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At about half past nine last Saturday evening I had a weird dream that Ireland’s senior rugby team beat the ‘unbeatable’ New Zealand’s ‘All Blacks’ in a bone crunching game played at Chicago’s ‘Soldier Field’ football grounds. I can still in my mind ...

15 Nov 2016 at 11:05

McHugh's Miscellany: Democratic ways and accountability need language reboot

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McHugh's Miscalleny: Democratic ways and accountability need language reboot

It was appropriate to see Micheál Martin getting due credit recently for introducing the smoking ban in Irish workplaces 20 years ago. And boy did the tobacco industry and other so-called “alliances” try to undermine attempts to allow Irish people ...

08 Apr 2024 at 14:56

National News

Sinn Féin takes the lead in latest opinion poll

The latest Irish Times/Ipsos MRBI opinion poll shows a sharp fall for Fine Gael which has opened up a 10-point lead for Sinn Féin, as the party strengthens its position as the most popular party among voters. Sinn Féin now has the support of ...

07 Oct 2021 at 10:56

Local News

New opinion poll shows increase in support for Sinn Féin

A new opinion poll shows an increase in popularity for Sinn Féin while Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and the Green Party have all lost support. Today’s Sunday Business Post Red C poll shows an increase of four points to 33 per cent for Sinn Féin, ...

24 Oct 2021 at 16:26

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OPINION: It Occurs To Me - Donegal Cancer Group asking questions

We are not going away!” The defiant words of Betty Holmes of Donegal Action Cancer Care recently in a strongly worded letter to Minister for Health, Simon Harris. Betty added: “We had also over recent months been proactive raising the ...

26 Nov 2016 at 09:00

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Anything is achievable

My love of people and getting the message out there gave me the motivation to do two and a half years of study at the North West College of Further and Higher Education. The course of choice was a part time Foundation Degree in ...

18 Nov 2016 at 11:32

OPINION: There is a staggering gender gap in the Dáil but here's why quotas will never work

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OPINION: Is the staggering gender gap in the Dáil a sign gender quotas don't work?

There has been deep disappointment expressed by grassroots groups, feminist organisations and the general public across the country as it became clear the jaw-dropping gender imbalance in the new Government. As it stands, ...

02 Feb 2025 at 09:55

National News

OPINION: Let's be honest, you'd have all taken Tubridy's money and Marty's car!

There’s an uncomfortable truth to the RTÉ pay scandal. Ryan Tubridy, the voice and face of a nation, we’ve since found out was paid more than what RTÉ said he was paid from 2017 to 2019 in public declarations by the ...

14 Jul 2023 at 10:16

Northern Ireland

Sinn Fein inches further ahead of other parties in opinion poll

Sinn Fein has further increased its support, according to a new opinion poll. The survey, carried out by Ireland Thinks for the Sunday Independent, indicates that support for Sinn Fein is at 34%, up three ...

05 Aug 2023 at 18:44

National News

OPINION: Libraries are safe places, they should be protected

“THE realm of literature is now being targeted,” an author recently told me over coffee. At the time, I didn’t realise how far it could go - far being a key word here. This summer, protests have been ...

03 Aug 2023 at 10:50

National News

OPINION: Interested in X? Meet the 52-year-old man obsessed with naming everything with this letter

Personalised social media was all the rage in the early days of the internet. A whole generation of teenagers taught themselves HTML and CSS coding so they could redesign and customise profiles on ...

24 Jul 2023 at 16:53

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OPINION: Pointing fingers at an individual in power is what we do very well

THE OPINION article that Willie O’Dea had published in the Sunday Independent criticising Justice Minister Helen McEntee is one that suggests finger pointing. Whatever does a ‘woke gallery’ mean, ...

17 Jul 2023 at 16:00

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