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The Mary Wallopers’ ‘Paddywhackery’: an antidote against pessimism
The Mary Wallopers third album, ‘Paddywhackery’, is their best to date, writes Will Collins. A clarion call to the working class and the oppressed to recognise their collective power and refuse to submit to the rich and powerful, this album…
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Donald Trump’s contribution to the discussion on a United Ireland summed up
Donald Trump has some choice words on Irish unification when he took a detour from his golf trip last week to visit the Taoiseach. At their meeting he unexpectedly announced: “They’re Irish people. How can they be bad, right? I’d…
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Permission granted to cement over mother and baby home
Despite decades of promises and apologies, the church and state are attempting to pave over historic abuse on the site of the Bessborough Mother and Baby Home in Cork. At least 923 children died at Bessborough between the 1920s and…
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Donaldson’s fall and the DUP’s crisis
The unprecedented scandal surrounding former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson, who has been convicted of 18 counts of sexual abuse against children – including one count of rape – has shaken the DUP to its very core. For the first time…
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Picking the Triple Lock
The bill to scrap the Triple Lock – the mechanism which requires approval from the Irish government, Dáil, and United Nations Security Council before more than 12 Irish troops can be sent abroad – is set to come before the…
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‘Russia will collapse tomorrow’ – ‘and invade Europe in five years’
‘Russia is about to collapse.’ The economy is apparently cracking at the seams. Sanctions have finally worked. Oil refineries are going up in flames one after another. Ukrainian drones have paralysed half the country. There is no petrol, no money,…
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