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Nothing to Report at Shannon Airport
Winner of the Orwell Society & NUJ Young Journalist Award 2026, political column category.
From jobs to jawlines: how looksmaxxing is turning men far-right
On bone-smashing, the broken economy, and boys becoming far-right.
Is This Illegal? It Feels Legal
Palestine Action Éire activists are challenging definitions of 'illegality' by grounding their actions in international law.
My mother dragged me under protest aged 10 to see Seamus Heaney read, but the impact stayed
As an Irish man living abroad, the poet has cropped up again and again in different times and places of my life.
Leftist President, Neoliberal Government
Catherine Connolly is the new Irish president, but she cannot save Irish politics alone.
Bataclan attacks: I was an Irish 13-year-old in Paris and had sneaked out to a party
We had to make our way home, but the attacks stood between us and where we needed to be.
An Irishman at Oxford: It was an education in being an outsider. I felt alienated from the very start
Though much English literature once belittled the Irish, Irish writers also stood tall within it.
Without reform, the EU's CBAM risks leaving developing countries behind
Not all countries stand to benefit from the EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism.