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Jennifer Rubin: From Donald Trump to Elon Musk, the billionaire myth took quite a beating this year
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Frank Coughlan: The great Irish novel that the Booker Prize didn’t really rate
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John Downing: Fifty years on from Sunningdale, we still don’t have permanent peace in the North
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Suzanne Crowe: How healthcare is actually harming us thanks to climate change – and what can be done

Senan Molony: Sinn Féin missed a trick on its motion of no confidence – and should just suck it up
Tue 05 Dec 2023 at 03:30
Patrick Lawlor: Someone shouted that word in my ear... but censoring ‘Fairytale of New York’ ruins Shane MacGowan’s genius realism
Mon 04 Dec 2023 at 03:40
Ciara Kelly: Are we really so far up ourselves now that we curate the type of Christmas gifts we receive?
Mon 04 Dec 2023 at 03:30
Fionnán Sheahan: The fake gardaí in the election van with the TD’s posters – and a political party’s striking incuriosity
Mon 04 Dec 2023 at 03:30
Evan Thomas: Self-restraint and civility the keys to Sandra Day O’Connor’s power on US Supreme Court
Mon 04 Dec 2023 at 03:30
Israel’s assault on Gaza forced nurse to leave premature babies behind. They were later found decomposing
Mon 04 Dec 2023 at 03:30
Lorraine Courtney: By branding rioters ‘scumbags’ Helen McEntee will only alienate them further
Mon 04 Dec 2023 at 03:30
John Daly: Dublin needs a crime clean-up of the kind seen in New York in the 1990s
Mon 04 Dec 2023 at 03:30
Sophie White: Cooking holds medicinal properties, it’s a refuge when I’m trying to process difficult emotions
Sun 03 Dec 2023 at 03:30
Richard Curran: Botox maker Allergan’s wrinkle-free Irish pre-tax profits smoothe any furrowed brows over FDI
Sun 03 Dec 2023 at 03:30

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Jennifer Rubin: From Donald Trump to Elon Musk, the billionaire myth took quite a beating this year

Frank Coughlan: The great Irish novel that the Booker Prize didn’t really rate

John Downing: Fifty years on from Sunningdale, we still don’t have permanent peace in the North

Suzanne Crowe: How healthcare is actually harming us thanks to climate change – and what can be done

Senan Molony: Sinn Féin missed a trick on its motion of no confidence – and should just suck it up

Patrick Lawlor: Someone shouted that word in my ear... but censoring ‘Fairytale of New York’ ruins Shane MacGowan’s genius realism

Ciara Kelly: Are we really so far up ourselves now that we curate the type of Christmas gifts we receive?

Fionnán Sheahan: The fake gardaí in the election van with the TD’s posters – and a political party’s striking incuriosity

Evan Thomas: Self-restraint and civility the keys to Sandra Day O’Connor’s power on US Supreme Court

Israel’s assault on Gaza forced nurse to leave premature babies behind. They were later found decomposing

Lorraine Courtney: By branding rioters ‘scumbags’ Helen McEntee will only alienate them further

John Daly: Dublin needs a crime clean-up of the kind seen in New York in the 1990s

Sophie White: Cooking holds medicinal properties, it’s a refuge when I’m trying to process difficult emotions

Richard Curran: Botox maker Allergan’s wrinkle-free Irish pre-tax profits smoothe any furrowed brows over FDI

Nelofer Pazira-Fisk: John Hume’s brave vision is needed right now in the Middle East

Wigmore: Why we’re not saying another word about you-know-who and other pressing matters...

Fiona O’Connell: Tales from the confessional preserved by poet and raconteur Ned Egan for our pleasure

Eilis O’Hanlon: Irish leaders just can’t cope with all this negative attention

David Quinn: Our failure to face up to thorny issues traps young boys in a vicious cycle

Tony O’Brien: With almost 600,000 on hospital waiting lists, the HSE needs a longer-term plan

Declan Lynch: So now they’re trying the Great Replacement theory on us… obviously

Sam McBride: Northern Ireland’s experiment in no government at all is rapidly leading to ruin

Luke O’Neill: Just how close are we to a cure for all cancers?

Eugene O’Brien: Shane MacGowan was himself, unlike so many of us who bend ourselves to fit in

Brendan O’Connor: A nation raises a glass to Shane MacGowan, the people’s poet

Shane Ross: Helen McEntee will survive, but she should be wary of enemy within

Eoin O’Malley: Axing Helen McEntee could be the glue that holds the Coalition together

Christy Mangan: It’s time for gardaí to reclaim the streets

Colin Murphy: Who are you calling a scumbag?

Maia Dunphy: The best way to get us Irish to rally around one of our own? Get someone from somewhere else to knock them

Stefanie Preissner: Forget money-grabbing Santas and ‘perfect’ photo-ops, traditions are born when things don’t go to plan

Richard Curran: How big tech overturned top table of the world’s billionaires’ club

Louise McSharry: Honing our natural powers of empathy can help soothe pain inflicted on others

John Downing: Macron’s plans for first ‘tobacco-free generation’ sees radical changes to France’s smoking culture

Sarah Carey: Prisons are not for the mentally ill – we desperately need more psychiatric hospital beds

Billy Keane: Be nice, at the very least, to those who need love. Nice is not too high a bar. Say hello – or just smile

Philip Ryan: Helen McEntee becomes Mary Lou McDonald’s latest political prop as she continues to exploit Dublin riots for electoral gain

Tanya Sweeney: I’ve never seen Star Wars, Harry Potter or Game of Thrones and here’s why I don’t intend to

Home Truths: The property market is changing but 13 years after its inception, the Price Register is still unreliable

Paul Kelly: Vision Ireland needs support to carry out its vital work

Martina Devlin: Policing and politics must evolve to stop thugs turning our streets into no-go areas

John Connell: We thought we knew better, but poison of racism has spilled on to city’s streets

Mary McCarthy: Shortening the school summer holidays can pay dividends for pupils and parents

Anne-Marie Tomchak: Women cannot be left to shout from the sidelines as direction of AI is mapped out

A 'gigantic global sewer' – is it time we all left X?

Gerard O’Regan: Middle East appears doomed by a grim aversion to peace

Paul Williams: Drew Harris risks being remembered for changing culture and direction of the gardaí – and not for the better

John Downing: Political grandstanding over the Dublin riots is unsurprising – but still depressingly unhelpful

Roslyn Dee: Christmas TV ads trade on nostalgia, but miss an important present-day point

Ellen Coyne: ‘They have good intentions, but resale apps like Depop make it easier for us to keep buying new clothes’

Tanya Sweeney: Life coach and ‘dating expert’ David Meessen is holding an event in Dublin, but what exactly is he selling to men?

Oliver Keens: Christmas jumpers? Please spare us the mix of irony and knitwear

Suad Aldarra: I lived through the Syrian war – but now I feel unsafe in Dublin

Mary Kenny: The modern family is too complex for a constitutional definition – so let’s fudge it