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This is my father and it's the first time we met
This is my father and it's the first time we met
The Mick Clifford Podcast: How the Boundary Commission shaped history and resentment
The Mick Clifford Podcast: How the Boundary Commission shaped history and resentment
Historian Cormac Moore explores whether the infamous 1920s border commission could have changed the course of Irish history

 Listen | Thu, 17 Jul, 2025

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Israel Palestinians
The UN has 6,000 trucks with aid ready to roll into Gaza as humanitarian crisis intensifies
The situation is so dire in Gaza that no aid should be refused, writes Dorcha Lee

Thu, 17 Jul, 2025

We must address bullying at every level in healthcare
We must address bullying at every level in healthcare
The risks to patients are well documented, with bullying linked to poor teamwork, practice errors and communication failures

Thu, 17 Jul, 2025

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Mark Donlon: In review of Irishness: How narrow minds will hold us back
It’s hard to put a finger on exactly what made a proportion of Irish people lose their sense of céad míle failte, but one thing is for sure — it didn’t happen overnight

Thu, 17 Jul, 2025

Two presidential candidates confirmed, but who is likely to join them in race for the Áras?
Two presidential candidates confirmed, but who is likely to join them in race for the Áras?
With Catherine Connolly and Mairead McGuinness now in the field, attention turns to possible contenders from Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil among others

Wed, 16 Jul, 2025

Mick Clifford: An Post is indeed doing fine, but the company’s original business is in bad shape
Mick Clifford: An Post is indeed doing fine, but the company’s original business is in bad shape
An Post has accelerated diversification away from mail delivery and into ecommerce and financial services

Wed, 16 Jul, 2025

We need to keep Ireland's land in Irish hands
We need to keep Ireland's land in Irish hands
If we want to keep our land in Irish sovereign hands, we need to require mortgagees, true owners of the mortgage charges, to conduct all land receivership and repossession sales in the open market as they do elsewhere in Europe, writes Edmund Honohan

Wed, 16 Jul, 2025

Woman Doctor Or GP In Office Meeting Teenage Female Patient For Appointment
Do we need a new model for GP care?
The demand for GP visits is expected to increase by much as 30% in the next 15 years, with an extra 1,200 doctors needed to keep pace

Wed, 16 Jul, 2025

Troubled Ground: The story of the excavation of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home
Troubled Ground: The story of the excavation of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home
Irish Examiner podcast explores how local research into a hidden burial site sparked international outrage and official action

 Listen | Tue, 15 Jul, 2025

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IRISH Smoking 3
We banned smoking. So why can't we get warning labels on alcohol?
Alcohol Action Ireland chief says the powerful drink industry lobby has frustrated plans to put health warnings on its products

Tue, 15 Jul, 2025

A dedicated scientist is conducting a detailed experiment within a wellequipped laboratory, utilizing various test tubes and a p
Why medical research needs to be more inclusive — and what we’re doing about it
A new campaign at UCC aims to make health research more inclusive, to include under-served groups like women, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+ individuals, older adults, and people with disabilities

Tue, 15 Jul, 2025

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Have we learned any lessons after Grace?
The State has a unique opportunity to learn lessons from the ‘Grace’ abuse case and make sure every survivor’s voice is heard

Mon, 14 Jul, 2025

Mike Johnson,Benjamin Netanyahu
Dorcha Lee: Israel lets Trump take charge in Gaza talks
Up to now, Israel has never agreed to a peacekeeping mission for Gaza, but the US could persuade it, especially if US troops participate

Mon, 14 Jul, 2025

'Cork hurling is much more than just a game — it helped me bond with my dad’
'Cork hurling is much more than just a game — it helped me bond with my dad’
As his father faces motor neurone disease, James O'Sullivan reflects on Cork hurling, memory, masculinity, and the love passed down through sport

Mon, 14 Jul, 2025

The Mick Clifford Podcast: Who is in the mix to be the next president?
The Mick Clifford Podcast: Who is in the mix to be the next president?
Irish Examiner Political Editor Elaine Loughlin is this week’s guest on the podcast

 Listen | Fri, 11 Jul, 2025

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ISRAEL-PALESTINIAN-CONFLICT-PROTEST
Israeli parliament continues to assault its own citizens' civil rights
Attacks on the Supreme Court, legislation to silence human rights groups, and threats to abolish the public broadcaster shows liberties are in decline, writes Paul Kearns in Tel Aviv

