Opinion

Opinion

• Opinion
• 17 Dec 25

The Year in Culture: That's Entertainment (And Politics)

• Opinion
• 17 Dec 25

Life during wartime: "The ongoing violence frequently feels too nebulous to measure"

• Opinion
• 17 Dec 25

ACLAÍ Palestine's Ainle Ó Cairealláin: "It's about defying the isolation that the occupation want to push Palestine into"

News

• Opinion
• 16 Dec 25

The Irish language's rising profile: More than the cúpla focal?

• Opinion
• 15 Dec 25

Troye Sivan, Rebel Wilson, Billy Bragg and more mourn victims of Bondi Beach shooting

• Opinion
• 12 Dec 25

Gerry McGovern's 99th Day: A Warning About Technology available to pre-order now

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Interviews

• Opinion
• 17 Oct 25

Survivors of abuse at industrial and reformatory school enter fourth week of hunger strike

• Opinion
• 29 Oct 24

Michael Hawkes discusses horrors endured at hands of adoptive uncle Monsignor Benjamin Hawkes in first major interview – and demands apology from Irish government

• Sex & Drugs
• 16 Sep 24

Drugs Minister Colm Burke: "I mean, no matter what area you go to, whether you go to talk to a group of solicitors or barristers or doctors, nurses, care assistants – a certain percentage would have [tried drugs]"

• Opinion
• 15 May 24

Rory Hearne: "We need Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael to be Decimated"

• Sex & Drugs
• 19 Jun 19

2019: Gay Pride Beyond The Pale

• Opinion
• 27 May 19

Repeal One Year On: Ailbhe Smyth and Dr Caitriona Henchion on the issues still facing women seeking abortions in Ireland

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Message

• Opinion
• 13 Dec 25

Trump’s assault on Europe: "Happy new year? Somehow I don’t think so..."

• Lifestyle & Sports
• 29 Nov 25

Troy Parrott's heroics in Hungary and Trump's betrayal of Zelenskyy and Ukraine: "How can these separate worlds co-exist?"

• Opinion
• 28 Oct 25

Catherine Connolly and Elon Musk are the real stories of the Presidential election, not Maria Steen

• Opinion
• 05 Oct 25

A Tribute To Nicky Ryan, 1946-2025

• Opinion
• 05 Sep 25

Student Special: "What a strange and troubling time to be launching into a new academic year"

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McCann

• Opinion
• 01 May 25

I Hope Kneecap Stand Firm

• Opinion
• 10 Mar 23

Eamonn McCann at 80: Revisiting His Powerful Call To Repeal The 8th Amendment

• Opinion
• 05 Jan 23

It Wasn’t a Gunshot but a Slogan That Triggered Change in the North

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Hog

• Opinion
• 07 Dec 25

Rekindling the pagan spirit of midwinter – in a world where Christmas is more crass than class

• Opinion
• 08 Sep 25

The Whole Hog Student Special: "We are never the finished article. But everything we do should be a form of learning"

• Opinion
• 17 Aug 25

The search for a new president: "External influences are much more likely to be malign than benign"

• Opinion
• 06 Aug 25

Remembering Hiroshima 80 years on: "August 6 should be a day of global silence, a day when we contemplate the terrors of war"

• Opinion
• 30 Jun 25

The Environmental Crisis: We Need To Act Now Or Regret It Forever

• Opinion
• 20 May 25

Cabaret and the rise of the Nazis: "The Roaring 20s came and went a century ago, but there are eerie and very worrying parallels with today"

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