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Fintan O’Toole: What we may be about to experience is not so much Northern Ireland leaving the UK as Northern Ireland (and Scotland) being abandoned by England (via
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There are plenty of examples of Leo Varadkar’s “well, actually” style of callousness, but I thought a recent interview he did with Gavan Reilly on Newstalk was frankly alarming, writes Una Mullally, via
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Fintan O'Toole: The English have been lied to by most of their press and made to believe that “Brussels” is a factory for mad schemes to meddle with their lives via
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The Irish State will pay nearly all the up-front cost of rural broadband, and will then gift this infrastructure to private interests. Take that in, writes David McWilliams
'Dublin enclaves of privilege do not house large numbers of people seeking asylum. Until you shoulder some of the responsibility do you even have a right to say 'not in my name'?' writes Justine McCarthy (via
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: The DUP has gambled the union on the belief that the Brexiteers are above all unionists and will never concede to any post-Brexit arrangements that differentiate Northern Ireland and Britain. In this they are deluded to the point of insanity.
"One can be utterly opposed to abortion on a personal level, and yet still be pro-choice. The converse however is not true – pro-life advocacy enforces a particular moral position on others"
Una Mullally: ❝ The brilliantly eclectic make-up of the campaign brought in doctors, mothers, lawyers, students, trade unionists, the LGBT community, feminists, and everyone in between.
'Boris Johnson is of weak character. He supposes himself to be Winston Churchill, while in reality being closer to Alan Partridge' (via
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Fintan O’Toole's unexpurgated version of ‘Up the ‘Ra’: Up cutting the legs off young women shopping for wedding dresses. Up torturing kids with Black & Decker drills through their kneecaps (via
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One of our most-read this week: We cannot go back to a hard Border any more than Berlin could return to the Wall, writes Eoin McNamee
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David McWilliams: As both jurisdictions integrate further, the economic distinctions between Northern Ireland and the Republic may have almost disappeared by the time a Border poll is called, via
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❝I recently visited the Iveagh Markets in Dublin 8, and it was hard not to cry at the state of the place. What could be a star of the city is an open sore via
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‘It will make a good quiz question in the future,’ writes Fintan O’Toole. ‘Under which US president did coal production decline most steeply? The answer, of course, is Donald Trump’ (via
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