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Una Mullally: Holly Cairns will draw people to the Social Democrats, especially young women

Una Mullally: Holly Cairns will draw people to the Social Democrats, especially young women

If you’re looking for the most on-the-nose outcome of the social revolution of the 2010s, there you have it

Mon Mar 06 2023 - 05:00
‘Before I would have held my husband’s hand walking around the streets. But now I wouldn’t’

‘Before I would have held my husband’s hand walking around the streets. But now I wouldn’t’

A recent report found that 2022 was ‘the most violent year’ for LGBTQ+ people across Europe and Central Asia in the past decade

Sat Mar 04 2023 - 05:00
I learned recently a prolific Irish Times letter-writer had died — his correspondence was a tonic

I learned recently a prolific Irish Times letter-writer had died — his correspondence was a tonic

Una Mullally: Remembering Graeme Guthrie: ‘Funny, inquisitive and charming’

Mon Feb 27 2023 - 00:00
Una Mullally: Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil had no visible presence at Ireland for All march

Una Mullally: Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil had no visible presence at Ireland for All march

Several Coalition politicians have lined up against racism, but both parties still unsure of public mood on immigration.

Mon Feb 20 2023 - 05:00
We should all be concerned about decent people like Nicola Sturgeon leaving politics

We should all be concerned about decent people like Nicola Sturgeon leaving politics

There is a big difference between holding power to account, and attacking people simply because they hold power

Wed Feb 15 2023 - 14:50
Bertie Ahern’s return is par for the course for Fianna Fáil, a party that frequently rejects history

Bertie Ahern’s return is par for the course for Fianna Fáil, a party that frequently rejects history

Repeating his previous criticisms of Bertie Ahern would disrupt the maintenance of power

Mon Feb 13 2023 - 05:30
New York’s new Irish bars: ‘It just works, this timeless feeling of romance and hedonism’

New York’s new Irish bars: ‘It just works, this timeless feeling of romance and hedonism’

New venues are pushing the boundaries of Irish culture in New York, as well as the city’s culture itself

Sat Feb 11 2023 - 06:00
Some protesters appear to be in denial about their role in unlocking racist sentiment

Some protesters appear to be in denial about their role in unlocking racist sentiment

Best way not be perceived as racist is not to engage in protests where racist rhetoric is rampant

Mon Feb 06 2023 - 05:00
The comforting theory Irish people won’t coalesce around far-right has disintegrated

The comforting theory Irish people won’t coalesce around far-right has disintegrated

Una Mullally: This is not ‘standing up for’ communities. This is xenophobic vigilantism

Thu Feb 02 2023 - 18:17
Una Mullally: Who gets the carbon credits generated by Coillte’s controversial deal?

Una Mullally: Who gets the carbon credits generated by Coillte’s controversial deal?

Privatisation of forestry raises serious questions about this increasingly valuable asset

Mon Jan 30 2023 - 00:00
Far-right’s goal is to misdirect anger to divide and oppress

Far-right’s goal is to misdirect anger to divide and oppress

Some people involved in anti-refugee protests aim to misdirect anger and capitalise on resentment to demonise, divide and oppress

Mon Jan 23 2023 - 05:00
Una Mullally: Inequality between city-centre school access and wealthier suburbs is stark

Una Mullally: Inequality between city-centre school access and wealthier suburbs is stark

Former DIT Aungier Street building could have capacity for some 5,000 of different schools sharing sharing resources, space, and facilities

Mon Jan 16 2023 - 00:00
Dolores O’Riordan: Legacy of vulnerability  again pulls star into collective consciousness

Dolores O’Riordan: Legacy of vulnerability again pulls star into collective consciousness

It’s five years on from the Limerick singer’s death, a tragic, premature loss of a talent so robust that it’s painful now to think of

Sun Jan 15 2023 - 06:00
Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin: ‘It was important to me to get a formal apology from UCD’

Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin: ‘It was important to me to get a formal apology from UCD’

One of Ireland’s best-known academics reflects on closing the door on a painful period of her life, and her role as chair of the Citizens’ Assembly on Biodiversity as it prepares to report to Government

Sat Jan 14 2023 - 05:00
Una Mullally: A nouveau-bedsit for €2,120 per month? Welcome to Dublin’s new rental hell

Una Mullally: A nouveau-bedsit for €2,120 per month? Welcome to Dublin’s new rental hell

Retrograde regulations of recent years have predictably led to offensively expensive Insta-cells

Mon Jan 09 2023 - 05:00
Una Mullally: This will be the year of Fine Gael’s phoney epiphanies

Una Mullally: This will be the year of Fine Gael’s phoney epiphanies

Party creates ramshackle policy and makes mistakes in a haze. It is vital the adults in the room start to focus on children and their wellbeing

