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What happens when America's borders reopen again? Our travel expert gets the lowdown
What happens when America's borders reopen again? Our travel expert gets the lowdown
Happy 4th of July! The U.S.A. is waking up this morning to its annual star-spangled birthday, but as national celebrations go, you can expect a little less sparkle in the fireworks this summer. 2020 has been a torrid time for the nation; a pandemic, a racial awakening
 a Trump presidency.

Thu, 02 Jul, 2020

Terry Prone: Dissident members of US Republican party undermine Donald Trump's campaign
Terry Prone: Dissident members of US Republican party undermine Donald Trump's campaign
The Lincoln Project is made up of smart Republicans who want Trump gone before he does any more damage to the GOP

Mon, 29 Jun, 2020

Damien Enright: 'Are they mean to people?' Donald Trump asked about badgers
Damien Enright: 'Are they mean to people?' Donald Trump asked about badgers
He asked his Chief of Staff if he could show him some pictures of badgers, seeming to be unaware of the potential of his mobile phone.

Sun, 28 Jun, 2020

Irish Examiner view: Trump offers a pertinent warning
Irish Examiner view: Trump offers a pertinent warning
Language has a flexibility that can, even if with glaring implausibility, present events in a way that serves causes other than probity or the common good.

Mon, 22 Jun, 2020

Suzanne Harrington: JK Rowling, stop explaining, start listening
Suzanne Harrington: JK Rowling, stop explaining, start listening
I love a slogan t-shirt. You can walk around with what you want to say emblazoned across yourself, without ever having to open your mouth.

Mon, 22 Jun, 2020

Alison O'Connor: Government deal not yet in the bag, for many reasons
Alison O'Connor: Government deal not yet in the bag, for many reasons
In the Dublin suburb of Phibsboro there is a cafe, which, on the basis of its website, looks to be really charming. Bang Bang is a greengrocer and deli with “top coffee”.

Fri, 19 Jun, 2020

James Oliphant, Chris Kahn and Jeff Mason: Trump further disconnected from US electorate
James Oliphant, Chris Kahn and Jeff Mason: Trump further disconnected from US electorate
The temporary fences that separated protesters from the White House have come down. But its occupant, Donald Trump, appears to be more isolated than ever.

Thu, 18 Jun, 2020

Noah Feldman: Trump lawsuit against John Bolton is beyond frivolous
Noah Feldman: Trump lawsuit against John Bolton is beyond frivolous
The government is resorting to bizarre legal ploys to stop publication of the former official’s book.

Thu, 18 Jun, 2020

Carl Bildt: a new geopolitical arena for the EU
Carl Bildt: a new geopolitical arena for the EU
The EU's future relationship with China presents both a challenge and an opportunity, writes Carl Bildt

Wed, 17 Jun, 2020

Irish Examiner view: Social media has become a conduit for dishonesty and hate
Irish Examiner view: Social media has become a conduit for dishonesty and hate
Two weeks ago, when Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg told US President Donald Trump that he could say whatever he liked on the platform, Mr Zuckerberg assumed a role and power utterly inamicable to democracy.

Wed, 17 Jun, 2020

US walks a tightrope under Trump Administration after George Floyd's death
US walks a tightrope under Trump Administration after George Floyd's death
President Donald Trump’s inability to cope with the pandemic has so far led to more than 112,000 deaths, one of the world’s highest per capita mortality rates for Covid-19, with the coronavirus still spreading to areas not previously hit.

Thu, 11 Jun, 2020

Sarah N Lynch: Little evidence of antifa links to arrested men in US protests
Sarah N Lynch: Little evidence of antifa links to arrested men in US protests
Sarah N Lynch analyses the profiles of the arrested protestors during the recent demonstrations sweeping America and finds few obvious connections to antifa or other left-wing groups.

Wed, 10 Jun, 2020

Richard Hogan: Moral leadership needed if we are to thrive again
Richard Hogan: Moral leadership needed if we are to thrive again
They say a week is a long time in politics. Well, in the Trump administration a day seems like a year.

Wed, 10 Jun, 2020

Irish Examiner View: What awaits next United States leader?
Irish Examiner View: What awaits next United States leader?
The in-tray awaiting the next US president will be the most toxic and challenging in that great country’s peacetime history.

Mon, 08 Jun, 2020

Letters to the Editor: Time to protect democracy
Letters to the Editor: Time to protect democracy
One has to wonder what was going through the minds of Donald Trump’s entourage as he led them towards St John’s Episcopal Church for his obscene piece of contrived propaganda, having just set riot police to violently attack peaceful protestors nearby.

