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Up their own ileum
Ireland’s media are spineless and legally clueless about Denis O’Brien, as well as Dermot Desmond and the Ansbacher dossier. By Michael Smith
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The politics of disillusionment
An insight into some vigorous new anti-austerity groups. By Ronan Burtenshaw
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Finally, some nuance comes to NI
Some Shinners are starting to vote DUP. By Anton McCabe
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Fine Gael may run
Autumn election is possible, and the Left is divided. By Frank Connolly
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Wick-lowdown
Department of the Environment considers adding Wicklow to the other six counties under review. By Frank Connolly
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A literary fascism.
By Frank Armstrong. Literary deities loom over Ireland like US Presidents carved into Mount Rushmore. It isn’t philosophers, engineers, chefs, painters or even composers who summoned the Irish nation, but poets. Yet conversely their hovering presence barely registers; just as most contemporary Florentines scurry about unmoved by Brunelleschi’s dome, few here look to the sky […]