Fri, 11 Jul, 2025

Achill island coastal scenery
Colin Sheridan: Better late than never for Achill’s broadband lifeline
State has finally delivered on the promise of reliable fast broadband connectivity

Fri, 11 Jul, 2025

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Thirty years on, Srebrenica still lives under the shadow of genocide
Time has passed, but it hasn't healed all the wounds in Bosnia and Herzegovina, because it suits some people to exploit the pains of the past for their own gain, writes UN special rapporteur Mary Lawlor

Fri, 11 Jul, 2025

When it comes to climate action, politicians can't see the wolves from the trees
When it comes to climate action, politicians can't see the wolves from the trees
When it comes to climate change and biodiversity, we ignore scientists and academics at our peril, writes Ciaran Brennan

Thu, 10 Jul, 2025

Cancer patient
'€50 for petrol, €22 for parking': Extra hospital costs 'add insult to injury' for cancer patients
Aside from the sometimes surreal experience of a life-threatening diagnosis like cancer, I genuinely wonder how families with children cope with out-of-pocket expenses. I’m a grown-up, with no kids, and increasingly find myself struggling, writes David Wilkins

Thu, 10 Jul, 2025

Stressed out mother sitting on floor while children running around her.
'Widowed at age 46, I parent alone.... None of us know when this might happen to them'
One-parent families are much more likely to experience financial hardship and homelessness than other families. They need society's support rather than left to soldier on alone, writes Suzanne Crowe

Wed, 09 Jul, 2025

Ireland
Pádraic Fogarty: U-turn shows Government is unwilling to protect Ireland's sea creatures
Micheál Martin's government has paid lip service to establishing new marine protected areas but the recent backflip on the bill and his government's failure to legislate to exclude large trawlers from coastal waters has increased the public's frustration

Wed, 09 Jul, 2025

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Fintan Drury: As genocide proceeds, Netanyahu is yet again being feted in Washington
As Donald Trump hosts Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, Fintan Drury details the alliance between Israel and the US, and suggests their relationship is deeply harmful to the West

Tue, 08 Jul, 2025

High school students writing an exam in the classroom.
Beyond the exam hall: Reclaiming the purpose of Irish education
The proliferation and prominence of private grind schools has put Leaving Cert points as the ultimate arbiter of a student's potential and future, and shifted the emphasis away from nurturing the wellbeing and broader development of the student 

Tue, 08 Jul, 2025

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Catherine Conlon: Drop in US junk food sales the break we need to cut unhealthy diets
Sales of junk food are slowing in the US. Introduction of a junk food tax could accelerate a shift in the food market so that everyone can afford healthy food, writes Catherine Conlon

Tue, 08 Jul, 2025

Covid changed everything — let’s use it to prepare for the future
Covid changed everything — let’s use it to prepare for the future
As many people as possible, from all walks of life, are asked to contribute to an evaluation and survey about covid-19, writes Nat O’Connor

Mon, 07 Jul, 2025

Irish police
Mick Clifford: Gun parts episode will further shake public trust in An Garda Síochána
Garda internal investigations have failed too many times to deserve public confidence, writes Mick Clifford

Mon, 07 Jul, 2025

Perception trumps reality: Did the US really destroy Iran's nuclear programme?
Perception trumps reality: Did the US really destroy Iran's nuclear programme?
Within hours of the US bombing, selected leaking to CNN from a preliminary US intelligence report sensationally contradicted Donald Trump’s claim that the Iranian nuclear complexes were obliterated

Mon, 07 Jul, 2025

Pa Daly: Why Sinn Féin is challenging the Government on super junior ministers
Pa Daly: Why Sinn Féin is challenging the Government on super junior ministers
If we allow the lines to be blurred, we invite further erosion of the democratic checks and balances that are essential to our system of government and to our democracy, writes Pa Daly

Mon, 07 Jul, 2025

Kyiv Residents Shelter In Subway Amid Russian Drone And-Missile Strike
It's been three years of sleepless nights for Ukrainians 
Sleepless nights due to air-raids and schooldays spent in windowless bomb shelters are now the norm for Ukraine's children. Europe must act to bring Ukraine into the fold, writes Thomas Byrne

Sun, 06 Jul, 2025

The Mick Clifford Podcast: DJ Carey, Conor McGregor and a dramatic week in the courts 
The Mick Clifford Podcast: DJ Carey, Conor McGregor and a dramatic week in the courts 
Sean Murray talks to Mick Clifford about some dramatic cases that came for hearing in the courts this week 

