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c-it-byline--list"><span>By</span><span> Olivia O'Leary</span></span></div></div></div></article><article class="b-flex-promo-card b-flex-promo-card__image-square b-flex-promo-card__image-left bottom-divider"><figure class="c-media-item"><div style="aspect-ratio:1;background-color:var(--global-neutral-1)" class=""><a class="c-link b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/opinion/2024/11/29/cillian-murphys-view-of-ireland-in-the-1980s-as-the-fking-dark-ages-misses-the-point/" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="Cillian Murphy’s view of Ireland in the 1980s as ‘the dark ages’ misses the point" class="c-image" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/6ZTUHQ3FIJHHPND7H4SX4V7W7E.JPG?focal=2772%2C1926&auth=74fb667193a235e2d828befdc68c5a91de2cd8d9500b3a80b68889db478c9506&width=274&height=274" 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href="/opinion/2024/11/29/cillian-murphys-view-of-ireland-in-the-1980s-as-the-fking-dark-ages-misses-the-point/">Cillian Murphy’s view of Ireland in the 1980s as ‘the dark ages’ misses the point</a></h3><div class="b-flex-promo-card__metadata"><span class="c-it-byline c-it-byline--list"><span>By</span><span> Diarmaid Ferriter</span></span></div></div></div></article></div></div><div class="c-stack grid-item " data-style-direction="vertical" data-style-justification="start" data-style-alignment="unset" data-style-inline="false" data-style-wrap="nowrap"><div class="c-stack b-flex-promo-list-block" data-style-direction="vertical" data-style-justification="start" data-style-alignment="unset" data-style-inline="false" data-style-wrap="nowrap" style="--c-stack-gap:1rem"><article class="b-flex-promo-card b-flex-promo-card__image-square b-flex-promo-card__image-left bottom-divider"><figure class="c-media-item"><div style="aspect-ratio:1;background-color:var(--global-neutral-1)" class=""><a 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https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/WGFCBXOAP5EAVK7ERJKQVON7JA.JPG?focal=2984%2C629&auth=063d9007d1f4490144adb6186884b57057c1b60ed4787669e5f31bf245810e45&width=800&height=800 800w" sizes="(max-width: 400px) 400px, (max-width: 440px) 440px, (min-width: 441px) 800px" width="274" height="274"/></a></div></figure><div class="b-flex-promo-card__text b-flex-promo-card__text-image-left b-flex-promo-card__text-image-square-left"><div class="b-flex-promo-card__text-no-overline"><h3 class="c-heading c-heading__sm text-align_left"><a class="c-link font-bold" href="/opinion/2024/11/29/something-is-rotten-when-conor-mcgregor-walks-out-of-the-four-courts-into-a-frenzy-of-young-fans/">Conor McGregor was facilitated by a culture of entitlement and cheered on by adoring fans</a></h3><div class="b-flex-promo-card__metadata"><span class="c-it-byline c-it-byline--list"><span>By</span><span> Justine McCarthy</span></span></div></div></div></article><article class="b-flex-promo-card 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Unless there is a huge surge for one or two parties – as happened in 1992, 2011 and again in 2020 – gains and losses happen at the margins.” <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/11/29/the-election-battlefield-for-the-big-three-where-ff-fg-and-sf-hope-to-gain-and-could-lose-seats/\" target=\"_blank\">This piece </a>from <b>Harry McGee</b> is well worth a few minutes of your day.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UVLKHLVD4BGG7CY6D7KQR4C6AY","additional_properties":{"_id":"GDWJWY2GDVBBTHZHHGZ7YZJPTY"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732866764993},"id":"timestamp-31603","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"UBSUO3YD2NDUDOP4JSOPH2BJVM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732867831484},"content":"“The people of Ireland will vote for freedom.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"7MHSV5B3HJCYRF57ERZW6XL3LU","additional_properties":{"_id":"4UEIK4RCPVE4THD67NRVBXEI6M"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732867840212},"id":"timestamp-12880","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"BR3IQCNLDBALVPNT7JKRKSXRWU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732868908504},"content":"Still undecided? 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How does it work?<b> Sarah Burns </b>has some answers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BEPGHREF6JBJXOJSYI7UBIGAUU","additional_properties":{"_id":"HH56JDV3CFDN5LBLZITIUHN7P4"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732869208013},"id":"timestamp-60077","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"PIPMOATDYFDKDBSIYCU4YDK23I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732871895307},"content":"Simon Harris has aid he was “feeling really good today” as he arrived with his family at Delgany National School in Co Wicklow to vote just before 7.30am.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M3SPVZUY3VBW7LLCHMVTFY6ABM","additional_properties":{"_id":"NVK6W75X6BDH5JF7CXFYVFJW2Y"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732871757350},"id":"timestamp-32217","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"CXDCANP7WFAPVMLB6SKQSIQF6U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732871895313},"content":"And in case you miss it, this is <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/11/28/general-election-2024-how-the-irish-times-will-cover-the-results-and-key-times-to-watch-out-for/\" target=\"_blank\">how we will be covering the count.</a> It’s an all hands on deck kind of affair.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5GFN3VR3YRBBFHNHOLRMHVENUM","additional_properties":{"_id":"6PAGZ25AR5DJVG2VQR2H62RKHM"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732871904535},"id":"timestamp-3090","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"BFG6TXIJUVEU7MRYXTUTAR4SUU","additional_properties":{"_id":"YD5J7TYSABCDNLAVCTXSWZUZGQ"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732872207628},"id":"timestamp-51225","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"PNBJTSYE3BGVXB2LPRM6MADHKA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732872607567},"content":"An Coimisiún Toghcháin’s head of electoral operations Tim Carey has warned voters not to write anything but numbers on their ballot papers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DK3XB64VCNCBNLALK54RIT23XE","additional_properties":{"_id":"EFUSQR6QNVGNBLZVEHLZFJKWF4"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732876532241},"id":"timestamp-28553","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"CGYPK7MMYRBPVN7UZSGPBJLQ7U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732877794373},"content":"The Tánaiste and Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has said he is “cautiously hopeful” of the outcome of what he called a “close fought” election battle.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JG3BGLQIWVAPJL3WDU2HB45EP4","additional_properties":{"_id":"4J3BZM4XVVFTPEV3QGUAEY2LEQ"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732876861448},"id":"timestamp-10510","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"TW2WU4NUFFBLZOVZDKMQMY4Z3Y","additional_properties":{"_id":"4KEBAN4MEBARPOL5QKKUAEOUSA"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732877280096},"id":"timestamp-62193","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"22G6VQ3D3NGRXGMNAUFJSSUWRY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732877794382},"content":"There is some talk of turnout coming in. 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Depending on how it attracts transfers (and it is transfer friendly) the party could see its seat numbers creep into double figures. Likewise, Labour will be content enough with its showing of 5 per cent. It’s an increase on its 2020 election result of 4.4 per cent, if borne out, and could deliver extra seats for the party.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GGPLC33JWBCMHEYMIKXNAFWWVQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"IVKZBDPNJZEX3F4SYFS6BCSEVM"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732919666612},"id":"timestamp-35173","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"SFFEGE4FKBBQBLLZG66LFJ44MI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136792},"content":"There is a slight bias toward the two Government parties over Sinn Féin. 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Unless there is a huge surge for one or two parties – as happened in 1992, 2011 and again in 2020 – gains and losses happen at the margins.” <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/11/29/the-election-battlefield-for-the-big-three-where-ff-fg-and-sf-hope-to-gain-and-could-lose-seats/\" target=\"_blank\">This piece </a>from <b>Harry McGee</b> is well worth a few minutes of your day.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UVLKHLVD4BGG7CY6D7KQR4C6AY","additional_properties":{"_id":"GDWJWY2GDVBBTHZHHGZ7YZJPTY"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732866764993},"id":"timestamp-31603","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"UBSUO3YD2NDUDOP4JSOPH2BJVM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732867831484},"content":"“The people of Ireland will vote for freedom.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"7MHSV5B3HJCYRF57ERZW6XL3LU","additional_properties":{"_id":"4UEIK4RCPVE4THD67NRVBXEI6M"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732867840212},"id":"timestamp-12880","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"BR3IQCNLDBALVPNT7JKRKSXRWU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732868908504},"content":"Still undecided? 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How does it work?<b> Sarah Burns </b>has some answers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BEPGHREF6JBJXOJSYI7UBIGAUU","additional_properties":{"_id":"HH56JDV3CFDN5LBLZITIUHN7P4"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732869208013},"id":"timestamp-60077","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"PIPMOATDYFDKDBSIYCU4YDK23I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732871895307},"content":"Simon Harris has aid he was “feeling really good today” as he arrived with his family at Delgany National School in Co Wicklow to vote just before 7.30am.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M3SPVZUY3VBW7LLCHMVTFY6ABM","additional_properties":{"_id":"NVK6W75X6BDH5JF7CXFYVFJW2Y"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732871757350},"id":"timestamp-32217","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"CXDCANP7WFAPVMLB6SKQSIQF6U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732871895313},"content":"And in case you miss it, this is <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/11/28/general-election-2024-how-the-irish-times-will-cover-the-results-and-key-times-to-watch-out-for/\" target=\"_blank\">how we will be covering the count.</a> It’s an all hands on deck kind of affair.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5GFN3VR3YRBBFHNHOLRMHVENUM","additional_properties":{"_id":"6PAGZ25AR5DJVG2VQR2H62RKHM"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732871904535},"id":"timestamp-3090","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"BFG6TXIJUVEU7MRYXTUTAR4SUU","additional_properties":{"_id":"YD5J7TYSABCDNLAVCTXSWZUZGQ"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732872207628},"id":"timestamp-51225","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"PNBJTSYE3BGVXB2LPRM6MADHKA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732872607567},"content":"An Coimisiún Toghcháin’s head of electoral operations Tim Carey has warned voters not to write anything but numbers on their ballot papers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DK3XB64VCNCBNLALK54RIT23XE","additional_properties":{"_id":"EFUSQR6QNVGNBLZVEHLZFJKWF4"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732876532241},"id":"timestamp-28553","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"CGYPK7MMYRBPVN7UZSGPBJLQ7U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732877794373},"content":"The Tánaiste and Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has said he is “cautiously hopeful” of the outcome of what he called a “close fought” election battle.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JG3BGLQIWVAPJL3WDU2HB45EP4","additional_properties":{"_id":"4J3BZM4XVVFTPEV3QGUAEY2LEQ"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732876861448},"id":"timestamp-10510","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"TW2WU4NUFFBLZOVZDKMQMY4Z3Y","additional_properties":{"_id":"4KEBAN4MEBARPOL5QKKUAEOUSA"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732877280096},"id":"timestamp-62193","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"22G6VQ3D3NGRXGMNAUFJSSUWRY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732877794382},"content":"There is some talk of turnout coming in. 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Depending on how it attracts transfers (and it is transfer friendly) the party could see its seat numbers creep into double figures. Likewise, Labour will be content enough with its showing of 5 per cent. It’s an increase on its 2020 election result of 4.4 per cent, if borne out, and could deliver extra seats for the party.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GGPLC33JWBCMHEYMIKXNAFWWVQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"IVKZBDPNJZEX3F4SYFS6BCSEVM"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732919666612},"id":"timestamp-35173","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"SFFEGE4FKBBQBLLZG66LFJ44MI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136792},"content":"There is a slight bias toward the two Government parties over Sinn Féin. 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Unless there is a huge surge for one or two parties – as happened in 1992, 2011 and again in 2020 – gains and losses happen at the margins.” <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/11/29/the-election-battlefield-for-the-big-three-where-ff-fg-and-sf-hope-to-gain-and-could-lose-seats/\" target=\"_blank\">This piece </a>from <b>Harry McGee</b> is well worth a few minutes of your day.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UVLKHLVD4BGG7CY6D7KQR4C6AY","additional_properties":{"_id":"GDWJWY2GDVBBTHZHHGZ7YZJPTY"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732866764993},"id":"timestamp-31603","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"UBSUO3YD2NDUDOP4JSOPH2BJVM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732867831484},"content":"“The people of Ireland will vote for freedom.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"7MHSV5B3HJCYRF57ERZW6XL3LU","additional_properties":{"_id":"4UEIK4RCPVE4THD67NRVBXEI6M"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732867840212},"id":"timestamp-12880","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"BR3IQCNLDBALVPNT7JKRKSXRWU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732868908504},"content":"Still undecided? 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How does it work?<b> Sarah Burns </b>has some answers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BEPGHREF6JBJXOJSYI7UBIGAUU","additional_properties":{"_id":"HH56JDV3CFDN5LBLZITIUHN7P4"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732869208013},"id":"timestamp-60077","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"PIPMOATDYFDKDBSIYCU4YDK23I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732871895307},"content":"Simon Harris has aid he was “feeling really good today” as he arrived with his family at Delgany National School in Co Wicklow to vote just before 7.30am.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M3SPVZUY3VBW7LLCHMVTFY6ABM","additional_properties":{"_id":"NVK6W75X6BDH5JF7CXFYVFJW2Y"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732871757350},"id":"timestamp-32217","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"CXDCANP7WFAPVMLB6SKQSIQF6U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732871895313},"content":"And in case you miss it, this is <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/11/28/general-election-2024-how-the-irish-times-will-cover-the-results-and-key-times-to-watch-out-for/\" target=\"_blank\">how we will be covering the count.</a> It’s an all hands on deck kind of affair.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5GFN3VR3YRBBFHNHOLRMHVENUM","additional_properties":{"_id":"6PAGZ25AR5DJVG2VQR2H62RKHM"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732871904535},"id":"timestamp-3090","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"BFG6TXIJUVEU7MRYXTUTAR4SUU","additional_properties":{"_id":"YD5J7TYSABCDNLAVCTXSWZUZGQ"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732872207628},"id":"timestamp-51225","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"PNBJTSYE3BGVXB2LPRM6MADHKA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732872607567},"content":"An Coimisiún Toghcháin’s head of electoral operations Tim Carey has warned voters not to write anything but numbers on their ballot papers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DK3XB64VCNCBNLALK54RIT23XE","additional_properties":{"_id":"EFUSQR6QNVGNBLZVEHLZFJKWF4"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732876532241},"id":"timestamp-28553","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"CGYPK7MMYRBPVN7UZSGPBJLQ7U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732877794373},"content":"The Tánaiste and Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has said he is “cautiously hopeful” of the outcome of what he called a “close fought” election battle.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JG3BGLQIWVAPJL3WDU2HB45EP4","additional_properties":{"_id":"4J3BZM4XVVFTPEV3QGUAEY2LEQ"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732876861448},"id":"timestamp-10510","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"TW2WU4NUFFBLZOVZDKMQMY4Z3Y","additional_properties":{"_id":"4KEBAN4MEBARPOL5QKKUAEOUSA"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732877280096},"id":"timestamp-62193","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"22G6VQ3D3NGRXGMNAUFJSSUWRY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732877794382},"content":"There is some talk of turnout coming in. 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Depending on how it attracts transfers (and it is transfer friendly) the party could see its seat numbers creep into double figures. Likewise, Labour will be content enough with its showing of 5 per cent. It’s an increase on its 2020 election result of 4.4 per cent, if borne out, and could deliver extra seats for the party.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GGPLC33JWBCMHEYMIKXNAFWWVQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"IVKZBDPNJZEX3F4SYFS6BCSEVM"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732919666612},"id":"timestamp-35173","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"SFFEGE4FKBBQBLLZG66LFJ44MI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136792},"content":"There is a slight bias toward the two Government parties over Sinn Féin. 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hard to pick a highlight of this most dull of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/election2024/\" target=\"_blank\">election campaigns</a>. It only sparked into life – albeit briefly – twice. The first occasion was when <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/michael-o-leary/\" target=\"_blank\">Michael O’Leary</a>, the Ryanair boss who is not seeking election to anything, slagged off teachers whilst helping launch the campaign of his local <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/fine-gael/\" target=\"_blank\">Fine Gael</a> TD. His trademark off-the-cuff trolling was taken both literally and seriously by a political and media class that really should have known better.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7CGIAZQIAFGTBNF4NI67F56RYY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732724546539},"content":"The second brief flare-up followed <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/simon-harris/\" target=\"_blank\">Simon Harris</a> ticking off disability worker <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/11/27/a-dull-election-campaign-failed-to-shake-apathetic-electorate-out-of-its-slumber/\" target=\"_blank\">Charlotte Fallon</a><a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/11/27/a-dull-election-campaign-failed-to-shake-apathetic-electorate-out-of-its-slumber/\" target=\"_blank\"> in a supermarket</a> whilst the cameras were rolling. This and his subsequent grovelling passed for a defining moment of the campaign.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YVCRGBMTGBE4FLWX4I7J52GTGY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732724546540},"content":"Apart from these two utterly non-seismic political moments, the three weeks have dragged by in a yawn-inducing succession of manifesto launches, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/11/27/leaders-election-debate-analysis-clear-winner-emerges-from-slow-bicycle-race/\" target=\"_blank\">TV debates</a> and halfhearted “gotcha” journalism. But such is the price of democracy and we are lucky to have it.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZDMUB4G2IRARNNJNXFPROWENCU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732724546541},"content":"Anyway, opinion polls show that people’s voting intentions are pretty much where they stood before the campaign started; most of them feel they are being presented with a choice as to who they want to be the third leg of the next <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/fianna-fail/\" target=\"_blank\">Fianna Fáil</a>-Fine Gael coalition: the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/green-party/\" target=\"_blank\">Greens</a>, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/labour-party/\" target=\"_blank\">Labour</a> or some assortment of Independents. The real takeaway from polls is that many people cannot see a better alternative or even the need for one. It would be a stretch to say they are happy with the outgoing Government.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BOEUEEDULFE7FPWIB5KUL6V25I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732724546543},"content":"In truth, most just want it to be over. It could and should all be over within a few minutes of the polls closing on Friday but instead it will drag on over the weekend – at least – in a uniquely Irish form of political theatre known as “the counts”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"N74TGSA6MNEC7KO4YRX3PU5Q4Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732724546545},"content":"Over the next few days, something in the region of 3.5 million ballot papers will be sorted, counted and recounted by hand. If we are lucky it might all be over early next week. If not, it could be weeks before it’s finally done and the last recount competed. Thankfully, the equally tedious business of government formation will have got going before this, but it’s not beyond the bounds of possibility that it could be affected by the last vote recounted on the last day by hand.","type":"text"},{"_id":"26VOAY7PG5HW5ISZUVFPMQI4H4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732724546547},"content":"So why do we as a nation put ourselves through this when we could know the result within hours of the polls closing and crack on with forming the government?","type":"text"},{"_id":"MRTRIHYUMZET3EZU7DUR2BAQEI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732724546548},"content":"It’s certainly not a lack of suitable or affordable technology. Electronic voting is widely used and the cost of the machines incidental for a rich country such as ours.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MK4LPOK7TZGZBEWG6XTUNQKDNQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732724546549},"content":"Fans of the manual counts argue that in some intangible way the spectacle enhances the public trust in democracy by letting the public see – if they can be bothered – their votes manually counted in a public forum. Others say that it is a ritual deeply embedded in our political and wider culture; part of what makes us who we are, etc. This argument has the merit of not pretending that there is any rational reason for counting votes by hand. But at the same time, you can’t help feeling that if it is a drama, it as an amateur production put on for the benefit and enjoyment of the actors rather than the audience. But what harm? Don’t they deserve their fun after the hard work they put in on the election trail? Maybe, but it’s just more evidence of our natural tendency to a lack of seriousness in public life.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FW6JWIGLJJGZHOMMZYVA4LZ654","additional_properties":{"_id":1732724546551},"content":"The most compelling explanation for the continued use of manual counts is that the political parties still want them. In fact, they want them so much that they all went along with a farcical traducing of the integrity of electronic voting that saw more than <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/news/e-voting-machines-to-be-scrapped-1.722896?\" target=\"_blank\">7,000 voting machines costing more than</a><a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/news/e-voting-machines-to-be-scrapped-1.722896?\" target=\"_blank\"> €50 million bought in 2004 </a><a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/news/e-voting-machines-to-be-scrapped-1.722896?\" target=\"_blank\">being scrapped in 2012 for €70,000</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TX5KJOSO6VCI5CEZO7SRBEL7MU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732724546552},"content":"The reason for this incident of national idiocy seems to be the extraordinary wealth of information that parties glean from observing the counts. Party members – either separately or together – closely observe the opening of ballot boxes and the sorting and counting of votes by hand in the count centres. The information they gather – when combined with other data – is extremely valuable and put to use in subsequent elections. It’s unclear whether this information could or would be available with electronic voting but if it was, presumably every party would get the same details. 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The British journalist and excellent communicator, Andrew Marr, once advised journalists to put no more than four figures in an opinion piece. More than that and you lost the reader. And if this <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/general-election\" target=\"_blank\">election campaign</a> was dull, it was partly because it was weighed down with too many complex numbers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QAQ247JE4BCM7H5Y2NYC7QVS6U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732875883799},"content":"Maybe that’s what happens when there’s <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2024/11/20/which-party-has-the-best-plan-for-the-apple-billions/\" target=\"_blank\">more money available </a>than we have ever had before. But it felt for three weeks that a new budget in the form of manifestos was launched every day – and then mini-budgets in specialist areas were squeezed in as well. After a while, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/11/23/costing-the-manifestos-making-sense-of-billions-being-thrown-out-by-the-parties-to-win-your-vote/\" target=\"_blank\">many of us got lost in the blizzard of numbers and money promises</a>. That’s not to suggest that people didn’t engage: for instance, t<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/11/26/five-key-moments-from-the-leaders-debate-you-brought-the-crash-and-you-brought-austerity/\" target=\"_blank\">he number who viewed the political debates </a><a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/11/26/five-key-moments-from-the-leaders-debate-you-brought-the-crash-and-you-brought-austerity/\" target=\"_blank\"> was high</a>. But we’ve learned to be sceptical. It’s not that long since the economy collapsed under political mismanagement, so we know that the lavish promises will have to be<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/11/23/the-potential-threats-to-ireland-now-come-in-four-guises/\" target=\"_blank\"> withdrawn if Trump slashes US corporate taxes </a>and starts a tariff war. We’re not eejits.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QOLZD24HFJCHNIN7I22Y6BDOJ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732823980895},"content":"There’s also the danger that too much detail clogging up the message means that the message gets ignored, while moments like <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/simon-harris/\" target=\"_blank\">Simon Harris</a>’s encounter with careworker <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/11/23/disability-worker-says-she-was-shaken-and-in-tears-after-exchange-with-fine-gael-leader-simon-harris-in-kanturk/\" target=\"_blank\">Charlotte Fallon</a> are remembered. Of course they are. Her understandable anger at how carers are treated, and his turning away from her, was an emotional moment caught on camera that went viral, that engaged people in a way that columns of figures never could. During an election campaign, the voter is supreme. You don’t turn your back on a voter.","type":"text"},{"_id":"99b36e44-04d2-4a86-b384-cd5c4fbf90d0","additional_properties":{"_id":"URJOS2GEHJFDHKBRF6LW4LSG3A"},"subtype":"irish-times-video","type":"video"},{"_id":"TYEMOVBETRAHNOPDAWN5T3OQZM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732823980896},"content":"Harris’s lack of experience as a party leader showed in this bumpy campaign, as did the loss of some of the older, wiser heads in the party, such as <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/heather-humphreys/\" target=\"_blank\">Heather Humphreys</a> or <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/richard-bruton/\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Bruton</a>. They might have pointed out to Minister <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/peter-burke/\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Burke</a> that <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/michael-o-leary/\" target=\"_blank\">Michael O’Leary</a> knows a lot about running an airline, but <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/11/11/michael-oleary-doubles-down-on-teacher-comments-after-pile-on-saying-he-was-making-serious-point/\" target=\"_blank\">asking him to launch your election campaign</a> was a bit like asking your seven year old to drive the school bus. And they might have advised that a crazy TikTok Taoiseach rush around all 43 constituencies had to be balanced against the danger of a tired leader making mistakes.","type":"text"},{"_id":"446DXJGZ4BGFNLYYKQTTDUEADI","additional_properties":{"_id":"FMTEWGPEORAH5MXQLHRLD6IKRU"},"content":"How does Ireland’s PRSTV electoral system work?","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"523NOFM3G5ELHEIYWESXPOBVSI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732823980897},"content":"But amid the fog of numbers early on in the campaign came a voice of experience that set out in one clear sentence what his campaign was about. It was <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/micheal-martin/\" target=\"_blank\">Micheál Martin</a> who said the battle was between parties that were pro-enterprise and pro-Europe and those that were not. He said it again in both television debates, neatly placing himself and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/fine-gael/\" target=\"_blank\">Fine Gael</a> and other possible coalition partners on one side of the divide, and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/sinn-fein/\" target=\"_blank\">Sinn Féin</a> on the other.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MDIBB7K6BVBCPP7BJO7QVJ2VWM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732875883803},"content":"Martin pointed to the fact that<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/sinn-fein\" target=\"_blank\"> Sinn Féin </a>has voted against most referendums relating to Europe, and claimed that its tax policies would create problems for many Irish indigenous industries, never mind their effect on foreign direct investment decisions. You mightn’t agree with him, and Sinn Féin wouldn’t, but at least his claim had the virtue of clarity.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2LXZ6QD7DFHTRNYJB7XP5WJCUE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732823980898},"content":"In fairness, as the campaign went on, Sinn Féin focused more and more on the simple message of “change”.<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/mary-lou-mcdonald\" target=\"_blank\"> Mary Lou McDonald</a> is a doughty campaigner and watching pictures of her on the stump in my hometown of Carlow this week, she showed the easy way she has with people, particularly with young people.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JLXI4XPEQBBG7PPDQRW2XENUQM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732875883805},"content":"One political activist, not Sinn Féin, told me last year about doing visits to new voters in the senior classes of local schools. Having explained why it was important to vote and how the voting system worked, she finally asked if they had made their minds up as to how they would vote. To a woman and man, they almost all said Sinn Féin. She gave up going to schools.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PTSNJSI75ZHWRKBK7JUWVMMZFA","additional_properties":{"_id":"VFNEJQYTGZBRTBDG3NRFR5BH7Q"},"content":"Key election 2024 battles: maps show where Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and Sinn Féin hope to gain - and may lose - seats","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"MZJR6OX2IRB47PDE4FWQIFVRHQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732823980899},"content":"We’ll be finding out on Saturday morning if that young vote came out yesterday and if it went Sinn Féin’s way. We’ll be finding out too what happened to the immigration issue, which arose so often during the campaign, and whether it contributed to that solid bank of support for Independents – 20 per cent in recent polls, equal to the support for each of the three main parties. The Independents are a disparate group, ranging from left to right. But will there emerge from them enough TDs, together with <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/peadar-toibin/\" target=\"_blank\">Peadar Tóibín</a>’s <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/aontu\" target=\"_blank\">Aontú</a>, to form a solid conservative bloc in the Dáil, a bloc that has the sort of views on immigration that can increasingly be found in other countries in Europe?","type":"text"},{"_id":"4W3B7DS52RFCXI2QEV4X6YPYXE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732875883807},"content":"In most European countries, the ultranationalist party is also the most right-wing party – take Nigel Farage’s Reform UK Party, and indeed the Conservative Party in Britain; or Marine Le Pen’s National Rally party in France; or Geert Wilders’ Dutch People’s Party for Freedom in the Netherlands. Sinn Féin has long boasted that it is the most radical nationalist party in Ireland, but that it is left wing and has therefore left no space for the growth of an ultranationalist right-wing party here. Maybe that’s about to change.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ANVX4NQ5BVDH3MVX6G6KNQJ3A4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732823980900},"content":"In his commentary on last Sunday’s Sunday Independent Ireland Thinks poll, Kevin Cunningham, managing director of Ireland Thinks, pointed to the 2 per cent rise in<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/aontu\" target=\"_blank\"> Aontú</a>’s vote to 5 per cent and the 3 per cent rise in Independents to a hefty 19 per cent. He said that the rise of Independents and the potential rise of Aontú seems to be a function of a simple gap in the political market for those who both don’t like the current Government and hold more conservative views. “For the first time in our history, there isn’t a Fianna Fáil or a Fine Gael on the opposition benches offering a home to disaffected voters on the right.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"A7FZ6MQ33BELPIUMFO7VNQ6O64","additional_properties":{"_id":1732823980901},"content":"Could it be that those disaffected voters are finding a new home?","type":"text"},{"_id":"3NQ4ORPPNZFZ5GRTNKYP4IMF5M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732871462467},"content":"<i>Olivia O’Leary is a journalist, writer and current affairs presenter</i>","type":"text"},{"_id":"3TXQBAJRLVAPPKEIWTTEG5AHRE","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Olivia O'Leary"}},"name":"Olivia O'Leary"}]},"description":{"basic":"Election 2024: Everything will be revealed over the course of this weekend. But in the meantime, we learned a few things during this bumpy campaign"},"display_date":"2024-11-29T14:57:19.808Z","headlines":{"basic":"If this election campaign has proven anything, it’s that voters are not eejits","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"},"basic":{"display":true,"text":"Election 2024","url":"/election2024/"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"TVR5QK2RUDLSXA6VVSFIJ5FLZE","auth":{"1":"5cd50f6c3b6f2be77fdacb7478c1185e06124403845229a1f0ddbd14d3923b4d"},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/TVR5QK2RUDLSXA6VVSFIJ5FLZE.jpg"},"overline_logo":{"_id":"QSWFXEVMGBHWPCSR4TJ3B6FKJQ","auth":{"1":"146656f9244eb8ce84d36fd4e3c519672cca8c4da72f47512b76196f1b454a7f"},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/QSWFXEVMGBHWPCSR4TJ3B6FKJQ.png"}},"subtype":"opinion","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Opinion"},{"name":"Politics"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/opinion/2024/11/30/olivia-oleary-if-this-election-campaign-has-proven-anything-its-that-voters-are-not-eejits/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/opinion","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Opinion"}}}},{"_id":"QMP2HKYGAJG6ZFPDKFGSPYBBZU","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":298,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/5469/podcasts/2a48b6d3-696e-4616-a744-a033c905eeb8/versions/1732806811/media/92cc66ceb5cc82f038160f2ab3207b41_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/opinion/2024/11/29/cillian-murphys-view-of-ireland-in-the-1980s-as-the-fking-dark-ages-misses-the-point/","content_elements":[{"_id":"TGNFNALGXJGHJAEFWEMCMAMM5Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1732786931621},"content":"One option for those seeking refuge from the general election campaign was the cinema for the film adaptation of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/claire-keegan/\" target=\"_blank\">Claire Keegan</a>’s novella <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/review/2024/10/31/small-things-like-these-deep-dive-character-study-anchored-by-cillian-murphys-fiercely-internalised-performance/\" target=\"_blank\">Small Things Like These</a><i>.</i> Bathed in Dickensian darkness, it tells a well-known story due to the success of Keegan’s book, which is now also on the Leaving Certificate curriculum.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7RJBKRCXXJBYTLJ45CA2O7DRBY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732806482005},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/cillian-murphy/\" target=\"_blank\">Cillian Murphy</a> – who plays the central character, coalman Bill Furlong, working in New Ross in the mid 1980s, who happens on the underbelly of the town’s <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/magdalene-laundries/\" target=\"_blank\">Magdalene laundry</a> – has spoken of how the main challenge was to stay faithful to the book and tell the story “in a gentle, delicate way, leaving enough space for the audience to come in to it ... to find their own way”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"D4UKZHVSVJB5HEY7K54TADQMRE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732786931622},"content":"There is little gentle, however, in how the film has been promoted, with the concerted framing of the 1980s as an era of unmitigated harshness and cruelty. Murphy offered the blanket summary that is now commonplace: the period in which the novel is set is <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/2024/10/26/cillian-murphy-you-had-the-kerry-babies-the-moving-statues-no-abortion-no-divorce-it-was-like-the-dark-ages/\" target=\"_blank\">“like the f**king dark ages compared to now”</a>. Of course it is, as we are now so prone to a historical narrative that presents our story as a linear tale of darkness to light. Murphy suggests in looking at the film, “it could be the 1950s in many ways”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ITVNMHZYDBENPE3TIYHLFZPLHA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732806482007},"content":"Keegan’s brilliant writing, along with a skilful screen adaptation and a stellar cast, create much to admire, but the film raises a wider question about the communication of our history as one giant, black cloud occasionally interrupted by a lone, bright star.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BWFNB6P5BFFXRHWIWMJ5CKWIZY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732786931623},"content":"Just as the film was released, a leading Irish music producer declared in a radio interview, when looking back on 1984, that “literally everything was black and white ... everything was illegal”. An Ireland that also included such things as Music Television USA, shiny new Dart carriages, the Hothouse Flowers, revulsion at the treatment of Joanne Hayes at the Kerry Babies Tribunal and a determination to liberalise the laws on contraception, is sidelined in the process.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JQNCDE7WY5DDZK2KDVEF6FNJO4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732806482009},"content":"Also this month, a leading Irish television critic, in reviewing a documentary that covered the 1980s, was prompted to assert “the past is a kind of hell, strange and full of suffering”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EH6SSUBJ5BFBRDDVALYT6L72ZA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732786931624},"content":"Keegan’s book, as a work of fiction, takes liberties with chronology, but rightly dwells much on ethos, atmosphere, symbols and inheritances. The laundry in New Ross closed in 1967, though the last Irish Magdalene laundry was not closed until 1996 and the last <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/mother-baby-homes/\" target=\"_blank\">mother and baby home</a> closed in 1998. The buildings that incarcerated women deemed to have “transgressed” moral principles were still apparent all over the country in the 1980s. The Good Shepherd convent looms large in Keegan’s book, “a powerful-looking place on the hill at the far side of the river with black, wide-open gates”. Deference to church authority was expected and mostly given. At one point Furlong says pointedly in relation to the clergy, “surely they’ve only as much power as we give them”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6RGV5E472NFDZPWCFH4BHX6GRA","additional_properties":{"_id":"Q2UJTG53AFEBDFMFZRAHKJVV7U"},"content":"Cillian Murphy’s Small Things Like These has become a cause celebre of the Make Ireland Great Again brigade","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"BAAVA36CCNFRVL6WE5GWW6332M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732786931625},"content":"But new criticisms were being voiced in the Ireland of 1985, including by a small group of women who protested outside the Archbishop’s palace in Dublin with a placard announcing they were “women against bishops against women”. They declared their dissent the first of a “series of acts of female defiance.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"2LSL66Y7URCN5NFC4TQLVVQPAI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732806482013},"content":"Fine Gael’s former minister for agriculture <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/political-and-family-life-of-late-austin-deasy-recalled-1.3117093\" target=\"_blank\">Austin Deasy</a> also crossed swords with the bishops, insisting the government would legislate “without consulting the interests of any religious group”. His colleague, former minister for education Gemma Hussey, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/11/26/former-government-minister-gemma-hussey-dies-after-short-illness-aged-86/\" target=\"_blank\">who died this week</a>, was vocal about introducing sex education and the need in Ireland for women who were “good, strong feminists”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YVJDSLQ43ZHQVK5OWV6645EL74","additional_properties":{"_id":"VKTXHSUVERGMZMWTTX5PSR7ETA"},"content":"Cillian Murphy: ‘You had the Kerry babies, the moving statues, no abortion, no divorce. It was like the dark ages’","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"VBBDFXVTRZCLNCHDOBGWGVI5M4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732786931626},"content":"Numerous tragic events disturbed the public conscience during the 1980s as scandals around female sexuality and reproduction created striking moments, images and sorrow. But they also opened debate about church-state relations and encouraged more stories to be shared, including on RTÉ radio’s most listened to programme, the Gay Byrne Show.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HTPORKHD4RFJFFBBVHMZ4OUW4Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732806482016},"content":"Despite these currents, traditional power alliances continued to cause much damage, but balancing the “common good” with “moral principles” and defining them exclusively in Catholic terms was coming under considerable scrutiny. These themes are relevant to Keegan’s book, tensions that exposed fault lines in the 1980s that continued to widen and prompted individual acts of defiance and the generation of new discourses about previously taboo subjects in the midst of many ongoing silences.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GVY4VHTFMJBQTAT2G5WR7JQOUE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732786931628},"content":"Keegan writes of Furlong: “Once more the ordinary part of him simply wanted to be rid of this and get on home.” While there was much obedience on display, some of the muteness and the unwritten contracts, as suggested by the actions of Furlong, began to be challenged. Keegan’s focus on these shifts should not be drowned out in the embrace of an easier, blanket narrative of hell and suffocation. We were more complicated than that and the 1980s was not, despite the oft repeated mantra, “another country”.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Diarmaid Ferriter"}},"name":"Diarmaid Ferriter"}]},"description":{"basic":"Small Things Like These raises a wider question about the communication of our history as one giant, black cloud occasionally interrupted by a lone, bright star"},"display_date":"2024-11-29T06:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Cillian Murphy’s view of Ireland in the 1980s as ‘the dark ages’ misses the point","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"5469"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"6ZTUHQ3FIJHHPND7H4SX4V7W7E","auth":{"1":"74fb667193a235e2d828befdc68c5a91de2cd8d9500b3a80b68889db478c9506"},"focal_point":{"x":2772,"y":1926},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/6ZTUHQ3FIJHHPND7H4SX4V7W7E.JPG"}},"subtype":"columnist","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Opinion"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/opinion/2024/11/29/cillian-murphys-view-of-ireland-in-the-1980s-as-the-fking-dark-ages-misses-the-point/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/opinion","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Opinion"}}}},{"_id":"KAQJSSB2RBFBDEAQENVJWXFLQA","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":383,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/a154ae84-bf5f-4312-9e9a-14acd183c067/versions/1732808727/media/c1a2e33e46412781114e1affa0178bdc_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/opinion/2024/11/29/something-is-rotten-when-conor-mcgregor-walks-out-of-the-four-courts-into-a-frenzy-of-young-fans/","content_elements":[{"_id":"QN4Y2M4Z6VBH3IWXB4FCTB2BDU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732797109193},"content":"Oh, how the mighty have fallen, or so one might have thought as two Irish sports stars awaited their fate in separate courtrooms in the past week. Professional fighter <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/conor-mcgregor/\" target=\"_blank\">Conor McGregor</a>, self-labelled the Notorious and stinking-rich exponent of the cocksure walk, weeping beside his mother in the Four Courts at the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2024/11/22/conor-mcgregor-case-consent-or-lack-of-it-the-core-issue-in-nikita-hands-civil-action/\" target=\"_blank\">jury’s decree in a civil case that he raped a woman</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"F5XKRVDDFZBFRNKACIGV3MNVTY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732797109194},"content":"Over at the Criminal Courts of Justice, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2024/11/25/ex-rugby-international-brendan-mullin-sentenced-to-three-years-for-stealing-over-500000-from-bank-of-ireland/\" target=\"_blank\">Brendan Mullin</a> arriving solitarily and inscrutable in a quality business suit, en route to jail for an upper-class version of bank robbery. Thirty-nine years ago, the rugby player had sashayed through an adoring crowd to a victory banquet in the Shelbourne Hotel after scoring the try against England that won a rare Triple Crown for Ireland.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GPW3AEW5HRBVFEOQXYSTS42PLE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732797109195},"content":"In the space of a single week, two sports stars were before the Irish courts having behaved more despicably than any shoplifter, bag snatcher, wretched mugger or common or garden vandal. Last Friday, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2024/11/22/conor-mcgregor-to-pay-almost-250000-damages-to-nikita-hand-after-jury-finds-he-assaulted-her-in-dublin-hotel/\" target=\"_blank\">McGregor was ordered to pay €248,603 to Nikita Hand</a> for raping her. Four days later, Mullin was jailed for three years for stealing more than €500,000 from his former employer, Bank of Ireland.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2HTO6DDV45H5PPW7465XC42SK4","additional_properties":{"_id":"CPHYH6WKTJB5NG7JCWHIFY3SBA"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"ZLKMZUFKFFGCNKGWLP5D2VQIZE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732797109196},"content":"The two cases have come in the wake of widespread condemnation after Limerick hurler <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/kyle-hayes/\" target=\"_blank\">Kyle Hayes</a> was presented with an All-Star award, following his convictions on charges of violent disorder relating to an attack on a man and, separately on a later date, for dangerous driving.","type":"text"},{"_id":"O72UJDIJZZHSBEI4K2AZQG63U4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732797109197},"content":"Pure coincidence, one might say, that three homegrown sports celebrities have found themselves in the courts for committing odious offences. Sure, aren’t there bad apples in every orchard? It goes without saying that most athletes are not law breakers but what does need to be said is that the cult of fame facilitates those with a bent for illegality. As <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump</a> put it in that Access Hollywood tape when he boasted about assaulting women: “When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"FIL5KI7ZZRHO7DEUBCACVJ3QYQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732797109198},"content":"That permission is ratcheted up in the sports arena where “physicality”, often a euphemism for manly collision and concussion, is lauded as a virtue. Hayes’s trial heard that during the attack, the hurler had demanded of the injured man: “Do you know who the f**k I am?” and threatened to “dig the head off you”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LYZMY2GZKVE5PGXXTJUN3BKS54","additional_properties":{"_id":1732797109199},"content":"If proof of a facilitator culture was needed, it was provided during the early days of the civil case when <a href=\"https://www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/ellen-coyne-for-the-young-men-in-thrall-to-the-cult-of-conor-mcgregor-the-result-of-the-case-against-him-will-never-matter/a454063282.html\" target=\"_blank\">McGregor walked out of a restaurant in Warrenpoint</a> into a frenzy of adoring young men and boys cheering him as though he had emerged the victor in another big fight. Some fans climbed onto the bonnet of his car, pumping the air and cheering “up the McGregor”. The scene evoked the insight of Shakespeare’s Cleopatra that: “Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent”. If your fame is stellar enough, your wrongdoing will only raise you up higher in the blinkered eyes of some fans. Little wonder that the star of the MMA ring feels entitled to go around assaulting people and expecting to become the president of Ireland.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DYBS7FIDXZG5RHQBUTJL4WBBPU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732797109200},"content":"On Elon Musk’s X, the macho-hood refused to shed its comfort blanket of make-believe. “This is only happening because he said he was going to run for president,” said one. “The war against Irish patriots must end,” said another, figuratively rolling up his sleeves. When they talked about McGregor’s victim, they called her “this bitch” and a “bimbo”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FZ2ONDSNSVFZZBU26WQAJM7DEI","additional_properties":{"_id":"ZP35VWUVZFGPFNUGLF2DN5FTVE"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"ZRZJSMB74ZAU3J6YSO2DS7C65Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732797109201},"content":"Mullin’s circumstances were different. He was a rugby star before the sport turned professional. His fans wore sheepskin coats and many of them are no longer in this world. He did not rape or assault anyone and, unlike McGregor, he did not amass personal wealth in the hundreds of millions of euro. Nor has his conviction elicited a fraction of the public scorn that has been directed at McGregor. Yet the two men have something in common – their sense of entitlement. Even in the amateur era, a rugby career was a path to gilded social status and a good job. As the managing director of Bank of Ireland Private Finance, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2024/11/25/ex-rugby-international-brendan-mullin-sentenced-to-three-years-for-stealing-over-500000-from-bank-of-ireland/\" target=\"_blank\">Mullin perpetrated nine separate thefts in two years</a>. That is an awful lot of no regrets, no pangs of guilt.","type":"text"},{"_id":"U26ETSQOT5DTDNGLMYPFAF2QGE","additional_properties":{"_id":"FG4ZY2W7QRGFBBVNSN6WLDP5J4"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"UYNJCGOFQJD55DHUHFLKEDTYKM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732797109202},"content":"Ireland has an enduring love affair with its sports stars. Political parties court them to be their election candidates. One of the most sickening examples was former Ireland rugby player <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/rugby/davy-tweed-secondrow-four-caps-paedophile-wife-beater-bigot-1.4732721\" target=\"_blank\">Davy Tweed</a>, who was elected a unionist councillor despite having been charged with raping children and convicted for assaulting a man. When he died in a motorbike crash in 2021, his DUP colleague <a href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-59087471\" target=\"_blank\">Mervyn Storey</a> said Tweed was always “the first through the door” of his church. “It is well known that he had some difficult and sad times in his life and it is very upsetting to hear of his passing.” In the criminal law courts, character witnesses have an ignoble tradition of queuing up to extol athletes’ on-field prowess in ostensible mitigation for their crimes.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SKSVCY6JPRAF7OCTGGPD6XBWEM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732797109203},"content":"In the week since McGregor’s guilty verdict and in response to questions from news organisations, several supermarket chains have <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2024/11/28/conor-mcgregor-product-boycott-more-irish-shops-drop-brands-linked-to-mma-fighter/\" target=\"_blank\">announced that they will no longer sell alcohol brands</a> associated with the fighter. Airport shops are stripping their shelves of his whiskey and stout. Good PR for them, no doubt, but you have to wonder how long will McGregor be kept in commercial limbo. Only until the corporate world decides it is lucrative to embrace him once again, if the parable of Mike Tyson is anything to go by. The heavyweight boxer nicknamed the Baddest Man on the Planet is estimated to have made €20 million from his recent box-office bout with YouTube boxer Jake Paul, despite having served jail sentences for raping Desiree Washington, then 18, and for, subsequently, assaulting two motorists.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HIWQTZM3NZGXLGR4LPFNGEQP5Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1732797109204},"content":"As long as it pays big bucks to forget or minimise celebrities’ crimes or to be ambivalent about them, we shall just have to go on praying for a sense of humour, as Seán O’Casey did, “so that we may laugh to shame the pomps, the vanities, the sense of self-importance of the Big Fellows that the world sometimes sends among us, and who try to take our peace away”.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Justine McCarthy"}},"name":"Justine McCarthy"}]},"description":{"basic":"In the space of a single week, two sports stars were before the Irish courts having behaved despicably"},"display_date":"2024-11-29T06:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Conor McGregor was facilitated by a culture of entitlement and cheered on by adoring fans","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"WGFCBXOAP5EAVK7ERJKQVON7JA","auth":{"1":"063d9007d1f4490144adb6186884b57057c1b60ed4787669e5f31bf245810e45"},"focal_point":{"x":2984,"y":629},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/WGFCBXOAP5EAVK7ERJKQVON7JA.JPG"}},"subtype":"columnist","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Opinion"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/opinion/2024/11/29/something-is-rotten-when-conor-mcgregor-walks-out-of-the-four-courts-into-a-frenzy-of-young-fans/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/opinion","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Opinion"}}}},{"_id":"UZ3FSY5QYVELRJEL3YIDFOOGNM","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":287,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/2949dabe-4db6-48e9-9315-89f8bf96b1ea/versions/1732800569/media/4403e64b6acc18c4796ec4b14190cf20_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/opinion/2024/11/29/ireland-needs-to-treat-infrastructure-crisis-with-same-urgency-as-past-jobs-crisis/","content_elements":[{"_id":"GSCONITKFBGRPEOPOBGW7W5Q6Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1732795913728},"content":"One of the biggest challenges facing the country in the coming years barely rated a mention during the election campaign, even though it has the capacity to derail the economy and undermine the basis of prosperity for the next generation. The unspoken issue is the way that essential infrastructural development is being blocked because of a lengthy and complex planning system that places so many obstacles in the way of developments that are urgently required to serve the common good.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DVPWYRGIMBAGVDSGCEGXMOHR6E","additional_properties":{"_id":1732795913730},"content":"One symptom of the problem is the way so many housing projects are being delayed or even blocked by objections, often with the active support of some of the same politicians who shout most loudly about the need to tackle the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/housing-crisis/\" target=\"_blank\">housing crisis</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SMGI3LOWKFBVFHIUT3WXMQYPYI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732795913731},"content":"However, the problem goes far wider than housing. Essential improvements to the national grid have been delayed for more than a decade because of objections to pylons. Ireland’s geographical position puts us in an ideal position to become a huge generator and exporter of wind energy but unless the grid is developed to carry the electricity generated by wind, we will be passed out by other countries which don’t have anything like our potential.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NU6VPOAQUJDQ3NAWNYUF3TDDUI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732795913732},"content":"Wind farms themselves have provoked hostility and even plans to build them out to sea have been delayed indefinitely by a variety of objections, some from individuals who have suddenly become experts on marine life.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5AKZBTXADRHPBHTFOF7DYIFGCY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732795913733},"content":"The failure to move ahead with improvements to the electricity grid means that we are already close to capacity, so there is no way the country will be able to cope with the new data centres that will be required if we are going to reap the benefits of revolutionary artificial intelligence (AI) technology.","type":"text"},{"_id":"N3GNCCBSYBBV5O6NBGP4TLONVA","additional_properties":{"_id":"S23OFWOKAZB63IQMEXBY4MKTEM"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"4TFUMB7DPJGMXAAENZMFJQAIJA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732795913734},"content":"The country’s current prosperity is based on the ability of past political leaders and public servants to create the conditions that made the country a magnet for the high-tech and pharmaceutical industries. We are now in real danger of putting ourselves out of the running to capitalise on the next phase of economic development.","type":"text"},{"_id":"P3DMRW3GI5CSROWPJOW3APQSPQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732832012388},"content":"At the core of the problem is a planning system that has long outlived its sell-by date and allows individuals to frustrate essential development on the merest whim. The fact that someone on the east coast would be able to halt a development in the west epitomises what is wrong with the system.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6HAEQ6MUFFHAPN27FPS62PACY4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732795913736},"content":"The new comprehensive Planning Act passed by the outgoing Government in its dying days was supposed to address the big problems in the system, but according to legal experts it will make little difference to the way the planning system operates.","type":"text"},{"_id":"T2W7S6JJ5ZHHZMCPWTWJSGR7OQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732795913737},"content":"As <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2024/09/04/last-thing-we-need-is-a-department-of-infrastructure/\" target=\"_blank\">John McManus pointed out here </a><a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2024/09/04/last-thing-we-need-is-a-department-of-infrastructure/\" target=\"_blank\">recently</a>, the abuse of the judicial review process as a means of objecting to essential infrastructure projects has got completely out of hand, with the courts agreeing to hear objections that, by any rational assessment, do not comply with the criteria for a judicial review. Fundamentally, though, it comes back to the political system and requires the Dáil to come up with clear rules and regulations which will give the courts guidance about what can and cannot be subject to judicial review.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4TTVN55H3BAHRMX4OQXQPT4M3A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732795913739},"content":"It is no mystery why politicians are so reluctant to face up to the problem. The fact is that they respond to the concerns expressed by voters, often a tiny vocal minority, but nonetheless the kind of people who can mount a campaign that could threaten a TD’s seat. In the exit poll conducted by The Irish Times at the last general election it emerged that almost half of the electorate voted for the candidate they thought would put local issues ahead of national issues, while more than half expressed the view that the candidate was more important than the party.","type":"text"},{"_id":"X3HLG3F6QJC73CXYBHY2WE4YXA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732795913741},"content":"Our single transferable system of proportional representation has many things to commend it, but one of its serious flaws is that it rewards politicians who pander to local considerations, even when they are clearly in conflict with the national interest. The UK faces similar problems in dealing with its housing crisis but Keir Starmer’s government has made it a priority to address the issue and reform the planning system so that the young generation is not held hostage by those who already own their homes.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6ZMETYB7TRELLBDOR7SE573WIQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732795913743},"content":"The outgoing Government has tried to prioritise infrastructural development. Taoiseach Simon Harris has promised a new government department to deal with the issue. It is questionable whether a new department is the solution but the Taoiseach’s office needs to take control of the situation in the way Enda Kenny did with the jobs crisis of a decade ago.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KY37OB5GARHAPBA2KCXNEQKXPE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732795913744},"content":"Reform is never easy. The American writer and political reformer John Jay Chapman summed it up more than a century ago: “People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog.” Hopefully the next government will be brave enough to confront the problem even though it will involve telling the electorate some home truths.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Stephen Collins"}},"name":"Stephen Collins"}]},"description":{"basic":"We are in danger of putting ourselves out of the running to capitalise on the next phase of economic development"},"display_date":"2024-11-29T06:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Ireland needs to treat infrastructure crisis with same urgency as past jobs crisis","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"3CS6VDLAWYYPEAFTMX7742FCIQ","auth":{"1":"7885578a40dbeeac8b2992734057ee1d76cb8a1bbfbcffa4d99f753d2f77ba1e"},"focal_point":{"x":1036,"y":272},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/3CS6VDLAWYYPEAFTMX7742FCIQ.jpg"}},"subtype":"columnist","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Opinion"},{"name":"Politics"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/opinion/2024/11/29/ireland-needs-to-treat-infrastructure-crisis-with-same-urgency-as-past-jobs-crisis/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/opinion","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Opinion"}}}},{"_id":"BTMKNTYANZH6HOI2YD4JVHRMFE","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":303,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/5469/podcasts/daab7bc7-cec0-469c-b7f4-80721b1d9ed1/versions/1732717354/media/ba79ea01eefe4b88a86165158fec0414_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/opinion/2024/11/28/for-flax-sake-why-is-the-idea-of-a-new-flag-for-northern-ireland-so-controversial/","content_elements":[{"_id":"VUABWCFMI5HDHF4F4N6TAH4YLI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732707232685},"content":"The chair and chief executive of the Commonwealth Games board in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/northern-ireland/\" target=\"_blank\">Northern Ireland</a> want <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/stormont-assembly/\" target=\"_blank\">Stormont</a> to design a new flag for the region. While that might seem like an audacious request, it is merely asking the Northern Executive to get on with an overdue job.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZTB7LJUDTVGDPPEUOQUHSM5SYU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732707232687},"content":"Ten years ago this month, the five main Stormont parties agreed to set up a Commission on Flags, Identity, Culture and Tradition (FICT) to address problems raised by the loyalist flag protests and other endless arguments over symbols.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6BSR2TKJBBGQVN24NLJSO5LFRA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732707232688},"content":"The commission, comprising independent experts and members from the five parties, was established in 2016 by the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/democratic-unionist-party/\" target=\"_blank\">DUP</a> and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/sinn-fein/\" target=\"_blank\">Sinn Féin</a> first and deputy first ministers. Its final report, delivered to the office of the first ministers in 2021, discusses “the possibility of developing a new civic flag”. The report has been sitting on the shelf ever since.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AG66JXHABBAJTHCN7BL4KTVJWQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732707232690},"content":"The Commonwealth Games is one of several sporting organisations to use the Ulster Banner, the emblem of the old Stormont government, which served as the de facto flag of Northern Ireland until 1973. The flag is associated exclusively with unionism, and members of the Commonwealth Games board say this makes it inappropriate for a cross-community team. They add many athletes are simply indifferent to it, as it fell out of widespread use long before they were born.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CQR2CI6C6NBHNJBC7EOWOABK44","additional_properties":{"_id":1732707232691},"content":"Northern Ireland’s official flag is the UK’s union flag, which confuses everybody when applied to a regional team.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GMIXJPENANHLTATBOLREVWMIT4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732707232692},"content":"The fundamental problem with a flag for Northern Ireland is that the very concept is inherently unionist. The design scarcely matters. It could be a picture of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/gerry-adams/\" target=\"_blank\">Gerry Adams</a> and still be a triumph for unionism, as long as it secured some degree of cross-community acceptance. Yet the DUP and the TUV have immediately denounced the Commonwealth Games request. The DUP’s rejection is fatal, as it can veto any decision by the Executive.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KHLLULQ4KZBLVM4Q5LF4TNJJC4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732707232693},"content":"Once again, unionism is demonstrating its boundless capacity to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Silence from nationalism indicates it knows its opponent well. Why be seen to reject something positive when unionists will sabotage it for you?","type":"text"},{"_id":"OAK32U4TVNFGPLVIN5Y22VHXNM","additional_properties":{"_id":"6HCJY3WXKNGLLFDH5U5GRPA6VE"},"content":"Something weird is happening to the North’s economy, and for once Brexit is not responsible","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"2S662Z25HNFK5MGVFI2CJ25ICM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732707232694},"content":"The term “civic flag” is an attempt to square this circle. FICT defines it as neither “a regional flag or a national flag” but rather one “designed to be representative of the diversity of our society”. This seems like a semantic distinction. In any case, the term has also been applied to the Ulster Banner.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CB7VS2VONZG7ZLQIRRKKMFVVSI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732707232695},"content":"Alternative designs have been discussed in the media and online for many years, albeit in brief episodes whenever the topic makes headlines. The commonest suggestions involve St Patrick’s cross, the red hand of Ulster, or variations or combinations thereof. Every proposal manages to provoke a furious objection from some quarter.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AZIHQ3B7XZDR3CK3WSS36DYKC4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732707232696},"content":"One exception is the emblem of the Northern Ireland Assembly, adopted after the Belfast Agreement – six flax plants representing the six counties, in a stylised blue design on a white background. A similar image represented Northern Ireland on British coinage in the 1980s. The potential of this as a civic flag has been almost completely overlooked, despite its obvious attraction as an uncontentious motif in well-established use. The flax plant might be bland and its symbolism trite, but the same could be said of the Tricolour. Its truce between orange and green is the sort of naff literalism a Stormont committee might come up with, had the Republic not got to it first.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FZSG3DQT4NGX7E5Z3BVLCIR2DI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732707232699},"content":"The flax design is difficult to draw, something flags should supposedly avoid, yet a third of the world’s national flags contain heraldry or images that make them impossible to draw. Besides, in this digital age, who needs to draw a flag? The stylised flax is barely more complex than New Zealand’s silver fern flag, rejected by referendum in 2016 but still considered a strong design.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OI73SINW25F7FIVCN5YI2HW45A","additional_properties":{"_id":"6RAXZELDJFAFXON2J7E5I4QNJY"},"content":"Why Dublin, London and Stormont are still bankrolling loyalists","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"VLUTS4SJS5ADLE7Z3WK5GXZSGE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732707232701},"content":"Although Stormont does not use its emblem as a flag, the old Stormont did not use the Ulster Banner as a flag until 1953. This historical precedent is striking, and possibly counterproductive.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7E4DNEINK5DRDAGWG3SUL3XT4E","additional_properties":{"_id":1732707232702},"content":"As there will never be initial agreement on a design, or even the concept of a new flag, there is a lot to be said for anything that can readily be run up the flagpole and kept there until everyone gets used to it. FICT suggested a civic flag might fly alongside the union flag on public buildings, to prove it was not a replacement. Nobody is suggesting the Ulster Banner be banned. People could continue bringing it to sporting events, although it might come to be seen as the equivalent of booing Ireland’s Call at a rugby match. Quiet disapproval is a powerful social force.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M4K37NSPWNHK5PTAFUXBCHP3AQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732707232705},"content":"Unfortunately, the assembly has reserved copyright on the flax design, so it cannot be used without permission, which the DUP would presumably withhold. At least that suggests a motto for Northern Ireland: for flax sake.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Newton Emerson"}},"name":"Newton Emerson"}]},"description":{"basic":"The flax plant might be bland and its symbolism trite, but the same could be said of the Tricolour"},"display_date":"2024-11-28T06:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"For flax sake: why is the idea of a new flag for Northern Ireland so controversial?","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"5469"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"GD7OVJPBKBFGRIKEC2QCPYXHK4","auth":{"1":"ded3a8f66afe82ee2b847f7c053ee72bead90e18772f604cac9dfb36a519a0cf"},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/GD7OVJPBKBFGRIKEC2QCPYXHK4.JPG"}},"subtype":"columnist","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Opinion"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/opinion/2024/11/28/for-flax-sake-why-is-the-idea-of-a-new-flag-for-northern-ireland-so-controversial/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/opinion","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Opinion"}}}},{"_id":"7LSAXZ26DNEQVO4MDESIMKRBJI","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":327,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/66233734-2c90-46a4-a2ac-478295c37a79/versions/1732716982/media/3a1f8c763e7cac968d11651d3fa81c6b_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/opinion/2024/11/28/finn-mcredmond-it-is-a-shameful-thing-that-conor-mcgregor-is-our-biggest-global-figure/","content_elements":[{"_id":"QQMW5YOX3BFTTBTFW7F5B3CXAA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732711460231},"content":"I have been enjoying a recent spate of arguments with my friends over who can claim the mantle of the most famous living Irish person. Paul Mescal? Gladiator II helps but outside of Ireland and London, he is just not <i>that </i>famous. St Patrick? Sure, but very much not living so put him in the lot with Joyce and Beckett and De Valera (Joyce outstrips the other two by miles). Liam Neeson was suggested, to an unfortunate chorus of scoffs. Rory McIlroy, 19th on the Forbes list of best paid athletes this year? The truth is that there is no towering figure in sport or culture, ubiquitous and recognised everywhere. The accolade of the most famous living Irishman used to go to <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/bono/\" target=\"_blank\">Bono</a>. The answer now may be much worse.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CYMOI3TINZD6XLDIYE4PUGB7KU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732711460232},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/conor-mcgregor/\" target=\"_blank\">Conor McGregor</a> has a claim to the title over recent years. In 2021, he was the highest paid athlete in the world, <a href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/brettknight/2021/05/12/the-worlds-10-highest-paid-athletes-conor-mcgregor-leads-a-group-of-sports-stars-unfazed-by-the-pandemic/\" target=\"_blank\">according to Forbes</a> (beating Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo); since his debut in the UFC in 2013 he has become the most watched fighter in the company’s stable, coasting to the top of the pay-per-view events. The UFC has genuine global reach, and a captive audience in the shape of Donald Trump’s cabinet. McGregor is the biggest star in mixed martial arts history. And on the less salient metrics he has 47.3 million followers on Instagram and 10.6 million on X.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TCYHH4PVDVFFLOT7AGN5FJ5HE4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732711460233},"content":"It is an unpleasant thing to accept. Who would want McGregor as one of their most famous national exports? His ugly political language – “Ireland, we are at war”, “there is grave danger upon us” – is straight out of the far right’s playbook; it’s not mere political agitation but learned behaviour from the online extremes of the movement. And now <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2024/11/22/nikita-hand-says-she-feels-vindicated-after-nightmare-civil-trial-for-assault-against-conor-mcgregor/\" target=\"_blank\">a jury in a civil case has found that McGregor raped Nikita Hand</a> in a Dublin hotel in 2018, there is no escaping the breadth and depth of the man’s moral vacuity.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HXVAVBFGFJFPNCOIBD4BAQLKK4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732711460234},"content":"It is a shameful thing that a figure of such profound personal failings, with such thuggish rhetoric, is a global Irish figure. Before him, Bono was Ireland’s truest global superstar. In response, the country spent years casting the rockstar as a risible egoist; a man with ideas above his station; a monument to national cringe. Now there is a real embarrassment about one figure wearing an Irish flag on a global stage, all that time sniggering at Bono makes us look very weak indeed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FKP5XRUHDJDZHNMSHJA2U3WG5Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732711460235},"content":"In 2002, Time magazine ran a cover with Bono draped in an American flag – channelling some kind of superhero posture – with the strap line “Can Bono save the world?” It was derided as delusional, egomaniacal and credulous nonsense. It was a perfect case study in a simple journalistic principle, too: if a question is posed in a headline the answer is usually “no”. Of course Bono – no matter the scope of his influence, rubbing shoulders with Tony Blair and George Bush, David Trimble and John Hume, Bill Gates – could not “save the world” (as though it is even an easily defined mission with a stable end point).","type":"text"},{"_id":"K6KPO7D7LJB4LITSMPDVHNT7UQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"7E5B2LM4NFFJTKLO5SIXCUJJ2M"},"content":"‘I know what happened in that room’: the full story of the Conor McGregor case","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"RKO5FPGHGBCDZLAPDTZGEDPOM4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732711460236},"content":"At most, a rockstar can tinker around the margins. And that’s what he did, advocating for debt forgiveness in Africa, lobbying Bush to provide for African AID relief, joining forces with equally earnest Bob Geldof, somehow involving himself in the peace process. None of this is beyond criticism – philanthropy is an imperfect tool. But Bono, as the frontman of one of the biggest bands of all time, could have squandered that influence for a life of moral lasciviousness. That in many ways could have preserved his reputation. Fintan O’Toole <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/fintan-o-toole-bono-at-60-why-is-ireland-so-ambivalent-about-its-most-famous-son-1.4244508\" target=\"_blank\">wrote in these pages on Bono’s 60th birthday</a> that the rockstar could have escaped his fate as one of Ireland’s most mocked men by having the politeness to die young like Phil Lynott or Rory Gallagher.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VWN2UITRSRCUHFFPACUTN6DG5I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732711460237},"content":"The country was so put off and embarrassed by Bono’s oppressive sincerity; his capacity for great earnestness. This fear of sincerity is a very teenage affliction – a cohort afraid to try (so uncool!), preferring aloof insouciance over genuine effort. You hope to grow out of this inhibiting attitude by your early 20s. Ireland as a nation is still burdened by it: faster to laugh at Bono (convincing itself that this is a mere facet of Irish “banter”) than to think that we could have worse national ambassadors. It’s insecure cynicism masquerading as lighthearted scepticism.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LWGYDLHHNBBNPF52HUQT6Q32UM","additional_properties":{"_id":"Z2443FNWIVHC3I5CBAK3FXMVVY"},"content":"The tears came from an unexpected quarter. Conor McGregor, holding his mother’s hand, gulping for air and crying","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"IRXCTA2PYVGZXDEHZ7O7R2K4LA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732711460238},"content":"What does it say about us that Bono was laughed out of the room while McGregor was – until recently, as his house of cards finally collapses – basically ignored, tolerated or in some cases lionised? There was a permissiveness as he was dismissed as a plucky fighter with poor manners and a refusal to adhere to social graces and mores. A maverick, a renegade, someone with no interest in taking to the stage of the World Economic Forum, who would never think to rub shoulders with the global elites. Unfortunately those poor manners were something much darker. But Bono? 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All three were so intent on not offering up a flub or a flounder for the meme clippers of social media that they ended up not saying very much of interest at all.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DENXGYYHAFHTRGLNPFKD2JYYY4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732691906678},"content":"It’s unrealistic to expect much substance from these affairs. The stakes were clear for the three leaders. For <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/simon-harris/\" target=\"_blank\">Simon Harris</a> the task was simply to steady the storm-tossed <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/fine-gael/\" target=\"_blank\">Fine Gael</a> ship. This he probably accomplished, despite seeming simultaneously harried and over-caffeinated. He really should stop muttering.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2BRXO5IQTNG3ZOEYQAIG4BHXYI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732691906679},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/mary-lou-mcdonald/\" target=\"_blank\">Mary Lou McDonald</a> needed to build on the sense of renewed confidence which <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/sinn-fein/\" target=\"_blank\">Sinn Féin</a> has been displaying in recent days. Her plan seemed to be to play the hits that had served her well on the same stage in 2020, including the same Tweedledum and Tweedledee line. Last time out it was a zinger; this time it fell flat. Nevertheless, she was vigorous in her attacks on her two opponents, tagging them as the poster boys of the crash and austerity, but much less sure-footed when quizzed on her own policies. Not for the first time this year, she appeared under-briefed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7VFYN4NETBAJZLV2CDFT64KS3E","additional_properties":{"_id":1732691906680},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/micheal-martin/\" target=\"_blank\">Micheál Martin</a> looked exactly as you’d expect a man to look when his party, having spent the last five years as the laggard of the Big Three, is catapulted into first place four days before an <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/election2024/\" target=\"_blank\">election</a>. Tetchy Micheál was replaced by avuncular Micheál and, in the absence of a standout performance from his rivals, he probably emerged as the winner of this slow bicycle race.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EZCL7BMBUFGY7OEH7GBPDNGX6A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732691906681},"content":"Una Mullally: Harris spoke like a podcast on double speed, but McDonald had the best lines","type":"header"},{"_id":"SSPSFLK54NEU7LKEAXZF5IDGKI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732691906682},"content":"Entering into this debate, the stakes were highest for Harris. The outgoing Taoiseach has spent the guts of five days on the back foot, with questions asked of his temperament, empathy and sincerity, and a manner that has seemed frenetic at times. In studio, the three party leaders stood on what looked like a literal target.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YEUXUXLNQJESXCD2OJMTIEKCGU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732691906683},"content":"Many floating voters, having seen Harris’s now infamous petulance on the campaign trail, will be making a judgment call about him. Given that Fine Gael built an almost presidential-style campaign around him, and this has ramifications for the party’s vote share as a whole. Tightly coiled, he spoke a mile a minute, as though a podcast on double speed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HN75S5RLCFBOPGSIYZFKH5MHJI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732691906684},"content":"Occasionally, he almost veered into stump speech territory, repeating his automatic line that he had only been Taoiseach for seven months. His answers were sometimes hard to digest, packed densely without drawing a breath.","type":"text"},{"_id":"W6N5TXGJLZFJNLFFLTRHIVYDPI","additional_properties":{"_id":"VFBRRV7P7BDXTNJYKF7HWTUFJU"},"content":"Five key moments from the leaders’ debate: ‘You brought the crash, and you brought austerity’","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"23AAPKV6FBAX3D34C65AY65OMI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732691906685},"content":"Strangely, McDonald stumbled a little on Sinn Féin’s own housing policy, surely a moment she should have landed a clear and authoritative point, given that it’s the reason so many people vote or consider voting for her party. She was, however, the voice of the reality of the crisis. Ringing that alarm is important to those experiencing it.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CDRHOWIASBE33HCULSPWAEVT3E","additional_properties":{"_id":1732691906686},"content":"She also had the best lines; “you brought the crash ... and you brought austerity”, “there is political life beyond Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael”, “it’s raining really hard now for lots of people”. Harris’s lines did not connect. His persistent interrupting of McDonald emanated a brittle impatience.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PIVXAW4HUJH3HOUBSIUAIYFGV4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732691906687},"content":"Martin showed his experience. Performing the role (some would say eye roll) of the status quo statesman, he obfuscated, but was also calm – besides quite randomly challenging <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/miriam-o-callaghan/\" target=\"_blank\">Miriam O’Callaghan</a> at one point – and outlined policy positions, and countered when he chose to. He couldn’t, however, make a definitive argument beyond the parameters of the status quo.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y7B3NJAU6NDYJMS426UUJW7GXM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732691906688},"content":"A three-way tightrope performance with no calamities, some stumbles, but there’s an open-ended feeling to this contest, as the tension builds.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MTBXF7OV2JHL5NO5LUZY4YNXEU","additional_properties":{"_id":"MLZJEPMBHVE7RIH36GFOFOKVBY"},"embed":{"config":{},"id":"acast_podcast-35058","url":"/"},"subtype":"acast_podcast","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"QF5KMVJAJBHEFKVJ5OCBKIYPDM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732691906689},"content":"Gerard Howlin: No standout moments, just serial evasion","type":"header"},{"_id":"S2UOAWFX6VGMVFB3X3FTVZNMHE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732689952597},"content":"Often annoying, and seldom enlightening. Too many topics were attempted, and the result was too little forensic debate. The three party leaders seemed to have ended up in a panel discussion where they were sometimes accessories rather than main actors.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DI3FNU2XAFHLLNCPFKW4AIKU3Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732689952598},"content":"Two big things emerged, but both were omissions. There was no effective probing and no satisfactory answers on how lavish promises would be funded. Neither Harris nor McDonald would say what part of their plans would be dropped if the economic tide went out. Martin did offer to drop Fianna Fáil’s tax plans to better preserve the tax base. In what may have been an attempt at humour Harris committed Fine Gael to staying within the outgoing Government’s 5 per cent spending limit. On the economy generally, and on climate change, debate was derisory. The necessity to move on to the next topic assisted serial evasion.