As much as I want to roll my eyes at Prince Harry’s complaining, it’s clear he’s really miserable
The prince is arguing with the Home Office and the royal family about the level of security they will provide him
Finn McRedmond
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You don’t have to be religious to accept it was God who brought Trump and Zelenskiy together
The world looked at the Maratta painting of Jesus and the two mortals below it, and wondered if this was Francis’s final act
The child of a globalised world, I grew up with Chinese-made smartphones and fast fashion
Trade deals with the whole world was the dream in 2016; oh, we didn’t really mean it, is the sense in 2025
I was glad to see Conor McGregor mixing with Tucker Carlson. His stock is now even lower
I like to judge people by the company they keep - call me shallow, naive - and McGregor could not find much worse
AI panic: Artists angry that a machine is learning from their work should relax
Has no one noticed that art for as long as it has existed is entirely derivative? That humans are as mimetic as machines?
After years of skilfully playing both sides of the ‘Boston or Berlin’ binary, we must now choose one of them
European capitals have arguably been better friends of Ireland for a much longer time
We have enough Sad Irish Girl Wanders Around Dublin novels
In fact, we have too many books altogether. Two hundred thousand books are published annually in the UK alone
Michael D Higgins’s grandiose statements about military spending won’t raise Ireland’s stock
The universe where Ireland can bask in our peacenik status is gone
Why do so many Irish men look Australian? Ireland is under a sort of reverse colonisation
The unholy mullet-moustache diptych is a sign that the emigrant experience works both ways
Apolitical Oscars a chilling sign of the times
Apolitical Oscars indicative of sense that world is sinking into total fatalistic malaise
Timothée Chalamet’s overt pursuit of greatness is a refreshing break from faux ‘who me?’ humility
Chalamet’s speech is a tonic to the jaded insouciance, the fear of being seen as a ‘try hard’, that has taken over
Debates over Rishi Sunak’s Englishness or Leo Varadkar’s Irishness are deranged
It’s rightly treated with the same disdain - not because it's too provocative, but because it's too weird
Kanye West has taken vice-signalling to a new level of brutishness. Can he come back?
The pendulum will probably find a position of equilibrium between the priggish extravagances of the 2010s and the nastiness of the current moment
This is a good time to recognise all that Salman Rushdie sacrificed for free speech
The conflict between the right to individual speech versus the need to accommodate the sensibilities of so-called marginalised groups became a perennial theme of the 2010s
I am tired of explaining Michael D Higgins’s words to incredulous English people
Criticism in the UK that should be limited to the President is spilling over as some go on the offensive, making sweeping generalisations about Ireland’s entire national character
Maybe Mark Zuckerberg is right - it’s time to celebrate ‘masculine energy’ again
A society that enjoyed the denigration of men was always going to face a reckoning
Could religion be the antidote to declining birth rates, celebrity worship and political polarisation?
This new religiosity is a backlash to the the hyper-secularisation that Britain and the US went through. But don’t expect it to take off in Ireland just yet
Ireland cannot rely on a soft and woolly international reputation anymore
Greatest task facing the new government is restoring Ireland’s standing in Europe and the world
The worst of this strange decade of wokeness is over
Measures designed to change material realities matter more than sociocultural pieties
Restoration of Notre Dame shows hard things can be achieved if we’re not afraid to be ambitious
We must stop mistaking a lack of ambition in planning and building for caution and rule-following
To the French, Germans and even the Brits, Ireland is blessed with boring politics
Amid criticism of Ireland’s domestic politics making it hard for new ideas to break through, there’s something to be said for ‘same old, same old’
I cringed at Paul Mescal’s Brit-bashing
If Ireland wants to maintain the self-belief that it is a nation of wisecrackers and comedians then it will need to work a bit harder than this
MasterChef star Gregg Wallace’s bad behaviour was not ‘uncovered’, it was widely known
All it took was for someone to finally decide that it was time to care
The thought of Conor McGregor draped in an Irish flag on a global stage is shameful
To think of all that time we spent embarrassed by Bono’s oppressive sincerity
I could live with celebrity politicians if they were all like Jeremy Clarkson
Clarkson’s personal crusade against the British government feels very of-the-moment, symbolic of a mode of politics sweeping Europe
Ireland needs its own Joe Rogan, someone to question liberal orthodoxies
There are lessons for Ireland from the US election about the disconnect between establishment voices and the feelings of the electorate
Young, aggrieved men may not have won the election for Trump, but he knows how to speak to them
Lesson from the US election is that liberals must realise young men have problems too
We’re meant to bask in Saoirse Ronan’s feminist triumph, but I find it all a bit nauseating
An actor’s entire job is to occupy the mind and body of someone else, not to be interesting themselves
The genius of Donald Trump’s McDonald’s stunt
Discrediting his moments of rhetorical or aesthetic flair as the work of nasty impulses ensures the Democrats will never learn from them
God help us all, Russell Brand has found religion
Christianity has been around for some time and will weather this particular trend cycle, no matter Russell Brand’s risible public display. And these online Christian gurus will find a new cause celebre
It’s worse than George Orwell imagined. There’s no need to ban books no one wants to read
What Aldous Huxley feared has come to pass: we are drowning in a sea of irrelevance
Varadkar seems intent on ensuring Ireland continues to haunt Starmer’s Britain
If Keir Starmer wants to be remembered as a prime minister for the United Kingdom, not just England, he needs to address the question of a Border poll
Politicians must stop being management consultants and become storytellers
Without the energy and charisma of a storyteller - Boris Johnson, Bertie Ahern - a country has nothing to believe in
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