 Listen | Fri, 04 Jul, 2025

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Iraq Iran Israel Mideast Wars
Unreliability of Donald Trump's US means a cascade of nuclear armament is on the way
Since coming back to office, Trump has taken a wrecking ball to the rules-based international order which his predecessors put in place after 1945

Fri, 04 Jul, 2025

Aren't we all sick of watching dull rich people by now?
Aren't we all sick of watching dull rich people by now?
In the week after the most lavish wedding of all time, die-hard Sex and the City fan Cathy Cullen on And Just Like That, where everybody is rich and deathly dull

Fri, 04 Jul, 2025

Expo 2025 in Japan a curious beast as Ireland joins nations vying to show off heritage
Expo 2025 in Japan a curious beast as Ireland joins nations vying to show off heritage
Taoiseach arrives in the sweltering Osaka heat to visit the Ireland pavilion, featuring a black room illuminated only by spotlights, with the sounds of Irish wildlife and a diorama of a bog from back home

Thu, 03 Jul, 2025

Israel Palestinians
'Everything in Gaza finds a horrific, heartbreaking way to get worse'
The lack of water in Gaza means children, the elderly and the most vulnerable are now more in danger from thirst than hunger 

Thu, 03 Jul, 2025

Injured Woman Neck
Young women are getting strokes and seizures — it's time to ban 'choking' porn 
Young women are presenting at A&E with strokes, seizures and brain injuries, because of sexual techniques men are learning from pornography. We have to act, writes Ruth Breslin 

Thu, 03 Jul, 2025

Haiti Displaced
S Denis O'Brien: Why Ireland must support the Caribbean’s call for reparatory justice
As a former British colony, our nation profoundly understands the devastating legacy of colonialism and as such must lend our voice to this vital global justice issue

Thu, 03 Jul, 2025

Austerity budgets are a gift to populists
Austerity budgets are a gift to populists
Across Europe and elsewhere, governments’ embrace of socialism for the rich and austerity for everyone else has fuelled the rise of Maga-like populist movements

Wed, 02 Jul, 2025

Conor McGregor court case
S Cianan Brennan: McGregor makes a circus of the courts
All the anticipation and speculation regarding the fresh evidence would be for nothing

Tue, 01 Jul, 2025

Roderic O’Gorman: Budapest Pride was a rebuke to Orbán, we must keep an eye on his response
Roderic O’Gorman: Budapest Pride was a rebuke to Orbán, we must keep an eye on his response
Corrosive, ignorant and hate-filled commentary saturates our online discussion spaces, with our trans community being particular targets. This is not spontaneous or manifest of real public opinion - it is by design of the few who seek to manipulate the many, writes Roderic O’Gorman

Tue, 01 Jul, 2025

Iran US Timeline
Bombing our way to peace will not secure lasting nuclear deal
Far from curtailing Iran’s ambition to be seen as a regional power, the illegal attack on nuclear and military targets is just as likely to strengthen its resolve

Tue, 01 Jul, 2025

Government proposal on triple Lock gives an Irish solution to an Irish problem
Government proposal on triple Lock gives an Irish solution to an Irish problem
The 'self-imposed straitjacket' undermines Irish sovereignty and should have been constitutionally challenged years ago, writes Dorcha Lee

Tue, 01 Jul, 2025

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Israeli newspaper's claim IDF operates shoot-to-kill policy in Gaza sparks outrage among far right
Investigation by left-leaning 'Haaretz' journalists revealed both soldiers and army officers were, in their words, 'ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites in Gaza'

Mon, 30 Jun, 2025

Pádraig Rice: Cork City's library plans are too important to get wrong
Pádraig Rice: Cork City's library plans are too important to get wrong
Deciding how to upgrade Cork’s ageing city library will have a significant impact on our city for decades to come, writes Pádraig Rice

Mon, 30 Jun, 2025

Professor with a student having planet Earth visual presentation
Time to get creative on climate action for the generation most affected
It is critical we develop climate leadership among children and young people by actively involving them in understanding, addressing, and advocating for solutions to climate change

Mon, 30 Jun, 2025

Mick Clifford: What Evan Fitzgerald’s death tells us about power and policing
S Mick Clifford: What Evan Fitzgerald’s death tells us about power and policing
As the State seeks more power, troubling questions emerge about how existing authority was used in Evan Fitzgerald’s case

Fri, 27 Jun, 2025

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