Mon Jan 02 2023 - 00:01
Una Mullally: Our ancient language is being made modern

Una Mullally: Our ancient language is being made modern

The days of a resistant or derogatory attitude towards the Irish language and traditional music are over in youth culture

Mon Dec 26 2022 - 00:01
Una Mullally: Skateboarding isn’t a nuisance and should be part of Portobello Plaza’s future

Una Mullally: Skateboarding isn’t a nuisance and should be part of Portobello Plaza’s future

Skateboarding is a creative, healthy and positive activity. It's also an Olympic sport

Mon Dec 19 2022 - 00:00
Una Mullally: Crack cocaine is ‘huge’ in Dublin. We are past the warning sign phase

Una Mullally: Crack cocaine is ‘huge’ in Dublin. We are past the warning sign phase

Budget 2023 allowed for just €10.5m, with strings attached, for the national drug strategy It’s not enough

Mon Dec 12 2022 - 05:00
Una Mullally: Confessions of a Spotify hypocrite

Una Mullally: Confessions of a Spotify hypocrite

If you want to support musicians starved by puny per-stream payouts, buy their T-shirt for Christmas

Mon Dec 05 2022 - 00:01
Scale of drug-dealing outside Dublin cafe is ‘relentless’, says owner speaking out in ‘act of desperation’

Scale of drug-dealing outside Dublin cafe is ‘relentless’, says owner speaking out in ‘act of desperation’

Inside people type on laptops and newly arrived tourists walk in. Outside the front window about half a dozen drug deals take place over 45 minutes

Sat Dec 03 2022 - 05:00
Una Mullally: Leo Varadkar is gaslighting the victims of the housing crisis

Una Mullally: Leo Varadkar is gaslighting the victims of the housing crisis

When a crisis becomes this acute it doesn’t stay in its lane: it bleeds out in all sorts of ways

Mon Nov 28 2022 - 05:00
No one in Ireland was immune from abusive Catholic priests

No one in Ireland was immune from abusive Catholic priests

Social class is only relevant insofar as how it showed how untouchable these members of the clergy felt they were

Mon Nov 21 2022 - 00:00
Una Mullally: No surprise Big Tech in the vanguard of corporate lay-offs

Una Mullally: No surprise Big Tech in the vanguard of corporate lay-offs

First Twitter reaches for the redundancy button, followed by Meta with Stripe bringing up the rear

Mon Nov 14 2022 - 00:01
It’s abortion, stupid. How Democrats can win the US presidential election in 2024

It’s abortion, stupid. How Democrats can win the US presidential election in 2024

Abortion was on the ballot in five states this week. What if that took place ten-fold?

Thu Nov 10 2022 - 14:51
Una Mullally: Not only democracy but reality is being dismantled in US

Una Mullally: Not only democracy but reality is being dismantled in US

Midterm elections reveal voters and politicians in States as unhinged

Mon Nov 07 2022 - 05:00
Una Mullally: Elon Musk’s ownership of Twitter makes a bad situation worse

Una Mullally: Elon Musk’s ownership of Twitter makes a bad situation worse

The billionaire now owns a social media company that was already broken and his chaotic approach will accentuate the platform’s negative attributes.

Tue Nov 01 2022 - 19:37
Una Mullally: At least the activists ‘desecrating’ art works are doing something. What are you doing?

Una Mullally: At least the activists ‘desecrating’ art works are doing something. What are you doing?

If one thinks a protester is doing something incorrectly, it’s always good to ask oneself, ‘well, what am I doing?’

Mon Oct 31 2022 - 05:00
Una Mullally: Why has street life in Dublin city become so depressed?

Una Mullally: Why has street life in Dublin city become so depressed?

Four things have been prioritised: hotels, offices, unaffordable student developments and luxury apartments for tech workers

Mon Oct 24 2022 - 00:40
Listen to the Land Speak review: Fractal account of myth, history and loss

Listen to the Land Speak review: Fractal account of myth, history and loss

Manchán Magan brings us on a journey into the wisdom of what lies beneath

Sat Oct 15 2022 - 05:00
Una Mullally: What does it mean to say ‘up the ’Ra’? And why does it keep happening?

Una Mullally: What does it mean to say ‘up the ’Ra’? And why does it keep happening?

