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Dec 2, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Fintan O’Toole
The best description of Ireland’s political landscape after Friday’s general election might be: strangely familiar. The familiar bit is easy. The two main incumbent parties, Micheál Martin’s Fianna Fáil and Simon Harris’s Fine Gael, received almost exactly the same combined share of the vote (43%) as they did in 2020. As a result, the identical twins of Irish politics that have governed the state since it came into being just over a century ago will continue to do so.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
almendron.com | Fintan O’Toole
La situación actual de Irlanda podría describirse mejor como la vergüenza de los ricos. Un país que durante mucho tiempo fue uno de los más pobres de Europa Occidental cuenta ahora con abundante riqueza pública y privada y una economía abierta al mundo.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Fintan O’Toole
6 hours agoThe £200m rescue package to increase access to NHS dentistry in England this year is not on track, a spending watchdog says. The dental recovery plan published by the Conservative government in February set a target of 1.5 million extra treatments in 2024-25. To achieve that, dentists were offered an …
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Fintan O’Toole
Irish start-up transforms forgotten old world materials into new collector's item timepiecesArís is a new startup in Co. Mayo, which transforms thrown away crockery, and transforms them into one of kind decorative timepieces and household …
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Fintan O’Toole
Ireland's current condition might best be described as an embarrassment of riches. A country that was long one of the poorest in Western Europe now has an abundance of public and private wealth and an economy that is open to the world.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
tacno.net | Fintan O’Toole
Karl Marx je slavno zabeležio da „Hegel negde primećuje da se sve velike svetskoistorijske činjenice i ličnosti pojavljuju tako reći dva puta. Zaboravio je da doda: jedanput kao tragedija, drugi put kao farsa“. Ubedljiva pobeda nad Kamalom Harris nesumnjivo je učinila Trumpa svetskoistorijskom ličnošću čiji će se uticaj još dugo osećati širom sveta. Ali drugi dolazak ovog puta nije bio farsa, već brutalna demonstracija sile.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
nybooks.com | Fintan O’Toole
Karl Marx famously wrote that “Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.” Donald Trump’s crushing victory over Kamala Harris makes him undoubtedly a world-historic personage whose impact will be felt around the world for a very long time. But his second coming is no farce. It is a brutal show of strength.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
nybooks.com | Fintan O’Toole
Karl Marx famously wrote that “Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.” Donald Trump’s crushing victory over Kamala Harris makes him undoubtedly a world-historic personage whose impact will be felt around the world for a very long time. But his second coming is no farce. It is a brutal show of strength.
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
nybooks.com | Jana Prikryl |Fintan O’Toole
Ferdia Lennon’s novel Glorious Exploits brings to life an episode from the Peloponnesian War, when seven thousand Athenian soldiers were captured and crowded into a quarry outside Syracuse after a failed attack on the city.
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Fintan O’Toole |Jana Prikryl
8 hours agoGran jailed for pension scam locked up with Ireland's most dangerous prisonersThis gran has been locked up with some of Ireland’s most dangerous women prisoners - after she was jailed for a massive pension scam. Margaret Bergin …3 hours agoPassengers evacuated after bus catches fire on M1 motorwayPASSENGERS WERE EVACUATED from a bus after it caught fire on the M1 motorway in north County Dublin in the early hours of the morning.
