Watching Mayo win, I said goodbye to Ireland
I watched Mayo’s long wait finally end from a Dublin hospital
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Mayo’s All-Ireland win has the world jealous
Or is this just macho fetishisation at work?
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Andy Burnham knows our nostalgia
Would my grandparents have been able to build such lives today?
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South Dublin: where even the prawns have a superiority complex
Grey skies and great seafood at Ireland’s best fish restaurant
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The sinking pub that won’t go under
There’s hardly a level surface in Roche’s, the boozer built on a bog in rural Ireland
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Beer and sandwiches: At Fitzgerald’s in Dublin
This column is our weekly pub review, written by pintsmen, women and children across the nation. Suggestions to our contact form
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Inside Ireland’s fuel protests
Farmers, hauliers and small contractors have brought parts of the country to a standstill
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Trump and Mamdani see two different Irelands
The country is a minor power and a major symbol
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In defence of Ulysses
James Joyce knew that the epic is not the exclusive property of warriors and kings
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AI is the perfect blend of insight and bullshit
Also this week: rainy Irish summers and too much sport on TV
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London misunderstands The Playboy of the Western World
The new National Theatre production is an uproarious and haunting portrait of rural Irish life
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After Troy Parrott’s goal, Ireland dreams once more
The rational world of actions and consequences feels a very long way away
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Around the world in 50 Irish pubs
Combine a bar, a microwave, a patronising invocation of “craic” and an Irish-sounding name, and you have a thriving business…
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The only way is Wexford
Also this week: A new president for Ireland, and an operatic national anthem
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Ireland gambles on Catherine Connolly
Her election is a triumph of the national id over its ego
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How Catherine Connolly captured Ireland’s imagination
Ireland will choose a new president on Friday
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Welcome to Viagra Town
How did a small former fishing village in rural Ireland come to be responsible for maintaining the world’s erections?
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Ireland is just getting angrier
Anti-immigration rioters in West Dublin have no one to ventriloquise their rage
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House of Guinness’s sinister, sepia world
The new drama from Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight expertly depicts the ruthless origins of Dublin’s brewing dynasty
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Leo Varadkar: the man who won Brexit
In his new memoir, the former taoiseach defends his polarising legacy
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