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KC5GGGUTXJFBDFY6VKMHZG3SXU","additional_properties":{"_id":"PFQRPAHG5FBZLH62RJFMI7GDZE"},"content":"No knock out blows in oversold leaders’ debate: Miriam Lord rates the performances of Harris, Martin and McDonald","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"RM2QL5Y67REFVNOU2FZ7D52Q3M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732689952599},"content":"Secondly, there were no standout moments. Nobody landed a killer blow, or badly tripped up. The usually super fluent Harris was a little off his game. Notwithstanding her reference to the “two lads” on either side of her, McDonald looked a lot more like one of the lads than she did in 2020. The contrast now is less clear because all are swimming in the same pool of promises. Martin was unremarkable, but did enough to stay ahead slightly in a poor contest.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZY5O7JMKCBDE5FS4KOKZ5BSFZU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732689952600},"content":"Harris repeated that he was Taoiseach for only seven months presumably to emphasise the “new” in flagging new energy. McDonald was good at pinning their record on her opponents but less convincing in explaining the detail of her own case. Martin mastered a middling way of not saying much, and that was enough on a night worth forgetting.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3I6YA6LH3ZEV3NJIZ5Y5AIPDJI","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Hugh Linehan"}},"name":"Hugh Linehan"},{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Una Mullally"}},"name":"Una Mullally"},{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Gerard Howlin"}},"name":"Gerard Howlin"}]},"description":{"basic":"General election: Three writers analyse debate between Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin"},"display_date":"2024-11-27T08:00:28.388Z","headlines":{"basic":"‘Serial evasion’ and ‘brittle impatience’: Our writers give their verdict on the leaders’ debate ","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"},"basic":{"display":true,"text":"Election 2024","url":"/election2024/"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"EFBATJ7JZMTCHJELHJBKRAHTOA","auth":{"1":"bb937449c6c5e889e56f0c38fe7bb6f732f7b295f2b72c5a2f8ca3a816add6f2"},"focal_point":{"x":2891,"y":796},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/EFBATJ7JZMTCHJELHJBKRAHTOA.jpg"},"overline_logo":{"_id":"QSWFXEVMGBHWPCSR4TJ3B6FKJQ","auth":{"1":"146656f9244eb8ce84d36fd4e3c519672cca8c4da72f47512b76196f1b454a7f"},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/QSWFXEVMGBHWPCSR4TJ3B6FKJQ.png"}},"subtype":"opinion","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Opinion"},{"name":"Politics"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/politics/2024/11/27/leaders-election-debate-analysis-clear-winner-emerges-from-slow-bicycle-race/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/opinion","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Opinion"}}}},{"_id":"FWE7SNZA45CK5CKZBO6DE36S64","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":393,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/881ad663-5281-44e2-a9b1-da7d06df88f5/versions/1732637491/media/7735c17c520319a831e629ccdffaf5ea_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/opinion/2024/11/27/could-simon-harriss-105-social-media-videos-or-the-freedom-partys-1000-a-day-sway-the-election/","content_elements":[{"_id":"RYJT6TKALBHBRKZA76GNU77YYA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732623110143},"content":"This <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/election2024/\" target=\"_blank\">general election</a> has been punctuated by a series of viral moments that have derailed the carefully laid plans of parties and candidates. As the clips of Tuesday night’s debate are edited and assembled, now is a good time to look back on a digital campaign to date, and assess whether any of the money, time and creativity invested have paid off.","type":"text"},{"_id":"X6UYI6YCBRDHVDE4RWJTSKHIA4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732623110144},"content":"Fine Gael’s big spend","type":"header"},{"_id":"QRSLEXGTMVDPBHAO7ACXZ77UZY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732623110145},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/fine-gael/\" target=\"_blank\">Fine Gael</a>’s approach to its digital campaign seems to be to “flood the zone”. It has spent more than any other party on social media ads, paying about €135,000 to Meta platforms, plus almost €20,000 to Google in the first three weeks of November.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OMSJEUZA5JDM3I626CWH6WEVSA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732623110146},"content":"On TikTok, which does not accept paid political ads, Taoiseach <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/simon-harris/\" target=\"_blank\">Simon Harris</a> has uploaded more than 60 videos since the dissolution of the Dáil 2½ weeks ago. Not even LinkedIn has been spared the new energy; Harris uploaded 45 videos to the professional networking platforms since calling the election.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KFEVMYFWX5AP3EYRNFHFAGW24A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732623110147},"content":"While Fine Gael launched its digital campaign with a series of ads introducing candidates, it soon shifted to canvassing montages and media clips, putting all its digital eggs in the Harris basket. This is a decision the party now appears to be rethinking.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JE5TQXXDOVBSNFSUSJTIVU6RIM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732623110148},"content":"The cash injection has not allowed it to control an online narrative driven by viral moments. The contrast between the orchestrated and the organic is stark. On Friday night, Harris posted a campaign montage TikTok video entitled <a href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@simon_harristd/video/7440192292754902305\">Kanturk</a>. It has a jaunty beat and smiling clips of him shaking hands and holding a pint. The text declares that his visit to the town had “festive spirit and a lot of energy”. That video garnered about 8,000 views. By Monday evening, RTÉ was reporting that the viral video of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/11/23/disability-worker-says-she-was-shaken-and-in-tears-after-exchange-with-fine-gael-leader-simon-harris-in-kanturk/\" target=\"_blank\">the Taoiseach’s now infamous Kanturk exchange with Charlotte Fallon</a> had been viewed eight million times.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZURANCDLFJFTTIQGYOC4I7ZCNI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732623110149},"content":"Other moments have circulated widely too, including a <a href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@irishexaminer/video/7434998460853570819?q=simon%20harris&t=1732614286047\">clip of a tetchy exchange</a> with a vendor outside the Aviva Stadium. The original footage is approaching 780,000 views on TikTok, and like other viral moments, has been remixed across platforms. The CCTV footage of Louth candidate <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/john-mcgahon/\" target=\"_blank\">John McGahon</a> in a brawl has also been used by content creators, some using it to accuse the party of “nepotism”. That clip is even <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ads/library/?active_status=active&ad_type=all&country=IE&id=935825578460038&is_targeted_country=false&media_type=all&search_type=page&view_all_page_id=162814401227663\" target=\"_blank\">being used in Facebook ads by Josiah Burke</a>, brother of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/enoch-burke/\" target=\"_blank\">Enoch Burke</a>, juxtaposing footage of the assault with McGahon at Pride events.","type":"text"},{"_id":"B577XRZJYJHIBFCDFG6RAHK5VE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732623110150},"content":"Fianna Fáil on the attack","type":"header"},{"_id":"GGP4NZKMIFF7RMC2P2QV33FE6I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732623110151},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/fianna-fail/\" target=\"_blank\">Fianna Fáil</a> has spent almost €95,000 in the same period on Meta, plus another €5,500 on Google. Its campaign spending has been much more decentralised than Fine Gael, with individual candidates pushing their own content, and just a third of ads coming from HQ.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RDCZSH5XKNAULMZKOGABKSOSAE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732623110152},"content":"While much has been made of Fine Gael’s piggy bank attack ad, Fianna Fáil has been on the attack too. One, on Facebook, features Micheál Martin’s <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ads/library/?active_status=active&ad_type=all&country=IE&id=525207080342508&is_targeted_country=false&media_type=all&search_type=page&view_all_page_id=222629035132\">questioning</a> of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/mary-lou-mcdonald/\" target=\"_blank\">Mary Lou McDonald</a> at last week’s debate. Another, on YouTube, <a href=\"https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR01288099862172139521/creative/CR04663001617665097729?region=IE&topic=political&start-date=2024-11-01&end-date=2024-11-26\">attacks Sinn Féin</a> for proposing to cut support to first-time buyers. The party has opted to exclude people in Dublin from being shown that ad, despite it featuring Dublin TD and candidate <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/darragh-obrien/\" target=\"_blank\">Darragh O’Brien</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XTYABEHPOJD2LFR4V7K5BGIR4Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1732623110153},"content":"Overall Fianna Fáil has run a steady online campaign, which polling suggests is not hurting the party’s chances. One notable success has been a video of Martin’s son talking through what it was like growing up with the politician. While distributed as an ad, the team has <a href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/feed/?highlightedUpdateType=TOPIC_TRENDING_CONVERSATION_IN_YOUR_NETWORK&highlightedUpdateUrn=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7266757764192858112\">stated</a> that the video is getting organic reach, or being shared by voters, the big prize in political campaigning.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EMG3PLWGLVB6DC3S6YUIVZQR54","additional_properties":{"_id":1732623110154},"content":"Sinn Féin’s silence","type":"header"},{"_id":"XZDKZBBJEFHE7NWDJ67IXCUFDA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732623110155},"content":"Bucking a year-long trend of being the biggest spender online, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/sinn-fein/\" target=\"_blank\">Sinn Féin</a> did not prioritise a paid digital campaign in the initial stages of this election. With just €32,000 of Meta ads, and next to nothing on Google, it was outspent by the Labour Party in November. There are signs that the campaign is ramping up for the last week of the campaign, though new paid content is coming from candidates, not HQ. This is in stark contrast to the June elections when Sinn Féin ran a highly centralised and expensive campaign, with a lot of focus on McDonald.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NHWVJW2ZA5AAZIKPFP7ML3IY3M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732623110156},"content":"Whether it is <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/11/23/sinn-fein-asks-sipo-if-it-declared-previous-election-spending-correctly/\" target=\"_blank\">funding issues</a>, a change in strategy or simply that it has been holding back for a final splurge in the last days of campaigning, this underinvestment doesn’t appear to have hurt it in polling. Perhaps it feels that the year-long drumbeat of paid constant attacking the Government and positioning it as the only alternative is paying off; the party spent over €290,000 in Meta ads in the year to October 31st, after all.","type":"text"},{"_id":"N2DXYG32KRD4BP54IPCQ5YMAMQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732623110157},"content":"Smaller parties","type":"header"},{"_id":"57B6MDK77RDOZFRQ66RJLWS4KQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732623110158},"content":"Of the smaller parties, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/labour-party/\" target=\"_blank\">Labour</a> has spent the most on digital so far, with about €60,000 on Meta platforms. It is focusing most resources on candidates in key seats, backing campaigns in Dublin South Central and Dublin Central.","type":"text"},{"_id":"R75NKG6JLFATBJXSQI2I4DUP24","additional_properties":{"_id":1732623110159},"content":"The <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/social-democrats/\" target=\"_blank\">Social Democrats</a> have spent close to what Sinn Féin has on Meta, at €27,000 so far, with newer candidates such as Sinéad Gibney and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/rory-hearne/\" target=\"_blank\">Rory Hearne</a> accounting for more of that spend than the existing TDs. The party benefits from having social media-savvy <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/holly-cairns/\" target=\"_blank\">Holly Cairns</a> as leader. Some analysts have identified her as the most “engaged” party leader on Instagram.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AIP7V5NLBNBM7CKUNGI57FXUJE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732623110160},"content":"Of the smaller, newer parties and groupings, the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/irish-freedom-party/\" target=\"_blank\">Irish Freedom Party</a> is putting most cash behind its digital campaign. It recently launched a series of Meta and YouTube ads, and currently ranks as third biggest spending on Google, now spending €1,000 a day.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OOHKTHB72BH5BF3ZDI7ZVHM6AQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732623110161},"content":"We won’t know the true impact of this campaign, on and offline, until the electorate delivers its verdict on Friday. But one thing is already clear: no amount of money can crowd out the power of a viral moment.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HA4HL3HLJRAW5PPJ7RRDCMM6KE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732624677033},"content":"<i>Liz Carolan works on democracy and technology issues, and writes at </i><a href=\"http://thebriefing.ie/\"><i>TheBriefing.ie</i></a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"3TXQBAJRLVAPPKEIWTTEG5AHRE","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Liz Carolan"}]},"description":{"basic":"The winners, losers and biggest spenders of the 2024 online campaign"},"display_date":"2024-11-27T06:15:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Unfortunately for Simon Harris, no amount of money can crowd out the power of a viral moment","native":"Election 2024: How the parties have been spending online in this campaign"},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"JAJFPQA4PFBDNA3GJEOGZ36KQA","auth":{"1":"92a47f189e2c7d9720677ec8b40a90a2b5dc8f742d43475895b1750c74ff7ffb"},"focal_point":{"x":1007,"y":566},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/JAJFPQA4PFBDNA3GJEOGZ36KQA.jpg"}},"subtype":"opinion","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Opinion"},{"name":"Politics"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/opinion/2024/11/27/could-simon-harriss-105-social-media-videos-or-the-freedom-partys-1000-a-day-sway-the-election/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/opinion","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Opinion"}}}},{"_id":"U2GYDTZZWBAJ3FQZHE77BOEZ2U","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":334,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/0bea9637-dd78-488e-b0a4-fdade6a36f0d/versions/1732635272/media/5333379c612fa3708497509d77e29f63_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/opinion/2024/11/27/a-dull-election-campaign-failed-to-shake-apathetic-electorate-out-of-its-slumber/","content_elements":[{"_id":"6X2TZMBF25CBNIBQKNMUODE7HE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732625488620},"content":"Does it matter if <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/simon-harris/\" target=\"_blank\">Simon Harris</a> or <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/mary-lou-mcdonald/\" target=\"_blank\">Mary Lou McDonald</a> dance a cringey jig in a gift shop or if <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/micheal-martin/\" target=\"_blank\">Micheál Martin</a> climbs awkwardly onto a buffalo on a buffalo cheese farm to catch voters’ attention? Fairly or not, such images have reduced some observers to face-palm despair, amplifying the notion that our political leaders are unserious tools insulting the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/election2024/\" target=\"_blank\">electorate</a>’s intelligence.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GPZINYJHZRAHHIMARB3BMRPLCE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732625488621},"content":"But what do we want from them? If the mood is apathetically bolshie among much of the electorate, it’s hardly more relaxed among the media whose overarching tone – at least up to Monday’s <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/11/26/fine-fail-fine-gael-still-most-popular-choice-for-coalition-despite-alarm-over-exhausted-harris/\" target=\"_blank\">Irish Times poll</a> – is exasperation that the election hasn’t “taken off”. As for the candidates, if they’re not scratchy and half-astray with exhaustion at this end of an election campaign, they haven’t been doing it right. This was always going to be the danger phase. Anyone paying attention to Harris’s frenetic walkabouts as long as five months ago would have predicted the inevitable outburst in a supermarket somewhere up ahead. The surprise is that there isn’t a lot more of it.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HTXDIMH5GVGBZDUIDFNFQUG4AQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732625488622},"content":"All human endeavour needs an off-switch, not least those that entail full-on empathetic engagement with a fractious public while permanently on camera.","type":"text"},{"_id":"N4CTASILIJFHNGLRKS2YXLZB4A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732625488623},"content":"Candidates are moving targets, political antennae on red alert. Leaders and ministers still on official national duty face daily judgment calls on trivia such as whether a dance-off is the appropriate use of a prime minister. The answer is that it’s not. What’s the point of it? How many people are delighted to see a leader up for a laugh versus those who find it embarrassing?","type":"text"},{"_id":"YP6VHII25BHIVFXWPPUVVSM2T4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732625488624},"content":"It’s possible to be different. Interviews with master consensus-builder Angela Merkel about her new memoir recall her disdain for political showmanship and for social media, how her speeches were “aggressively dull”, how she never played for laughs. When a Sunday Times photographer suggested a pose for a close-up – nothing more flamboyant than her face resting against a raised palm – she said firmly, “I don’t want to do that”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4UZMULLCVRGTJGJCZOADOIYJQE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732625488625},"content":"But would she get away with that kind of thing in Ireland? Think Bertie Ahern being mobbed at the Ploughing or getting a hearty laugh from a 2007 Irish Congress of Trade Unions conference - a few months after Irish voters had crowned his third election triumph and just before the crash – when he couldn’t understand why people moaning about the economy didn’t commit suicide.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7SBBKAIXJ5D7TOGEJMO4U2SISA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732625488627},"content":"Starstruck people are always a bit foolish and giddy. They laugh at their hero’s most pedestrian comments if delivered in a jocular tone. It’s human nature. Whatever else might be said about <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/michael-o-leary/\" target=\"_blank\">Michael O’Leary</a>’s comments about teachers (and they do warrant a discussion), they were not remotely funny. Yet the resultant FG guffaws became one of this election’s “highlights” mainly because the whole campaign was so leaden.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EQF3PPOQ3BG2LMDMY3IBPRDFZY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732625488628},"content":"So whose job is it to inject or find excitement in an election campaign? Is it up to the leaders who went mad on the promises and tried a bit of dancing? The candidates? Or is it the electorate’s job – those with the privilege of a vote to elevate the people they affect to disdain?","type":"text"},{"_id":"JOOCP5MQPFHOJCP2TKS3E5UVIE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732625488629},"content":"Monday’s poll suggests that despite the mountains of information being thrown at them, the Undecideds have not fallen; in fact they’ve risen to one in five.","type":"text"},{"_id":"G6W3MB4EANBBRDYKNDXHKRQNUY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732625488630},"content":"Heroic canvassers hauling themselves up icy doorsteps have noted the alarming number of “not-ins”. Some reckoned that just one in five doors were being opened to them or found themselves regularly talking to smart doorbells rather than the residents. One Dublin Central canvasser talked of a strange mood of “apathetic bordering on angry”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"I3QFA7CDJ5CZHCTXJBJ27BJSNE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732625488631},"content":"Yet some of the most powerful moments of the campaign are happening in Dublin Central. Watch Gary Gannon calling out the criminal/candidate Gerry Hutch. When Hutch, ensconced in leafy Clontarf while not in Spain or in Spanish custody, blathered that the sitting politicians had been doing “shag all”, Gannon responded as most serious politicians should but rarely do, describing the drudgery of day-to-day politics, the kind that will never be solved by someone pretending to be “some sort of saviour”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"L6QFUEUWOBH2VKQWX3W5FFA33M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732625488632},"content":"“The dogged work is what happens after all the cameras switch off,” said Gannon, “and we have to go into the community centres, we have to go into the youth clubs, trying to find funding, trying to talk about the needs ... If Gerry Hutch wants to be a political leader, ask him where he was for the last any number of years particularly in terms around his own immediate vicinity.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"P2ERJUFS7RBGJN3HLHRN2FLDIY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732625488633},"content":"Anyone still inclined to dismiss the whole process as meaningless might look back at the first round of the Romanian presidential election on Sunday. That produced a shock leading candidate who is pro-Russian, extreme-right, has no visible means of funding, barely figured in opinion polling and seems to have conducted his campaign entirely on TikTok. It can happen anywhere.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OIQQV43D6ZDNHPGKPDXIVHEMGM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732625488634},"content":"There is a grace note to Election 2024. It comes in the form of the Cork care worker, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/11/25/simon-harris-hoping-to-meet-with-disability-worker-charlotte-fallon-in-cork-in-coming-weeks/\" target=\"_blank\">Charlotte Fallon</a>, who was made to feel “silly” and “stupid” after the Taoiseach’s abrupt treatment of her in the supermarket. “He is a human being and I know it was after a very long day,” she said after his apologetic 20 minute phone call. “I do feel for him and I know that general election campaigns can be very rough. 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The Canadian director has long experimented in form and content. He ages his footage. He works with archival material. Small wonder that Blanchett and her costar <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/denis-menochet/\" target=\"_blank\">Denis Ménochet</a> are in giddy form when I meet them in advance of the film’s Irish release.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DJUXN2YJWVHHTCUUA23M53L5VA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732527045284},"content":"“Obviously I knew Guy Maddin’s work,” Blanchett says. “The Forbidden Room had an eerie quality that I couldn’t shake for days. I think My Winnipeg is a seminal work because of how personal and melancholy and wistful and absurd it is. But it also speaks to the way Guy can make something that is so specific, almost like a piece of folk art. 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Ménochet, the imposing star of Custody and Peter von Kant, is subsequently forced to spend most of the film in a wheelbarrow while the chignoned Canadian PM unexpectedly performs heroics (and seduces Blanchett’s chancellor) to the strains of Enya.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UBKM4UFYUVH2BPOP4JUHZ4IRZY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732527045299},"content":"“I now teach a class in wheelbarrow acting,” the French actor jokes. “It’s very difficult. It’s not for everyone. They had to build some devices to help carry those around.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZTSAOQBHSZAOVBBZLWFSOUZZRA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732527045300},"content":"“It was a little bit like a long sleepover,” Blanchett adds. “I was expecting to make this film in Guy’s garage. But no. We spent a lot of time doing night shoots. There was no going back to your trailer. We just spent all our time together. After a couple of weeks we started moving like we were one strange organism.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3LL6QHUWI5BKBDVWNRSNU7O7GA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732553641218},"content":"“It was physical. Denis spent a lot of time in a wheelbarrow and then a lot of time on the ground in wet foliage. I think he had it the roughest. Maybe that’s appropriate for France. And then they end up being carried in a wheelbarrow by Canada. I think our Canadian director was very pleased with that metaphor.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"74SP4B2JLZDNPJV4DGIM5CW3HU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732527045301},"content":"Watching the bumbling politicians on screen, one can’t help but ponder real-world antecedents. That’s especially true of Blanchett’s character, who seems awfully like a dim-witted version of Angela Merkel.","type":"text"},{"_id":"T4AZSJMB6NCBLBJYOMVZLU5BUU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732527045302},"content":"“I think there are still so few female leaders out there,” the actor says. “That’s why they face such scrutiny. There aren’t a lot of examples. You have Mary Robinson, of course. Most people think that I’ve based this on <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/angela-merkel/\" target=\"_blank\">Angela Merkel</a> – who was such an incredible leader when you think about it. 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She also adopted Hepburn’s daily ice-bath regimen.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KCIY3ECLUVF6XPMBEVCJPKZ3BA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732553641225},"content":"While preparing for <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/review/2023/01/13/tar-cate-blanchett-in-full-symphonic-mode-in-role-tailored-to-her-strengths/\" target=\"_blank\">Tár, Todd Field’s 2022 film about a flawed classical conductor</a>, Blanchett took piano lessons, learned German, pored over recordings of masterclasses by the Soviet conductor Ilya Musin, and conducted the Dresden Philharmonic as they rehearsed Mahler’s Fifth. Her homework for Rumours involved careful consideration of the weird “disembodied gestures” of the G7 leaders.","type":"text"},{"_id":"P3KAH4OQBJCG3JWBPY6USSFB24","additional_properties":{"_id":1732527045306},"content":"“Guy sent me some footage of his dog and then the G7, in that order,” she says. “We watched a lot of these strange awkward B-rolls from the G7. You see them walking along. 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As strange as this movie is, at times it’s like a documentary.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"HJNTKNYA5JC65EFRLFHUUZ2CSY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732527045307},"content":"When I met Blanchett amid the Oscar buzz before her win for Blue Jasmine, in 2014, she spoke about the blurred lines between tragedy and comedy, referencing her turn as Blanche DuBois, Tennessee Williams’s best-known boozy heroine, in Liv Ullmann’s Broadway revival of A Streetcar Named Desire.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BI6MFW2AKJDY3D56YXQQFIKFKE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732527045308},"content":"“Ben Stiller came to see Streetcar in New York, and he was so surprised afterwards,” she said. “He said he had never realised how funny it is. And I said, ‘I know! It’s completely absurd!’ But I think even when you’re playing something like Hedda Gabler, when you’re on an immensely tragic arc, you have to find the ridiculous.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"BW4NIIXZGFCTLOGKDD6JNNK4I4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732527045309},"content":"With Rumours the reverse is true: it’s a journey into preposterousness to uncover uncomfortable truths. Writing in Upturn, her 2020 essay collection, Blanchett hoped that the pandemic had shone a light on social and political failings – “the catastrophic misdirection of the past 30 years of economic and social planning (the guiding non-principle being that there is no such thing as society). No, short of nostalgia and regret, Covid-19 has ravaged the whole idea of small government, and highlighted the importance of social and economic justice.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"JLRGKWSJIVALBLMVKI5RSLQVMA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732527045310},"content":"“Rumours is not trying to be an important film with a message,” she says. “But it is like a confession of today’s reality, because we are in an absurd situation. I think one feels most mad in the present day when you try to make sense of what is happening in the world. It is completely bewildering the situations that we as a species have found ourselves in. That we have willingly put ourselves. Or that we have been put in by our leaders. I think if you try to make too much sense of this movie you will feel like you’re losing your mind. 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It is the eve of the opening when I visit, and the judges are deliberating at a distance. With more than €40,000 on offer in prizes, there is a great deal at stake.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QTEABSOMLFADDE5XVAHRCTTBZU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732543155157},"content":"There is also a great deal to navigate as the 10 artists on show, who have emerged from a longlist of 120, look to establish their careers. They are well aware, as they explain below, that it takes more than ability to make it as an artist. You also need grit, luck and opportunities.","type":"text"},{"_id":"W7MC2IOEHVDZFGRWJPR4FY4PDI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732543155158},"content":"This makes it hard not to be concerned for their futures, and for those of their graduating peers. The awards, at least, are some of the best thought-out art prizes going.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KPZ4K3EGHVDGDNMWAY4PE7GQTE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732543155159},"content":"In the form they have been run in since 2016, a team of curators visit the graduate shows at art schools the length and breadth of the country. Their longlist is then whittled down to a core group who work with a curator to mount the exhibition. Back in 2016, Alice Maher curated a line-up that included many young artists who now have significant international careers, including Bassam al-Sabah, Megan Burns, Susan Buttner, Aoife Dunne, Elaine Hoey and Jane Rainey.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7SWYKHLTMBD6LAWI73WKC5H6DI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732468715631},"content":"The talent this year is similarly undeniable. We take a look at the world through the eyes of the next creative generation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q7HLXBRHBVAOHGTZRKK5WTEPKU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732468715632},"content":"Sorcha Browning","type":"header"},{"_id":"6FX77HOBLLNCZNEFABODUJCVCQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"BGN4JC5LG5EXXOHDIPDW3T5EFM"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"YKHMXI7XCFFRVHRD2WJ344GXIA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732468715633},"content":"Sorcha Browning’s installation Eden turns data collection into a series of digital performances, adding a nice nod to the history of painting, in a mix that is heady and profound. “Graduating can feel a little daunting. There is not necessarily a solid group that you join to get support with developing work. The space outside of university feels more dispersed, which is exciting, but it can be challenging to find your feet. I have a residency coming up at the National Sculpture Factory, in Cork, which I am excited about. I’ve been working on new characters and ideas, so I’m looking forward to developing this and seeing what’s there.” A graduate of TU Dublin’s Sherkin Island visual-art course, Browning is a winner of the €10,000 RDS Taylor Art Award, which has been presented since 1860. Previous winners include William Orpen, Mainie Jellett, Norah McGuinness, Séan Keating, Dorothy Cross and James Hanley. Browning also won the €5,000 RDS Graphic Studio Award.","type":"text"},{"_id":"F2U47WAJUJDILEDXOG246HU4TU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732468715636},"content":"Heather Hughes","type":"header"},{"_id":"RIXVZ7POLVAVUSHP6U3CZE7KZM","additional_properties":{"_id":"Y47MZK7X5VBEXOCJ42WNTB64I4"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"RIPIU7CVQ5D4XHEZFZKO5HUB2Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1732468715637},"content":"Heather Hughes creates installations that explore the relationship between image and consumer in a world of endless visual information. 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It makes opportunities like this one life-changing.” They are a graduate of Limerick School of Art and Design, at TUS.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6LRTP5RL2JDCBPBX62WE66DIAM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732468715649},"content":"Kyle Fairbanks","type":"header"},{"_id":"6CI6ZYZ2LVAZTP5A4SERGNUXFA","additional_properties":{"_id":"65AUHH7M4JDUVPSLOM2BT45DTM"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"5245Y5JQFNHIPKI4TWEX27MTME","additional_properties":{"_id":1732468715650},"content":"Kyle Fairbanks creates futuristic worlds tinged with nostalgia. Enormously inventive, he even dreams up new languages, flora and fauna for his alternative realities. “I like to distort images and exaggerate them – and I would like to continue creating imaginative pieces of art, work on commissions and exhibit more. 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However, I believe that there will never be a replacement for the soul and creativity of human-made artwork, which is infused with stories and emotions. Our experiences shape so much of the art we create, so even though I know that today can be a difficult time for many graduate artists, I know that these life experiences will inform and be soulfully poured into our future work.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"EIA7TU2FMNB5VGE34EKVLGPXJA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732803687712},"content":"Simonsen, who is a graduate of Belfast School of Art, at the University of Ulster, is the winner of the €5,000 RDS Members Art Fund Award; the judges remarked on the poignancy and beauty of her work as it deftly explores relationships, language and place.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UCRL5DN75BEXPPOO5PMILBPNWY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732468715656},"content":"Claire Ritchie","type":"header"},{"_id":"YWGI7PQGY5COXIBZJMFSIJJFW4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732468715657},"content":"Claire Richie’s abstract paintings, which integrate reclaimed materials, shine through her subtle understanding of the intricacies of colour. “There’s a long list of challenges facing graduate artists today: economic insecurity, uneven access to funding, lack of affordable studio space, trying to gain recognition in the art scene, isolation, burnout… The list goes on – pretty demoralising if you think about it too much. 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My material for this work, inspired by stone circles, was 7,000-year-old bog oak. It was possibly alive in the landscape during the construction of the stone circles. The work is about what we can learn from the past and how we can use our mythology to reconnect. I have a three-month residency at the National Sculpture Factory in Cork city. I want to strengthen my portfolio and apply for a master’s in sculpture.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"OORO4EWALBDOFIKIJ75Z2IQMAY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732803687719},"content":"Timmins, who is a graduate of MTU Crawford College of Art and Design, is the winner of the RDS Mason Hayes & Curran LLP Centre Culturel Irlandais Residency Award. 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I examine how this still shapes contemporary realities, focusing on themes of race, identity and spirituality. Using different mediums, such as blackboards, sculpture and performance, I tell stories and create figures that are inspired by Caribbean folklore and African traditional art.” A graduate of the National College of Art and Design, McCarroll is the winner of an RHA Graduate Studio Award, valued at €7,500. 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The risk of something going amiss was significant – which was why he did it in the first place.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YV2K44LWIRA6DDFCNSAJKN7MJU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732293744416},"content":"“Those shows, that process was me very much back on my bullshit,” he says, meaning that, having tried to fit into a corporate structure, he was embracing his old idiosyncratic methods once again.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PD7EQYKMONF25HM3PBR2QYTXWE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732293744417},"content":"“I’m the worst sort of career musician in a lot of ways. I do the weird thing. I like doing things that make me interested selfishly. ‘I’m engaged with this process.’ ‘The stress of this is making me feel the way that I want to feel.’ And I’d lost that. 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A move away from his earlier folk-pop, the project had featured engineering from Ben Ash, aka Two Inch Punch, a producer who had worked with chart artists such as Jessie Ware, Sia and Wiz Khalifa.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7KTKQTG5RBGKHK5CUWAKY6AKDM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732293744422},"content":"That was followed by the Drake sample in 2016 and by McMorrow writing the song Gone, which was at one point set to be recorded by a huge pop star whom he’d rather not identify.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UZZTYC5QPFCDLNTBBFE4KYN5NQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732293744423},"content":"“Gone is the red herring of red herrings in my entire career. I wrote that song for other people. I didn’t write it for myself. The whole reason I signed to Columbia Records and I had all these deals was because of Gone. I was very happy tipping away in my weird little world. 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I like sitting and talking to someone like Louis, who’s had this unbelievably fascinating lifestyle – so much tragedy in his life,” he says. Tomlinson’s mother and sister died within three years of each other, and his 1D bandmate <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/liam-payne/\" target=\"_blank\">Liam Payne</a> died in October. “So many things have happened to him. I chatted to him and then write constantly. That was a lovely process.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"VAWUMRAK4JC4XFY74XYO3LFIDE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732293744427},"content":"Because life is strange and full of contrasts McMorrow ended up working with Tomlinson around the same time that he was producing the Dublin postpunk “folk-metal” band The Scratch, on their LP Mind Yourself. “Totally different animals,” he says. “The Scratch album was an intense period in the studio of that real old-school nature of making music. A lot of fights. A lot of pushing back against ideas. A lot of different opinions. 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In 2019, the business was obsessed with streaming numbers and hot-wiring the Spotify algorithm so that your music posted the highest possible number of plays.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PIFCABEZFBBU7I5VP2VKMTEAM4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732293744429},"content":"“Everyone was driven by stats. ‘This song has 200 million streams.’ ‘That song has 400 million streams.’ I went into my meetings with Columbia Records ... the day I had my first big marketing meeting was the day my catalogue passed a billion streams, which, for someone like me, who started where I started, was a day where I should be popping champagne corks. Instead they immediately started talking about how they have artists that have one song that has two billion streams. So by their rule of thumb I was half as successful as one song by one artist on their label.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"2E44NNMO7RC4BJJHQ2JQI46CGQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732293744430},"content":"Five years later he believes things have changed. 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Those are two artists that, if you were to look at their stats, you wouldn’t be, like, ‘These are world-beating musicians.’ You start aggregating to this stat-based norm and you miss bands like Lankum, bands like <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/the-mary-wallopers/\" target=\"_blank\">The Mary Wallopers</a>, people like John Francis Flynn.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"AI6RQWVCLJHKRNQL54OOKQOF54","additional_properties":{"_id":1732293744432},"content":"McMorrow is looking forward to his forthcoming Irish tour, which he sees as another leg of his journey to be his best possible self.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NIW57IEX2JGTJNYLZVD2SV6DHM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732293744433},"content":"“The last two, three years have been a process of building it back to a version of me that actually made me happy rather than making me cry at night-time – a version that was making music because I liked it. Within this industry there’s so much outside noise. It’s quite overwhelming. 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The “tiny” team behind the site ship gift boxes with books, chocolates, fancy candles and more, at no cost around Ireland, and also offer a monthly book subscription service, which means your present will stay front and centre in the recipient’s mind for a whole year if you so choose.","type":"text"},{"_id":"47BUHH2TJBBSXZUF6PX7FWDL2M","additional_properties":{"_id":"JVVQE7UO4ZGM7OQ4JYMQLQWJZI"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"CLK6OEGH75GQDMTTALKRBJPV7U","additional_properties":{"_id":1731684175681},"content":"<a href=\"http://thecompanyofbooks.ie/\" target=\"_blank\">thecompanyofbooks.ie</a>","type":"header"},{"_id":"ACHKBFYMHVCZZB5G3WUHXZLWS4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732620982098},"content":"Based in Ranelagh in Dublin, The Company of Books has more than 3,500 titles in stock, with free delivery on orders over €30 and even freer local delivery within a range of 2.5km.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FCYMPA3XXFAOBKVF24NXE33IAY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731684175683},"content":"<a href=\"http://kennys.ie/\" target=\"_blank\">kennys.ie</a>","type":"header"},{"_id":"VRA5XTOCVZBR7GULXSYY4ORPKI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732620982100},"content":"Kenny’s of Galway is an institution, but while it could have just settled for being one of the finest physical bookshops in Ireland, it has been innovating for the guts of 30 years and was one of the first online retailers in Ireland. 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The book I found most eye-opening was Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI by Madhumita Murgia, which tells you everything you don’t want to know (but really should) about data tech.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ETBAMJCYMNFB5JRQNZ55UV7KIU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057474},"type":"list"},{"_id":"KM442YBEPVHYXP5K2EA6NV4KD4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732616533917},"content":"John Boyne","type":"header"},{"_id":"XPCQA6TMHZAY7MNDWWNO7EQIAE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732291795875},"content":"My book of the year is Small Rain by Garth Greenwell, one of the US’s finest novelists. He found himself doubled over in pain in a non-Covid-related incident during the pandemic, which led to a prolonged hospital stay. His affliction baffled doctors so much that he became a person of interest to medics of all disciplines. While they seek ways to treat him, Greenwell veers between stoicism, fear, missing his beloved partner, and worrying about his home. 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The best writing about the domestic arts is always also writing about resistance to despair: I recommend Caroline Eden’s Cold Kitchen for culinary meditations from a war correspondent. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/01/27/spent-light-by-lara-pawson-an-innovative-hybrid-of-fiction-and-autobiography/\" target=\"_blank\">Lara Pawson’s Spent Light</a>, disturbing and funny hybrid prose, has stayed with me since I read it last spring. I enjoyed the Shetland poet Jen Hadfield’s beautifully-crafted memoir, Storm Pegs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"THZUUUHBFNDH3I2S2XUPCMLHE4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732534636986},"type":"list"},{"_id":"RGXSE5SYEFBJNJJK4Z7R7YMPKA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057457},"content":"Joseph O’Connor","type":"header"},{"_id":"BGIXIQVUZFAY5CXYO4TPWUUKRI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057458},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/04/22/the-amendments-by-niamh-mulvey-what-it-means-to-be-female-through-different-generations/\" target=\"_blank\">Niamh Mulvey’s debut novel The Amendments</a> is a fine achievement from a writer of rare gifts. Every novel by Donal Ryan extends his deserved reputation; I adored his <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/08/20/heart-be-at-peace-by-donal-ryan-companion-novel-to-the-spinning-heart-returns-to-the-approach-that-won-him-such-acclaim/\" target=\"_blank\">Heart, Be at Peace</a>. I’ve loved John Cooper Clarke’s poems and performances since first encountering them as a teenager; his 2024 collection, What, is brilliant. My book of the year is Joe Boyd’s And the Roots of Rhythm Remain: a wonderfully knowledgeable and discursive travelogue of world music, detailed, loving, incisive and beautifully written. Jack Fennell’s anthology of lost Irish ghost stories, Your Own Dark Shadow, is a knockout.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YTNEEDTTSJDJTB5PHG4WEDFAAM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057459},"type":"list"},{"_id":"DJVNVDMV2FAP5MLOZ2CMPKFGBM","additional_properties":{"_id":"WBB44XFISNDW7E3GVXGRM63SRY"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"D7GQLQDP3NHL3LMO3XLAGZYIYE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057460},"content":"Mark O’Connell","type":"header"},{"_id":"UIJXEBY7ARFMFNU7BVEHZR45YI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732290876324},"content":"Hari Kunzru is, I think, a weirdly underrated writer. It’s not that he’s ignored – far from it, he’s very successful, and has been for many years now. But I think the extent to which his fiction plumbs the depths of our terminal-stage capitalist malaise, while also being compulsively entertaining, deserves to have a lot more fuss made of it. Blue Ruin is the third in his “Three Colours” trilogy, following White Tears and the incredible Red Pill. It has a thrillerish pace, and a cold-blooded intellectualism reminiscent of mid-period Don DeLillo.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PSLIETHHJNGFDN2ZR5YIF32XJI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057460},"type":"list"},{"_id":"H2TTGKUBYVFYVLEJH5XWQ4X2NA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057492},"content":"Kit de Waal","type":"header"},{"_id":"RGU2BDNOMJGGPEJCOF5JUE2Q54","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057493},"content":"My book of the year is Donal Ryan’s Heart, Be at Peace. Ryan has a way of getting a whole character and a whole life down on a few pages, sometimes a few paragraphs. In overlapping and intertwined voices, we’re picking up where his previous masterpiece The Spinning Heart left off. Is it possible to say a work of fiction is true? Well, this is and once again, it’s a book that stays with you well beyond the last page.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BNTBAGR2TJC5JDKINQIC3DEKKA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732534636983},"type":"list"},{"_id":"MF5NZ4W27VDUFNHRSRQSJPSJPY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057461},"content":"Diarmaid Ferriter","type":"header"},{"_id":"I5BGLYZ4JFB3TJN6LFJTYV3KRI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732534636912},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/08/20/heart-be-at-peace-by-donal-ryan-companion-novel-to-the-spinning-heart-returns-to-the-approach-that-won-him-such-acclaim/\" target=\"_blank\">Donal Ryan’s Heart, Be at Peace</a> is enthralling. He captures such a range of emotion, defiance, eloquence, crudity and dark humour, in brilliant prose that makes him stand out in a crowded and rich Irish literary space. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/02/24/remembering-peasants-fascinating-study-makes-for-essential-reading-about-our-shared-past/\" target=\"_blank\">Patrick Joyce’s Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanishing World</a> gives agency to the people of the land as he excavates the peasant experiences across Europe, placing the Irish dimension and his personal connection to it in a broader context. Given the dark politics of this year, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/05/11/a-great-disorder-by-richard-slotkin-ambitious-mapping-of-americas-past-to-its-present-via-myth/\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Slotkin’s A Great Disorder</a> is a timely and textured reminder of the exploitation of national myths and how and why the US is so divided.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5X75O7M4AZASHPB2B4ZSOSPT6A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732534636913},"type":"list"},{"_id":"BX6POJ477VMRTGR4VNCX4HKPZI","additional_properties":{"_id":"4C4IU2TESBE6DDJKMFIGZ2ACPI"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"PRNC2BNEEBA6VL3IHTUFTYZN2A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057473},"content":"Julia Kelly","type":"header"},{"_id":"NKOFN2AZUJGU5KLZURVTK4WE6Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732534636943},"content":"Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst is my book of the year. Reading his prose is like sinking into a bath of the perfect temperature, with his exquisite use of language and extraordinary powers of description. I also loved <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/06/15/all-fours-by-miranda-july-one-womans-quest-for-life-after-midlife/\" target=\"_blank\">All Fours by Miranda July</a>, a wild, bawdy, horny, hilarious escape from the reality of a menopausal wife and mother into an alternative fantasy, an existence where she can express her sexual and artistic desires with unfettered freedom.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SETR3PLUMJEO7GYU3725ZSRR3M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732534636944},"type":"list"},{"_id":"RPYWVC7J6BGAPDJSRV3DYEBY2I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057463},"content":"Malachy Clerkin","type":"header"},{"_id":"HMIESUPZ3JCWFPD2QC72LDQ4WM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203179865},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/06/22/the-racket-by-conor-niland-lonely-tennis-locker-room-conveyed-with-deft-touch/\" target=\"_blank\">The Racket by Conor Niland and Gavin Cooney</a> is a fantastic – and deservedly prize-winning – trek through the nearly-but-not-quite backroads of professional tennis. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/10/12/obsessed-the-autobiography-by-johnny-sexton-one-of-the-best-irish-sports-books-ever-written/\" target=\"_blank\">Obsessed by Johnny Sexton and Peter O’Reilly</a> is a laudably searching examination of the psyche of one of Ireland’s greatest ever sportspeople. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/11/09/states-of-play-how-sportswashing-took-over-football-by-miguel-delaney-admirably-thorough-depressingly-persuasive/\" target=\"_blank\">States of Play by Miguel Delaney</a> paints a detailed and often grotesque picture of how soccer has found itself hijacked by money and sportswashing. Finally, My Story by Joe Canning and Vincent Hogan is full of searing insights into the Galway hurler’s life less ordinary.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IGSIK5AHMVAXBCEBPYQPAQUKPY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057463},"type":"list"},{"_id":"53JPF47GYDRYBSJVCXSZYNZGNI","additional_properties":{"_id":"KDGUYTH2DFFUVMWZ26B4JSRBBE"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"QYNDR4HOUJHHXDIGO4F454JUKA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057464},"content":"Fintan O’Toole","type":"header"},{"_id":"JXJ623FWUJGX5MFTLRCSM5TXZU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057456},"content":"In a year stained by such widespread indifference to extreme violence against civilians in war, Cormac Ó Gráda’s The Hidden Victims: Civilian Casualties of the Two World Wars stood out as a work of great moral as well as of historical importance. One of Ireland’s greatest historians scrupulously sifts the evidence from the first and second World Wars and their “collateral damage” of genocide, famine, aerial bombing and disease. His conclusion is startling: he estimates that the wars cost not the previously accepted 35 million but 65 million civilian lives – nearly two-thirds of the 100 million total killed. Ó Gráda writes with immense care, eschewing rhetoric or appeals to the emotions, but there is always the sense that this quiet precision is an act of mourning for 30 million people who were not even given the dignity of becoming statistics. The resonances for the present are profound: this book is a potent warning against amnesia and evasion.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7WKFI6LDSFAMTOMEDYX3JB76DQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732534636904},"type":"list"},{"_id":"4ENYIXOQ2FDS3MK3SU7FQKJMPE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057471},"content":"Sarah Gilmartin","type":"header"},{"_id":"WRIM5Y5VKRDEJDYLT4RNTUP7RA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732290876345},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/02/20/the-lodgers-by-holly-pester-a-smart-superbly-crafted-story-on-the-state-of-a-nation/\" target=\"_blank\">Holly Pester’s debut The Lodgers</a> is a bracing, eloquent dissection of a generation priced out of their own home. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/10/10/our-evenings-by-alan-hollinghurst-review-beautifully-observed-tracking-of-an-actor-into-old-age/\" target=\"_blank\">Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst</a> examines race, class, sexuality and identity in a narrative suffused with loss and longing. Three gems from the Booker longlist: <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/01/27/wild-houses-by-colin-barrett-superbly-observed-world-framed-by-crime-caper-plot/\" target=\"_blank\">Wild Houses by Colin Barrett</a>, Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/09/07/creation-lake-by-rachel-kushner-fun-devastating-and-far-more-urgent-than-a-typical-spy-thriller/\" target=\"_blank\">Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner</a>. Three intricate, and very different, story collections: Barcelona by Mary Costello, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/04/25/old-romantics-by-maggie-armstrong-an-audacious-debut-collection-with-a-personality-all-its-own/\" target=\"_blank\">Old Romantics by Maggie Armstrong</a>, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/05/07/openings-by-lucy-caldwell-enlightening-and-enriching-collection-of-stories-that-closes-a-loose-triptych/\" target=\"_blank\">Openings by Lucy Caldwell</a>. And for poetry fans, the moving <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/05/05/new-poetry-raptures-road-and-then-the-hare-landscape-of-the-body-all-the-good-things-you-deserve/\" target=\"_blank\">All the Good Things You Deserve by Elaine Feeney</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ECEMYKCXE5FG5FLKENTU4VB7HE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732290876346},"type":"list"},{"_id":"ZGTC3TC4KFBBXOJXMU75AATV7A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057465},"content":"Brian Hanley","type":"header"},{"_id":"MJOHBBIJRVB77M255NDO7DOLL4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732272055245},"content":"It has been a depressing year, which perhaps influences these choices. Some impressive new histories illuminated the 20th century’s myriad tragedies; betrayed revolutionary hopes in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/09/21/hotel-lux-by-maurice-casey-radical-politics-and-queer-love-in-the-dark-shadow-of-stalinism/\" target=\"_blank\">Maurice Casey’s Hotel Lux</a>, murder gangs and state collusion in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/09/28/ghosts-of-a-family-review-superlative-account-of-atrocity-of-the-mcmahon-murders/\" target=\"_blank\">Edward Burke’s Ghosts of A Family</a>, despotic political “saviours” in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/09/28/the-party-is-always-right-the-untold-story-of-gerry-healy-and-british-trotskyism-a-shocking-history-well-told/\" target=\"_blank\">Aidan Beatty’s The Party Is Always Right</a>. The fictionalised corruption brought to life in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/02/25/best-new-crime-fiction-joe-thomass-red-menace-is-an-early-candidate-for-crime-novel-of-the-year/\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Thomas’s Red Menace</a>, his follow-up to the excellent White Riot, seems almost benign in comparison.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GQD2FQDI6JA7PDY6VMYP4PBXY4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732272055246},"type":"list"},{"_id":"MOPCPUID2ZGGFOAY432NV7XGM4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057475},"content":"Sally Hayden","type":"header"},{"_id":"YR63Q3JNTRE7JP2KYDP3XCG3KU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057476},"content":"I read mostly older books this year, but a few new ones that I definitely recommend are Scattered by Aamna Mohdin, a Somali-British journalist whose 2015 reporting trip to Calais prompts exploration as to the journey her own family undertook to escape Somalia: The Tale of a Wall, a memoir by Nasser Abu Srour, a Palestinian who has spent decades in Israeli prison; and Chukwuebuka Ibeh’s Blessings, a moving novel about queer lives in Nigeria.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LZLGD6KTJ5EDDMJEG3X4KO3BPM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057475},"type":"list"},{"_id":"NKJE4PYS3JH5TGDBBCEJSQ75LE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057466},"content":"Donal Fallon","type":"header"},{"_id":"336EBPHZPJC2HMRIRAW34DMGFU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732534636924},"content":"The Irish in the Resistance by Clodagh Finn and John Morgan is a brilliant achievement, bringing to light new stories of men and women who risked everything during the second World War. While Samuel Beckett’s role in the French Resistance is well documented (it was considerably more than what he dismissed as “boy scout stuff”), many of the names in this book will be entirely new to the reader. Great archival digging and lots of heart.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YHCQGFYEFBEVLB2X3PZEBGM25Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732534636925},"type":"list"},{"_id":"JEGNMYAMXJGXBCOBYF3TQCVNOI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057478},"content":"Sara Keating","type":"header"},{"_id":"LFXXOH62DZFJBMJDQ6W3B5ZNJY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057479},"content":"It’s impossible to choose, but as the shortest day of the year approaches, I am reminded of two of the best children’s books of 2024: the fantastic non-fiction <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/06/08/childrens-reads-from-superbly-conceived-non-fiction-to-a-fitting-capstone-for-a-wonderful-career/\" target=\"_blank\">Solstice: The Longest, Shortest Day</a> by Jen Breach (5+) and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/10/09/childrens-fiction-ghost-stories-for-samhain-and-tales-of-female-fearlessness/\" target=\"_blank\">Eilish Fisher’s stunning Fia and the Last Snow Deer</a>, featuring writing and illustrations of equal beauty. For a greater understanding of how we know what we know, Chris Haughton’s The History of Information (7+) is both eye-catching and essential. Finally, Vicky Cowie’s Tales from Muggleswick Wood (3+) is a bedtime treasury narrated by a grandmother with whimsical watercolours from Charlie Macksey, which will be beloved on bookshelves for generations.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FSC64NWOLFFI3NYE5YW3DJ52SU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057480},"type":"list"},{"_id":"WV7EXDOY4NHFBBVWDGOKQTWTQU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057467},"content":"Paul Muldoon","type":"header"},{"_id":"LWEJ5CG5V5FRDBGXPVFEQKCVCY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203179872},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/01/27/missing-persons-or-my-grandmothers-secrets-by-clair-wills-family-fables-hidden-truths/\" target=\"_blank\">Missing Persons, or My Grandmother’s Secrets, by Clair Wills</a>, is a book that will secure a place in the annals of 20th-century Irish social history as firmly as Twenty Years A-Growing by Maurice O’Sullivan or Heinrich Böll’s Irish Journal. This account of a cover-up within a single family resonates with a capacity to look away that too often seems to be a national characteristic. One consequence of this book might be to further tip the scales and allow us to overcome our reluctance to send the Catholic Church packing, as we would any other multinational with a comparable history of dodgy behaviour.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AX4YILUUNVBHRG4ENXXEZWT7O4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732534636928},"type":"list"},{"_id":"6ITUWKIUWVFZPKEL7OLAN3HLH4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732615867570},"content":"Claire Adam","type":"header"},{"_id":"DSMNJVRHCZEGPHRRFWUCTTHHU4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732290876361},"content":"My Dear Kabul by an Afghan women’s writing group is an absolute gem of a memoir that deserves a place on your bookshelf and in your heart. The authors are 21 Afghan women writing secretly to each other in real time, often in WhatsApp messages, as they live through the country’s fall to the Taliban in 2021. The very act of writing is dangerous, but they’re driven by an urgent need to connect – with each other and the outside world – even as the walls close in on them.","type":"text"},{"_id":"P33RPU2EBJA2VDOCZROVAT6L64","additional_properties":{"_id":1732290876362},"type":"list"},{"_id":"TWA4XXOEBVFYFIZETNHYG54W6M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057468},"content":"Paul Howard","type":"header"},{"_id":"IKK3JNJHUFBYZFZVRT3UVMHS4I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732290876339},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/09/07/our-london-lives-a-masterful-work-full-of-skilful-nuance-and-profound-truth/\" target=\"_blank\">Our London Lives by Christine Dwyer Hickey</a> is a masterpiece. It’s the story of two teenage Irish emigrants living in London in 1979. Milly in a runaway from judgmental, Catholic Ireland. Pip is a young boxing hopeful with a taste for the sauce. The novel tells the story of their fleeting romance and then the stories of their occasionally interweaving lives over the course of the four decades that follow. It’s dark and heartbreaking. Beautiful storytelling by a master of the genre.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RTGYEVD6ABEEHK4VBAVO3ILFJE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732534636931},"content":"<i>Paul Howard’s latest book is the </i><a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/author/ross-ocarroll-kelly/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Ross O’Carroll-Kelly</i></a><i> novel Don’t Look Back in Ongar</i>","type":"text"},{"_id":"JOWLOHQBDJGTPCO4O2YGJOBA4E","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057486},"content":"Éilís Ní Dhuibhne","type":"header"},{"_id":"55RDFISEGJAHZGHURZ4TYTSOJY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732287543257},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2024/04/06/quickly-while-they-still-have-horses-review-jan-carson-delivers-a-compelling-collection/\" target=\"_blank\">Jan Carson, Quickly, While They Still Have Horses</a>, is an outstanding collection of witty short stories set in – and satirising – the North of Ireland. I loved Percival Everett’s James, and also Sarah Moss’s memoir focusing on anorexia, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/08/24/my-good-bright-wolf-by-sarah-moss-a-bleak-often-brilliant-personal-history/\" target=\"_blank\">My Good Bright Wolf</a>. My great friends Liz McManus, Mary Rose Callaghan, Phyl Herbert, Catherine Dunne, Celia de Freine, Evelyn Conlon and Mícheál Ó Conghaile all published wonderful books during the year. They are a productive bunch!","type":"text"},{"_id":"YIJL7EMMF5BM5BGVUCQB2IYWME","additional_properties":{"_id":1732287543258},"type":"list"},{"_id":"CTXLZYDWHBE7LAA7ETU2LNC3WE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057469},"content":"Paul Murray","type":"header"},{"_id":"XIORDFQJDVHGVO7WU442ZCFLUU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732527560805},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/11/02/gliff-by-ali-smith-part-allegory-part-dystopian-fiction-altogether-thrilling/\" target=\"_blank\">Ali Smith’s miraculous Gliff</a> is at once a pitch-black take on the authoritarian future and a tender, hilarious and ultimately uplifting portrait of two young sisters as they battle to escape it. Full of jokes and wordplay, kindness and connection – the eponymous Gliff is a horse the girls rescue from an abattoir – it’s part novel, part resistance manual, facing into the darkness while showing a path to redemption. A ray of hope after a year like this one.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LIEKZO2NCBBY7BGR6QWRDGLHZY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732527560806},"type":"list"},{"_id":"VIBF3KVIOFE7ZIEL2BKIZV54PM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057477},"content":"Mia Levitin","type":"header"},{"_id":"YNJMVBID7BHEVP67TBUQFPUIMY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732295221284},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/10/12/the-safekeep-by-yael-van-der-wouden-beguiling-love-story-told-in-language-that-entertains-and-enthrals/\" target=\"_blank\">Yael van der Wouden’s The Safekeep</a>, sexy and twisty without sacrificing substance, is a marvel. Alan Hollinghurst’s Our Evenings made me weep buckets of tears, and I was in the chorus of accolades for <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/04/19/james-by-percival-everett-reimagining-huck-finn/\" target=\"_blank\">Percival Everett’s National Book Award-winning James</a>. Hattie Crisell’s In Writing is chock-full of insights about not only writing but life. And more than just a survey, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/09/09/the-haunted-wood-a-history-of-childhood-reading-by-sam-leith-monumental-and-invigorating/\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Leith’s The Haunted Wood</a> is a tribute to the enduring importance of children’s literature.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JJKMOXDAX5FQHECWWJUZ63B57Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1732534636953},"type":"list"},{"_id":"JTZRZ6DWXZB3VABTF73EIBTYBU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057450},"content":"John Self","type":"header"},{"_id":"3YM4YMUI4NDXDGWP4CSZBJX7PU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057451},"content":"In a good year, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/01/08/my-friends-by-hisham-matar-the-challenges-of-exile-and-humankinds-ability-to-adapt/\" target=\"_blank\">Hisham Matar’s My Friends</a> and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/04/27/the-spoiled-heart-by-sunjeev-sahota-brave-exploration-of-class-and-race-from-multiple-angles/\" target=\"_blank\">Sunjeev Sahota’s The Spoiled Heart</a> were superb personal-political novels that should have won all the awards. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/04/27/two-hours-by-alba-arikha-a-literary-masterpiece/\" target=\"_blank\">Alba Arikha’s Two Hours</a> is a brief and gripping story of a woman’s real and imagined lives. And if you like Damon Galgut’s clear-eyed, unsentimental stories of South Africa, try both <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/06/08/crooked-seeds-by-karen-jennings-a-taut-confrontation-with-the-horrors-of-the-past-that-resists-moralising/\" target=\"_blank\">Karen Jennings’s Crooked Seeds</a> and SJ Naudé's Fathers and Fugitives. They bowled me over. Outside novels, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/03/09/barcelona-a-pleasing-variety-of-styles-and-perspectives-told-through-voices-young-and-old/\" target=\"_blank\">Mary Costello’s Barcelona</a> was my story collection of the year.","type":"text"},{"_id":"R5TDYLY2AVCTTJ3LX3AJZ55JX4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732550422272},"type":"list"},{"_id":"GBLSNPK7BFCVLAJQ7B2HSVLBYQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057489},"content":"Edel Coffey","type":"header"},{"_id":"MZR7NEGITZFNZASRZPF52NREKA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732534636973},"content":"The one that really stands out for me is Ferdia Lennon’s charismatic debut, Glorious Exploits, a brilliant and original novel set in ancient Syracuse but told in a contemporary Dublin vernacular. Original, profound and funny. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/07/13/all-the-colours-of-the-dark-by-chris-whitaker-a-thriller-romance-and-crime-novel-that-is-plenty-of-book-for-everyone/\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Whitaker’s All The Colours of the Dark</a> was a hugely enjoyable saga, part-love story, part-crime novel. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/08/17/the-garden-against-time-in-search-of-a-common-paradise-review-gardens-excavated-as-agents-of-wider-world-change/\" target=\"_blank\">Olivia Laing’s The Garden against Time</a> was a brilliantly researched and deeply enjoyable examination of how we share the planet, and hybrid memoir. And an honourable mention must go to Miranda July’s All Fours, which was an eye-popping novel that fearlessly explored the painful process of ageing as a Gen X woman.","type":"text"},{"_id":"R33TRAWCKJCVZOSPILY7VXNUTQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732534636974},"type":"list"},{"_id":"XKIVC34JRZFQPCNBR3V5WKRNCY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057470},"content":"Martin Doyle","type":"header"},{"_id":"6LFNV2G4IRFMRIF6X2SVKXBX24","additional_properties":{"_id":1732636637479},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/01/27/glorious-exploits-by-ferdia-lennon-whacky-tale-of-theatrics-war-and-displacement-set-in-syracuse-bc/\">Ferdia Lennon’s Glorious Exploits</a> is a marvellous feat of imagination, set in ancient Sicily, but with Barrytown accents. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/09/21/intermezzo-by-sally-rooney-a-bold-adventurous-and-captivating-addition-to-an-impressive-body-of-work/\">Intermezzo by Sally Roone</a>y is perceptive and precise, her best yet. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/05/06/the-alternatives-by-caoilinn-hughes-a-superb-novel-about-sisters-doing-it-in-style/\">The Alternatives by Caoilinn Hughes</a> sparkles with intelligence and wit. Niamh Mulvey’s The Amendments is a warm evocation of Irish women coming of age in a cold social climate. Kevin Barry’s The Heart in Winter is a joyous, riotous Irish western. Colin Barrett’s Wild Houses captures Ireland’s own wild west.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RRFLXO3TX5CZDEGQRN4KOXPBNU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732534636937},"content":"<i>Martin Doyle is Books Editor of The Irish Times and author of Dirty Linen</i>","type":"text"},{"_id":"TUS6ANJ3M5HS7PFKLQ6P2VATN4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057481},"content":"Claire Hennessy","type":"header"},{"_id":"ELOMZ3XJZJBGRAPKI24WA6L62E","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057482},"content":"Margaret McDonald’s touching debut, Glasgow Boys, deftly explores male friendship in and out of the care system. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/10/27/unflinching-examinations-of-contemporary-teenage-life-in-octobers-ya-picks/\" target=\"_blank\">Kathleen Glasgow’s The Glass Girl</a> skilfully and sympathetically tackles addiction and self-worth. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/06/08/junes-ya-fiction-the-magical-realism-is-grounded-by-sharp-observations-about-teenage-social-dynamics/\" target=\"_blank\">Jenny Valentine’s Us in the Before and After</a> haunts in a variety of ways; <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/09/29/new-ya-titles-for-autumn-from-award-winning-writers-and-illustrators/\" target=\"_blank\">Jandy Nelson’s dreamy When the World Tips Over</a> is a spun-sugar treat. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/03/17/march-ya-reads-love-in-a-time-of-famine/\" target=\"_blank\">Claire Furniss’s The Things We Leave Behind</a> and Moira Buffini’s Songlight remind us dystopian futures are always relevant.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QNX3R4EDABAA5KALXFCANQLYRM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057483},"content":"<i>Claire Hennessy is a writer and book critic</i>","type":"text"},{"_id":"P7RGDAMJ2NC4PNTK7A6V5FQKWU","additional_properties":{"_id":"6O657DDC3VB6RMT4G76V6EOENY"},"content":"New YA titles for autumn from award-winning writers and illustrators","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"XBOTUE357FFKXD5ROER3BAIAHM","additional_properties":{"_id":"WCQM2EJDJRE6ZLR3SB52COWUNE"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"6ITUWKIUWVFZPKEL7OLAN3HLH4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732615867570},"content":"Jan Carson","type":"header"},{"_id":"IYI7U3PDGRATHM6LLTI3IUGJTQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057488},"content":"It’s always brilliant when the book you’ve been most looking forward lives up to all your expectations, and A Sunny Place for Shady People, Argentinian writer Mariana Enriquez’s second collection of short stories translated into English, expertly, by Megan McDowell, more than met my sky-high hopes. These stories are dark, macabre, occasionally absurd, sometimes funny and always, always, so deftly written they’ll literally haunt your dreams. I’m already counting the days down to Enriquez’s next publication.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MQ33KU2H5ZC65BJRN65KBC4CAI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732534636971},"type":"list"},{"_id":"ZILD5YKGAVCFJMTBKDPHQCQTKI","additional_properties":{"_id":"ZHF2XIMRCJALBNMQTYLDSFZGJA"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"FCLTPP5SXVBNPCHYQR72ITNSFI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057490},"content":"Niamh Donnelly","type":"header"},{"_id":"YEEI7YXIDBE5HFCKOOW3HKIP3M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203179896},"content":"With all the Sally Rooney discourse, it’s easy to forget how exquisite and immersive her writing is. Intermezzo, which follows two brothers after their father’s death, is her best, most sophisticated work yet. Tracing two interconnected lives, Christine Dwyer Hickey’s Our London Lives captures the London-Irish experience and the ache of missed opportunities. Maggie Armstrong’s voice leaps off the page in her debut story collection, Old Romantics, while Niamh Mulvey’s The Amendments is a wise and astute first novel.","type":"text"},{"_id":"O7H6Z77ZWBCTRGV3PKRBKMEXFA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203179897},"type":"list"},{"_id":"QYNDR4HOUJHHXDIGO4F454JUKA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057464},"content":"Tony Clayton-Lea","type":"header"},{"_id":"HYEVVUDFMVDERGD4RBWQMXMNTE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203179867},"content":"Belfast punk band Ruefrex is the subject of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/02/03/wild-colonial-boys-is-hard-to-beat/\" target=\"_blank\">Wild Colonial Boys: A Belfast Punk Story</a> by Thomas Paul Burgess, a scathing memoir by the band’s former drummer and songwriter. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/2024/06/26/blondie-guitarist-chris-stein-i-was-always-into-chaos-there-was-nothing-i-shied-away-from/\" target=\"_blank\">Under a Rock by Chris Stein</a> is the Blondie guitarist’s frank account of a life far less ordinary than most. 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It also stocks new books, vintage and antiquarian books and book sets.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RPOGU2H2P5EJPMRUZIAJDUY5HY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731684175688},"content":"<a href=\"http://halfwayupthestairs.ie/\" target=\"_blank\">halfwayupthestairs.ie</a>","type":"header"},{"_id":"XMJTJAKCKNA7FKJ3NTYDRHT7NQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732620982108},"content":"This gorgeous looking bookshop in Greystones, Co Wicklow, has books for kids of all ages – from babies right up to young adults. You will find a decent selection of toys and gifts available too. It is any wonder it’s an award-winning place?","type":"text"},{"_id":"X6LNVK6NA5BSHM3SGY52QWYMKQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731684175690},"content":"<a href=\"http://tertuliabookshop.com/\" target=\"_blank\">tertuliabookshop.com</a>","type":"header"},{"_id":"IUNYI43NAFEZ3P5WVLYWGVNNIM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732620982110},"content":"A lovely bookshop way out west – in Westport, as it happens. It has, as its stated mission, “to contribute to a positive change in the way the world thinks” and we can’t find a single thing wrong with that.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QLHWJPYPNZCHVIHI5GYIF5JAMM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731684175691},"content":"<a href=\"http://bagsofbooks.ie/\" target=\"_blank\">bagsofbooks.ie</a>","type":"header"},{"_id":"EOCLRCKYFNGZDMKVBERVUOKS4Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732620982112},"content":"Looking for the best of books for children? This site will have you covered.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JRIUWC3FTFALLM5BPTC7HK5MKE","additional_properties":{"_id":1731684175692},"content":"<a href=\"http://easons.com/\" target=\"_blank\">easons.com</a>","type":"header"},{"_id":"4V7QSUTOTFCUROKENCR5WCQPHQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732620982114},"content":"One of the longest-established and almost certainly the largest book retailer in Ireland, it has an enormous range of books.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EJNSHR26XBAPPOASDMY4MLI7AY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731684175693},"content":"<a href=\"http://dubraybooks.ie/\" target=\"_blank\">dubraybooks.ie</a>","type":"header"},{"_id":"RQ6Z43V2C5BDDANW7R5KMR257Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1732620982116},"content":"Another fine Irish bookshop, which now sits under the same umbrella as Eason but still retains its own personality.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Conor Pope"}},"name":"Conor Pope"}]},"description":{"basic":"We’ve compiled a list of 100 Irish websites packed with Christmas present potential, from the handmade to the ridiculous"},"display_date":"2024-11-30T05:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Christmas gift ideas: 100 Irish websites to get your shopping sorted","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"ITGLEPDXVRDPNJQRNSP5HMNJ6Q","auth":{"1":"59c56abbb280927f9eae1fa290671e7ebef7174527e63993ccfa3a7aecbea445"},"focal_point":{"x":537,"y":426},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/ITGLEPDXVRDPNJQRNSP5HMNJ6Q.jpg"}},"subtype":"feature","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"People"},{"name":"Life & Style"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/life-style/people/2024/11/30/christmas-gift-ideas-100-irish-websites-to-get-your-shopping-sorted/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/life-style/people","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"People"}}}},{"_id":"6DV6DLKUJRH6LOKZHRM2SW55WY","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":480,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/94696c2d-a756-498b-9b61-53fd9eab88e5/versions/1732194197/media/99c863600b9c535eb7ab1b7df3aaf121_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/life-style/gardening/2024/11/30/gardening-tools-that-will-last-a-lifetime-if-treated-right/","content_elements":[{"_id":"2ONK3TQBNFDA5G6L4CHSKXK3BQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732189914643},"content":"Even as the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/gardening/\" target=\"_blank\">gardening </a>year slowly folds in on itself, there remains a host of routine jobs that I’m hoping – fingers crossed – to complete before the winter solstice. Roses and fruit trees, for example, requiring winter pruning. Weeds that need digging out. Compost that needs turning and spreading, young hedging, roses and baby trees that need planting, as well as woody prunings waiting to be chopped or chipped before being added to the compost heap or used as a mulch.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YO6IXVXID5DLNDYAAEZQEKBZRQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732189914644},"content":"Bitter experience has slowly but surely imparted a valuable lesson regarding these seasonal tasks, which is that a trusty selection of garden tools crafted from hard-wearing quality materials and ergonomically designed for ease of use as well as for longevity is of the essence.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HCXIYS5GZJCJHMK2NDYH3KK4JE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732189914645},"content":"Beware, for example, the flimsy secateurs whose blades blunt or even buckle at the first sturdy branch. Avoid the shoddily made trowel that quickly succumbs to rust or falls apart; the tinny wheelbarrow; the rickety rake with a welded head that cracks after only light use. Not only will they cost you time and money in the long run, but they’ll also inevitably induce such fits of fury – few things are more frustrating than poorly designed, badly made garden tools – that you’ll end up shirking the very tasks that they were supposed to make easier.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6C7NPU2EFRFPDAD24ZRLYPMPM4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732640670981},"content":"The essentials? For those tough winter pruning tasks, invest in a sturdy, heavy-duty loppers with geared or ratcheted blades that cut through thicker branches with relative ease, as well as a model with a rubber buffer between the handles to lessen the impact of the repetitive cutting motion on tired hands and arms. Lightweight, telescopic handles are also a must, allowing you to reach up into higher branches without having to perch dangerously on a ladder. Examples include <a href=\"https://www.burgonandball.com/products/telescopic-ratchet-lopper-rhs-endorsed\" target=\"_blank\">Burgon & Ball’s telescopic handled ratchet lopper</a>, endorsed by the UK’s Royal Horticultural Society.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5PR77LMSRBEPROJM57IW7LW6YI","additional_properties":{"_id":"7AITJA3EMVGRLJ37NJMU7MAKW4"},"content":"Frost can feel cruel but it’s not all bad news in the garden","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"26KD7WK7ANC3TO4APE5R3QQGEI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732189914647},"content":"For lighter pruning work that can be done with one hand, you’ll need a strong, well-balanced secateurs (technically “secateur” if you’re a stickler for grammar) with angled, hardened steel blades that can be easily sharpened and repaired, plus nonslip, colourful handles that make it both difficult to lose and easy to hold. The scarlet-handled Swiss-made Felco range has long been considered the gold standard in this regard with the gardener’s traditional favourite being the Felco 2, followed by the Felco 4. But recent challengers to the throne include several high-end, beautifully engineered Japanese brands with hand-forged, super-sharp carbon steel blades that are proving increasingly popular with Irish gardeners such as Okatsune, Kurumi, Asaka and Niwaki (stockists include <a href=\"http://niwaki.com/\">niwaki.com</a>, <a href=\"http://mrmiddleton.com/\">mrmiddleton.com</a>, <a href=\"http://quickcrop.ie/\">quickcrop.ie</a> and <a href=\"http://howbertandmays.ie/\">howbertandmays.ie</a>).","type":"text"},{"_id":"GVIO3BFC4EVFCDG3FV72SPNPQE","additional_properties":{"_id":"ZS2O2WYBTBFDBODWGIJTMBJ3HU"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"N6HESCSIKRAH3BJGMXWVZ2GWSU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732189914648},"content":"A sharp, light, hard-wearing border fork, spade, shovel, oscillating hoe, pitchfork and rake (ideally both a spring-tine model for collecting leaves and grass cuttings plus a soil rake for seed beds and so on) are other gardening essentials. In this case, reliable brands include De Wit, Sneeboer, Freund Victoia, Greenman, Burgon & Ball, SHW, Wolf Garten, Berger, ARS and PKS. Bear in mind that for ease of use, a lightweight ash handle is generally kinder to the back, absorbing stress and making it possible to use the tool for longer.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UUXFNSTIBRF7NAPO566QTZLINA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732189914649},"content":"Before purchasing, take your height and size into account. If you’re tall, choose a suitably long handle, while if you have large hands, be wary of Y-shaped handles unless they’re generously sized. <a href=\"http://fruithillfarm.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Fruithill Farm</a> in Cork stocks two lengths of straight ash handles suitable for hoes and rakes (1.5m and 1.7m) as well as an outstanding range of many of the brands listed above.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EMLO3YZEPJCWBLBXACXYQ4ON24","additional_properties":{"_id":1732189914650},"content":"All the suppliers listed above also stock a tried-and-trusted selection of hand-tools from sturdy trowels and hand forks to weeders and dibbers. Some – for example the PKS range – are made of copper, believed to have a beneficial effect on soil health. Others are made of stainless steel (particularly good for heavy clay soils, which slip more easily from its smooth surface) or of forged steel (prized for its strength and sharpness but more vulnerable to rust).","type":"text"},{"_id":"BQBDMOCS4JF6VNUQ44RTX6VYSE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732189914651},"content":"My own favourite garden hand tool is a heavy duty, double-serrated digging trowel/knife with a superstrong manganese steel blade and a rubberised, non-slip handle designed for use with a metal detector (or “treasure digging”, as its manufacturer, Dr Otek, describes it). Think of a Hori Hori knife on steroids. It is pretty much indestructible, super strong, versatile and comfortable to hold, and I use it all the time for hand-weeding as well as for planting.","type":"text"},{"_id":"I7P5VVW6A5E5PLUORH7IACWTW4","additional_properties":{"_id":"5AJUKIMLHBBINOZQZTUF4MY424"},"content":"Five life lessons my garden taught me: Nature often has a quiet but not unkind laugh at our expense","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"7ZOPIHGT4NHNRLVT6KRNIEGHZY","additional_properties":{"_id":"MUD3T7SNBFH5NDMWUXD46U2ATI"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"PPHAKDXX5NGWTNLW4XAPQYHHYA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732189914652},"content":"The other gardening essential that I wouldn’t be without is a sturdy, lightweight wheelbarrow for ferrying heavy loads of manure, soil, compost and leaf mould as well as weeds and plants. Barrows come in all shapes and sizes, from models with 1, 2, 3 and even four wheels, capacities that range from 75 litres up to 170, troughs made of reinforced plastic or galvanised metal, and even some that are battery-powered to help with moving and tipping heavy loads. My own preference is for a toughened plastic trough on a powder-coated steel chassis with a single puncture-proof wheel. Stockists include all good Irish garden centres as well as many of those listed above.","type":"text"},{"_id":"R7VA32BELNDKHEYCHEG363BQHY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732189914653},"content":"Remember that no matter how well made, even the best garden tools need some TLC to keep them sturdy and rust-proof for many years of use. So try to have some old cloths and a soft hand brush to the ready to clean, wipe down and dry both blades and handles. Use a scouring block such as Crean Mate followed by some camellia oil to remove sticky resin and sap from the blades of secateurs and keep them clean and rust-free, plus a whetstone to sharpen them. For wooden handles, apply a light coating of linseed oil a couple of times a year. Finally, repeated exposure to rain and frost is bad for any garden tool so make sure to store them undercover. In this way they’ll last you a lifetime, something that can never be said of their cheap equivalents.","type":"text"},{"_id":"U2SUMS7NPNDORI7O7ZEMX2IT3M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732189914654},"content":"This week in the garden","type":"header"},{"_id":"HDK5KQ4SEZFHRL5E76G62PT6LI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732189914655},"content":"Recent night-time frosts and cold daytime temperatures signal the arrival of winter proper, and the best time to plant tulip bulbs to help prevent the risk of the fungal disease, tulip fire. Try to choose a dry day for planting, burying the bulbs to a minimum of three times their depth, or to a maximum of 30cm if you’re hoping to perennialise them. In gardens where tulip fire was a problem in recent years, avoid planting into the same area and/or plant into containers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LXPJNHDEVNFXRNQN6D4JCLGUXY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732189914656},"content":"Round up any slightly frost-vulnerable plants growing in containers and place them in a huddle together against a warm wall to make it easier to offer them extra protection in the form of garden fleece whenever harsh frosts threaten.