Mon, 08 Jun, 2020

Suzanne Harrington: Ireland has its own problems with racism
Suzanne Harrington: Ireland has its own problems with racism
Let’s talk about racism. As a white person - even as the mother of two brown people - I am not and never will be qualified to talk about racism, so let’s hear from those who are.

Sun, 07 Jun, 2020

Ian Buruma: Age-old fears could fuel Trump election victory
Ian Buruma: Age-old fears could fuel Trump election victory
US President Donald Trump's crass and incendiary words in response to the protests sweeping major cities horrified many Americans. But will age-old racial prejudices, often unspoken, or even acknowledged, still make them vote for the false security of a coarse white bully?

Sun, 07 Jun, 2020

Larry Ryan: It might be a better world, a Premier League stripped of some of the hysteria
Larry Ryan: It might be a better world, a Premier League stripped of some of the hysteria
If GAA lads turned to Normal People in lockdown, the soccer crowd were better off with Pure Mule.

Sat, 06 Jun, 2020

Irish Examiner View: Cool heads needed now as American turmoil continues
Irish Examiner View: Cool heads needed now as American turmoil continues
Is it too much to hope at the end of America’s week of rage that cool heads - in the White House and on the streets - will prevail? The coming weekend will offer time for reflection and perhaps the opportunity for the banner-wavers and a Bible-brandishing president to reflect on their country’s history and get their facts right before devising new mantras for the media and, in some cities, the mo

Fri, 05 Jun, 2020

Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu slams West Bank settlers for anti-Trump remarks
Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu slams West Bank settlers for anti-Trump remarks
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has harshly criticised Jewish West Bank settler leaders for disparaging President Donald Trump over what they perceive to be his less than adequate plan allowing Israel to annex parts of the West Bank.

Thu, 04 Jun, 2020

Snapchat to stop ‘promoting’ Trump’s account
Snapchat to stop ‘promoting’ Trump’s account
Last week, Twitter placed fact-check warnings on two Trump tweets that called mail-in ballots “fraudulent” and predicted problems with the November elections.

Wed, 03 Jun, 2020

Irish Examiner View: Alliance in doubt
Irish Examiner View: Alliance in doubt
The G7 summit meeting of world leaders in Quebec two years ago was a diplomatic car crash.

Wed, 03 Jun, 2020

Gerard Howlin: A polarising Trump governs as Nero as a divided America burns
Gerard Howlin: A polarising Trump governs as Nero as a divided America burns
US President Donald Trump is perfecting a politics of division which has existed in America for decades, writes Gerard Howlin

Wed, 03 Jun, 2020

Irish Examiner View: Riots in the US are Trump’s back door route to re-election
Irish Examiner View: Riots in the US are Trump’s back door route to re-election
They roll around every four years, as they’ve been doing since 1788, but one fundamental feature of presidential elections in the US is almost always forgotten by voters who, when they cast their vote for their preferred candidate, think their mark will count as much as the next voter’s, and that the prize will go to the contender who wins the plurality in the nationwide ballot.

Mon, 01 Jun, 2020

Letter to the Editor: Appoint Cathal Berry as Minister for Defence
Letter to the Editor: Appoint Cathal Berry as Minister for Defence
As a former classmate and colleague of Dorcha Lee, I subscribe fully to the issues he raised concerning the abysmal state of the Defence Forces of this country — ‘Call to halt depletion of Defence Forces‘ (Irish Examiner, May 27). It gladdened me to also read the editorial comment of this newspaper.

Fri, 29 May, 2020

Irish Examiner view: Twitter bites back on Trump’s baseless rantings
Irish Examiner view: Twitter bites back on Trump’s baseless rantings
On Tuesday, he attempted the character assassination of TV host Joe Scarborough by spreading the false rumour that he had murdered an aide.

Thu, 28 May, 2020

Gerard Howlin: Careless Cummings could yet see Tories become 'they' instead of 'us'
Gerard Howlin: Careless Cummings could yet see Tories become 'they' instead of 'us'
Dominic Cummings matters not for what he did, but for what he is. He is ultimately the creature — not the creator — of his prime minister, writes Gerard Howlin.

Wed, 27 May, 2020

Irish Examiner View: A body blow for democracy
Irish Examiner View: A body blow for democracy
There has been a profound change in the character, plausibility, and security of British democracy. It is not possible to see any positives in that evolution.

Tue, 26 May, 2020

Royal visit to New Zealand - Day Six
Suzanne Harrington: A world run by women would defeat the coronavirus
In relation to the coronavirus - because at the moment everything is - why are countries led by women having better outcomes?

