Cahir O'Doherty

Snowflake by Louise Nealon announces an exciting new Irish novelist

Featuring a cast of intriguingly damaged characters, Snowflake by Louise Nealon has the power to make you gasp at its revelations and its sheer poetry, which often unfolds with the languid pace of a lucid dream.

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Gabriel Byrne's sleeper sci-fi hit War Of The Worlds a must watch

Gabriel Byrne brings Irish heart and soul to the utterly gripping sci-fi series War Of The Worlds (season two recently dropped on Epix)

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The insurrection will not end until it is confronted

Trump didn't represent the American Dream, he represented its shadow side, the one that sits on a crock of gold like an overfed leprechaun and gives a middle finger to his critics all over the world.

Cahir O'Doherty

Trump's legacy: dress rehearsals for fascism and the end of the world

Trump's far-right supporters have come closer than they ever have before to seizing power, and they have been energized by the experience, not chastened.

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Heroes of Ireland's Great Hunger celebrates men and women who risked it all

Maginn stood up for the rights of poor Catholics and that is why his legacy matters, Turlough McConnell writes.

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"The Deceived" by "Derry Girl's" Lisa McGee is an overheated gas

Review: "Containing more dramatic hooks than a bait and tackle shop, the first ten minutes of The Deceived set the tone for this delightfully overheated and over-the-top caper..."

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How Ireland's HB Ice Cream still brings back lost summers

For National Ice Cream Month Cahir O'Doherty remembers the HB Ice Cream of his youth in the 1980s.

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Climate change making Summer 2021 a bust in the US

Climate change is busy reshaping the planet's weather patterns.

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Suffering Seas: Colin Farrell and Jack O'Connell in dark dud

Ready to scratch your bleakest and most misanthropic itch? How about Colin Farrell's new drama The North Water, coming to AMC+ network on July 15.

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Bono Who? Inhaler sells out US tour

Before U2 were a global phenomenon, they were just a bunch of Dublin teenagers with a rock and roll dream. That's no different for Bono's second youngest son Elijah Hewson, 21, frontman of the Irish band Inhaler, who have just sold out their debut U.S. tour on the strength of their acclaimed new debut album.

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The one percent are now looking down on us from space

"Great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few does not trickle down or create great opportunity for the many."

Cahir O'Doherty

How 9/11 tragically changed America

The moment I saw the first image I knew. The world was changing.

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What is Irish cooking? "The Irish Cookbook" replies

What is Irish cuisine all about? An ambitious new Irish cookbook by Galway chef J.P. McMahon makes a reply.

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Donald Trump lit a political firestorm - it's still burning

"Trump is the American conservative white man's (and woman's) Ian Paisley and his disastrous four-year presidency is now their prelude to the Troubles."

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Netflix unveils riveting Irish crime series, Sophie: A Murder in West Cork

Netflix's new "Sophie: A Murder in West Cork" comes to its own shocking conclusions about the famous Irish murder in 1996.

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Northern Ireland Protocol is here, it's clear, get used to it

"DUP can point fingers... but the truth is that the UK has to honor its legal commitments and international law."

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New York Irish Center brings back live theatre

Great news! Live Irish theatre is coming back to New York.

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My first post-pandemic escape to Provincetown

Having survived the plague and that little season of hell we all went through, Cahir O'Doherty was aching to return to the place where his heart has felt lightest.

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False alarm: Pierce Brosnan shines in uneven False Positive

This new psychological horror 'False Positive' from Hulu stars Pierce Brosnan as the creepiest fertility specialist on the eastern seaboard.

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Leo Varadkar is right, it's always the right time to discuss a United Ireland

It's interesting that now even the most senior and conservative voices in Irish government now think a united Ireland is an aspiration whose time has come.

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Book Review: 'In Kiltumper: A Year in an Irish Garden'

Niall Williams and Christine Breen's magical book explores how they moved to Ireland 35 years ago on a romantic impulse to make a living off gardening and writing.

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Niamh Algar's breakout year arrives with Censor

With her name all over some of the biggest box office (and critically acclaimed) hits of summer 2021, it's undeniably Niamh Algar's moment.

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America's tax-avoiding billionaires are laughing at us

Next month, the billionaire CEO of Amazon Jeff Bezos, who has reportedly paid nothing in taxes for years at a time, will take a trip into outer space in his big Blue Origin rocket.

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Senate hearings for Trump's Covid-19 failures needed

"We should also reflect on the catastrophic and incompetent response of the Trump administration to the growing pandemic, the greatest national security threat."

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