the head.' 'Irish Examiner' contributor Maeve Higgins is led away by police after speaking out at an event in a New York church. </p>

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Irish Examiner view: The world is watching the Middle East — and our response to events there

Maeve Higgins: The crowd called the police to drag me off the stage

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Maeve Higgins: The crowd called the police to drag me off the stage

In pictures: Authors and audiences at West Cork Literary Festival in Bantry

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In pictures: Authors and audiences at West Cork Literary Festival in Bantry

Maeve Higgins: Migration is a much messier story than Biden likes to portray

Maeve Higgins: Celebrating the sheer silliness of our otherwise banal existence

Maeve Higgins: Celebrating the sheer silliness of our otherwise banal existence

I have been reminded how funny it can be to commit yourself to deliberately small and pointless actions

Sat, 01 Apr, 2023

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Maeve Higgins: US saves the banks while the rest of society is left to rot

Our biggest crisis is global warming, yet we do not tackle it with any of the urgency as bailing out the banks

Sat, 18 Mar, 2023

Maeve Higgins: For a small fish in a big pond, 'The Quiet Girl' has made quite a splash

Maeve Higgins: For a small fish in a big pond, 'The Quiet Girl' has made quite a splash

Critics cannot praise the Irish film highly enough — but how will it fare at the Oscars?

Sun, 12 Mar, 2023

Rev. Al Sharpton Holds Funeral For Tyre Nichols In Memphis

Maeve Higgins: Is Kamala Harris’ VP role a route to the top or a poisoned chalice?

Presence of a US vice president at the funeral of an unarmed black man shot dead by police speaks volumes about her humanity and understanding — but her future role in politics is unclear

Sun, 05 Mar, 2023

Maeve Higgins: Grateful to have sanctuary in US but her heart still beats for Ukraine

Maeve Higgins: Grateful to have sanctuary in US but her heart still beats for Ukraine

‘IT WAS one day, just a few seconds, on February 24, when President Zelenskyy said a war would change all our lives. ” Liudmyla Holovko recalls the fateful day one year ago when Russia invaded Ukraine.

Sat, 25 Feb, 2023

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S Maeve Higgins: I’m a writer and comedian. So, ChatGPT, will you replace me?

Billions are being invested in generative artificial intelligence. But what are its jokes like?

Sat, 18 Feb, 2023

Joe Biden,Kamala Harris,Kevin McCarthy

Maeve Higgins: Contradictions of capitalism mean that workers must stay weak

When it comes to the US economy, multiple facts are true at once. Those facts often contradict each other. The unemployment rate can be at a record low like it is now, but workers can still lose their jobs any day.

Sun, 12 Feb, 2023

Maeve Higgins: Time out of place — an emigrant’s story of having a foot in both lands

Maeve Higgins: Time out of place — an emigrant’s story of having a foot in both lands

Maeve Higgins talks to writer Carmel McMahon's about the influences that informed her memoir 'In Ordinary Time'

Sun, 05 Feb, 2023

Maeve Higgins: Migration is being punished, even as asylum is promised

Maeve Higgins: Migration is being punished, even as asylum is promised

Migrants and humanitarians who help them — including Seán Binder who is on trial in Lesbos — are being criminalised while states get away with breaching international law

Sat, 21 Jan, 2023

Maeve Higgins: Americans ask how real Banshees is, I say it was set long ago — the 1980s

Maeve Higgins: Americans ask how real Banshees is, I say it was set long ago — the 1980s

It was inevitable that I would see The Banshees of Inisherin. You will see it too. I resisted for as long as possible, which was almost three months. Three months isn’t that long, I know.

Sun, 15 Jan, 2023

Adorable little girls having fun in airport sitting on suitcase

Maeve Higgins: Best ways to stay grounded if you need to take flight

The first and most obvious rule about flying is not to.

Sun, 08 Jan, 2023

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Maeve Higgins: Learning moments from encounters with experts while writing my column

EVERY time I write this column, I learn a ton of new stuff, and that’s my favourite thing about being a writer. Writing is a way to ask questions, however basic or complex, to think things through and eventually form an opinion of your own.

Sun, 01 Jan, 2023

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Maeve Higgins: Children the victims in birthplace of Jesus Christ

Like the best old Hollywood actresses, trying to find out what year Jesus Christ was born is next to impossible. But scholars and historians have largely agreed upon the place he was born in — Bethlehem, in Palestine.