Sun, 24 May, 2020

Michael Clifford: Dazed and confused in the Trump world
Michael Clifford: Dazed and confused in the Trump world
It’s one thing to have a sociopathic buffoon running the most powerful country in the world, but quite another when everybody around him pretends that he is, as he would have it himself, a very stable genius, writes Michael Clifford

Fri, 22 May, 2020

Irish Examiner View: Covid-19 - The fine lines between science and guesswork
Irish Examiner View: Covid-19 - The fine lines between science and guesswork
As we’re nowhere near being out of the woods, it’s far too early for even the first rough drafts of the miserable history of the Codiv-19 disaster.

Fri, 22 May, 2020

US President Trump is spinning fable on 'Obamagate' he can’t get away with
US President Trump is spinning fable on 'Obamagate' he can’t get away with
A distinctive trait of Trump’s presidency has been his systematic effort to dismantle the guard rails that are intended to limit executive power.

Thu, 21 May, 2020

Lucinda Williams on a new album, losing John Prine, and hanging out with Shane MacGowan
Lucinda Williams on a new album, losing John Prine, and hanging out with Shane MacGowan
Last year Lucinda Williams took her much loved alt-country classic Car Wheels On A Gravel Road on tour for a 20th anniversary run.

Tue, 19 May, 2020

Fergus Finlay: Trump to force Biden on defensive with strategy of scattershot lies
Fergus Finlay: Trump to force Biden on defensive with strategy of scattershot lies
There's an internet adage called Godwin’s law.

Tue, 19 May, 2020

McIlroy tonic as club golfers set to swing back into action
McIlroy tonic as club golfers set to swing back into action
Like Christmas Eve with an early gift from Rory McIlroy, golfers frustrated by eight weeks in lockdown were given the perfect bedtime story to stoke their excitement before today’s great reopening of Irish courses.

Mon, 18 May, 2020

Coronavirus: 170 deaths in Britain, New York Governor threatens business closures and Bundesliga returns
Coronavirus: 170 deaths in Britain, New York Governor threatens business closures and Bundesliga returns
Around the world, countries continue their own battles with the Covid-19 pandemic some with more success relative to others.

Sun, 17 May, 2020

GAA club plan in doubt as less than 58% of players will return in 2020
GAA club plan in doubt as less than 58% of players will return in 2020
The GAA’s plans to resume Gaelic games activity via the clubs has been thrown into doubt by a survey revealing less than 58% of players are willing to return to training and games this year.

Tue, 12 May, 2020

Alison O’Connor: Trump’s downplaying of Covid-19 is a betrayal of the American people
Alison O’Connor: Trump’s downplaying of Covid-19 is a betrayal of the American people
In a few weeks’ time, I was due to be on a much anticipated trip to the US. It was to be a highlight of the 2020 calendar, writes Alison O'Connor

Fri, 08 May, 2020

The Shape I'm In: Senator, David Norris
The Shape I'm In: Senator, David Norris
David Norris is not about to leave his funeral to chance or indeed to anyone else to orgainse. He has planned every detail, right down to the eulogy, which he will deliver himself — it’s already recorded.

Thu, 07 May, 2020

The Irish Examiner View: ECB conflict a blow to the Eurozone
The Irish Examiner View: ECB conflict a blow to the Eurozone
Germany's constitutional court has given the European Central Bank three months to justify bond purchases under its stimulus programme or lose the Bundesbank as a participant, threatening the scheme and the euro's future.

Thu, 07 May, 2020

Phil Hogan: 'American companies don't locate in Ireland just for the fact that they love Ireland'
Phil Hogan: 'American companies don't locate in Ireland just for the fact that they love Ireland'
Ireland is the third-largest exporter of pharmaceuticals in the world, while the top 10 drugs companies have operations here.

Wed, 06 May, 2020

Irish Examiner View: Pharma exports 31% of Irish total - Trump’s plan would ruin our economy
Irish Examiner View: Pharma exports 31% of Irish total - Trump’s plan would ruin our economy
Every visit to Ireland by every American president was a melodrama in mutually-agreed exploitation.

Tue, 05 May, 2020

Fergus Finlay: The people will have the final word on pandemic
Fergus Finlay: The people will have the final word on pandemic
We were content to obey instructions, now we need a much more grown up conversation, writes Fergus Finlay

Tue, 05 May, 2020

Donald Trump puts 40k pharma jobs in election focus
Donald Trump puts 40k pharma jobs in election focus
Doubts about the future of up to 40,000 jobs in the US pharma giants in Ireland — of which a large share are based in the Cork region — will linger should Donald Trump secure re-election after the US president again signalled out Ireland, a leading economist has said.

Tue, 05 May, 2020

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