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Mr. President do your job, stop the cheap racial shots

With so much going wrong in the world, Trump decided it was time to go after black athletes for not wanting to come to the White House.

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Catholic University’s Chelsea Manning problem

Whose voice are we listening to? Ultra-conservative Catholics -- Bannon-style kooks -- who hate the Pope and all of his open-minded mumbo jumbo.

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Smell of an open fire in Ireland is intoxicating but what Is Irish turf?

For Irish people the word “turf” conjures up dreams of lapping flames, and the distinctive smells of a turf fire.

Cahir O'Doherty

Cahir O'Doherty

Donald Trump is a relic from the past

The power in nostalgia - an American president who so embodied the past still moving though the present.

Niall O'Dowd

Bono should refuse George W Bush award and apologize to Donald Trump

Bono slams "moral arc" under current president as Bush plans to honor U2 front man for work in Africa.

Irish Voice

Beauty, art and hardship of Loving Vincent starring Saoirse Ronan

Gloriously ambitious new telling of the last troubled year in the life of the father of modern art, Vincent van Gogh, is entirely painted.

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All aboard the Belfast budget Brexit train

Brexit is already affecting the Republic of Ireland and the North before it even starts.

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American and returning emigrant drivers discriminated against in Ireland

United States left out – folks with American driver's licenses aren't entitled to an Irish license if they plan on settling there.

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The Mayo GAA All-Ireland curse will never end

The county cannot catch a break in a truly mystifying series of events that defies all description.

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Is this the most offensive Irish t-shirt ever created?

Bigotry works both ways, as this odious anti-Irish and anti-black t-shirt reminds us.

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Trump may get us all killed over North Korea -- Learn from JFK, Mr. President

Trump's UN General Assembly speech about North Korea shows he needs to learn a thing or two from JFK.

Irish Voice

Two Irish women in New York and two very different fates

Margaret Kilkenny, an Irish chambermaid and Ida Woods, a formerly poor Irish immigrant, turned socialite and eventually reclusive hoarder

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The really scary thing about Stephen King’s clown horror “It”

Why are so many Americans - including many Irish Catholics - cheering for the bullies in 2017?

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Cormac MacConnell’s peachy victorious updated obituary

Master storyteller's imagines his death after hunger strike in Mountjoy having attacked Donald Trump, im-peaching him.

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Ireland is not a theme park - tourists need to get real

The Cead Mile Failte is still important but it needs to be backed up with the real thing, not the diddley-eye version of an Irish holiday.

History

Was Easter Rising 1916 martyr Michael Mallin set up by the British?

Happy 104th Birthday Fr Joseph Mallin, son of 1916 martyr. You are right, the British set up your father.

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Up Mayo! All-Ireland winners will be legends achieving the impossible dream

On Sunday, September 17, the greatest sporting event on the Irish calendar each year will take place, witnessed by 83k fans at Croke Park.

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Irish leader Leo Vardakar’s very unlikely political hero

Why is Sean Lemass being celebrated in new Taoiseach's office while Michael Collins is shunted off to the wall opposite?

Niall O'Dowd

President Trump doing the right thing despite Republicans panicking

Dinner with Pelosi and Schumer and a deal on DACA. Right on Don!

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Is The Quiet Man misogynistic and outdated?

On the 65th anniversary of the release of The Quiet Man I watched it for the first time.

Irish Voice

Vexing and tragic crisis of homelessness in Ireland

Truth is that even though we do have a very serious housing shortage, particularly in Dublin, relatively few people here end up on the street.

Politics

Hurricane Donald changes direction, blows away Freedom Caucus frenemies

The decision last week by Donald Trump to join with Typhoon Chuck Schumer and mini-me stormtrooper Nancy Pelosi took the entire weather-beaten GOP by surprise.

Irish Voice

Ireland’s rain and all its perspective’s not so bad

"I met two... ladies during showers of rain in Co. Mayo years ago, and their reactions to the rain falling down on top of them were sharply contrasting."

Niall O'Dowd

Remembering Father Mychal Judge and our other heroes of 9/11

Sixteen years on the heroic memories of Ground Zero's first-responders live on for New Yorkers.

Cahir O'Doherty

Children imprisoned in Ireland with “no status”

"Mankind cannot bear very much reality, wrote T.S. Eliot. It seems that Irish society cannot bear very much truth telling, either."

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