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My 2025: Seán Hewitt - "My best decision was to get chickens... I find I can spend hours with them and never check my phone, and never feel anything but at peace"
  • Opinion
  • 19 Dec 25

My 2025: Seán Hewitt - "My best decision was to get chickens... I find I can spend hours with them and never check my phone, and never feel anything but at peace"

AI and Big Tech: "It would be foolish to believe that AI is going away – it isn’t"
  • Opinion
  • 19 Dec 25

AI and Big Tech: "It would be foolish to believe that AI is going away – it isn’t"

The Year in Culture: That's Entertainment (And Politics)
  • Opinion
  • 17 Dec 25

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

Life during wartime: "The ongoing violence frequently feels too nebulous to measure"
  • Opinion
  • 17 Dec 25

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

ACLAÍ Palestine's Ainle Ó Cairealláin: "It's about defying the isolation that the occupation want to push Palestine into"
  • Opinion
  • 17 Dec 25

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

The Irish language's rising profile: More than the cúpla focal?
  • Opinion
  • 16 Dec 25

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

Troye Sivan, Rebel Wilson, Billy Bragg and more mourn victims of Bondi Beach shooting
  • Opinion
  • 15 Dec 25

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

Gerry McGovern's <i>99th Day: A Warning About Technology</i> available to pre-order now
  • Opinion
  • 12 Dec 25

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

Emmet Kirwan on becoming Focus Ireland’s ‘No Child Without a Home’ Ambassador: “Child homelessness is entirely preventable”
  • Opinion
  • 11 Dec 25

Emmet Kirwan on becoming Focus Ireland’s ‘No Child Without a Home’ Ambassador: “Child homelessness is entirely preventable”

What's really going on with the global drug trade?
  • Sex & Drugs
  • 11 Dec 25

What's really going on with the global drug trade?

Reporters Without Borders says Israel is the leading killer of journalists in 2025
  • Opinion
  • 10 Dec 25

Reporters Without Borders says Israel is the leading killer of journalists in 2025

Rekindling the pagan spirit of midwinter – in a world where Christmas is more crass than class
  • Opinion
  • 07 Dec 25

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

Miriam O’Callaghan: "I just hope people learn a little bit more about me – and think I’m an okay person at the end of it"
  • Opinion
  • 07 Dec 25

Miriam O’Callaghan: "I just hope people learn a little bit more about me – and think I’m an okay person at the end of it"

Fontaines D.C. and Kneecap among acts launching new Together Against The Far Right alliance
  • Opinion
  • 02 Dec 25

Fontaines D.C. and Kneecap among acts launching new Together Against The Far Right alliance

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

Olwen Fouéré withdraws acceptance of honorary doctorate from University of Galway over Israel ties
  • Opinion
  • 26 Nov 25

Olwen Fouéré withdraws acceptance of honorary doctorate from University of Galway over Israel ties

Michael D. Higgins – His Final In-Depth Interview As President: "What would have been quite dishonest is to try and invent a version of myself which isn’t real"
  • Opinion
  • 26 Nov 25

Michael D. Higgins – His Final In-Depth Interview As President: "What would have been quite dishonest is to try and invent a version of myself which isn’t real"

Tributes pour in after the death of artist and activist Margaretta D’Arcy
  • Opinion
  • 25 Nov 25

Tributes pour in after the death of artist and activist Margaretta D’Arcy

Education Equality says UK Supreme Court religious education ruling "has lessons for Ireland"
  • Opinion
  • 24 Nov 25

Education Equality says UK Supreme Court religious education ruling "has lessons for Ireland"

Protestors rally at the Dáil to demand "far greater action" on Occupied Territories Bill
  • Opinion
  • 20 Nov 25

Protestors rally at the Dáil to demand "far greater action" on Occupied Territories Bill

RTÉ to close 2XM, Pulse and more digital stations next month
  • Opinion
  • 20 Nov 25

RTÉ to close 2XM, Pulse and more digital stations next month

Simon Harris replaces Paschal Donohoe as Minister for Finance
  • Opinion
  • 18 Nov 25

Simon Harris replaces Paschal Donohoe as Minister for Finance

The End Is Nigh: "What the fuck is Bitcoin, and how come it does such environmental and social damage?”
  • Opinion
  • 16 Nov 25

The End Is Nigh: "What the fuck is Bitcoin, and how come it does such environmental and social damage?”

Shobsy and Tolu Makay bring the house down at the Irish Embassy in London's reception for Minding Creative Minds
  • Opinion
  • 14 Nov 25

Shobsy and Tolu Makay bring the house down at the Irish Embassy in London's reception for Minding Creative Minds

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