The Springhill families waited more than half a century for what should never have required an inquest to say: that their dead were not lawful targets, not threats, not unfortunate collateral in a “clean” military operation, but civilians killed by […]

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16 June 2026

Goldhawk is finally biting the dust and this time the legendary Phoenix won’t be rising from the ashes. According to the Irish Times this morning, Ireland’s favourite bimonthly gossip rag is shutting up shop for good at the end of […]

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15 June 2026

Social media comments critical of NPHET and the mere attendance at a protest critical of lockdown resulted in Rush-based medical practitioner Dr Marcus de Brun being found guilty of medical misconduct by the Irish Medical Council in what can only […]

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14 June 2026

The government’s Housing and Residential Tenancies Bill, presented to the Oireachtas this month, would if implemented introduce very (very) basic residence requirements for access to social housing waiting lists. Applicants would be required to demonstrate both a legal right to […]

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12 June 2026

An Irishman lies seriously injured after a savage knife attack by a man reportedly believed to be Somalian on Kinnaird Avenue, North Belfast. The brave locals who intervened did more to protect Belfast than the Crown Forces did. They risked […]

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9 June 2026

The central issue to be taken from this data is not whether demographic change is desirable or undesirable. It is whether the Leinster House Government planned for it and its consequences. In Dublin Central, where housing need, homelessness and population change meet, that question is becoming increasingly difficult to avoid.

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7 June 2026

Amid rising energy costs, it is worth considering how there can be such a severe cost of living crisis in such a wealthy country as Ireland. This is because much of the cost of living crisis is predicated on a cost of decadence crisis.

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4 June 2026

Government-funded education is problematic for reasons too numerous to cover in this short essay. Suffice it to say, that a strong argument can be made for what I will call the bare-bones essentials. What is the most important subject for those at the primary level of education? Reading of course.

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3 June 2026

Although my earlier piece castigated the Leaving Cert History syllabus, its faults are as nothing compared to the Leaving Cert Politics and Society farce which, to his credit, Peter Caddle previously filleted here as long ago as June 2018. Bad and all as […]

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28 May 2026

Parisian café culture in the late eighteenth century had spelled doom for the Bourbons long before the guillotine fell on King Louis. London’s “penny universities” performed much the same service for poor King Charles. No doubt conscious of the historical […]

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27 May 2026