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JO2MG4I2BVDV3DUBCZL4JQ76L4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732191479270},"content":"Dates for your diary","type":"header"},{"_id":"PINFT34P3BGI7PVL2HLTQQQTEM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732191479271},"content":"<i>Tuesday, December 3rd (7.30pm-10pm): </i>National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin 9. Christmas flower-arranging demonstration with floral artist Karen Massey. Booking essential. <a href=\"http://heritageireland.ie/\">heritageireland.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"ARKUDRAPR5E6LP7F55TYMXCVXQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732640670997},"content":"<i>Saturday, December 7th, Sunday, December 8th and Saturday, December 14th (10am-1pm): </i>The Grinding House, June Blake’s Garden, Tinode, Blessington, Co Wicklow, seasonal and sustainable Christmas wreath-making workshops with garden writer and flower-farmer-florist Fionnuala Fallon. <a href=\"https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/seasonal-christmas-wreath-workshop-with-fionnuala-fallon-tickets-1051369493457?aff=oddtdtcreator\">eventbrite</a> or <a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/theirishflowerfarmer/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">@theirishflowerfarmer</a> on Instagram for details or to book tickets.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EUNQJJHWSJA4LDJH7W2QZ5VC5Y","additional_properties":{"_id":"WSLJNIRJK5EPLKUCMK4ONLVJO4"},"content":"<span class=\"contribly-contribute-v2\" data-client=\"9fc0f2a4-9bf9-4464-8b77-ec351ad0db03\" data-assignment=\"26088556-6bae-4d51-8542-58d3cc9df2c9\" data-display=\"inline\"></span><script type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/contribly-widgets/contribute/contribute-v2.js\"><\/script>","type":"raw_html"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Fionnuala Fallon"}},"name":"Fionnuala Fallon"}]},"description":{"basic":"A bad day’s gardening is often the result of shoddy tools, so invest well in your implements"},"display_date":"2024-11-30T05:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Gardening tools that will last a lifetime if treated right","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"EH74CSCYYA3XKWKTVIILEWQD2U","auth":{"1":"97e2df804a24faaa9458a3c7b8e846f86b6f65e9b6bc28041c7bd3c56f6e4eaf"},"focal_point":{"x":695,"y":263},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/EH74CSCYYA3XKWKTVIILEWQD2U.jpg"}},"subtype":"columnist","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Gardening"},{"name":"Life & Style"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/life-style/gardening/2024/11/30/gardening-tools-that-will-last-a-lifetime-if-treated-right/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/life-style/gardening","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Gardening"}}}},{"_id":"S6Z5JONKKZAMNGX4JZ44EEJ4GA","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":150,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/80676fe2-4b8c-4ba1-a7a7-3f7a60d3375a/versions/1732031119/media/0b58db3be81474301853abbcf4b71b35_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/food/2024/11/30/winter-salads-heavy-on-flavour-and-light-on-the-tummy/","content_elements":[{"_id":"5TJWCWWIFBEX5IGFJDJ4AHDNOY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732017649506},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/christmas\" target=\"_blank\">Christmas</a> is just around the corner, and with it comes a world of overindulgence and gluttony. For the most part the recipes in this column will dive straight in to standard favourites, so expect plenty of comfort and rich flavours in the weeks ahead. But that’s in the future. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"SMHXD2GE3VCVLJFNQ3ED6DLXGY","additional_properties":{},"content":"This week I thought I would put us through some “pre-season” recipes – heavy on flavour without weighing you down. The winter season throws up a range of ingredients that make for beautiful salads and starter dishes. When it comes to writing menus, I’m thinking of roots and spices, fruit and fragrances: beetroot, pumpkin, kale, mushrooms, nutmeg, all spice, pear, plum, honey and so on; they’d warm you up thinking about them. What you might not see in them, however, are salads.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MRHUGGFSGREALBV5SV37YW3A2I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732017649507},"content":"This week I’m showcasing two types that are perfect for a midweek meal, lunch on the run or even as a Christmas starter or side. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"HBVE6DHI75AWPBDDGUNEVW2GQA","additional_properties":{"_id":"W5O56ZBQMNCZVPWCDQKL56C66I"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"IINHSZPZIJEDBDQO3XXJPIQVZI","additional_properties":{},"content":"The first is a mix that might surprise your guests: beetroot, chorizo and pear, all glued together with the addition of some dressed yoghurt. Beetroot is bursting with flavour, and is brought to life by roasting in its skin in some salt and oil. Almost meat-like in texture, it comes alive with the addition of some nicely ripened, sweet pear. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"YXGOJRH3D5EENHSKNDWNW4U734","additional_properties":{},"content":"If you’re afraid it’s all a bit too light, the addition of spicy roasted chorizo brings the heat and seasoning, its bright red oil adding to the dressing on the plate. It may not be a combination you’ll see that often, but I think it works beautifully.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CHJOMWSL6VHOXN3XWFMRBWI3GY","additional_properties":{"_id":"FBN7YPS4ONG3PGEDZNHAS3MIVQ"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"ILUEMQPVTRA27GREGR5TS5SANU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732017649508},"content":"The second salad is based around freekeh, a grain derived from green wheat before it is dried and ground to flour. It’s then roasted to add to its flavour before cooking in stock. It’s origins can be found in cooking around the Mediterranean, particularly in North Africa and the Middle East and it lends itself to sponging up big flavours. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"BQQ2FTSQK5GG3ILD7HZWBPVAHA","additional_properties":{},"content":"I’ve served it here with chunks of pumpkin, pomegranate and a dressing made with clementine for that Christmas twist, toasted cumin works lovely with the citrus. Don’t mind salad leaves, I’ve ripped up loads of punchy mint here for the greenery, freshening everything up before we head into December. Get the eating pants on.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VBQBY26WHNEFRK6P4WS6I7YSZY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732640226369},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/food/recipes/2024/11/30/mark-moriarty-beetroot-chorizo-and-pear-salad/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Recipe: Beetroot, chorizo and pear salad</b></a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"6ZFTXLBSFVDYVO4XJVELBWEKBU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732640226370},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/food/recipes/2024/11/30/freekeh-with-cumin-and-clementine/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Recipe: Freekeh with cumin and clementine</b></a>","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Mark Moriarty"}},"name":"Mark Moriarty"}]},"description":{"basic":"The winter season throws up a range of ingredients that make for beautiful salads and starter dishes"},"display_date":"2024-11-30T05:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Winter salads: heavy on flavour and light on the tummy ","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"7ZPNCJFCI5FX3NWPIOLCIN623Y","auth":{"1":"780ca6b3be0fbce30cfbd6faa60098b15665658333bde3b09b4615d5f0f8e29c"},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/7ZPNCJFCI5FX3NWPIOLCIN623Y.jpg"},"overline_logo":{"_id":"WKXWSSLLSFGY5ONFWQLDBQDP2U","auth":{"1":"5c8207e6a40fb22eb54a3ba3b3d4870b5311c4e11e2417497b4598e4e443637f"},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/WKXWSSLLSFGY5ONFWQLDBQDP2U.png"}},"subtype":"columnist","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Food"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/food/2024/11/30/winter-salads-heavy-on-flavour-and-light-on-the-tummy/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/food","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Food"}}}},{"_id":"EOMKHVGPJNDNRBEF64MKUJXOVI","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":411,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/7e9d4fc2-0b08-414b-b499-55c130e81973/versions/1732699137/media/32028363fe6830acfa53af9e67563ba3_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/life-style/fine-art-antiques/2024/11/30/female-pioneers-of-modernism-shine-in-irish-art-sale/","content_elements":[{"_id":"OXAGZC7M2RAI3KEUZJXZOCCJTY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732650730618},"content":"Some of the most significant female figures in Irish modernism, including Mainie Jellett and Mary Swanzy, will feature in Bonhams’ upcoming Irish art sale.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NICUWG67U5C4XIF2Y7TVFTZ3CU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732650730619},"content":"The Vision and Voice auction, to be held on December 5th, includes 20 works by Norah McGuinness (1901-1980), including an unusual seascape of Dublin Bay (€10,000-€15,000), and Snow on the Hills, Rockbrook, County Dublin (€10,000-€15,000).","type":"text"},{"_id":"72VCFXIWRVGJXN5QZL44B4BLJM","additional_properties":{"_id":"OVQXADRCDRFWFGEVWKTAO5TJOQ"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"AE3DXNPNCFAHRKARDYFKLP4O2A","additional_properties":{"_id":"IBXFRP2OKBDQFFEOJFNFO757JA"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"WNBXSEXUVBBSXOBQ5NFIA5ARUM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732639338284},"content":"There are also works by Mary Swanzy and Mainie Jellett, both of whom were among Ireland’s first abstract painters, including South of France landscape by Mary Swanzy (estimate €20,000-30,000), and Composition by Mainie Jellett (estimate €15,000-€20,000). All three artists were pioneers of a national avant-garde and were strong supporters of modern art in Ireland. Jellett and McGuinness were co-founders of the Irish Exhibition of Living Art in 1944, which was formed in opposition to the dominance of more traditional institutions such as the Royal Hibernian Academy. As noted in the auction notes, interest among collectors has increased significantly over the past 20 years for Irish female artists.","type":"text"},{"_id":"V2PT7VHVQJBLXKJJM3XHDZT7OM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732650730621},"content":"Further choice will be found at Whyte’s Irish and International Art on December 2nd.","type":"text"},{"_id":"O7BZNSVBS5FMZESNIFMPJ35OUE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732639338272},"content":"Ian Whyte of Whyte’s estimates that about 60 per cent of the works for auction are new to the market, as there are no previous sales records for these pieces.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UHOC7MBUN5DMTFU7V2D5BRHTYU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732639338273},"content":"“When we take in work from collectors, we publish their provenance and we have some interesting works, which were gifts from the artist to family members of the present owners,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3XDT3VKWL5EI5A2GWBAPROSHPE","additional_properties":{"_id":"WSAWD7PW5FCXJG6UQEWFOHR3TU"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"OMSNQ4UZZRDURGIK7EYLFDI6KE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732639338274},"content":"One such painting is Walter Osborne’s Girl Feeding a Tortoise Cat, painted in 1897 (€60,000-€80,000). In the catalogue notes, Dr Julian Campbell explains that Walter Osborne excelled at painting children and animals. “He was the son of an animal painter, William Osborne, and pet dogs and cats were an important part of the family household, providing inspiration for many notable pictures,” writes Campbell. The George Russell painting Children Playing in a Wood (€8,000-€12,000), was also gifted by the artist to the present owner.","type":"text"},{"_id":"N6WKUMRH3NBJPHTCX6VYNSYIPA","additional_properties":{"_id":"GMQ7XBH4HZDCXAUFFM26JT3HUE"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"OAKUHHIZMZFZDJ4VVDTWDKFWXI","additional_properties":{"_id":"X3XM66VMURDMTKZJRLOHUDLWLI"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"5FWK2R6QRVEB7ERS7L3ZJZLE5Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732639338275},"content":"There are plenty of landscapes and seascapes too. John Lavery’s The Turquoise Sea Mimizan, 1917, with an estimate of €60,000-€70,000, is particularly pleasing. Other such works include those by Edwin Hayes, William Percy French, Frank McKelvey, James Hubert Craig, Paul Henry, Arthur Armstrong and Letitia Marion Hamilton – her Rainbow and Cottages has an estimate of €1,500-€2,000.","type":"text"},{"_id":"C6KEK46VDNDODI4K5KSAA2EHII","additional_properties":{"_id":1732639338276},"content":"Whyte is also keen to point to “a nice selection of sculpture” in the current auction, with works by living Irish sculptors including Sandra Bell, Linda Brunker, John Coen, Rowan Gillespie, John Coll and others.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FMEUX5PNB5EJBGISNC5WE7YB6E","additional_properties":{"_id":1732639338277},"content":"James O’Halloran from Adam’s is particularly excited about the paintings from the Jacqueline and Vincent O’Brien collection in Adam’s Important Irish Art auction on Wednesday, December 4th.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QANAQOIAVJFMLPFSMXLHQIXZAY","additional_properties":{"_id":"WG3HAPOIQRH4DH5KFJBJVNUPXM"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"CJOWFUCP7VCLVHBQJWMXE3KA7A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732639338278},"content":"The auction has four Jack B Yeats oil paintings including Horseman (1947), He Reads (1953) and The Window with a View over the Town (1951), which were owned by the Co Tipperary horse trainer and Jacqueline O’Brien, a photographer and writer. The paintings hung in the couple’s home, Ballydoyle House, from the 1970s until O’Brien retired from training, after which they were on loan to the National Gallery of Ireland.","type":"text"},{"_id":"S2UXNHMP6JC5VBBADWYHQ5MYGY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732639338279},"content":"Jack B Yeats painted more than 670 oil paintings from 1941-1955 – the most prolific years of his career. And in 1945, when Yeats was 74, a big exhibition of his work, The Jack B Yeats National Loan Exhibition, was held in Dublin at the same time as the publication of the book Jack B Yeats: An Appreciation and an Interpretation, by Irish poet and critic Thomas MacGreevy.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EALUXZHUNRCRFFA5PSC3RS7OM4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732639338280},"content":"Also for sale at Adam’s are 39 works owned by the late American appeals court judge, Hon Francis D Murnaghan jnr. Murnaghan, from Baltimore, was a nephew of James Augustine Murnaghan, who served on the Supreme Court of Ireland and was a trustee of the National Gallery of Ireland.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JMARZMK36FERHFE2JH5RTR3OUY","additional_properties":{"_id":"LX3Y4IXMRRGDTCEXDUXG5OFRXA"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"DMCYHBXUINBXTDHUP4CCTCRYNQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"FJ46NFE55VGOPDKDATNXEE7N6Q"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"QATBZBKPWVCJFKKERST3VTXKBM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732639338281},"content":"The collection includes The Cello Player by Leo Whelan (1892-1956) (€20,000-€30,000); and The Christening Party by Aloysius O’Kelly (1853-1936), with an estimate of €10,000-€15,000. O’Kelly was one of the first Irish artists to study at L’École des Beaux Arts in Paris. He was also one of the first Irish artists to discover the landscape and people of Brittany, which later became a popular destination for many other artists from throughout Europe. 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She passionately championed the rights of Dublin’s underprivileged, while also being a fervent advocate for the arts, campaigning for a modern art gallery to house the art collection of Hugh Lane.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6CPRPNNGXNHT3FB4JPRX32GYIA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732639338285},"content":"<a href=\"https://outlook.office.com/owa/redir.aspx?REF=uwD5_o7E5hMXgwSWDNKleI6Yb5IFDA2N5VkQa2s2jfE82j81NQ7dCAFodHRwOi8vYm9uaGFtcy5jb20.\"><i>bonhams.com</i></a><i>, </i><a href=\"http://whytes.ie/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>whytes.ie</i></a><i>, </i><a href=\"http://adams.ie/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>adams.ie</i></a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"UKAOUXS75ZE6LFFKSZJBBZSUYE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732527083221},"content":"What did it sell for?","type":"header"},{"_id":"IT53TZXXSVCJRDRUNBFY4UGGQQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"URE42WTBOBBLHDC5C653FEINWI"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"CGLGRXXWXRCUVCHQ66WBCZ4D5A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732527083222},"content":"Rescued by Martin 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At this time of year though, they’re particularly useful in response to one particular milestone in a person’s journey through life. That’s right, the release of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/spotify/\" target=\"_blank\">Spotify</a> Wrapped 2024.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SXCS3UHC4JF3BJQYYXBNGHIY3Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1732529695234},"content":"Spotify, the music streaming giant, hit on a piece of marketing genius when it began packaging its users’ listening habits into their top tracks, artists, genres and so on. It started off as an email, but with the incessant growth of shareability on social media Spotify began giving its users graphics that they could post. Since then, it’s become a highly anticipated annual event with quite a lot of social capital riding on a person’s results, depending on how highly they value their musical taste and how it is perceived.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YBO7BR3FCBDIRL6WREYX7QMTAM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732529695235},"content":"Spotify Wrapped is such a phenomenon that you will see jokes start to pop up online from the middle of the year on through to October that it still may not be “too late” to “fix” your results. Whereas some might proudly report that Taylor Swift’s Tortured Poets Department was their top listen of 2024, others might prefer to hide their love of Swift and her Eras Tour in favour of Waxahatchee or Fontaines DC. Although the idea of someone frantically listening to 100 hours of Louisiana sludge metal band Thou just to offset their love for pop music is distinctly less cool than just acknowledging how legitimate pop music is.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5R4AAUG3NJDG3H4JAVVX4MY7MY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732529695236},"content":"It’s possible to split the Spotify Wrapped sharers into separate camps. Here are a few.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XLMTPSF5KBHKRBL3LOF6JTCLGI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732529695237},"content":"Firstly, there are the Musos. They’re the ones who spent the year listening to post acid from Kazakhstan, sean-nós and maybe some Tyler, The Creator album tracks. Their Wrapped has very few duplicates and covers genres you didn’t even know exist. Never, I repeat, never let them take control of the tunes at a party. 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This was a category that really came into its own in the depths of the pandemic when a person’s Spotify Wrapped might consist of poetic indie-pop by Mitski and then just hundreds of hours of Deep Forest Sound Bathing For Anxiety. The Are You Okays are using music both as a release and a therapy, simultaneously crying to Mitski and then lying in a darkened room imaging they’re surrounded by trees and woodland creatures.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IDHAZ73I4RCTJDUGHFTCLR6C4A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732529695241},"content":"The Fanatics are the diehards. They’ve loved The Beatles since they were 11 and haven’t listened to anything else since. They are in the top 0.001% of Oasis consumers and it’s still not good enough for them. They’ve seen Bruce Springsteen live 17 times and goddammit they’ll make it 18 when he inevitably comes back to the RDS. 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I adore cooking Christmas dinner with all the trimmings, but my favourite meal of the whole year is on Stephen’s Day. Everybody comes to me and I make sure there’s enough cold turkey and ham, then I bake a hash with potatoes, vegetables and stuffing in the oven for about four hours until it goes really golden brown and develops a gorgeous crust.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QXBJSG3FQJDOHHPF7QZ5EXMZHY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732099811647},"content":"My eldest son, who is 25, has been in Australia for the past two years and he’ll be home on December 4th, so it’s going to be a big Christmas this year. I can’t wait.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OP7U2PN275DDLHVOOBJM7YZXEY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732099811648},"content":"<i>In conversation with Marie Kelly. This interview, part of a series, was edited for clarity and length. 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There’s something so meaningful about giving a gift that helps someone you love feel truly rested.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GZ6UECXBWFGVXOQMZBRBZAJHRQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732024727454},"content":"The Sleep Sound Gift Box (€62 from <a href=\"http://groundwellbeing.com/\" target=\"_blank\">groundwellbeing.com</a>) includes two beautiful products: Night Body Oil and Night Bath Salts. 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A set that solves this issue beautifully is Ella & Jo’s Masking Moments Gift Set<i> </i>(€65 from <a href=\"http://ellaandjo.ie/\" target=\"_blank\">ellaandjo.ie</a>).","type":"text"},{"_id":"UTDF23YA7JEPDAH3AUAJHWJAHI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732024727465},"content":"It includes two of their face masks: The Miracle Mask<i>,</i> which hydrates and soothes, and The Glow Up Enzyme Mask, which helps exfoliate and brighten the skin. In essence, it’s a complete mask set that will please just about everyone and deliver gorgeous, glowing skin along the way.","type":"text"},{"_id":"72TSZPEY2RGRXEIIQBXEREPNBM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732024727466},"content":"This week I’m loving ... 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If it were anyone besides Blanchett, one might say the past two years were a hot streak. 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The Canadian director has long experimented in form and content. He ages his footage. He works with archival material. Small wonder that Blanchett and her costar <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/denis-menochet/\" target=\"_blank\">Denis Ménochet</a> are in giddy form when I meet them in advance of the film’s Irish release.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DJUXN2YJWVHHTCUUA23M53L5VA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732527045284},"content":"“Obviously I knew Guy Maddin’s work,” Blanchett says. “The Forbidden Room had an eerie quality that I couldn’t shake for days. I think My Winnipeg is a seminal work because of how personal and melancholy and wistful and absurd it is. But it also speaks to the way Guy can make something that is so specific, almost like a piece of folk art. 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Ménochet, the imposing star of Custody and Peter von Kant, is subsequently forced to spend most of the film in a wheelbarrow while the chignoned Canadian PM unexpectedly performs heroics (and seduces Blanchett’s chancellor) to the strains of Enya.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UBKM4UFYUVH2BPOP4JUHZ4IRZY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732527045299},"content":"“I now teach a class in wheelbarrow acting,” the French actor jokes. “It’s very difficult. It’s not for everyone. They had to build some devices to help carry those around.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZTSAOQBHSZAOVBBZLWFSOUZZRA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732527045300},"content":"“It was a little bit like a long sleepover,” Blanchett adds. “I was expecting to make this film in Guy’s garage. But no. We spent a lot of time doing night shoots. There was no going back to your trailer. We just spent all our time together. After a couple of weeks we started moving like we were one strange organism.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3LL6QHUWI5BKBDVWNRSNU7O7GA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732553641218},"content":"“It was physical. Denis spent a lot of time in a wheelbarrow and then a lot of time on the ground in wet foliage. I think he had it the roughest. Maybe that’s appropriate for France. And then they end up being carried in a wheelbarrow by Canada. I think our Canadian director was very pleased with that metaphor.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"74SP4B2JLZDNPJV4DGIM5CW3HU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732527045301},"content":"Watching the bumbling politicians on screen, one can’t help but ponder real-world antecedents. That’s especially true of Blanchett’s character, who seems awfully like a dim-witted version of Angela Merkel.","type":"text"},{"_id":"T4AZSJMB6NCBLBJYOMVZLU5BUU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732527045302},"content":"“I think there are still so few female leaders out there,” the actor says. “That’s why they face such scrutiny. There aren’t a lot of examples. You have Mary Robinson, of course. Most people think that I’ve based this on <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/angela-merkel/\" target=\"_blank\">Angela Merkel</a> – who was such an incredible leader when you think about it. She had to keep the entire European Union together.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6ODZNJNTEREEDA4L6YQGE3LJ3E","additional_properties":{"_id":1732553641221},"content":"“Other people think it’s a cross between <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/jacinda-ardern/\" target=\"_blank\">Jacinda Ardern</a> and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/ursula-von-der-leyen/\" target=\"_blank\">Ursula von der Leyen</a>. But, no, it wasn’t based on anyone in particular. I did think about female politicians and the scrutiny they come under. The way they dress gets assessed in a very particular way. 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She also adopted Hepburn’s daily ice-bath regimen.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KCIY3ECLUVF6XPMBEVCJPKZ3BA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732553641225},"content":"While preparing for <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/review/2023/01/13/tar-cate-blanchett-in-full-symphonic-mode-in-role-tailored-to-her-strengths/\" target=\"_blank\">Tár, Todd Field’s 2022 film about a flawed classical conductor</a>, Blanchett took piano lessons, learned German, pored over recordings of masterclasses by the Soviet conductor Ilya Musin, and conducted the Dresden Philharmonic as they rehearsed Mahler’s Fifth. Her homework for Rumours involved careful consideration of the weird “disembodied gestures” of the G7 leaders.","type":"text"},{"_id":"P3KAH4OQBJCG3JWBPY6USSFB24","additional_properties":{"_id":1732527045306},"content":"“Guy sent me some footage of his dog and then the G7, in that order,” she says. “We watched a lot of these strange awkward B-rolls from the G7. You see them walking along. You see the hand gestures. You can tell they’ve been coached about which gestures are inclusive and which gestures are aggressive.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4B4FY2RAFJGDTCAOSXBCHWLWCY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732553641227},"content":"“Even though they all come from different cultures and speak different languages, they all share this same awkward body language. If you’ve seen speeches from the G7, there’s a series of received gestures that really don’t resemble anything vaguely natural. They do photographic listening. It’s all performative.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2EJHQSAJWBHBZIBNCC7ORYC3VM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732553641228},"content":"“That was a great starting place for me. As strange as this movie is, at times it’s like a documentary.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"HJNTKNYA5JC65EFRLFHUUZ2CSY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732527045307},"content":"When I met Blanchett amid the Oscar buzz before her win for Blue Jasmine, in 2014, she spoke about the blurred lines between tragedy and comedy, referencing her turn as Blanche DuBois, Tennessee Williams’s best-known boozy heroine, in Liv Ullmann’s Broadway revival of A Streetcar Named Desire.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BI6MFW2AKJDY3D56YXQQFIKFKE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732527045308},"content":"“Ben Stiller came to see Streetcar in New York, and he was so surprised afterwards,” she said. “He said he had never realised how funny it is. And I said, ‘I know! It’s completely absurd!’ But I think even when you’re playing something like Hedda Gabler, when you’re on an immensely tragic arc, you have to find the ridiculous.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"BW4NIIXZGFCTLOGKDD6JNNK4I4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732527045309},"content":"With Rumours the reverse is true: it’s a journey into preposterousness to uncover uncomfortable truths. Writing in Upturn, her 2020 essay collection, Blanchett hoped that the pandemic had shone a light on social and political failings – “the catastrophic misdirection of the past 30 years of economic and social planning (the guiding non-principle being that there is no such thing as society). No, short of nostalgia and regret, Covid-19 has ravaged the whole idea of small government, and highlighted the importance of social and economic justice.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"JLRGKWSJIVALBLMVKI5RSLQVMA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732527045310},"content":"“Rumours is not trying to be an important film with a message,” she says. “But it is like a confession of today’s reality, because we are in an absurd situation. I think one feels most mad in the present day when you try to make sense of what is happening in the world. It is completely bewildering the situations that we as a species have found ourselves in. That we have willingly put ourselves. Or that we have been put in by our leaders. I think if you try to make too much sense of this movie you will feel like you’re losing your mind. 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The awards, at least, are some of the best thought-out art prizes going.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KPZ4K3EGHVDGDNMWAY4PE7GQTE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732543155159},"content":"In the form they have been run in since 2016, a team of curators visit the graduate shows at art schools the length and breadth of the country. Their longlist is then whittled down to a core group who work with a curator to mount the exhibition. Back in 2016, Alice Maher curated a line-up that included many young artists who now have significant international careers, including Bassam al-Sabah, Megan Burns, Susan Buttner, Aoife Dunne, Elaine Hoey and Jane Rainey.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7SWYKHLTMBD6LAWI73WKC5H6DI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732468715631},"content":"The talent this year is similarly undeniable. We take a look at the world through the eyes of the next creative generation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q7HLXBRHBVAOHGTZRKK5WTEPKU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732468715632},"content":"Sorcha Browning","type":"header"},{"_id":"6FX77HOBLLNCZNEFABODUJCVCQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"BGN4JC5LG5EXXOHDIPDW3T5EFM"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"YKHMXI7XCFFRVHRD2WJ344GXIA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732468715633},"content":"Sorcha Browning’s installation Eden turns data collection into a series of digital performances, adding a nice nod to the history of painting, in a mix that is heady and profound. “Graduating can feel a little daunting. There is not necessarily a solid group that you join to get support with developing work. The space outside of university feels more dispersed, which is exciting, but it can be challenging to find your feet. I have a residency coming up at the National Sculpture Factory, in Cork, which I am excited about. I’ve been working on new characters and ideas, so I’m looking forward to developing this and seeing what’s there.” A graduate of TU Dublin’s Sherkin Island visual-art course, Browning is a winner of the €10,000 RDS Taylor Art Award, which has been presented since 1860. Previous winners include William Orpen, Mainie Jellett, Norah McGuinness, Séan Keating, Dorothy Cross and James Hanley. Browning also won the €5,000 RDS Graphic Studio Award.","type":"text"},{"_id":"F2U47WAJUJDILEDXOG246HU4TU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732468715636},"content":"Heather Hughes","type":"header"},{"_id":"RIXVZ7POLVAVUSHP6U3CZE7KZM","additional_properties":{"_id":"Y47MZK7X5VBEXOCJ42WNTB64I4"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"RIPIU7CVQ5D4XHEZFZKO5HUB2Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1732468715637},"content":"Heather Hughes creates installations that explore the relationship between image and consumer in a world of endless visual information. Her work I Trust You with Your Own Eyes turns viewer into voyeur. “I focus on people and the ways we interact with each other. Living in a digitised, capitalist society gives us the paradoxical feeling of connection and proximity without the concrete material bonds and understanding that requires,” she says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3VQMRGRVVJBE5GXN24G7OR6ATA","additional_properties":{"_id":"JVQ4GKRMCRB7JI4PRGUD6HG2AY"},"content":"The RDS Arts Awards can launch careers, but what about the art of rejection?","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"2F6P4X6PORCZROOZOZERNYJP3A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732803687693},"content":"“I’m fascinated with the paradox of fearing imperfection, even though the vulnerability of being a flawed person is what brings us closer to each other and, ultimately, ourselves.” Hughes is a graduate of the National College of Art and Design.","type":"text"},{"_id":"545GGAJ6CVDYZFFRQDOPR64YWA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732468715639},"content":"Cahal O’Connell/Miss Mary Jane","type":"header"},{"_id":"VLHEQUAKF5PJUPBDBKKASMBHMA","additional_properties":{"_id":"YLDTJOCYYVD6JAUVD4WIG24QJM"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"DYHCEJLXSVHFNLRXFY4BRFJSRQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732468715640},"content":"A visual artist, musician and cabaret performer under his drag alias, Miss Mary Jane, Cahal O’Connell works with cliche, sidestepping its traps to create moving scenarios that express humanity in all its power, vulnerability, beauty, fragility and vibrant loneliness. “Given the nature of the current sociopolitical climate, one of the biggest challenges for a fine-art graduate is finding their place among it all, independently and without the guidance of educational staff,” he says. “Finding a working theme and medium with passion can be difficult in the midst of social chaos.” O’Connell graduated from North West Regional College, in Derry, before going on to Belfast School of Art, which is part of the University of Ulster.","type":"text"},{"_id":"W4EGQQZQTNB3HPKGU2IABJKW4I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732468715642},"content":"Ava Lowery","type":"header"},{"_id":"ZJWLJYZRDUQ7GQJNE5Y7W5POKU","additional_properties":{"_id":"GWB3EWJRLVHJLPIBA5F6ZHMJG4"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"GY4SQHNNERCZRKFKVILD7RZQ34","additional_properties":{"_id":1732468715643},"content":"Ava Lowery’s works in watercolour and oil look at the nude in ways that call to mind both Lucian Freud and Jenny Saville as flesh is laid bare with an unflinching gentleness. “I create queer, intimate, female-centric naked works that work within and against the traditional nude genre,” she says. “I want to create an overarching sense of intimacy and prioritise nakedness over nudity. These pieces intend to work as a revealment of the personal and internal, of private moments made public in sweetness and normality.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"KZBSNUKWBBFZPAV3CZHJQ67B2I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732803687701},"content":"Lowey, a graduate of Limerick School of Art and Design, at TUS, is the winner of the RC Lewis-Crosby Award, worth €5,000. The judges noted the strength of her emotional and technical assurance.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HBCAGKRHRZB7NJVTYGJMZTJ62Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1732468715646},"content":"Stell de Burca","type":"header"},{"_id":"TCM7F2TQCEPPXLTDAAVM37ROM4","additional_properties":{"_id":"SH2GSTH62ZGPLIPD2Y2SONAFBM"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"TV2DM2J3L5FSZCI5W2OY6WO4QI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732468715647},"content":"A trans, nonbinary artist, Stell de Burca makes powerful paintings that balance traditional skills in oils with a comic-book-style narrative that unpacks the everyday challenges of life, bringing resilience and humanity to the fore. “Having a minimum-wage job sucks the life out of my soul, not leaving much soul left for being creative,” they say. “That is the reality for many art graduates, trying to battle the cost of living while still maintaining their artistic practice. It makes opportunities like this one life-changing.” They are a graduate of Limerick School of Art and Design, at TUS.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6LRTP5RL2JDCBPBX62WE66DIAM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732468715649},"content":"Kyle Fairbanks","type":"header"},{"_id":"6CI6ZYZ2LVAZTP5A4SERGNUXFA","additional_properties":{"_id":"65AUHH7M4JDUVPSLOM2BT45DTM"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"5245Y5JQFNHIPKI4TWEX27MTME","additional_properties":{"_id":1732468715650},"content":"Kyle Fairbanks creates futuristic worlds tinged with nostalgia. Enormously inventive, he even dreams up new languages, flora and fauna for his alternative realities. “I like to distort images and exaggerate them – and I would like to continue creating imaginative pieces of art, work on commissions and exhibit more. Above all I want to continue to draw and create art that is fun and humorous, a world that people can escape to, a world free of their troubles.” He is a graduate of Atlantic Technological University, in Sligo.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JA25KUO6GBDEJP6KZ2EIYKK3Y4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732468715652},"content":"Keara Simonsen","type":"header"},{"_id":"ROGTLQVNHCOZLJEDZV3SG5JLCU","additional_properties":{"_id":"WV55TTK2WFFOJIPWN7FMR4FEIY"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"4J35GUYJE5BPRM4H6N7UEJUUTY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732468715653},"content":"Keara Simonsen, who is of Filipino and Northern Irish descent, is a visual-media artist who explores rootlessness, language, cultural displacement and human connection. “Future challenges range from a lack of financial stability to AI, which can be threatening to so many different disciplines. However, I believe that there will never be a replacement for the soul and creativity of human-made artwork, which is infused with stories and emotions. Our experiences shape so much of the art we create, so even though I know that today can be a difficult time for many graduate artists, I know that these life experiences will inform and be soulfully poured into our future work.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"EIA7TU2FMNB5VGE34EKVLGPXJA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732803687712},"content":"Simonsen, who is a graduate of Belfast School of Art, at the University of Ulster, is the winner of the €5,000 RDS Members Art Fund Award; the judges remarked on the poignancy and beauty of her work as it deftly explores relationships, language and place.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UCRL5DN75BEXPPOO5PMILBPNWY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732468715656},"content":"Claire Ritchie","type":"header"},{"_id":"YWGI7PQGY5COXIBZJMFSIJJFW4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732468715657},"content":"Claire Richie’s abstract paintings, which integrate reclaimed materials, shine through her subtle understanding of the intricacies of colour. “There’s a long list of challenges facing graduate artists today: economic insecurity, uneven access to funding, lack of affordable studio space, trying to gain recognition in the art scene, isolation, burnout… The list goes on – pretty demoralising if you think about it too much. Yet we persist! I’m grateful to have received a graduate bursary award from Queen Street Studios in Belfast, providing me with a studio for a year.” Ritchie is a graduate of Belfast School of Art, at the University of Ulster.","type":"text"},{"_id":"P2KXFQGQ6FGPJO2WCCRAS44E4M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732468715659},"content":"Fionn Timmins","type":"header"},{"_id":"JNHHTEHZSVUPGTJG5XR6ZC356Y","additional_properties":{"_id":"QU4L566SVZHD7LEGE5EEFJXF4M"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"KCEDYRIKFBEU7EGDVVAN5DDGDM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732468715660},"content":"Fionn Timmins cites sources from the philosopher John Moriarty to the writer Manchán Magan; some of his scenes also have echoes of Aideen Barry’s visual sensibility. The judges describe his work as “a beautiful love letter to the Irish landscape”. “It’s the cost of living that sets me back,” he says. “It is hard to find the balance between paying rent, bills and transport while dedicating time to work in the studio. My material for this work, inspired by stone circles, was 7,000-year-old bog oak. It was possibly alive in the landscape during the construction of the stone circles. The work is about what we can learn from the past and how we can use our mythology to reconnect. I have a three-month residency at the National Sculpture Factory in Cork city. I want to strengthen my portfolio and apply for a master’s in sculpture.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"OORO4EWALBDOFIKIJ75Z2IQMAY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732803687719},"content":"Timmins, who is a graduate of MTU Crawford College of Art and Design, is the winner of the RDS Mason Hayes & Curran LLP Centre Culturel Irlandais Residency Award. Valued at €8,000, it includes three months at the Irish Cultural Centre in Paris, plus €1,700 in cash.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SZRNGHWPONERDDC6TKFLB2NP2M","additional_properties":{"_id":"ZSELOLPSB5BWXHUMJA66KNXNUU"},"content":"Crypto chief buys a banana for $6m at contemporary art auction","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"E3RRS4KISBB3FL5Y3OOFZYAGPE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732468715663},"content":"Mary Madeleine McCarroll","type":"header"},{"_id":"PNN45BKM2FBWR6T64SW2UUK5RY","additional_properties":{"_id":"Y5SCXC3TX5AOPGGSJJSUJGF3PA"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"JUONGJQ3WJH33EIGDXF63T5A7E","additional_properties":{"_id":1732468715664},"content":"Elevating cultures once dismissed as primitive, Mary Madeleine McCarroll unlocks the potential of spirituality as a way to preserve cultural identity, using drawing, photography, sculpture, performance and painting. “I explore the intersections of my Irish and Bahamian roots, both of which have been impacted by colonial history. I examine how this still shapes contemporary realities, focusing on themes of race, identity and spirituality. Using different mediums, such as blackboards, sculpture and performance, I tell stories and create figures that are inspired by Caribbean folklore and African traditional art.” A graduate of the National College of Art and Design, McCarroll is the winner of an RHA Graduate Studio Award, valued at €7,500. It will give her full-time access to a studio space at the RHA for a year, plus a stipend of €2,500.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M4QIGRJSKYKPSEDNV3OYNNEMWY","additional_properties":{"_id":"FKC4BCUNQZB67IQEJCV55VJFCQ"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"3DY2U4BHLNBRRF3FSZMEP44BKQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732468715667},"content":"<i>The </i><a href=\"https://www.rds.ie/rds-foundation/arts/vaa\" target=\"_blank\"><i>RDS Visual Art Awards</i></a><i> exhibition is at the </i><a href=\"https://rhagallery.ie/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>RHA Gallery</i></a><i>, in Dublin, until January 18th</i>","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Gemma Tipton"}},"name":"Gemma Tipton"}]},"description":{"basic":"The 10 finalists in this year’s awards talk about their work and the challenges they face as young artists"},"display_date":"2024-11-30T05:15:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"‘Having a minimum-wage job sucks the life out of my soul’: 10 young artists on the challenges they face","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"DXHMP54KJFHYDATAV4PC4L6ORY","auth":{"1":"13c1f3d3aa59f6553e465794d255cc3ef7de80aac4ebf6428a78cd806e556332"},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/DXHMP54KJFHYDATAV4PC4L6ORY.png"}},"subtype":"feature","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Art"},{"name":"Culture"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/culture/art/2024/11/30/having-a-minimum-wage-job-sucks-the-life-out-of-my-soul-10-young-artists-on-the-challenges-they-face-rds-visual-art-award/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/culture/art","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Art"}}}},{"_id":"ZLO4YBO3HJH4PHTH26KOX2N2MI","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":642,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/5469/podcasts/cc57ee51-1014-4cff-a1db-432b83132b57/versions/1732545960/media/7ed9ad0fb74a9c7ab4720cdc97df122e_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/culture/music/2024/11/30/james-vincent-mcmorrow-ive-been-building-back-a-version-of-me-that-made-me-happy-rather-than-making-me-cry-at-night/","content_elements":[{"_id":"WKUDWLC55NBNHOULGF5S4FQGKA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732293744407},"content":"During the pandemic the songwriter and producer <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/james-vincent-mcmorrow/\" target=\"_blank\">James Vincent McMorrow</a> would rise early, go for a run and write songs for <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/louis-tomlinson/\" target=\"_blank\">Louis Tomlinson</a>, of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/one-direction/\" target=\"_blank\">One Direction</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"USASOIOTFVFUHC67337ESNTVGA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732293744408},"content":"“I actually made half of a record for him,” he says. Tomlinson’s team “had a lot of songs but maybe not a lot that he was as into as he wanted to be. I think they were maybe looking for a weirdo. So they reached out to me. I love him. He’s a fascinating human being. I absolutely loved making that album,” adds McMorrow, who is about to start a tour of Ireland.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2RDKWARUGBD2VJTOAAW2YG6JH4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732293744409},"content":"When it comes to potential collaborators with a boy band megastar, McMorrow’s name is not the first that springs to mind. He’s an indie songwriter whose open-veined, falsetto-driven pop has been compared to that of folkies such as Bon Iver and Sufjan Stevens. But Tomlinson was a fan of the Dubliner’s beautifully wrought music. He wasn’t alone: Drake famously sampled McMorrow on his 2016 track Hype.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5AKPSZRMLVGM3FPP6H7YTDDEOQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732293744410},"content":"One of the tracks they wrote together, The Greatest, would serve as the opener to Tomlinson’s second LP, Daylight. As is often the way with the music industry, the rest are in a vault somewhere. Still, for McMorrow the opportunity to work with a pop star was about more than simply putting his craft in front of a wider audience. The call from Tomlinson’s team had come at a low point for the Irishman, who had become mired in confusion and doubt after signing to a major label for the first time in his career.","type":"text"},{"_id":"U2V3JM7QBRD3VAS6YRVGVNSG34","additional_properties":{"_id":1732293744411},"content":"Executives at Columbia Records had recognised potential in McMorrow as an artist who bridged the divide between folk and pop. The fruits of that get-together would see daylight in September 2021 as the excellent <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/james-vincent-mcmorrow-grapefruit-season-fertile-hope-and-abandon-1.4672689\" target=\"_blank\">Grapefruit Season</a> LP, on which McMorrow teamed up with Paul Epworth, who has also produced Adele and Florence Welch.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J4ZWO62E7BBXPEQ7XLJMK3FROM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732293744412},"content":"The album was a beautifully gauzy rumination on the birth of his daughter and the muggy roller coaster of first-time parenthood. It went top 10 in Ireland and breached the top 100 in the UK. Yet the experience of working within the major-label system was strange for McMorrow, who at that point had been performing and recording for more than a decade. He didn’t hate it. But he knew he didn’t ever want to do it again.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3LXDUPPJKFCW7CWL3EXMTE6GAQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732293744413},"content":"“It was a weird time. I stopped touring in 2017. My daughter was born in 2018. I signed with Columbia Records at the same time and made a record that ... There were moments within it I was proud of. But fundamentally, I think if I was being very honest, I would say that I definitely got lost in the weeds of what the music industry wanted for me rather than what I wanted for myself.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"EK4LPGP3XRGAVIXGALBSLYI4OA","subtype":"youtube","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"OCXO73GWBZGNHAJ22IGE6GQOI4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732293744414},"content":"Finding his way out of the weeds involved putting out The Less I Knew, a mixtape of tracks, in 2022, and, in June 2024, Wide Open, Horses, the official follow-up to Grapefruit Season. It’s a fantastic reboot from an artist who has found his way into the light once again. The album showcases McMorrow’s propulsive voice – imagine a goth Bee Gees – and his ability to turn a diaristic observation about a tough day into musical quicksilver, as he does on White Out, a blistering ballad that draws on his experience of suffering a panic attack while out at the shops (“white out on the city street ... pain comes from strangest places”).","type":"text"},{"_id":"47TEIUHXH5F77CHLOIR7YTAVXE","additional_properties":{"_id":"VVWI4I6GERA3BOMLWUZ2EIJ4GE"},"content":"James Vincent McMorrow: Wide Open, Horses – Ripping up the rulebook for another great musical experiment","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"5BDOXMN2SVDO7BAYJLSHG2USBM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732293744415},"content":"He workshopped the project with two concerts at the National Concert Hall in Dublin in March 2023, performing the as-yet-unfinished record all the way through. The risk of something going amiss was significant – which was why he did it in the first place.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YV2K44LWIRA6DDFCNSAJKN7MJU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732293744416},"content":"“Those shows, that process was me very much back on my bullshit,” he says, meaning that, having tried to fit into a corporate structure, he was embracing his old idiosyncratic methods once again.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PD7EQYKMONF25HM3PBR2QYTXWE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732293744417},"content":"“I’m the worst sort of career musician in a lot of ways. I do the weird thing. I like doing things that make me interested selfishly. ‘I’m engaged with this process.’ ‘The stress of this is making me feel the way that I want to feel.’ And I’d lost that. Doing those two shows was me doing something where I was, like, ‘There’s stakes to this’ ... ‘If I f**k this up, people are going to see it.’ That brings out the best in me.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"TN7BDKRI2RFOFJEKRBGA4WGAZQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732293744418},"content":"McMorrow grew up in Malahide, the well-to-do town in north Co Dublin; as a secondary-school student he suffered debilitating shyness. In 2021 he revealed that he had struggled with an eating disorder at school, ending up in hospital (“Anorexia that progressed into bulimia”). He was naturally retiring, not the sort to crave the spotlight. But he was drawn to music. “It was definitely a difficult journey,” he says. He wasn’t alone in that. “The musicians that tend to cut through and make it ... A lot of my friends, musicians that are successful, they’re not <i>desperate</i> for the stage.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"IHH27WBTIZE23MC7LHWYYCSF7A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732293744421},"content":"The Tomlinson collaboration was part of his strange relationship with the mainstream music industry. It went back to McMorrow’s third LP, Rising Water, from 2016. A move away from his earlier folk-pop, the project had featured engineering from Ben Ash, aka Two Inch Punch, a producer who had worked with chart artists such as Jessie Ware, Sia and Wiz Khalifa.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7KTKQTG5RBGKHK5CUWAKY6AKDM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732293744422},"content":"That was followed by the Drake sample in 2016 and by McMorrow writing the song Gone, which was at one point set to be recorded by a huge pop star whom he’d rather not identify.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UZZTYC5QPFCDLNTBBFE4KYN5NQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732293744423},"content":"“Gone is the red herring of red herrings in my entire career. I wrote that song for other people. I didn’t write it for myself. The whole reason I signed to Columbia Records and I had all these deals was because of Gone. I was very happy tipping away in my weird little world. And then I wrote that song, and a lot of bigger artists came in to try to take it,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QLYRRB4E4NDZVMIVGIIMB7J5XI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732293744424},"content":"“I won’t name names. There were recordings of it done. It got very close to being a single for someone else. I would go in these meetings with all these labels, and I would play it for them – just to play. Not with any sense of ‘This is my song.’ And they were, like, ‘You’re out of your mind if you don’t take this song. This is the song that will make you the thing that is the thing.’ And I was, like, ‘You’re wrong.’ For a year I basically was, like, ‘I disagree.’ And if you go in a room with enough people enough times and they tell you that you’re crazy ... I loved the song, but I did not love it for me. I never felt I fit. There was a little part of me that wanted to believe.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"W3QVILBWOJBCZOGOPA7P6B3O5Y","subtype":"youtube","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"UKWWHT7TXNCQVCVIKWT6TLOVL4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732293744425},"content":"As he had predicted, Gone wasn’t a hit. He received a lot of other strange advice, including that he cash in on the mercifully short-lived craze for NFTs by putting out an LP as a watermarked internet file. All of that was swirling in his brain when Tomlinson got in touch. To be able to step outside his own career was exactly what McMorrow needed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"D5RY3YOQQFGTHDFT57UCFHRLKU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732293744426},"content":"“With Louis it was like boot camp. I had a very limited time with him. I had to wake up every morning, go for a run, write a song in my head, go to the studio. We made songs all day long. It lit a fire in my head again. I loved the process. I like sitting and talking to someone like Louis, who’s had this unbelievably fascinating lifestyle – so much tragedy in his life,” he says. Tomlinson’s mother and sister died within three years of each other, and his 1D bandmate <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/liam-payne/\" target=\"_blank\">Liam Payne</a> died in October. “So many things have happened to him. I chatted to him and then write constantly. That was a lovely process.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"VAWUMRAK4JC4XFY74XYO3LFIDE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732293744427},"content":"Because life is strange and full of contrasts McMorrow ended up working with Tomlinson around the same time that he was producing the Dublin postpunk “folk-metal” band The Scratch, on their LP Mind Yourself. “Totally different animals,” he says. “The Scratch album was an intense period in the studio of that real old-school nature of making music. A lot of fights. A lot of pushing back against ideas. A lot of different opinions. And you have to respect everybody’s opinions and find the route through.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"F3YH24LFEBDFLLHYRZI5RNYNMY","additional_properties":{"_id":"FKRSAI7LS5FGPLPJWVPZ3UL23M"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"XNIRA3XYTBGNNI6TOMUV7STDRM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732293744428},"content":"During his brief time on a major label, McMorrow was reminded of the music industry’s weakness for short-term thinking. In 2019, the business was obsessed with streaming numbers and hot-wiring the Spotify algorithm so that your music posted the highest possible number of plays.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PIFCABEZFBBU7I5VP2VKMTEAM4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732293744429},"content":"“Everyone was driven by stats. ‘This song has 200 million streams.’ ‘That song has 400 million streams.’ I went into my meetings with Columbia Records ... the day I had my first big marketing meeting was the day my catalogue passed a billion streams, which, for someone like me, who started where I started, was a day where I should be popping champagne corks. Instead they immediately started talking about how they have artists that have one song that has two billion streams. So by their rule of thumb I was half as successful as one song by one artist on their label.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"2E44NNMO7RC4BJJHQ2JQI46CGQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732293744430},"content":"Five years later he believes things have changed. He points to <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/lankum/\" target=\"_blank\">Lankum</a>, a group who will never set Spotify alight yet who have carved a career by doing their own thing and not chasing the short-term goal of a place on the playlist. They are an example to other musicians, McMorrow says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CJ7C5L5RYBEIVILSWLMXBLVRLA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732293744431},"content":"“I was in Brooklyn, doing two nights, a week and a half ago. In the venue across the road from where we were, pretty much, Lankum were doing two nights and had [the Dublin folk artist] <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/john-francis-flynn/\" target=\"_blank\">John Francis Flynn</a> opening for them. Those are two artists that, if you were to look at their stats, you wouldn’t be, like, ‘These are world-beating musicians.’ You start aggregating to this stat-based norm and you miss bands like Lankum, bands like <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/the-mary-wallopers/\" target=\"_blank\">The Mary Wallopers</a>, people like John Francis Flynn.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"AI6RQWVCLJHKRNQL54OOKQOF54","additional_properties":{"_id":1732293744432},"content":"McMorrow is looking forward to his forthcoming Irish tour, which he sees as another leg of his journey to be his best possible self.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NIW57IEX2JGTJNYLZVD2SV6DHM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732293744433},"content":"“The last two, three years have been a process of building it back to a version of me that actually made me happy rather than making me cry at night-time – a version that was making music because I liked it. Within this industry there’s so much outside noise. It’s quite overwhelming. I was overwhelmed. It’s been nice to reset the clock.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"E57UZK7MMFFQJMHNY3ZOZRUNZU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732293744434},"content":"<i>James Vincent McMorrow’s new single is Glu. He plays Vicar Street, in Dublin, on Monday, December 2nd, and Tuesday, December 3rd; Black Box, Galway, on Thursday, December 5th; and Set Theatre, Kilkenny, on Saturday, December 7th</i>","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Ed Power"}},"name":"Ed Power"}]},"description":{"basic":"The Dubliner isn’t the first name that comes to mind as a songwriter for a boy-band megastar. 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I also loved <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/10/11/stone-yard-devotional-by-charlotte-wood-bone-bare-prose-offers-the-space-to-dwell-in-questions/\" target=\"_blank\">Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood</a> and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/10/12/the-safekeep-by-yael-van-der-wouden-beguiling-love-story-told-in-language-that-entertains-and-enthrals/\" target=\"_blank\">The Safekeep by Yael Van der Wouden</a>, which is brilliant on withheld rage and desire. I can join the groundswell of praise for another passionate and distinctive debut, Ferdia Lennon’s Glorious Exploits. The book I found most eye-opening was Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI by Madhumita Murgia, which tells you everything you don’t want to know (but really should) about data tech.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ETBAMJCYMNFB5JRQNZ55UV7KIU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057474},"type":"list"},{"_id":"KM442YBEPVHYXP5K2EA6NV4KD4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732616533917},"content":"John Boyne","type":"header"},{"_id":"XPCQA6TMHZAY7MNDWWNO7EQIAE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732291795875},"content":"My book of the year is Small Rain by Garth Greenwell, one of the US’s finest novelists. He found himself doubled over in pain in a non-Covid-related incident during the pandemic, which led to a prolonged hospital stay. His affliction baffled doctors so much that he became a person of interest to medics of all disciplines. While they seek ways to treat him, Greenwell veers between stoicism, fear, missing his beloved partner, and worrying about his home. Rarely has illness made for such a compelling read.","type":"text"},{"_id":"N6LPENERNVHHXOP2OKBVNCQ2AQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732291795876},"type":"list"},{"_id":"RCMH334OY5GVPPUW6DY4TIIVMI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057494},"content":"Sarah Moss","type":"header"},{"_id":"QUETJ52ETVBHVE63RTQP67C4IU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732534636985},"content":"End times bring out greatness in some writers. Kathleen Jamie published a new essay collection, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/07/06/cairn-by-kathleen-jamie-poetic-meditation-on-climate-change-and-global-instability/\" target=\"_blank\">Cairn</a> (I feel this should be all one needs to say, but if you haven’t read her, do). The best writing about the domestic arts is always also writing about resistance to despair: I recommend Caroline Eden’s Cold Kitchen for culinary meditations from a war correspondent. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/01/27/spent-light-by-lara-pawson-an-innovative-hybrid-of-fiction-and-autobiography/\" target=\"_blank\">Lara Pawson’s Spent Light</a>, disturbing and funny hybrid prose, has stayed with me since I read it last spring. I enjoyed the Shetland poet Jen Hadfield’s beautifully-crafted memoir, Storm Pegs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"THZUUUHBFNDH3I2S2XUPCMLHE4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732534636986},"type":"list"},{"_id":"RGXSE5SYEFBJNJJK4Z7R7YMPKA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057457},"content":"Joseph O’Connor","type":"header"},{"_id":"BGIXIQVUZFAY5CXYO4TPWUUKRI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057458},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/04/22/the-amendments-by-niamh-mulvey-what-it-means-to-be-female-through-different-generations/\" target=\"_blank\">Niamh Mulvey’s debut novel The Amendments</a> is a fine achievement from a writer of rare gifts. Every novel by Donal Ryan extends his deserved reputation; I adored his <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/08/20/heart-be-at-peace-by-donal-ryan-companion-novel-to-the-spinning-heart-returns-to-the-approach-that-won-him-such-acclaim/\" target=\"_blank\">Heart, Be at Peace</a>. I’ve loved John Cooper Clarke’s poems and performances since first encountering them as a teenager; his 2024 collection, What, is brilliant. My book of the year is Joe Boyd’s And the Roots of Rhythm Remain: a wonderfully knowledgeable and discursive travelogue of world music, detailed, loving, incisive and beautifully written. Jack Fennell’s anthology of lost Irish ghost stories, Your Own Dark Shadow, is a knockout.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YTNEEDTTSJDJTB5PHG4WEDFAAM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057459},"type":"list"},{"_id":"DJVNVDMV2FAP5MLOZ2CMPKFGBM","additional_properties":{"_id":"WBB44XFISNDW7E3GVXGRM63SRY"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"D7GQLQDP3NHL3LMO3XLAGZYIYE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057460},"content":"Mark O’Connell","type":"header"},{"_id":"UIJXEBY7ARFMFNU7BVEHZR45YI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732290876324},"content":"Hari Kunzru is, I think, a weirdly underrated writer. It’s not that he’s ignored – far from it, he’s very successful, and has been for many years now. But I think the extent to which his fiction plumbs the depths of our terminal-stage capitalist malaise, while also being compulsively entertaining, deserves to have a lot more fuss made of it. Blue Ruin is the third in his “Three Colours” trilogy, following White Tears and the incredible Red Pill. It has a thrillerish pace, and a cold-blooded intellectualism reminiscent of mid-period Don DeLillo.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PSLIETHHJNGFDN2ZR5YIF32XJI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057460},"type":"list"},{"_id":"H2TTGKUBYVFYVLEJH5XWQ4X2NA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057492},"content":"Kit de Waal","type":"header"},{"_id":"RGU2BDNOMJGGPEJCOF5JUE2Q54","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057493},"content":"My book of the year is Donal Ryan’s Heart, Be at Peace. Ryan has a way of getting a whole character and a whole life down on a few pages, sometimes a few paragraphs. In overlapping and intertwined voices, we’re picking up where his previous masterpiece The Spinning Heart left off. Is it possible to say a work of fiction is true? Well, this is and once again, it’s a book that stays with you well beyond the last page.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BNTBAGR2TJC5JDKINQIC3DEKKA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732534636983},"type":"list"},{"_id":"MF5NZ4W27VDUFNHRSRQSJPSJPY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057461},"content":"Diarmaid Ferriter","type":"header"},{"_id":"I5BGLYZ4JFB3TJN6LFJTYV3KRI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732534636912},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/08/20/heart-be-at-peace-by-donal-ryan-companion-novel-to-the-spinning-heart-returns-to-the-approach-that-won-him-such-acclaim/\" target=\"_blank\">Donal Ryan’s Heart, Be at Peace</a> is enthralling. He captures such a range of emotion, defiance, eloquence, crudity and dark humour, in brilliant prose that makes him stand out in a crowded and rich Irish literary space. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/02/24/remembering-peasants-fascinating-study-makes-for-essential-reading-about-our-shared-past/\" target=\"_blank\">Patrick Joyce’s Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanishing World</a> gives agency to the people of the land as he excavates the peasant experiences across Europe, placing the Irish dimension and his personal connection to it in a broader context. Given the dark politics of this year, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/05/11/a-great-disorder-by-richard-slotkin-ambitious-mapping-of-americas-past-to-its-present-via-myth/\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Slotkin’s A Great Disorder</a> is a timely and textured reminder of the exploitation of national myths and how and why the US is so divided.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5X75O7M4AZASHPB2B4ZSOSPT6A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732534636913},"type":"list"},{"_id":"BX6POJ477VMRTGR4VNCX4HKPZI","additional_properties":{"_id":"4C4IU2TESBE6DDJKMFIGZ2ACPI"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"PRNC2BNEEBA6VL3IHTUFTYZN2A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057473},"content":"Julia Kelly","type":"header"},{"_id":"NKOFN2AZUJGU5KLZURVTK4WE6Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732534636943},"content":"Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst is my book of the year. Reading his prose is like sinking into a bath of the perfect temperature, with his exquisite use of language and extraordinary powers of description. I also loved <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/06/15/all-fours-by-miranda-july-one-womans-quest-for-life-after-midlife/\" target=\"_blank\">All Fours by Miranda July</a>, a wild, bawdy, horny, hilarious escape from the reality of a menopausal wife and mother into an alternative fantasy, an existence where she can express her sexual and artistic desires with unfettered freedom.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SETR3PLUMJEO7GYU3725ZSRR3M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732534636944},"type":"list"},{"_id":"RPYWVC7J6BGAPDJSRV3DYEBY2I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057463},"content":"Malachy Clerkin","type":"header"},{"_id":"HMIESUPZ3JCWFPD2QC72LDQ4WM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203179865},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/06/22/the-racket-by-conor-niland-lonely-tennis-locker-room-conveyed-with-deft-touch/\" target=\"_blank\">The Racket by Conor Niland and Gavin Cooney</a> is a fantastic – and deservedly prize-winning – trek through the nearly-but-not-quite backroads of professional tennis. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/10/12/obsessed-the-autobiography-by-johnny-sexton-one-of-the-best-irish-sports-books-ever-written/\" target=\"_blank\">Obsessed by Johnny Sexton and Peter O’Reilly</a> is a laudably searching examination of the psyche of one of Ireland’s greatest ever sportspeople. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/11/09/states-of-play-how-sportswashing-took-over-football-by-miguel-delaney-admirably-thorough-depressingly-persuasive/\" target=\"_blank\">States of Play by Miguel Delaney</a> paints a detailed and often grotesque picture of how soccer has found itself hijacked by money and sportswashing. Finally, My Story by Joe Canning and Vincent Hogan is full of searing insights into the Galway hurler’s life less ordinary.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IGSIK5AHMVAXBCEBPYQPAQUKPY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057463},"type":"list"},{"_id":"53JPF47GYDRYBSJVCXSZYNZGNI","additional_properties":{"_id":"KDGUYTH2DFFUVMWZ26B4JSRBBE"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"QYNDR4HOUJHHXDIGO4F454JUKA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057464},"content":"Fintan O’Toole","type":"header"},{"_id":"JXJ623FWUJGX5MFTLRCSM5TXZU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057456},"content":"In a year stained by such widespread indifference to extreme violence against civilians in war, Cormac Ó Gráda’s The Hidden Victims: Civilian Casualties of the Two World Wars stood out as a work of great moral as well as of historical importance. One of Ireland’s greatest historians scrupulously sifts the evidence from the first and second World Wars and their “collateral damage” of genocide, famine, aerial bombing and disease. His conclusion is startling: he estimates that the wars cost not the previously accepted 35 million but 65 million civilian lives – nearly two-thirds of the 100 million total killed. Ó Gráda writes with immense care, eschewing rhetoric or appeals to the emotions, but there is always the sense that this quiet precision is an act of mourning for 30 million people who were not even given the dignity of becoming statistics. The resonances for the present are profound: this book is a potent warning against amnesia and evasion.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7WKFI6LDSFAMTOMEDYX3JB76DQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732534636904},"type":"list"},{"_id":"4ENYIXOQ2FDS3MK3SU7FQKJMPE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057471},"content":"Sarah Gilmartin","type":"header"},{"_id":"WRIM5Y5VKRDEJDYLT4RNTUP7RA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732290876345},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/02/20/the-lodgers-by-holly-pester-a-smart-superbly-crafted-story-on-the-state-of-a-nation/\" target=\"_blank\">Holly Pester’s debut The Lodgers</a> is a bracing, eloquent dissection of a generation priced out of their own home. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/10/10/our-evenings-by-alan-hollinghurst-review-beautifully-observed-tracking-of-an-actor-into-old-age/\" target=\"_blank\">Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst</a> examines race, class, sexuality and identity in a narrative suffused with loss and longing. Three gems from the Booker longlist: <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/01/27/wild-houses-by-colin-barrett-superbly-observed-world-framed-by-crime-caper-plot/\" target=\"_blank\">Wild Houses by Colin Barrett</a>, Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/09/07/creation-lake-by-rachel-kushner-fun-devastating-and-far-more-urgent-than-a-typical-spy-thriller/\" target=\"_blank\">Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner</a>. Three intricate, and very different, story collections: Barcelona by Mary Costello, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/04/25/old-romantics-by-maggie-armstrong-an-audacious-debut-collection-with-a-personality-all-its-own/\" target=\"_blank\">Old Romantics by Maggie Armstrong</a>, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/05/07/openings-by-lucy-caldwell-enlightening-and-enriching-collection-of-stories-that-closes-a-loose-triptych/\" target=\"_blank\">Openings by Lucy Caldwell</a>. And for poetry fans, the moving <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/05/05/new-poetry-raptures-road-and-then-the-hare-landscape-of-the-body-all-the-good-things-you-deserve/\" target=\"_blank\">All the Good Things You Deserve by Elaine Feeney</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ECEMYKCXE5FG5FLKENTU4VB7HE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732290876346},"type":"list"},{"_id":"ZGTC3TC4KFBBXOJXMU75AATV7A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057465},"content":"Brian Hanley","type":"header"},{"_id":"MJOHBBIJRVB77M255NDO7DOLL4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732272055245},"content":"It has been a depressing year, which perhaps influences these choices. Some impressive new histories illuminated the 20th century’s myriad tragedies; betrayed revolutionary hopes in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/09/21/hotel-lux-by-maurice-casey-radical-politics-and-queer-love-in-the-dark-shadow-of-stalinism/\" target=\"_blank\">Maurice Casey’s Hotel Lux</a>, murder gangs and state collusion in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/09/28/ghosts-of-a-family-review-superlative-account-of-atrocity-of-the-mcmahon-murders/\" target=\"_blank\">Edward Burke’s Ghosts of A Family</a>, despotic political “saviours” in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/09/28/the-party-is-always-right-the-untold-story-of-gerry-healy-and-british-trotskyism-a-shocking-history-well-told/\" target=\"_blank\">Aidan Beatty’s The Party Is Always Right</a>. The fictionalised corruption brought to life in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/02/25/best-new-crime-fiction-joe-thomass-red-menace-is-an-early-candidate-for-crime-novel-of-the-year/\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Thomas’s Red Menace</a>, his follow-up to the excellent White Riot, seems almost benign in comparison.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GQD2FQDI6JA7PDY6VMYP4PBXY4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732272055246},"type":"list"},{"_id":"MOPCPUID2ZGGFOAY432NV7XGM4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057475},"content":"Sally Hayden","type":"header"},{"_id":"YR63Q3JNTRE7JP2KYDP3XCG3KU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057476},"content":"I read mostly older books this year, but a few new ones that I definitely recommend are Scattered by Aamna Mohdin, a Somali-British journalist whose 2015 reporting trip to Calais prompts exploration as to the journey her own family undertook to escape Somalia: The Tale of a Wall, a memoir by Nasser Abu Srour, a Palestinian who has spent decades in Israeli prison; and Chukwuebuka Ibeh’s Blessings, a moving novel about queer lives in Nigeria.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LZLGD6KTJ5EDDMJEG3X4KO3BPM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057475},"type":"list"},{"_id":"NKJE4PYS3JH5TGDBBCEJSQ75LE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057466},"content":"Donal Fallon","type":"header"},{"_id":"336EBPHZPJC2HMRIRAW34DMGFU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732534636924},"content":"The Irish in the Resistance by Clodagh Finn and John Morgan is a brilliant achievement, bringing to light new stories of men and women who risked everything during the second World War. While Samuel Beckett’s role in the French Resistance is well documented (it was considerably more than what he dismissed as “boy scout stuff”), many of the names in this book will be entirely new to the reader. Great archival digging and lots of heart.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YHCQGFYEFBEVLB2X3PZEBGM25Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732534636925},"type":"list"},{"_id":"JEGNMYAMXJGXBCOBYF3TQCVNOI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057478},"content":"Sara Keating","type":"header"},{"_id":"LFXXOH62DZFJBMJDQ6W3B5ZNJY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057479},"content":"It’s impossible to choose, but as the shortest day of the year approaches, I am reminded of two of the best children’s books of 2024: the fantastic non-fiction <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/06/08/childrens-reads-from-superbly-conceived-non-fiction-to-a-fitting-capstone-for-a-wonderful-career/\" target=\"_blank\">Solstice: The Longest, Shortest Day</a> by Jen Breach (5+) and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/10/09/childrens-fiction-ghost-stories-for-samhain-and-tales-of-female-fearlessness/\" target=\"_blank\">Eilish Fisher’s stunning Fia and the Last Snow Deer</a>, featuring writing and illustrations of equal beauty. For a greater understanding of how we know what we know, Chris Haughton’s The History of Information (7+) is both eye-catching and essential. Finally, Vicky Cowie’s Tales from Muggleswick Wood (3+) is a bedtime treasury narrated by a grandmother with whimsical watercolours from Charlie Macksey, which will be beloved on bookshelves for generations.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FSC64NWOLFFI3NYE5YW3DJ52SU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057480},"type":"list"},{"_id":"WV7EXDOY4NHFBBVWDGOKQTWTQU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057467},"content":"Paul Muldoon","type":"header"},{"_id":"LWEJ5CG5V5FRDBGXPVFEQKCVCY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203179872},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/01/27/missing-persons-or-my-grandmothers-secrets-by-clair-wills-family-fables-hidden-truths/\" target=\"_blank\">Missing Persons, or My Grandmother’s Secrets, by Clair Wills</a>, is a book that will secure a place in the annals of 20th-century Irish social history as firmly as Twenty Years A-Growing by Maurice O’Sullivan or Heinrich Böll’s Irish Journal. This account of a cover-up within a single family resonates with a capacity to look away that too often seems to be a national characteristic. One consequence of this book might be to further tip the scales and allow us to overcome our reluctance to send the Catholic Church packing, as we would any other multinational with a comparable history of dodgy behaviour.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AX4YILUUNVBHRG4ENXXEZWT7O4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732534636928},"type":"list"},{"_id":"6ITUWKIUWVFZPKEL7OLAN3HLH4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732615867570},"content":"Claire Adam","type":"header"},{"_id":"DSMNJVRHCZEGPHRRFWUCTTHHU4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732290876361},"content":"My Dear Kabul by an Afghan women’s writing group is an absolute gem of a memoir that deserves a place on your bookshelf and in your heart. The authors are 21 Afghan women writing secretly to each other in real time, often in WhatsApp messages, as they live through the country’s fall to the Taliban in 2021. The very act of writing is dangerous, but they’re driven by an urgent need to connect – with each other and the outside world – even as the walls close in on them.","type":"text"},{"_id":"P33RPU2EBJA2VDOCZROVAT6L64","additional_properties":{"_id":1732290876362},"type":"list"},{"_id":"TWA4XXOEBVFYFIZETNHYG54W6M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057468},"content":"Paul Howard","type":"header"},{"_id":"IKK3JNJHUFBYZFZVRT3UVMHS4I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732290876339},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/09/07/our-london-lives-a-masterful-work-full-of-skilful-nuance-and-profound-truth/\" target=\"_blank\">Our London Lives by Christine Dwyer Hickey</a> is a masterpiece. It’s the story of two teenage Irish emigrants living in London in 1979. Milly in a runaway from judgmental, Catholic Ireland. Pip is a young boxing hopeful with a taste for the sauce. The novel tells the story of their fleeting romance and then the stories of their occasionally interweaving lives over the course of the four decades that follow. It’s dark and heartbreaking. Beautiful storytelling by a master of the genre.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RTGYEVD6ABEEHK4VBAVO3ILFJE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732534636931},"content":"<i>Paul Howard’s latest book is the </i><a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/author/ross-ocarroll-kelly/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Ross O’Carroll-Kelly</i></a><i> novel Don’t Look Back in Ongar</i>","type":"text"},{"_id":"JOWLOHQBDJGTPCO4O2YGJOBA4E","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057486},"content":"Éilís Ní Dhuibhne","type":"header"},{"_id":"55RDFISEGJAHZGHURZ4TYTSOJY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732287543257},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2024/04/06/quickly-while-they-still-have-horses-review-jan-carson-delivers-a-compelling-collection/\" target=\"_blank\">Jan Carson, Quickly, While They Still Have Horses</a>, is an outstanding collection of witty short stories set in – and satirising – the North of Ireland. I loved Percival Everett’s James, and also Sarah Moss’s memoir focusing on anorexia, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/08/24/my-good-bright-wolf-by-sarah-moss-a-bleak-often-brilliant-personal-history/\" target=\"_blank\">My Good Bright Wolf</a>. My great friends Liz McManus, Mary Rose Callaghan, Phyl Herbert, Catherine Dunne, Celia de Freine, Evelyn Conlon and Mícheál Ó Conghaile all published wonderful books during the year. They are a productive bunch!","type":"text"},{"_id":"YIJL7EMMF5BM5BGVUCQB2IYWME","additional_properties":{"_id":1732287543258},"type":"list"},{"_id":"CTXLZYDWHBE7LAA7ETU2LNC3WE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057469},"content":"Paul Murray","type":"header"},{"_id":"XIORDFQJDVHGVO7WU442ZCFLUU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732527560805},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/11/02/gliff-by-ali-smith-part-allegory-part-dystopian-fiction-altogether-thrilling/\" target=\"_blank\">Ali Smith’s miraculous Gliff</a> is at once a pitch-black take on the authoritarian future and a tender, hilarious and ultimately uplifting portrait of two young sisters as they battle to escape it. Full of jokes and wordplay, kindness and connection – the eponymous Gliff is a horse the girls rescue from an abattoir – it’s part novel, part resistance manual, facing into the darkness while showing a path to redemption. A ray of hope after a year like this one.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LIEKZO2NCBBY7BGR6QWRDGLHZY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732527560806},"type":"list"},{"_id":"VIBF3KVIOFE7ZIEL2BKIZV54PM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057477},"content":"Mia Levitin","type":"header"},{"_id":"YNJMVBID7BHEVP67TBUQFPUIMY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732295221284},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/10/12/the-safekeep-by-yael-van-der-wouden-beguiling-love-story-told-in-language-that-entertains-and-enthrals/\" target=\"_blank\">Yael van der Wouden’s The Safekeep</a>, sexy and twisty without sacrificing substance, is a marvel. Alan Hollinghurst’s Our Evenings made me weep buckets of tears, and I was in the chorus of accolades for <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/04/19/james-by-percival-everett-reimagining-huck-finn/\" target=\"_blank\">Percival Everett’s National Book Award-winning James</a>. Hattie Crisell’s In Writing is chock-full of insights about not only writing but life. And more than just a survey, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/09/09/the-haunted-wood-a-history-of-childhood-reading-by-sam-leith-monumental-and-invigorating/\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Leith’s The Haunted Wood</a> is a tribute to the enduring importance of children’s literature.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JJKMOXDAX5FQHECWWJUZ63B57Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1732534636953},"type":"list"},{"_id":"JTZRZ6DWXZB3VABTF73EIBTYBU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057450},"content":"John Self","type":"header"},{"_id":"3YM4YMUI4NDXDGWP4CSZBJX7PU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057451},"content":"In a good year, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/01/08/my-friends-by-hisham-matar-the-challenges-of-exile-and-humankinds-ability-to-adapt/\" target=\"_blank\">Hisham Matar’s My Friends</a> and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/04/27/the-spoiled-heart-by-sunjeev-sahota-brave-exploration-of-class-and-race-from-multiple-angles/\" target=\"_blank\">Sunjeev Sahota’s The Spoiled Heart</a> were superb personal-political novels that should have won all the awards. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/04/27/two-hours-by-alba-arikha-a-literary-masterpiece/\" target=\"_blank\">Alba Arikha’s Two Hours</a> is a brief and gripping story of a woman’s real and imagined lives. And if you like Damon Galgut’s clear-eyed, unsentimental stories of South Africa, try both <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/06/08/crooked-seeds-by-karen-jennings-a-taut-confrontation-with-the-horrors-of-the-past-that-resists-moralising/\" target=\"_blank\">Karen Jennings’s Crooked Seeds</a> and SJ Naudé's Fathers and Fugitives. They bowled me over. Outside novels, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/03/09/barcelona-a-pleasing-variety-of-styles-and-perspectives-told-through-voices-young-and-old/\" target=\"_blank\">Mary Costello’s Barcelona</a> was my story collection of the year.","type":"text"},{"_id":"R5TDYLY2AVCTTJ3LX3AJZ55JX4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732550422272},"type":"list"},{"_id":"GBLSNPK7BFCVLAJQ7B2HSVLBYQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057489},"content":"Edel Coffey","type":"header"},{"_id":"MZR7NEGITZFNZASRZPF52NREKA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732534636973},"content":"The one that really stands out for me is Ferdia Lennon’s charismatic debut, Glorious Exploits, a brilliant and original novel set in ancient Syracuse but told in a contemporary Dublin vernacular. Original, profound and funny. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/07/13/all-the-colours-of-the-dark-by-chris-whitaker-a-thriller-romance-and-crime-novel-that-is-plenty-of-book-for-everyone/\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Whitaker’s All The Colours of the Dark</a> was a hugely enjoyable saga, part-love story, part-crime novel. