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This week Taoiseach Micheál Martin announced his intention to push ahead with the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025, aiming to do away with the triple lock. The triple lock is not ideal but it is necessary until the Irish people have been given the opportunity to …
Ireland has seen a renewed and worrying rise in the number of bovine Tuberculosis (bTB) cases in recent years. From a low point of approximately 3% of the national herd being affected in 2015, numbers have steadily risen to over 6% in 2025 – a …
On January 29, 2024, a five-year-old girl named Hind Rajab was trapped in a car in northern Gaza, surrounded by the bloody corpses of her relatives. They had been shot to death by the IDF, Israel’s military. We know this because Hind was on the …
In today’s Irish Times I read that Trump says Israel has agreed to a 60 day ceasefire in Gaza. A pause is certainly better than an ongoing slaughter. But it is nowhere even close to good enough. In January of this year a ceasefire was …
I read Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler recently. A dystopian fantasy, set in the 2020s and 30s, that seems worryingly prescient now. What’s the story? The Parable of the Sower is a dystopian fantasy novel set in Southern …