Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
We in Ireland forget how recently we were the ‘crap-job’ migrants
If we were serious about stopping people coming here to work in low-paid jobs, we would have to be willing to do three things
Gaza is also a war on the human instinct for compassion
When we learn to shut down pity, we summon the pitiless to power
Ireland in the 1980s was bloody awful, but there was at least one good reason not to emigrate
Galway’s Druid theatre company had a superb, stubborn belief that a basket case of a nation could also be a Moses basket
Magic coins fill the coffers of paranormal Ireland
State coffers beefed up by huge corporation tax takes, but Government knows it can’t rely on money tree to live forever
Tuam is a microcosm for Ireland’s history of discarded bones
The excavation that began on the site of the mother and baby home yesterday is making history in a double sense
Ireland has a proud history of opposing anti-Semitism
Outrage at the collective torture of Gaza is linked to our historical opposition to oppression
I have had more wives than Henry VIII. It’s news to me too
Artificial intelligence has trouble distinguishing fact from fiction, so it has to spew out absurd ‘factoids’ instead
Nuclear weapons have been in the Middle East for decades – not in Iran, but in Israel
Israel successfully created a reality distortion field in which the possible (Iran might get nuclear weapons) obscures the actual (Israel already has them)
Official documents are quietly disappearing from departmental websites. Why?
The range of departments engaged in this alarming disappearing act suggests it is not accidental
At a time when the boom is even boomer, this statistic should mortify us
The stark fact is that there are students sitting Junior and Leaving Cert exams today who went to bed hungry last night
Netanyahu’s big lie is that ‘They’ are not really the same species as ‘Us’
Right from the start of his assault on the population of Gaza, this has been Netanyahu’s mantra
If there’s so much buyer’s remorse about Brexit, why is Nigel Farage the rising figure in UK politics?
Ten years on, an angry tribe sees itself as more English than British - and Ireland must stay alert to the dangers
If you want to see how democracies cede to autocracies, watch as US universities bend to Trump
If a rich and famous institution such as Columbia doesn’t stand up for itself, what chance have millions of ordinary people?
Ireland is running out of priests. There is an obvious solution
Women priests: The Catholic Church is like a farmer complaining of a poor crop while ploughing only one depleted field and leaving the rest fallow
Kneecap and Boris Johnson have a lot in common
Kneecap have every right to make political interventions but they have to recognise they are not mere performance. The fun of “putting it out there” stops when what is out there is violence
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