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/08/17/the-garden-against-time-in-search-of-a-common-paradise-review-gardens-excavated-as-agents-of-wider-world-change/\" target=\"_blank\">Olivia Laing’s The Garden against Time</a> was a brilliantly researched and deeply enjoyable examination of how we share the planet, and hybrid memoir. And an honourable mention must go to Miranda July’s All Fours, which was an eye-popping novel that fearlessly explored the painful process of ageing as a Gen X woman.","type":"text"},{"_id":"R33TRAWCKJCVZOSPILY7VXNUTQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732534636974},"type":"list"},{"_id":"XKIVC34JRZFQPCNBR3V5WKRNCY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057470},"content":"Martin Doyle","type":"header"},{"_id":"6LFNV2G4IRFMRIF6X2SVKXBX24","additional_properties":{"_id":1732636637479},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/01/27/glorious-exploits-by-ferdia-lennon-whacky-tale-of-theatrics-war-and-displacement-set-in-syracuse-bc/\">Ferdia Lennon’s Glorious Exploits</a> is a marvellous feat of imagination, set in ancient Sicily, but with Barrytown accents. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/09/21/intermezzo-by-sally-rooney-a-bold-adventurous-and-captivating-addition-to-an-impressive-body-of-work/\">Intermezzo by Sally Roone</a>y is perceptive and precise, her best yet. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/05/06/the-alternatives-by-caoilinn-hughes-a-superb-novel-about-sisters-doing-it-in-style/\">The Alternatives by Caoilinn Hughes</a> sparkles with intelligence and wit. Niamh Mulvey’s The Amendments is a warm evocation of Irish women coming of age in a cold social climate. Kevin Barry’s The Heart in Winter is a joyous, riotous Irish western. Colin Barrett’s Wild Houses captures Ireland’s own wild west.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RRFLXO3TX5CZDEGQRN4KOXPBNU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732534636937},"content":"<i>Martin Doyle is Books Editor of The Irish Times and author of Dirty Linen</i>","type":"text"},{"_id":"TUS6ANJ3M5HS7PFKLQ6P2VATN4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057481},"content":"Claire Hennessy","type":"header"},{"_id":"ELOMZ3XJZJBGRAPKI24WA6L62E","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057482},"content":"Margaret McDonald’s touching debut, Glasgow Boys, deftly explores male friendship in and out of the care system. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/10/27/unflinching-examinations-of-contemporary-teenage-life-in-octobers-ya-picks/\" target=\"_blank\">Kathleen Glasgow’s The Glass Girl</a> skilfully and sympathetically tackles addiction and self-worth. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/06/08/junes-ya-fiction-the-magical-realism-is-grounded-by-sharp-observations-about-teenage-social-dynamics/\" target=\"_blank\">Jenny Valentine’s Us in the Before and After</a> haunts in a variety of ways; <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/09/29/new-ya-titles-for-autumn-from-award-winning-writers-and-illustrators/\" target=\"_blank\">Jandy Nelson’s dreamy When the World Tips Over</a> is a spun-sugar treat. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/03/17/march-ya-reads-love-in-a-time-of-famine/\" target=\"_blank\">Claire Furniss’s The Things We Leave Behind</a> and Moira Buffini’s Songlight remind us dystopian futures are always relevant.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QNX3R4EDABAA5KALXFCANQLYRM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057483},"content":"<i>Claire Hennessy is a writer and book critic</i>","type":"text"},{"_id":"P7RGDAMJ2NC4PNTK7A6V5FQKWU","additional_properties":{"_id":"6O657DDC3VB6RMT4G76V6EOENY"},"content":"New YA titles for autumn from award-winning writers and illustrators","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"XBOTUE357FFKXD5ROER3BAIAHM","additional_properties":{"_id":"WCQM2EJDJRE6ZLR3SB52COWUNE"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"6ITUWKIUWVFZPKEL7OLAN3HLH4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732615867570},"content":"Jan Carson","type":"header"},{"_id":"IYI7U3PDGRATHM6LLTI3IUGJTQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057488},"content":"It’s always brilliant when the book you’ve been most looking forward lives up to all your expectations, and A Sunny Place for Shady People, Argentinian writer Mariana Enriquez’s second collection of short stories translated into English, expertly, by Megan McDowell, more than met my sky-high hopes. These stories are dark, macabre, occasionally absurd, sometimes funny and always, always, so deftly written they’ll literally haunt your dreams. I’m already counting the days down to Enriquez’s next publication.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MQ33KU2H5ZC65BJRN65KBC4CAI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732534636971},"type":"list"},{"_id":"ZILD5YKGAVCFJMTBKDPHQCQTKI","additional_properties":{"_id":"ZHF2XIMRCJALBNMQTYLDSFZGJA"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"FCLTPP5SXVBNPCHYQR72ITNSFI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057490},"content":"Niamh Donnelly","type":"header"},{"_id":"YEEI7YXIDBE5HFCKOOW3HKIP3M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203179896},"content":"With all the Sally Rooney discourse, it’s easy to forget how exquisite and immersive her writing is. Intermezzo, which follows two brothers after their father’s death, is her best, most sophisticated work yet. Tracing two interconnected lives, Christine Dwyer Hickey’s Our London Lives captures the London-Irish experience and the ache of missed opportunities. Maggie Armstrong’s voice leaps off the page in her debut story collection, Old Romantics, while Niamh Mulvey’s The Amendments is a wise and astute first novel.","type":"text"},{"_id":"O7H6Z77ZWBCTRGV3PKRBKMEXFA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203179897},"type":"list"},{"_id":"QYNDR4HOUJHHXDIGO4F454JUKA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057464},"content":"Tony Clayton-Lea","type":"header"},{"_id":"HYEVVUDFMVDERGD4RBWQMXMNTE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203179867},"content":"Belfast punk band Ruefrex is the subject of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/02/03/wild-colonial-boys-is-hard-to-beat/\" target=\"_blank\">Wild Colonial Boys: A Belfast Punk Story</a> by Thomas Paul Burgess, a scathing memoir by the band’s former drummer and songwriter. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/2024/06/26/blondie-guitarist-chris-stein-i-was-always-into-chaos-there-was-nothing-i-shied-away-from/\" target=\"_blank\">Under a Rock by Chris Stein</a> is the Blondie guitarist’s frank account of a life far less ordinary than most. The best dip-into book is You Spin Me Round, a collection of essays by mostly Irish writers that present warmth, wit and sometimes weird outlooks on the profound importance of music.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ULO4HLYYDJGX5FHCJHCSQKNJ4M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203179868},"type":"list"},{"_id":"54YY4WIOTZHNTOEP3GWKG4XWUE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057491},"content":"Louise Kennedy","type":"header"},{"_id":"FI2E6FVWZRE3VDDG4NYC5OSPNQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732534636979},"content":"I have lately struggled to read fiction, perhaps because I am carrying my own novel-in-progress in my head. An exception is the marvellous <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/04/17/hagstone-by-sinead-gleeson-there-is-a-lyricism-to-this-magical-and-otherworldly-debut-novel/\" target=\"_blank\">Hagstone by Sinéad Gleeson</a>, a gorgeous, haunting, intelligent tale set on a remote island. In Hereafter, poet Vona Groarke constructs the story of her ancestor, who emigrated to New York to work in domestic service. It destroyed me. And please read Woman of Winter, her retelling of the Hag of Beara. Edward Said’s reissued The Question of Palestine, a vital, seminal work, has never been more relevant.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PGERFSRVSFCFFDKLR6K7ZS2QQU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732534636980},"type":"list"},{"_id":"4STBFOJT2NFBLHENBCUHWAWPTA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057454},"content":"Michael Cronin","type":"header"},{"_id":"GDVA45Y5MZG2HBZ4Z3IMLMBNPQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732272055229},"content":"Phyllis Gaffney’s remarkable new book, Foreign Tongues: Victorian Language Learning and the Shaping of Modern Ireland, gives an account of the visionary women and men who laid the foundations for modern language learning in Ireland. This is a story that had never before been told. A scrupulously researched, compellingly written history of the institutional emergence of modern languages in Irish life, it fills a momentous gap in our knowledge of the languages that have shaped the fortunes of Irish society and culture in the 20th century and beyond.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DQEDWKRWQBFJ7ME4SSYEOW2NUU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732272055230},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Martin Doyle"}},"name":"Martin Doyle"}]},"description":{"basic":"Books by Ferdia Lennon, Miranda July, Donal Ryan, Mary Costello, Alan Hollinghurst, Christine Dwyer Hickey and Sally Rooney feature prominently in this trawl of the year’s best titles"},"display_date":"2024-11-30T05:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"The Irish Times best books of 2024: Anne Enright, John Boyne, Joseph O’Connor, Mia Levitin and more reveal their favourites","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"JCIQP7WOUZF3JFXVVNXOEKNDHM","auth":{"1":"db63580194dcb9685252251710cb7292e48ccc8d30ffa0df638fa285894e06f3"},"focal_point":{"x":629,"y":353},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/JCIQP7WOUZF3JFXVVNXOEKNDHM.png"}},"subtype":"showcase","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Books"},{"name":"Culture"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/culture/books/2024/11/30/the-irish-times-best-books-of-2024-anne-enright-john-boyne-joseph-oconnor-mia-levitin-and-more-reveal-their-favourites/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/culture/books","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Books"}}}},{"_id":"YEV3T63F3FHXVHWKUMPDABES5E","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":466,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/5469/podcasts/a139deb8-15bd-4614-83b2-7652236fb032/versions/1732292247/media/865eb3c3f48ca98f08e157f0c28db7ff_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/culture/2024/11/30/the-guide-fontaines-dc-culture-club-and-other-events-to-see-shows-to-book-and-ones-to-catch-before-they-end/","content_elements":[{"_id":"Q324RQKVBBD2HHPSKTMJ5TSARQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732267734881},"content":"Event of the week","type":"header"},{"_id":"PMVQVWGTFJET3M7MIDBOPJSRPI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732267734882},"content":"Fontaines DC","type":"header"},{"_id":"UV3M6TDJVVEELAR2SSZTEPYKNM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732267734883},"content":"Friday, December 6th, and Saturday, December 7th, 3Arena, Dublin, 6.30pm, €40.20 (sold out), <a href=\"http://ticketmaster.ie/\" target=\"_blank\">ticketmaster.ie</a>","type":"header"},{"_id":"X7S257RUCBBVTJOE7UWKWDLWIQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732267734884},"content":"What a year, what a decade. When Fontaines DC formed, in 2014, they had ambition but no certainty that it would come to anything. The past five years have changed everything: their four albums have invaded Europe and their live shows have continually showcased the strength of their musicianship and creative character. This year, in particular, is a tipping point for the band, as their fourth album, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/review/2024/08/15/fontaines-dc-romance-incredibly-compelling-indie-rock-that-takes-the-dublin-band-to-the-next-level/\" target=\"_blank\">Romance</a>, proved beyond any reasonable doubt that trying to pigeonhole them is pointless. These sold-out gigs – a homecoming by any other name – position them perfectly for increased success in 2025. Already announced are shows in Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico and Canada, as well as a US tour, dates at European festivals, sold-out open-air gigs in Britain and their recently revealed headline show at the All Together Now festival, in Co Waterford. There’s no stopping them now, is there?","type":"text"},{"_id":"B3ZPGNNRAJA7HPGF7FDJ6UD2LM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732267734885},"content":"Gigs","type":"header"},{"_id":"RMNEPH3YMJEZZOYFB76AEPQPLM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732267734886},"content":"Sam Fender","type":"header"},{"_id":"B5TBIKKSXFHVHGDQV5CL5ZUBK4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732267734887},"content":"Monday, December 2nd, 3Arena, Dublin, 6.30pm, €67.70/€56.85, <a href=\"http://ticketmaster.ie/\" target=\"_blank\">ticketmaster.ie</a>","type":"header"},{"_id":"LKXEL6RE3FEUNLLE7ZUYTXSWUA","additional_properties":{"_id":"5H5P4XUMO5DCHMMTVARD74SQGE"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"QSKTNDFJTBEKJFWVFTTKW5ZC2U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732267734888},"content":"Taking a leaf or two out of Bruce Springsteen’s heartland-rock playbook, the English singer and songwriter Sam Fender fuses his Tyneside background with a stirring, traditional rock-pop sensibility. His no-nonsense approach was formed by an unstable upbringing and teenage years playing open-mic nights at local pubs. Over the past six years his life has changed significantly, from signing to a major label, in 2018, to being ranked, in 2022, as one of the UK’s youngest music millionaires. Fender will be performing songs from Hypersonic Missiles, his debut album, from 2019, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/sam-fender-seventeen-going-under-review-song-topics-relatable-if-typical-1.4690774\" target=\"_blank\">Seventeen Going Under</a>, from 2021, and his forthcoming third album, People Watching.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IMIRFWOA4ZAHHI3NLFMRO6FQQU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732267734889},"content":"Culture Club","type":"header"},{"_id":"PEYHWA6HYVG63LXP3OTRCMI7ZE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732267734890},"content":"Tuesday, December 3rd, 3Arena, Dublin, 6.30pm, €51.20, <a href=\"http://ticketmaster.ie/\" target=\"_blank\">ticketmaster.ie</a>","type":"header"},{"_id":"ZIG3UCRYW5BY5MHMYVBCUSA4RY","additional_properties":{"_id":"AA6WJRHBSJC7FIMSWCW65O7EGQ"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"HYMHJCNELRDEVJ5GXG5AKTGUCA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732267734891},"content":"You forget how huge Culture Club were in their 1980s heyday. After topping the charts with songs such as Do You Really Want to Hurt Me, Time (Clock of the Heart), Church of the Poison Mind and Karma Chameleon, the group eventually fragmented. Over the past decade, however, the band (still fronted Boy George, aka the second-generation-Irish singer George O’Dowd) have resurfaced, proving there’s life in the old dogs yet. Expect the hits to be presented in as colourful a fashion as you could hope for. Nostalgia fans should get there early – the support acts include the former Spandau Ballet singer Tony Hadley and the synth-pop act Heaven 17.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GRCPFK7ALVCQRHNEEXWCWHX2QQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732267734892},"content":"HamsandwicH","type":"header"},{"_id":"R7RM56MSL5ADTKX7ZGCTWKYZ3E","additional_properties":{"_id":1732267734893},"content":"From Thursday, December 5th, until Saturday, December 7th, Whelan’s, Dublin, 8pm, €30, <a href=\"http://whelanslive.com/\" target=\"_blank\">whelanslive.com</a>","type":"header"},{"_id":"MRLKXRKAG5ATNJWJNJIZL4ITVI","additional_properties":{"_id":"AKIHPGZI5RFHDON6S3HRV3ZDTA"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"F27FQADNN5ALLGWWFM37CTRJ6Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1732267734894},"content":"A neat idea from an excellent Irish band: take three albums from your back catalogue and play each of them in their entirety across three nights. HamsandwicH perform Carry the Meek, their 2008 debut (Thursday, December 5th), White Fox, their 2010 follow-up (Friday, December 6th), and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/hamsandwich-stories-from-the-surface-album-review-1.2178216\" target=\"_blank\">Stories from the Surface</a>, from 2015 (Saturday, December 7th). The last of these, incidentally, was the first independently released album by an unsigned band to debut at the top of Ireland’s official album chart. Vinyl copies of the band’s Live Album will be on sale exclusively at these shows.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YQZWJBDN7BFVROP6O53XQ6Z7EQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732267734895},"content":"Photography","type":"header"},{"_id":"5PZ2L5QWQRERLAMH6BUCCVZVLM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732267734896},"content":"Skin/Deep: Perspectives on the Body","type":"header"},{"_id":"WTY2INPF3JE2RCPSXTDQ6BYXU4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732267734897},"content":"Until Saturday, February 8th, Photo Museum Ireland, Dublin, free, <a href=\"http://photomuseumireland.ie/\" target=\"_blank\">photomuseumireland.ie</a>","type":"header"},{"_id":"BKVKDXDJXVAFFPC5QHH3CNQBYY","additional_properties":{"_id":"EJAWFA7WWBGF5CMXMIFGUZOBQM"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"GUNXHUW6UZEIJJNSJFT472EJOM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732267734898},"content":"Through their work in photography and other lens-based media, nine established artists investigate the challenging connections between identity, gender, sexuality, social expectations and “existing ideas about what the body is or can be”. The exhibition also presents the artists’ work as an outline of contemporary photographic methods and the way technology (via social media and apps) has changed how we view dissimilar bodily experiences. The artists include Shia Conlon, Jane Cummins, Pradeep Mahadeshwar, Pauline Rowan, Brian Teeling and Nazli Yildirim.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GLNPNDKPGZCYFKKADS6EIM26JQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732267734899},"content":"Musical","type":"header"},{"_id":"UBWPSYDALFFMJIXXDCKLPPPZAI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732267734900},"content":"The Giggler Treatment","type":"header"},{"_id":"BEPSSBOGHRCPBIOD4B3ZX6EICM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732267734901},"content":"From Sunday, December 1st, until Sunday, January 12th, Ark, Dublin, various times, €17.50/€12.50, <a href=\"http://ark.ie/\" target=\"_blank\">ark.ie</a>","type":"header"},{"_id":"R6WD45IJ3FC4PDY7GWD66DZBB4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732267734902},"content":"A return for Roddy Doyle’s novel The Giggler Treatment (adapted and with songs by Fionn Foley) ensures kids and their parents/minders will be entertained during the festive season. The “giggler treatment”, as you ask, is what happens to adults when they’re unkind to children, and it takes the texture of something that smells and sticks to shoes when walked upon. You have been advised. Sophie Motley directs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"H2NLDXOXOFBTFBNE554XAEYPQY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732267734903},"content":"Stage","type":"header"},{"_id":"2R2VC7WU4BH5XJQJB2JP4OWPXM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732267734904},"content":"A Streetcar Named Desire","type":"header"},{"_id":"QD3H3YLZUJC67PC6SKMY4VVQLM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732267734905},"content":"From Thursday, December 5th, until Saturday, December 21st, Smock Alley Theatre, 7pm, €26/€23, <a href=\"http://smockalley.com/\" target=\"_blank\">smockalley.com</a>","type":"header"},{"_id":"4O625MPQZ5HLTINDKFMPYXFWNQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"SNOA7KG6R5DFTDM3GURVKVLJG4"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"ZQWAYLPFYVCO3KX2EXYVFM66WQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732267734906},"content":"A thought-provoking choice for a seasonal production it may be, but there’s no doubting the quality on offer here as Cathal Cleary directs Tennessee Williams’s 1947 play about human frailty, misogyny, sexual violence and mental illness. Eavan Gaffney (Blanche DuBois), Jack Meade (Stanley Kowalski) and Sade Malone (Stella Kowalski) feature. On selected evenings, Smock Alley will also be offering a preshow light-supper package.","type":"text"},{"_id":"W63D4CD6KJFD5HPC7HTFQI37BA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732267734907},"content":"Visual art","type":"header"},{"_id":"PSAYHJIUNJFWJOKHJT2NQV42VU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732267734908},"content":"Hamad Butt: Apprehensions","type":"header"},{"_id":"HA65ZSAZM5EA3AJPTB4NCGXV7Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732267734909},"content":"From Friday, December 6th, until May 5th, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, <a href=\"http://imma.ie/\" target=\"_blank\">imma.ie</a>","type":"header"},{"_id":"KVUQJPZKPZEZLGNVL7JOGXJCTE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732267734910},"content":"The British-Asian artist Hamad Butt (1962-94) was the first artist to respond to the HIV/Aids epidemic in an abstract, noncombative and erudite manner. This retrospective exhibition of his work – the first time his art will be presented outside the UK – will feature sculptural installations, drawings, paintings and writings. On Thursday, December 5th, an Imma Talks event (5pm, free, booking required) will include a keynote talk by guest curator Dominic Johnson, professor of performance and visual culture at Queen Mary University of London.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2CDK3FIAE5FSFKOI62YJWVEXZ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732267734911},"content":"Still running","type":"header"},{"_id":"5A47RUOZC5D45APJ4W7ZSNJAAA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732267734912},"content":"James Vincent McMorrow","type":"header"},{"_id":"4723OWK5SJCRZNCD7RAGDWZHE4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732267734913},"content":"Saturday, November 30th, INEC Club, Killarney, Co Kerry, 7.30pm, €39.20; Monday, December 2nd, Vicar Street, Dublin, 7.30pm, €39.20; Thursday, December 5th, Black Box, Galway 7.30pm, €36; Friday, December 7th, and Saturday, December 8th, Set Theatre, Kilkenny, 7.30pm, €37.50; <a href=\"http://ticketmaster.ie/\" target=\"_blank\">ticketmaster.ie</a>","type":"header"},{"_id":"3LDZJZSHFBDPJF2KKE7MNASNTM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732267734914},"content":"One of Ireland’s finest songwriters embarks on a wintry trek across Ireland to plug his excellent seventh studio album, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/review/2024/06/06/james-vincent-mcmorrow-wide-open-horses-ripping-up-the-rulebook-for-another-great-musical-experiment/\" target=\"_blank\">Wide Open, Horses</a>. Expect vocals plucked from the heavens and songs to spirit-guide you into next year.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6D6IUBUKE5HCFDT25LDJN6IRVY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732267734915},"content":"Book it this week","type":"header"},{"_id":"ZRFWQFV3OZAB7CSLJSYMRCCC5M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732267734916},"content":"Eblana String Trio, NCH, Dublin, March 2nd, <a href=\"http://ticketmaster.ie/\">nch.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"YU2ZOS67FNFK7EFQTQUQ6YMHFI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732267734917},"content":"Spiritualized, National Stadium, Dublin, March 3rd, <a href=\"http://ticketmaster.ie/\">foggynotions.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"CAXOTSJ75JGIHGO7Z4FDBEBQKQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732267734918},"content":"Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake, Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, Dublin, May 20th-24th, <a href=\"http://ticketmaster.ie/\" target=\"_blank\">ticketmaster.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"SUPP4EFWEFD2PL447SEAXD43KA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732267734919},"content":"Olivia Rodrigo, Marlay Park, Dublin, June 24th, <a href=\"http://ticketmaster.ie/\">ticketmaster.ie</a>","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Tony Clayton-Lea"}},"name":"Tony Clayton-Lea"}]},"description":{"basic":"November 30th-December 6th: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week"},"display_date":"2024-11-30T05:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"The Guide: Fontaines DC, Culture Club and other events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"5469"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"YCFAO3ZZJFD6NPE4C6THHYSYDU","auth":{"1":"fe010e9894f898dd65bf6fea193bb9d0c37a604f775908f4b282edf8d90c7217"},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/YCFAO3ZZJFD6NPE4C6THHYSYDU.jpeg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Culture"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/culture/2024/11/30/the-guide-fontaines-dc-culture-club-and-other-events-to-see-shows-to-book-and-ones-to-catch-before-they-end/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/culture","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Culture"}}}},{"_id":"NB4AY6ZMFBFUFLLLFJF4YBR27A","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":499,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/4fc0da58-1aa8-43af-a763-c0d5e2dc6167/versions/1732206345/media/612863756d9e26ee5f74ed64b768eac9_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/culture/books/2024/11/30/georgi-gospodinov-the-past-is-not-a-good-place-to-live-in-and-the-dealers-of-the-past-roam-among-us/","content_elements":[{"_id":"LDJYDIMOTZB6TDHLZYSJVCYGI4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685285},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2023/05/23/booker-international-prize-georgi-gospodinovs-time-shelter-translated-from-bulgarian-by-angela-rodel-wins/\" target=\"_blank\">Winning </a>the International Booker Prize has brought your work to a much wider audience. How do you think the central messages of Time Shelter have been received and understood?","type":"header"},{"_id":"TNJKNOBF3ZFLJOZUVGKXDIJ7DQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685286},"content":"I think the messages have been heard, at least some of them – those related to turning the past into propaganda. The pandemic of the past, the deficit of future, the weaponisation of nostalgia and the loss of reflective memory are part of the world we live in today. And the readers I meet are concerned about this time warp.","type":"text"},{"_id":"H7CCBLEUPNHE3JGILWSRCYD5XU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685287},"content":"Since winning the International Booker, do you feel a responsibility to represent or promote Bulgarian literature more generally?","type":"header"},{"_id":"CA4JRG6B4ZDFZKH6POL4O3ILLA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685288},"content":"It happens naturally. My previous books, like Natural Novel and especially <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/03/03/fiction-in-translation-novels-from-bulgaria-japan-brazil-spain-and-a-franco-korean-author/\" target=\"_blank\">The Physics of Sorrow,</a> were also part of this path, and after the Booker the path became wider. And the next Bulgarian writers will have it a little easier. We are already seeing that.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XDFNUTPFBJFT5BBCPJEK7DQG6Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685289},"content":"In Time Shelter you highlight the dangers of mixing false nostalgia and politics – what prompted your concern?","type":"header"},{"_id":"BWDRSGYNNRDALBWND4LQCHJG54","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685290},"content":"Nostalgia is a normal human feeling, although it was once considered a disease, a diagnosis. I wouldn’t want anyone to use nostalgia as a bait, as a trap to bring whole societies back to the past. The past is not a good place to live in. It can only be visited briefly. And the dealers of the past roam among us.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6DYDVQYO4ZAI5LMPQ6WAAUBVMM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685291},"content":"In Time Shelter, each European country has a referendum to choose a decade in the past to which it will return. You decided that Ireland would choose 1990 – why?","type":"header"},{"_id":"CWOF6OXULVEN5HE35QT5IOSY5E","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685292},"content":"It is not easy to predict other countries’ nostalgias. But I have to say that nostalgia for the 1990s is one of the brightest on my scale.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QYFPOITN2JCEZMFH5P2HIQ3O7U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685293},"content":"Do you consider yourself a Bulgarian writer, a European writer, an experimental writer? 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This tradition of oral storytelling I think has influenced my writing as well.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EOPQUNLCWNGDDPRU7WWOUCIP7Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685297},"content":"You grew up in Yambol, not far from Turkey. What was it like?","type":"header"},{"_id":"A2K2MQDWD5GLPB43E3XGQC5NUE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685298},"content":"Warm, eastern parts with endlessly bleeding sunsets. All this experience is in my books, especially in my novel The Physics of Sorrow. It was a childhood during communism, far from the centre, with a subtle sense of abandonment.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZZSA5ER7IJC63CF7G4FOQ4HL5M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685299},"content":"The Physics of Sorrow explores the theme of abandonment – is that something you have ever felt personally?","type":"header"},{"_id":"A6WK6VQTZJDCXJ67DZOQRCL27Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685300},"content":"The children of my generation were somewhat left to their own devices. Our parents were young; they worked all day. We spent the afternoons alone at home, on the street, or with the grandparents in the village. Sometimes I felt like a minotaur in the dark room on the ground floor where we lived. But perhaps it was this loneliness that drove me to write.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PJVGDMGF75H63GSG6BTXU6LC44","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685301},"content":"In The Physics of Sorrow, you write sympathetically about the mythological minotaur – as a victim rather than a monster. Is it important to you as a writer to search for empathy with your characters?","type":"header"},{"_id":"HJOHQGKNH5G6LNQMXM53PR4EBE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685302},"content":"If one has empathy, one will always be able to see even in a monster like the Minotaur an abandoned child locked in a maze. We often tend to turn into monsters those whom we ourselves have hurt or traumatised.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZG4SPYCVQVGVXAQMWJDHJJRXRQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685303},"content":"You’ve also written poems, librettos, a graphic novel, screenplays. How have those other forms influenced you as a novelist?","type":"header"},{"_id":"YTKQ7VHGNBBPLOFTV5UFVGDOEM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685304},"content":"My experience with poetry remains most important to me. I think that it gives the most important lessons in writing – intensity of emotion and thought, lightning-fast connections between things, and courage approaching the secret core of things.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BFFKTEWDBJA4TFP6YLWXC3QYOI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685305},"content":"It is more than 30 years since the fall of the Soviet empire. How reintegrated do you think Bulgaria and the rest of the former Soviet bloc is in Europe?","type":"header"},{"_id":"HQCKUN53S5DV5JPAIPJOGUHXQ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685306},"content":"We have learned very slowly and very painfully that democracy is not a one-way road. It is not given for free once and for all, as we naively thought. The West also naively thought this way. It seems to me that all the countries in Europe now have a similar problem of integration to a very different time.","type":"text"},{"_id":"D7CGI6MNK5FNBHTVXMWFNPUMEA","additional_properties":{"_id":"SHQM5QIUNJHEBNK6B5CZQKBL5M"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"UVBEDBJFANEZVG7LND4JFGGVWY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685307},"content":"Have any Irish writers influenced you?","type":"header"},{"_id":"W7HH7PNVSBEKVCQATN6HUSXUYM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685308},"content":"Joyce, of course, is always the first one you get lost in. He’s a monster. I remember saying to myself, after wrestling with Ulysses, ‘So it’s possible to write like this, with so many meanders, corridors, canyons and erudition.’ My novels love the ramifications, too. I like Beckett, Colm Tóibín. You have great authors.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UQ7IUQHULRCPZM6N7EOAR3KWPA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685309},"content":"Which projects are you working on?","type":"header"},{"_id":"MZL6JYE3D5DDZJL7TMCGWKHWTI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685310},"content":"I finished a very special personal book, Death and the Gardener, which was recently published in Bulgarian. And I’m still slowly coming out of it.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4EPAV7EED5B3HJBUTFURZBE63E","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685311},"content":"Have you ever made a literary pilgrimage?","type":"header"},{"_id":"NZZSQR2TRFHLFGGHNAPWLRY42M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685312},"content":"Yes, to the grave of Joyce in Zurich, the one of Thomas Mann, of Borges in Geneva, to the Embankment of the Incurables in Venice because of Brodsky, Lisbon because of Pessoa, and so on. In fact, all my favourite cities were invented by favourite writers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GPY5S3G4KJHJXFG777ZWL7E6Z4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685313},"content":"What is the best writing advice you have heard?","type":"header"},{"_id":"IBQ4BRVTFVHTPNQ4QFF5CHQUL4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685314},"content":"When I started writing, I didn’t know any writers. Then it was too late for advice.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OM5XGVQRLRFGJIFRCVDMY7PBYU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685315},"content":"Who do you admire the most?","type":"header"},{"_id":"N2NRH7A44RD4VGQBKLQXHWCI5Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685316},"content":"Different authors through the years. I have stayed with Borges and all the poets the longest.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CUE4CVFTHBASRO25LHEFVJPKAM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685317},"content":"You are supreme ruler for a day. Which law do you pass or abolish?","type":"header"},{"_id":"TXEMUTVQMZAGZLCAS4VGGE55FM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685318},"content":"Do not harm.","type":"text"},{"_id":"37QRP4L4B5A3ZKU22BXSTKXTJI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685319},"content":"Which current book, film and podcast would you recommend?","type":"header"},{"_id":"QVUNKLGUDJD57KILQZX6TJXGHE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685320},"content":"I’m currently reading Benjamin Labatut’s Booker-nominated novel, When We Cease to Understand the World. I love books like that, which know how to make science into literature and generally push the boundaries.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TMHYG4TVEVA5RO2RFIDRMAVTMY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685321},"content":"Which public event affected you most?","type":"header"},{"_id":"NXK6GVCNANEY7GBKI3DV3RNTGQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685322},"content":"The wars today.","type":"text"},{"_id":"26WVYID6WJG4PIBDHAGJKHYI6A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685323},"content":"The most remarkable place you have visited?","type":"header"},{"_id":"FOYTQDYO4BBKDFAHNREL2I7BN4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685324},"content":"Iceland.","type":"text"},{"_id":"774LISCICVGY7A376BN5LMQOFY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685325},"content":"Your most treasured possession?","type":"header"},{"_id":"WGTAMBZ7BNBIRB7YSSDJMOHGKA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685326},"content":"My daughter’s drawings in my notebooks.","type":"text"},{"_id":"R3OAP2NSMJFIRE3SA7NIEIOAF4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685327},"content":"What is the most beautiful book that you own?","type":"header"},{"_id":"NVTAEL7ZXJHPBC7L2GB2AS3PR4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685328},"content":"Some old children’s books from my time and a botany atlas.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VOWDMKANJVGJJH44TWFXLDFPEA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685329},"content":"Which writers, living or dead, would you invite to your dream dinner party?","type":"header"},{"_id":"GRSQGQ337BBW7NYOTAF5JEKOJM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685330},"content":"I guess my favourite writers would be silent and bored at parties like this. 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The day saw €4.3 million spent every hour, €73,000 every minute or €1,200 every second, with the busiest hours for spend between 10am and 11am and over 57,000 transactions in that hour.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CZWC6EAPMFGHDOGMKEM232YFVM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732815932592},"content":"Many estimates point to this year being even busier which means that in the time it takes you to read this sentence, Irish consumers will have spent just over €20,000.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MWWLP24TBBFAPHTEIL2BIKWA5E","additional_properties":{"_id":1732815932593},"content":"The good news is that consumers have far more rights when it comes to shopping online than they do when shopping in person.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BTRTH7T2UJGWRJ5Z6TSL7UGWC4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732815932594},"content":"They can return products for any reason whatsoever, a right people do not have if they spend their money in physical stores although the online shoppers do have to post the products back and sometimes incur costs when they do so.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TFNDVAUYFBHOZEPMMHFGBW2QKI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732815932595},"content":"That, as anyone who has ever had to do it, can be a real hassle. 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It is not so grand if you are not at home.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EIOI2XN6GBFNRMN7OJLOB77HZI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732815932599},"content":"In the recent past we have documented how enthusiastic dogs have wolfed down clothes left in gardens and highlighted expensive technology in “steal me” boxes being left on the street for all the world to see.","type":"text"},{"_id":"E5QNW7XE7JGQLKC6FIIHWVDRRU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732815932600},"content":"Books, art and other gifts have been left by delivery drivers in wheelie bins – to keep them dry – which is all well and good unless the recipient does not know it has happened, and they leave the bins – with the deliveries – out for collection.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PSLZZELPSZEQJKJVH4BATZFZPU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732815932601},"content":"We have heard from many readers over many months who have seen parcels go missing. They do, however, at least have some redress.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3BMU4NZAWFEDTOJUZBJGXVESRA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732815932602},"content":"Ultimately, a shopper’s contract is with the retailer and if they pay for a product that does not arrive or is destroyed by weather or eaten by a dog after being left outside, the consumer has the right to a replacement or a refund. The retailer can then pursue the delivery company.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AWLQT63HRFH3HD66EHRI74G26Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1732879150551},"content":"Surprise taxes and charges","type":"header"},{"_id":"FHALSWF37JDBNNKPXUNTG74HXA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732815932603},"content":"But the odd delivery issue aside, there will be other things online shoppers will have to contend with that can be equally, if not more, problematic.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6AFQBEH63RBK7FHATEOTG2IWGE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732815932604},"content":"Surprise taxes and charges are up there with the worst of them.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NT4Q6BZKHZCYTIO6N7QWOWHS3I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732815932605},"content":"Many websites attractive to Irish consumers are based in Britain and once it left the EU, a whole new tax regime kicked in as our friend across the Irish Sea became known as a third country which, in tax terms, puts it on a par with China, South Africa and Argentina.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZDTUXXJHAVBXZOAVF4XMVMZFCQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732815932606},"content":"By now, the majority of larger British-based companies take tax changes into account in the price Irish shoppers pay at the checkout online.","type":"text"},{"_id":"A7EIRWGV7ZDBJCYCEJW3HCVL2M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732815932607},"content":"Smaller operators, however, might not be as tax efficient and that is leading to some hefty pre-delivery tax demands.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PADMQWW5EFB7FIQ32XT2S2L5QU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732815932608},"content":"Irish VAT applies to goods from third country retailers if it costs more than €22. Customs fees apply to purchases of more than €150. There is also an administrative fee charged by delivery companies, with all the additions often taking the gloss off overseas purchases.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5PTEU3XW7ZGMBJTXGUB2USRJGQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732815932609},"content":"It is worth noting that the €150 threshold, under which items can be bought duty free, could soon be abolished as the EU is keen to impose customs duties on cheap goods bought from Chinese online retailers including Temu and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/shein/\">Shein</a> in an effort to stem a surge in what the EU sees as unfair competition.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UTOUHPFTXNG7DOBA4AJAJOXDVY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732815932610},"content":"Last year 2.3 billion items below the duty-free €150 threshold were imported into the EU, according to the commission.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AKGXFV5XFZDA5JDFCEXT4KIMOQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732815932611},"content":"There is also likely to be some confusion caused by companies based in other countries using websites with .ie domains.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZOCUIQJFOBFX5PRGMSNHZHSXPM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732815932612},"content":"Up to 10 per cent of the .ie domains are registered to an overseas owner, with businesses based in Britain being the most likely to seek such an address.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MWK3RLABYNHR7JOWAFY74KMFMQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732815932613},"content":"And then there are scams. One fairly new one to watch out for – one that is linked to the .ie issue we have just mentioned – sees ads for websites promising heavily discounted clothes and accessories popping up on people’s social media feeds.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ULF33J5QLFAA5EBKGIJLKZL5QA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732815932614},"content":"The ads take users to websites which look like they are Irish retailers, JohnnysJeansGalway.ie, for example (we checked and there is no such site but if you are called Johnny and you are selling jeans in Galway, we can only apologise).","type":"text"},{"_id":"GLDHTZJ5WNCL5LFHPZU3RFW3SU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732815932615},"content":"These sites make all sorts of promises about sales and the like but the products – if they arrive at all – will not be what the shopper thought they were going to be and they will have come from far, far away leaving the customer with virtually no right to redress.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LD6VFHKO2RHU5L2EPW5GXAE5DM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732815932616},"content":"Then, of course, there will be the waves of spam calls and texts claiming that people have charges due to <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/an-post\" target=\"_blank\">An Post</a>, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/ups\" target=\"_blank\">UPS</a>, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/dhl\" target=\"_blank\">DHL</a> or the likes to free up delivery of a parcel.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BT2NCEAIHNBWNBBCDIDEPDZ4MA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732815932617},"content":"All of this does not mean online is bad – it is great but people need to shop carefully and be aware of the consequences of their spending decisions now and in the future. And, as ever, it is always a good idea to shop local.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3CFGVRZ4GFBYPD7Y5HRUPJ6QQQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732815932618},"content":"According to a report from Guaranteed Irish, every €20 spent with an Irish company is worth €30 to the local economy. If the money is spent with a giant multinational based in Swindon or Shanghai, it is just hoovered out of the country never to be seen again.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YLKU5OFOMNG55EERTBTRRJBTMA","additional_properties":{"_id":"P2A6BHNBIRDJPHUVTHXQXZM7TM"},"content":"<i>You can contact us at </i><a href=\"mailto:OnTheMoney@irishtimes.com\"><i>OnTheMoney@irishtimes.com</i></a><i> with personal finance questions you would like to see us address. If you missed last week’s newsletter on the financial supports available for carers, you can read it </i><a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/your-money/2024/11/22/a-helping-hand-with-the-cost-of-caring-what-supports-are-available/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>here</i></a><i>.</i>","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Conor Pope"}},"name":"Conor Pope"}]},"description":{"basic":"Occasional delivery issues aside, there will be other things online shoppers will have to contend with that can be equally, if not more, problematic, such as taxes"},"display_date":"2024-11-29T11:15:42.015Z","headlines":{"basic":"From surprise charges to new scams: The perils of Christmas online shopping","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"},"basic":{"display":true,"text":"On The Money Newsletter"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"YKJSW2TJCRDTHPGRNJ2LNFTI5Q","auth":{"1":"fde536acc110e990d5f793eeef81804f537c0ae2c7fe11eac033f02698f4b5e4"},"focal_point":{"x":2091,"y":1342},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/YKJSW2TJCRDTHPGRNJ2LNFTI5Q.jpg"}},"subtype":"editors-note","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Your Money"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/your-money/2024/11/29/christmas-shopping-online-the-perils-and-the-benefits/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/your-money","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Your Money"}}}},{"_id":"JT2D3XAVI5FPTPPDJCTV2LV2H4","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":233,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/bd204b89-7ff3-46f9-b6d7-8e078e6fec8c/versions/1732814092/media/dbe70b18d6c0a7d1894dd7aec9f38686_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/your-money/2024/11/29/why-some-retailers-wont-be-taking-part-in-black-friday-and-cyber-monday-sales/","content_elements":[{"_id":"EKB2ZYWG2VGUFK4GKXETKX54BI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732804304225},"content":"While more than 30 per cent of Irish consumers will look to take advantage of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/black-friday/\" target=\"_blank\">Black Friday</a> discounts this weekend, some shoppers, retailers and lobby groups are turning away from the sales window over concerns about its impact on their margins and the planet.","type":"text"},{"_id":"A4DP5QPKKFFQJNEC7YKQD4BI7M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732804304226},"content":"According to recent research for the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/competition-and-consumer-protection-commission-ccpc/\" target=\"_blank\">Competition and Consumer Protection Commission</a> (CCPC), <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2024/11/22/irish-shoppers-losing-interest-and-trust-in-black-friday-sales/\" target=\"_blank\">interest in Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales shopping has dropped significantly</a> when compared with last year, with only 36 per cent of those surveyed expecting to shop in the sales compared to 45 per cent last year.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3E5O3OYUABCL7IM7E5TG7B63H4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732804304227},"content":"Despite the fall-off in interest among some shoppers, those who do go out in search of bargains are likely to spend more than ever, with the average expected spend up to €431 compared to €343 in 2023.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZNK6W37OHVDV7NWUK2BDNC3MOU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732804304228},"content":"People won’t be spending any of their Black Friday money in Fresh Cuts, a small independent clothes retailer in Dublin city centre, however.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GPOY2HKMC5CBNKXLXRWQFFOBNY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732804304229},"content":"The shop is owned by Steven Murphy and he has refused to embrace the sales period which was imported from the United States less than 10 years ago.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OSWK5VBHLFFNPMNZL5OAS6SDVU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732804304230},"content":"“We’ve never bought into it, and instead of having a Black Friday sale we have a Give Back Friday,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"64ABY6U5INGE3HGIW2COYJRB5Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1732804304231},"content":"That will see Fresh Cuts work with a charity, with “every order we get from Friday to Cyber Monday equalling a care package for a child in hospital”, he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"W5B6KWD5DBEBJLP7KWHZZTE4XY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732804304232},"content":"Murphy said there were multiple reasons why his shop would not be taking part. “Giving discounts just before Christmas does put pressure on shops,” he said. “There is a huge amount of pressure on us and we have been getting emails and DMs [direct messages] on Instagram for the last week-and-a-half from people asking what our Black Friday Deals are. When we explain what we’re doing, people understand and buy into that.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"IXQG6UGLVBC7BJ4K4OKID6UZWE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732804304233},"content":"That is not the only way Black Friday impacts on his business, however, and he has noticed a fall-off in sales in the run-up to the date as shoppers hold off on spending “because they think that there’s going to be these big deals”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q5LSEA3FF5GGJMLI7YG7Y7YUQQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"BBUDIOKTU5F2TP4MJEMW2W44JI"},"content":"Black Friday is nothing more than Bleak Friday when it comes to environment","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"K2ZDIGWCX5EFHIFIVT7SQZGTDA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732804304234},"content":"He is sceptical about many deals offered by other retailers. “We don’t have huge amount of stock as we’re a small brand, but a lot or retailers are just clearing old stock,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TO4LKJSGMNHMFAWFY5DRRMRBLU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732804304235},"content":"He said that many “big brands hold on to dead stock and then launch Black Friday 70 per cent off sales, but they are selling stock that might have been sitting in their warehouses for two years and they weren’t able to sell anyway”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2P37BZRSZZBC3B2ONDSTW2SAZE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732804304236},"content":"Apart from the economics of it, he said there were concerns from a sustainability perspective. “There is the whole extravagance behind it, with people buying stuff they don’t need.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"QORIWVHKCFDCFEBEQL7FZQW4KQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732804304238},"content":"His concerns were echoed by the chief executive of the Guaranteed Irish label, Brid O’Connell, who questioned the sustainability of many Black Friday sales.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YKMA4G2K65BXZHLT3G5MAFFVBY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732804304239},"content":"“When Black Friday started here it seemed like a great idea, but I think it has got jaded and people have got tired of it,” she said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y4HQXY7TFJHC7JGY6QAVEMUSKY","additional_properties":{"_id":"GQ2XGNFGZNDNPGS56RBVZSLKTA"},"content":"Shoppers urged to be fraud aware as Black Friday spending surge looms","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"GCXCQMU4QNGVTJPCPQVPMCV64Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732804304240},"content":"“There are retailers who see it as an opportunity to shift old stock, but consumers see through that.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"MB6GDQDPTZGOPEMGB5NANDG36A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732804304241},"content":"She said Guaranteed Irish did not encourage members to get involved in the sale, but “if they want to do it well and good, that’s their business but it’s not something we make a play on because there’s literally no sustainability behind it”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OA7QUQJBGRAAXOSKGKKDNYC3MM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732804304242},"content":"Whatever about the sale period, she said in the run-up to Christmas it was “vital to celebrate and support the incredible work of Irish businesses. 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also pointed to very low levels of consumer trust in discounts, with less than a third of consumers believing the discounts displayed by businesses were genuine.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AXA7DIFVXJGKTOLB7VPSWCV3I4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732799688803},"content":"The clear lack of trust comes despite strong legal requirements on businesses when displaying discounts.","type":"text"},{"_id":"E64VRNFDUNBLVBYQU7MU4ZZB4A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732799688804},"content":"Sale prices must be genuine and clearly show the consumer the previous price, while references to “recommended retail price[s]” cannot be used to mislead consumers into thinking that a product has been discounted by more than it has.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7UFQMYK5QJHY7DYO5IEKMTBV3Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732799688805},"content":"“The CCPC carried out a large number of sales pricing inspections [last year] looking at both online and in-store pricing,” said CCPC chairman Brian 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Those traders are now being prosecuted by the CCPC, with the first wave of cases due before the courts in January.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"5IQGVJLN3BAA5MRVNZJL7UL3OM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732799688807},"content":"Misleading sale discounts harm consumers and harm competition, he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OLK3TACWINFVVI6U4T4ZBNK23M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732799688808},"content":"“Businesses need to able to compete for consumers openly and honestly on price,” he continued and called on consumers and business owners to report “any suspected fake discounts or misleading pricing” to the commission.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BRGUY5PUD5EY5KWWUOLVYGVQEA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732799688809},"content":"He said consumer-protection officers would be carrying out inspections across Ireland and online and assessing the discounts on offer to consumers “to ensure they are genuine. The CCPC is committed to ensuring compliance with the pricing regulations and to using its powers in the event of non-compliance.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"YCDY6C2IB5FUNMX3YVDX7FFP3I","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Conor Pope"}},"name":"Conor Pope"}]},"description":{"basic":"Shoppers are being deliberately misled, says consumer watchdog which has launched legal proceedings against a number of outlets"},"display_date":"2024-11-29T00:15:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Retailers taken to court over ‘fake discounts’ as Black Friday starts Christmas sales season","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"42LSWQTKDDCIOB6TGE7LTA37QY","auth":{"1":"c540ea40135e5770ea4a9055fb52a098ab575c1d265d32bb8ab2203148843797"},"focal_point":{"x":4758,"y":901},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/42LSWQTKDDCIOB6TGE7LTA37QY.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Your Money"},{"name":"Crime & Law"},{"name":"Courts"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/your-money/2024/11/29/retailers-taken-to-court-over-fake-discounts-as-black-friday-starts-christmas-sales-season/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/your-money","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Your Money"}}}},{"_id":"BR5PDGQI2BA7DLATDXDE5QNT6I","additional_properties":{},"canonical_url":"/your-money/2024/11/28/if-our-finances-go-flat-how-will-ireland-pay-its-bills/","content_elements":[{"_id":"SFXVYNQ3SZE7FBIEFAE5GEXNME","additional_properties":{"_id":1732726932387},"content":"How much financial leeway does Ireland have if the public finances take a turn for the worse, most likely due to a fall-off in corporate tax revenue? Let’s have a look at what resources Ireland has and how they could be deployed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BAI6UZTL4FGBDMZAANPQ3G2U2M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732726932388},"content":"1.<b> Cash in the bank</b>:","type":"text"},{"_id":"HY5YLVU3RBAOHBPHLLT6KWOBCI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732791118028},"content":"The clearest source of short-term support if tax revenues were to fall off is the cash held by the National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA)<a href=\"https://www.ntma.ie/business-areas/funding-and-debt-management/investor-relations\" target=\"_blank\">. In its latest update to investors</a>, it said its cash balances would amount to €30 billion by the end of the year.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NCDR5X5DAFGXLNRH5KBSSYLLCI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732796993871},"content":"These balances have built up over the last few years as the public finances have been in surplus and cash left over at the end of the year is held by the NTMA. As a result, it has not had to engage in major additional borrowing, raising just €6 billion on the market this year and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2024/11/28/ntma-to-raise-as-little-as-6bn-next-year-amid-strong-surplus-forecast/\" target=\"_blank\">indicating it may not have to raise much more next year</a>. Given the late surge in tax revenues this year, helped by the first part of the Apple windfall, it is likely the final balances at the end of the year will be well above €30 billion and possibly closer to €35 billion.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XG2SXW6GJNHJFILDVPJT6PIJYM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732728431087},"content":"How important is it? This huge wedge of cash is Ireland’s first defence in case of trouble. It could, for example, be enough to refinance the next two years of maturing loans carried in the national debt. Of course, if exchequer finances went into deficit the amount which would need to be borrowed would increase.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3O2OYDR5EZEERORC43DKPI45EQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732786167261},"content":"The Department of Finance has forecast budget surpluses over the term of the next government, though the plans put forward by the parties to spend more and tax less would reduce these. What are the risks?","type":"text"},{"_id":"IFTMC2YDFJGBXE4JZG2RLAPKPI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732791118031},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/3013b-medium-term-fiscal-and-structural-plan/\" target=\"_blank\">A recent department report </a>modelled two scenarios. In the first – a standstill in corporate tax revenues – budget surpluses under the EU borrowing measure would fall and the cash position of the exchequer would tighten. In the second – a return to pre-pandemic levels of corporate tax (more than a halving of current revenue) – government finances would be in trouble and in significant deficit. The cash pile could protect Ireland through a couple of difficult years, though if there was a structural change, such as the second scenario, in the public finances it would have to be addressed sooner rather than later via higher taxes or lower spending.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MSYA42VOMFD5VGE4JZRG4QLWCE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732784851202},"content":"2. <b>The two funds</b>:","type":"text"},{"_id":"RZBNFP4GNZAWHBWAMSYQKDHS7E","additional_properties":{"_id":1732791118033},"content":"Two funds<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2024/04/08/two-funds-to-ensure-the-continuing-resilience-of-irelands-public-finances/\" target=\"_blank\"> were established by the Government this year </a>to save for the future in various forms. The Future Ireland Fund is a long-term savings vehicle due to help meet the additional costs likely to hit the exchequer from areas like an ageing population after 2040. The Infrastructure, Climate and Nature (ICN) Fund is designed to help to maintain investment in infrastructure from 2026 on should tax revenue take a hit, and also support climate-related investment. Under legislation, 0.8 per cent of GDP – just over €4 billion this year – must be paid each year into the Future Ireland Fund up to 2035 as well as €2 billion a year into the ICN fund.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YVLSJAQZ2VGN3M5YCGJOINZOPE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732786167264},"content":"There is now €10 billion in these funds (€8 billion of which is in the Future Ireland Fund) and this will grow to €16 billion by the end of next year, if the amounts mandated in legislation are again paid in.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CPSF5OIJVNH4PLWMQNW7MBPCDQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732791118035},"content":"So what leeway does these give Ireland? First, the contribution to the two funds can, under legislation, be halved in the face of an economic downturn or stopped completely if the downturn is severe. This would free up cash to be used elsewhere.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QCKEAOYDUFDI7DILDVX5TZK7XM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732787824026},"content":"But could the next government actually get hold of the cash in the funds? Under the legislation, the money in the Future Ireland Fund could not be touched until 2041. However the cash in the ICN could be accessed. This is due to reach €4 billion by the end of next year and potentially in any year from 2026 to 2030, up to 47.5 per cent of the assets of the fund can be drawn down. Clearly there would be more to draw down later in the period as the fund builds up.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3ETUDQZAXJG2TMZDDFSRGMIPQM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732787824027},"content":"And, of course, it would be open to any new government to repeal the legislation and raid the funds, as happened during the financial crisis in relation to the National Pension Reserve Fund. The investments could then be sold and the money released to the exchequer.","type":"text"},{"_id":"E3PV5GLEJZCYBIYKXQ34ZZZIIA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732787824028},"content":"3. <b>Other money</b>:","type":"text"},{"_id":"4GG3R5X3BRFUPCY4ZUAOYEVARE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732787824029},"content":"<a href=\"https://isif.ie/publications\" target=\"_blank\">The Irish Strategic Investment Fund (ISIF)</a>, part of the NTMA, holds €4.8 billion in a global investment portfolio which would largely be liquid, though a portion is already committed to State housing agencies. The State, through ISIF, also retains 22 per cent of the share in AIB, worth around €2.65 billion at the current price, which is being gradually sold down.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ABB42IHVSNDB3DPVQIU5COU7WI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732791118040},"content":"4. <b>The bottom line:</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"KM4QVKY5LJBXNMWRKDRXSGZGDA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732791118041},"content":"The current financial position of the Irish State is strong. The key point is simply that revenues are now in excess of spending. The State is not like a household – it can engage in ongoing borrowing once investors are confident they will be repaid. That said, the concern in relation to the concentration of Irish tax revenues and the uncertainties caused by the forthcoming Donald Trump presidency carry the risk of longer-term structural upset to revenues.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QB63E2F73ZAXNPNKRJ5WE24X4M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732796993885},"content":"And remember that forecasters such as the Fiscal Council have indicated exchequer finances will come under pressure anyway due to the ageing population and the cost of climate change. At the moment, the dynamics of the Irish public finances are favourable – the debt burden is reducing and the State has spare financial capacity. This is the vital issue which investors watch.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OYWO47LNP5EA5M2RPOMJC4CDFE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732791118042},"content":"The huge cash pile, together with these other funds and investments, gives Ireland potentially valuable room for manoeuvre if there is a hit to tax revenue. The NTMA has also pushed out the maturity date of Irish debt so the burden in the next few years is relatively low in terms of debt having to be refinanced. None of these are long-term solutions if tax revenue numbers are no longer keeping pace with spending growth, but they are valuable and substantial buffers, adding up to close to €50 billion.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Cliff Taylor"}},"name":"Cliff Taylor"}]},"description":{"basic":"Ireland’s tax take has been soaring, but if revenues from big multinationals fall off it is important to know what leeway is there to help take the hit"},"display_date":"2024-11-28T11:55:53.22Z","headlines":{"basic":"If our finances go flat, how will Ireland pay its bills? 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For the most part the recipes in this column will dive straight in to standard favourites, so expect plenty of comfort and rich flavours in the weeks ahead. But that’s in the future. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"SMHXD2GE3VCVLJFNQ3ED6DLXGY","additional_properties":{},"content":"This week I thought I would put us through some “pre-season” recipes – heavy on flavour without weighing you down. The winter season throws up a range of ingredients that make for beautiful salads and starter dishes. When it comes to writing menus, I’m thinking of roots and spices, fruit and fragrances: beetroot, pumpkin, kale, mushrooms, nutmeg, all spice, pear, plum, honey and so on; they’d warm you up thinking about them. What you might not see in them, however, are salads.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MRHUGGFSGREALBV5SV37YW3A2I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732017649507},"content":"This week I’m showcasing two types that are perfect for a midweek meal, lunch on the run or even as a Christmas starter or side. 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It may not be a combination you’ll see that often, but I think it works beautifully.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CHJOMWSL6VHOXN3XWFMRBWI3GY","additional_properties":{"_id":"FBN7YPS4ONG3PGEDZNHAS3MIVQ"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"ILUEMQPVTRA27GREGR5TS5SANU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732017649508},"content":"The second salad is based around freekeh, a grain derived from green wheat before it is dried and ground to flour. It’s then roasted to add to its flavour before cooking in stock. It’s origins can be found in cooking around the Mediterranean, particularly in North Africa and the Middle East and it lends itself to sponging up big flavours. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"BQQ2FTSQK5GG3ILD7HZWBPVAHA","additional_properties":{},"content":"I’ve served it here with chunks of pumpkin, pomegranate and a dressing made with clementine for that Christmas twist, toasted cumin works lovely with the citrus. 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Get the eating pants on.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VBQBY26WHNEFRK6P4WS6I7YSZY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732640226369},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/food/recipes/2024/11/30/mark-moriarty-beetroot-chorizo-and-pear-salad/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Recipe: Beetroot, chorizo and pear salad</b></a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"6ZFTXLBSFVDYVO4XJVELBWEKBU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732640226370},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/food/recipes/2024/11/30/freekeh-with-cumin-and-clementine/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Recipe: Freekeh with cumin and clementine</b></a>","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Mark Moriarty"}},"name":"Mark Moriarty"}]},"description":{"basic":"The winter season throws up a range of ingredients that make for beautiful salads and starter dishes"},"display_date":"2024-11-30T05:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Winter salads: heavy on flavour and light on the tummy ","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"7ZPNCJFCI5FX3NWPIOLCIN623Y","auth":{"1":"780ca6b3be0fbce30cfbd6faa60098b15665658333bde3b09b4615d5f0f8e29c"},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/7ZPNCJFCI5FX3NWPIOLCIN623Y.jpg"},"overline_logo":{"_id":"WKXWSSLLSFGY5ONFWQLDBQDP2U","auth":{"1":"5c8207e6a40fb22eb54a3ba3b3d4870b5311c4e11e2417497b4598e4e443637f"},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/WKXWSSLLSFGY5ONFWQLDBQDP2U.png"}},"subtype":"columnist","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Food"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/food/2024/11/30/winter-salads-heavy-on-flavour-and-light-on-the-tummy/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/food","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Food"}}}},{"_id":"RWRLYOAUDJHPXDF3X4REY3QSCU","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":171,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/5469/podcasts/81dba77c-558c-4af1-b391-86b47d5cdd36/versions/1732028580/media/9d950f844470d3aab4b9f92cdf66c21e_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/food/drink/2024/11/30/festive-fizz-for-every-budget-to-get-the-party-started/","content_elements":[{"_id":"TIAB7BNGBBFPDMY4XGPWXSUVX4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731598363398},"content":"A glass of fizz is a great way to kickstart the festivities at Christmas. 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Ostensibly, they aim to provide choices to citizens and a means of making comparisons between the various political party offerings. The reality is that they vary significantly in the information they provide, and are often a measure of a party’s available resources and sometimes their expertise. Some provide details of the cost of their proposals, others do not. Very often the figures quoted will be disputed. Despite their shortcomings, they provide a reasonable idea of the thinking within political parties on various topics and to that extent they are useful.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VBZIMB63PRECNPREQBLTFZABPU","additional_properties":{},"content":"To provide a comprehensive account of the various party documents (particularly those from the larger parties) is not the aim of this article. Rather, we offer an analysis of the stances taken by various groups on two of the most pressing issues affecting the education system: teacher supply and educational disadvantage. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"LNSUGNAFWNH7FCK36MRAHLEY7U","additional_properties":{},"content":"Both are complex and intractable issues which have been affecting the education system for some time and both have been identified by international bodies, including the OECD and the EU, as in need of urgent attention. The two issues intersect as, during a teacher supply crisis schools serving disadvantaged areas suffer the greatest impact.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZJ36DLZYPJFANMTAEEO7T6SYLI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Teacher supply","type":"header"},{"_id":"C6AOS67KDZAQVESRQP4JSKAMA4","additional_properties":{},"content":"An issue we have written about <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/education/2023/06/13/teacher-shortages-are-jeopardising-childrens-education-where-are-the-urgent-solutions/\" target=\"_blank\">at length</a> over the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/education/2022/11/25/too-many-young-people-are-being-taught-by-unqualified-personnel/\" target=\"_blank\">past five years,</a> including in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/our-teacher-supply-problem-isn-t-new-it-s-been-growing-for-almost-a-decade-1.4739320\" target=\"_blank\">these columns</a>, there has been a growing teacher supply crisis hitting both primary and post-primary schools for about 12 years now.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PWQS35NOMZBDTJBWBB3OO6XM64","additional_properties":{},"content":"In addition, there has been a more long-standing problem at post-primary level, whereby principals find themselves having to assign out-of-field teachers to teach particular subjects. Out-of-field teaching is the practice of assigning teachers to positions for which they do not have suitable qualifications.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3OS4NU3PZJFA3J3H3PBCKBZLB4","additional_properties":{},"content":"This practice was identified as a “constraint on true professionalism” in an OECD review of Irish education published in 1991, and acknowledged as an issue in the 1992 Green Paper, <i>Education for a Changing World</i>: “While, ideally, teachers should teach only their final degree subjects, it is not considered practicable to introduce such a requirement at this stage.” ","type":"text"},{"_id":"CDYZS26HFZGKTO4T3SUZVYDQRE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Unfortunately, more than 30 years later, out-of-field teaching is still a widespread problem, exacerbated in recent years by the supply crisis.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2LEYNAE6TFH35POHM6A7TOZ4QE","additional_properties":{},"content":"The issue of teacher supply receives fairly limited attention in the various party manifestos, and none at all in the case of some. Fine Gael, Sinn Féin and the Social Democrats all commit to measures to encourage those teaching abroad to return. Suggestions as to how this is to be achieved vary, but there are references to recognising service abroad and salary calculations. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"NGU7L3TPKNBUJBOBUNLMDOEQ5A","additional_properties":{},"content":"Aontú provides more detail on its proposals under this heading, promising to provide a grant to those returning together with a tax concession. Sinn Féin also commits to making full-time permanent posts more quickly available, a strategy which would certainly help, but is unlikely to have a transformative impact. Fianna Fáil (FF) promises to devise a system whereby Stem teachers can be shared across schools. Similar initiatives have been tried in the past but with limited success due to the complexities of school timetabling. 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However, if a genuinely independent expert group were established, and its recommendations implemented, this might prove to be a significant development.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MV235LWZKBHFTH3MIEFVO4CWC4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Educational disadvantage","type":"header"},{"_id":"W3HR4X3YUJBVFMQZLTGO7FQRI4","additional_properties":{},"content":"The policy response of the Government to the issue of educational disadvantage has been to adopt a policy of positive discrimination, whereby additional resources are allocated to schools that cater for students, or really for high numbers of students, from low socioeconomic status backgrounds. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"KF4NVQY3VVDTPK7LVPNIWW7KNE","additional_properties":{},"content":"This response is crystallised in the Deis programme, launched in 2005. Since its inception, the scheme has operated on the basis of grades of educational disadvantage at primary level: band one (the most deprived), band two and rural Deis. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"67QBRPRK2JFK7GQPH6SHGZD6GE","additional_properties":{},"content":"At post-primary level just one grade obtains. While no one would expect the Department of Education to devise a bespoke model suitable to each school, the argument has been made repeatedly that a more extensive range of grades is required. In particular the notion that all post-primary schools serving deprived areas are experiencing the same level of disadvantage does not stand up to any serious scrutiny.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NZCKE4T2OVE5JHB4Z2HB36EU4Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"In 2006, <i>School Matters: The Report of the Task Force on Student Behaviour in Second Level Schools</i> (the Martin Report) was published. Among many insightful observations the report observed: “The accumulated evidence before us and substantiated in a vast body of literature, is that there are considerable numbers of students in our schools who have mental health difficulties that may not be school related in their origin.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"BDFOXHZ2ENHAPL7NK5ZRAFXLBE","additional_properties":{},"content":"If that was accurate then, it is even more so now. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"K2QD5TJWMFDYVIKW4ZNJ7XWSIQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"The Martin Report recommended the setting up of multidisciplinary support teams to work with schools on behavioural and wellbeing issues. Other than a small pilot scheme, this suggestion was largely subsequently ignored. Yet, the reality is that schools serving the most disadvantaged areas are attempting to provide support to students and families far beyond the range of expertise and resources available to them. In recent years, the term “Deis+” has been employed to advocate for the provision of additional resources needed to make up for the inadequacies of the Deis scheme.","type":"text"},{"_id":"E4PHTQ4Z55DAZCEEMWMLU4VTY4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Those advocating for improvements to Deis have first-hand knowledge of what is required. Many have pointed to the strengths of the model currently being provided as part of the North East Inner City Initiative. When it comes to reading the manifestos of the various political parties, their position on educational disadvantage is not as clear as one might expect. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"TWG6ZXJ6MBHZ3IKSYRXOWK64VI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Six parties (FF, FG, Sinn Féin, Labour, Social Democrats and People Before Profit-Solidarity) commit to the introduction of a Deis+ model, with little or no explanation of what they understand Deis+ to be. Pertinent questions which are not addressed include: what additional services will be provided to how many schools?; does this apply at both primary and post-primary level?; how are participating schools to be determined?; what percentage increase, if any, would be applied to the modest Deis budget as currently exists? ","type":"text"},{"_id":"FU3MW76NDBGRRHBZLFNMBO5XGM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Many would argue that an independent evaluation of the Deis programme is long overdue but there seems little appetite for such an initiative. It’s as if Deis+ has become a convenient alternative to detailed independent thinking on the part of the political parties and, to a certain extent, it is being used as a slogan.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NW7NYNZ3IBGL7GMXJXFUOONUWE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Equity in education","type":"header"},{"_id":"HC5GGLW5RRDPHPXC5XH3REXCXY","additional_properties":{},"content":"At the time of writing, it seems almost certain that the programme for government which emerges from this electoral process will be negotiated between either one or two of the three main parties in consultation with some of the smaller groupings. Heading into the election, the stances taken by the various political parties on two of the most pressing issues affecting the education system provide little grounds for optimism. 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A lot will depend on the negotiations that take place, the subsequent choice of minister for education, whether the next taoiseach takes the necessary steps to ensure a multi-departmental approach, and whether equity in our education provision becomes a real priority for government.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JWAHRKOMDVDS7BXJNLCVXTHM54","additional_properties":{},"content":"<i>Dr Brian Fleming and Prof Judith Harford are academics at UCD’s school of education</i>","type":"text"},{"_id":"FTJJJR7SKRCUJKNK2PCIU5A5ZA","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Brian Fleming"},{"additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Judith Harford"}]},"description":{"basic":"While useful initiatives are proposed, there is little sign staff shortages will be tackled in a fundamental way. 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It is both the news of her parents’ disappearance and the possibility of finding the aquifer (a vast resource of groundwater), which her mother had been looking for, that draws Cat to Dekmantel, a town close to the Angolan-Namibian border.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NRTCIYORFFEDZJ2DZXLKYZHEFM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732119333891},"content":"The subtitle of Thirst is “A novel of the hydrosphere” and author Giles Foden is unsparing in his description of the cynicism and brutality of the hydrosphere’s politics, the scramble for that most precious of resources: water. Not only water to drink but water as a resource for extracting other resources – such as uranium – for the production of atomic energy.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XRV5ORCJTJHBPHOK7ROVADNOJY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732529919694},"content":"Foden, who was partly raised in Africa and is the author of The Last King of Scotland (1998), Ladysmith (1999) and Zanzibar (2002), uses his intimate knowledge of the southern half of the continent to great effect, evoking both the landscapes and the troubled histories of the region. Cat finds herself caught up in a rebellion led by a dissident Catholic curate known as “the Priest”, who is eloquent in his denunciations of the remorseless asset-stripping of African territories by foreign powers that are in collusion with weak or corrupt local governments. The rebellion is put down with forensic violence by South African mercenaries in the employ of foreign mining companies.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AWN3CWVKIZECJEPYUKSUKQHWEA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732529919695},"content":"The extractivist heart of darkness, the novel reminds us, lies not in London or New York, but in Toronto, as Canada is host to three-quarters of the world’s mining companies.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CZPKFXDOB5D6PMHSKO2W67GLOI","additional_properties":{"_id":"FBEMPSSCH5DC7I55IQLUT6RSCM"},"content":"Giles Foden: ‘Cromwell by Brendan Kennelly was a big influence on The Last King of Scotland’","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"FTX3LZUGKJB3TLI6KJVJDXOEUI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732119333892},"content":"Though Cat throws in her lot with the rebels, the Priest – educated by an Irish Jesuit, Fr O’Rourke – is not slow to mention Irish involvement in empire, and the complicated legacies of missionary proselytism. The Ireland that Cat leaves behind in 2039 is increasingly prey to violent, anti-immigrant protests, proving that a history of anticolonial resistance does not always grant immunity from a politics of racial exclusion. Foden, who spent part of his youth in the west of Ireland and has taught creative writing at the University of Limerick, narrates with an insider’s feel for the texture of local life and culture, ranging from a scathing take on “fanta-faced mums” in Dundrum shopping centre to a side swipe at a Minister for Local Communities, described by Cat’s uncle Tony as a “member of a flat-capped Kerry dynasty of political gombeens”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JGBXQ2GUVFDBTCSFYS7Y2YL76M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732119333893},"content":"Though a substantial section of the novel is set in the near future, there is little sense that much has changed (apart from passing references to the growing power of quantum computing). The United States and China are still the great powers intent on carving up African resources for the benefit of their own economic and strategic interests. As the Priest observes to Cat, “foreigners come here to replace what they have wasted at home”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KH4FLKZLBRD7BGG7SDOQBDSROU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732529919698},"content":"Continuing environmental degradation and energy scarcity leads not to a collective harnessing of the Earth’s resources for a more sustainable future but to a savage dogfight where winner takes all in the pursuit of superpower advantage. Cat’s direct experience of the appalling consequences of thirst is a timely reminder of her own animality, her basic kinship with all the other species on the planet that depend on water for survival. But this newfound awareness of her human fragility feels more like a private revelation than a collective one, as the final location of the aquifer leads to an unembarrassed corporate grab for communal resources. Where Cat intuits connections, commercial interests identify profits, which are mercilessly pursued.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KGDZ2MSDE5CVJIFLOZSQCS7QNU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732119333894},"content":"As a novel, Thirst is part Bildungsroman, part adventure story, part climate thriller, and the narrative ride can be bumpy at times, as the showing and the telling get in each other’s way. The key relationship between Cat and her mother remains somewhat underdeveloped, but Foden is compelling in his bleak portraits of the different characters who have a hand in the events unfolding in northern Namibia. Thirst is an ambitious and engaging novel that reveals, in tragic detail, how much the resource wars of the future are bound up in today’s global economic system with its infinite hunger for resources that are stubbornly finite.","type":"text"},{"_id":"APPU2UVXH5CXNNYIJ3FA7ZYKOI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732119333895},"content":"<i>Michael Cronin is professor of French at Trinity College Dublin</i>","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Michael Cronin"}]},"description":{"basic":"An ambitious and engaging novel set in the near future that pits basic human need against infinite corporate greed"},"display_date":"2024-11-30T05:18:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Thirst by Giles Foden: What happens when there’s not enough water to go around?","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"2OIGXG4ZYVH4HNIZWTOFHCLUF4","auth":{"1":"68cd8be0523dc384139a827ea93df071b1c458e43373ba241a9a73ee7953d6bc"},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/2OIGXG4ZYVH4HNIZWTOFHCLUF4.jpg"}},"subtype":"review","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Books"},{"name":"Culture"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/culture/books/review/2024/11/30/thirst-by-giles-foden-what-happens-when-theres-not-enough-water-to-go-around/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/culture/books","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Books"}}}},{"_id":"KSHZHCUMIFEUVPKCII5M2Y4E3I","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":1202,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/1cea54c2-b8de-42aa-a360-f813d2247487/versions/1732617566/media/bab888ef0129f06f0704bb36bbcccf6d_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/culture/books/2024/11/30/the-irish-times-best-books-of-2024-anne-enright-john-boyne-joseph-oconnor-mia-levitin-and-more-reveal-their-favourites/","content_elements":[{"_id":"CR4DVYVNRVHNJL2YLE5WLCT2CU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057474},"content":"Anne Enright","type":"header"},{"_id":"LJRO5ER3HFDC7P3SLN4EHLZ5U4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732534636946},"content":"Question 7 by Richard Flanagan is one of those books where a writer bundles up his entire life and hurls it on to the page. I also loved <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/10/11/stone-yard-devotional-by-charlotte-wood-bone-bare-prose-offers-the-space-to-dwell-in-questions/\" target=\"_blank\">Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood</a> and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/10/12/the-safekeep-by-yael-van-der-wouden-beguiling-love-story-told-in-language-that-entertains-and-enthrals/\" target=\"_blank\">The Safekeep by Yael Van der Wouden</a>, which is brilliant on withheld rage and desire. I can join the groundswell of praise for another passionate and distinctive debut, Ferdia Lennon’s Glorious Exploits. The book I found most eye-opening was Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI by Madhumita Murgia, which tells you everything you don’t want to know (but really should) about data tech.