The women’s soccer team knew what they were doing: it’s just that what they’re doing means something different now

Thu Oct 13 2022 - 12:16
Una Mullally: Berlin has dimmed the lights while Dublin’s are still blazing

Una Mullally: Berlin has dimmed the lights while Dublin’s are still blazing

It feels as though we are still sleepwalking into a three-pronged crisis that will dominate the winter

Thu Oct 13 2022 - 00:57
Creeslough explosion: There is no closure with tragedy, but there can be comfort

Creeslough explosion: There is no closure with tragedy, but there can be comfort

The feeling of apartness in Donegal, gives rise to a sort of tight-knit-ness that is, even in Irish terms, utterly unique

Sun Oct 09 2022 - 11:14
Una Mullally: It has been clear for some time that Britain is colonising itself

Una Mullally: It has been clear for some time that Britain is colonising itself

Last week’s market freakout was merely what happens when a Tory government’s chaosonomics meets reality

Mon Oct 03 2022 - 01:00
Road to Repeal review: A vital account not just of a movement but of a society

Road to Repeal review: A vital account not just of a movement but of a society

What emanates from the huge number of images in this book is the bravery of those who fought misogyny

Thu Sept 29 2022 - 04:44
Una Mullally: In a city starved of artist space, Dublin City Council is attempting to erase some it created

Una Mullally: In a city starved of artist space, Dublin City Council is attempting to erase some it created

Former music college on Chatham Row being used as artists’ studios, but council has other (bad) ideas

Mon Sept 26 2022 - 00:00
Una Mullally: The kids are not alright

Una Mullally: The kids are not alright

Ireland has the largest generation gap in trust in government in the OECD

Mon Sept 19 2022 - 00:01
Una Mullally: Queen’s death is another tentpole removed from ever-collapsing marquee called the UK

Una Mullally: Queen’s death is another tentpole removed from ever-collapsing marquee called the UK

BBC and Boris Johnson leap into bombastic mourning auto-pilot from which land will awake to grim reality

Mon Sept 12 2022 - 05:00
Una Mullally: Ireland is seeing a new form of housing activism - and it is building momentum

Una Mullally: Ireland is seeing a new form of housing activism - and it is building momentum

With Government failing to tackle the housing crisis, grassroots movements are starting to exert their influence

Mon Sept 05 2022 - 01:10
If Dara Calleary gets Robert Troy’s gig, the public will roll their eyes in rage again

If Dara Calleary gets Robert Troy’s gig, the public will roll their eyes in rage again

Rage flows through public political discourse. The quest for accountability has great momentum

Mon Aug 29 2022 - 00:05
Dublin’s dying nightclubs: ‘I’ve no idea how people in their 20s are navigating this city’

Dublin’s dying nightclubs: ‘I’ve no idea how people in their 20s are navigating this city’

Housing crisis and crisis in cultural amenities have sparked a wave of emigration of young people in search of affordable rent and access to a broader cultural offering

Sat Aug 27 2022 - 05:00
Una Mullally: Empathy fuels Ireland’s welcome for Ukrainians

Una Mullally: Empathy fuels Ireland’s welcome for Ukrainians

The care extended to people contains a memory of the constant cycles of mass emigration we have been made endure.

Mon Aug 22 2022 - 05:00
Una Mullally: There’s more to Sinn Féin’s sunny new outlook than meets the eye

Una Mullally: There’s more to Sinn Féin’s sunny new outlook than meets the eye

The party’s message of hope is a recognition that it must branch out

Mon Aug 15 2022 - 05:00
Una Mullally: Big Tech says ‘Jump’, Fine Gael responds ‘How high?’

Una Mullally: Big Tech says ‘Jump’, Fine Gael responds ‘How high?’

The risk to both our energy security and our climate targets is seen as secondary to the risk of corporation tax receipts drying up

Mon Aug 08 2022 - 05:00
Una Mullally: Seeing the pandemic from both sides now

Una Mullally: Seeing the pandemic from both sides now

Joni Mitchell’s iconic song resonates as we process the wear and tear of recent years

Mon Aug 01 2022 - 05:00
Una Mullally: Sitka spruce dominates Irish ‘forests’ — this is both wrong and dangerous

Una Mullally: Sitka spruce dominates Irish ‘forests’ — this is both wrong and dangerous

More broadleaf forests means fewer and smaller forest fires. Why the drive to prioritise conifers?

Mon Jul 25 2022 - 05:00
What we learned about lobbying in Ireland from the Uber Files

What we learned about lobbying in Ireland from the Uber Files

In Ireland’s case, we can see how lobbying can quickly morph into political ventriloquism.

Mon Jul 18 2022 - 00:00
Una Mullally: We are losing teachers who cannot afford to live here

Una Mullally: We are losing teachers who cannot afford to live here

Young educators face insecure housing or long commutes from the same kind of childhood bedrooms their students go home to

Mon Jul 11 2022 - 01:00
Una Mullally: The positive upside to media fragmentation

Una Mullally: The positive upside to media fragmentation

Important stories untouched by big organisations have been highlighted by smaller players

Mon Jul 04 2022 - 07:19
Una Mullally: Fine Gael is completely disconnected and does not even realise it

Una Mullally: Fine Gael is completely disconnected and does not even realise it

The party’s tactic of constantly attacking Sinn Féin only serves to boost the opposition party

Mon Jun 27 2022 - 05:00
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