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  • 1 week ago | irishtimes.com | Stephen Collins

    Sinn Féin’s objections to Ireland’s participation in a year of commemorations for the Normans in 2027 shows up that party’s continuing inability to respect the complexity of our history. Such a narrow-minded approach to the past raises serious questions about how the party would operate in the present if it ever got its hands on the levers of power.

  • 3 weeks ago | irishtimes.com | Stephen Collins

    As Tánaiste Simon Harris met his European Union trade counterparts in Brussels on Thursday to devise a response to Donald Trump‘s trade tariffs, the dilemma facing this country was brought into sharp relief. While a full-scale trade war will probably damage Ireland more than any other EU state, it is in our interests to give wholehearted support to the European response.

  • 3 weeks ago | philpostblog.wordpress.com | Stephen Collins

    By Stephen Collins/CNNAmericans are learning what it’s like to live with a president who sees no constraints on his actions and who apparently fears paying no price for them. In a blitz of recent policy moves, legal challenges, comments and interviews, Donald Trump is showing that he’s shedding the last limitations of custom and the public’s long understanding of how a president should behave.

  • 1 month ago | irishtimes.com | Stephen Collins

    Mark Carney‘s stunning victory in the Canadian election shows that the political centre can hold when led by a strong, intelligent figure – in particular, when it is led by a figure who is both capable of standing up to right-wing bullies and avoiding being ensnared by the progressive pieties that have discredited liberal political elites in the eyes of so many voters.

  • 1 month ago | irishtimes.com | Stephen Collins

    The recurring speculation about Irish unity, fuelled at regular intervals by former taoiseach Leo Varadkar, is not only pointless but actually counterproductive. It is worth remembering that the anti-partition rhetoric of leading Irish politicians in every decade since independence simply contributed to making the Border more permanent and did nothing to improve the lives of people, North or South.

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