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ETBAMJCYMNFB5JRQNZ55UV7KIU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057474},"type":"list"},{"_id":"KM442YBEPVHYXP5K2EA6NV4KD4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732616533917},"content":"John Boyne","type":"header"},{"_id":"XPCQA6TMHZAY7MNDWWNO7EQIAE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732291795875},"content":"My book of the year is Small Rain by Garth Greenwell, one of the US’s finest novelists. He found himself doubled over in pain in a non-Covid-related incident during the pandemic, which led to a prolonged hospital stay. His affliction baffled doctors so much that he became a person of interest to medics of all disciplines. While they seek ways to treat him, Greenwell veers between stoicism, fear, missing his beloved partner, and worrying about his home. Rarely has illness made for such a compelling read.","type":"text"},{"_id":"N6LPENERNVHHXOP2OKBVNCQ2AQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732291795876},"type":"list"},{"_id":"RCMH334OY5GVPPUW6DY4TIIVMI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057494},"content":"Sarah Moss","type":"header"},{"_id":"QUETJ52ETVBHVE63RTQP67C4IU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732534636985},"content":"End times bring out greatness in some writers. Kathleen Jamie published a new essay collection, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/07/06/cairn-by-kathleen-jamie-poetic-meditation-on-climate-change-and-global-instability/\" target=\"_blank\">Cairn</a> (I feel this should be all one needs to say, but if you haven’t read her, do). The best writing about the domestic arts is always also writing about resistance to despair: I recommend Caroline Eden’s Cold Kitchen for culinary meditations from a war correspondent. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/01/27/spent-light-by-lara-pawson-an-innovative-hybrid-of-fiction-and-autobiography/\" target=\"_blank\">Lara Pawson’s Spent Light</a>, disturbing and funny hybrid prose, has stayed with me since I read it last spring. I enjoyed the Shetland poet Jen Hadfield’s beautifully-crafted memoir, Storm Pegs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"THZUUUHBFNDH3I2S2XUPCMLHE4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732534636986},"type":"list"},{"_id":"RGXSE5SYEFBJNJJK4Z7R7YMPKA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057457},"content":"Joseph O’Connor","type":"header"},{"_id":"BGIXIQVUZFAY5CXYO4TPWUUKRI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057458},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/04/22/the-amendments-by-niamh-mulvey-what-it-means-to-be-female-through-different-generations/\" target=\"_blank\">Niamh Mulvey’s debut novel The Amendments</a> is a fine achievement from a writer of rare gifts. Every novel by Donal Ryan extends his deserved reputation; I adored his <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/08/20/heart-be-at-peace-by-donal-ryan-companion-novel-to-the-spinning-heart-returns-to-the-approach-that-won-him-such-acclaim/\" target=\"_blank\">Heart, Be at Peace</a>. I’ve loved John Cooper Clarke’s poems and performances since first encountering them as a teenager; his 2024 collection, What, is brilliant. My book of the year is Joe Boyd’s And the Roots of Rhythm Remain: a wonderfully knowledgeable and discursive travelogue of world music, detailed, loving, incisive and beautifully written. Jack Fennell’s anthology of lost Irish ghost stories, Your Own Dark Shadow, is a knockout.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YTNEEDTTSJDJTB5PHG4WEDFAAM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057459},"type":"list"},{"_id":"DJVNVDMV2FAP5MLOZ2CMPKFGBM","additional_properties":{"_id":"WBB44XFISNDW7E3GVXGRM63SRY"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"D7GQLQDP3NHL3LMO3XLAGZYIYE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057460},"content":"Mark O’Connell","type":"header"},{"_id":"UIJXEBY7ARFMFNU7BVEHZR45YI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732290876324},"content":"Hari Kunzru is, I think, a weirdly underrated writer. It’s not that he’s ignored – far from it, he’s very successful, and has been for many years now. But I think the extent to which his fiction plumbs the depths of our terminal-stage capitalist malaise, while also being compulsively entertaining, deserves to have a lot more fuss made of it. Blue Ruin is the third in his “Three Colours” trilogy, following White Tears and the incredible Red Pill. It has a thrillerish pace, and a cold-blooded intellectualism reminiscent of mid-period Don DeLillo.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PSLIETHHJNGFDN2ZR5YIF32XJI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057460},"type":"list"},{"_id":"H2TTGKUBYVFYVLEJH5XWQ4X2NA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057492},"content":"Kit de Waal","type":"header"},{"_id":"RGU2BDNOMJGGPEJCOF5JUE2Q54","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057493},"content":"My book of the year is Donal Ryan’s Heart, Be at Peace. Ryan has a way of getting a whole character and a whole life down on a few pages, sometimes a few paragraphs. In overlapping and intertwined voices, we’re picking up where his previous masterpiece The Spinning Heart left off. Is it possible to say a work of fiction is true? Well, this is and once again, it’s a book that stays with you well beyond the last page.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BNTBAGR2TJC5JDKINQIC3DEKKA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732534636983},"type":"list"},{"_id":"MF5NZ4W27VDUFNHRSRQSJPSJPY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057461},"content":"Diarmaid Ferriter","type":"header"},{"_id":"I5BGLYZ4JFB3TJN6LFJTYV3KRI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732534636912},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/08/20/heart-be-at-peace-by-donal-ryan-companion-novel-to-the-spinning-heart-returns-to-the-approach-that-won-him-such-acclaim/\" target=\"_blank\">Donal Ryan’s Heart, Be at Peace</a> is enthralling. He captures such a range of emotion, defiance, eloquence, crudity and dark humour, in brilliant prose that makes him stand out in a crowded and rich Irish literary space. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/02/24/remembering-peasants-fascinating-study-makes-for-essential-reading-about-our-shared-past/\" target=\"_blank\">Patrick Joyce’s Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanishing World</a> gives agency to the people of the land as he excavates the peasant experiences across Europe, placing the Irish dimension and his personal connection to it in a broader context. Given the dark politics of this year, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/05/11/a-great-disorder-by-richard-slotkin-ambitious-mapping-of-americas-past-to-its-present-via-myth/\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Slotkin’s A Great Disorder</a> is a timely and textured reminder of the exploitation of national myths and how and why the US is so divided.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5X75O7M4AZASHPB2B4ZSOSPT6A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732534636913},"type":"list"},{"_id":"BX6POJ477VMRTGR4VNCX4HKPZI","additional_properties":{"_id":"4C4IU2TESBE6DDJKMFIGZ2ACPI"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"PRNC2BNEEBA6VL3IHTUFTYZN2A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057473},"content":"Julia Kelly","type":"header"},{"_id":"NKOFN2AZUJGU5KLZURVTK4WE6Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732534636943},"content":"Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst is my book of the year. Reading his prose is like sinking into a bath of the perfect temperature, with his exquisite use of language and extraordinary powers of description. I also loved <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/06/15/all-fours-by-miranda-july-one-womans-quest-for-life-after-midlife/\" target=\"_blank\">All Fours by Miranda July</a>, a wild, bawdy, horny, hilarious escape from the reality of a menopausal wife and mother into an alternative fantasy, an existence where she can express her sexual and artistic desires with unfettered freedom.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SETR3PLUMJEO7GYU3725ZSRR3M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732534636944},"type":"list"},{"_id":"RPYWVC7J6BGAPDJSRV3DYEBY2I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057463},"content":"Malachy Clerkin","type":"header"},{"_id":"HMIESUPZ3JCWFPD2QC72LDQ4WM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203179865},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/06/22/the-racket-by-conor-niland-lonely-tennis-locker-room-conveyed-with-deft-touch/\" target=\"_blank\">The Racket by Conor Niland and Gavin Cooney</a> is a fantastic – and deservedly prize-winning – trek through the nearly-but-not-quite backroads of professional tennis. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/10/12/obsessed-the-autobiography-by-johnny-sexton-one-of-the-best-irish-sports-books-ever-written/\" target=\"_blank\">Obsessed by Johnny Sexton and Peter O’Reilly</a> is a laudably searching examination of the psyche of one of Ireland’s greatest ever sportspeople. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/11/09/states-of-play-how-sportswashing-took-over-football-by-miguel-delaney-admirably-thorough-depressingly-persuasive/\" target=\"_blank\">States of Play by Miguel Delaney</a> paints a detailed and often grotesque picture of how soccer has found itself hijacked by money and sportswashing. Finally, My Story by Joe Canning and Vincent Hogan is full of searing insights into the Galway hurler’s life less ordinary.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IGSIK5AHMVAXBCEBPYQPAQUKPY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057463},"type":"list"},{"_id":"53JPF47GYDRYBSJVCXSZYNZGNI","additional_properties":{"_id":"KDGUYTH2DFFUVMWZ26B4JSRBBE"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"QYNDR4HOUJHHXDIGO4F454JUKA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057464},"content":"Fintan O’Toole","type":"header"},{"_id":"JXJ623FWUJGX5MFTLRCSM5TXZU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057456},"content":"In a year stained by such widespread indifference to extreme violence against civilians in war, Cormac Ó Gráda’s The Hidden Victims: Civilian Casualties of the Two World Wars stood out as a work of great moral as well as of historical importance. One of Ireland’s greatest historians scrupulously sifts the evidence from the first and second World Wars and their “collateral damage” of genocide, famine, aerial bombing and disease. His conclusion is startling: he estimates that the wars cost not the previously accepted 35 million but 65 million civilian lives – nearly two-thirds of the 100 million total killed. Ó Gráda writes with immense care, eschewing rhetoric or appeals to the emotions, but there is always the sense that this quiet precision is an act of mourning for 30 million people who were not even given the dignity of becoming statistics. The resonances for the present are profound: this book is a potent warning against amnesia and evasion.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7WKFI6LDSFAMTOMEDYX3JB76DQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732534636904},"type":"list"},{"_id":"4ENYIXOQ2FDS3MK3SU7FQKJMPE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057471},"content":"Sarah Gilmartin","type":"header"},{"_id":"WRIM5Y5VKRDEJDYLT4RNTUP7RA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732290876345},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/02/20/the-lodgers-by-holly-pester-a-smart-superbly-crafted-story-on-the-state-of-a-nation/\" target=\"_blank\">Holly Pester’s debut The Lodgers</a> is a bracing, eloquent dissection of a generation priced out of their own home. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/10/10/our-evenings-by-alan-hollinghurst-review-beautifully-observed-tracking-of-an-actor-into-old-age/\" target=\"_blank\">Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst</a> examines race, class, sexuality and identity in a narrative suffused with loss and longing. Three gems from the Booker longlist: <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/01/27/wild-houses-by-colin-barrett-superbly-observed-world-framed-by-crime-caper-plot/\" target=\"_blank\">Wild Houses by Colin Barrett</a>, Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/09/07/creation-lake-by-rachel-kushner-fun-devastating-and-far-more-urgent-than-a-typical-spy-thriller/\" target=\"_blank\">Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner</a>. Three intricate, and very different, story collections: Barcelona by Mary Costello, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/04/25/old-romantics-by-maggie-armstrong-an-audacious-debut-collection-with-a-personality-all-its-own/\" target=\"_blank\">Old Romantics by Maggie Armstrong</a>, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/05/07/openings-by-lucy-caldwell-enlightening-and-enriching-collection-of-stories-that-closes-a-loose-triptych/\" target=\"_blank\">Openings by Lucy Caldwell</a>. And for poetry fans, the moving <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/05/05/new-poetry-raptures-road-and-then-the-hare-landscape-of-the-body-all-the-good-things-you-deserve/\" target=\"_blank\">All the Good Things You Deserve by Elaine Feeney</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ECEMYKCXE5FG5FLKENTU4VB7HE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732290876346},"type":"list"},{"_id":"ZGTC3TC4KFBBXOJXMU75AATV7A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057465},"content":"Brian Hanley","type":"header"},{"_id":"MJOHBBIJRVB77M255NDO7DOLL4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732272055245},"content":"It has been a depressing year, which perhaps influences these choices. Some impressive new histories illuminated the 20th century’s myriad tragedies; betrayed revolutionary hopes in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/09/21/hotel-lux-by-maurice-casey-radical-politics-and-queer-love-in-the-dark-shadow-of-stalinism/\" target=\"_blank\">Maurice Casey’s Hotel Lux</a>, murder gangs and state collusion in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/09/28/ghosts-of-a-family-review-superlative-account-of-atrocity-of-the-mcmahon-murders/\" target=\"_blank\">Edward Burke’s Ghosts of A Family</a>, despotic political “saviours” in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/09/28/the-party-is-always-right-the-untold-story-of-gerry-healy-and-british-trotskyism-a-shocking-history-well-told/\" target=\"_blank\">Aidan Beatty’s The Party Is Always Right</a>. The fictionalised corruption brought to life in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/02/25/best-new-crime-fiction-joe-thomass-red-menace-is-an-early-candidate-for-crime-novel-of-the-year/\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Thomas’s Red Menace</a>, his follow-up to the excellent White Riot, seems almost benign in comparison.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GQD2FQDI6JA7PDY6VMYP4PBXY4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732272055246},"type":"list"},{"_id":"MOPCPUID2ZGGFOAY432NV7XGM4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057475},"content":"Sally Hayden","type":"header"},{"_id":"YR63Q3JNTRE7JP2KYDP3XCG3KU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057476},"content":"I read mostly older books this year, but a few new ones that I definitely recommend are Scattered by Aamna Mohdin, a Somali-British journalist whose 2015 reporting trip to Calais prompts exploration as to the journey her own family undertook to escape Somalia: The Tale of a Wall, a memoir by Nasser Abu Srour, a Palestinian who has spent decades in Israeli prison; and Chukwuebuka Ibeh’s Blessings, a moving novel about queer lives in Nigeria.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LZLGD6KTJ5EDDMJEG3X4KO3BPM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057475},"type":"list"},{"_id":"NKJE4PYS3JH5TGDBBCEJSQ75LE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057466},"content":"Donal Fallon","type":"header"},{"_id":"336EBPHZPJC2HMRIRAW34DMGFU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732534636924},"content":"The Irish in the Resistance by Clodagh Finn and John Morgan is a brilliant achievement, bringing to light new stories of men and women who risked everything during the second World War. While Samuel Beckett’s role in the French Resistance is well documented (it was considerably more than what he dismissed as “boy scout stuff”), many of the names in this book will be entirely new to the reader. Great archival digging and lots of heart.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YHCQGFYEFBEVLB2X3PZEBGM25Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732534636925},"type":"list"},{"_id":"JEGNMYAMXJGXBCOBYF3TQCVNOI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057478},"content":"Sara Keating","type":"header"},{"_id":"LFXXOH62DZFJBMJDQ6W3B5ZNJY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057479},"content":"It’s impossible to choose, but as the shortest day of the year approaches, I am reminded of two of the best children’s books of 2024: the fantastic non-fiction <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/06/08/childrens-reads-from-superbly-conceived-non-fiction-to-a-fitting-capstone-for-a-wonderful-career/\" target=\"_blank\">Solstice: The Longest, Shortest Day</a> by Jen Breach (5+) and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/10/09/childrens-fiction-ghost-stories-for-samhain-and-tales-of-female-fearlessness/\" target=\"_blank\">Eilish Fisher’s stunning Fia and the Last Snow Deer</a>, featuring writing and illustrations of equal beauty. For a greater understanding of how we know what we know, Chris Haughton’s The History of Information (7+) is both eye-catching and essential. Finally, Vicky Cowie’s Tales from Muggleswick Wood (3+) is a bedtime treasury narrated by a grandmother with whimsical watercolours from Charlie Macksey, which will be beloved on bookshelves for generations.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FSC64NWOLFFI3NYE5YW3DJ52SU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057480},"type":"list"},{"_id":"WV7EXDOY4NHFBBVWDGOKQTWTQU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057467},"content":"Paul Muldoon","type":"header"},{"_id":"LWEJ5CG5V5FRDBGXPVFEQKCVCY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203179872},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/01/27/missing-persons-or-my-grandmothers-secrets-by-clair-wills-family-fables-hidden-truths/\" target=\"_blank\">Missing Persons, or My Grandmother’s Secrets, by Clair Wills</a>, is a book that will secure a place in the annals of 20th-century Irish social history as firmly as Twenty Years A-Growing by Maurice O’Sullivan or Heinrich Böll’s Irish Journal. This account of a cover-up within a single family resonates with a capacity to look away that too often seems to be a national characteristic. One consequence of this book might be to further tip the scales and allow us to overcome our reluctance to send the Catholic Church packing, as we would any other multinational with a comparable history of dodgy behaviour.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AX4YILUUNVBHRG4ENXXEZWT7O4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732534636928},"type":"list"},{"_id":"6ITUWKIUWVFZPKEL7OLAN3HLH4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732615867570},"content":"Claire Adam","type":"header"},{"_id":"DSMNJVRHCZEGPHRRFWUCTTHHU4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732290876361},"content":"My Dear Kabul by an Afghan women’s writing group is an absolute gem of a memoir that deserves a place on your bookshelf and in your heart. The authors are 21 Afghan women writing secretly to each other in real time, often in WhatsApp messages, as they live through the country’s fall to the Taliban in 2021. The very act of writing is dangerous, but they’re driven by an urgent need to connect – with each other and the outside world – even as the walls close in on them.","type":"text"},{"_id":"P33RPU2EBJA2VDOCZROVAT6L64","additional_properties":{"_id":1732290876362},"type":"list"},{"_id":"TWA4XXOEBVFYFIZETNHYG54W6M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057468},"content":"Paul Howard","type":"header"},{"_id":"IKK3JNJHUFBYZFZVRT3UVMHS4I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732290876339},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/09/07/our-london-lives-a-masterful-work-full-of-skilful-nuance-and-profound-truth/\" target=\"_blank\">Our London Lives by Christine Dwyer Hickey</a> is a masterpiece. It’s the story of two teenage Irish emigrants living in London in 1979. Milly in a runaway from judgmental, Catholic Ireland. Pip is a young boxing hopeful with a taste for the sauce. The novel tells the story of their fleeting romance and then the stories of their occasionally interweaving lives over the course of the four decades that follow. It’s dark and heartbreaking. Beautiful storytelling by a master of the genre.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RTGYEVD6ABEEHK4VBAVO3ILFJE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732534636931},"content":"<i>Paul Howard’s latest book is the </i><a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/author/ross-ocarroll-kelly/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Ross O’Carroll-Kelly</i></a><i> novel Don’t Look Back in Ongar</i>","type":"text"},{"_id":"JOWLOHQBDJGTPCO4O2YGJOBA4E","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057486},"content":"Éilís Ní Dhuibhne","type":"header"},{"_id":"55RDFISEGJAHZGHURZ4TYTSOJY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732287543257},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2024/04/06/quickly-while-they-still-have-horses-review-jan-carson-delivers-a-compelling-collection/\" target=\"_blank\">Jan Carson, Quickly, While They Still Have Horses</a>, is an outstanding collection of witty short stories set in – and satirising – the North of Ireland. I loved Percival Everett’s James, and also Sarah Moss’s memoir focusing on anorexia, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/08/24/my-good-bright-wolf-by-sarah-moss-a-bleak-often-brilliant-personal-history/\" target=\"_blank\">My Good Bright Wolf</a>. My great friends Liz McManus, Mary Rose Callaghan, Phyl Herbert, Catherine Dunne, Celia de Freine, Evelyn Conlon and Mícheál Ó Conghaile all published wonderful books during the year. They are a productive bunch!","type":"text"},{"_id":"YIJL7EMMF5BM5BGVUCQB2IYWME","additional_properties":{"_id":1732287543258},"type":"list"},{"_id":"CTXLZYDWHBE7LAA7ETU2LNC3WE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057469},"content":"Paul Murray","type":"header"},{"_id":"XIORDFQJDVHGVO7WU442ZCFLUU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732527560805},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/11/02/gliff-by-ali-smith-part-allegory-part-dystopian-fiction-altogether-thrilling/\" target=\"_blank\">Ali Smith’s miraculous Gliff</a> is at once a pitch-black take on the authoritarian future and a tender, hilarious and ultimately uplifting portrait of two young sisters as they battle to escape it. Full of jokes and wordplay, kindness and connection – the eponymous Gliff is a horse the girls rescue from an abattoir – it’s part novel, part resistance manual, facing into the darkness while showing a path to redemption. A ray of hope after a year like this one.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LIEKZO2NCBBY7BGR6QWRDGLHZY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732527560806},"type":"list"},{"_id":"VIBF3KVIOFE7ZIEL2BKIZV54PM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057477},"content":"Mia Levitin","type":"header"},{"_id":"YNJMVBID7BHEVP67TBUQFPUIMY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732295221284},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/10/12/the-safekeep-by-yael-van-der-wouden-beguiling-love-story-told-in-language-that-entertains-and-enthrals/\" target=\"_blank\">Yael van der Wouden’s The Safekeep</a>, sexy and twisty without sacrificing substance, is a marvel. Alan Hollinghurst’s Our Evenings made me weep buckets of tears, and I was in the chorus of accolades for <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/04/19/james-by-percival-everett-reimagining-huck-finn/\" target=\"_blank\">Percival Everett’s National Book Award-winning James</a>. Hattie Crisell’s In Writing is chock-full of insights about not only writing but life. And more than just a survey, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/09/09/the-haunted-wood-a-history-of-childhood-reading-by-sam-leith-monumental-and-invigorating/\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Leith’s The Haunted Wood</a> is a tribute to the enduring importance of children’s literature.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JJKMOXDAX5FQHECWWJUZ63B57Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1732534636953},"type":"list"},{"_id":"JTZRZ6DWXZB3VABTF73EIBTYBU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057450},"content":"John Self","type":"header"},{"_id":"3YM4YMUI4NDXDGWP4CSZBJX7PU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057451},"content":"In a good year, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/01/08/my-friends-by-hisham-matar-the-challenges-of-exile-and-humankinds-ability-to-adapt/\" target=\"_blank\">Hisham Matar’s My Friends</a> and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/04/27/the-spoiled-heart-by-sunjeev-sahota-brave-exploration-of-class-and-race-from-multiple-angles/\" target=\"_blank\">Sunjeev Sahota’s The Spoiled Heart</a> were superb personal-political novels that should have won all the awards. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/04/27/two-hours-by-alba-arikha-a-literary-masterpiece/\" target=\"_blank\">Alba Arikha’s Two Hours</a> is a brief and gripping story of a woman’s real and imagined lives. And if you like Damon Galgut’s clear-eyed, unsentimental stories of South Africa, try both <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/06/08/crooked-seeds-by-karen-jennings-a-taut-confrontation-with-the-horrors-of-the-past-that-resists-moralising/\" target=\"_blank\">Karen Jennings’s Crooked Seeds</a> and SJ Naudé's Fathers and Fugitives. They bowled me over. Outside novels, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/03/09/barcelona-a-pleasing-variety-of-styles-and-perspectives-told-through-voices-young-and-old/\" target=\"_blank\">Mary Costello’s Barcelona</a> was my story collection of the year.","type":"text"},{"_id":"R5TDYLY2AVCTTJ3LX3AJZ55JX4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732550422272},"type":"list"},{"_id":"GBLSNPK7BFCVLAJQ7B2HSVLBYQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057489},"content":"Edel Coffey","type":"header"},{"_id":"MZR7NEGITZFNZASRZPF52NREKA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732534636973},"content":"The one that really stands out for me is Ferdia Lennon’s charismatic debut, Glorious Exploits, a brilliant and original novel set in ancient Syracuse but told in a contemporary Dublin vernacular. Original, profound and funny. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/07/13/all-the-colours-of-the-dark-by-chris-whitaker-a-thriller-romance-and-crime-novel-that-is-plenty-of-book-for-everyone/\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Whitaker’s All The Colours of the Dark</a> was a hugely enjoyable saga, part-love story, part-crime novel. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/08/17/the-garden-against-time-in-search-of-a-common-paradise-review-gardens-excavated-as-agents-of-wider-world-change/\" target=\"_blank\">Olivia Laing’s The Garden against Time</a> was a brilliantly researched and deeply enjoyable examination of how we share the planet, and hybrid memoir. And an honourable mention must go to Miranda July’s All Fours, which was an eye-popping novel that fearlessly explored the painful process of ageing as a Gen X woman.","type":"text"},{"_id":"R33TRAWCKJCVZOSPILY7VXNUTQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732534636974},"type":"list"},{"_id":"XKIVC34JRZFQPCNBR3V5WKRNCY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057470},"content":"Martin Doyle","type":"header"},{"_id":"6LFNV2G4IRFMRIF6X2SVKXBX24","additional_properties":{"_id":1732636637479},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/01/27/glorious-exploits-by-ferdia-lennon-whacky-tale-of-theatrics-war-and-displacement-set-in-syracuse-bc/\">Ferdia Lennon’s Glorious Exploits</a> is a marvellous feat of imagination, set in ancient Sicily, but with Barrytown accents. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/09/21/intermezzo-by-sally-rooney-a-bold-adventurous-and-captivating-addition-to-an-impressive-body-of-work/\">Intermezzo by Sally Roone</a>y is perceptive and precise, her best yet. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/05/06/the-alternatives-by-caoilinn-hughes-a-superb-novel-about-sisters-doing-it-in-style/\">The Alternatives by Caoilinn Hughes</a> sparkles with intelligence and wit. Niamh Mulvey’s The Amendments is a warm evocation of Irish women coming of age in a cold social climate. Kevin Barry’s The Heart in Winter is a joyous, riotous Irish western. Colin Barrett’s Wild Houses captures Ireland’s own wild west.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RRFLXO3TX5CZDEGQRN4KOXPBNU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732534636937},"content":"<i>Martin Doyle is Books Editor of The Irish Times and author of Dirty Linen</i>","type":"text"},{"_id":"TUS6ANJ3M5HS7PFKLQ6P2VATN4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057481},"content":"Claire Hennessy","type":"header"},{"_id":"ELOMZ3XJZJBGRAPKI24WA6L62E","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057482},"content":"Margaret McDonald’s touching debut, Glasgow Boys, deftly explores male friendship in and out of the care system. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/10/27/unflinching-examinations-of-contemporary-teenage-life-in-octobers-ya-picks/\" target=\"_blank\">Kathleen Glasgow’s The Glass Girl</a> skilfully and sympathetically tackles addiction and self-worth. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/06/08/junes-ya-fiction-the-magical-realism-is-grounded-by-sharp-observations-about-teenage-social-dynamics/\" target=\"_blank\">Jenny Valentine’s Us in the Before and After</a> haunts in a variety of ways; <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/09/29/new-ya-titles-for-autumn-from-award-winning-writers-and-illustrators/\" target=\"_blank\">Jandy Nelson’s dreamy When the World Tips Over</a> is a spun-sugar treat. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/03/17/march-ya-reads-love-in-a-time-of-famine/\" target=\"_blank\">Claire Furniss’s The Things We Leave Behind</a> and Moira Buffini’s Songlight remind us dystopian futures are always relevant.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QNX3R4EDABAA5KALXFCANQLYRM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057483},"content":"<i>Claire Hennessy is a writer and book critic</i>","type":"text"},{"_id":"P7RGDAMJ2NC4PNTK7A6V5FQKWU","additional_properties":{"_id":"6O657DDC3VB6RMT4G76V6EOENY"},"content":"New YA titles for autumn from award-winning writers and illustrators","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"XBOTUE357FFKXD5ROER3BAIAHM","additional_properties":{"_id":"WCQM2EJDJRE6ZLR3SB52COWUNE"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"6ITUWKIUWVFZPKEL7OLAN3HLH4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732615867570},"content":"Jan Carson","type":"header"},{"_id":"IYI7U3PDGRATHM6LLTI3IUGJTQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057488},"content":"It’s always brilliant when the book you’ve been most looking forward lives up to all your expectations, and A Sunny Place for Shady People, Argentinian writer Mariana Enriquez’s second collection of short stories translated into English, expertly, by Megan McDowell, more than met my sky-high hopes. These stories are dark, macabre, occasionally absurd, sometimes funny and always, always, so deftly written they’ll literally haunt your dreams. I’m already counting the days down to Enriquez’s next publication.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MQ33KU2H5ZC65BJRN65KBC4CAI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732534636971},"type":"list"},{"_id":"ZILD5YKGAVCFJMTBKDPHQCQTKI","additional_properties":{"_id":"ZHF2XIMRCJALBNMQTYLDSFZGJA"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"FCLTPP5SXVBNPCHYQR72ITNSFI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057490},"content":"Niamh Donnelly","type":"header"},{"_id":"YEEI7YXIDBE5HFCKOOW3HKIP3M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203179896},"content":"With all the Sally Rooney discourse, it’s easy to forget how exquisite and immersive her writing is. Intermezzo, which follows two brothers after their father’s death, is her best, most sophisticated work yet. Tracing two interconnected lives, Christine Dwyer Hickey’s Our London Lives captures the London-Irish experience and the ache of missed opportunities. Maggie Armstrong’s voice leaps off the page in her debut story collection, Old Romantics, while Niamh Mulvey’s The Amendments is a wise and astute first novel.","type":"text"},{"_id":"O7H6Z77ZWBCTRGV3PKRBKMEXFA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203179897},"type":"list"},{"_id":"QYNDR4HOUJHHXDIGO4F454JUKA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057464},"content":"Tony Clayton-Lea","type":"header"},{"_id":"HYEVVUDFMVDERGD4RBWQMXMNTE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203179867},"content":"Belfast punk band Ruefrex is the subject of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/02/03/wild-colonial-boys-is-hard-to-beat/\" target=\"_blank\">Wild Colonial Boys: A Belfast Punk Story</a> by Thomas Paul Burgess, a scathing memoir by the band’s former drummer and songwriter. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/2024/06/26/blondie-guitarist-chris-stein-i-was-always-into-chaos-there-was-nothing-i-shied-away-from/\" target=\"_blank\">Under a Rock by Chris Stein</a> is the Blondie guitarist’s frank account of a life far less ordinary than most. The best dip-into book is You Spin Me Round, a collection of essays by mostly Irish writers that present warmth, wit and sometimes weird outlooks on the profound importance of music.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ULO4HLYYDJGX5FHCJHCSQKNJ4M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203179868},"type":"list"},{"_id":"54YY4WIOTZHNTOEP3GWKG4XWUE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057491},"content":"Louise Kennedy","type":"header"},{"_id":"FI2E6FVWZRE3VDDG4NYC5OSPNQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732534636979},"content":"I have lately struggled to read fiction, perhaps because I am carrying my own novel-in-progress in my head. An exception is the marvellous <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/04/17/hagstone-by-sinead-gleeson-there-is-a-lyricism-to-this-magical-and-otherworldly-debut-novel/\" target=\"_blank\">Hagstone by Sinéad Gleeson</a>, a gorgeous, haunting, intelligent tale set on a remote island. In Hereafter, poet Vona Groarke constructs the story of her ancestor, who emigrated to New York to work in domestic service. It destroyed me. And please read Woman of Winter, her retelling of the Hag of Beara. Edward Said’s reissued The Question of Palestine, a vital, seminal work, has never been more relevant.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PGERFSRVSFCFFDKLR6K7ZS2QQU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732534636980},"type":"list"},{"_id":"4STBFOJT2NFBLHENBCUHWAWPTA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732202057454},"content":"Michael Cronin","type":"header"},{"_id":"GDVA45Y5MZG2HBZ4Z3IMLMBNPQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732272055229},"content":"Phyllis Gaffney’s remarkable new book, Foreign Tongues: Victorian Language Learning and the Shaping of Modern Ireland, gives an account of the visionary women and men who laid the foundations for modern language learning in Ireland. This is a story that had never before been told. A scrupulously researched, compellingly written history of the institutional emergence of modern languages in Irish life, it fills a momentous gap in our knowledge of the languages that have shaped the fortunes of Irish society and culture in the 20th century and beyond.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DQEDWKRWQBFJ7ME4SSYEOW2NUU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732272055230},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Martin Doyle"}},"name":"Martin Doyle"}]},"description":{"basic":"Books by Ferdia Lennon, Miranda July, Donal Ryan, Mary Costello, Alan Hollinghurst, Christine Dwyer Hickey and Sally Rooney feature prominently in this trawl of the year’s best titles"},"display_date":"2024-11-30T05:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"The Irish Times best books of 2024: Anne Enright, John Boyne, Joseph O’Connor, Mia Levitin and more reveal their favourites","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"JCIQP7WOUZF3JFXVVNXOEKNDHM","auth":{"1":"db63580194dcb9685252251710cb7292e48ccc8d30ffa0df638fa285894e06f3"},"focal_point":{"x":629,"y":353},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/JCIQP7WOUZF3JFXVVNXOEKNDHM.png"}},"subtype":"showcase","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Books"},{"name":"Culture"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/culture/books/2024/11/30/the-irish-times-best-books-of-2024-anne-enright-john-boyne-joseph-oconnor-mia-levitin-and-more-reveal-their-favourites/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/culture/books","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Books"}}}},{"_id":"FKS2JZVLOFHF7LLGAYH43K7PLU","additional_properties":{},"canonical_url":"/podcasts/ross-ocarroll-kelly/sorcha-im-wondering-is-climate-justice-maybe-a-bit-above-santas-pay-grade/","content_elements":[{"_id":"R4OO7OVNFZBCPFTTRVARUZRRQQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732538887837},"content":"So – yeah, no – it’s that magical night of the year again when we all sit down as a family and write our letter to Santa Claus. We’ve the Bublé CD on and we’re all wearing our Christmas jumpers. Mine has a picture of Tadhg Furlong, Dan Sheehan and Andrew Porter wearing Santa hats and the words “O Scrum All Ye Faithful” on it. Sorcha has made hot chocolate for everyone and I’m sitting there with my pen poised.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XPB2U7AK65CMZFBTRC7RXEPGYA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732538887838},"content":"Johnny’s like, “A focking bike!”","type":"text"},{"_id":"W4EWGFUCPNEPLAYXWHR3MEN5PQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732538887839},"content":"Leo’s there, “An electric guitor!”","type":"text"},{"_id":"7W4XWYME6RCNLDE3YM6O5SSFD4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732538887840},"content":"Brian goes, “A mini Ferrari!”","type":"text"},{"_id":"FCRP6LDVKNG2BMNTONFIBZVVOA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732538887841},"content":"And I’m like, “Whoa, whoa, whoa! Go slower, goys,” because I’m struggling to get it all down on paper.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GEKZTEGAL5GL3HZ5YBPJVKUFF4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732538887842},"content":"But that’s when Sorcha decides to put an end to the fun.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y7BQQP7PLZCVVK6VYAHCDAEOOY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732538887843},"content":"She goes, “We’re not just going to throw everything down on paper as it occurs to us. We’re going to write a more <i>considered</i> letter to Santa this year?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"NISVQJJX4ZDT5IU4ZRMVCDZCEY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732538887844},"content":"The boys look at me as if to say, “Talk to your wife, will you? It sounds like she’s having another one of her wobbles.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"I4NXX3XH7ZGHHJDYVIRNDCDOFE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732538887845},"content":"Honor goes, “Oh my God, does this have anything to do with the letter that JP and Chloe wrote last year?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"I4WWEPPHORHDPJN4WSVWQXLLRM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732538887846},"content":"Yeah, no, long story short, JP and Chloe posted little Isa’s Santa letter on Instagram – it was very cute, in fairness to it – and it ended up going viral. And I remember Sorcha complaining at the time that our Santa letters had all the chorm of a ransom note, containing, as they did, nothing more than a list of demands and instructions.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RYMD7Q5VEJFFFB7KHTIDKDYKVY","additional_properties":{"_id":"5VKJRJMLBZHS7CWKE7GOXHVRYQ"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"WFDPZAILQRGLFA6CMDNSUMS7OA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732538887847},"content":"Sorcha produces a small box, which it turns out contains writing paper – and not just ordinary writing paper either.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6TZPO7TTEZHG7JJT64YRD2R3RI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732538887848},"content":"“It’s from a fully sustainable source!” Sorcha goes. “Meaning it was produced using virgin fibres from a Forest Stewardship Council-certified wood, adhering to the strictest environmental, social and economic standards! It’s also corbon-neutral in the sense that any CO2 emissions caused by its production were offset by methods to remove it from the atmosphere!”","type":"text"},{"_id":"UDBAHZCIWRGCDLRK4HYLFAWQMM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732538887849},"content":"You can almost hear the Christmas joy being sucked out of the room.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RXD35RBKZJGNLB3AKTTWFWCSIE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732538887850},"content":"Honor’s like, “I’m sure you’ll make sure to mention that in your Instagram post.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"TQLVX6HMCBGIDGTTDUDOVZJFL4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732538887851},"content":"“Also,” Sorcha goes, producing a pen, “we’re going to write it using a soy-based ink, which has a far less hormful environmental impact than petroleum-based inks.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"QWDPSDCPKZAW3E4BRJZJNYD5NI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732538887852},"content":"“People are just going to think you’re a knob,” Honor goes.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XCT66VHFWNC3DCH4HGAW6BHREE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732538887853},"content":"Sorcha just ignores her. She takes a page from the box and goes, “Okay, we’ll stort with the address. Obviously, it’s different from last year. We won’t go into details about the fire. We’ll just say that we’re living with Grandma and Grandpa Lalor for now. Okay, here we go. I’ll put ‘Dear Santa’. Then I’ll stort off by saying that we hope he and Mrs Claus are keeping well, despite the fact that the North Pole is, like, 20 degrees warmer than it was a century ago. And I’ll say that you’ve been very, very good boys this year.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"YCXYVAIIANFXXG3JYQ7X4MFC44","additional_properties":{"_id":1732538887854},"content":"I’m there, “Again, we won’t mention the fire.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"J2KWZYKWZFCZPMDUS2ETZISTDU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732538887855},"content":"She goes, “Right, what we do want for Christmas – as in, what do we, like, <i>really</i> want?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"PSTGHOL74VDNXAKQGDOT2T7AIY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732538887856},"content":"I’m there, “Johnny mentioned a bike.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"4C37SUOE4FBW5BQML7ZHPPYJR4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732538887857},"content":"“A focking bike,” Johnny goes.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SBDX6W76PNE5DHAQHJG6LCZB7E","additional_properties":{"_id":1732538887858},"content":"I’m like, “A <i>focking</i> bike. 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I was on the senior cup team, bear in mind?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"UVAWMDGF3JFWZHPTQ55SJXDT54","additional_properties":{"_id":1732538887862},"content":"Honor goes, “It means things that don’t cost any money.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"OPGT7JHWE5DH5LEN5XWXQFPPAY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732538887863},"content":"Sorcha’s there, “It means spiritual things.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"BVL6JHDBHVGSZMUJ7F5SOG6XCY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732538887864},"content":"“Oh my God,” Honor goes, “this is totally for Instagram. People will say that your children are going to grow up to hate you.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"YNWVANDE6NAXTDACIDPQQFVLJQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"IEH52E4JYRBNLG7KZVQ5CSEYQI"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"VTHGUIFPLJCTZI473AJ5MG4D3U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732538887865},"content":"Sorcha’s there, “Why don’t we ask for – just as an example – peace on Earth.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"I3XVS5NWHFCW3O2CWCSE6FEYE4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732538887866},"content":"I’m like, “Is that not–?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"JB7NMP4XNBE6PNNH6WI3HARGRU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732538887867},"content":"Sorcha’s there, “What?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"N6VTZYWV7BCFHM63RZV6TZESKE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732538887868},"content":"“Well, God’s deportment?” I go. “I mean, Santa is just a dude who runs a workshop where he makes <i>toys</i> all year round?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"UYTK6OVPSZHKJNIKFVRGQTQKEI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732538887869},"content":"“I’m putting down peace on Earth,” Sorcha goes, then she writes the words. “Okay, what else? 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Okay, what else?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"BNSRGNPPFNDCXM6G3VQXLORXL4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732538887873},"content":"“A mini Ferrrari,” Brian goes.","type":"text"},{"_id":"H6CJ6ZUA4ZEVBG5A6MJ3PHAWXE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732538887874},"content":"And Sorcha’s like, “Again, Brian, we’re trying to think of less <i>tangible</i> things?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"H35MRV3MARFGFBBA7EPCOF4XS4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732538887875},"content":"He looks at me.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Z7FG776LIBAQRFXXQ35MXHUROE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732538887876},"content":"I’m there, “Jesus Christ, Brian, you’d a bigger vocabulary than me when you were five.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"PAB7UY7IJFH3PMEO7QIETC46W4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732538887877},"content":"“Come on, what else?” Sorcha goes. “What if we just ask Santa to keep us all safe and healthy during the coming year?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"FJG6PZBU5RCW3EI2AIG45TNAKA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732538887878},"content":"I’m there, “Again, I see Santa as the boss of a humungous Amazon-type warehouse in the snowy wilds of wherever. 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Then I’ll sign off by saying that this is your wish for Christmas and you don’t want any material gifts this year.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"TC5KHUQPEFCF7E3JLN7GSD23HY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732538887880},"content":"Johnny’s like, “What the fock?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"LYA653YEZRH3FDANNN6NH7PULE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732538887881},"content":"“This is going to be the shittest Christmas ever,” Honor goes.","type":"text"},{"_id":"44OWHQJNHBBTHBMGMK7HLMOO4Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732538887882},"content":"I’m there, “It’s definitely shaping up that way.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"X2577G7KSRGYHGZ57ASQSLN4QM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732538887883},"content":"Sorcha’s there, “Lots of love, Honor, Brian, Johnny and Leo.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"57ZP5MEUBFAILGHVMHJOEL6FJA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732538887884},"content":"I’m like, “Sorcha, just to repeat what Johnny said, what the fock?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"AJ5SGVMC4FEEXNMXB7KWK7KYZA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732538887885},"content":"She goes, “Right, I’m going to go and make some more hot chocolate,” and she takes the letter and heads for the kitchen.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PIHG4YAL2BAD3LRRNXJ3OL7HMQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732538887886},"content":"Leo’s like, “Are we getting no presents from Santa?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"XLXCCRE5SZFALCDEZ6WHDPAXTU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732538887887},"content":"Honor’s there, “Don’t worry – it’s just our mother looking for likes from strangers again.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"IYLZI6ZBPZDVBAOYVBFV4OEXJM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732538887888},"content":"I go, “Has she posted it yet?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"5XVDULP5OVANXB27XGY4K7T6D4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732538887889},"content":"Honor checks her phone.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BB5T7VMN7BES5NTU5V2EY7FTWI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732538887890},"content":"She’s there, “Yeah – 30 seconds ago.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"GYQ37XNOH5AJTMHIC6RXBB2RVE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732538887891},"content":"I’m like, “Any responses yet?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"VUZTIUMOHJAMZB7AQBWKRPSIMI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732538887892},"content":"“One,” Honor goes. “Someone called her a knob. 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My previous books, like Natural Novel and especially <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/03/03/fiction-in-translation-novels-from-bulgaria-japan-brazil-spain-and-a-franco-korean-author/\" target=\"_blank\">The Physics of Sorrow,</a> were also part of this path, and after the Booker the path became wider. And the next Bulgarian writers will have it a little easier. We are already seeing that.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XDFNUTPFBJFT5BBCPJEK7DQG6Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685289},"content":"In Time Shelter you highlight the dangers of mixing false nostalgia and politics – what prompted your concern?","type":"header"},{"_id":"BWDRSGYNNRDALBWND4LQCHJG54","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685290},"content":"Nostalgia is a normal human feeling, although it was once considered a disease, a diagnosis. I wouldn’t want anyone to use nostalgia as a bait, as a trap to bring whole societies back to the past. The past is not a good place to live in. It can only be visited briefly. And the dealers of the past roam among us.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6DYDVQYO4ZAI5LMPQ6WAAUBVMM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685291},"content":"In Time Shelter, each European country has a referendum to choose a decade in the past to which it will return. You decided that Ireland would choose 1990 – why?","type":"header"},{"_id":"CWOF6OXULVEN5HE35QT5IOSY5E","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685292},"content":"It is not easy to predict other countries’ nostalgias. But I have to say that nostalgia for the 1990s is one of the brightest on my scale.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QYFPOITN2JCEZMFH5P2HIQ3O7U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685293},"content":"Do you consider yourself a Bulgarian writer, a European writer, an experimental writer? 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Our parents were young; they worked all day. We spent the afternoons alone at home, on the street, or with the grandparents in the village. Sometimes I felt like a minotaur in the dark room on the ground floor where we lived. But perhaps it was this loneliness that drove me to write.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PJVGDMGF75H63GSG6BTXU6LC44","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685301},"content":"In The Physics of Sorrow, you write sympathetically about the mythological minotaur – as a victim rather than a monster. Is it important to you as a writer to search for empathy with your characters?","type":"header"},{"_id":"HJOHQGKNH5G6LNQMXM53PR4EBE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685302},"content":"If one has empathy, one will always be able to see even in a monster like the Minotaur an abandoned child locked in a maze. 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How reintegrated do you think Bulgaria and the rest of the former Soviet bloc is in Europe?","type":"header"},{"_id":"HQCKUN53S5DV5JPAIPJOGUHXQ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685306},"content":"We have learned very slowly and very painfully that democracy is not a one-way road. It is not given for free once and for all, as we naively thought. The West also naively thought this way. It seems to me that all the countries in Europe now have a similar problem of integration to a very different time.","type":"text"},{"_id":"D7CGI6MNK5FNBHTVXMWFNPUMEA","additional_properties":{"_id":"SHQM5QIUNJHEBNK6B5CZQKBL5M"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"UVBEDBJFANEZVG7LND4JFGGVWY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685307},"content":"Have any Irish writers influenced you?","type":"header"},{"_id":"W7HH7PNVSBEKVCQATN6HUSXUYM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685308},"content":"Joyce, of course, is always the first one you get lost in. He’s a monster. I remember saying to myself, after wrestling with Ulysses, ‘So it’s possible to write like this, with so many meanders, corridors, canyons and erudition.’ My novels love the ramifications, too. I like Beckett, Colm Tóibín. You have great authors.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UQ7IUQHULRCPZM6N7EOAR3KWPA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685309},"content":"Which projects are you working on?","type":"header"},{"_id":"MZL6JYE3D5DDZJL7TMCGWKHWTI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685310},"content":"I finished a very special personal book, Death and the Gardener, which was recently published in Bulgarian. And I’m still slowly coming out of it.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4EPAV7EED5B3HJBUTFURZBE63E","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685311},"content":"Have you ever made a literary pilgrimage?","type":"header"},{"_id":"NZZSQR2TRFHLFGGHNAPWLRY42M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685312},"content":"Yes, to the grave of Joyce in Zurich, the one of Thomas Mann, of Borges in Geneva, to the Embankment of the Incurables in Venice because of Brodsky, Lisbon because of Pessoa, and so on. In fact, all my favourite cities were invented by favourite writers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GPY5S3G4KJHJXFG777ZWL7E6Z4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685313},"content":"What is the best writing advice you have heard?","type":"header"},{"_id":"IBQ4BRVTFVHTPNQ4QFF5CHQUL4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685314},"content":"When I started writing, I didn’t know any writers. Then it was too late for advice.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OM5XGVQRLRFGJIFRCVDMY7PBYU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685315},"content":"Who do you admire the most?","type":"header"},{"_id":"N2NRH7A44RD4VGQBKLQXHWCI5Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685316},"content":"Different authors through the years. I have stayed with Borges and all the poets the longest.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CUE4CVFTHBASRO25LHEFVJPKAM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203685317},"content":"You are supreme ruler for a day. 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He didn’t get involved. “I used my brain, but I can see the way people were; they were frustrated and got involved,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J7RJ7G3BAVBUTOXEXGKUMST5CA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635420},"content":"A teenage girl on Sean McDermott Street, when asked how she feels ahead of the anniversary of the riots, says: “Everyone is kind of on edge, fearful it’s going to happen again.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"MP6JSBK5QLKISVSTLPKPQJQOFE","additional_properties":{"_id":"SUGM5U546NHXPBZXPZLOE42VUI"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"4YYPFOQGCVFOJCNJUZVJUEJEFM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635422},"content":"Luke Fay (21) from Sheriff Street, who is a history and philosophy student at Trinity College Dublin, says: “Just because the area is seen as a bad area doesn’t mean people coming from there are bad.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J5F24O3C5NFWFNB27DLSAWFJM4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635423},"content":"“When people are given opportunities and chances, they will take them. 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People’s genuine fears were stoked by people who had far-right agendas,” says Murray.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3KKSQDQERFEYZFJPG4AVKSB3EU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635430},"content":"Dowling “panicked” when news of the stabbings broke. “I knew this was going to explode,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VUTPYQCWPVDTPFZWTNWQAJRGZM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635431},"content":"In the immediate aftermath “a lot of kids were quite fearful”, says Dowling, “coming out of school with fear: ‘What if someone comes to my school with a knife?’”","type":"text"},{"_id":"EZL5XUZTXFAA3NEIEG4G663VTY","additional_properties":{"_id":"T5K6UMGTGVGLPCG2NHWBM3DASU"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"5BEKFGHQRBB4LLUPN74IUBX5DA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635433},"content":"Children of colour feared being attacked. Schools and clubs saw a drop in attendance in the days afterwards.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RYQDDGVFUZF65PSBHGHLXEJLUM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635434},"content":"Many of Fay’s peers were “shook up that this could be allowed to happen, and worried for the future”. They then felt their community was blamed, he adds.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GMUXURSPGFELRFMCOJO5WV2DXE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635435},"content":"Minister for Justice Helen McEntee described those involved in the riots as “<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2023/12/08/justine-mccarthy-politicians-throwing-around-terms-like-scumbags-and-thugs-is-a-slippery-slope/\" target=\"_blank\">scumbags</a>”. Politicians described their horror at the violence but offered little comfort to those most affected, says Fay.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IHM76TBAVRF3XPJFTSWL5Z543U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635436},"content":"“The impact of the riots, especially on my community, was like a slap in the face,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"X3CP347EEFEE7BSZYGYXX3LU7M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635439},"content":"The area is one of sharp economic contrasts. The Irish Financial Services Centre area is classified by independent agency Pobal as “very affluent”, while adjacent homes around Sheriff Street, Oriel Street and Summerhill Parade are “very disadvantaged”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"546IMRVHFFBRHPKPOTQTM7XL3U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635440},"content":"“It feels like the community is crying out for very small things that would make a huge difference but always it’s only the bare minimum that is done,” says Fay.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JD6D6DAPUNHOFFIZWAPCANSW2Y","additional_properties":{"_id":"XX7C2FQW4VFXZODNSM4O2ZRZVM"},"content":"Election 2024: Elderly in Dublin’s north inner city say they are unconvinced by politicians","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"YV636VARHBHC5D33ZPVGYLJSIE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635442},"content":"He believes a portion of Dublin City Council’s €35 million budget for a <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2024/11/17/it-will-rejuvenate-our-great-city-ambitious-plans-for-dublin-lido-move-a-step-closer/\" target=\"_blank\">swimming pool</a> on George’s Dock would have “a bigger, better impact” tackling antisocial behaviour than employing a hundred extra gardaí.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DVLLK4IQBBDS7AC6TM25WBYQTA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635443},"content":"“We know what the problems are and how to solve them,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SO7UCK4QJNEEBG2EWLZRCC625Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635444},"content":"Fay knows people his age or younger, sleeping rough and selling drugs – “kids who have trauma”. He says there are supports in our area that would help them.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PA5CJ6JELVFHHB6VFN5GBDRML4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635445},"content":"“But just not enough,” he says. “The services that could save them are crying out for funding. That’s State neglect.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"SLOU5GRRIJGNVGQTWHXYL6G52I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635446},"content":"Dowling says well-funded youth services are “crucial” where parents haven’t the capacity to mitigate the impact of poverty.","type":"text"},{"_id":"52B4ZAZ6BJA3JE2ESBXQCAWNRU","additional_properties":{"_id":"N6MWVZYI2RG2VN6FLKSFJ3EPU4"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"LBR366R37FD63LCRVIG4RFWGIM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635448},"content":"Both he and Murray grew up in the area and “were born into social deficit but were lucky enough that our parents and peers were able to wrap around us and support us”, says Dowling.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AWDLNKRAW5GXDOQFOO5S63SLMQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635449},"content":"“I don’t believe anyone is born wanting to do something wrong. 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While the retailer’s window display centres around the 12 days of Christmas, its Christmas shop has been open for almost 100 days already with the first decorations of the year sold last August.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XFBJLVNX4VH6ZFCNHSME775MU4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731598398146},"content":"“Our Christmas shop has been really successful this year,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"X2AEFIK7Z5DA7OPAWWDJVVPM2Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1731598398147},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"W3AOHJXX35BMVF3L6X7KGYNS24","additional_properties":{"_id":1731598398148},"content":"He said the luxury market in Ireland “is outperforming the international market at the moment and we’re quite confident that we’re going to see a lot of customers coming into our two Dublin stores in particular”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YCDY6C2IB5FUNMX3YVDX7FFP3I","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Conor Pope"}},"name":"Conor Pope"}]},"description":{"basic":"Grafton Street set for festive season as children from Little Blue Heroes Foundation launch illuminations in city"},"display_date":"2024-11-14T20:53:33.789Z","headlines":{"basic":"Dublin Christmas lights switch on as traders nervously optimistic about business","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"OFCT5MR6OVFA3N2VY6W33QH3TQ","auth":{"1":"c04f0ad7f109ec20b88cadea85428d8e6c347b16d6c9c96c35a1f5221d667dba"},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/OFCT5MR6OVFA3N2VY6W33QH3TQ.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Dublin"},{"name":"Ireland"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/ireland/dublin/2024/11/14/dublin-christmas-lights-switch-on-as-traders-nervously-optimistic-about-business/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/ireland/dublin","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Dublin"}}}}],"count":755,"_id":"91d973641cce3060e9a855d047bc39b737b27fe7fade97e0947734ee3bafcd21"},"expires":1732945835317,"lastModified":1732945534955},"{\"feedOffset\":0,\"feedSize\":5,\"offset\":0,\"query\":\"(taxonomy.primary_section._id:\\\"/ireland/social-affairs\\\")\",\"size\":5}":{"data":{"content_elements":[{"_id":"RKB7PUD32RB2RCGTKITPZKDOKY","additional_properties":{},"canonical_url":"/ireland/social-affairs/2024/11/29/church-services/","content_elements":[{"_id":"2X3MWBGEGRBIBNTZTNBLHOTVPU","additional_properties":{},"content":"CATHEDRALS","type":"header"},{"_id":"WDWUPUISKNH4JFDFAYG3EJTX3E","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>National Cathedral of Saint Patrick, Dublin </b>THE FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT 09.15 EUCHARIST said in the Lady Chapel. 11.15 CHORAL EUCHARIST sung by the Lay Vicars Choral - Taverner: Mass for a Meane, Psalm: 25 vv 1-9, Mundy: Sive Vigilem, Preacher: The Revd K.M. 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Regardless of your age, background, experience or previous church connections you are welcome to come and visit us. For more information, visit <a href=\"http://www.lpc.ie/\">http://www.lpc.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"HTLPRGVYNJDGFIIOW5DCSQC6IU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Maynooth Presbyterian Church</b> Known locally as Maynooth Community Church; and meets together for worship on Sundays at 10:30am at Manor Mills Shopping Centre, Maynooth, Co. Kildare. On the first Sunday of the month we celebrate the Lords Supper (Communion). Rev Keith McCrory. Free parking is available in the underground car park and the service takes place on the 1st Floor. To find out more, visit <a href=\"http://maynoothcc.org/\">http://maynoothcc.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"6O6KJU4IIVFA3E5SMTCMJ4IMD4","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Naas Presbyterian Church, Co. Kildare</b> 11am with preacher, Mr Tom Dowling, Kilkenny Presbyterian. Programme for children during the service, and tea and coffee served afterwards. The church building is located across the street from the post office and town hall, and overlooks South Main Street - you cannot miss us. For further information, visit our Facebook page: <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/NaasPCI\">www.facebook.com/NaasPCI</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"CKRDRFEAOZGEFBDBAAXOJSMEQU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Andrews, Blackrock, Co. Dublin</b> Sundays at 9.45am for a traditional service of prayer and praise with contemporary Bible-based preaching. During the service there is a creche and Junior Church for children and young people aged 5 to 15 years. For more information, visit <a href=\"https://standrewschurchblackrock.ie/\">https://standrewschurchblackrock.ie</a> - Rev Andrew Gill","type":"text"},{"_id":"2MPSU43CEVCRZB2R7DA7TBJFZE","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Andrews, Bray, Co. 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While the number of Ukrainian women seeking pregnancy support has dropped, the clinic now operates as a satellite service connected to the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/coombe-hospital/\" target=\"_blank\">Coombe</a>, offering maternity and gynaecological care to pregnant women going through the international protection system.","type":"text"},{"_id":"P3TGQO2UFVACFB64ZJIQ7IXBYM","additional_properties":{"_id":"DE5BMGTANJBURELUR5KBN3KDEQ"},"content":"Are you entitled to go on maternity leave a second time straight after your first ends?","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"2BQPUCSX6ZACNP376TAWK2CTRU","additional_properties":{"_id":1731406685916},"content":"A total of 130 pregnant asylum-seeking women have attended the clinic since June 2023, when data started being collected. Current patients are most likely to be from Nigeria, Jordan, Bangladesh or Somalia. Before the clinic existed, pregnancy care for an asylum-seeking woman was “very messy” and “fractured”, says lead community midwife Emer Shine. “These women would all be quite high-risk, just by the fact that they’re all in international protection. A lot have gestational diabetes and FGM [female genital mutilation] is definitely an issue.” The diet many of these women have while living in emergency accommodation is also concerning, she adds.","type":"text"},{"_id":"U2LYZZ7WBVBKRK2FAHDRTXVLOE","additional_properties":{"_id":1731406685917},"content":"The arrival of the clinic means there is now “continuity of care” with “better links” for asylum seekers in Dublin. “The women have a phone number to call me and ask the things you might ring your mam about because some have no family here.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"N7J3UH37OVHCZORS4PNU43MZKE","additional_properties":{"_id":1731406685918},"content":"Some women can still fall through the cracks. Shine recalls how a woman late in her pregnancy was recently transferred “in the middle of the night” from City Ark Hotel in Citywest to new accommodation in Tipperary. “It was only because she had my phone number that she could start calling us straight away. Eventually we got her transferred back to Dublin. She was 37 weeks pregnant [and also had]… a three-year-old toddler.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"NNFU5BZANZAUXCWYJYC6ESDXCE","additional_properties":{"_id":"A56K6XZWKFA55GJRYXOVRG6LN4"},"content":"Ireland set to be one of first countries in world to allow women pause maternity leave if seriously ill, Minister says","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"ZZPCZY2KZZBFTMF4RVEPAVDFXM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731406685919},"content":"Elanor Hale, the clinic’s senior medical social worker, agrees that the new system is “more co-ordinated and efficient” and “a lot easier for women to access”. 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Working with Roma and asylum-seeking women from certain countries “is almost like looking at Irish women 50 years ago, when women had no rights”. Many of these women do not have access to finances or even have their own phone, she says. Some cannot read or write and many of those who can, do not recognise the letters of the Roman alphabet. “You cannot assume that everybody can access or read a text from the hospital. Because of my age and experience I appreciate that these are women with no voice. And my age is an advantage to me, I’m like their grandmother You build up trust, you build up a relationship.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"JMXB4EQOMZF45FI5UG3A65FFU4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731406685930},"content":"“These are real people, these are real stories and you can see the trauma on their faces and in their body language. 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If it is not your phone, it is your smartwatch or a tablet, vibrating with notifications to let us know exactly what we are missing out on.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WDQ7KRHLFBEBLJI3VOCXO2YCEM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732525409894},"content":"The simple answer would be to put the devices down, turn off notifications and step away. Break the cycle of information overload, reduce our stress levels, go back to a simpler time. But who are we kidding? Some people like the idea of tracking their steps, others want to keep track of their heart rate and sleep","type":"text"},{"_id":"HXISI3WTEJBLFLXNPWZJLZIRWA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732525409896},"content":"The Galaxy Ring gets rid of at least one of those screens. Instead of having a watch that flashes up notifications and vibrates to grab your attention, the Galaxy Ring records your health and wellness data in the background, quietly, unobtrusively and accurately.","type":"text"},{"_id":"H3YHK4WS3BAWVPBTIMAWEWFGE4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732525409897},"content":"The ring will pick up a few metrics. First there is heart rate, which it tracks through the sensors on the inside of the ring’s band. It also tracks skin temperature while you sleep, warning you of potential changes that could mean an impact on your health.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TBXNUZHWCZFMBBNRHRFN3PJBWM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732623780443},"content":"An accelerometer tracks movement, automatically detecting walking and running.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZRIH7D7BRFG7TLPGZ5PGFJLCNM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732525409898},"content":"It gathers that data, combines it with its own Galaxy AI and spits back some recommendations and health tips. Each day you get a physical readiness score based on the previous day’s activity level, heart rate data and your sleeping pattern, letting you know whether you can take it easy or need to step up the physical activity a bit.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KXCZFUFN7FGQ3MBQXLHPIQSPUQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732525409899},"content":"Out of the box, the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/samsung/\" target=\"_blank\">Samsung </a>Galaxy Ring looks impressive. It comes in a clear charging case that doubles as a way to monitor the battery life of the ring, with a ring of LED lights that correspond to the ring’s battery level when you put it in the case.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XIWBFEUR5BBBBBA4D57ZNVHNII","additional_properties":{"_id":1732525409900},"content":"The version reviewed here was the matt black titanium finish, but you can get it in gold or silver too. It is thinner than some of the rings I’ve tested, and feels much more comfortable to wear. There were times I forgot I was wearing it, although the black finish makes it stand out.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RR7MYWDT6JE5DA3F3YKEXSATNQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732623780447},"content":"It held up well, too; a small scuff on the edge of the underside of the ring was the only evidence that this device had been worn at all.","type":"text"},{"_id":"D23TZYZ2RZCUDJVHVHP6UILMJU","additional_properties":{"_id":"IMFISMA2CRB43AVHDM2GN66I7U"},"content":"Samsung unveils Galaxy Ring, AI-powered phones","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"5QADQFXKJVCJRJ6N7Y2GCRUUOI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732525409901},"content":"After about a week, you have a good idea of your sleep metrics and your activity levels, and you can just check in on the Samsung health app regularly to see how things are progressing and pick up on any areas that you may need to improve. If you want subtle health tracking that actually works, the Galaxy Ring does a good job.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LVO47DSV5VAILIEZKVMADA3EXI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732525409902},"content":"This ring will work with Android devices, including non-Samsung ones, but it is designed to slot into the Samsung ecosystem, and more specifically, the newer devices. So if you want to get the most out of it, you will need at least a Galaxy smartphone that supports its new Galaxy AI. That is because the wellness tips rely on Galaxy AI to offer up some insights. The more you wear it, the more you get out of it.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FZNVU7EHLJESDDCGNRDKDBMBZM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732525409903},"content":"Likewise, the ring will link in with the Galaxy Watch to tag team on health monitoring. The watch can take over activity tracking or heart rate monitoring, saving the Galaxy Ring’s battery from being used unnecessarily.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DXJBXVDUBRDPJHOXJH4FBXMA6A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732525409904},"content":"So far, so good. There are rivals, of course. Oura has been active in this space for a long time, with generation four of its ring released recently, and it works with iOS devices. Movano’s Evie Ring is aiming itself at women’s health. And for serious athletes, you have the Ultrahuman version.","type":"text"},{"_id":"T5LJX6GSYBEYPC7TMKRMAFYMKI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732525409905},"content":"Samsung’s ring is aimed at a more generic, everyday health audience. And it has at least one great point in its favour – it doesn’t need any other subscriptions to gain health insights, just that Galaxy smartphone.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OJBK6JFGLFAPPP6N5TNDLH7ANI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732525409906},"content":"It isn’t perfect, though. The auto activity tracking only works for walking and running, so fitness classes are out, as is swimming.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YXXPND2GL5A6FALYTHTBGPYR2M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732525409907},"content":"The ring also has some gesture controls. Tapping your finger and thumb together can silence an alarm on your phone, for example, or take a photo when the camera is open. It is interesting but still fairly limited; still, it is an indicator of where this could go in the future.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XE7QWYWDVND25APOJA52VSY7NM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732525409908},"content":"Good","type":"header"},{"_id":"2KVHX4HUOJHEPIYJCXVXCBJ2BA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732525409909},"content":"The Galaxy Ring is lightweight and it is easy to forget you are wearing it. Its tracking is accurate, matching not only the Oura Ring but also a chest-strap heart rate monitor, which is considered the most accurate way to monitor your pulse.","type":"text"},{"_id":"34CEEK7OY5AOLDSBL4M4RXY6XY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732525409910},"content":"The charging case is a handy place to store it – no chance the ring will get knocked off – and can be used to see how much battery life is left in the ring through its series of LED lights.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FCIBOTAA7RENPIQKFL5G5V6PIA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732525409911},"content":"Bad","type":"header"},{"_id":"IJ6OIT5IONABTO3R5RRGDSBLCM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732525409912},"content":"It doesn’t work with iOS, and some of its features are reserved for Samsung’s own newer Galaxy phones, including the wellness tips that rely on Galaxy AI. Some features are limited, such as exercise tracking, which only picks up walking and running automatically.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FO56BRR3QFGMBFFT7PY2IS3VWA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732525409913},"content":"Everything else","type":"header"},{"_id":"OBNMWJV2QZED7LAJBKEZEIP4DM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732525409914},"content":"It is rated as water resistant up to 100ATM, so you can wash your hands without having to take it off, or go swimming and even do a bit of snorkelling for short periods of time without removing the ring.","type":"text"},{"_id":"B65ZTGTCMRHHBGB7RUZBQN3DEI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732525409915},"content":"You get about a week out of a full battery charge, but larger ring sizes will get longer.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3ZG5DCVMCNGWZDEICVNGJ6ZWOI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732525409916},"content":"Verdict","type":"header"},{"_id":"6D6GC3KH5FEXDBIXT4S7Z7N2LI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732525409917},"content":"A good choice for Android – mostly Samsung Galaxy – users, and a positive starting point for Samsung. 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At one point, she paused to lift a sculpture of a hand holding up its middle finger.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CN4ARXPGWBGB5PHS3B3GYULU3I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732618438679},"content":"“What should I do with this?” Vestager (56) asked. The middle finger, she has said, was a reminder not to let critics get you down.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VJXJNSLFRZCQ3GYF4OLZDGZ42M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732618438680},"content":"Vestager, a Danish politician who was the rare EU official to become known globally, has faced plenty of detractors over the years. When she was appointed to police antitrust in 2014, she became one of the first government officials in the world to aggressively bring cases and fines against <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/google/\" target=\"_blank\">Google</a>, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/apple/\" target=\"_blank\">Apple</a> and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/amazon/\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon</a> for conducting illegal business practices and trying to block competition.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J7IMXC5VB5GPNIQK4DK227YPBA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732618438681},"content":"At the time, the US digital titans were growing quickly and were highly popular for their innovations. Vestager grappled with backlash for her actions, with tech leaders saying she was stymieing Europe’s economy by scaring off start-ups from building in the region. In 2018, then US president <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump</a> reportedly said she “really hates” America.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UXZ4KSO7XRAPRJA7RKX2MGMCMU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732618438682},"content":"But as Vestager closes out her era in Brussels, regulating the tech industry has become more mainstream around the world. Thanks to her, Europe is now widely seen as the pioneer of the toughest laws against tech. US regulators have in recent years followed Europe by bringing antitrust lawsuits against Google, Apple, Meta and Amazon. Regulators in South Korea, Australia, Brazil, Canada and elsewhere are also taking on the tech giants.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7HGHPGHPNJDZLHOUPN2ERF7NYE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732618438683},"content":"“It is extremely satisfying,” Vestager told the New York Times, adding that she cried when the European Union’s highest court gave her an unexpected victory in August in a protracted tax avoidance case against Apple. “People thought that we were crazy because, 10 years ago, Big Tech was untouchable. They were the most admired, the most innovative, the most promising companies that you could think of.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"GBSNRMMHQFFA7K3VIWRVNDJZ6U","additional_properties":{"_id":"UC3NXZJTR5DODG65D7X4YUNHLI"},"content":"The Irish Times view on regulation of big tech: a high stakes game","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"DTY7LYTGZ5AMPBDD7QA437UY6U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732618438685},"content":"Even in Washington, Vestager has gone from outcast to trailblazer. In September, when she made a final visit to her counterparts at the US justice department, staff members there packed a room to hear her speak and gave her a standing ovation as she exited.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LLUCOPOVRREFVKWNKY2XUDXSVM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732618438686},"content":"“She is a transformational figure,” said Jonathan Kanter, the head of the department’s antitrust division, who has a framed picture in his office of a cartoon mouse giving the middle finger as a homage to Vestager. “She came into office at a time when not a lot of people were talking about the importance of strong oversight of digital gatekeepers. Because of her, it’s an important and relevant topic of conversation.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"KLOMDB66IJG23G6ZZFGRCRTFDE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732618438688},"content":"Vestager is now preparing to take a role at a university in Denmark. 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Vestager praised the Biden administration’s more aggressive approach, which has included overseeing antitrust trials against Google. In one case, the justice department is currently pushing for a break-up of the internet giant.","type":"text"},{"_id":"G525AY327FDMFM7JATIIYCKWSQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732618438697},"content":"For a US regulator to take such a big step would have ripple effects globally and could change industry behaviour, Vestager said. “We are in the business of deterrence,” she said. “And if we do not once in a while use our most powerful tools, there’s no deterrence.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"4TMGHRMTW5APNAI2PHUMBE2R6I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732618438699},"content":"The departing commissioner said it was “very difficult to say” how things would change under Trump when he returns to the White House in January, but she noted how quickly tech leaders had congratulated him on his election.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EAXLG6SYCFDOJITV42OXIJDKBY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732618438700},"content":"“When you saw how fast tech leaders congratulated president-elect Trump, you see that there was a strong hope that this will all change,” she said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KNY4R36PL5GM5PZ775VJWTHOFI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732618438701},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"3CKNCD2DJFEJTNR4ZYYDWA76NQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732618438703},"content":"Vestager said she avoided reading toxic comments online, which she added had a dangerous effect on democracy because people – particularly women – were being scared away from participating in politics.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NEHPLMVRMNCKVK2ZCPWXAHH2PI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732618438704},"content":"“There’s one purpose for this: ‘You, woman, shut up. Go home. Keep quiet. We don’t want to know of you,’” she said. “I’ve heard so many young, talented, passionate, ambitious women say, ‘I don’t want that to be part of my life.’”","type":"text"},{"_id":"AX3NUURPQJFEDKZKI7FGHGRVYE","additional_properties":{"_id":"FTHBL5GWUVH4HJ46JGAE6RTD5U"},"content":"Will Wall Street allow Big Tech to make AI work?","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"NX53VLFBHZADVO5M5NIPOQAKKY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732618438705},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"7XBALRI5PFER3K5AXZIDV5MYFE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732618438706},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"WDAWN3LENNDAVJGUVP4CZEJDSM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732618438707},"content":"Vestager said a new European law, the Digital Services Act, gave EU authorities critical new powers to regulate social media platforms. She said internet companies did not always appreciate that European laws differed from those in the United States over what constituted illegal speech, including racism, anti-Semitism and terrorist content.","type":"text"},{"_id":"S3HTJZ27ZZEMRBLJVNHQSUSGUE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732618438708},"content":"“If a platform is used to undermine democracy, well, then clearly it is not in compliance with the Digital Services Act,” she said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6SIU2MFAJNFZ3DTAMOHSZMWUOI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732618438709},"content":"She said the new law was needed to take on companies, including X and Telegram, that didn’t do enough to police their platforms for harmful and illicit material.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M4QF7Y2C75ADFL6LE4KQBGRHQU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732618438710},"content":"“I find it completely legitimate that, for instance, my home country, Denmark, passes a law that makes hate speech illegal,” she said. “What I find to be not legitimate is not wanting to respect those laws.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"CXQAOWNKUJGHZHYEEFLU56QYRA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732619295924},"content":"Vestager said Elon Musk’s closeness to Trump must not influence regulation of his companies, including X, which is under investigation by the European Commission.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BBBIQMD3IRE4XH5XJ2FUTB7T74","additional_properties":{"_id":1732618438711},"content":"“One of the fundamentals of the European model is rule of law and equal treatment, and that must be for everybody,” she said. – This article originally appeared in <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/technology/margrethe-vestager-eu-antitrust.html\">The New York Times</a>.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"name":"Adam Satariano"}]},"description":{"basic":"EU’s antitrust enforcer leaves Brussels proud of her tenure but conscious that it had been only ‘partly successful’"},"display_date":"2024-11-28T05:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Margrethe Vestager, the world’s pioneering tech cop, is making her exit","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"HBVMSMIEEQJ6BMXEDKJDG4OZ2I","auth":{"1":"2c1af583e07e55d6ba7027d0050d2ff2c1de1aa15504c69825022d285723187a"},"focal_point":{"x":2233,"y":2023},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/HBVMSMIEEQJ6BMXEDKJDG4OZ2I.jpg"}},"subtype":"feature","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Big Tech"},{"name":"World"},{"name":"Europe"},{"name":"Business"},{"name":"Technology"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/technology/big-tech/2024/11/28/margrethe-vestager-the-worlds-pioneering-tech-cop-is-making-her-exit/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/technology/big-tech","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Big Tech"}}}},{"_id":"AHNEZIM2ZRFSRKCT5NXPX3IVQA","additional_properties":{},"canonical_url":"/technology/2024/11/25/microsoft-outage-hits-customers-email-accounts/","content_elements":[{"_id":"QF4JNBH4D5DMBFJF6AJDBQLVWI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732527725725},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"T25HCGLOIJGO3P2WAEWUJ672TE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Microsoft users have been hit with a new outage on Monday that left many unable to access email or certain functions in the company’s collaborative messaging software.","type":"text"},{"_id":"K2YBSDCHOFE73JRJSTFKZXUSKE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732527815124},"content":"Reports surged online of problems from users all over Europe, with some reporting problems access the web version of Microsoft’s email. 