Sat, 24 Dec, 2022

Maeve Higgins: Broad strokes are unhelpful when the stakes are so high in Iran

Maeve Higgins: Broad strokes are unhelpful when the stakes are so high in Iran

Last week, an Iranian government spokesman announced that the morality police had been abolished. However, laws about how women must dress remain the same as before the protests over the death of Mahsa (Jina) Amini and Iranians know change does not always happen quickly

Sat, 17 Dec, 2022

Maeve Higgins: Fear and anger as China struggles to control virus and growing dissent

Maeve Higgins: Fear and anger as China struggles to control virus and growing dissent

As the third anniversary of the first recorded death from Covid-19 in Wuhan approaches, the Chinese government is still struggling to control both the virus and their population of 1. 4bn people.

Sat, 10 Dec, 2022

S Maeve Higgins: I’ve had the last laugh as I shut Twitter’s door on my way out

I could ask questions, make comments, promote my work, connect to people and generally exercise my free speech. That felt valuable to me. But that feeling is gone now.

Sat, 03 Dec, 2022

Maeve Higgins: Those who make life bearable and beautiful deserve our Thanksgiving

Maeve Higgins: Those who make life bearable and beautiful deserve our Thanksgiving

We should be thankful to anyone who cares for our children, all of our children, throughout the world, in all the ways they need to be cared for

Sat, 26 Nov, 2022

George Floyd Protests And Riots In Chicago

S Maeve Higgins: Two years since George Floyd’s murder, and police keep killing people

LAST week in this paper, I wrote about something that happened on a New York street. One man was chasing another man, the latter was screaming and seemed very frightened, and the former had what looked like a gun in his pocket.

Sat, 19 Nov, 2022

Maeve Higgins: You need guts to live in a city like New York

Maeve Higgins: You need guts to live in a city like New York

Why would we choose to live somewhere it takes guts to live in, when life is already tough enough?

Sat, 12 Nov, 2022

Joe Biden

Maeve Higgins: As US gets ready to vote, the stakes have never felt higher

On Tuesday, US voters are deciding who to represent them in The Senate, The House of Representatives, and dozens of State governorships are on the ballot too.

Sat, 05 Nov, 2022

Deers

Maeve Higgins: Ancient Irish understood interconnectivity of life and land

MEDIEVAL Ireland sounds so cool to me. I have to adjust my mind to understand how, back in the 7th, 8th, and 9th centuries, the island was blanketed in forests, which were home to wolves, deer, and wild boars.

Sat, 29 Oct, 2022

Just Stop Oil protest

Maeve Higgins: Just Stop Oil is about a choice — profit for a few or survival for all

Activist: 'The real question is why millions aren’t in civil resistance rather than why I am'

Sat, 22 Oct, 2022

Maeve Higgins: Brave Iranian protestors must feel they have nothing to lose

Maeve Higgins: Brave Iranian protestors must feel they have nothing to lose

At Tehran University in 1979, students hung a banner in Farsi that translates as "the measure of a free society is the measure of women's freedom in that society. " If that is true, and I think it is, then 43 years later, no Iranians are free.

Sat, 01 Oct, 2022

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Maeve Higgins: Climate crisis puts Ireland in a particularly precarious position

We need to prepare for a more extreme climate system - and put the solutions in place

Sat, 24 Sep, 2022

Maeve Higgins: Americans just can't get enough of monarchy malarkey

Maeve Higgins: Americans just can't get enough of monarchy malarkey

TV news networks in the United States have committed enormous resources to covering the death of Queen Elizabeth, an event that has no material impact on anyone's lives there — and people are watching.

Sat, 17 Sep, 2022

Student loans

Maeve Higgins: We are more than money and can’t be reduced to transactions

Millions of young people in the US have been saddled with massive debt before even starting out

Sun, 04 Sep, 2022

Maeve Higgins: 'I have three clients on death row right now, all put there by junk science'

Maeve Higgins: 'I have three clients on death row right now, all put there by junk science'

A new book by a former public defender tells the story of some of the US's wrongful executions, as well as the tawdry ascent and eventual take down of bogus ‘sciences’ like bite marks and blood spatter analysis which have now been thoroughly debunked

Sun, 14 Aug, 2022

Maeve Higgins: Why is a Saudi prince being fawned over as journalists die?

Maeve Higgins: Why is a Saudi prince being fawned over as journalists die?

What does it mean when a state murders a journalist, and other states accept this and move along with the business of the day?

