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Steve Bannon, President Trump’s chief strategist, was removed from the National Security Council in early April. Among the Kremlinologists who watch the Trump White House, this has been interpreted as a setback for the man whose neo-reactionary philosophy provides the guiding principles of Trumpism: Islamophobia, misogyny, xenophobia, and excited anticipation of a new American revolution. […]
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I enter the sempiternally dingy Abbey by the stage entrance and advance up the mid-century staircase to a poky room alive with two middle-aged but effervescent non-Irish Celts. The guy at the desk has said he sees a lot of them and they seem effortlessly in control. They’re informal, blithe, cheerful and open throughout our […]
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Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away, Ireland’s National Farmers’ Association (NFA) was a political pariah, with then Taoiseach, Fianna Fáil’s Jack Lynch threatening to have the organisation proscribed, a move that would have placed every farmer in the NFA on the same legal footing as an IRA member. That was almost exactly 50 […]
Featured opinions
Ireland’s entire Multinational-based model of economic development has been exposed by the Apple decision as a zero-sum game
Simon Coveney shows no interest in radical measures like a site-value tax, implementation of the Kenny report or even introducing the Mahon-Tribunal-recommended independent planning regulator
By 2020 the plan is to attract 6.2 million tourists to Dublin. That’s the target, five times the city’s current population
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