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Even though the president-elect had openly attacked Amazon and Apple by name, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/amazon/68/\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Bezos</a> and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/tim-cook/\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Cook</a> joined many others to compete in a non-televised episode of The Apprentice: Nerd Edition,” she writes. She adds that by halfway through Trump’s (first) term, “it was dead clear that I had underestimated how compromised the tech companies would become”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XDCFL6BD7ZBRVB4JKD7TXXZUQM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732110635714},"content":"Hah. Well, it’s eight years since that inglorious meeting, and November has been a hold-my-beer moment for that compromised sector. Why slither through the back door when it’s possible to genuflect and enter by the front door, like <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/elon-musk/\" target=\"_blank\">Elon Musk</a>? Or, voluntarily declaw, like Washington Post owner Bezos, who blocked the paper from endorsing a presidential candidate – which was to have been Harris – and post-election was quick off the mark with a congratulatory X tweet. At least he didn’t post to Trump’s far-right platform Truth Social. Yet?","type":"text"},{"_id":"7XHVJONZHJHJLK2QU2Q25BTUOM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732110635715},"content":"In the US, the initial post-election take – at least in the tech C-suite and the media – was that tech was quietly celebrating because Trump and his allies have voiced (kind of) anti-regulatory and non-interventionist business views.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XZXIJNRHVJC3BAT3YWXZ26S6PU","additional_properties":{"_id":"YZZKC5EY5JDJ7NUDYY7QZGR5YY"},"content":"US regulators will push Google to sell Chrome browser","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"OVHRO5YSEVEHLIAXFW2242HEEE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732110635716},"content":"Now, the crypto crowd, including Musk, who significantly bankrolled the Trump campaign’s closing weeks, clearly hope to reap a handy switcheroo since the whole sector had taken a battering after, ahem, high-profile collapses, failures, arrests and imprisonments. Make crypto great again has, at least for now, worked. But I predict that Trump will do for crypto what benefits him personally and – unless JD Vance gets elected to head the follow-on administration in 2028 – a needed crypto clean-up and crackdown will come once Trump exits the White House.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FF7XSPYJO5DSPNUUB2DLDKH6XQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732110635717},"content":"However, I seriously doubt many other Big Tech Trump enthusiasms are likely to be rewarded, much less the congratulations posted on social media by the heads of Microsoft, Google, Apple, Open AI etc. Let’s start within the US and a headspinning two weeks of cabinet appointments.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M7EAW5ZKW5CFFPD3UWKRLMOTWI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732110635718},"content":"Two weeks ago, many tech chief executives were posting congratulatory hopeful hints about engaging on regulation, investment and – but of course – innovation. And last week, many tech investment and crypto figures were publicly gushing during a Las Vegas gathering of the conservative political advocacy group the Rockbridge Network (cofounded<a href=\"https://wapo.st/48WIXXC\" target=\"_blank\"> </a>by incoming vice-president Vance). One predicted “the regulatory cutbacks are going to be profound” while one of the founders of tech incubator Y-Combinator enthused, “Everything is on the table!” Many were confident of a major rollback of AI development restrictions.","type":"text"},{"_id":"46QIUB3MEJAWPE565OZPY22JKM","additional_properties":{"_id":"65XAQ652DZCT5FGSP43BILAWJQ"},"content":"Tech leaders show delight at Trump victory","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"DCVFFHJO7BHMVE56IW25MIJB5U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732110635719},"content":"Yet this week, Trump chose a major anti-Big Tech figure for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) one of the most powerful federal regulatory agencies, which doesn’t quite signal unbridled deregulation. Then, of course, there’s Trump’s long history of publicly whining about many of Big Tech’s top-tier companies and leaders (regardless of whether they’ve bended the knee) such as Meta/Zuckerberg and Amazon/Bezos.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BJCEY6D2FRDUJO5MXLGRFKLVNE","additional_properties":{"_id":"D43LA6LD7ZGZHHIQQBFEVMSRXA"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"TYD4FV44XBBVVGU42T5OZMGIBM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732110635720},"content":"Trump’s FCC pick, Brendan Carr, wrote the <a href=\"https://(https//wapo.st/48WIXXC\" target=\"_blank\">chapter </a>on the FCC in the notorious far-right Trump-win economic plan called Project 2025, which was so publicly unpopular that Trump had to distance himself from it during his campaign. At least until now. Here’s what Carr says about Big Tech in Project 2025: “Today, a handful of corporations can shape everything from the information we consume to the places we shop. These corporate behemoths are not merely exercising market power, they are abusing dominant positions.” Sure sounds like a prelude to big-R Regulation to me.","type":"text"},{"_id":"43RE5RQVNZCFLAEJO2KYFLGGHY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732110635721},"content":"Then, finally, there’s the non-trivial regulatory elephant in the room, especially for AI: the EU (and other world regulatory jurisdictions). OpenAI and other AI companies and investors can burble all they wish about freedom to innovate, but there are significant restrictions in what they do and how they operate in a market larger than the US and, surely, essential to their bottom lines.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KT26XYK7VVAOXMFFWYGISR5BFU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732110635722},"content":"The same is true for all of big (and small) tech. Strong EU regulations around data collection and handling, privacy protections, online advertising, use of cookies, antitrust, crypto, social media, AI and other areas mean none of these companies or individuals can just do what they want, even if – and it’s a big if – Trump greenlighted it all.","type":"text"},{"_id":"X2KGIBKMU5CIJELJ2LNEIZBXIU","additional_properties":{"_id":"PBDWXTVB25GF5HLYKFONJRR5DE"},"content":"Donald Trump’s economic plan: the key areas for Ireland","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"ELGBICIMXFALFG5DXTYXTO3EQU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732110635723},"content":"Perhaps the unlikely tech bellwether here is far-right tech investor and company founder Peter Thiel, who loomed very large in terms of donations and opining (à la Musk now) in 2016. Yet once Trump was elected, and Thiel clearly wasn’t needed, he faded in influence and visibility. So much for payback. He was not significantly involved with – nor donating towards – Trump 2024.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UBMTKTUTIRGPPLQWLPAQKA4RZI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732110635724},"content":"The only certainty over the next four years is that, like Swisher in 2016, we’ll all underestimate just how much (mostly useless) kowtowing room for further Trump-era compromise lies ahead for today’s tech companies and leaders.","type":"text"},{"_id":"F3A5UVFDKJH33INSKQJCH2QESE","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Karlin Lillington"}},"name":"Karlin Lillington"}]},"description":{"basic":"Incoming US president will not be all the tech industry is hoping for once he is in power"},"display_date":"2024-11-21T06:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Big Tech may not get everything it wants from Trump","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"ZEL35DBKCDH2T2CIRXWPCAFBTU","auth":{"1":"7bb3d85a0a82192b8a9f074a0434664e86169df9c28dbe735b22bed3baa3e449"},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/ZEL35DBKCDH2T2CIRXWPCAFBTU.jpg"}},"subtype":"columnist","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Technology"},{"name":"Business"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/technology/2024/11/21/big-tech-may-not-get-everything-it-wants-from-trump/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/technology","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Technology"}}}}],"count":10000,"_id":"2813c78337456045416fd68c6e997ea943d64ba50d6ffc7ddf1cbc30d9ec3666"},"expires":1732945948978,"lastModified":1732945648809}},"story-feed-tag":{"{\"feedOffset\":0,\"feedSize\":1,\"tagSlug\":\"letter-of-the-day\"}":{"data":{"content_elements":[{"_id":"YZLUSQ2IH5H35EUZYX3TXAXS6U","additional_properties":{},"canonical_url":"/opinion/letters/2024/11/30/election-2024-its-all-over-bar-the-counting/","content_elements":[{"_id":"DL3S4NJGJJGOTPBIW5VSGCU7ZM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Sir, – Thank goodness we don’t have electronic voting. Let the fun commence. – Yours, etc,","type":"text"},{"_id":"V5VJEVSREVA4NOBKBMIERULPPY","additional_properties":{},"content":"DAVID CURRAN,","type":"text"},{"_id":"EEGBOM7T5RCJVKRYMZNCKON5II","additional_properties":{},"content":"Knocknacarra,","type":"text"},{"_id":"R5YBJWHUAVGALDOWF2EKMDCGA4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Galway. 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","type":"text"},{"_id":"PQ6UYZUW3RGLNLDUH72FRF65UQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Sir, – To all those who will be elected over the weekend, congratulations.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ENM35EQIZ5AF7AVHLRBSDFZJ7Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"They are representatives of the people in their constituency and deserve to be heard, without interruption, even if you disagree with them.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZFXQ5UKWMVANRJ6E3FOPEAPOOU","additional_properties":{},"content":"They were elected for five years. If, after some of that time they want a new election, they can resign their seats and, if they can, persuade others to join them. – Yours, etc,","type":"text"},{"_id":"T4Z3WEBZOZERXG6MDUZML2KUTA","additional_properties":{},"content":"DIARMUID O’LEARY,","type":"text"},{"_id":"ILS2K6IXIBDERLE7H6RJE3G4FQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Kilfinane,","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZZPMFDONKFGXNLV77IIP6LMSBQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Co Limerick. 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The room in the school is also the very furthest away. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"PPANVSGHLJA53MYEL23QWSFIQM","additional_properties":{},"content":"I was exhausted. The staff did not know until they arrived that there was no vehicular access. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"U6KZGICQ6VER7CPWN3ZBZB2MGA","additional_properties":{},"content":"As a female, I always exercise my right to vote. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"SB2SXUYJWFG2HGBHUZ5O6YJ2KM","additional_properties":{},"content":"By the time I got back to the car, I had to sit for 15 minutes to catch my breath. I don’t know how an ambulance could get there. – Yours, etc,","type":"text"},{"_id":"WIPVV53A4NABXFSYXTBDMBH2VE","additional_properties":{},"content":"LILIAN WEBB,","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q64DUALFLNADRBVWHHTPBIUZOU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Naas,","type":"text"},{"_id":"2QLID22I6ZFQTA4BOYIUY6WGTI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Co Kildare. 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The first and best way to guard against them is by actively participating in the democratic process and casting a vote today.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[]},"description":{"basic":"Our electoral system tends to reward consensus and tolerance over extremism and polarisation"},"display_date":"2024-11-29T00:30:00Z","headlines":{"basic":" The Irish Times view on using your vote: a precious right that must be defended","native":"Voting is a precious right and the best way to protect it is by using it"},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"CO24HD252JEBPIJN3D7MPOPJ74","auth":{"1":"abc2de1dcbfd7f8a7c2c379d6f80461b410ee80debb8d78f9f1d11942105d95a"},"focal_point":{"x":950,"y":477},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/CO24HD252JEBPIJN3D7MPOPJ74.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Editorials"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/opinion/editorials/2024/11/29/the-irish-times-view-on-using-your-vote-a-precious-right-that-must-be-defended/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/opinion/editorials","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Editorials"}}}},{"_id":"575CYOGYZJGFRERTYMXKCWWNNM","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":129,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/1e947cd3-81ae-46ed-a091-cb8ba7865895/versions/1732819881/media/2afe6cd699e6e689a44d94571bffcbb4_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/opinion/editorials/2024/11/29/the-irish-times-view-on-black-friday-buyers-be-wary/","content_elements":[{"_id":"DFN7QW36AVHO7O7C6O53XORQ3M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732816026382},"content":"Irish consumers will spend tens of millions of euro this weekend during the so-called <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2024/11/25/irish-buy-into-black-friday-shopping-more-than-european-peers-says-pwc/\" target=\"_blank\">Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales window</a> and while some people will no doubt find bargains, many others will end up buying products they don’t need or can’t afford at discounted prices that turn out to be largely illusory.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UY4JKWQRKVCMTFDPLLSY2VCOD4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732816026383},"content":"According to <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2024/11/22/irish-shoppers-losing-interest-and-trust-in-black-friday-sales/\" target=\"_blank\">recent research from the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, (CCPC)</a>, Irish shoppers have a healthy degree of scepticism, with just 30 per cent trusting that discounts displayed on Black Friday are real.","type":"text"},{"_id":"I6I2Z4T2KRB7XMI4FAM73RTN4I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732816026384},"content":"This is entirely warranted. Repeated studies from British consumer magazine Which? have shown that retailers in the UK – many of whom also operate in the Republic – are guilty of exaggerating the deals on offer. The vast bulk of the products sold at a discount were found to be available at the same price – or even less – in the six months before or after the supposed sales.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SBWT57IV4VDM7NVIBMT7SYCX4I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732816026385},"content":"It is neither new nor surprising that retailers try to create the impression that they are offering real and substantial discounts on desirable stock at key points throughout the year, but they should not be allowed to mislead consumers or misrepresent the deals they have on offer.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2FAJWXRNMRG7JEEERE6KYV24QY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732816026386},"content":"When they do, it is consumers who end up paying the price. According to the CCPC “time-bound special offers and discounts” influence people in a negative way, with 45 per cent of those polled saying they had made unplanned purchases during a sale, only to regret it afterwards.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VAWQFJV25NHLPP6CBUZK72VHVI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732816026387},"content":"There are strong legal requirements on businesses when displaying discounts which mandate that sales offers must be genuine and show the prices before and after, with attempts to wilfully mislead consumers forbidden.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PMRNY7B2MJHGTH7WCF3SVVSVGY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732816026388},"content":"Many retailer adopt a far too relaxed approach to the legal requirements. It is welcome that the CCPC is announcing today that it is taking several retailers to court for breaching sales pricing laws. However, it lacks the powers to punish the worst offenders to a degree that will make them think twice about misleading consumers in the future. 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Loyal to the last and regally indifferent to his mass appeal, Marshall himself follows but one human on the ‘gram. He is one of the 19.5 million followers of Rogan’s account.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KWR6KUEI7RASBJLLKERQF4OJ5A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732881139215},"content":"In many ways, Joe Rogan is the 21st century version of Willy Loman, the quintessential American everyman. He’s a definitive Gen-Xer (born 1967), the product of Italian-Irish households and the son of a Newark cop who grew up in the messy, flawed and fun Boston of the 1970s. He elected not to finish college, pursued his passions in the uncertain career paths of martial arts and stand-up comedy, and now enters deep middle age as a man who likes to pump steel, wear T-shirts that emphasise his guns and arm tatts, keep his bald head shaven and smoke legalised weed. On paper, he does not make for a very broad Venn diagram. 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Trump was in a comfortable space: he shares Rogan’s love and knowledge of mixed martial arts and wrestling, and one of Rogan’s signature styles as an interviewer is that he is courteous to his guests during conversations that span three hours.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GJWKQQEIMRCX3IY4YGCOJHXNWM","additional_properties":{"_id":"OLAJDBRWZFC35M46RLKGEZHNWQ"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"GWJ7CMIG2ZBJLCXG6NR6FTVSPQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732884754703},"content":"In the weeks before the event, a question hung over whether <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/kamala-harris/\" target=\"_blank\">Kamala Harris</a> might be invited by Rogan as a guest on his show. He was, after all, someone who had voted Democrat for years and had previously spoken harshly about Trump. Sitting with Rogan was the equivalent of getting to address the entire population of the state of Florida with the certainty that everyone would be listening intently – and that if you won the host over, you would go a long way to winning his audience over too.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6IGUP3J7WFCNTF2ODSXEK4UYJU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732884754704},"content":"Except that Rogan’s listenership is largely composed of the voting group that perplexed Democratic and Republican strategists alike: the small army of disenchanted white men, boosted by an increasing number of equally disenchanted Hispanic men: broadly right-leaning but far from uniform in their views. They form a tribe seeking solace in the panoply of viewpoints and guests that Rogan, who has an eclectic range of interests, has on a podcast he started back in 2009 and steadily grew until Spotify snapped it up for $250 million.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SA333Q5UUVB5FFQOUE3MOBTRZ4","additional_properties":{"_id":"WPM6OIS5JVEBVPEEHPANCF2PLY"},"content":"Donald Trump on The Joe Rogan Experience: three hours of meandering, falsehood-filled talk marks a big moment for podcasts","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"KBHPZT5ALVD3XMP5CKUUGRAFCI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732884754705},"content":"His guests are a broad church: Rogan is an avowed Bernie Sanders supporter. He does frequent deep dives with obscure experts in science and astrology. He smoked a spliff with <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/elon-musk/\" target=\"_blank\">Elon Musk</a>. And he was berated for his softly-softly approach with Alex Jones, the Sandy Hook school massacre conspiracist.","type":"text"},{"_id":"O3ARADLSPRFA3IQ22FE7KZLMFU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732881139217},"content":"Since the election, Harris campaign staffers have said the Rogan interview failed to happen due to unfortunate timing, as much as anything. The Harris campaign had a starry reproductive rights event arranged in Texas, at which Beyoncé appeared. The hope was she could sit down with Rogan at his studio in Austin on that occasion. As fate – or perhaps canny Republican orchestration had it – Trump was booked to sit down with Rogan on that very day.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SSJCBCQBVBAWRPNBFPHEYX2GMI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732884754707},"content":"The Harris campaign wondered if Rogan would travel to DC for an hour-long interview. He would not: Rogan prefers that his guests travel to him. That was that. The merits of Harris dedicating an entire day to one podcast in her 100-day campaign are debatable. There is no guarantee that an interview with Rogan would have drawn anything like the Trump numbers. But the entire episode was another example of the sense that Trump was guided through this year by an unfailing instinct and timing. And just this week, Rogan noted that while the Democrats are publicly stating they need to find “their Joe Rogan”, he was there from the get-go.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NMVFNMBLFVAL5FRVBHKJVCW6J4","additional_properties":{"_id":"DQLMMWNQ7ZEN7MJXTYUK3JYOY4"},"content":"US election: Battle between CNN and Fox becomes more treacherous with the emergence of new media like Joe Rogan’s podcast","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"3N75R3K2ZJFMLLQC4IIKB555QE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732884754708},"content":"“But they had me,” he pointed out. “I was on their side.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"C7PMMWMRQND6FGGHDY4T7O57CM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732881139219},"content":"James Carville, the Louisianan grandee of Democratic strategists didn’t hold back this week at the idea that Harris had baulked at Rogan because younger staff members “pitched a hissy fit”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KLS65GVDLJDMPK6FENCWE2MM5M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732881139220},"content":"“If I were running a 2028 campaign and I had some snot-nosed 23-year-old saying I’m gonna resign if you don’t do this, not only would I fire that mother****er on the spot, I would find out who hired them and fire that person on the spot. I’m really not interested in your uniformed stupid jackass opinion as to whether you go on Joe Rogan or not.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"JJQROHYVX5FRFI7VHYAQEHWKXM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732881139221},"content":"It’s all music to Rogan’s ears. And this week underlined the international appeal of his mellow, meandering chatshow. Among the listeners was former heavyweight boxing world champion Wladimir Klitschko, who jumped on social media himself to offer a comment to the American. Klitschko is a decade younger than Rogan but they grew up in the same world: the clean stark division of east and west. His English is heavily accented and he sent Rogan his “vee-dee-oh” to call him out on his view that US weapons sent to Ukraine will lead to the third world war.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NPZFDHAI7BCJBKDFIFS34W5WOY","additional_properties":{"_id":"FY6BK4TJDBDPVDBFFRRKP3DK3Q"},"content":"Donald Trump’s presidency presents opportunity as well as danger","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"YFDOHQULOVEJ3P2MTMI6SZE5ZQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732884754712},"content":"“So let me tell you that you are repeating Russian propaganda. Putin’s Russia is in trouble. So, they want to scare you and people like you. Putin’s Russia wants to destroy Ukraine quietly. They want America to stay quiet. Not great, but quiet,” he said, adding that if Rogan invited Klitschko on his podcast they could discuss their differences “like free men”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JAJ4AZCAJRFVLBZTKOHOC72TL4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732881139222},"content":"It was a straight-talking invitation from a literal heavyweight figure of the world of combat, which has fascinated Joe Rogan from his teenage years. He is in the curious position now of finding himself as a figure of unparalleled influence, more by accident than design. Given his elevated role in the American conversation and the gravity of Klitschko’s remarks, Rogan is almost obliged to accept the invitation. 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They would need sign-off from a high court judge and also from two doctors. The patients would also have to be capable of administering the drugs themselves.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ECW24UBSFVDJDH323HBJPVOJ3A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732903616654},"content":"It was a free vote, meaning MPs could vote according to their conscience and were not whipped along party lines. This made the outcome of the vote unpredictable. MPs previously rejected a similar proposal in 2015.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M2AD5DELPVBYHCABER7N7T73PU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732903616655},"content":"The debate started at 9.30am and the bell rung for MPs to divide into the “yes” and “no” lobbies at about 2.10pm. Prime minister <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/keir-starmer/\" target=\"_blank\">Keir Starmer</a>, whose government was meant to remain neutral on the Bill, entered the chamber for the first time at 2.15pm, after he had voted.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JIZQ4F64X5FWJIQDIVRJGCK2UI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732903616656},"content":"The first indication that the proposal had passed was noticed by journalists watching from the gallery, in the minutes before the tellers announced the result. A colleague of Ms Leadbeater who had been speaking to her could be seen giving a quick thumbs up to another MP across the floor as she sat down. Then the official result was announced in the chamber.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UUI2UCHNTFHNXBMBFDZHC3FTBE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732903616657},"content":"The vote passed by 330 votes to 275, a larger margin than had been anticipated even though polls in recent weeks showed the British public was strongly in favour of the move.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QYWY7EKZWJAMVHCKJQLKPXJNI4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732903616658},"content":"The free vote, however, led to some several interesting outcomes. While it was not whipped along party lines, only 23 Tories backed the Bill. One of them was former prime minister <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/rishi-sunak/\" target=\"_blank\">Rishi Sunak</a>, who said afterwards that he believed it would “prevent suffering”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GSESB7HR2NGYDA7V2VGEV3HQBI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732903616659},"content":"Former chancellor of the exchequer Jeremy Hunt also backed it, while the new Tory leader <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/kemi-badenoch/\" target=\"_blank\">Kemi Badenoch</a> opposed it because, she argued, it lacked safeguards. Mr Starmer, who backed assisted dying in the 2015, also voted for Ms Leadbeater’s proposal on Friday.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RYLTJZS7LZBOZHZJSHJCP32ZHM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732903616660},"content":"There was clear evidence of splits in the cabinet over the issue, however. Deputy prime minister Angela Rayner voted no, along with health secretary Wes Streeting, who had argued the health service needed more resources for palliative care to give patients a proper choice. Shabana Mahmood, the justice secretary, and the foreign secretary David Lammy also opposed it.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ILLGSLLRUVG6PAJNWGECRNKB2Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732903616661},"content":"The margin of victory for the yes camp, although clear, may not be wide enough to prevent opponents of the plan from feeling emboldened to add in further safeguards and restrictions at committee stage and in the House of Lords. It is expected that any assisted dying system could take the health service two years to establish.","type":"text"},{"_id":"32JBTQ5CAFH2FJCDDSHYCACOAQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732903616662},"content":"Earlier on Friday during the debate, passions ran high but tempers stayed calm. 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Ms Haigh had initially told police her work phone was among the various items stolen in the mugging, although she later found it at home. However, she did not initially tell police or her employer at the time, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/aviva/\" target=\"_blank\">Aviva</a>, that her work phone had, in fact, not been among the items stolen. She had been issued with a new work phone by Aviva.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JSDQUQO7P5G3FIIFDSUCWMZ7AU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732866640641},"content":"When the old work phone was later reactivated she was prosecuted, and pleaded guilty to a minor fraud offence. 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In scenes likened by furious Travellers afterwards to historical images of the repression of Jews, lines of police were filmed corralling scores of confused teenagers on to trains at Manchester’s Victoria station and forcing them to leave the city.","type":"text"},{"_id":"C3DYH3LBFBDUBP54LJVE5ZZZ4Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804613},"content":"A few youths ended up more than 150km from home and had to be picked up by their parents, sparking accusations that police had put them in danger. “I don’t know where I am going,” shouted one Traveller teenager who has become a symbol of the community’s anger, in footage showing him being pushed on to a train by police. Another teenage girl screamed as her leg wedged between carriage and platform after she was pushed by a female officer.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Z4EH2225YZCA5DWU24TYPRDLTQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804614},"content":"Other youths were prevented by police from disembarking trains arriving at Victoria from towns such as Doncaster that have high Traveller populations, while other youths in the city centre were removed from big shopping centres such as the Arndale and told they must “go somewhere else”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4XZ7I4EWXZDFZJZXGXP4ZZBW2M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804615},"content":"GMP told The Irish Times this week it had written to Traveller groups to express the force’s “regret at the distress and upset” the events caused, but it denied racial profiling.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6BQVMIFUQBBP3K4L7ZOGLXPGW4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804616},"content":"Labour MP Mary Kelly Foy and Baroness Janet Whitaker of the House of Lords have written to home secretary Yvette Cooper, asking her to intervene with GMP for “violently restricting and over-policing” the youths. Manchester’s deputy mayor for policing, former Labour MP Kate Green, has also expressed her “concern” and has called for an internal investigation at GMP.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KVK723QVDJCK7NLRW2JWHQKNPY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804617},"content":"“If this happened to a different community, everybody would be up in arms,” said Yvonne MacNamara, chief executive of the Traveller Movement. “I think the police thought ‘these kids have no friends’ and it would all go away. Well, it won’t go away. Something bigger has happened here.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"RYCOWS6ADJD2TJCBZZKSELKJRI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732892711328},"content":"This week in Manchester, the city’s Christmas markets – billed by local authorities as the biggest and best in Britain – were bustling. Shoppers thronged the retail and food stalls dotted around the city centre in several locations, including Piccadilly Gardens and Exchange Square outside the Arndale.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LBZPVRTY4FEHHNNVQNXERJLFWQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"LWKXLQ26UJDITPHLUJG5NOYRDE"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"WIKSHBPP35A55A6MTADJUFOK3U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804619},"content":"However, the mood was different last Saturday. A sense of the day’s events can be gleaned from footage filmed by Travellers and others, much of which has been uploaded to social media, and by accounts given by older community members with relatives who were caught up in the events.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YLV55AQIQFGDNN2FJVVHCWMD4I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804620},"content":"Hundreds of Traveller and Gypsy youths began arriving in Manchester city centre from midmorning. It has become a tradition among the community for the youths from across northwest England and Welsh border areas to meet up – wearing “their finery” according to Traveller community groups – for the Manchester markets at this time of year.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YUVQCKB5GFFUTBX4EWHLQ75QDA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804621},"content":"MacNamara said many younger teenagers would have been with older siblings. A lot of the Travellers and Gypsy youths would have been meeting cousins, said Olivia Hammond, who comes from a Gypsy background and works in Preston with the Traveller Movement. Her sister was in Manchester at last Saturday’s markets, while her cousins were also caught up in the events. One girl she knows, from Darlington, was ordered by police on to a train to Leeds, 100km from home.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M6WDMBLVSFCHTCMNDJLBFW2JA4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804622},"content":"“It was all absolutely as bad as the footage looked on social media,” said Hammond.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7HRIOLV72NCERABIEAJYLYFVGM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804623},"content":"In November 2022 Manchester police were drafted in to the area around the Arndale and the markets to deal with complaints of disorder among Traveller youths. GMP says it received “intelligence” before last Saturday that renewed disorder was possible and it says complaints were made on the day about trouble on trains approaching Manchester.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EF5N5L46JFHJRN3DJ2FMP6OSMU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804624},"content":"In response to this, Travellers afterwards uploaded to social media videos of the youths laughing and singing on the trains. There appears to be no video evidence so far of trouble on the trains.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SW5FN5XF5FFJNFPTCPAWL2EKUI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804625},"content":"The force did not directly respond to questions from The Irish Times seeking further details about the volume and nature of the rail complaints, who made them and whether there had been any arrests or police action. When British Transport Police was asked if it held records of a spike in reports of trouble on trains to Manchester that day, it said the query was “too vague” and suggested a Freedom of Information request might be necessary.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AIHVW7Q4NREXNA3MNV5XEQPEGY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804626},"content":"MacNamara said the suggestion that police acted last Saturday on the basis of a litany of reports of trouble on trains by Travellers was “nonsense” and the operation was planned in advance. She said there were at least 17 police vans already filled with officers waiting outside Victoria station to meet arriving trains. “To put an operation like that together takes a lot of time,” she said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"T6BIRNAQ2RHQNLBEN2GXYZHKLM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804627},"content":"A Manchester Youtuber with no affiliation to Traveller groups, who posts under the handle Manchester Walks, caught the events at the Arndale on camera. A police officer tells him in the footage that GMP was called by Arndale security to remove groups of youths. The scene appears calm, although the officer tells the Youtuber that “historically” there has been trouble. He says they are trying to “prevent a breach of the peace” and the youths are “just going to cause carnage”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TQOHQDAWINBDTLT4VNU4D7WC4E","additional_properties":{"_id":"VRRGTMCA4RCTJHMA32ZO6RIUPY"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"ZDZ6SAFX65ETVIJ57R4ZUOLVU4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804628},"content":"Shortly after noon, a senior GMP officer signed a so-called section 34 dispersal order, which gave police widespread powers to clear groups of people congregating in an area. The order covered the entire city centre, although the only groups that appear to have been subjected to the order were Travellers. The Youtuber asks one youth why they are being “chucked out” of the Arndale. He responds: “Because they’re racist b***ards.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"65223MT6LVE5LKE2IR5SWSKHHA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804629},"content":"An angry Traveller teenager is later filmed being arrested outside the Arndale for pointing his fingers “in the personal space” of an officer who won’t let him into the Arndale. One officer leant on his neck while another mentioned an “assault”. “Assault? I haven’t touched you,” screamed the youth.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VJCHS4K7BBFCLK2YOV5TAZZFRY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804630},"content":"Others were filmed being denied entry by one of the officers who had arrested the youth. “I’m not saying you’ve done anything,” said the officer. “[But] every year there is a group of youths who descend on Manchester for violence and disorder.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"RLH7CLT32ZBGLNZTNDHK5UFPS4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804631},"content":"Hammond said the police action had made her friends and cousins feel worthless. “I know from experience how worthless it makes you feel. You get no support, no sympathy,” she said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3FCXPM46EZCHZNXLG2WGOI5UNQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804632},"content":"MacNamara said GMP needed to be held to account for its treatment of “children, in the eyes of the law”. The Traveller Movement said it was considering whether to take legal action. The Irish Community Care Centre in Manchester, which provides support to Travellers, said the police action had “increased fear” among the community.","type":"text"},{"_id":"N5Z2GMHIYREBFPVTAQSTL7Z4DA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804633},"content":"“It has set back relations between Travellers and police and undone work done over many decades,” said Patrick Morrison, the centre’s chief executive.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RZY6QLGUZVD5ZOLD7VX6BOQYZQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804634},"content":"Anger has welled up across the UK’s community of Travellers and Gypsies, fuelled by videos criticising the police action from celebrities such as Paddy Doherty, a former bare knuckle boxer and winner of Celebrity Big Brother in 2011.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RONLXXFZOBDPXCAGY5NZY5KYWQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804635},"content":"Green held an online meeting with Traveller and Gypsy organisations this week, but was said by those on the call to have remained in “listening mode” and said little. The home secretary has yet to respond to the letter sent to her by the MP Kelly Foy and Baroness Whitaker, who co-chair the Westminster all-party parliamentary group for Gypsies, Travellers and Roma.","type":"text"},{"_id":"I5CVMAVHOFFIHO25VXWJCCEBNQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804636},"content":"GMP told The Irish Times: “We do not racially profile any group but understand the concern raised about this issue and this is an important part of our meeting with community groups.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"V7SIYEKHKVHMZDNTTN73OKJIXI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804637},"content":"Protests are planned by Travellers, including in Westminster this Saturday and next Saturday in Manchester.","type":"text"},{"_id":"S2DK37NQJZASRBK6KSCAFBSMW4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804638},"content":"“Those kids were treated like absolute dirt,” said MacNamara. “When will it happen again?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"V34BDHLQS5EGHJGCHGK7Q6ZHC4","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Mark Paul"}},"name":"Mark Paul"}]},"description":{"basic":"Investigation into allegations of ‘racial profiling’ after police used draconian powers to disperse Traveller and Gypsy teenagers visiting Christmas markets"},"display_date":"2024-11-29T16:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"‘I don’t know where I am going’: Manchester police criticised for mass expulsion of Traveller youths on trains","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"H7OPKJU3EFF6TJWUF6BSA2OP5I","auth":{"1":"98d0b32a41ce99bad2dc8cb222bbc553a5e0086a75eb03ce68c09c67c5634ed8"},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/H7OPKJU3EFF6TJWUF6BSA2OP5I.jpg"}},"subtype":"feature","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"UK"},{"name":"World"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/world/uk/2024/11/29/i-dont-know-where-i-am-going-manchester-police-criticised-for-mass-expulsion-of-traveller-youths-on-trains/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/world/uk","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"UK"}}}},{"_id":"M3ORXNCP5BEE7AL5TY4LMXH75I","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":519,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/18ce1190-bc39-43ec-9d72-0222aa9dee2c/versions/1732892479/media/b20f11b6db133f3116280c9b39723bcf_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/world/us/2024/11/29/democrats-sift-through-the-debris-of-a-presidential-season-that-went-horribly-wrong/","content_elements":[{"_id":"4EAXYLO6XJA5LBPPCJRIRGRNUE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732871174539},"content":"Thanksgiving Day, on Thursday, bloomed gloomy and cold over Washington DC. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/kamala-harris\" target=\"_blank\">Kamala Harris</a> and her husband, Doug Emhoff, spent part of their festive morning volunteering at the DC Central Kitchen, a social movement that provided 69,000 meals to people in the city.","type":"text"},{"_id":"APUXIUJQCVBGDP2J6IMAZBTYPM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732889193257},"content":"Mike Curtain, who hosted the vice-presidential visit, told local television that 38 per cent of Washington city residents were classed as “food insecure” after two years of inflation hikes. 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Since the sweeping Republican win on November 5th, reports of a generalised and unattributed anger at Biden for remaining in the race for as long as he did have given way to a more considered period of self-examination.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NYEL5SQZLFHTBNSMJ3DMAZXZGA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732889193260},"content":"The explanations for why the party was unable to persuade the American majority that a Harris presidency represented a better choice than a second Trump term has begun in earnest. On Tuesday the leading staffers on Harris’s campaign – Jen O’Malley Dillon, David Plouffe, Quentin Fulks and Stephanie Cutter – gave their first account of what happened in a 90-minute episode of Pod Save America, the influential podcast hosted by former Barack Obama administration staffers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NCTIN427N6XN3KMAUCS4A5KC5Q","additional_properties":{"_id":"4T7LBQXFBZHDPJMCGJEM6THTYI"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"VK27JXFUNVA6RCXWO4IFJGCDF4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732889193262},"content":"It emerged that their internal polling had never found Harris to be ahead in the race – which chimed with the candidate’s constant message that she and Tim Walz were “the underdogs”. But they also conceded that nothing had led them to the conclusion, on voting day, that Trump was about to land such a comprehensive win. “We were dealing with ferocious headwinds and I think people’s instinct was to give the Republicans and even Donald Trump another chance. 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So, I think everyone needs to take a moment of self-reflection, including myself, to figure out how we can get better for 2025.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"STYJBT6JONC4ZPCF3PUSECH6BU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732871174545},"content":"It was a sharp observation that identifies the post-election portrait of a Democratic Party not only adrift and aloof and alienated from the vast swathes of its traditional working class base, but also so beset with internal anxieties that it has become mired in its own patchwork of liberal ideologies.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XE22WEV2KRAJ7AG343Y2TCYFIE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732871174546},"content":"Harris herself reflected on the race in a Zoom call arranged to thank the army of volunteer workers who had knocked on millions of doors. One statistic, released a week before the election, boasted that the Dems had knocked on almost one million doors in Pennsylvania alone. But it wasn’t enough to prevent Biden’s home state from voting for Trump and from replacing long-term Democratic senator Bob Casey with Republican Dan McCormick.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WNZKBXKWYBANRET4XYERSUOORE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732871174547},"content":"“All that work you did that was about engaging with other people, with perfect strangers, that has a lasting effect. It reminds people that there are leaders like you who care and who will bring us together,” Harris said. She praised the efforts that raised $1.4 billion (€1.3 billion) from grassroots supporters alone – the most in presidential history, with nearly eight million donors contributing an average of $56 “to our people-powered campaign”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VWIETAFB5FEYRHAGPC2V2K6TVU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732871174548},"content":"There was no serious reflection on why that people power did not translate to numbers in the voting booths: she finished with seven million fewer votes than Biden received in 2020. The video call was, Democratic National Committee finance team member Lindy Li said, “self-congratulatory” in tone with “no postmortem as to how we blew through two billion dollars in just 100 days. And, to be perfectly clear, it wasn’t just one billion to the campaign, it was another billion to the Super Pac and millions were spent on greedy consultants, celebrities, private jets, ice-cream, $450,00 was spent on the [Las Vegas] Sphere – putting your face on a giant ball? 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I think Trump speaks to male insecurities better and I think that Trump speaks to the anger that people have, whereas the other side of the political spectrum does not speak to that anger at all.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"BR7LLVE7NVD2TB2IY6T3WQY6XI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732871174552},"content":"During her video call on Tuesday, Harris continued to promote the ideals on which she had campaigned with Walz and argued that the campaign, while not ending in victory, would leave a legacy.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JV6U7Y2UJNG6JKO5BJ5XATQTRY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732871174553},"content":"“A fight for freedom and opportunity, a fight for the dignity of all people did not end on November 5th, a fight for a future in which all people receive the promise of America ... no. 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Another woman said Wallace had showed her photos of a woman in her underwear on his phone. On another occasion, she alleged that while filming in Italy he had shown her his outfits for the next day in his hotel room, had taken his top off and said “let me give you a fashion show”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XFU4YXO74ZFZRBORWPKA2NI2YA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732889823644},"content":"She said a male colleague had initially been in the room, but had left. 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Ms Haigh had initially told police her work phone was among the various items stolen in the mugging, although she later found it at home. However, she did not initially tell police or her employer at the time, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/aviva/\" target=\"_blank\">Aviva</a>, that her work phone had, in fact, not been among the items stolen. She had been issued with a new work phone by Aviva.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JSDQUQO7P5G3FIIFDSUCWMZ7AU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732866640641},"content":"When the old work phone was later reactivated she was prosecuted, and pleaded guilty to a minor fraud offence. It is believed Ms Haigh declared the matter, which she says was a “genuine mistake”, to the proper Whitehall authorities when appointed to shadow cabinet in recent years, but her conviction was not known publicly until now.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OVASVMMGDBCRZO6VYROQ77C33I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732866640642},"content":"“As you know, in 2013 I was mugged in London. As a 24-year old woman, the experience was terrifying,” she wrote to the prime minister in her resignation letter. She acknowledged that she “should have immediately informed my employer” when she found out the phone had not actually been stolen.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZBBROXZFLVDKTOTTM5EF3TQVL4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732866640643},"content":"“Whatever the facts of the matter, this issue will inevitably be a distraction from delivering on the work of this government.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"F4QM5FOMGZA33HGEAWPUFVCAJA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732866640644},"content":"Mr Starmer thanked her for her work to date and said she still had a “huge contribution to make in future”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q5ZVSHGPFFAPJPKAPEQQGJUIMI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732904513669},"content":"He announced that he will replace Ms Haigh with Heidi Alexander, who served as the deputy mayor for transport in London between 2018 and 2021.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RF7T4RDNYBGRXK4PJMZ7KJOPD4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732866640645},"content":"Ms Haigh, a Sheffield MP who is immediately identifiable in parliament due to her distinctive personal style, was the youngest woman ever appointed to a UK cabinet.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PSQ4SZPYZFBS3KI3QWEA4SHBFA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732870133211},"content":"She previously served as Labour’s shadow Northern Ireland secretary before moving to the shadow transport brief. 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They are less invested politically if not military in Syria,” she said. “It’s difficult to tell what the result of this offensive is going to be. 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In scenes likened by furious Travellers afterwards to historical images of the repression of Jews, lines of police were filmed corralling scores of confused teenagers on to trains at Manchester’s Victoria station and forcing them to leave the city.","type":"text"},{"_id":"C3DYH3LBFBDUBP54LJVE5ZZZ4Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804613},"content":"A few youths ended up more than 150km from home and had to be picked up by their parents, sparking accusations that police had put them in danger. “I don’t know where I am going,” shouted one Traveller teenager who has become a symbol of the community’s anger, in footage showing him being pushed on to a train by police. Another teenage girl screamed as her leg wedged between carriage and platform after she was pushed by a female officer.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Z4EH2225YZCA5DWU24TYPRDLTQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804614},"content":"Other youths were prevented by police from disembarking trains arriving at Victoria from towns such as Doncaster that have high Traveller populations, while other youths in the city centre were removed from big shopping centres such as the Arndale and told they must “go somewhere else”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4XZ7I4EWXZDFZJZXGXP4ZZBW2M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804615},"content":"GMP told The Irish Times this week it had written to Traveller groups to express the force’s “regret at the distress and upset” the events caused, but it denied racial profiling.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6BQVMIFUQBBP3K4L7ZOGLXPGW4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804616},"content":"Labour MP Mary Kelly Foy and Baroness Janet Whitaker of the House of Lords have written to home secretary Yvette Cooper, asking her to intervene with GMP for “violently restricting and over-policing” the youths. Manchester’s deputy mayor for policing, former Labour MP Kate Green, has also expressed her “concern” and has called for an internal investigation at GMP.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KVK723QVDJCK7NLRW2JWHQKNPY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804617},"content":"“If this happened to a different community, everybody would be up in arms,” said Yvonne MacNamara, chief executive of the Traveller Movement. “I think the police thought ‘these kids have no friends’ and it would all go away. Well, it won’t go away. Something bigger has happened here.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"RYCOWS6ADJD2TJCBZZKSELKJRI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732892711328},"content":"This week in Manchester, the city’s Christmas markets – billed by local authorities as the biggest and best in Britain – were bustling. Shoppers thronged the retail and food stalls dotted around the city centre in several locations, including Piccadilly Gardens and Exchange Square outside the Arndale.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LBZPVRTY4FEHHNNVQNXERJLFWQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"LWKXLQ26UJDITPHLUJG5NOYRDE"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"WIKSHBPP35A55A6MTADJUFOK3U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804619},"content":"However, the mood was different last Saturday. A sense of the day’s events can be gleaned from footage filmed by Travellers and others, much of which has been uploaded to social media, and by accounts given by older community members with relatives who were caught up in the events.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YLV55AQIQFGDNN2FJVVHCWMD4I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804620},"content":"Hundreds of Traveller and Gypsy youths began arriving in Manchester city centre from midmorning. It has become a tradition among the community for the youths from across northwest England and Welsh border areas to meet up – wearing “their finery” according to Traveller community groups – for the Manchester markets at this time of year.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YUVQCKB5GFFUTBX4EWHLQ75QDA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804621},"content":"MacNamara said many younger teenagers would have been with older siblings. A lot of the Travellers and Gypsy youths would have been meeting cousins, said Olivia Hammond, who comes from a Gypsy background and works in Preston with the Traveller Movement. Her sister was in Manchester at last Saturday’s markets, while her cousins were also caught up in the events. One girl she knows, from Darlington, was ordered by police on to a train to Leeds, 100km from home.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M6WDMBLVSFCHTCMNDJLBFW2JA4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804622},"content":"“It was all absolutely as bad as the footage looked on social media,” said Hammond.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7HRIOLV72NCERABIEAJYLYFVGM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804623},"content":"In November 2022 Manchester police were drafted in to the area around the Arndale and the markets to deal with complaints of disorder among Traveller youths. GMP says it received “intelligence” before last Saturday that renewed disorder was possible and it says complaints were made on the day about trouble on trains approaching Manchester.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EF5N5L46JFHJRN3DJ2FMP6OSMU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804624},"content":"In response to this, Travellers afterwards uploaded to social media videos of the youths laughing and singing on the trains. There appears to be no video evidence so far of trouble on the trains.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SW5FN5XF5FFJNFPTCPAWL2EKUI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804625},"content":"The force did not directly respond to questions from The Irish Times seeking further details about the volume and nature of the rail complaints, who made them and whether there had been any arrests or police action. When British Transport Police was asked if it held records of a spike in reports of trouble on trains to Manchester that day, it said the query was “too vague” and suggested a Freedom of Information request might be necessary.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AIHVW7Q4NREXNA3MNV5XEQPEGY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804626},"content":"MacNamara said the suggestion that police acted last Saturday on the basis of a litany of reports of trouble on trains by Travellers was “nonsense” and the operation was planned in advance. She said there were at least 17 police vans already filled with officers waiting outside Victoria station to meet arriving trains. “To put an operation like that together takes a lot of time,” she said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"T6BIRNAQ2RHQNLBEN2GXYZHKLM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804627},"content":"A Manchester Youtuber with no affiliation to Traveller groups, who posts under the handle Manchester Walks, caught the events at the Arndale on camera. A police officer tells him in the footage that GMP was called by Arndale security to remove groups of youths. The scene appears calm, although the officer tells the Youtuber that “historically” there has been trouble. He says they are trying to “prevent a breach of the peace” and the youths are “just going to cause carnage”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TQOHQDAWINBDTLT4VNU4D7WC4E","additional_properties":{"_id":"VRRGTMCA4RCTJHMA32ZO6RIUPY"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"ZDZ6SAFX65ETVIJ57R4ZUOLVU4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804628},"content":"Shortly after noon, a senior GMP officer signed a so-called section 34 dispersal order, which gave police widespread powers to clear groups of people congregating in an area. The order covered the entire city centre, although the only groups that appear to have been subjected to the order were Travellers. The Youtuber asks one youth why they are being “chucked out” of the Arndale. He responds: “Because they’re racist b***ards.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"65223MT6LVE5LKE2IR5SWSKHHA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804629},"content":"An angry Traveller teenager is later filmed being arrested outside the Arndale for pointing his fingers “in the personal space” of an officer who won’t let him into the Arndale. One officer leant on his neck while another mentioned an “assault”. “Assault? I haven’t touched you,” screamed the youth.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VJCHS4K7BBFCLK2YOV5TAZZFRY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804630},"content":"Others were filmed being denied entry by one of the officers who had arrested the youth. “I’m not saying you’ve done anything,” said the officer. “[But] every year there is a group of youths who descend on Manchester for violence and disorder.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"RLH7CLT32ZBGLNZTNDHK5UFPS4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804631},"content":"Hammond said the police action had made her friends and cousins feel worthless. “I know from experience how worthless it makes you feel. You get no support, no sympathy,” she said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3FCXPM46EZCHZNXLG2WGOI5UNQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804632},"content":"MacNamara said GMP needed to be held to account for its treatment of “children, in the eyes of the law”. The Traveller Movement said it was considering whether to take legal action. The Irish Community Care Centre in Manchester, which provides support to Travellers, said the police action had “increased fear” among the community.","type":"text"},{"_id":"N5Z2GMHIYREBFPVTAQSTL7Z4DA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804633},"content":"“It has set back relations between Travellers and police and undone work done over many decades,” said Patrick Morrison, the centre’s chief executive.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RZY6QLGUZVD5ZOLD7VX6BOQYZQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804634},"content":"Anger has welled up across the UK’s community of Travellers and Gypsies, fuelled by videos criticising the police action from celebrities such as Paddy Doherty, a former bare knuckle boxer and winner of Celebrity Big Brother in 2011.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RONLXXFZOBDPXCAGY5NZY5KYWQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804635},"content":"Green held an online meeting with Traveller and Gypsy organisations this week, but was said by those on the call to have remained in “listening mode” and said little. The home secretary has yet to respond to the letter sent to her by the MP Kelly Foy and Baroness Whitaker, who co-chair the Westminster all-party parliamentary group for Gypsies, Travellers and Roma.","type":"text"},{"_id":"I5CVMAVHOFFIHO25VXWJCCEBNQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804636},"content":"GMP told The Irish Times: “We do not racially profile any group but understand the concern raised about this issue and this is an important part of our meeting with community groups.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"V7SIYEKHKVHMZDNTTN73OKJIXI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804637},"content":"Protests are planned by Travellers, including in Westminster this Saturday and next Saturday in Manchester.","type":"text"},{"_id":"S2DK37NQJZASRBK6KSCAFBSMW4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804638},"content":"“Those kids were treated like absolute dirt,” said MacNamara. “When will it happen again?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"V34BDHLQS5EGHJGCHGK7Q6ZHC4","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Mark Paul"}},"name":"Mark Paul"}]},"description":{"basic":"Investigation into allegations of ‘racial profiling’ after police used draconian powers to disperse Traveller and Gypsy teenagers visiting Christmas markets"},"display_date":"2024-11-29T16:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"‘I don’t know where I am going’: Manchester police criticised for mass expulsion of Traveller youths on trains","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"H7OPKJU3EFF6TJWUF6BSA2OP5I","auth":{"1":"98d0b32a41ce99bad2dc8cb222bbc553a5e0086a75eb03ce68c09c67c5634ed8"},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/H7OPKJU3EFF6TJWUF6BSA2OP5I.jpg"}},"subtype":"feature","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"UK"},{"name":"World"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/world/uk/2024/11/29/i-dont-know-where-i-am-going-manchester-police-criticised-for-mass-expulsion-of-traveller-youths-on-trains/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/world/uk","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"UK"}}}},{"_id":"M3ORXNCP5BEE7AL5TY4LMXH75I","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":519,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/18ce1190-bc39-43ec-9d72-0222aa9dee2c/versions/1732892479/media/b20f11b6db133f3116280c9b39723bcf_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/world/us/2024/11/29/democrats-sift-through-the-debris-of-a-presidential-season-that-went-horribly-wrong/","content_elements":[{"_id":"4EAXYLO6XJA5LBPPCJRIRGRNUE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732871174539},"content":"Thanksgiving Day, on Thursday, bloomed gloomy and cold over Washington DC. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/kamala-harris\" target=\"_blank\">Kamala Harris</a> and her husband, Doug Emhoff, spent part of their festive morning volunteering at the DC Central Kitchen, a social movement that provided 69,000 meals to people in the city.","type":"text"},{"_id":"APUXIUJQCVBGDP2J6IMAZBTYPM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732889193257},"content":"Mike Curtain, who hosted the vice-presidential visit, told local television that 38 per cent of Washington city residents were classed as “food insecure” after two years of inflation hikes. 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Since the sweeping Republican win on November 5th, reports of a generalised and unattributed anger at Biden for remaining in the race for as long as he did have given way to a more considered period of self-examination.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NYEL5SQZLFHTBNSMJ3DMAZXZGA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732889193260},"content":"The explanations for why the party was unable to persuade the American majority that a Harris presidency represented a better choice than a second Trump term has begun in earnest. On Tuesday the leading staffers on Harris’s campaign – Jen O’Malley Dillon, David Plouffe, Quentin Fulks and Stephanie Cutter – gave their first account of what happened in a 90-minute episode of Pod Save America, the influential podcast hosted by former Barack Obama administration staffers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NCTIN427N6XN3KMAUCS4A5KC5Q","additional_properties":{"_id":"4T7LBQXFBZHDPJMCGJEM6THTYI"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"VK27JXFUNVA6RCXWO4IFJGCDF4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732889193262},"content":"It emerged that their internal polling had never found Harris to be ahead in the race – which chimed with the candidate’s constant message that she and Tim Walz were “the underdogs”. But they also conceded that nothing had led them to the conclusion, on voting day, that Trump was about to land such a comprehensive win. “We were dealing with ferocious headwinds and I think people’s instinct was to give the Republicans and even Donald Trump another chance. 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So, I think everyone needs to take a moment of self-reflection, including myself, to figure out how we can get better for 2025.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"STYJBT6JONC4ZPCF3PUSECH6BU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732871174545},"content":"It was a sharp observation that identifies the post-election portrait of a Democratic Party not only adrift and aloof and alienated from the vast swathes of its traditional working class base, but also so beset with internal anxieties that it has become mired in its own patchwork of liberal ideologies.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XE22WEV2KRAJ7AG343Y2TCYFIE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732871174546},"content":"Harris herself reflected on the race in a Zoom call arranged to thank the army of volunteer workers who had knocked on millions of doors. One statistic, released a week before the election, boasted that the Dems had knocked on almost one million doors in Pennsylvania alone. But it wasn’t enough to prevent Biden’s home state from voting for Trump and from replacing long-term Democratic senator Bob Casey with Republican Dan McCormick.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WNZKBXKWYBANRET4XYERSUOORE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732871174547},"content":"“All that work you did that was about engaging with other people, with perfect strangers, that has a lasting effect. It reminds people that there are leaders like you who care and who will bring us together,” Harris said. She praised the efforts that raised $1.4 billion (€1.3 billion) from grassroots supporters alone – the most in presidential history, with nearly eight million donors contributing an average of $56 “to our people-powered campaign”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VWIETAFB5FEYRHAGPC2V2K6TVU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732871174548},"content":"There was no serious reflection on why that people power did not translate to numbers in the voting booths: she finished with seven million fewer votes than Biden received in 2020. The video call was, Democratic National Committee finance team member Lindy Li said, “self-congratulatory” in tone with “no postmortem as to how we blew through two billion dollars in just 100 days. And, to be perfectly clear, it wasn’t just one billion to the campaign, it was another billion to the Super Pac and millions were spent on greedy consultants, celebrities, private jets, ice-cream, $450,00 was spent on the [Las Vegas] Sphere – putting your face on a giant ball? 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I think Trump speaks to male insecurities better and I think that Trump speaks to the anger that people have, whereas the other side of the political spectrum does not speak to that anger at all.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"BR7LLVE7NVD2TB2IY6T3WQY6XI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732871174552},"content":"During her video call on Tuesday, Harris continued to promote the ideals on which she had campaigned with Walz and argued that the campaign, while not ending in victory, would leave a legacy.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JV6U7Y2UJNG6JKO5BJ5XATQTRY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732871174553},"content":"“A fight for freedom and opportunity, a fight for the dignity of all people did not end on November 5th, a fight for a future in which all people receive the promise of America ... no. 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Another woman said Wallace had showed her photos of a woman in her underwear on his phone. On another occasion, she alleged that while filming in Italy he had shown her his outfits for the next day in his hotel room, had taken his top off and said “let me give you a fashion show”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XFU4YXO74ZFZRBORWPKA2NI2YA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732889823644},"content":"She said a male colleague had initially been in the room, but had left. 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Any hopes of McGregor to follow him or <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/arnold-schwarzenegger/\" target=\"_blank\">Arnold Schwarzenegger</a>, the bodybuilder-turned movie star-turned politician, must be measured against the jury’s verdict.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2E5TVD6SBVBVXHIO6E3UEQ7S2Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1732824946830},"content":"Despite the boycott, Road House remains on Amazon Prime’s streaming service. The company had nothing to say about McGregor. “We’re not offering any comment,” Amazon Prime said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IKPDN3YQRFH4BIBDNSKXMF6FUA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732824946831},"content":"McGregor’s Hollywood agent, Audie Attar, did not reply to questions. Similarly, his London-based spokeswoman did not respond to queries. These included the question of whether McGregor was contractually bound to repay fees in the event of adverse court findings.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TV6DIJXXMVELDFRNO7ASZNNT3A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732830424163},"content":"“Those are pretty common in contracts now if this [behaviour] is over a line that the brands wanted,” Prof O’Reilly said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MV6W6XLIGVA3TACBRGIT6BVYNA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732824946832},"content":"The business meltdown started on Monday when IO Interactive, Danish owner of the Hitman gaming franchise, cut ties with the fighter.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6XWCZIPDYJGWDGH45WYFDE5V5M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732824946833},"content":"“In light of the recent court ruling regarding Conor McGregor, IO Interactive has made the decision to cease its collaboration with the athlete, effective immediately,” the company said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2FEKVCRXAJHK7GYCD2HC4A4CCA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732824946834},"content":"“We take this matter very seriously and cannot ignore its implications. 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So too did wholesaler BWG, saying it will no longer distribute McGregor-linked brands to Spar, Eurospar, Mace, Londis and XL stores. BWG’s decision removed product from 1,000 outlets. 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He was sixth most popular only two years earlier.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RJKNOKNMLZE4ZML5PWSFXAHJ4U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732824946845},"content":"Although this carried immense business appeal, the accounts of McGregor’s main Dublin company give little insight into his overall fortune. Abridged financial statements filed on Monday for McGregor Sports and Entertainment Ltd show profits fell in 2023 to €194,297 from €528,263 the previous year, with accumulated profits at €506,475.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HWLYMI27VBFMPFRRZRPMA2PVWM","additional_properties":{"_id":"M6PB7GTL7ZA7ZGPSHNNYXEAZS4"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"TQT7BAAAMVGJDJNKBRANVMCQ7E","additional_properties":{"_id":1732824946846},"content":"McGregor’s returns from the $130 million Proximo deal and the $100 million he reportedly received for a Las Vegas boxing defeat in 2017 to Floyd Mayweather seem to be elsewhere.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RVNNHP2AHJC5FPMCR576LOK6HU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732872884661},"content":"The money came on top of the tens of millions of dollars he earned from his UFC fight career. Business magazine Forbes listed him as the world’s highest-paid athlete in 2021, behind football stars Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, with salary/winnings of $22 million and endorsements of $158 million.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7H3FNOFLKJHRFIPQPJRCQKBC5Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732824946847},"content":"For as long as it lasted, business was fully behind McGregor’s macho personality.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2FRBVJ4H2ZHUVMBRIW2XORX3OM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732830424186},"content":"“Only a very, very few athletes have properties that reach the kind of markets he does,” said Prof O’Reilly. “He’s kind of on the edge but he’s never really gone over the edge.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"UR4AZMTVGZBZVJHVMZIYGUQDRE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732824946848},"content":"That changed with the High Court verdict, no matter that these were civil and not criminal proceedings.","type":"text"},{"_id":"V4GWJNNQRFFQNPQRZO5DOMSKYQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732830424188},"content":"“So, no longer is the image positive, it’s negative. So now the brand senses a problem,” said Prof O’Reilly.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IR7ZUHTLAVDKLPVU4YSL7MN6YQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732824946849},"content":"Right now, McGregor is short on supporters. But one man who has leapt to his defence is Roger Stone, acolyte of incoming US president Donald Trump and a Republican Party activist going back to the time of Richard Nixon.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IX2TVDKPWJDZ7DCNGF4Z2JOIRY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732830424190},"content":"In a bizarre claim, Stone contended in a message to McGregor on X that the allegations against him stemmed from the fighter “telling the truth about how they are trying to destroy free speech in your country”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SYJSNA6YYFAZRPHIWEZ6SXMAYE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732830424191},"content":"“Don’t give up. Keep fighting for the Ireland you love. 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Retailers are taking McGregor drink from their shelves – and his image has been pulled from whiskey marketing and video games. His childhood soccer team in Crumlin, Lourdes Celtic, is said locally to be removing his name from players’ kit but the club itself did not reply to questions. Even the National Wax Museum has removed his sculpture.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CDZ2NK53H5HU3BVS47HV6ZGPOI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732824946825},"content":"Forged Stout was sold in off-licences and supermarkets and a relatively small number of pubs so the delisting inflicts financial pain. However, for the McGregor brand the real money was in the US. There could be serious implications there too.","type":"text"},{"_id":"O6FI2XA5C5GSVDCCXDY227KSIA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732824946826},"content":"“Financially, and then [in terms of] future revenue generating, it’s very damaging for him,” said Prof Norm O’Reilly, author of 20 books on sports sponsorship and dean of the University of New England business school. “I would say for most brands this is now like a hands-off, certainly in the very short term. It doesn’t look good. It’s about images. 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He is said to have received $5 million for the role, prompting his claim to have been paid more than wrestler-turned Hollywood star <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/dwayne-johnson-hangs-on-to-title-of-highest-paid-male-actor-1.4328230\" target=\"_blank\">Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson</a> when he burst on to the screen decades ago.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GRJESYRIHVA3FILEY4JNW4MPEQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"73VAQVHJZFAJRIOO3CO4TWZP7M"},"embed":{"config":{},"id":"acast_podcast-76411","url":"/"},"subtype":"acast_podcast","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"YQTH5DWWMNDDNJDACNRBTNSWNY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732824946829},"content":"Johnson is now a superstar. Any hopes of McGregor to follow him or <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/arnold-schwarzenegger/\" target=\"_blank\">Arnold Schwarzenegger</a>, the bodybuilder-turned movie star-turned politician, must be measured against the jury’s verdict.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2E5TVD6SBVBVXHIO6E3UEQ7S2Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1732824946830},"content":"Despite the boycott, Road House remains on Amazon Prime’s streaming service. The company had nothing to say about McGregor. “We’re not offering any comment,” Amazon Prime said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IKPDN3YQRFH4BIBDNSKXMF6FUA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732824946831},"content":"McGregor’s Hollywood agent, Audie Attar, did not reply to questions. Similarly, his London-based spokeswoman did not respond to queries. These included the question of whether McGregor was contractually bound to repay fees in the event of adverse court findings.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TV6DIJXXMVELDFRNO7ASZNNT3A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732830424163},"content":"“Those are pretty common in contracts now if this [behaviour] is over a line that the brands wanted,” Prof O’Reilly said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MV6W6XLIGVA3TACBRGIT6BVYNA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732824946832},"content":"The business meltdown started on Monday when IO Interactive, Danish owner of the Hitman gaming franchise, cut ties with the fighter.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6XWCZIPDYJGWDGH45WYFDE5V5M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732824946833},"content":"“In light of the recent court ruling regarding Conor McGregor, IO Interactive has made the decision to cease its collaboration with the athlete, effective immediately,” the company said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2FEKVCRXAJHK7GYCD2HC4A4CCA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732824946834},"content":"“We take this matter very seriously and cannot ignore its implications. 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McGregor said he had “a lot of fun creating the character and bringing him to life”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BTJAJSY4D5FGJJG3XJTW5T6SQA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732877395993},"content":"All of that has now ended.","type":"text"},{"_id":"N237Y7IY45EEJDX47PP7T26R7E","additional_properties":{"_id":1732824946837},"content":"The Irish response was less immediate, coming two days after Rape Crisis Network Ireland urged retailers to stop selling McGregor stout and the whiskey brand he sold to Mexican group Proximo Spirits in 2021.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PMBORHMVQJA3HM6WRN243FSCEU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732824946838},"content":"But the dam broke just before lunchtime on Tuesday when Barry Group, owner of Costcutter stores and Carry Out off-licences, became the first to drop Forged Irish Stout and Proper No. Twelve Whiskey, saying: “This action reflects our commitment to maintaining a retail environment that resonates with the values of our customers and partners.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"SUCPLBTVM5AKTPMW4IMFGEMJEA","additional_properties":{"_id":"UA3O6DVNSFHTNL5AIMDBOG5PDA"},"content":"More than 1,000 shops including Tesco, SuperValu and Centra stores remove brands linked to Conor McGregor","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"MW54USWTQBCHNPJLOHWV6RXVDE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732824946839},"content":"Musgrave, owner of the Supervalu and Centra chains, quickly followed. So too did wholesaler BWG, saying it will no longer distribute McGregor-linked brands to Spar, Eurospar, Mace, Londis and XL stores. BWG’s decision removed product from 1,000 outlets. 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He was sixth most popular only two years earlier.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RJKNOKNMLZE4ZML5PWSFXAHJ4U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732824946845},"content":"Although this carried immense business appeal, the accounts of McGregor’s main Dublin company give little insight into his overall fortune. Abridged financial statements filed on Monday for McGregor Sports and Entertainment Ltd show profits fell in 2023 to €194,297 from €528,263 the previous year, with accumulated profits at €506,475.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HWLYMI27VBFMPFRRZRPMA2PVWM","additional_properties":{"_id":"M6PB7GTL7ZA7ZGPSHNNYXEAZS4"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"TQT7BAAAMVGJDJNKBRANVMCQ7E","additional_properties":{"_id":1732824946846},"content":"McGregor’s returns from the $130 million Proximo deal and the $100 million he reportedly received for a Las Vegas boxing defeat in 2017 to Floyd Mayweather seem to be elsewhere.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RVNNHP2AHJC5FPMCR576LOK6HU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732872884661},"content":"The money came on top of the tens of millions of dollars he earned from his UFC fight career. Business magazine Forbes listed him as the world’s highest-paid athlete in 2021, behind football stars Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, with salary/winnings of $22 million and endorsements of $158 million.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7H3FNOFLKJHRFIPQPJRCQKBC5Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732824946847},"content":"For as long as it lasted, business was fully behind McGregor’s macho personality.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2FRBVJ4H2ZHUVMBRIW2XORX3OM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732830424186},"content":"“Only a very, very few athletes have properties that reach the kind of markets he does,” said Prof O’Reilly. “He’s kind of on the edge but he’s never really gone over the edge.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"UR4AZMTVGZBZVJHVMZIYGUQDRE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732824946848},"content":"That changed with the High Court verdict, no matter that these were civil and not criminal proceedings.","type":"text"},{"_id":"V4GWJNNQRFFQNPQRZO5DOMSKYQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732830424188},"content":"“So, no longer is the image positive, it’s negative. So now the brand senses a problem,” said Prof O’Reilly.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IR7ZUHTLAVDKLPVU4YSL7MN6YQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732824946849},"content":"Right now, McGregor is short on supporters. But one man who has leapt to his defence is Roger Stone, acolyte of incoming US president Donald Trump and a Republican Party activist going back to the time of Richard Nixon.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IX2TVDKPWJDZ7DCNGF4Z2JOIRY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732830424190},"content":"In a bizarre claim, Stone contended in a message to McGregor on X that the allegations against him stemmed from the fighter “telling the truth about how they are trying to destroy free speech in your country”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SYJSNA6YYFAZRPHIWEZ6SXMAYE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732830424191},"content":"“Don’t give up. Keep fighting for the Ireland you love. 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Our rolling live coverage will feature up-to-the-minute news, analysis and reaction from when the first tallies emerge, to when counts are completed and seats filled. We will publish every count from every constituency in our <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/election2024/results-hub/\" target=\"_blank\">Election 2024 Results Hub</a>. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q7MPGDGMYNF4HDN43FJLQG6I4E","additional_properties":{"_id":1732807424755},"content":"Our politics team will provide analysis of the emerging results online, on our podcasts and via video while our columnists, including Justine McCarthy and Diarmaid Ferriter, will share their views.","type":"text"},{"_id":"R2W6EAW4AVDOVG7PJYO7RR767I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732807424743},"content":"<b>Late afternoon/evening: </b>Details of first counts should start emerging on Saturday afternoon with first seats filled later on that afternoon and into the evening. Depending on the individual returning officers, counts in some constituencies may run into early on Sunday morning.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XMEKZWIQRRHYNAXRRD3UPCDQFA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732807424744},"content":"<b>Sunday</b>","type":"header"},{"_id":"C5KSFMIPTFCAFNKMA5SJGUCX24","additional_properties":{"_id":1732807424745},"content":"Counting will resume on Sunday morning and continue for most for the day.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M7OXRAQ2PFDFLKLYKCXRVG3J3A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732807424757},"content":"Our rolling live coverage will continue to cover the remaining counts and more analysis and opinion as the results become clear. In 2020, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/cavan-monaghan/\" target=\"_blank\">Cavan-Monaghan</a> was the last constituency to complete counting with the final two seats filled shortly before midnight on the second day of counting.","type":"text"},{"_id":"U3L4PRI5NRF77JKFZJPKOZOUXM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732807424758},"content":"We will publish profiles of each TD as they are elected.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QKTGXHCDKNEERIFGAFD5LBQVD4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732800316296},"content":"<b>Monday</b>","type":"header"},{"_id":"URI72BCNSVAYJILLFMZF5RNSCE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732800316297},"content":"In print, we will have a 12-page special general election supplement with news, analysis and charts showing all declared results.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7PAPUZMHXFFC7NKSODEO7V5LZQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732800316298},"content":"<b>Follow the election count on social media</b>","type":"header"},{"_id":"J4ISJLVSSJDSZMQQPPHVMI3PFE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732807424762},"content":"We will be posting rolling updates on our main social media accounts througout the weekend. Follow us on your preferred social platform to make sure you don’t miss a thing.