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Lama Obeid is taking money from her wallet so she can pay to leave home. A few weeks earlier, she was handed every travel writer’s dream: a commission from Lonely Planet to write a guidebook on Egypt. She should be ecstatic. Instead, she is dreading it. To get to Cairo, Lama, 36, must cross the...

On stopping the game and uniting the island

Seán Óg Ó MurchúOctober 4, 2026

Like a lot of people, my first introduction to Mick Lynch came through a woman named Kay Burley. She was presenting for Sky News at the time, and one particular morning, her show featured an interview with the then General Secretary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT). Mick was live-streamed...

A Spectre is Haunting the Soft Left

Aoife Kilbane McGowanOctober 4, 2026

A spectre is haunting Ireland— the spectre of unity. And as the old official powers of partition, North and South, continue their unholy alliance to exorcise the tides of Republicanism, another section of the Southern polity is panicking. Nearly three in four under-35s in the Free State believe their government should immediately begin preparing for...

It’s all over on The Garvaghy Road

Ádhamh Ó Dubhghaill & Seán Óg Ó MurchúOctober 4, 2026

“Are you okay, nanny?” says a young woman as she holds an umbrella over her grandmother’s head. It’s five o’clock in the morning on the Garvaghy Road. The grandmother, wrapped in a puffy coat, sits in a deckchair on the footpath. They are two of hundreds of Garvaghy residents and supporters who have formed a...

Garvaghy Road raises questions Scotland’s politicians

Jim SlavenSeptember 28, 2026

The images from Garvaghy Road are thoroughly depressing. It is near impossible not to look at the footage and not be taken back to the 1990’s and all that played out in and around that small community. That they are having to go through this in 2026 (and for many families relive the darkest period...

Government are doing everything in their power to break tomorrow’s public sector strike

October 13, 2026

Tomorrow, Wednesday 14th October, over 300,000 public-sector workers across the 26 counties will go on strike. Set to be the largest work stoppage in the history of the state, unions are demanding the Government put cost-of-living measures and wage increases first on the agenda for any public sector pay deal negotiations. The last public sector...

Paying to Leave Home

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Budget 2027: It’s No Country For Young Men

October 7, 2026

As usual for our Schrödinger’s Government, the lead-up to this budget had many a Minister crying out that there wasn’t enough to go around to do what they wanted. But it appears Minister for Public Expenditure Jack Chambers has a pocketful of orange peels, and austerity-lite is back on the menu. Here’s a run-through of...

On stopping the game and uniting the island

October 4, 2026

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