Sun, 07 Aug, 2022

Maeve Higgins: Farming can be the solution, not the problem it is usually seen as

Maeve Higgins: Farming can be the solution, not the problem it is usually seen as

Farming using a syntropic agroforestry system can regenerate the landscape while capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it in the land

Sun, 31 Jul, 2022

Maeve Higgins: Young activist willing to go to jail in her fight to save the planet

Maeve Higgins: Young activist willing to go to jail in her fight to save the planet

'What the Government is doing now is killing people with its inaction, and challenging that is right, and it is just. And if that means getting arrested, that’s neither a good or a bad thing'

Sat, 23 Jul, 2022

Thermometer Sun 40 Degres. Hot summer day. High Summer temperatures

Maeve Higgins: Amid the heat, we need to find the elusive cloud for a silver lining

Fear is not always a bad thing — let's use our eco-anxiety to propel us into action

Sat, 16 Jul, 2022

Maeve Higgins: We must offer migrants and asylum seekers legal and secure routes to safety

Maeve Higgins: We must offer migrants and asylum seekers legal and secure routes to safety

Desperate people are risking their lives to flee poverty and violence because migration laws make it impossible for them to get there safely

Sat, 09 Jul, 2022

Rally Held In Support Of Transgender Community

Maeve Higgins: Transness points to exciting future but the backlash has been vile

Transgender people may be the catalyst for cisgender people starting to look beyond the physical and explore the interior, the community, and the elements that make us feel and think, places where transness points to a beautiful and exciting future, writes Maeve Higgins

Fri, 24 Jun, 2022

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Maeve Higgins: Why are people like Mick Mulvaney rewarded for failing in politics?

Playing up your Irishness while taking food from the mouths of hungry people isn't a good look for any multimillionaire's son

Sun, 10 Apr, 2022

94th Academy Awards - Show

Maeve Higgins: Will Smith's slap was nothing compared to the big bang of comment it spawned

Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Academy Awards has generated a ridiculous, energy-sapping cascade of hot takes

Sat, 02 Apr, 2022

"South Side" Season 2 Screening

Maeve Higgins: ‘South Side’ laughs help quell my fury with comedy shows

The rage I feel when comedy writers decide against going for laughs and reach for the the weighted blanket that is ‘dramedy’ has been somewhat lifted by the big-hearted, knee-slapping, belly laugh of a sitcom set in the southside of Chicago

Sat, 19 Mar, 2022

Maeve Higgins: New Yorkers unite to protest invasion of Ukraine

Maeve Higgins: New Yorkers unite to protest invasion of Ukraine

One of the world's most diverse cities stands in solidarity with Ukrainian-Americans over the continuing attack by Russia

Tue, 01 Mar, 2022

Sculpture By Artist Kehinde Wiley Titled "Rumors Of War" Unveiled In Times Square

Maeve Higgins: Portraits of courage in Ireland and America

Richmond, Virginia and Dublin in Ireland: How two sculptures, thousands of miles apart, unite to reimagine something terrible into a thing of great beauty and power

Sat, 12 Feb, 2022

New York City Arts Venues Reopen At 33% Capacity

Maeve Higgins: Comedians are stumbling their way back to funny

Stand-up is immediate in the way few other crafts manage to be — so we can't just ignore Covid, writes Maeve Higgins.

Sat, 09 Oct, 2021

Brit Awards 2020 - Press Room - London

Maeve Higgins: Resistance to female views proves their power

The mighty resistance to allowing women to speak, the resistance that shows up in shame, in scrutiny, in dismissal is evidence the people doing so are trying to destroy something they fear

Sat, 14 Aug, 2021

On Independence Day, Maeve Higgins reflects on a troubled America, the country she calls home

On Independence Day, Maeve Higgins reflects on a troubled America, the country she calls home

Comedian, actress and writer Maeve Higgins moved to New York six years ago. On Independence Day, as the country battles the coronavirus pandemic and nationwide protests, she reflects on the country she has made her home.

Sat, 04 Jul, 2020

Alison O'Connor: Chilled Robinson offers an urgent message on climate change crisis

Alison O'Connor: Chilled Robinson offers an urgent message on climate change crisis

Mary Robinson spoke of the movement to divest from fossil fuels and how the wealthy fossil fuel industry had learnt ‘a lot of bad tricks’, writes Alison O'Connor.

Fri, 27 Dec, 2019

Our contributor Esther McCarthy selects her entertainment highlights of the year

Our contributor Esther McCarthy selects her entertainment highlights of the year

It’s been an iffy year for movies, but the year has been bookended by some true diamonds in the rough:

Sun, 22 Dec, 2019

Five 'cultural' things to do in the week ahead

Five 'cultural' things to do in the week ahead

Arts editor, Des O'Driscoll, sets out five things to do in the world of arts and culture for the week ending 15/09/19.

Sun, 08 Sep, 2019