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7AQ4AIVCVBC5DI4V3YWXDRCATY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732800316299},"content":"Follow the election results on:","type":"text"},{"_id":"3I6YA6LH3ZEV3NJIZ5Y5AIPDJI","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[]},"description":{"basic":"Our political team will offer news, insight, analysis and opinion as the count unfolds"},"display_date":"2024-11-30T01:01:01.135Z","headlines":{"basic":"General election 2024: How The Irish Times will cover the results and key times to watch out for ","native":"How The Irish Times will cover the results and key times to watch out for"},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"},"basic":{"display":true,"text":"Election 2024","url":"/election2024/"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"HSTUOAVPEVG6NKIVSSZT3TFZZU","auth":{"1":"32570f4fcf39d5d01c9c3484a4a06f896fdcee2dc309e018e6e66c50848786b6"},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/HSTUOAVPEVG6NKIVSSZT3TFZZU.jpg"},"overline_logo":{"_id":"QSWFXEVMGBHWPCSR4TJ3B6FKJQ","auth":{"1":"146656f9244eb8ce84d36fd4e3c519672cca8c4da72f47512b76196f1b454a7f"},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/QSWFXEVMGBHWPCSR4TJ3B6FKJQ.png"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Politics"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/politics/2024/11/28/general-election-2024-how-the-irish-times-will-cover-the-results-and-key-times-to-watch-out-for/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/politics","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Politics"}}}},{"_id":"63QDIXFJ3NDYVBKSK6HHBALV6A","additional_properties":{},"canonical_url":"/politics/2024/11/30/election-2024-exit-poll-analysis-fine-gael-and-fianna-fail-will-be-in-driving-seat-to-re-establish-coalition/","content_elements":[{"_id":"364BIOFKLJA4ZF2LMM2EHXKRII","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923232180},"content":"The <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/11/29/election-2024-exit-poll-photo-finish-with-sinn-fein-on-211-fine-gael-21-fianna-fail-195/\">results of the general election 2024 exit poll </a>suggest <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/fine-gael/\">Fine Gael </a>and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/fianna-fail/\">Fianna Fáil</a> will be in the driving seat to re-establish their coalition – though which party, or parties, or Independents, that might accompany them is likely to remain unclear for some time.","type":"text"},{"_id":"642VW623DVERZLIG2UW6HYUQDY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923232181},"content":"If the results are borne out when the actual votes are counted Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil are likely to approach 75-80 seats between them, assuming a decent seat bonus, and a strong transfer between the two parties.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q4XBXXRBBVCQPEEKVHOHAKMVQY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923232182},"content":"Those transfers will assume a high degree of importance as the counts unfold in coming days.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OB3C2OUU35BHDGZCK24733MVAM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923232183},"content":"Naturally, supporters of both parties transferred at higher rates to running mates from the same party. For Fine Gael voters it was at a rate of 37 per cent to other Fine Gael candidates. Fianna Fáil candidates were the second preference choice of 39 per cent of Fianna Fáil voters.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EALAZKKOOFG4HA44DDIFH3EGMA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923232184},"content":"But once they have voted for their own party, they are transferring to their government partners in large numbers. The poll – conducted by Ipsos/B&A on Friday for The Irish Times/RTÉ/TG4/TCD, finds that among Fine Gael voters 32 per cent said their second preference votes went to Fianna Fáil, while 30 per cent of Fianna Fáil voters said they transferred to Fine Gael.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LM43DUEAWZCCVGNZQS76SRSDAE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923232185},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/sinn-fein/\">Sinn Féin</a> voters transferred at a rate of 48 per cent to second candidates from the same party. The next highest second preference votes from Sinn Féin supporters was to Independents. But the party is having a harder job attracting transfers from other parties.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YBZUEXWXPVEITCSDF4M6M3HZF4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923232186},"content":"The highest second preference transfer rates between arch-rivals Labour and the Social Democrats were to each other. According to the exit poll some 22 per cent of second preferences from Labour voters went to the Social Democrats. Second preferences from <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/social-democrats/\">Social Democrats </a>supporters went to <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/labour-party/\">Labour</a> at a rate of 23 per cent. Perhaps their voters are not as hostile to each other as the parties’ elected representatives sometimes<b> </b>seem to be.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RLQJPFKFCBDWFHGP7MJZ5BEPQQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923232187},"content":"The results of the exit poll suggest Fine Gael’s campaign – which stuttered for much of the last three weeks – may have recovered in the final days.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LEWO3VP7XJDBNKCTDMMWXXV3EA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923232188},"content":"While 21 per cent would represent the evaporation of the so-called ‘Harris Hop’ that saw the party reach as high as 27 per cent support levels in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/09/19/the-irish-times-ipsos-ba-poll-september-2024-full-results-in-charts/\" target=\"_blank\">The Irish Times/Ipsos B&A</a> poll in September, it is likely to be greeted with relief by the party leadership.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XUDVX4LMSRCBFJQ3QJIVLY5TAE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923232189},"content":"There were fears in the party during the past week that a collapse in the party’s vote might be under way – so while it is not the result that it anticipated or hoped for at the beginning of the campaign, the party will know it could have been worse.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FNRHZ6CYVBATRFDMZ2EAF5YDGE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923232190},"content":"Frankly, Fine Gael had a poor election campaign. It was on the defensive from the first weekend after Ryanair boss<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/11/11/michael-oleary-doubles-down-on-teacher-comments-after-pile-on-saying-he-was-making-serious-point/\" target=\"_blank\"> Michael O’Leary’s controversial remarks </a>about teachers at a campaign launch for Fine Gael minister Peter Burke. For reasons best known to itself it persisted with John McGahon as a candidate.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QBPJQZTRRBCR7BWUMAVYKEGXKQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923232191},"content":"Then there was the Taoiseach Simon Harris’ blunder where he appeared dismissive in a campaign trail exchange with disabilities worker Charlotte Fallon in Kanturk, Co Cork. An apology from Mr Harris followed but the moment was seized upon by his political opponents and Fine Gael was on damage limitation for days. It was probably the standout moment of the campaign.","type":"text"},{"_id":"637V6WF57JE7ZOWR7KOLH4YYRU","additional_properties":{"_id":"4WMHHDRUUNBL7HA4HBUE6BBRLY"},"embed":{"config":{},"id":"acast_podcast-45369","url":"/"},"subtype":"acast_podcast","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"RBFS5R3T2FCKDCCW62F6JNPWDQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923232192},"content":"But perhaps more damaging was a sort of strategic incoherence in Fine Gael’s message. The party embarked on a series of costly promises in the first half of the campaign, including the abolition of the means test for the carers’ allowance (which civil servants estimate could escalate to some €2 billion a year), the abolition of university fees, a €1,000 grant for every baby, double child benefit every August, etc.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WILVFIDGINHT7B6HPQC73DQQHA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923232193},"content":"These were an understandable reaction to public concern on the cost of living. But they sat awkwardly with the fears of the possible impact of the new Trump administration on corporation tax revenues here – and the claims that only Fine Gael had the instincts of prudence necessary for the potentially difficult times ahead.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PTE356R7ORDAVKE4A5KS6C33UU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923232194},"content":"In the end, the tactic of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/11/27/fine-gael-turns-to-prudent-paschal-as-polling-day-looms/\" target=\"_blank\">putting Paschal Donohoe out front </a>for every day of the last week may have helped turn things around.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J4VHXOKTDVFT7HNZPASYLX4GRQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923232195},"content":"Fianna Fáil took a narrow lead in opinion polls published over the last week, so will be disappointed to come in third – if that is borne out by the results.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XIBVRMJPTJG75A6B2WFPQVU22A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923232196},"content":"Party leader Micheál Martin – who had a solid, if unspectacular, campaign – consistently argues that Fianna Fáil outperforms opinion polls. The party will hope its greater number of incumbent candidates than Fine Gael and the possibility of getting transfers from its Coalition partner will push it over 20 per cent and ahead of its rivals.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XJNPH56Y7FBOREKRQBAFHSV6X4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923232197},"content":"For Sinn Féin there will be relief that the string of controversies it faced in the build up to the election campaign appear not to have overly damaged the party’s current support levels.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6IR32OFOD5G4NC5JKH5LC3BNZM","additional_properties":{"_id":"G6BO37SLCBCBNKKWCCEJE4T5CE"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"M4LTF2IXYBH3JBIYYW4O5LSQTY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923232198},"content":"The exit poll result is a far cry from the 36 per cent the party had in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2022/07/14/coalition-support-slumps-in-irish-times-poll-as-cost-of-living-bites/\" target=\"_blank\">The Irish Times poll from July 2022</a>, but it is considerably better than the just under 12 per cent of first preference share the party got in June’s local election. Mary Lou McDonald was a dynamo on the campaign trail. But in a series of difficult moments in interviews and debates, she also clearly conveyed the party’s shortcomings – the difficulty of outlining exactly what “change” would mean in real terms.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PREG2MAVINGAPGSN2GS7PNMAAE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923232199},"content":"However, if the exit poll proves correct, it’s hard to see how the party has a route to government. It could well finish first in the popular vote for the second time in a row, but face another five years in opposition.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OQNW6OGAWFCFVP6D2KSVCLVWUM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923232200},"content":"The next Dáil is set to have more Independent TDs returned – but the tsunami of new independent TDs predicted by some is unlikely on the basis of these numbers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FO25KIZNJVCVLEWWA3ZSLAX73M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923232201},"content":"There were 21 Independents elected in 2020 on just over 13 per cent of the vote so the 12.7 per cent, plus the 2.2 per cent for new party Independent Ireland in the exit poll would indicate that their numbers will grow. But the Independent Ireland showing – though surely many of its most prominent members will return to the next Dáil – will be a disappointment to the founders who believed they were set to become a new force in Irish politics. Not on the basis of these numbers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LT47DUSG4BE33IWQMS7H6OXF2U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923232202},"content":"The three centre left parties, the Green Party, Labour and the Social Democrats, are all bunched on between 4 and 5.8 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RY6O6S436VF2JKB6KEATXY2UXA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923232203},"content":"The Green Party is down substantially from the 7 per cent it got in the 2020 general election, but if the exit poll result is correct, it may hold more seats than might have been expected. Like all small parties though, it will be on a knife edge in many constituencies.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3LISB5LQORDM5LKBZVHQZ5BFJY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923232204},"content":"The Social Democrats are ahead of arch rivals Labour – which will delight them. But observers will doubtless point out that their combined support of nearly 11 per cent would make them the clear second party of opposition.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IQAUDFHR5RDCLHVGDOKF5S4GJY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923232205},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/people-before-profit-solidarity-pbps/\">People Before Profit</a> <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/people-before-profit-solidarity-pbps/\">Solidarity</a> is close enough to the 2.6 per cent of the vote it got in 2020.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3V6B62FAGBCMPBIKYB6HFFKDJU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923232206},"content":"Peadar Tóibín’s <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/aontu/\">Aontú</a> had an excellent campaign and looks on course to substantially improve on its 2020 vote share of just under 2 per cent, with 3.6 per cent in the exit poll. That gives it a real shot of increasing its Dáil numbers – but it’s impossible to predict the individual constituency fortunes of any of the small parties from these big national numbers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FI6RZIDUQJHRBJ2YEQWHFP6PWU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923232207},"content":"The exit poll was conducted among 5,018 voters at more than 200 locations nationwide, as they left polling stations. It has a margin of error of 1.4 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3I6YA6LH3ZEV3NJIZ5Y5AIPDJI","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Pat Leahy"}},"name":"Pat Leahy"},{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Cormac McQuinn"}},"name":"Cormac McQuinn"}]},"description":{"basic":"Sinn Féin could well finish first in the popular vote for the second time in a row, but face another five years in opposition"},"display_date":"2024-11-30T00:04:58.73Z","headlines":{"basic":"Exit poll suggests Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil will be in driving seat to re-establish coalition","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"},"basic":{"display":true,"text":"Election 2024","url":"/election2024/"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"T2RLFLPVDBEX3KNWGDBRW72JGI","auth":{"1":"1d9c930c8a67396404719766bccb9f7d237191befa0a1c0b6b8d63deb0a04e07"},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/T2RLFLPVDBEX3KNWGDBRW72JGI.jpg"}},"subtype":"analysis","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Politics"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/politics/2024/11/30/election-2024-exit-poll-analysis-fine-gael-and-fianna-fail-will-be-in-driving-seat-to-re-establish-coalition/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/politics","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Politics"}}}},{"_id":"XRRD5YWUF5F2PKK7FYZCURMVEM","additional_properties":{},"canonical_url":"/politics/2024/11/29/election-2024-live-updates-voting-begins-at-polling-stations-around-the-country/","content_elements":[{"_id":"G757OC2DQVHXZHWM32PH3NYU5I","additional_properties":{"_id":"5YYXQKGXRRCSFNOU5VQ3NEY3DU"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732902949827},"id":"timestamp-73418","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"DQBFHPUTTZHUVISIXDYUZO2JV4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732903618094},"content":"Collective Action for Palestine will be at the count centre at the RDS on Saturday and other groups will be at count centres around Ireland this weekend, <b>Ronan McGreevy reports</b>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"U7HOB3HONJAJ3HWUTINN3DXF5U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732903618095},"content":"They claim to represent large parts of Irish society and will be telling elected politicians that they must impose sanctions on Israel.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NYQRXTLGZVCXPJG656CFHYH64I","additional_properties":{"_id":"OQ7HWQMZ7JBTTNTZL2TVSPH2TM"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732904699764},"id":"timestamp-31126","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"EMAXTO6ZOJHQXOMHJOPS4FYY2U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732906070536},"content":"Across Dublin city constituencies, the average turnout was 30.8 per cent at 4.30pm, <b>Jade Wilson reports.</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"2UEOALXG4RCEXO2LNGSJN7R3XA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732906070537},"content":"The average turnout in Kildare North at 3.30pm was 28 per cent. In Kildare South, it was 26.5 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BG6KNVQDZNFYJLZESTRIN22LXE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732906070538},"content":"Turnout across urban Mayo by 4pm was as high as 34 per cent in some polling stations, with a low of 26 per cent at others.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LFSMH27XRNAWHFNBYLSSLVP3RQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732906070539},"content":"In rural Mayo, turnout was highest at 39 per cent in one polling station, though most were between 26 per cent to 30 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CIHY5ABHDFD45MQDS6Q7EZC2XM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732906070540},"content":"Returning officers did not have comparison information for the last general election to report at this point in the day. It’s understood they may have this data to share after the 8pm percentage count.","type":"text"},{"_id":"H2IX63HW2FDWVNKFH653UTHJUY","additional_properties":{"_id":"VB34TAWVQRDYRBNOR2BH4VB3VE"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732906080193},"id":"timestamp-27582","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"MTHYXCKVHBAVPJIVLZFK3K73AI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732906615441},"content":"Turnout in Dublin County’s local authority areas (Fingal, South Dublin and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown) was at an average of 34 per cent by 5pm, <b>Sarah Slater reports.</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"RDR24QXEQNAHPGTT37HYULN3XY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732906615443},"content":"Shortly after 5pm, turnout across Cork City, was between 33 per cent to a high of 48 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WIVOTH64QVHGTEFHHN2MSFUHUU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732906615444},"content":"In Cork County, it was between 32.9 per cent and 38 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AHHAQQAUT5HV7DVOU7NNWC7JKY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732906615445},"content":"Limerick City and Limerick County had a turnout just over 30 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JYFQRVO2KVA3LFM6DNZT5S6BJU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732906615446},"content":"In Dundalk, turnout after 5pm was between 29 to 39 per cent rurally, whilst in urban Dundalk it was between 23 to 38 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KT73HBX36BHXNNYDFMHHJ6ALMU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732906615447},"content":"Turnout in Cavan after 6pm was above 30 per cent in some polling stations.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OHAOP2CDIJDXJAN7F2WV3RTPNQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732906615448},"content":"Many polling stations say their next data will be ready at 8pm.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6UVYMLGOQFE75PA4MKEZ25KLNA","additional_properties":{"_id":"YUY7APWTU5GTDKXTSBCTHLHMV4"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732909457893},"id":"timestamp-49577","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"J45H4QDYTBCKDMJGPSJFGCPWPE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732909554999},"content":"Some ballot papers in the Limerick City constituency accidentally featured candidates’ names in reverse alphabetical order, according to reports.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BAIUE5MPSZC4NNTSJJLHUHTMCY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732909555000},"content":"The error could possibly render the result in the constituency void as electoral law states that candidates’ names should be listed in alphabetical order, <a href=\"https://www.limerickpost.ie/2024/11/29/ballot-faux-pas-could-scupper-election-result-in-limerick-city-constituency/#google_vignette\" target=\"_blank\">according to the Limerick Post</a>. On some ballot papers today, Maurice Quinlivan of Sinn Féin featured first rather than last.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Z3MTT5NPTRF23EDFUPUVLW7ENI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732909555001},"content":"In the past, some candidates have changed their names or used their Irish names to push themselves to the top of the ballot paper.","type":"text"},{"_id":"X3SB2F22NVFMZIGYWDJUIGRDMQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732909555002},"content":"Éamon Ó Cuív previously dropped the Ó in his surname for electoral purposes. Research published by UCD following the 2011 general election found being first on the ballot paper is worth 544 first preference votes in an average constituency, or 1.27 per cent of the vote.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UFZE7XTYJZENRIPG4TNVQSDYJ4","additional_properties":{"_id":"3KW5FBRVQ5HHJI5OQ4X3G2V234"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732909566200},"id":"timestamp-57185","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"A5HNLOYFIBGFXCURNFQZT5AV2A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732910922719},"content":"In Mayo turnout at 7pm ranged from 60 per cent in rural Murrisk to 36.7 per cent in Castlebar primary school, <b>Sarah Slater reports.</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"U67ASEOIVVDB7P7QVMKLA2USSE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732910922720},"content":"We are expecting more turnout figures shortly after 8pm. The Irish Times will publish the exit poll at 10pm.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JGNWFOIKOBGBHFD3OVJUPXOZPM","additional_properties":{"_id":"2L5XTBADANHJVBNXUVN4JPCDQE"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732911729937},"id":"timestamp-95974","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"5IXMP7PSYNHSXBGZJMUSTDA3NM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732912797198},"content":"Remember if you’re voting tonight to park safely. Even on election day, the clampers are still on duty.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y7IRPK5I6RE4BMYZUWHB2IBYNQ","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"TRZ3ZTBXYZB7VMFFDYTFNCHUYI","additional_properties":{"_id":"YRT3CND3UVHR7PXUMN6NXTTE6Q"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732912953496},"id":"timestamp-99327","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"EJ5QZVS2R5E3DCW6HTNZG5QHZ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732913089061},"content":"Anyone trapped in a count centre this weekend (or indeed next week) will enjoy writer Richy Craven’s novel idea for a Rom Com.","type":"text"},{"_id":"E4BVR3ZY2NALHLZHSVWJ2UTGYM","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"OWCJCECMF5BGJODI2HIXXI3M6Q","additional_properties":{"_id":"EI2CXRB4F5CZXLUZTL2EIVKWDA"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732913685396},"id":"timestamp-55998","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"HMMX4FMNK5CKRMSQCA6PBDQWLY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732913898957},"content":"Turnout figures as of 8pm are coming in from Dublin, Galway and Cavan, <b>Sarah Slater reports.</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"YZLWWGAMNVHKJEKLKZKJENH4IQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732914000524},"content":"In Dublin, voter turnout had reached 51 per cent at 8pm across seven constituencies: Dublin Fingal West, Dublin Fingal East, Dublin West, Dublin Mid West, Dublin South West, Dublin Rathdown and Dún Laoghaire, according to the returning officer there.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5RGVB7YB3ZBDJCIVMSJZHT7ZZA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732913898959},"content":"In Galway city, voter turnout was ranging from 42 per cent to 54 per cent just after 8pm.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DVLGJ6PFIFFWVEE6I36DBTVTEM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732914000526},"content":"In Cavan county, turnout in Ballyjamesduff reached 54 per cent, while in Cootehill it rose from 27 per cent at 4pm to 40 per cent at 6.30pm. Cavan town stood at 41.3 per cent, Bailieborough was at 54 per cent and Virginia was at 51.12 per cent at 6.30pm.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QOTW6XUKURHCRA2HFBOCIIHASA","additional_properties":{"_id":"TY4MLUV4UBHCFERSMWJPX6PUNU"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732914015707},"id":"timestamp-266","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"Y33DC547URDLFITGRZMGPHDYJU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732914274530},"content":"We will be publishing an exit poll at 10pm on the button which will give the first real indication as to how the country has voted today.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7HYDEPWC3RCFHDFKXZET2AISUQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732914274531},"content":"The poll is a joint project of The Irish Times, RTE, TG4 and the Department of Political Science at Trinity College Dublin.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RYSEMVLBCZDUBJQCIZELJPLOZA","additional_properties":{"_id":"CR7LXC56HJBELBD22EJFMH2FTI"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732914284850},"id":"timestamp-64000","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"H7CAWZAY4NAQLPJ32ZT3FXGU4E","additional_properties":{"_id":1732915392174},"content":"In Cork South West the turnout figures at 8pm stood at 55.4 per cent, while it was at 50.3 per cent in Cork East and 57.4 per cent in Cork North West.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OGXMV3GBBRHXJDVKYW4X7W5PQU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732915392175},"content":"In Monaghan town at 8.30pm the turnout was 52.8 per cent; in Clones it rose to 53 per cent; and in Castleblayney it stood at 38 per cent at 7pm.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CZJE25UKJVCUFK7U7SU2BTZHLQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"26YHLVV23RHCNDCXYIDQHTFN7A"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732915401553},"id":"timestamp-46521","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"ROMHY3KMUNBHBGIKJQWGO2I4VA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732917139672},"content":"How accurate are exit polls? Well the exit poll at the last general election got Fianna Fáil’s 22.2 per cent first preference vote exactly right.","type":"text"},{"_id":"C2IXIQIAH5FQ5DOWX5IL4EMRTQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732917139673},"content":"Of the other two biggest parties, it slightly overestimated Fine Gael’s vote, giving the party 22.4 per cent (after the votes were counted it had 20.9 per cent) and it slightly underestimated Sinn Féin, giving the party 22.3 per cent, 2.2 per cent less than its 24.5 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SZAFJ3SAZRCLXKVJOTUYHW7TSY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732917139674},"content":"This year’s exit poll will be published here at 10pm.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ILQC23OJSCAK7JMM6S6XYIXK5U","additional_properties":{"_id":"6AXZYCVGAFEWTL4OESIEDDFBG4"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"ENUDP4LZGFET5GW4ICQTTHSVOY","additional_properties":{"_id":"4JERWL2IZVEADEJB6IF66AYEIM"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732919809303},"id":"timestamp-57592","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"XKDJMEHEIZBOJFWY46SLWNZGIA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732921889778},"content":"Limerick ballot box update","type":"header"},{"_id":"OEGA55QRWRHKFDTGX3QPQCDK7U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732921889779},"content":"More from <b>David Raleigh</b> on the ballots in Limerick city on which candidates’ names appeared in reverse alphabetical order.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3HQLZ3EOYVCZDEK7PTQMH4P5EY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732921889780},"content":"Sinn Féin TD candidate Maurice Quinlivan said: “The fact ‘they’ can’t get basic things right, like the alphabetical order of the candidates is an absolute scandal, and it is simply not good enough - this is a ridiculous situation to be in.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"ABGJZQ6YANBUJHGKC4MDF666SE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732921889781},"content":"Speaking to The Irish Times, Fianna Fáil TD Willie O’Dea said he did not believe the error would influence the outcome as “most voters look for the photographs” of those standing. “I think it should be ok,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YXRVLK3IDRDYXHVQRM4JU7EXJE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732921889782},"content":"“I did notice that I had to look way down the paper to see my own name and it was only when it was pointed to me that I realised what had happened.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4QDMMLES6VBVDDX7TPXTR42TWA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732921889783},"content":"“But if the outcome is very close [for some candidates] then the outcome could be challenged in court,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BK6CX5DWCNHKNEDSHNZWUWCU4Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1732921889784},"content":"A spokesperson for the Limerick city returning officer said that they were “aware of the issue” and that it would be addressed at the count centre on Saturday morning.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EZKBJD7SANC4VIFCRN54KPHVPU","additional_properties":{"_id":"XQNL5LYKUBFYRJFZUDAET44HCA"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732921034129},"id":"timestamp-81208","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"L7OTNEZXIFFQRKNN6SH4ZJMM2Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732921889786},"content":"UCD Professor of Political Economy Aidan Regan points out the exit poll is more evidence of a decline in the strength of the traditional Civil War parties.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PXL63RN3QNCLZCWAPYL2UQNHD4","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"WCZXLKUIJVDX3FIQ4D22KQ2XRQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"7IHVRH6OD5GWVMBIT7J57CNCAA"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732921899310},"id":"timestamp-95077","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"3OTI4I2QHVD2PG7JFCCXL6OB4U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732922925493},"content":"Listen: What do the exit poll numbers mean for government formation?","type":"header"},{"_id":"5JGQFFMPPNBXHLQ7GSHGAZUORE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732922925494},"content":"Pat Leahy joins Hugh Linehan to share the results of The Irish Times exit poll for the 2024 general election.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2YN7F5UYIRHAZOXMABTHE54RYI","additional_properties":{"_id":"C76AYGQF7FC3DGC6MFIEKNEU4E"},"embed":{"config":{},"id":"acast_podcast-8562","url":"/"},"subtype":"acast_podcast","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"NBWIRBVZABBYLNULS4ANFUMBAU","additional_properties":{"_id":"XAG63RW4URG25N6L72ONODB4ME"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732863650833},"id":"timestamp-13289","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"5X72FZTDPBEQ5G3V5PBOQ4OTQM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732864382755},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/general-election\" target=\"_blank\">Polling stations</a> have opened across the 43 constituencies in the State and voting will continue until 10pm.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ULVSNVD55BAQZH5PBIQVPABQYY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732864382756},"content":"Almost 3.7 million people will be eligible to vote. That is up 423,000 voters since the 2020 election with over 100,000 new registrations in the two weeks before the closing deadline.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2TQMVOGHZ5EWVKNNH4RVF33AOA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732864382757},"content":"If the turnout is decent we could see more people casting their vote than at any point in the history of the State.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GMGBUB5ELJCZZGVCR4ET6QEUY4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732864382758},"content":"Once the clock strikes 10pm, the ballot boxes will be sealed and securely transported to the 32 count centres where they will say until 9am tomorrow when the magic – and the madness – of an Irish election count will get under way in earnest.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BYP2XRVSG5CALPJCNVJMVZSNQY","additional_properties":{"_id":"RCXLSAOD7ZGNPNQCI6JTXG3KJ4"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732863739840},"id":"timestamp-10013","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"2Y5IIZY7IJEWPBYG7JDEHCHT74","additional_properties":{"_id":1732864382760},"content":"Today will be a long enough day with not a huge amount happening – at least in terms of canvassing – but we will be with you to cover it all.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SUH46Q64ZJD4FLXUYG7LTLLY7M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732864382761},"content":"While we might be in the calm before the political storm right now, things will change at 10pm when the first results of an Irish Times/RTÉ/TG4/TCD exit poll conducted by Ipsos B&A will be released. That might give us an early and very tentative sign as to what will happen next and who will form the next Government.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZAWRKRUYFJCLRLPVFBRLU7RSII","additional_properties":{"_id":1732864382762},"content":"It won’t be definitive mind you. As the counts go on – and on and on and on – throughout tomorrow transfers and second, third and fourth preferences will come into play in a big way and until the last seat is filled we probably won’t be sure who are next Taoiseach will be and what party they will be from.","type":"text"},{"_id":"F7DCK477KRCZFN4PPWGKGFZ4XE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732864382763},"content":"It is a long process for sure but isn’t that what makes it all exciting.","type":"text"},{"_id":"L2L66JD5KJEUPGTMB5AUKXGASE","additional_properties":{"_id":"G7KPUJYUYFA6TNWZZ3U6MOTTRU"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732864782143},"id":"timestamp-32819","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"UZECM6XOBZCTFDLIPXRA2TO6OY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732865077487},"content":"How do you vote? What do you need? Where should you go? We have all – <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/11/28/election-2024-how-do-i-vote-what-are-the-polls-saying-and-how-does-the-system-work/\" target=\"_blank\">or at least some</a> – of your election questions answered.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RAE65K5OJBFXHETO2XT7VKKGIE","additional_properties":{"_id":"UDJPDDAGCJD4HOOV3DUG75KWIQ"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732865085207},"id":"timestamp-64234","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"UYSVXEU5UBEQRCIF3OQ6U42LNU","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"4I44JQDQJZHDJINUHOEEW2IP3I","additional_properties":{"_id":"B2ZFVJZMZJERTNQ56UXGC7JUH4"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732866065602},"id":"timestamp-27231","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"RN2XP5EWBFEUVFGIVRPAFCE6VE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732867831482},"content":"“Identifying target seats in Irish general election is an art more than a science. Unless there is a huge surge for one or two parties – as happened in 1992, 2011 and again in 2020 – gains and losses happen at the margins.” <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/11/29/the-election-battlefield-for-the-big-three-where-ff-fg-and-sf-hope-to-gain-and-could-lose-seats/\" target=\"_blank\">This piece </a>from <b>Harry McGee</b> is well worth a few minutes of your day.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UVLKHLVD4BGG7CY6D7KQR4C6AY","additional_properties":{"_id":"GDWJWY2GDVBBTHZHHGZ7YZJPTY"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732866764993},"id":"timestamp-31603","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"UBSUO3YD2NDUDOP4JSOPH2BJVM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732867831484},"content":"“The people of Ireland will vote for freedom.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"BKB6OFMJFVDQHJ3MO33ZAXHUD4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732867831485},"content":"That is Elon Musk’s view anyways, for what it’s worth. He took to the platform formerly known as Twitter overnight to share it. He also shared a video of a lot of people walking around flying the tricolour to a soundtrack of stirring music and chants of “Get them out”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VBRPHREVY5FWTG6KTEHOED5IPI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732867831486},"content":"Now you know.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7MHSV5B3HJCYRF57ERZW6XL3LU","additional_properties":{"_id":"4UEIK4RCPVE4THD67NRVBXEI6M"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732867840212},"id":"timestamp-12880","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"BR3IQCNLDBALVPNT7JKRKSXRWU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732868908504},"content":"Still undecided? That’s okay, we have you covered on that score too. We’re not going to tell you who to vote for, like, but t<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/11/19/election-2024-how-do-your-views-match-with-election-candidates-in-your-area-use-this-tool-to-find-out/\" target=\"_blank\">he WhichCandidate voting aid tool </a>might help you to find out who you agree with on a range of policies","type":"text"},{"_id":"99b36e44-04d2-4a86-b384-cd5c4fbf90d0","additional_properties":{"_id":"YTEDZSBNQRBC7HYR75Y6WSJCY4"},"subtype":"irish-times-video","type":"video"},{"_id":"OA543LYQSZE4RLFZ3E2GRUXADY","additional_properties":{"_id":"CB4BWXVIXRALLDFI5HU7DVHB2A"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732869027748},"id":"timestamp-59739","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"BEA7OYI2KBEGLDIUFUAEZ3ADIY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732871895305},"content":"Our voting system is many things but uncomplicated is not one of them. How does it work?<b> Sarah Burns </b>has some answers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BEPGHREF6JBJXOJSYI7UBIGAUU","additional_properties":{"_id":"HH56JDV3CFDN5LBLZITIUHN7P4"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732869208013},"id":"timestamp-60077","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"PIPMOATDYFDKDBSIYCU4YDK23I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732871895307},"content":"Simon Harris has aid he was “feeling really good today” as he arrived with his family at Delgany National School in Co Wicklow to vote just before 7.30am.","type":"text"},{"_id":"G5D67DNALNAIFAFFDWRCD2ALAM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732871895308},"content":"“I’m feeling really hopeful, hopeful in terms of the election, but hopeful for the future of our country,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M7Y5VM5XUBDY3MYRUXZ2SEMQ6U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732871895309},"content":"“I wanted to vote early because I now want to head across our country today, continuing to encourage everyone to get out and have their say in this election.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"QAUIDW2FK5E7LIYUFHXRFKCPBU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732871895310},"content":"Asked whether he was glad the campaign was over, the Taoiseach said he had enjoyed the campaign and making a pitch for his vision for the country’s future.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5LMWQZ3G4RAGBAR22WK4CVQPB4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732871895311},"content":"He said he would be working until polls close at 10pm and is expected to travel to counties Carlow, Laois, Monaghan and Tipperary, as well as Dublin.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M3SPVZUY3VBW7LLCHMVTFY6ABM","additional_properties":{"_id":"NVK6W75X6BDH5JF7CXFYVFJW2Y"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732871757350},"id":"timestamp-32217","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"CXDCANP7WFAPVMLB6SKQSIQF6U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732871895313},"content":"And in case you miss it, this is <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/11/28/general-election-2024-how-the-irish-times-will-cover-the-results-and-key-times-to-watch-out-for/\" target=\"_blank\">how we will be covering the count.</a> It’s an all hands on deck kind of affair.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5GFN3VR3YRBBFHNHOLRMHVENUM","additional_properties":{"_id":"6PAGZ25AR5DJVG2VQR2H62RKHM"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732871904535},"id":"timestamp-3090","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"P7NPHJWNSK6HXO3UPGSU4FIXHE","additional_properties":{"_id":"UV4MF3WGTRBV5P5Q672R376LZ4"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"BFG6TXIJUVEU7MRYXTUTAR4SUU","additional_properties":{"_id":"YD5J7TYSABCDNLAVCTXSWZUZGQ"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732872207628},"id":"timestamp-51225","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"G7KCASHRWZHWFANMKRQS5WFSWM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732872607566},"content":"Don’t write up Louth, up the Dubs, up Mayo","type":"header"},{"_id":"PNBJTSYE3BGVXB2LPRM6MADHKA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732872607567},"content":"An Coimisiún Toghcháin’s head of electoral operations Tim Carey has warned voters not to write anything but numbers on their ballot papers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UJHRAFZAFJBEZFRV3MKF7NEJ2Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732872607568},"content":"Speaking on RTÉ's Morning Ireland he reminded voters to “start with the number one and then work your way down the ballot with as much or as few candidates as you want. Don’t write up Louth, up the Dubs, up Mayo, don’t comment on one of the politicians or anything like that because if you do your vote may not be counted.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"NTH4VRBY7FFA7BA33QL2VH74DA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732872607569},"content":"He also warned people against taking selfies in the booth. “Take a selfie outside the polling station by the sign, but not inside the polling station.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"PNBJTSYE3BGVXB2LPRM6MADHKA_1","additional_properties":{"_id":1732872607570},"content":"Care said people should also make sure their ballot is properly stamped at the polling stations.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OO2H64THSFEYNFFPAMEQ67EYLA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732872607571},"content":"“If that is not done, and in a very small percentage of cases it is not because they are busy or they just forget, your vote won’t count – it is actually an invalid vote,” he said. “So, make sure it is stamped.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"T47TDMD7DIS6ZDY2OKHGNVQHJM","additional_properties":{"_id":"AHGUYNMBQRHGJGCGKPPX4U2CQ4"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"DK3XB64VCNCBNLALK54RIT23XE","additional_properties":{"_id":"EFUSQR6QNVGNBLZVEHLZFJKWF4"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732876532241},"id":"timestamp-28553","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"CGYPK7MMYRBPVN7UZSGPBJLQ7U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732877794373},"content":"The Tánaiste and Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has said he is “cautiously hopeful” of the outcome of what he called a “close fought” election battle.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EYEUUXHP2VATNHRLWCR2RW3NQM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732877794374},"content":"He said his Fianna Fáil party had a “stronger team” than they had in the 2020 election, when they came back with 38 seats.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MO7JFF54IRGNJM22PDXR7XHDFM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732877794375},"content":"Asked will he sleep on Friday night and before count day, he said “oh I will yeah”. Asked if he has any rituals on count day, Mr Martin said “I take it easy”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KF5BS44KMBEK5HO6TWCNVS2VXQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732877794376},"content":"“I’ll have a very good breakfast tomorrow morning, and I tell everyone not to come near me until about midday,” he said in Cork. I don’t want to hear a tally from the 44th box, no point. I can go over all that later.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VCO2PMTZ25FQ5IR5OXELIHRJQE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732877794377},"content":"“Actually, I’m very relaxed on count day and the only challenge is to make sure that I can keep the noise out. I will probably go into town and do a few things, go to Douglas market maybe. Then in around midday, 1pm maybe, depending when the tally will be finished, head to the count centre, and it’s very familiar ground for me, Nemo Rangers, and I’ll enjoy that.","type":"text"},{"_id":"I3V6OLSGYVBRDMEHPZSUEOUY2U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732877794378},"content":"“Maybe that’ll be a good omen,” he said, referring to the fact that his son Micheal Aodh plays football for Nemo Rangers GAA club.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JG3BGLQIWVAPJL3WDU2HB45EP4","additional_properties":{"_id":"4J3BZM4XVVFTPEV3QGUAEY2LEQ"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732876861448},"id":"timestamp-10510","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"AX7DTGEMVM5TWME5E5DYYYU5XI","additional_properties":{"_id":"UTEF4PHNXBBGLFRU44ZFDQMLGI"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"TW2WU4NUFFBLZOVZDKMQMY4Z3Y","additional_properties":{"_id":"4KEBAN4MEBARPOL5QKKUAEOUSA"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732877280096},"id":"timestamp-62193","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"22G6VQ3D3NGRXGMNAUFJSSUWRY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732877794382},"content":"There is some talk of turnout coming in. It is very early in the day and across the country between 3 and 5 per cent of the electorate have already cast their ballots. According to some reports, Dublin has been slightly busier that it was at this point in the 2020 election. Still very early days mind you.","type":"text"},{"_id":"562I7ZIJ5RCPFI3BYY2PXPUIKA","additional_properties":{"_id":"ZPBJHDJ6FRCXFJJLKXECUR6OLE"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732879624229},"id":"timestamp-56898","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"UPGMPEHV75GUDDPHKYI37Y4FYM","additional_properties":{"_id":"EC3JOPPXJRCYZNQDWPKFADEWWM"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"XY3SFO6VNRCC5KN54QJLLZ2SKA","additional_properties":{"_id":"75T2S4PV5ZCZXMQ3WBGBHHQG5M"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732880136040},"id":"timestamp-88339","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"5W6HFHYK25FF5CGT3F5JROIDMI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880394480},"content":"The Tánaiste and Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has said today is not the day to talk about the exact make-up of any future Government.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NOB5O4DVMFHOTOUJ2WY4HSXT6E","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880394481},"content":"<b>Barry Roche </b>reports that when he was asked if he would be happy to be a rotating Taoiseach after the election he said “we’re not getting into that today. The people are voting today. Let’s have respect for the people.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"IO7IR27HEFDMZCXBLVY6R7ARB4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880394482},"content":"He said he was “fighting to be Taoiseach, I’m campaigning to be Taoiseach after the next election, but nothing is certain until every vote is counted. And then there is the aftermath of election in terms of what happens within Dáil Éireann itself.","type":"text"},{"_id":"REEP63WDAZD4DBEK24FCN5T4PY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880394483},"content":"So there is a lot of hard work ahead, but certainly I did have a good feeling in the last two to three days in terms of the response that I was getting after the debates.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RTXNUGMRQRH6VBXX43SMMBUBLI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880394484},"content":"He said the decision is “now in the hands of the people. We can’t be predicting anything now, at this stage, other than that, we fought a positive campaign. 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<b>Sarah Burns</b> <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/11/29/im-sort-of-bracing-myself-for-the-days-of-counting-ahead-foreign-journalists-views-on-the-general-election/\" target=\"_blank\">has been finding out.</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"43L3EYNO5FAWDA5MEMBEOIQAFU","additional_properties":{"_id":"AWZ3HKDVM5D6XHJCTQ4PYE6UPE"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732883208963},"id":"timestamp-79534","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"PUJSNEY5DZE7DF5SQIFG2CKDV4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732884541906},"content":"Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has cast her vote in at the Deaf Village in Cabra.","type":"text"},{"_id":"B64UVOCPARCRLCQP7L22BXF4DA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732884541907},"content":"“We’ve lost count of the number of conversations that we’ve had with people with disabilities, children waiting and waiting for services, and that is really hard and really unacceptable, but we need to mark today with a note of optimism and hope and confidence and ambition, because today is election day,” she said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5WA3T4KW25F6FLHRYE6BEZWJCE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732884541908},"content":"“And the great beauty of this, and it’s a moment of almost, of actual unique equality for every citizen, because your vote holds exactly the same weight, whether you’re down on your luck and you’re struggling, or if you’re a multi millionaire, your vote carries equal weight.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YD3JCKMVSFF6NFIAO55RWMRDU4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732884541909},"content":"“So this is the moment where people can really shape the next Government, and we need a new Government, but really have your say on an equal basis. So I always think that that’s a really positive thing.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"4VUBOPMFTZE7LC2H7DMXCZ2JOQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"CFXUMT6U5FDSPEG2P24AK2RBEM"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732884459724},"id":"timestamp-54460","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"GFXLVTS64JG65KNDW76C6WCZUA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732884541911},"content":"Some more turnout news from<b> Jade Wilson</b>, this time from Cavan.","type":"text"},{"_id":"S6GLWBDZTVEV3PGWQ4X5LWIAWM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732884541912},"content":"At Bailieborough count centre, the turnout at 10am was 6 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KMPKDV44ENFZXD544QEHIWBMWE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732884541913},"content":"In Ballyjamesduff, it was 8 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2JDSXI4S3VBPZD5WIDMIGFCKJQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732884541914},"content":"By 11am, turnout at St Clare’s count centre in Cavan was 9.17 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"V5DTUFJJD5GT7LIIKEA363JQBU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732884541915},"content":"And the turnout for Virginia in Co Cavan at 12pm is 14.14 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CESLIUJNRFHVPN5NGPWOGFJOO4","additional_properties":{"_id":"GOGBNB3FJ5CI5G7EQ5LWDTQK34"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732884554229},"id":"timestamp-16062","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"S6RQIKCZHBEVJIOSPBW2UEHAVY","additional_properties":{"_id":"FWIQPUMF2RC6LCNZZBTCTCIX3M"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"ZHF7GUML4NDNJBLUOSLRD7OOAI","additional_properties":{"_id":"BHK3YZTTMFGKZAPBI6AMNMWEHE"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732884681595},"id":"timestamp-94982","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"C6M7E5F2SFHA3CN3RL6DWI33MI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732886543083},"content":"The President, Michael D Higgins cast his vote in the Phoenix Park this morning.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4ZJVBGFXBRE77OSJXOY2BQL5SE","subtype":"instagram","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"4BC6C74PEZEENPRBOA62TW6BMA","additional_properties":{"_id":"JVIZNHDDDBEGRNGFULA6ITAJVY"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732884758842},"id":"timestamp-82544","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"AVZ2SYXQTBHNLCAVSNB47TH7YU","additional_properties":{"_id":"TUNXU76JFNCCJKVDCV5ACOT66E"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732884842480},"id":"timestamp-43879","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"T4HULRO7PBHUZCODQPMANMPT3A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732886543087},"content":"We have some very good news from the leader of one party which we really must share while stressing it should not be taken as an indication of any bias on our part.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QPKRKCTZMJDCJDLYW2BU5CSAII","subtype":"instagram","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"7Z66KWBIEZH55PVFPQL462JMZY","additional_properties":{"_id":"C5RWUG6HLBEBVHACOGY36AKN5I"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732885546473},"id":"timestamp-83194","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"F7DGBL4DQNDCDIOHET6QBKBP6I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732886543090},"content":"More news on turnouts around the country from <b>Jade Wilson.</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"X3YLMZIQONGEJLRNI5TYT5LYSI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732886543091},"content":"Turnout across polling stations in Galway West is currently 8 per cent to 14 per cent at, while Galway East count centres have turnouts of 11 per cent to 16 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GMMZRU5ZENAQDDT5LAAMA3L5IU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732886543092},"content":"Turnout in rural Mayo polling stations is currently 9 to 18 per cent, and between 9 and 12.3 per cent in urban Mayo.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LCMRMMJJ3JFUXLCGQ7XHMFR6EE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732886543093},"content":"In Dundalk, some of the rural polling stations are now seeing over 20 per cent turnout.","type":"text"},{"_id":"74WWWEHG45B3XCYEK5BZBHZR6Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732886543094},"content":"Kilcurry polling station has a turnout of 28 per cent, and Sheelagh has 22 per cent so far.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IZUDJ5VXCFEEFKJGPJLEPM6QBA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732886543095},"content":"In urban Dundalk, turnout is currently between 12.5-15 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QULW4ZWV6BGW3NA75TV75N2LF4","additional_properties":{"_id":"WEBU2QF6TNAD3LOQPQE5UW2HME"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732886270993},"id":"timestamp-66382","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"SWWQ6JT77BFKXLD44VRXI7RP2Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732886543097},"content":"In the Sandymount area of Dublin Bay South constituency the turn out was at 20 per cent by 12.30pm. Officials say is “well above” the turnout rate at the same time for the local and European elections.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EPA5S5MYQ5AYDLE65LMBODO5RQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"7DSFDZXKGVBNZAG4HIQVYWCNMY"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732886556104},"id":"timestamp-3427","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"MUV3FLU57RDZ3JSUA3N3GIA7IA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732888861468},"content":"<b>Harry McGee </b>has done a breakdown of how the election might shake up for some parties.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XAWX7BOASJFKRC52FJTLUP67YM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732888861469},"content":"<b>GREEN PARTY</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"YLFEAUVQVVEL3J2CZKIIDNR4RA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732888861470},"content":"It’s a battle for survival for the Green Party. It has no strong targets and all its potential gains are long shots. Only two of its TDs, Catherine Martin and Roderic O’Gorman look safe. It is in real trouble in five constituencies and will be in battles in another five.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y5GEFQLD4NECDDYFGAJM2FCEJM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732888861471},"content":"POSSIBLE GAINS","type":"text"},{"_id":"WFEYFSLCEFG23FW7HBLZDCZFGM","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"},{"_id":"Z27G5EBGIZB6JHXEW2WFSODN2U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732888861473},"content":"SERIOUS RISK OF LOSS","type":"text"},{"_id":"YUINJGLQY5HUDJKJRDAY54R6KA","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"},{"_id":"3KIBR46GGJFXJIZBT3N6OYA6ME","additional_properties":{"_id":1732888861475},"content":"POTENTIAL LOSSES","type":"text"},{"_id":"C25XVUC4SNANRNCSFC3BIOBXNE","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"},{"_id":"75BDHU5PB5CFRMOB4LVCCL66ZQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"6MPVICSIFNF5PLKA2KJZQ53HNQ"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732889671100},"id":"timestamp-30899","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"UJBC6Q6M5ZHTLHHCL5WHQVWZSE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732893745030},"content":"The number of people in homeless accommodation in the State has reached another record high and is now at almost 15,000 people.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YD7FWG5YM5HJZKC4BYQOARLGZU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732893745031},"content":"There were 14,966 people homeless in October, consisting of 10,321 adults and 4,645 children under the age of 18, from 2,161 families.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GC6NAGCXPRA5FMXQZK5DO5UT2Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732893745032},"content":"It amounts to an increase of 1.4 per cent on the 14,760 people accessing emergency accommodation in September.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UKMF4BTE6VE3PBOAPZ2AXT7ZZ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732893745033},"content":"The homelessness figures have increased year on year by 13.5 per cent. There were 13,179 people in homelessness in October last year.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KG4T3OAYRBGBFDRDXAXI4PNUUE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732893745034},"content":"Opposition parties, especially Sinn Féin, had called for the figures to be published in advance of the general election.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AXY6HEDWRJDMPOMTK7532NICME","additional_properties":{"_id":1732893745035},"content":"However, the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage Darragh O’Brien said the publication of the figures were the sole responsibility of his department.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6SIVC36OFZCPJE7SNPGPCYZPVY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732893745036},"content":"The homelessness figures for the previous month are normally published by the Department of Housing on the last Friday of the following month.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5MEARX7YEJEE5EXCOHZRY45GL4","additional_properties":{"_id":"EIR43F2ZBFES5PPJC3X6SJCLVU"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732889995581},"id":"timestamp-25399","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"OQ7USWEASVAKDA52OWA6GHPWBI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732893745038},"content":"Sinn Féin’s housing spokesman Eoin Ó Broin has said that ‘the latest rise in homeless numbers confirms why a change of Government is needed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VBYIIE3YBJBWPOVNXNZSPA2NO4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732893745039},"content":"“Once again, the number of adults, children, single people, and families without a home has increased. And this just weeks after the Government announced its record giveaway budget. The latest rise in homeless numbers confirms why we need a change of Government.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JXQIVN44WRBLPNUPZEEOYUBIZY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732893745040},"content":"“As people go to the polls throughout today, they should ask themselves do they want another five years of rising homelessness. Because that is what they will get it Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael go back into Government,” he continued.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UMLFDLNZ5JET5NUOYFPENZ7CXY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732893745041},"content":"We will report any other responses as they come in.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DLR4YL34QNAGHD6XCE56M3SAR4","additional_properties":{"_id":"55DDVGUECZF2HDPYNPZF6GBLU4"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732891051632},"id":"timestamp-22692","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"INM3JKWPBFGYXEFQUXJOOUS25U","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"TKDIZSK6NJCUHHW7PCQZEKNSYA","additional_properties":{"_id":"YAQ2WXVTPVDIDJNUDREDGOS3VQ"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732891924500},"id":"timestamp-97674","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"TWFKZRMZ6NGNNGOYT4X4GLJRQY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732893745045},"content":"More from <b>Harry McGee</b> on how the smaller parties might do.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IN2L5V573ZCWFN6MD4XFUGL2IY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732893745046},"content":"<b>SOCIAL DEMOCRATS</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"VWQ6RXYXORFHJE7KC5LOCEE56Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732893745047},"content":"The party is polling very strongly and looks like it will make gains. It has three strong targets, and another seven constituencies where it might gain on a very good day. Could be the dark horse among the smaller parties.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SW7BJOYKKBDVXACHZ5BJ2YEMSU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732893745048},"content":"MAIN TARGETS","type":"text"},{"_id":"4D3ZTUUYCVHGRM5SFA3FLYO7OQ","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"},{"_id":"NRWC2BM4IJF7TMRX5GRU3XFCMY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732893745050},"content":"POSSIBLE TARGETS","type":"text"},{"_id":"27XYCRY6JJF2VEQWN2DF6FMLMM","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"},{"_id":"VC3UTVS3UNC5XHVWGB4IZISVVA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732893745052},"content":"POTENTIAL LOSSES","type":"text"},{"_id":"CY3FS42ZGVFJLGZOIBZSHF5YQQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732893745053},"content":"Dublin North West: Róisín Shortall’s retirement leaves a big gap and Rory Hearne has his work cut out to retain it. But he is high profile and with his party showing 12 per cent support levels in Dublin in The Irish Times poll, he will be in the mix.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NORXGP7DWFGWROW3BHAUPT4XWU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732893745054},"content":"Dublin Central: Another high profile figure, Gary Gannon, faces stiff competition in an unpredictable constituency where transfers will be everything. 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And if this election campaign was dull, it was partly because it was weighed down with too many complex numbers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3I5SHLC4XJGLPODJDJMKKVXC2M","additional_properties":{"_id":"5NQMWRDVBBEGLOCWTVRZW2G6UU"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732897231234},"id":"timestamp-47196","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"GXJVWSGZHRAQPFFSLH553JQFQI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732900874085},"content":"The timing is coincidental but the latest Eurobarometer poll may auger well for the re-election of the Government.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RR6Q5NK7HVAJHIFOHNJJIK4GXQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732900874086},"content":"The European Commission undertakes surveys across the 27 member states on a regular basis to ascertain the mood of the Continent in general.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PG2BLLEO75DJHLJXS36JUL2HSM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732900874087},"content":"The survey shows that Irish people are generally more contented with their lot than their European equivalents.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CVGU7GAPCBEZPCIKNXEMDKIORY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732900874088},"content":"Some 82 per cent rate their financial situation as being good in comparison with 73 per cent in Europe in general.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VUTISE2Z5BHURCLQVDIOWOAIKI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732900874089},"content":"Similarly, 79 per cent of Irish people are happy with their job situation compared to 68 per cent across Europe.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ECPEXTFXXRCVPEXOF6H3L277G4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732900874090},"content":"Irish people are generally satisfied with the state of the economy with 71 per cent saying the economic situation is good and 28 per cent bad.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FPAUMQZ4NRHYTGT3LCDLW3U7NQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732900874091},"content":"The survey also reveals strong support for the EU’s actions against Russia with 90 per cent of Irish people agreeing on sanctions against the country because of its invasion of Ukraine.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Z5LO6CAOXJE2DPIGJQJREQKG4E","additional_properties":{"_id":"OPMM46OVKNBVHLGKJNL4YTO5OQ"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732898915222},"id":"timestamp-53689","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"D3QD3GRFGBEB5DDJFLHEYVRFAQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732900874093},"content":"Holly Cairns, who was first elected to Cork County Council in 2019 by a single vote, will be hoping that things aren’t quite as tight this time around as she won’t be able to vote for herself after giving birth to a little girl this morning at Cork University Maternity Hospital, <b>writes Barry Roche.</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"RUPQI4P6PRAMRH6UGB2LNTPSQI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732900874094},"content":"“Holly went into the hospital for a check up on Thursday evening and stayed in and her baby girl was born early this morning – she is registered to vote in her home polling station outside Skibbereen so 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Poll-y.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XYOXCU5SDRC77BTJ46EBE4CAEE","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"ZJACMITQ7NHCFGNTUQEQZ2FOZM","additional_properties":{"_id":"NEGGDM3235HVVLAXIITOVABUCM"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732900121928},"id":"timestamp-98110","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"Z7UZ5EPN6JGATLV355A3RWWTVA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732900874118},"content":"The Tonight Show presenters Claire Brock and Ciara Doherty have both announced their departure from the station.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OKNZPEOAEFA25EWYEDKNBJCVZY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732902681467},"content":"The Virgin Media show, which was a fixture for a lot of political junkies, was cut down to from four to two days a week just before the election.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DOYZ3CQLXBGZHKS47QRI2S4YDQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732900874117},"content":"The station also pleaded poverty in its decision to not host a leaders’ debate. Station controller Áine Ní Chaoindealbháin blamed the failure of the Government to help","type":"text"},{"_id":"3TVCDHBBDZCJVMX27BMBO5FE2U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732900874119},"content":"Ms Doherty, who has been with the broadcaster for 14 years, said she has decided “to move on from late nights and early mornings to begin a new adventure”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SEC3Q3QPI5CBHN3S4UAM7AXOYE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732900874120},"content":"Claire Brock said she had been “fortunate to have enjoyed incredible opportunities with the very best team of colleagues”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DTX6JQD6R5FYNMNY3E45NJFF24","additional_properties":{"_id":"G57KLY2GDBGTTJ5FZ52IC7L4O4"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732916258853},"id":"timestamp-60236","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"JFKTSDS54JGOZNSPOMRB5TC2A4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732916762077},"content":"Exit Poll will give strong indication of how the electorate has voted","type":"header"},{"_id":"XPMCWAHZHRC5RKX63FCD5Y2ENI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732916762078},"content":"We are nearing the time of when the exit poll results are published. We are going live with them at 10pm sharp. The poll was commissioned by The Irish Times, RTE, TG4 and Trinity College and 5,000 people have been surveyed across all 43 constituencies during the course of the day.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UWI7IDZDKJFJ7DPI3S35DW4BXE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732916762079},"content":"Our last opinion poll published on Monday put the three parties within a hair’s breadth of one another with Fianna Fáil at 21 per cent, Sinn Féin at 20, and Fine Gael at 19, all within the margin of error.","type":"text"},{"_id":"E4KQX4IBBZC6TLHFVKE2BF32DM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732916762080},"content":"Has anything occurred in the past week to move the needle to or from any of the parties?","type":"text"},{"_id":"UR4LO4AEVFGLFADTW2DAN2NJLQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732916762081},"content":"Was the leaders’ debate on RTÉ deliberative?","type":"text"},{"_id":"YX76JSYB45C2XPPIG27UFL5A4E","additional_properties":{"_id":1732916762082},"content":"Did Simon Harris put what he described as the “bumps along the way” behind him?","type":"text"},{"_id":"PNK6SURPRNDKNL2YXG6ADK7OXY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732916762083},"content":"If they are still locked together, it is going to be intriguing. It will mean that no two combinations can come close to a majority. The pathway to power for Sinn Féin will be tricky in that instance. The other interesting thing (but this will only become apparent when the count starts tomorrow) will be transfers. Will Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil transfer to each other in the numbers that their strategists are predicting.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5TQNCQPSFRBT7M57ULJJY5VXG4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732916762084},"content":"This poll has such a large sample that the margin of error is small. We have not finalised the number yet but it will be around 1.6 per cent. In 2020, a similar exercised gave a very close approximation of the final out-turn for each of the larger parties.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EACDQ2OZWLQTWSJZHFTHYGRTF4","additional_properties":{"_id":"YBK6ONTQBZAEZJE2YOJ5PMNEYU"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"CVSBCHUWR5BVFKYULTVCFYU4HE","additional_properties":{"_id":"AQETCAAS4ZFGRGN6HLKAPXPPW4"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"6RXL46KHZZD3FLJIDSY4FGTSOE","additional_properties":{"_id":"UINBV5SFKNACVOHQUHDTZQTERI"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732917250714},"id":"timestamp-24691","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"BQL4V7UWURFZ7COJJWICUIJP4E","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"25UTZQWK3VHJLMABLMPJBCROAY","additional_properties":{"_id":"4SLKDTZA4JBWLFHPLJY56HGJWM"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732917269418},"id":"timestamp-77421","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"PS4TCXKY6JE23GQKTCWZXNCMQE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136757},"content":"A very tense and close election with three lead parties within 1.6 per cent of each other","type":"header"},{"_id":"AIMIMXVXS5AE5PDS5GQEK3RRPQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136758},"content":"The three lead parties are at a near deadlock according to the findings of the exit poll conducted by Ipsos/B&A on behalf of The Irish Times, RTE, TG4 and Trinity College.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AJSLHLL63JDENN2V7ZTUFDTCGU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136759},"content":"For the second election in a row, Sinn Féin looks like it will be the most popular party with 21.1 per cent, a whisker above Fine Gael, which is at 21.0 per cent according to the findings. Fianna Fáil is a further 1.5 per cent back at 19.5 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JLN3IV3LBJECFEAQHNEDNOPUWA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136760},"content":"The number of voter who were sampled today across the 43 constituencies was 5,018. The margin of error is 1.4 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2RFXG5663BBNJLKVT3RS4QLR6U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136761},"content":"Of the other parties, the Social Democrats have come out best, marginally ahead of the Labour Party.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GO5BWEOFRZG53DTIW5BZHX252A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136762},"content":"Their support levels are, according to the poll.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LJ3GUNW2H5FR5MXFZIHS2BTXFA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136763},"content":"Social Democrats: 5.8 per cent","type":"text"},{"_id":"PTYADHTHFVBA3CLH4PZPECLOGE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136764},"content":"Labour 5 per cent","type":"text"},{"_id":"5WW5WXVYCBCVPFRRL2ZHBJANWA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136765},"content":"Green Party 4 per cent","type":"text"},{"_id":"RKGLNYDQUNHVDG7BIPOA6QKQUY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136766},"content":"Aontu 3.6 per cent","type":"text"},{"_id":"7T7UCD222ZBIBF65IUGBYYSKH4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136767},"content":"People Before Profit 3.1 per cent","type":"text"},{"_id":"JEPVO46KGNGZJHR3FQLCMWRGBI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136768},"content":"Independent Ireland 2.2 per cent","type":"text"},{"_id":"DYGI6NEUVFEZPBPALF6JGCBPAA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136769},"content":"Independents 12.7 per cent","type":"text"},{"_id":"FXAJISUH4RA6NFZVCSYEBOFM3U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136770},"content":"Others 1.9 per cent","type":"text"},{"_id":"6HQNAS5NXBALZP4OZDBEMCSR4U","additional_properties":{"_id":"7KTFZKRXRRD5XMVI4TJY6UHGHQ"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732917951734},"id":"timestamp-53776","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"A7KGJPUNLVDF7CRFQUCLJJLVSQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136772},"content":"Jennifer Bray gives her take on The Late Late Show","type":"header"},{"_id":"RMUHGBEJGFGWTBJMJ3FLQQCQBE","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"GRDB3QIOCNGSZPY3YQJCA2T5KA","additional_properties":{"_id":"PL2SIMAYSNEA5LVJVMHKVKC7FI"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732918048089},"id":"timestamp-90356","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"J6H6PSJL6ZHDFCQ5COLX4IMNNQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136775},"content":"So what does it mean?","type":"header"},{"_id":"5VM52IYVG5DH5ECUKUCTHQ72OY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136776},"content":"Well the people have spoken but I think it’s going to take a while for us to figure out what they have said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"I56NBHF7WRELVMKKLJREHY42S4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136777},"content":"The three larger parties are still more or less prised together. Just a word of caution, in the exit poll in 2020, the actual outturn did differ a little, so one or more of the three big parties may have its support levels overstated or understated.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YI62LUCT2ZFLJBIFV5WPHR5S4E","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136778},"content":"If the results are borne out, Fianna Fáil will be the most disappointed. It seemed to have been the only party that had stayed above the fray but it clearly did not have momentum. Micheál Martin was said to have had a good campaign but it has not translated into a greater level of support.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HWI5FHLAPBBT3FGHJYUTG5YA4U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136779},"content":"In context, it’s a good result for Sinn Féin. Not compared to a year ago. But definitely compared to five months ago when it tanked in the local and European elections. It has managed to put those - and the series of scandals involving senior figures in the party - behind it and recovered to compete with the other two.","type":"text"},{"_id":"T3QFBILSSBFMZP7BY3B5VM5ROQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136780},"content":"Fine Gael will be disappointed compared to a month ago. But happy compared to three days ago when Simon Harris, after swatting away all foes for months, seemed to have impaled himself on his sword.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XQBYVYTZ7ZAJ7GK7OO2B6DJKXY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136781},"content":"Is there a path to government on these figures. Not for Sinn Féin as a lead party of a left alliance. Not for Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil as a coalition setting off to do the second difficult album. There will be a lot of talking and a lot of creativity needed, if these results are borne out.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MDSA3FMJRFEPNGORROVWNXH5TU","additional_properties":{"_id":"5DDTFCSBAFFE7J2GHBJNMFLHAI"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732918737049},"id":"timestamp-41916","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"EDTQQIAZ6BFNTMN2E73SS457ZY","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"JVRL6HJVNBFXXBTKCD3R6URJUU","additional_properties":{"_id":"7BEHID3MKNH7NDWRMEN5OBAGAA"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732918842978},"id":"timestamp-29462","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"NJFSTT7RDZAA3MSQYLVDNVAXKI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136785},"content":"What does it mean for the smaller parties and Independents?","type":"header"},{"_id":"RKNIMEKZ5RBDXGNC2ZI4DUMBT4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136786},"content":"There is a clear winner among the smaller parties and that is the Social Democrats with a 5.8 per cent showing. Depending on how it attracts transfers (and it is transfer friendly) the party could see its seat numbers creep into double figures. Likewise, Labour will be content enough with its showing of 5 per cent. It’s an increase on its 2020 election result of 4.4 per cent, if borne out, and could deliver extra seats for the party.","type":"text"},{"_id":"D6V5ZRPLLRE6FMR522ULSWZP6E","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136787},"content":"Another smaller party which will be thrilled is Aontú which has 3.6 per cent, according to the poll. People Before Profit has also marginally increased its support levels from 2.6 per cent to 3.1 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YXKYQWMNZFHNLJG7DA4PZ4EK7M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136788},"content":"And the Greens? It is at 4 per cent, down 3 per cent from 2020. That means it could lose half its seats or more. But it’s not as calamitous for the party as 2011, when its support levels dipped below 2 per cent and it lost all its seats as well as the right to receive State financing.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TS2WCJHJKNHM7NNQDU3YRTXSSE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136789},"content":"The Independent Alliance has 2.2 which suggests it did not attract the kind of support it set out to do. The figure for Independents is 12.7 which is close to the 2020 figures. It suggests there might not be a big increase in their number.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GGPLC33JWBCMHEYMIKXNAFWWVQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"IVKZBDPNJZEX3F4SYFS6BCSEVM"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732919666612},"id":"timestamp-35173","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"ELEHSMMRGJHXPK2ABZJH56TOWE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136791},"content":"Where are the Second Preferences Going?","type":"header"},{"_id":"SFFEGE4FKBBQBLLZG66LFJ44MI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136792},"content":"There is a slight bias toward the two Government parties over Sinn Féin. Again Fianna Fáil will be disappointed as it looked from other polls this week that it might be more popular than the other two parties.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FB5UYZDWSZHJDBEA2E3SV6FD5Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136793},"content":"How will that translate into seats? It’s hard to say. If there is a disciplined transfer between the two Coalition parties they could get a seat bonus. But Sinn Féin’s clever endorsement of the Social Democrats and People Before Profit could allow it to close that obvious gap a lot, especially in the capital.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QN7BZ6ZYGJHUVKWX7WDK6FDNCQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136794},"content":"Second preferences","type":"text"},{"_id":"L4J3FFQXIRE6ZOA3BDASQGWLAA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136795},"content":"Fianna Fáil 20","type":"text"},{"_id":"PBENUUFD6JAMPJ4VYYHHXMDNKI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136796},"content":"Fine Gael 20","type":"text"},{"_id":"VDRI32FDURHZDIC5THXA4PL37U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136797},"content":"Sinn Féin 17","type":"text"},{"_id":"2I3QAYFXJ5AUTEZT644NHGZO4U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136798},"content":"Social Democrats 5","type":"text"},{"_id":"NLHESEOU3BERHA2R42WKMVMERA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136799},"content":"Labour 5","type":"text"},{"_id":"BFK6QZGN3RHLLKC6QGTUBJ2ZYI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136800},"content":"PBP-Solidarity 4","type":"text"},{"_id":"3ZWLLOF6MBEI7DCNRBFS7E6YAE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136801},"content":"Greens 3","type":"text"},{"_id":"3VL3FIMEOBCT3EC4ONWAM3BTTA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136802},"content":"Aontú 3","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZKVBBKHSENFXJGJIPDYXZGJHLA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136803},"content":"Ind Ireland 3","type":"text"},{"_id":"TQ6VOHCPC5FB5GQTXBNWTIWLKY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136804},"content":"Independent 14","type":"text"},{"_id":"AILY4H5GGBE55KEWD4RU32O3O4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136805},"content":"Other parties 2","type":"text"},{"_id":"O5J5Q676FRHMBHPCAOOFU5RZQE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136806},"content":"Here are two tweets from Cormac McQuinn where he looks at the transfer patterns between parties.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5V4F2HYTMZBD3PIUL4ASIVTPMI","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"6TQHYFLOARBXRPP7SYYQSK4YIM","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"CVQMTJRLVVAVDBM7IDDUCUG45A","additional_properties":{"_id":"JAAOOHCARJB3HKIB725SJ72QUY"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732921514861},"id":"timestamp-2038","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"A7NIXYS4QBELVGY7VJJP5OEO74","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136810},"content":"Reaction from the larger parties","type":"header"},{"_id":"GEWLSTRPSZE7HGJPTQUDKAHNI4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136811},"content":"Senior figures from the three largest parties have been giving their reaction to the exit poll on RTÉ.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TMHXHI2MJJHHZLLHNFJGVLQBYY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136812},"content":"Jack Chambers of Fianna Fáil said the three parties were all within the margin of error or each other.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CZL7Q6TNJBFFXFYTUPYPTYLGAQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136813},"content":"“I think there’s a three way race now to see who become the largest party, and we have to see how that manifests tomorrow morning when the ballot boxes are opened.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"SWWE5N7WM5H5VKBEZMMWM4P5WE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136814},"content":"He also cited geographical and constituency issues.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UPKK2XW5XNH3HOB7SHWDGRKIXM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136815},"content":"Chambers said that the wider context was a further fragmentation of Irish politics with the vote split across many small parties and independents.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KYO5EVDIYBALTAD5M3MJCTMLUU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136816},"content":"Damien English of Fine Gael said his party had put in a “very solid performance” and that seemed to be borne out by the findings of the exit poll.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GBAZ2ZYFJRB7LGOAMNRDK2TJ6I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136817},"content":"“Bearing in mind that we set out with 17 sitting TDs it’s a very positive solid result.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZB3KU5GXIJEYRASHDLEL7RWZ6Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136818},"content":"Sinn Féin director of elections Matt Carthy said the truth was the the combined support of the two main Government parties had fallen 6 per cent on their 2020 performance.","type":"text"},{"_id":"53QPGIAWRFCW3F53QC6QLRJIZU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136819},"content":"“I think any anybody looking at the trajectory of the political discourse, particularly since last June’s local elections - when Sinn Fein’s obituary had been written - will have to acknowledge that quite an amount of people came out to vote against the outgoing government. They came out to vote for change.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"P7L4PFFMLVFW3PQ6N5FILV5GWE","additional_properties":{"_id":"DRCWZSGGFNAJROBF6Q55CCSDA4"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732922034759},"id":"timestamp-6858","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"PPVDEXDW3JE23KOTHOHDFAHJKU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136821},"content":"Reaction on Social Media","type":"text"},{"_id":"VUJKHS742FG73JW6HW5WWHMUQE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136822},"content":"Here is a selection of the reaction to the exit poll that has featured on social media.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IHEEISSWVVDVRAQ4E7Y6TJVEQM","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"2DUH53XE45HGBN4S2KJB27D3LY","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"AIOHVG6ZK5DIFNLCLYUR7ABVOE","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"E5VXRFKW5NELNJB64YXYQMJGZM","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"ACFK5ZKY2JHTPH3PD5CMJ5TQZU","additional_properties":{"_id":"S7HTMIXCLBB4JNGWWK5N5EG6IU"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732923404971},"id":"timestamp-6738","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"NLK3KBHMWNAELLIDJ5FGV5QCTM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732925462975},"content":"Exit Poll: None of three larger parties have gained: two have made lossses","type":"header"},{"_id":"64EF2CTKSVAGLA3HANHS5CYV5M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732925462976},"content":"A very interesting statistic for me is that all three larger parties are either even or down compared to 2020. Fianna Fáíl at 19.5 per cent will be down almost 2.7 per cent, if the election matches the exit poll results. Sinn Féin is down 3.4 per cent compared to 2020. And Fine Gael is marginally up, from 20.9 per cent to 21 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KSACTOV7QZG2LMCIHEY4KQYBKE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732925462977},"content":"All of those figures are subject to change once counting begins tomorrow.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7ZBV2OPLHRBRBGTHWIF27E2COE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732925462978},"content":"A long day beckons on Saturday (and on Sunday). We will be with you ever step of the way!","type":"text"},{"_id":"L4DWSXMV7REANC7W4PJP5YYWLY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732925462979},"content":"Here is a sample of what we are covering tomorrow.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KL7QCN67WVB57PNN7UXARNNIQU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732925462980},"content":"<b>8am: </b>Subscribers to our <b>Inside Politics newsletter</b> (you can <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/newsletters/inside-politics-newsletter/\">sign-up here</a>) will receive an election special edition newsletter with extra details from The Irish Times <b>exit poll.