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Persecution of Irish Catholics led to foundation of Irish Francisan landmark in Rome

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US democracy is in danger, but what about Ireland?

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Housing scramble for younger buyers becoming ever more fraught

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Ireland will have to commit substantial funds to arms procurement whether it approves or not

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The great tragedy is there's no political pendulum to restrain Israel's Cromwellian impulses

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The Government is finally showing some political courage in tackling the housing crisis

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I'm no Greta Thunberg fan, but dismissing the Madleen as a 'publicity stunt' is brain-dead

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The DUP couldn't have chosen a worse moment to get tough on immigration

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Maybe we shouldn't be quite so smug about Trump's tariffs

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Everybody loves Leinster

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Letters to the Editor, June 14th: On young people in nursing homes, attacks on Iran and Greta Thunberg

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Letters to the Editor, June 13th: On climate target fines, mortgages and the sound of silence

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The sound of silence

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Letters to the Editor, June 12th: On rent market changes, the media and hurling

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Resurrected Reverend – Frank McNally on the Irish priest who "did a Reggie Perrin"

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Proliferating drones need better regulation

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Even here in Israel, government statements about Greta Thunberg's 'selfie yacht' are seen as crass

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I wrote the Leas Cross report. Two decades on, has anything changed in Irish nursing homes?

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We don't need a floating liquefied natural gas facility. There is a better way

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Children's health crisis will roll on until there is transparency about how public money is spent

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'The country is going to the dogs': How agitators exploited the Carlow shooting

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The Christian idea of 'bearing witness' has never been more vital

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The beaches here in Israel are full. Just an hour's drive away Palestinians are starving

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How was Tina Satchwell left in a makeshift grave under the stairs for more than six years?

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I am often asked by students how to plan for a career in research. I tell them to move abroad

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We cannot continue with dirty, scarce and expensive energy to power our society

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What Trump is doing to US universities is not as bad as the McCarthyite witch trials – it's worse

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Wokeness is on the wane almost everywhere – except the right

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