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Demonising welfare recipients to woo the Blueshirt Hang ‘Em And Flog...

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“Okay, Martin, ready to play ‘Isn’t Leo Brilliant For Going After Social Welfare Recipient Scum’?” “Ready Bob!” “If someone is claiming social welfare, are they...

No-one in authority will ever pay for the betrayal of Grace....

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“Grace cut a sad figure in a wretched state who was voiceless, dirty and whose only possession was a child’s toy which she held...

A maternity hospital? Being given to the nuns? Come on.

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Dr Peter Boylan looked incredulous on the RTÉ Six-One News. “This is 2017. It’s Ireland. Can we not grow up and just stop… handing over...

Phoenix Miracle or Celtic Phoenix, Paddy never learns any lessons

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If there really is a recovery, Paddy seems determined not to learn any lessons from the greed and stupidity that drove us to the...

Direct Provision – ‘A recipe for horrors’ that ‘infantilises adults and...

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"I know I should be grateful," says "Kate" (not her real name) as she starts crying. "And I am. It's just…" She bursts into...

Students’ mixed feelings on delaying Bill for voting at 16 and...

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There was some mixed views amongst the students at St Fanahans College, Mitchelstown this week following the decision by the Seanad to delay a...

But first we pause for the new-look Angelus

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By Donal O’Keeffe “It’s six o’clock on RTÉ1 and we go shortly to Bryan Dobson and Sharon Ní Bheoláin for the Six One News, but...

The very least we can do is remember Cork’s Magdalene women

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Last week I did something I’ve never done before. I lodged a planning objection. The development to which I objected is proposed for a dangerously-derelict property,...

Bouncy Castle Catholics have questions to answer too

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Irish society was completely warped by the Catholic Church, writes Donal O’Keeffe. It’s time for a-la-carte Catholics to think about what they condone. The Catholic...

The only way Tuam Babies will get justice – send in...

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It was all true. Every word. 796 babies, dumped in a septic tank in Tuam. Last Friday, the Mother and Baby Home Commission of Investigation...

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