Ben Tonra: Ireland is riding two horses that are now galloping in different directions Nostalgia can not blind us to the new realities of the collapsing alliance between the US and Europe

Ireland is riding two horses galloping in different directions across the Atlantic

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Ed Moloney: Secret historian of the IRA and one of Ireland’s ‘most brilliant’ journalists Author and co-author of several groundbreaking books, including the exceptionally detailed A Secret History of the IRA

Ed Moloney obituary: Secret historian of the IRA and one of Ireland’s ‘most brilliant’ journalists

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Anyone in Bray/Greystones interested in pressurising Wicklow County Council into opening the Cliff Walk, closed by them for almost five years, please come to this 👇

Little Museum of Dublin to reopen after year-long €4.3m makeover Museum’s Irish Times room features several new items from the newspaper’s history

Little Museum of Dublin to reopen after year-long €4.3m makeover

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Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan among 380 writers and groups to call Gaza war ‘genocide’ Letter also signed by Hanif Kureishi and Russell T Davies urges ceasefire and unrestricted distribution of aid

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Housebuilding in Dublin to stall within three years if wastewater plant not delivered Utility’s starkest warning yet on water constraints follows Government’s revised 2030 housing target

The hallmark of governmental/societal failure (next up - electricity) Housebuilding in Dublin to stall within three years if wastewater plant not delivered

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Pat Leahy: Could we build Ardnacrusha now? Not a chance We should not fall into the trap of thinking that everything is a disaster, but I am afraid something has gone badly wrong with the way the State is run

This👇100%: “I am afraid something has gone badly wrong with the way the State is run. It seems incapable of saying to people – and enshrining in law the idea – that, yes, you may not like it, but we are going to do it because it’s in the wider public interest.”

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Diarmaid Ferriter: Trump’s assault on universities mirrors that of the Nazis in 1930s Germany Expect book burnings soon to further scapegoat the “enemies of the nation”

Donald Trump’s chilling assault on universities mirrors that of the Nazis in 1930s Germany

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Minister meets Solicitor General after intervention on ‘Grace’ report Marie Claire Butler issued an unusual statement ‘in the public interest’ on Tuesday

A good opp for the State/govt to flag a culture change: reject and repudiate this report; query the professional competent of author and staff; ensure author gets no further State work.

Minister meets Solicitor General after intervention on ‘Grace’ report

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Oliver Sears: I had to tell my mother that her father had been tortured for eleven days and murdered Everyone who encounters the Holocaust becomes implicated, a new witness to the mystery and the horror, with the responsibility to recount its history honestly

I had to tell my mother that her father had been tortured for 11 days and murdered

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Teachers warn of rise in misogyny and racism in UK schools

….fewer….

Rory McIlroy’s wish to be identified as Northern Irish is typical of his generation Support for Sinn Féin is growing in the North, but support for a united Ireland isn’t. This is not as strange as it might seem

Rory McIlroy’s wish to be identified as Northern Irish is typical of his generation

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The world, America, needs more like her. . .

Abigail Disney: ‘Every billionaire who can’t live on $999m is kind of a sociopath’

Look at this — Cliff Walk, a new craft beer inspired by the activism of Friends of the Cliff Walk! Tastes great too…

Speaking rights for Michael Lowry would not be on my list of issues critical to our democracy Row is yet more evidence of politicians’ preoccupation with trivia as storm clouds gather abroad and housing crisis worsens at home

Speaking rights for Michael Lowry would not be on my list of issues critical to our democracy

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No limits? Why the United States could be on the verge of a constitutional crisis Donald Trump and his closest advisers have taken steps to circumvent the constraints upon the executive authority of president in pursuit of vaguely defined goals. Can they be stopped?

No limits? Why the United States could be on the verge of a constitutional crisis

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Inspired by the beauty of Bray Head Cliff Walk, closed for over 4 years by “do nothing” Wicklow County Council, Wicklow Wolf craft brewery has produced a new IPA, Cliff Walk, to help the Friends of the Cliff Walk campaign.

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Pls RT

Water system ‘in a desperate state’, says Uisce Éireann chair New approach needed if goal of 50,000 homes a year to be achievable, according to Jerry Grant

…water and sewerage systems “are in a desperate state” because of “extraordinary complacency” and “passive indifference” around investment in infrastructure, says Uisce Éireann chairman, Jerry Grant … well, there’s a surprise

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Siobhán Fenton: Presidential election starting to look like a lose-lose bet for Sinn Féin Mary Lou McDonald knows she can’t afford to oversee yet another poor performance - but can the party credibly sit this one out?

Presidential election starting to look like a lose-lose bet for Sinn Féin (written by one with an interesting pedigree)

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Justine McCarthy: We would not invite Putin or Netanyahu to Ireland. So why invite their idiot facilitator? It may not be pragmatic to officially disinvite Trump but he might not come if a mass of the Irish public signed a petition saying: 'We don’t want you in our country'

We would not invite Putin or Netanyahu to Ireland. So why invite their idiot facilitator?

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Finn McRedmond: Michael D Higgins’s grandiose statements about military spending won’t raise Ireland’s stock The universe where Ireland can bask in our peacenik status is gone

Michael D Higgins’s grandiose statements about military spending won’t raise Ireland’s stock

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In Romania, the far right has unleashed a tide of hate and resurrected our fascist ghosts | Andrei Popoviciu Economic uncertainty, societal divisions and distrust of mainstream institutions are a potent cocktail that extremist politicians thrive on, says investigative journalist Andrei Popoviciu

Trump and Musk’s downtrodden Romanian heroes… www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

European leaders, Ireland included, take note.

SLAVA UKRAINI!!!!
Europe needs to step up now!

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Donate to Open Our Cliff Walk, organised by Peter Murtagh Friends of the Cliff Walk volunteers are working to restore the Bray/Greystones trail and campaignin… Peter Murtagh needs your support for Open Our Cliff Walk

The Bray/Greystones Cliff Walk has been closed for too long. A small group is working hard to get it open again, but they need help. Please consider donating or sharing to support this important cause. gofund.me/f99d6c9c

Free speech how are you?

Fintan O’Toole: American Caesar Donald Trump does not reward those who bend the knee – he despises them The essential question for Ireland is: to grovel or not to grovel?

This 👉 — Fintan O’Toole: Trump’s adoption of imperial manner is a function of failure

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