As much as I want to roll my eyes at Prince Harry’s complaining, it’s clear he’s really miserable VE Day 80: The story of The Irish Times’ most famous front page Gender pay gap: Women seethe quietly with rage at performative nonsense ...
The West may be doing its utmost to avoid escalation with a bellicose nuclear power, but what if Russia already thinks and acts like it is fighting a wider war? “Western governments are still making the basic mistake of thinking that Russian sabotage operations in E...
The US military is no longer going to be able to help either. The demolition of the bridge in Baltimore has ensured that. By the way, if you are one of the few remaining cool aid drinkers who still believe the “official” story this was an accident, please look at the videos and vi...
The other day I was browsing Tumblr and I turned up apost on Irish werewolves.I knew Irish mythology and folklore had lots of shapeshifters, but I had never heard of werewolves. Better still, it turned out that not only does Ireland have werewolves, but also its own form ofÚlfhéð...
“Another hope crushed. And after I offered up myself for my country and fought barefooted in the snow at Franklin and got the finest case of dysentery you ever heard of for my pains!” “I don't want to hear about your—pains,”she said, still pouting but smiling at him from tip-...
The most Irish president since John F Kennedy has tried to avoid their differences overshadowing Ireland's patron saint's day, which is celebrated more in America than in Ireland. Varadkar pushes US on Gaza Read more: Differences still remain in Israel-Hamas ceasefire talks ...
Miriam Nyhan, Are You Still Below? The Ford Marina Plant, Cork, 1917-1984 (Cork: Collins Press, 2007, 158 pp., 24.95 [euro] hardback) A proper history of Ford's activities in Ireland is long overdue and at last such a book, with lavish illustration...
So, during the Lenten season this year I’m abstaining from reading online news. Here’s what that looks like for me: I won’t click links on Facebook or Twitter, I won’t visit my usual online news haunts, and I won’t share any news on social media. I will still get some news...
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tour with a single small piece of luggage, and still be comfortably, practically, and tastefully turned out for every possible occasion, from morning trek to see a ruined temple in the jungle to a tea party at an embassy that afternoon. I liked that kind of practicality – liked it very ...