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ADAMS: A Windfall Tax is Urgently Needed
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ADAMS: A Windfall Tax is Urgently Needed
The cost of living crisis is taking a terrible toll on families. Food and energy bills are increasing at a phenomenal rate pushing more and more pe...
KIRWAN: A Question Posed With Increasing Frequency
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KIRWAN: A Question Posed With Increasing Frequency
Is America broken? It’s a question that is posed with increasing frequency. I used to dismiss it out of hand. This country has come through so much...
EDITORIAL: A Rough Road Ahead
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EDITORIAL: A Rough Road Ahead
If some of her recent statements are anything to go by there will be little change in London's approach to Northern Ireland and the current debate ...
ADAMS: 'The Ark' Was a No-Nonsense Retreat
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ADAMS: 'The Ark' Was a No-Nonsense Retreat
The Ark wasn't a big public house. Situated at the corner of Broadbent Street on the Old Lodge Road it consisted of a public bar, partitioned from ...
The Root Cause of Anti-Catholicism and Bigotry
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The Root Cause of Anti-Catholicism and Bigotry
A state’s constitution is the fundamental set of principles by which the state is to be governed. It is, therefore, of foundational importance and ...
EDITORIAL: Less Gas, More Brakes
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EDITORIAL: Less Gas, More Brakes
The headline on the front page of the Irish Times on Monday of this week could have appeared in any newspaper in any country on our overheating pla...
KIRWAN: One Size Fit, All Sizes Fled
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KIRWAN: One Size Fit, All Sizes Fled
I was recently giving a talk to the Irish Business Organization and was asked by host Shelley Ann Quilty-Lake to describe my own emigration from Ir...
ADAMS: Fond Memories Of My Sweet Tooth
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ADAMS: Fond Memories Of My Sweet Tooth
There was a Sweetie Shop across from Saint Finian’s School, just above Leeson Street on the Falls Road. It had a large advertisement for Blue Bird ...
O'SHEA: The Views From Differing Utopias
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O'SHEA: The Views From Differing Utopias
Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) is remembered mainly because he was beheaded for insisting that his boss, Henry V111, was breaching divine law by claim...
EDITORIAL: Hanging By A Thread
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EDITORIAL: Hanging By A Thread
The numbers were released and the Irish recipients are standouts even while lost in the crowd. Seventeen 2023 Diversity Visas are heading for Irish...
ADAMS: I Love Sitting On Benches
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ADAMS: I Love Sitting On Benches
I like to spend as much time as I can outdoors. Now in case I give the wrong impression let me make it clear that I am not all the time walking or ...
EDITORIAL: Very Secret Indeed
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EDITORIAL: Very Secret Indeed
A government watchdog has accused the U.S. Secret Service of erasing texts from Jan. 5 and 6, 2021, after his office requested them as part of an i...

 



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