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On The Ropes

Anthony McIntyre ☠ Sinn Fein is on the ropes.There is a sense that one more heavy punch will see it on the canvas hoping that it can get back up before the count completes. In the run up to an election, the party is facing the type of cross examination a deeply unpopular government, rather than the opposition, is subject to. What has kept it on its feet up to this point has been one

Revealed ⍟ Putin Has An Agent In The Oireachtas

Sunday Times 📰 Written by John Mooney. Recommended by Carrie Twomey. The Irish military and security ­services have identified a politician in the Oireachtas who has been recruited by Russian intelligence as an agent of influence and whose clandestine connections to Moscow remain intact, The Sunday Times can reveal.The existence of the agent, whom we are calling “Cobalt” for legal

Lynx By Ten To The Power Of One Thousand Three Hundred And Eleven

Ten links to a diverse range of opinion that might be of interest to TPQ readers. They are selected not to invite agreement but curiosity. Readers can submit links to pieces they find thought provoking.Before We Conform, Or Condemn, Let Us At Least Be CuriousJohn Mayall (The Bluesbreakers) 1933-2024In Memoriam: Johan Neeskens (1951-2024)Mary O’Rourke, the honest and outspoken

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Conspiracism 🟐 Theory, Myth, Fact And Scapegoats

Barry Gilheany 🪶 Conspiracy theories are now ever present memes in our digitally ultra connected but increasingly fragmented and atomised world.Maladies that are particularly prevalent in Anglophone and European societies where growing inequalities in wealth distribution, deindustrialisation with its accompanying flight of jobs to the Global South flight of capital of off-shore

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Ten links to a diverse range of opinion that might be of interest to TPQ readers. They are selected not to invite agreement but curiosity. Readers can submit links to pieces they find thought provoking.Before We Conform, Or Condemn, Let Us At Least Be CuriousIsraeli torture chambers aren’t new. They are what provoked the violence of Oct 7One year on, the world simply watches as Israel

Martial Politicians

Anthony McIntyre ☠ Because of the enduring influence and reach of its martial politicians Sinn Fein has traditionally managed to avoid washing dirty linen in public. Even if it meant sending an enforcer to someone's home, it was an effective way of ensuring dirty linen did not get washed so that dirty business could carry on as normal.Keeping a lid on dissent helps explain why Sinn Fein

Out Now 📚 Ian Hannigan

Merrion Press 🔖has just published a new book by Ian Hannigan.  

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Ten links to a diverse range of opinion that might be of interest to TPQ readers. They are selected not to invite agreement but curiosity. Readers can submit links to pieces they find thought provoking.Before We Conform, Or Condemn, Let Us At Least Be CuriousMacron scorns popular vote...and puts himself in the hands of the RNArgentine Poverty Rate Soars Under Far-Right LeaderHow Michel

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