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Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns has said her party will not enter into a formal left-wing alliance ahead of the next general election. She will talk to all parties about government formation after the election, but encouraging voters to...
1 Denial It’s not a heatwave. It may look like a heatwave, quack like a heatwave, but some people will delight in telling you that technically it does not meet the specifications for a heatwave. 1a. Elation The thing that looks...
● Esme Power (6), from Co Meath, admires the colours at Bloom in the Phoenix Park, Dublin.
It took having a chronic illness for me to fully appreciate the appeal of cults. If you had asked me when I was healthy and taking it for granted, if I could ever see myself submitting money and personal freedom to an organisation...
Last year, for the first time in my 30-plus years living on the same street, some enterprising young neighbours organised a street party. They strung balloons and bunting from the lampposts, got a temporary road closure permit so the kids...
Leo Cullen is 48. He has spent 29 of those years involved with Leinster in some shape or form and but for a two-year stint at Leicester, he would have been there for 31 consecutive years. From his first Leinster appearance as a schoolboy in...
All my friends have ADHD. OK, that’s a slight exaggeration. A surprising number of my friends have ADHD. I am neurotypical myself — as far as I know anyway — but neurodivergent people often naturally gravitate together. Apparently,...
The left’s awake. Down in Galway West, they have been celebrating the colossal vote of Labour candidate Helen Ogbu in last weekend’s by-election. In Dublin, Social Democrat Daniel Ennis won a handsome victory. In both constituencies, the...