</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"LPUESTATGBGOZNHZGMKNMSMDZE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732925462981},"content":"<b>9am: </b>Counting begins in all 43 constituencies. In the last general election in 2020, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/galway-east/\">Galway East</a> was the first constituency to report full results.","type":"text"},{"_id":"N66THNWTIJG2FL3SGYU5PHIP4E","additional_properties":{"_id":1732925462982},"content":"Our rolling live coverage will feature up-to-the-minute updates, analysis and reaction as tallies emerge, counts are completed and seats filled. We will also provide detailed results for each of the 43 constituencies, along with graphics showing how the country and each constituency voted.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4F2DGOENTVEZ7DPAY62TL2VVOM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732925462983},"content":"Our politics team will provide analysis of the emerging results online, on our podcasts and via video while our columnists, including Justine McCarthy and Diarmaid Ferriter, will share their views.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UJUEPQ2DHVCO7H6SALUCYLRESQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732925462984},"content":"<b>Late afternoon/evening: </b>Details of first counts should start emerging on Saturday afternoon with first seats filled later on that afternoon and into the evening. Depending on the individual returning officers, counts in some constituencies may run into early on Sunday morning.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IJOBG5KGBZEE3M5AFAMLZLLTUQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732925462985},"content":"More details on our extenisive coverage over the weekend can be <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/11/28/general-election-2024-how-the-irish-times-will-cover-the-results-and-key-times-to-watch-out-for/\" target=\"_blank\">found here.</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"T2RLFLPVDBEX3KNWGDBRW72JGI","additional_properties":{"_id":"W52DHGOA55D2PJV6GLMG3MIQKQ"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"VQ4UV5PMQJDNNIB7OYX5TTCN6M","additional_properties":{"_id":"ST57GPF6MNEPZGDCJQEHYPWHCE"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732924591309},"id":"timestamp-50848","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"MMYEUZRNSREBHLHJH5SFVHODVU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732925462988},"content":"Further Reading and Listening as Live Coverage winds down","type":"header"},{"_id":"RO3XESOSA5BCRM5QJVYDJQO2FQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732925462989},"content":"Thank you for staying with The Irish Times live coverage of polling day, and the excitement of the exit poll tonight.","type":"text"},{"_id":"46PCWWCXTBBLRAI6OW5VXAFXDM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732925462990},"content":"We will leave you with two further excellent piece of analysis. The first is <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/podcasts/inside-politics/election-daily-listen-to-analysis-of-the-exit-poll/\" target=\"_blank\">tonight’s special Election Daily podcast </a>with Hugh Linehan and Pat Leahy, which parses the results and implications of the poll.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BHV75FSAHRCSLGILBMKLCOMYX4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732925462991},"content":"The second is <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/11/30/election-2024-exit-poll-analysis-fine-gael-and-fianna-fail-will-be-in-driving-seat-to-re-establish-coalition/\" target=\"_blank\">Pat’s analysis for the The Irish Times on the poll findings</a> and how it might translate into government formation: that’s if the findings are borne out by the reality of the count.","type":"text"},{"_id":"B2ZYE4ODZFG45K43PBYK7S27E4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732925462992},"content":"And if that was not enough, there is also this <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/11/29/as-if-the-election-campaign-wasnt-tedious-enough-brace-yourself-for-the-counts/\" target=\"_blank\">excellent piece of analysis from John McManus</a> on how non-eventful the election campaign was (agree) and how tedious the count will be (disagree).","type":"text"},{"_id":"7JXIS5R4WRCJBGHTXYBCKYTAE4","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"6XFUH4FATZHJFPMKPXZZBYYVEU","additional_properties":{"_id":"MRGKV7DZK5E4ZLXILSWZXTUBKA"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732863420000},"id":"timestamp-19809","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"VG4J5NXG2RFDZLMHI6QX7UWAVQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732917899514},"content":"Voting is over in the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/election2024/\" target=\"_blank\">2024 general election</a> and our exit poll shows that there is little to separate between the three largest parties.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2DSVYZ2X4VHBLNR4OZRDDRX6MY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732921605633},"content":"The exit poll was conducted among over 5,018 voters at more than 200 locations nationwide, as they left polling stations. 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Irish Times has you well covered with full coverage of the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/election2024/\" target=\"_blank\">Election 2024</a> results across the weekend and beyond, as the makeup of the 34th Dáil is revealed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CXLB4UUTFNGBXNU47BSEOZTENU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732800316278},"content":"We are likely in for a long weekend before we have a clear idea the 174 TDs who will make up the next Dáil but there are some key times when matters should become clearer.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NJLR3OSFBRHUDERRBIPQ354F3E","additional_properties":{"_id":1732800316280},"content":"<b>Friday</b>","type":"header"},{"_id":"T6CKJNGNZZHZ7FHCHQNPG3U3CA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732800316281},"content":"<b>10pm:</b> Polls in Election 2024 closed at 10pm and The Irish Times exit poll was published, indicating that the three largest parties - <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/fianna-fail/\">Fianna Fáil</a>, <a 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Our rolling live coverage will feature up-to-the-minute news, analysis and reaction from when the first tallies emerge, to when counts are completed and seats filled. We will publish every count from every constituency in our <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/election2024/results-hub/\" target=\"_blank\">Election 2024 Results Hub</a>. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q7MPGDGMYNF4HDN43FJLQG6I4E","additional_properties":{"_id":1732807424755},"content":"Our politics team will provide analysis of the emerging results online, on our podcasts and via video while our columnists, including Justine McCarthy and Diarmaid Ferriter, will share their views.","type":"text"},{"_id":"R2W6EAW4AVDOVG7PJYO7RR767I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732807424743},"content":"<b>Late afternoon/evening: </b>Details of first counts should start emerging on Saturday afternoon with first seats filled later on that afternoon and into the evening. Depending on the individual returning officers, counts in some constituencies may run into early on Sunday morning.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XMEKZWIQRRHYNAXRRD3UPCDQFA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732807424744},"content":"<b>Sunday</b>","type":"header"},{"_id":"C5KSFMIPTFCAFNKMA5SJGUCX24","additional_properties":{"_id":1732807424745},"content":"Counting will resume on Sunday morning and continue for most for the day.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M7OXRAQ2PFDFLKLYKCXRVG3J3A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732807424757},"content":"Our rolling live coverage will continue to cover the remaining counts and more analysis and opinion as the results become clear. In 2020, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/cavan-monaghan/\" target=\"_blank\">Cavan-Monaghan</a> was the last constituency to complete counting with the final two seats filled shortly before midnight on the second day of counting.","type":"text"},{"_id":"U3L4PRI5NRF77JKFZJPKOZOUXM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732807424758},"content":"We will publish profiles of each TD as they are elected.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QKTGXHCDKNEERIFGAFD5LBQVD4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732800316296},"content":"<b>Monday</b>","type":"header"},{"_id":"URI72BCNSVAYJILLFMZF5RNSCE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732800316297},"content":"In print, we will have a 12-page special general election supplement with news, analysis and charts showing all declared results.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7PAPUZMHXFFC7NKSODEO7V5LZQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732800316298},"content":"<b>Follow the election count on social media</b>","type":"header"},{"_id":"J4ISJLVSSJDSZMQQPPHVMI3PFE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732807424762},"content":"We will be posting rolling updates on our main social media accounts througout the weekend. Follow us on your preferred social platform to make sure you don’t miss a thing.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7AQ4AIVCVBC5DI4V3YWXDRCATY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732800316299},"content":"Follow the election results on:","type":"text"},{"_id":"3I6YA6LH3ZEV3NJIZ5Y5AIPDJI","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[]},"description":{"basic":"Our political team will offer news, insight, analysis and opinion as the count unfolds"},"display_date":"2024-11-30T01:01:01.135Z","headlines":{"basic":"General election 2024: How The Irish Times will cover the results and key times to watch out for ","native":"How The Irish Times will cover the results and key times to watch out for"},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"},"basic":{"display":true,"text":"Election 2024","url":"/election2024/"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"HSTUOAVPEVG6NKIVSSZT3TFZZU","auth":{"1":"32570f4fcf39d5d01c9c3484a4a06f896fdcee2dc309e018e6e66c50848786b6"},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/HSTUOAVPEVG6NKIVSSZT3TFZZU.jpg"},"overline_logo":{"_id":"QSWFXEVMGBHWPCSR4TJ3B6FKJQ","auth":{"1":"146656f9244eb8ce84d36fd4e3c519672cca8c4da72f47512b76196f1b454a7f"},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/QSWFXEVMGBHWPCSR4TJ3B6FKJQ.png"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Politics"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/politics/2024/11/28/general-election-2024-how-the-irish-times-will-cover-the-results-and-key-times-to-watch-out-for/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/politics","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Politics"}}}},{"_id":"63QDIXFJ3NDYVBKSK6HHBALV6A","additional_properties":{},"canonical_url":"/politics/2024/11/30/election-2024-exit-poll-analysis-fine-gael-and-fianna-fail-will-be-in-driving-seat-to-re-establish-coalition/","content_elements":[{"_id":"364BIOFKLJA4ZF2LMM2EHXKRII","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923232180},"content":"The <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/11/29/election-2024-exit-poll-photo-finish-with-sinn-fein-on-211-fine-gael-21-fianna-fail-195/\">results of the general election 2024 exit poll </a>suggest <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/fine-gael/\">Fine Gael </a>and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/fianna-fail/\">Fianna Fáil</a> will be in the driving seat to re-establish their coalition – though which party, or parties, or Independents, that might accompany them is likely to remain unclear for some time.","type":"text"},{"_id":"642VW623DVERZLIG2UW6HYUQDY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923232181},"content":"If the results are borne out when the actual votes are counted Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil are likely to approach 75-80 seats between them, assuming a decent seat bonus, and a strong transfer between the two parties.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q4XBXXRBBVCQPEEKVHOHAKMVQY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923232182},"content":"Those transfers will assume a high degree of importance as the counts unfold in coming days.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OB3C2OUU35BHDGZCK24733MVAM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923232183},"content":"Naturally, supporters of both parties transferred at higher rates to running mates from the same party. For Fine Gael voters it was at a rate of 37 per cent to other Fine Gael candidates. Fianna Fáil candidates were the second preference choice of 39 per cent of Fianna Fáil voters.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EALAZKKOOFG4HA44DDIFH3EGMA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923232184},"content":"But once they have voted for their own party, they are transferring to their government partners in large numbers. The poll – conducted by Ipsos/B&A on Friday for The Irish Times/RTÉ/TG4/TCD, finds that among Fine Gael voters 32 per cent said their second preference votes went to Fianna Fáil, while 30 per cent of Fianna Fáil voters said they transferred to Fine Gael.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LM43DUEAWZCCVGNZQS76SRSDAE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923232185},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/sinn-fein/\">Sinn Féin</a> voters transferred at a rate of 48 per cent to second candidates from the same party. The next highest second preference votes from Sinn Féin supporters was to Independents. But the party is having a harder job attracting transfers from other parties.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YBZUEXWXPVEITCSDF4M6M3HZF4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923232186},"content":"The highest second preference transfer rates between arch-rivals Labour and the Social Democrats were to each other. According to the exit poll some 22 per cent of second preferences from Labour voters went to the Social Democrats. Second preferences from <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/social-democrats/\">Social Democrats </a>supporters went to <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/labour-party/\">Labour</a> at a rate of 23 per cent. Perhaps their voters are not as hostile to each other as the parties’ elected representatives sometimes<b> </b>seem to be.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RLQJPFKFCBDWFHGP7MJZ5BEPQQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923232187},"content":"The results of the exit poll suggest Fine Gael’s campaign – which stuttered for much of the last three weeks – may have recovered in the final days.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LEWO3VP7XJDBNKCTDMMWXXV3EA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923232188},"content":"While 21 per cent would represent the evaporation of the so-called ‘Harris Hop’ that saw the party reach as high as 27 per cent support levels in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/09/19/the-irish-times-ipsos-ba-poll-september-2024-full-results-in-charts/\" target=\"_blank\">The Irish Times/Ipsos B&A</a> poll in September, it is likely to be greeted with relief by the party leadership.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XUDVX4LMSRCBFJQ3QJIVLY5TAE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923232189},"content":"There were fears in the party during the past week that a collapse in the party’s vote might be under way – so while it is not the result that it anticipated or hoped for at the beginning of the campaign, the party will know it could have been worse.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FNRHZ6CYVBATRFDMZ2EAF5YDGE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923232190},"content":"Frankly, Fine Gael had a poor election campaign. It was on the defensive from the first weekend after Ryanair boss<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/11/11/michael-oleary-doubles-down-on-teacher-comments-after-pile-on-saying-he-was-making-serious-point/\" target=\"_blank\"> Michael O’Leary’s controversial remarks </a>about teachers at a campaign launch for Fine Gael minister Peter Burke. For reasons best known to itself it persisted with John McGahon as a candidate.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QBPJQZTRRBCR7BWUMAVYKEGXKQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923232191},"content":"Then there was the Taoiseach Simon Harris’ blunder where he appeared dismissive in a campaign trail exchange with disabilities worker Charlotte Fallon in Kanturk, Co Cork. An apology from Mr Harris followed but the moment was seized upon by his political opponents and Fine Gael was on damage limitation for days. It was probably the standout moment of the campaign.","type":"text"},{"_id":"637V6WF57JE7ZOWR7KOLH4YYRU","additional_properties":{"_id":"4WMHHDRUUNBL7HA4HBUE6BBRLY"},"embed":{"config":{},"id":"acast_podcast-45369","url":"/"},"subtype":"acast_podcast","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"RBFS5R3T2FCKDCCW62F6JNPWDQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923232192},"content":"But perhaps more damaging was a sort of strategic incoherence in Fine Gael’s message. The party embarked on a series of costly promises in the first half of the campaign, including the abolition of the means test for the carers’ allowance (which civil servants estimate could escalate to some €2 billion a year), the abolition of university fees, a €1,000 grant for every baby, double child benefit every August, etc.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WILVFIDGINHT7B6HPQC73DQQHA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923232193},"content":"These were an understandable reaction to public concern on the cost of living. But they sat awkwardly with the fears of the possible impact of the new Trump administration on corporation tax revenues here – and the claims that only Fine Gael had the instincts of prudence necessary for the potentially difficult times ahead.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PTE356R7ORDAVKE4A5KS6C33UU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923232194},"content":"In the end, the tactic of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/11/27/fine-gael-turns-to-prudent-paschal-as-polling-day-looms/\" target=\"_blank\">putting Paschal Donohoe out front </a>for every day of the last week may have helped turn things around.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J4VHXOKTDVFT7HNZPASYLX4GRQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923232195},"content":"Fianna Fáil took a narrow lead in opinion polls published over the last week, so will be disappointed to come in third – if that is borne out by the results.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XIBVRMJPTJG75A6B2WFPQVU22A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923232196},"content":"Party leader Micheál Martin – who had a solid, if unspectacular, campaign – consistently argues that Fianna Fáil outperforms opinion polls. The party will hope its greater number of incumbent candidates than Fine Gael and the possibility of getting transfers from its Coalition partner will push it over 20 per cent and ahead of its rivals.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XJNPH56Y7FBOREKRQBAFHSV6X4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923232197},"content":"For Sinn Féin there will be relief that the string of controversies it faced in the build up to the election campaign appear not to have overly damaged the party’s current support levels.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6IR32OFOD5G4NC5JKH5LC3BNZM","additional_properties":{"_id":"G6BO37SLCBCBNKKWCCEJE4T5CE"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"M4LTF2IXYBH3JBIYYW4O5LSQTY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923232198},"content":"The exit poll result is a far cry from the 36 per cent the party had in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2022/07/14/coalition-support-slumps-in-irish-times-poll-as-cost-of-living-bites/\" target=\"_blank\">The Irish Times poll from July 2022</a>, but it is considerably better than the just under 12 per cent of first preference share the party got in June’s local election. Mary Lou McDonald was a dynamo on the campaign trail. But in a series of difficult moments in interviews and debates, she also clearly conveyed the party’s shortcomings – the difficulty of outlining exactly what “change” would mean in real terms.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PREG2MAVINGAPGSN2GS7PNMAAE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923232199},"content":"However, if the exit poll proves correct, it’s hard to see how the party has a route to government. It could well finish first in the popular vote for the second time in a row, but face another five years in opposition.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OQNW6OGAWFCFVP6D2KSVCLVWUM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923232200},"content":"The next Dáil is set to have more Independent TDs returned – but the tsunami of new independent TDs predicted by some is unlikely on the basis of these numbers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FO25KIZNJVCVLEWWA3ZSLAX73M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923232201},"content":"There were 21 Independents elected in 2020 on just over 13 per cent of the vote so the 12.7 per cent, plus the 2.2 per cent for new party Independent Ireland in the exit poll would indicate that their numbers will grow. But the Independent Ireland showing – though surely many of its most prominent members will return to the next Dáil – will be a disappointment to the founders who believed they were set to become a new force in Irish politics. Not on the basis of these numbers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LT47DUSG4BE33IWQMS7H6OXF2U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923232202},"content":"The three centre left parties, the Green Party, Labour and the Social Democrats, are all bunched on between 4 and 5.8 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RY6O6S436VF2JKB6KEATXY2UXA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923232203},"content":"The Green Party is down substantially from the 7 per cent it got in the 2020 general election, but if the exit poll result is correct, it may hold more seats than might have been expected. Like all small parties though, it will be on a knife edge in many constituencies.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3LISB5LQORDM5LKBZVHQZ5BFJY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923232204},"content":"The Social Democrats are ahead of arch rivals Labour – which will delight them. But observers will doubtless point out that their combined support of nearly 11 per cent would make them the clear second party of opposition.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IQAUDFHR5RDCLHVGDOKF5S4GJY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923232205},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/people-before-profit-solidarity-pbps/\">People Before Profit</a> <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/people-before-profit-solidarity-pbps/\">Solidarity</a> is close enough to the 2.6 per cent of the vote it got in 2020.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3V6B62FAGBCMPBIKYB6HFFKDJU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923232206},"content":"Peadar Tóibín’s <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/aontu/\">Aontú</a> had an excellent campaign and looks on course to substantially improve on its 2020 vote share of just under 2 per cent, with 3.6 per cent in the exit poll. That gives it a real shot of increasing its Dáil numbers – but it’s impossible to predict the individual constituency fortunes of any of the small parties from these big national numbers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FI6RZIDUQJHRBJ2YEQWHFP6PWU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923232207},"content":"The exit poll was conducted among 5,018 voters at more than 200 locations nationwide, as they left polling stations. It has a margin of error of 1.4 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3I6YA6LH3ZEV3NJIZ5Y5AIPDJI","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Pat Leahy"}},"name":"Pat Leahy"},{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Cormac McQuinn"}},"name":"Cormac McQuinn"}]},"description":{"basic":"Sinn Féin could well finish first in the popular vote for the second time in a row, but face another five years in opposition"},"display_date":"2024-11-30T00:04:58.73Z","headlines":{"basic":"Exit poll suggests Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil will be in driving seat to re-establish coalition","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"},"basic":{"display":true,"text":"Election 2024","url":"/election2024/"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"T2RLFLPVDBEX3KNWGDBRW72JGI","auth":{"1":"1d9c930c8a67396404719766bccb9f7d237191befa0a1c0b6b8d63deb0a04e07"},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/T2RLFLPVDBEX3KNWGDBRW72JGI.jpg"}},"subtype":"analysis","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Politics"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/politics/2024/11/30/election-2024-exit-poll-analysis-fine-gael-and-fianna-fail-will-be-in-driving-seat-to-re-establish-coalition/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/politics","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Politics"}}}},{"_id":"XRRD5YWUF5F2PKK7FYZCURMVEM","additional_properties":{},"canonical_url":"/politics/2024/11/29/election-2024-live-updates-voting-begins-at-polling-stations-around-the-country/","content_elements":[{"_id":"G757OC2DQVHXZHWM32PH3NYU5I","additional_properties":{"_id":"5YYXQKGXRRCSFNOU5VQ3NEY3DU"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732902949827},"id":"timestamp-73418","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"DQBFHPUTTZHUVISIXDYUZO2JV4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732903618094},"content":"Collective Action for Palestine will be at the count centre at the RDS on Saturday and other groups will be at count centres around Ireland this weekend, <b>Ronan McGreevy reports</b>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"U7HOB3HONJAJ3HWUTINN3DXF5U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732903618095},"content":"They claim to represent large parts of Irish society and will be telling elected politicians that they must impose sanctions on Israel.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NYQRXTLGZVCXPJG656CFHYH64I","additional_properties":{"_id":"OQ7HWQMZ7JBTTNTZL2TVSPH2TM"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732904699764},"id":"timestamp-31126","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"EMAXTO6ZOJHQXOMHJOPS4FYY2U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732906070536},"content":"Across Dublin city constituencies, the average turnout was 30.8 per cent at 4.30pm, <b>Jade Wilson reports.</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"2UEOALXG4RCEXO2LNGSJN7R3XA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732906070537},"content":"The average turnout in Kildare North at 3.30pm was 28 per cent. In Kildare South, it was 26.5 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BG6KNVQDZNFYJLZESTRIN22LXE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732906070538},"content":"Turnout across urban Mayo by 4pm was as high as 34 per cent in some polling stations, with a low of 26 per cent at others.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LFSMH27XRNAWHFNBYLSSLVP3RQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732906070539},"content":"In rural Mayo, turnout was highest at 39 per cent in one polling station, though most were between 26 per cent to 30 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CIHY5ABHDFD45MQDS6Q7EZC2XM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732906070540},"content":"Returning officers did not have comparison information for the last general election to report at this point in the day. It’s understood they may have this data to share after the 8pm percentage count.","type":"text"},{"_id":"H2IX63HW2FDWVNKFH653UTHJUY","additional_properties":{"_id":"VB34TAWVQRDYRBNOR2BH4VB3VE"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732906080193},"id":"timestamp-27582","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"MTHYXCKVHBAVPJIVLZFK3K73AI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732906615441},"content":"Turnout in Dublin County’s local authority areas (Fingal, South Dublin and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown) was at an average of 34 per cent by 5pm, <b>Sarah Slater reports.</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"RDR24QXEQNAHPGTT37HYULN3XY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732906615443},"content":"Shortly after 5pm, turnout across Cork City, was between 33 per cent to a high of 48 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WIVOTH64QVHGTEFHHN2MSFUHUU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732906615444},"content":"In Cork County, it was between 32.9 per cent and 38 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AHHAQQAUT5HV7DVOU7NNWC7JKY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732906615445},"content":"Limerick City and Limerick County had a turnout just over 30 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JYFQRVO2KVA3LFM6DNZT5S6BJU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732906615446},"content":"In Dundalk, turnout after 5pm was between 29 to 39 per cent rurally, whilst in urban Dundalk it was between 23 to 38 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KT73HBX36BHXNNYDFMHHJ6ALMU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732906615447},"content":"Turnout in Cavan after 6pm was above 30 per cent in some polling stations.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OHAOP2CDIJDXJAN7F2WV3RTPNQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732906615448},"content":"Many polling stations say their next data will be ready at 8pm.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6UVYMLGOQFE75PA4MKEZ25KLNA","additional_properties":{"_id":"YUY7APWTU5GTDKXTSBCTHLHMV4"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732909457893},"id":"timestamp-49577","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"J45H4QDYTBCKDMJGPSJFGCPWPE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732909554999},"content":"Some ballot papers in the Limerick City constituency accidentally featured candidates’ names in reverse alphabetical order, according to reports.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BAIUE5MPSZC4NNTSJJLHUHTMCY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732909555000},"content":"The error could possibly render the result in the constituency void as electoral law states that candidates’ names should be listed in alphabetical order, <a href=\"https://www.limerickpost.ie/2024/11/29/ballot-faux-pas-could-scupper-election-result-in-limerick-city-constituency/#google_vignette\" target=\"_blank\">according to the Limerick Post</a>. On some ballot papers today, Maurice Quinlivan of Sinn Féin featured first rather than last.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Z3MTT5NPTRF23EDFUPUVLW7ENI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732909555001},"content":"In the past, some candidates have changed their names or used their Irish names to push themselves to the top of the ballot paper.","type":"text"},{"_id":"X3SB2F22NVFMZIGYWDJUIGRDMQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732909555002},"content":"Éamon Ó Cuív previously dropped the Ó in his surname for electoral purposes. Research published by UCD following the 2011 general election found being first on the ballot paper is worth 544 first preference votes in an average constituency, or 1.27 per cent of the vote.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UFZE7XTYJZENRIPG4TNVQSDYJ4","additional_properties":{"_id":"3KW5FBRVQ5HHJI5OQ4X3G2V234"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732909566200},"id":"timestamp-57185","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"A5HNLOYFIBGFXCURNFQZT5AV2A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732910922719},"content":"In Mayo turnout at 7pm ranged from 60 per cent in rural Murrisk to 36.7 per cent in Castlebar primary school, <b>Sarah Slater reports.</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"U67ASEOIVVDB7P7QVMKLA2USSE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732910922720},"content":"We are expecting more turnout figures shortly after 8pm. The Irish Times will publish the exit poll at 10pm.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JGNWFOIKOBGBHFD3OVJUPXOZPM","additional_properties":{"_id":"2L5XTBADANHJVBNXUVN4JPCDQE"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732911729937},"id":"timestamp-95974","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"5IXMP7PSYNHSXBGZJMUSTDA3NM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732912797198},"content":"Remember if you’re voting tonight to park safely. Even on election day, the clampers are still on duty.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y7IRPK5I6RE4BMYZUWHB2IBYNQ","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"TRZ3ZTBXYZB7VMFFDYTFNCHUYI","additional_properties":{"_id":"YRT3CND3UVHR7PXUMN6NXTTE6Q"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732912953496},"id":"timestamp-99327","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"EJ5QZVS2R5E3DCW6HTNZG5QHZ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732913089061},"content":"Anyone trapped in a count centre this weekend (or indeed next week) will enjoy writer Richy Craven’s novel idea for a Rom Com.","type":"text"},{"_id":"E4BVR3ZY2NALHLZHSVWJ2UTGYM","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"OWCJCECMF5BGJODI2HIXXI3M6Q","additional_properties":{"_id":"EI2CXRB4F5CZXLUZTL2EIVKWDA"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732913685396},"id":"timestamp-55998","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"HMMX4FMNK5CKRMSQCA6PBDQWLY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732913898957},"content":"Turnout figures as of 8pm are coming in from Dublin, Galway and Cavan, <b>Sarah Slater reports.</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"YZLWWGAMNVHKJEKLKZKJENH4IQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732914000524},"content":"In Dublin, voter turnout had reached 51 per cent at 8pm across seven constituencies: Dublin Fingal West, Dublin Fingal East, Dublin West, Dublin Mid West, Dublin South West, Dublin Rathdown and Dún Laoghaire, according to the returning officer there.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5RGVB7YB3ZBDJCIVMSJZHT7ZZA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732913898959},"content":"In Galway city, voter turnout was ranging from 42 per cent to 54 per cent just after 8pm.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DVLGJ6PFIFFWVEE6I36DBTVTEM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732914000526},"content":"In Cavan county, turnout in Ballyjamesduff reached 54 per cent, while in Cootehill it rose from 27 per cent at 4pm to 40 per cent at 6.30pm. Cavan town stood at 41.3 per cent, Bailieborough was at 54 per cent and Virginia was at 51.12 per cent at 6.30pm.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QOTW6XUKURHCRA2HFBOCIIHASA","additional_properties":{"_id":"TY4MLUV4UBHCFERSMWJPX6PUNU"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732914015707},"id":"timestamp-266","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"Y33DC547URDLFITGRZMGPHDYJU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732914274530},"content":"We will be publishing an exit poll at 10pm on the button which will give the first real indication as to how the country has voted today.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7HYDEPWC3RCFHDFKXZET2AISUQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732914274531},"content":"The poll is a joint project of The Irish Times, RTE, TG4 and the Department of Political Science at Trinity College Dublin.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RYSEMVLBCZDUBJQCIZELJPLOZA","additional_properties":{"_id":"CR7LXC56HJBELBD22EJFMH2FTI"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732914284850},"id":"timestamp-64000","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"H7CAWZAY4NAQLPJ32ZT3FXGU4E","additional_properties":{"_id":1732915392174},"content":"In Cork South West the turnout figures at 8pm stood at 55.4 per cent, while it was at 50.3 per cent in Cork East and 57.4 per cent in Cork North West.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OGXMV3GBBRHXJDVKYW4X7W5PQU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732915392175},"content":"In Monaghan town at 8.30pm the turnout was 52.8 per cent; in Clones it rose to 53 per cent; and in Castleblayney it stood at 38 per cent at 7pm.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CZJE25UKJVCUFK7U7SU2BTZHLQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"26YHLVV23RHCNDCXYIDQHTFN7A"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732915401553},"id":"timestamp-46521","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"ROMHY3KMUNBHBGIKJQWGO2I4VA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732917139672},"content":"How accurate are exit polls? Well the exit poll at the last general election got Fianna Fáil’s 22.2 per cent first preference vote exactly right.","type":"text"},{"_id":"C2IXIQIAH5FQ5DOWX5IL4EMRTQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732917139673},"content":"Of the other two biggest parties, it slightly overestimated Fine Gael’s vote, giving the party 22.4 per cent (after the votes were counted it had 20.9 per cent) and it slightly underestimated Sinn Féin, giving the party 22.3 per cent, 2.2 per cent less than its 24.5 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SZAFJ3SAZRCLXKVJOTUYHW7TSY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732917139674},"content":"This year’s exit poll will be published here at 10pm.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ILQC23OJSCAK7JMM6S6XYIXK5U","additional_properties":{"_id":"6AXZYCVGAFEWTL4OESIEDDFBG4"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"ENUDP4LZGFET5GW4ICQTTHSVOY","additional_properties":{"_id":"4JERWL2IZVEADEJB6IF66AYEIM"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732919809303},"id":"timestamp-57592","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"XKDJMEHEIZBOJFWY46SLWNZGIA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732921889778},"content":"Limerick ballot box update","type":"header"},{"_id":"OEGA55QRWRHKFDTGX3QPQCDK7U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732921889779},"content":"More from <b>David Raleigh</b> on the ballots in Limerick city on which candidates’ names appeared in reverse alphabetical order.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3HQLZ3EOYVCZDEK7PTQMH4P5EY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732921889780},"content":"Sinn Féin TD candidate Maurice Quinlivan said: “The fact ‘they’ can’t get basic things right, like the alphabetical order of the candidates is an absolute scandal, and it is simply not good enough - this is a ridiculous situation to be in.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"ABGJZQ6YANBUJHGKC4MDF666SE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732921889781},"content":"Speaking to The Irish Times, Fianna Fáil TD Willie O’Dea said he did not believe the error would influence the outcome as “most voters look for the photographs” of those standing. “I think it should be ok,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YXRVLK3IDRDYXHVQRM4JU7EXJE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732921889782},"content":"“I did notice that I had to look way down the paper to see my own name and it was only when it was pointed to me that I realised what had happened.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4QDMMLES6VBVDDX7TPXTR42TWA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732921889783},"content":"“But if the outcome is very close [for some candidates] then the outcome could be challenged in court,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BK6CX5DWCNHKNEDSHNZWUWCU4Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1732921889784},"content":"A spokesperson for the Limerick city returning officer said that they were “aware of the issue” and that it would be addressed at the count centre on Saturday morning.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EZKBJD7SANC4VIFCRN54KPHVPU","additional_properties":{"_id":"XQNL5LYKUBFYRJFZUDAET44HCA"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732921034129},"id":"timestamp-81208","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"L7OTNEZXIFFQRKNN6SH4ZJMM2Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732921889786},"content":"UCD Professor of Political Economy Aidan Regan points out the exit poll is more evidence of a decline in the strength of the traditional Civil War parties.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PXL63RN3QNCLZCWAPYL2UQNHD4","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"WCZXLKUIJVDX3FIQ4D22KQ2XRQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"7IHVRH6OD5GWVMBIT7J57CNCAA"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732921899310},"id":"timestamp-95077","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"3OTI4I2QHVD2PG7JFCCXL6OB4U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732922925493},"content":"Listen: What do the exit poll numbers mean for government formation?","type":"header"},{"_id":"5JGQFFMPPNBXHLQ7GSHGAZUORE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732922925494},"content":"Pat Leahy joins Hugh Linehan to share the results of The Irish Times exit poll for the 2024 general election.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2YN7F5UYIRHAZOXMABTHE54RYI","additional_properties":{"_id":"C76AYGQF7FC3DGC6MFIEKNEU4E"},"embed":{"config":{},"id":"acast_podcast-8562","url":"/"},"subtype":"acast_podcast","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"NBWIRBVZABBYLNULS4ANFUMBAU","additional_properties":{"_id":"XAG63RW4URG25N6L72ONODB4ME"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732863650833},"id":"timestamp-13289","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"5X72FZTDPBEQ5G3V5PBOQ4OTQM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732864382755},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/general-election\" target=\"_blank\">Polling stations</a> have opened across the 43 constituencies in the State and voting will continue until 10pm.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ULVSNVD55BAQZH5PBIQVPABQYY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732864382756},"content":"Almost 3.7 million people will be eligible to vote. That is up 423,000 voters since the 2020 election with over 100,000 new registrations in the two weeks before the closing deadline.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2TQMVOGHZ5EWVKNNH4RVF33AOA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732864382757},"content":"If the turnout is decent we could see more people casting their vote than at any point in the history of the State.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GMGBUB5ELJCZZGVCR4ET6QEUY4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732864382758},"content":"Once the clock strikes 10pm, the ballot boxes will be sealed and securely transported to the 32 count centres where they will say until 9am tomorrow when the magic – and the madness – of an Irish election count will get under way in earnest.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BYP2XRVSG5CALPJCNVJMVZSNQY","additional_properties":{"_id":"RCXLSAOD7ZGNPNQCI6JTXG3KJ4"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732863739840},"id":"timestamp-10013","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"2Y5IIZY7IJEWPBYG7JDEHCHT74","additional_properties":{"_id":1732864382760},"content":"Today will be a long enough day with not a huge amount happening – at least in terms of canvassing – but we will be with you to cover it all.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SUH46Q64ZJD4FLXUYG7LTLLY7M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732864382761},"content":"While we might be in the calm before the political storm right now, things will change at 10pm when the first results of an Irish Times/RTÉ/TG4/TCD exit poll conducted by Ipsos B&A will be released. That might give us an early and very tentative sign as to what will happen next and who will form the next Government.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZAWRKRUYFJCLRLPVFBRLU7RSII","additional_properties":{"_id":1732864382762},"content":"It won’t be definitive mind you. As the counts go on – and on and on and on – throughout tomorrow transfers and second, third and fourth preferences will come into play in a big way and until the last seat is filled we probably won’t be sure who are next Taoiseach will be and what party they will be from.","type":"text"},{"_id":"F7DCK477KRCZFN4PPWGKGFZ4XE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732864382763},"content":"It is a long process for sure but isn’t that what makes it all exciting.","type":"text"},{"_id":"L2L66JD5KJEUPGTMB5AUKXGASE","additional_properties":{"_id":"G7KPUJYUYFA6TNWZZ3U6MOTTRU"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732864782143},"id":"timestamp-32819","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"UZECM6XOBZCTFDLIPXRA2TO6OY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732865077487},"content":"How do you vote? What do you need? Where should you go? We have all – <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/11/28/election-2024-how-do-i-vote-what-are-the-polls-saying-and-how-does-the-system-work/\" target=\"_blank\">or at least some</a> – of your election questions answered.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RAE65K5OJBFXHETO2XT7VKKGIE","additional_properties":{"_id":"UDJPDDAGCJD4HOOV3DUG75KWIQ"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732865085207},"id":"timestamp-64234","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"UYSVXEU5UBEQRCIF3OQ6U42LNU","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"4I44JQDQJZHDJINUHOEEW2IP3I","additional_properties":{"_id":"B2ZFVJZMZJERTNQ56UXGC7JUH4"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732866065602},"id":"timestamp-27231","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"RN2XP5EWBFEUVFGIVRPAFCE6VE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732867831482},"content":"“Identifying target seats in Irish general election is an art more than a science. Unless there is a huge surge for one or two parties – as happened in 1992, 2011 and again in 2020 – gains and losses happen at the margins.” <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/11/29/the-election-battlefield-for-the-big-three-where-ff-fg-and-sf-hope-to-gain-and-could-lose-seats/\" target=\"_blank\">This piece </a>from <b>Harry McGee</b> is well worth a few minutes of your day.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UVLKHLVD4BGG7CY6D7KQR4C6AY","additional_properties":{"_id":"GDWJWY2GDVBBTHZHHGZ7YZJPTY"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732866764993},"id":"timestamp-31603","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"UBSUO3YD2NDUDOP4JSOPH2BJVM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732867831484},"content":"“The people of Ireland will vote for freedom.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"BKB6OFMJFVDQHJ3MO33ZAXHUD4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732867831485},"content":"That is Elon Musk’s view anyways, for what it’s worth. He took to the platform formerly known as Twitter overnight to share it. He also shared a video of a lot of people walking around flying the tricolour to a soundtrack of stirring music and chants of “Get them out”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VBRPHREVY5FWTG6KTEHOED5IPI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732867831486},"content":"Now you know.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7MHSV5B3HJCYRF57ERZW6XL3LU","additional_properties":{"_id":"4UEIK4RCPVE4THD67NRVBXEI6M"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732867840212},"id":"timestamp-12880","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"BR3IQCNLDBALVPNT7JKRKSXRWU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732868908504},"content":"Still undecided? That’s okay, we have you covered on that score too. We’re not going to tell you who to vote for, like, but t<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/11/19/election-2024-how-do-your-views-match-with-election-candidates-in-your-area-use-this-tool-to-find-out/\" target=\"_blank\">he WhichCandidate voting aid tool </a>might help you to find out who you agree with on a range of policies","type":"text"},{"_id":"99b36e44-04d2-4a86-b384-cd5c4fbf90d0","additional_properties":{"_id":"YTEDZSBNQRBC7HYR75Y6WSJCY4"},"subtype":"irish-times-video","type":"video"},{"_id":"OA543LYQSZE4RLFZ3E2GRUXADY","additional_properties":{"_id":"CB4BWXVIXRALLDFI5HU7DVHB2A"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732869027748},"id":"timestamp-59739","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"BEA7OYI2KBEGLDIUFUAEZ3ADIY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732871895305},"content":"Our voting system is many things but uncomplicated is not one of them. How does it work?<b> Sarah Burns </b>has some answers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BEPGHREF6JBJXOJSYI7UBIGAUU","additional_properties":{"_id":"HH56JDV3CFDN5LBLZITIUHN7P4"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732869208013},"id":"timestamp-60077","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"PIPMOATDYFDKDBSIYCU4YDK23I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732871895307},"content":"Simon Harris has aid he was “feeling really good today” as he arrived with his family at Delgany National School in Co Wicklow to vote just before 7.30am.","type":"text"},{"_id":"G5D67DNALNAIFAFFDWRCD2ALAM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732871895308},"content":"“I’m feeling really hopeful, hopeful in terms of the election, but hopeful for the future of our country,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M7Y5VM5XUBDY3MYRUXZ2SEMQ6U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732871895309},"content":"“I wanted to vote early because I now want to head across our country today, continuing to encourage everyone to get out and have their say in this election.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"QAUIDW2FK5E7LIYUFHXRFKCPBU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732871895310},"content":"Asked whether he was glad the campaign was over, the Taoiseach said he had enjoyed the campaign and making a pitch for his vision for the country’s future.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5LMWQZ3G4RAGBAR22WK4CVQPB4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732871895311},"content":"He said he would be working until polls close at 10pm and is expected to travel to counties Carlow, Laois, Monaghan and Tipperary, as well as Dublin.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M3SPVZUY3VBW7LLCHMVTFY6ABM","additional_properties":{"_id":"NVK6W75X6BDH5JF7CXFYVFJW2Y"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732871757350},"id":"timestamp-32217","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"CXDCANP7WFAPVMLB6SKQSIQF6U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732871895313},"content":"And in case you miss it, this is <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/11/28/general-election-2024-how-the-irish-times-will-cover-the-results-and-key-times-to-watch-out-for/\" target=\"_blank\">how we will be covering the count.</a> It’s an all hands on deck kind of affair.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5GFN3VR3YRBBFHNHOLRMHVENUM","additional_properties":{"_id":"6PAGZ25AR5DJVG2VQR2H62RKHM"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732871904535},"id":"timestamp-3090","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"P7NPHJWNSK6HXO3UPGSU4FIXHE","additional_properties":{"_id":"UV4MF3WGTRBV5P5Q672R376LZ4"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"BFG6TXIJUVEU7MRYXTUTAR4SUU","additional_properties":{"_id":"YD5J7TYSABCDNLAVCTXSWZUZGQ"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732872207628},"id":"timestamp-51225","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"G7KCASHRWZHWFANMKRQS5WFSWM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732872607566},"content":"Don’t write up Louth, up the Dubs, up Mayo","type":"header"},{"_id":"PNBJTSYE3BGVXB2LPRM6MADHKA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732872607567},"content":"An Coimisiún Toghcháin’s head of electoral operations Tim Carey has warned voters not to write anything but numbers on their ballot papers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UJHRAFZAFJBEZFRV3MKF7NEJ2Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732872607568},"content":"Speaking on RTÉ's Morning Ireland he reminded voters to “start with the number one and then work your way down the ballot with as much or as few candidates as you want. Don’t write up Louth, up the Dubs, up Mayo, don’t comment on one of the politicians or anything like that because if you do your vote may not be counted.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"NTH4VRBY7FFA7BA33QL2VH74DA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732872607569},"content":"He also warned people against taking selfies in the booth. “Take a selfie outside the polling station by the sign, but not inside the polling station.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"PNBJTSYE3BGVXB2LPRM6MADHKA_1","additional_properties":{"_id":1732872607570},"content":"Care said people should also make sure their ballot is properly stamped at the polling stations.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OO2H64THSFEYNFFPAMEQ67EYLA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732872607571},"content":"“If that is not done, and in a very small percentage of cases it is not because they are busy or they just forget, your vote won’t count – it is actually an invalid vote,” he said. “So, make sure it is stamped.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"T47TDMD7DIS6ZDY2OKHGNVQHJM","additional_properties":{"_id":"AHGUYNMBQRHGJGCGKPPX4U2CQ4"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"DK3XB64VCNCBNLALK54RIT23XE","additional_properties":{"_id":"EFUSQR6QNVGNBLZVEHLZFJKWF4"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732876532241},"id":"timestamp-28553","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"CGYPK7MMYRBPVN7UZSGPBJLQ7U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732877794373},"content":"The Tánaiste and Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has said he is “cautiously hopeful” of the outcome of what he called a “close fought” election battle.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EYEUUXHP2VATNHRLWCR2RW3NQM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732877794374},"content":"He said his Fianna Fáil party had a “stronger team” than they had in the 2020 election, when they came back with 38 seats.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MO7JFF54IRGNJM22PDXR7XHDFM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732877794375},"content":"Asked will he sleep on Friday night and before count day, he said “oh I will yeah”. Asked if he has any rituals on count day, Mr Martin said “I take it easy”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KF5BS44KMBEK5HO6TWCNVS2VXQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732877794376},"content":"“I’ll have a very good breakfast tomorrow morning, and I tell everyone not to come near me until about midday,” he said in Cork. I don’t want to hear a tally from the 44th box, no point. I can go over all that later.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VCO2PMTZ25FQ5IR5OXELIHRJQE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732877794377},"content":"“Actually, I’m very relaxed on count day and the only challenge is to make sure that I can keep the noise out. I will probably go into town and do a few things, go to Douglas market maybe. Then in around midday, 1pm maybe, depending when the tally will be finished, head to the count centre, and it’s very familiar ground for me, Nemo Rangers, and I’ll enjoy that.","type":"text"},{"_id":"I3V6OLSGYVBRDMEHPZSUEOUY2U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732877794378},"content":"“Maybe that’ll be a good omen,” he said, referring to the fact that his son Micheal Aodh plays football for Nemo Rangers GAA club.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JG3BGLQIWVAPJL3WDU2HB45EP4","additional_properties":{"_id":"4J3BZM4XVVFTPEV3QGUAEY2LEQ"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732876861448},"id":"timestamp-10510","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"AX7DTGEMVM5TWME5E5DYYYU5XI","additional_properties":{"_id":"UTEF4PHNXBBGLFRU44ZFDQMLGI"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"TW2WU4NUFFBLZOVZDKMQMY4Z3Y","additional_properties":{"_id":"4KEBAN4MEBARPOL5QKKUAEOUSA"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732877280096},"id":"timestamp-62193","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"22G6VQ3D3NGRXGMNAUFJSSUWRY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732877794382},"content":"There is some talk of turnout coming in. It is very early in the day and across the country between 3 and 5 per cent of the electorate have already cast their ballots. According to some reports, Dublin has been slightly busier that it was at this point in the 2020 election. Still very early days mind you.","type":"text"},{"_id":"562I7ZIJ5RCPFI3BYY2PXPUIKA","additional_properties":{"_id":"ZPBJHDJ6FRCXFJJLKXECUR6OLE"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732879624229},"id":"timestamp-56898","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"UPGMPEHV75GUDDPHKYI37Y4FYM","additional_properties":{"_id":"EC3JOPPXJRCYZNQDWPKFADEWWM"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"XY3SFO6VNRCC5KN54QJLLZ2SKA","additional_properties":{"_id":"75T2S4PV5ZCZXMQ3WBGBHHQG5M"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732880136040},"id":"timestamp-88339","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"5W6HFHYK25FF5CGT3F5JROIDMI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880394480},"content":"The Tánaiste and Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has said today is not the day to talk about the exact make-up of any future Government.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NOB5O4DVMFHOTOUJ2WY4HSXT6E","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880394481},"content":"<b>Barry Roche </b>reports that when he was asked if he would be happy to be a rotating Taoiseach after the election he said “we’re not getting into that today. The people are voting today. Let’s have respect for the people.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"IO7IR27HEFDMZCXBLVY6R7ARB4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880394482},"content":"He said he was “fighting to be Taoiseach, I’m campaigning to be Taoiseach after the next election, but nothing is certain until every vote is counted. And then there is the aftermath of election in terms of what happens within Dáil Éireann itself.","type":"text"},{"_id":"REEP63WDAZD4DBEK24FCN5T4PY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880394483},"content":"So there is a lot of hard work ahead, but certainly I did have a good feeling in the last two to three days in terms of the response that I was getting after the debates.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RTXNUGMRQRH6VBXX43SMMBUBLI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880394484},"content":"He said the decision is “now in the hands of the people. We can’t be predicting anything now, at this stage, other than that, we fought a positive campaign. 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<b>Sarah Burns</b> <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/11/29/im-sort-of-bracing-myself-for-the-days-of-counting-ahead-foreign-journalists-views-on-the-general-election/\" target=\"_blank\">has been finding out.</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"43L3EYNO5FAWDA5MEMBEOIQAFU","additional_properties":{"_id":"AWZ3HKDVM5D6XHJCTQ4PYE6UPE"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732883208963},"id":"timestamp-79534","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"PUJSNEY5DZE7DF5SQIFG2CKDV4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732884541906},"content":"Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has cast her vote in at the Deaf Village in Cabra.","type":"text"},{"_id":"B64UVOCPARCRLCQP7L22BXF4DA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732884541907},"content":"“We’ve lost count of the number of conversations that we’ve had with people with disabilities, children waiting and waiting for services, and that is really hard and really unacceptable, but we need to mark today with a note of optimism and hope and confidence and ambition, because today is election day,” she said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5WA3T4KW25F6FLHRYE6BEZWJCE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732884541908},"content":"“And the great beauty of this, and it’s a moment of almost, of actual unique equality for every citizen, because your vote holds exactly the same weight, whether you’re down on your luck and you’re struggling, or if you’re a multi millionaire, your vote carries equal weight.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YD3JCKMVSFF6NFIAO55RWMRDU4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732884541909},"content":"“So this is the moment where people can really shape the next Government, and we need a new Government, but really have your say on an equal basis. So I always think that that’s a really positive thing.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"4VUBOPMFTZE7LC2H7DMXCZ2JOQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"CFXUMT6U5FDSPEG2P24AK2RBEM"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732884459724},"id":"timestamp-54460","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"GFXLVTS64JG65KNDW76C6WCZUA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732884541911},"content":"Some more turnout news from<b> Jade Wilson</b>, this time from Cavan.","type":"text"},{"_id":"S6GLWBDZTVEV3PGWQ4X5LWIAWM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732884541912},"content":"At Bailieborough count centre, the turnout at 10am was 6 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KMPKDV44ENFZXD544QEHIWBMWE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732884541913},"content":"In Ballyjamesduff, it was 8 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2JDSXI4S3VBPZD5WIDMIGFCKJQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732884541914},"content":"By 11am, turnout at St Clare’s count centre in Cavan was 9.17 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"V5DTUFJJD5GT7LIIKEA363JQBU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732884541915},"content":"And the turnout for Virginia in Co Cavan at 12pm is 14.14 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CESLIUJNRFHVPN5NGPWOGFJOO4","additional_properties":{"_id":"GOGBNB3FJ5CI5G7EQ5LWDTQK34"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732884554229},"id":"timestamp-16062","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"S6RQIKCZHBEVJIOSPBW2UEHAVY","additional_properties":{"_id":"FWIQPUMF2RC6LCNZZBTCTCIX3M"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"ZHF7GUML4NDNJBLUOSLRD7OOAI","additional_properties":{"_id":"BHK3YZTTMFGKZAPBI6AMNMWEHE"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732884681595},"id":"timestamp-94982","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"C6M7E5F2SFHA3CN3RL6DWI33MI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732886543083},"content":"The President, Michael D Higgins cast his vote in the Phoenix Park this morning.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4ZJVBGFXBRE77OSJXOY2BQL5SE","subtype":"instagram","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"4BC6C74PEZEENPRBOA62TW6BMA","additional_properties":{"_id":"JVIZNHDDDBEGRNGFULA6ITAJVY"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732884758842},"id":"timestamp-82544","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"AVZ2SYXQTBHNLCAVSNB47TH7YU","additional_properties":{"_id":"TUNXU76JFNCCJKVDCV5ACOT66E"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732884842480},"id":"timestamp-43879","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"T4HULRO7PBHUZCODQPMANMPT3A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732886543087},"content":"We have some very good news from the leader of one party which we really must share while stressing it should not be taken as an indication of any bias on our part.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QPKRKCTZMJDCJDLYW2BU5CSAII","subtype":"instagram","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"7Z66KWBIEZH55PVFPQL462JMZY","additional_properties":{"_id":"C5RWUG6HLBEBVHACOGY36AKN5I"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732885546473},"id":"timestamp-83194","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"F7DGBL4DQNDCDIOHET6QBKBP6I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732886543090},"content":"More news on turnouts around the country from <b>Jade Wilson.</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"X3YLMZIQONGEJLRNI5TYT5LYSI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732886543091},"content":"Turnout across polling stations in Galway West is currently 8 per cent to 14 per cent at, while Galway East count centres have turnouts of 11 per cent to 16 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GMMZRU5ZENAQDDT5LAAMA3L5IU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732886543092},"content":"Turnout in rural Mayo polling stations is currently 9 to 18 per cent, and between 9 and 12.3 per cent in urban Mayo.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LCMRMMJJ3JFUXLCGQ7XHMFR6EE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732886543093},"content":"In Dundalk, some of the rural polling stations are now seeing over 20 per cent turnout.","type":"text"},{"_id":"74WWWEHG45B3XCYEK5BZBHZR6Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732886543094},"content":"Kilcurry polling station has a turnout of 28 per cent, and Sheelagh has 22 per cent so far.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IZUDJ5VXCFEEFKJGPJLEPM6QBA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732886543095},"content":"In urban Dundalk, turnout is currently between 12.5-15 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QULW4ZWV6BGW3NA75TV75N2LF4","additional_properties":{"_id":"WEBU2QF6TNAD3LOQPQE5UW2HME"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732886270993},"id":"timestamp-66382","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"SWWQ6JT77BFKXLD44VRXI7RP2Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732886543097},"content":"In the Sandymount area of Dublin Bay South constituency the turn out was at 20 per cent by 12.30pm. Officials say is “well above” the turnout rate at the same time for the local and European elections.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EPA5S5MYQ5AYDLE65LMBODO5RQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"7DSFDZXKGVBNZAG4HIQVYWCNMY"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732886556104},"id":"timestamp-3427","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"MUV3FLU57RDZ3JSUA3N3GIA7IA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732888861468},"content":"<b>Harry McGee </b>has done a breakdown of how the election might shake up for some parties.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XAWX7BOASJFKRC52FJTLUP67YM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732888861469},"content":"<b>GREEN PARTY</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"YLFEAUVQVVEL3J2CZKIIDNR4RA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732888861470},"content":"It’s a battle for survival for the Green Party. It has no strong targets and all its potential gains are long shots. Only two of its TDs, Catherine Martin and Roderic O’Gorman look safe. 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There were 13,179 people in homelessness in October last year.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KG4T3OAYRBGBFDRDXAXI4PNUUE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732893745034},"content":"Opposition parties, especially Sinn Féin, had called for the figures to be published in advance of the general election.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AXY6HEDWRJDMPOMTK7532NICME","additional_properties":{"_id":1732893745035},"content":"However, the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage Darragh O’Brien said the publication of the figures were the sole responsibility of his department.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6SIVC36OFZCPJE7SNPGPCYZPVY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732893745036},"content":"The homelessness figures for the previous month are normally published by the Department of Housing on the last Friday of the following month.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5MEARX7YEJEE5EXCOHZRY45GL4","additional_properties":{"_id":"EIR43F2ZBFES5PPJC3X6SJCLVU"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732889995581},"id":"timestamp-25399","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"OQ7USWEASVAKDA52OWA6GHPWBI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732893745038},"content":"Sinn Féin’s housing spokesman Eoin Ó Broin has said that ‘the latest rise in homeless numbers confirms why a change of Government is needed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VBYIIE3YBJBWPOVNXNZSPA2NO4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732893745039},"content":"“Once again, the number of adults, children, single people, and families without a home has increased. And this just weeks after the Government announced its record giveaway budget. The latest rise in homeless numbers confirms why we need a change of Government.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JXQIVN44WRBLPNUPZEEOYUBIZY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732893745040},"content":"“As people go to the polls throughout today, they should ask themselves do they want another five years of rising homelessness. Because that is what they will get it Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael go back into Government,” he continued.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UMLFDLNZ5JET5NUOYFPENZ7CXY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732893745041},"content":"We will report any other responses as they come in.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DLR4YL34QNAGHD6XCE56M3SAR4","additional_properties":{"_id":"55DDVGUECZF2HDPYNPZF6GBLU4"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732891051632},"id":"timestamp-22692","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"INM3JKWPBFGYXEFQUXJOOUS25U","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"TKDIZSK6NJCUHHW7PCQZEKNSYA","additional_properties":{"_id":"YAQ2WXVTPVDIDJNUDREDGOS3VQ"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732891924500},"id":"timestamp-97674","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"TWFKZRMZ6NGNNGOYT4X4GLJRQY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732893745045},"content":"More from <b>Harry McGee</b> on how the smaller parties might do.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IN2L5V573ZCWFN6MD4XFUGL2IY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732893745046},"content":"<b>SOCIAL DEMOCRATS</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"VWQ6RXYXORFHJE7KC5LOCEE56Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732893745047},"content":"The party is polling very strongly and looks like it will make gains. It has three strong targets, and another seven constituencies where it might gain on a very good day. Could be the dark horse among the smaller parties.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SW7BJOYKKBDVXACHZ5BJ2YEMSU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732893745048},"content":"MAIN TARGETS","type":"text"},{"_id":"4D3ZTUUYCVHGRM5SFA3FLYO7OQ","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"},{"_id":"NRWC2BM4IJF7TMRX5GRU3XFCMY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732893745050},"content":"POSSIBLE TARGETS","type":"text"},{"_id":"27XYCRY6JJF2VEQWN2DF6FMLMM","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"},{"_id":"VC3UTVS3UNC5XHVWGB4IZISVVA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732893745052},"content":"POTENTIAL LOSSES","type":"text"},{"_id":"CY3FS42ZGVFJLGZOIBZSHF5YQQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732893745053},"content":"Dublin North West: Róisín Shortall’s retirement leaves a big gap and Rory Hearne has his work cut out to retain it. But he is high profile and with his party showing 12 per cent support levels in Dublin in The Irish Times poll, he will be in the mix.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NORXGP7DWFGWROW3BHAUPT4XWU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732893745054},"content":"Dublin Central: Another high profile figure, Gary Gannon, faces stiff competition in an unpredictable constituency where transfers will be everything. He looks like he might just survive.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VCEWK5ARBRASDIL5MNFE57LKOQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732893745055},"content":"<b>SOLIDARITY-PEOPLE BEFORE PROFIT</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"2BYQ5MH6ZBFRRJOLQ3J4BZDH34","additional_properties":{"_id":1732893745056},"content":"MAIN TARGET","type":"text"},{"_id":"7PBOODW4O5A7JLJA4APRACSRZQ","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"},{"_id":"BWKCJ55ZPZEYNBHEVMY5FFXISE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732893745058},"content":"POTENTIAL LOSSES","type":"text"},{"_id":"NRPB47NTLFFVTA6BNK5TSAT5PA","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"},{"_id":"BDY26GJPLFFQZDZXN3ATV324YI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732893745060},"content":"<b>AONTÚ:</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"I23GBSI77BDZZBKAUOV7AAE35E","additional_properties":{"_id":1732893745061},"content":"MAIN TARGETS:","type":"text"},{"_id":"5RBBJ4IF4BEW3EODCHPMKLDLTY","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"},{"_id":"7KR24XVDIFDVTFDUUNYX32IJVQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"UQUAF4VD4BDXRAKN77ZPKLMKJA"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732893511743},"id":"timestamp-94450","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"JPEBXE7FPBDBRHUJGW7IRPWELQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732893745064},"content":"The smaller parties are targeting specific constituencies for gains, and also to shore up support where their existing seats are under pressure, writes <b>Harry McGee.</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"3XYOGQPKRFHNHM47SXQCYIHTDY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732893745065},"content":"<b>LABOUR</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"2M7AAV3JGJDLHHJM4BFD6VHOLI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732893745066},"content":"MAIN TARGETS","type":"text"},{"_id":"A45RMKAOANBNTPENOHZ3GQVZ2Q","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"},{"_id":"27CZBYAMKJCP3AS65WGHUP5X2U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732893745068},"content":"POSSIBLE GAINS","type":"text"},{"_id":"DSPRUSHIZFHVZCOAOLVWSJ644M","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"},{"_id":"KC5P4CT6NZBXTGHY4JHGQ4TYWM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732893745070},"content":"POTENTIAL LOSSES","type":"text"},{"_id":"IIJCDK7SU5D4LM6X626RMXKRZE","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"},{"_id":"7NAY6L26FFGXRFR2UGDNTGI6YA","additional_properties":{"_id":"TKKH7SJUIVBY3G3L4PNIGTCLGU"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732893762243},"id":"timestamp-85049","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"DPTUPIF7WVCQ3FU37XAUOBKA7U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732895474764},"content":"A really interesting read from <b>Olivia O’Leary </b>a woman who knows a thing or two about Irish elections.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NWIOW7NKMVBJJMS4X3QHIJSZHI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732895474765},"content":"There’s a <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/11/30/olivia-oleary-if-this-election-campaign-has-proven-anything-its-that-voters-are-not-eejits/\" target=\"_blank\">great deal to be said for keeping it simple. </a>The British journalist and excellent communicator, Andrew Marr, once advised journalists to put no more than four figures in an opinion piece. More than that and you lost the reader. And if this election campaign was dull, it was partly because it was weighed down with too many complex numbers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3I5SHLC4XJGLPODJDJMKKVXC2M","additional_properties":{"_id":"5NQMWRDVBBEGLOCWTVRZW2G6UU"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732897231234},"id":"timestamp-47196","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"GXJVWSGZHRAQPFFSLH553JQFQI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732900874085},"content":"The timing is coincidental but the latest Eurobarometer poll may auger well for the re-election of the Government.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RR6Q5NK7HVAJHIFOHNJJIK4GXQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732900874086},"content":"The European Commission undertakes surveys across the 27 member states on a regular basis to ascertain the mood of the Continent in general.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PG2BLLEO75DJHLJXS36JUL2HSM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732900874087},"content":"The survey shows that Irish people are generally more contented with 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because of its invasion of Ukraine.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Z5LO6CAOXJE2DPIGJQJREQKG4E","additional_properties":{"_id":"OPMM46OVKNBVHLGKJNL4YTO5OQ"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732898915222},"id":"timestamp-53689","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"D3QD3GRFGBEB5DDJFLHEYVRFAQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732900874093},"content":"Holly Cairns, who was first elected to Cork County Council in 2019 by a single vote, will be hoping that things aren’t quite as tight this time around as she won’t be able to vote for herself after giving birth to a little girl this morning at Cork University Maternity Hospital, <b>writes Barry Roche.</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"RUPQI4P6PRAMRH6UGB2LNTPSQI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732900874094},"content":"“Holly went into the hospital for a check up on Thursday evening and stayed in and her baby girl was born early this morning – she is registered to vote in her home polling station outside Skibbereen so 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constituency.","type":"text"},{"_id":"742NMCE7W5BP5MVQBFZSH5OW6M","additional_properties":{"_id":"LTFLZHYCSVGMVKADZ5N5JKPK4E"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732898982833},"id":"timestamp-18929","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"QCN5I6622BDMDDF6BJOX6RNTCU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732900874098},"content":"Various different names have been put forward on X as to what Holly Cairns might call her baby girl given the auspicious day she was born.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DT2QK3VCWZBZ7JGUK63VVY5IQ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732900874099},"content":"Electra was one, Victoria another, Candace and maybe even Poll-y.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XYOXCU5SDRC77BTJ46EBE4CAEE","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"ZJACMITQ7NHCFGNTUQEQZ2FOZM","additional_properties":{"_id":"NEGGDM3235HVVLAXIITOVABUCM"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732900121928},"id":"timestamp-98110","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"Z7UZ5EPN6JGATLV355A3RWWTVA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732900874118},"content":"The Tonight Show presenters Claire Brock and Ciara Doherty have both announced their departure from the station.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OKNZPEOAEFA25EWYEDKNBJCVZY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732902681467},"content":"The Virgin Media show, which was a fixture for a lot of political junkies, was cut down to from four to two days a week just before the election.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DOYZ3CQLXBGZHKS47QRI2S4YDQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732900874117},"content":"The station also pleaded poverty in its decision to not host a leaders’ debate. Station controller Áine Ní Chaoindealbháin blamed the failure of the Government to help","type":"text"},{"_id":"3TVCDHBBDZCJVMX27BMBO5FE2U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732900874119},"content":"Ms Doherty, who has been with the broadcaster for 14 years, said she has decided “to move on from late nights and early mornings to begin a new adventure”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SEC3Q3QPI5CBHN3S4UAM7AXOYE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732900874120},"content":"Claire Brock said she had been “fortunate to have enjoyed incredible opportunities with the very best team of colleagues”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DTX6JQD6R5FYNMNY3E45NJFF24","additional_properties":{"_id":"G57KLY2GDBGTTJ5FZ52IC7L4O4"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732916258853},"id":"timestamp-60236","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"JFKTSDS54JGOZNSPOMRB5TC2A4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732916762077},"content":"Exit Poll will give strong indication of how the electorate has voted","type":"header"},{"_id":"XPMCWAHZHRC5RKX63FCD5Y2ENI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732916762078},"content":"We are nearing the time of when the exit poll results are published. We are going live with them at 10pm sharp. The poll was commissioned by The Irish Times, RTE, TG4 and Trinity College and 5,000 people have been surveyed across all 43 constituencies during the course of the day.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UWI7IDZDKJFJ7DPI3S35DW4BXE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732916762079},"content":"Our last opinion poll published on Monday put the three parties within a hair’s breadth of one another with Fianna Fáil at 21 per cent, Sinn Féin at 20, and Fine Gael at 19, all within the margin of error.","type":"text"},{"_id":"E4KQX4IBBZC6TLHFVKE2BF32DM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732916762080},"content":"Has anything occurred in the past week to move the needle to or from any of the parties?","type":"text"},{"_id":"UR4LO4AEVFGLFADTW2DAN2NJLQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732916762081},"content":"Was the leaders’ debate on RTÉ deliberative?","type":"text"},{"_id":"YX76JSYB45C2XPPIG27UFL5A4E","additional_properties":{"_id":1732916762082},"content":"Did Simon Harris put what he described as the “bumps along the way” behind him?","type":"text"},{"_id":"PNK6SURPRNDKNL2YXG6ADK7OXY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732916762083},"content":"If they are still locked together, it is going to be intriguing. It will mean that no two combinations can come close to a majority. The pathway to power for Sinn Féin will be tricky in that instance. The other interesting thing (but this will only become apparent when the count starts tomorrow) will be transfers. Will Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil transfer to each other in the numbers that their strategists are predicting.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5TQNCQPSFRBT7M57ULJJY5VXG4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732916762084},"content":"This poll has such a large sample that the margin of error is small. We have not finalised the number yet but it will be around 1.6 per cent. In 2020, a similar exercised gave a very close approximation of the final out-turn for each of the larger parties.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EACDQ2OZWLQTWSJZHFTHYGRTF4","additional_properties":{"_id":"YBK6ONTQBZAEZJE2YOJ5PMNEYU"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"CVSBCHUWR5BVFKYULTVCFYU4HE","additional_properties":{"_id":"AQETCAAS4ZFGRGN6HLKAPXPPW4"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"6RXL46KHZZD3FLJIDSY4FGTSOE","additional_properties":{"_id":"UINBV5SFKNACVOHQUHDTZQTERI"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732917250714},"id":"timestamp-24691","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"BQL4V7UWURFZ7COJJWICUIJP4E","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"25UTZQWK3VHJLMABLMPJBCROAY","additional_properties":{"_id":"4SLKDTZA4JBWLFHPLJY56HGJWM"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732917269418},"id":"timestamp-77421","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"PS4TCXKY6JE23GQKTCWZXNCMQE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136757},"content":"A very tense and close election with three lead parties within 1.6 per cent of each other","type":"header"},{"_id":"AIMIMXVXS5AE5PDS5GQEK3RRPQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136758},"content":"The three lead parties are at a near deadlock according to the findings of the exit poll conducted by Ipsos/B&A on behalf of The Irish Times, RTE, TG4 and Trinity College.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AJSLHLL63JDENN2V7ZTUFDTCGU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136759},"content":"For the second election in a row, Sinn Féin looks like it will be the most popular party with 21.1 per cent, a whisker above Fine Gael, which is at 21.0 per cent according to the findings. Fianna Fáil is a further 1.5 per cent back at 19.5 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JLN3IV3LBJECFEAQHNEDNOPUWA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136760},"content":"The number of voter who were sampled today across the 43 constituencies was 5,018. The margin of error is 1.4 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2RFXG5663BBNJLKVT3RS4QLR6U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136761},"content":"Of the other parties, the Social Democrats have come out best, marginally ahead of the Labour Party.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GO5BWEOFRZG53DTIW5BZHX252A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136762},"content":"Their support levels are, according to the poll.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LJ3GUNW2H5FR5MXFZIHS2BTXFA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136763},"content":"Social Democrats: 5.8 per cent","type":"text"},{"_id":"PTYADHTHFVBA3CLH4PZPECLOGE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136764},"content":"Labour 5 per cent","type":"text"},{"_id":"5WW5WXVYCBCVPFRRL2ZHBJANWA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136765},"content":"Green Party 4 per cent","type":"text"},{"_id":"RKGLNYDQUNHVDG7BIPOA6QKQUY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136766},"content":"Aontu 3.6 per cent","type":"text"},{"_id":"7T7UCD222ZBIBF65IUGBYYSKH4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136767},"content":"People Before Profit 3.1 per cent","type":"text"},{"_id":"JEPVO46KGNGZJHR3FQLCMWRGBI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136768},"content":"Independent Ireland 2.2 per cent","type":"text"},{"_id":"DYGI6NEUVFEZPBPALF6JGCBPAA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136769},"content":"Independents 12.7 per cent","type":"text"},{"_id":"FXAJISUH4RA6NFZVCSYEBOFM3U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136770},"content":"Others 1.9 per cent","type":"text"},{"_id":"6HQNAS5NXBALZP4OZDBEMCSR4U","additional_properties":{"_id":"7KTFZKRXRRD5XMVI4TJY6UHGHQ"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732917951734},"id":"timestamp-53776","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"A7KGJPUNLVDF7CRFQUCLJJLVSQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136772},"content":"Jennifer Bray gives her take on The Late Late Show","type":"header"},{"_id":"RMUHGBEJGFGWTBJMJ3FLQQCQBE","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"GRDB3QIOCNGSZPY3YQJCA2T5KA","additional_properties":{"_id":"PL2SIMAYSNEA5LVJVMHKVKC7FI"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732918048089},"id":"timestamp-90356","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"J6H6PSJL6ZHDFCQ5COLX4IMNNQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136775},"content":"So what does it mean?","type":"header"},{"_id":"5VM52IYVG5DH5ECUKUCTHQ72OY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136776},"content":"Well the people have spoken but I think it’s going to take a while for us to figure out what they have said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"I56NBHF7WRELVMKKLJREHY42S4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136777},"content":"The three larger parties are still more or less prised together. Just a word of caution, in the exit poll in 2020, the actual outturn did differ a little, so one or more of the three big parties may have its support levels overstated or understated.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YI62LUCT2ZFLJBIFV5WPHR5S4E","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136778},"content":"If the results are borne out, Fianna Fáil will be the most disappointed. It seemed to have been the only party that had stayed above the fray but it clearly did not have momentum. Micheál Martin was said to have had a good campaign but it has not translated into a greater level of support.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HWI5FHLAPBBT3FGHJYUTG5YA4U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136779},"content":"In context, it’s a good result for Sinn Féin. Not compared to a year ago. But definitely compared to five months ago when it tanked in the local and European elections. It has managed to put those - and the series of scandals involving senior figures in the party - behind it and recovered to compete with the other two.","type":"text"},{"_id":"T3QFBILSSBFMZP7BY3B5VM5ROQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136780},"content":"Fine Gael will be disappointed compared to a month ago. But happy compared to three days ago when Simon Harris, after swatting away all foes for months, seemed to have impaled himself on his sword.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XQBYVYTZ7ZAJ7GK7OO2B6DJKXY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136781},"content":"Is there a path to government on these figures. Not for Sinn Féin as a lead party of a left alliance. Not for Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil as a coalition setting off to do the second difficult album. There will be a lot of talking and a lot of creativity needed, if these results are borne out.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MDSA3FMJRFEPNGORROVWNXH5TU","additional_properties":{"_id":"5DDTFCSBAFFE7J2GHBJNMFLHAI"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732918737049},"id":"timestamp-41916","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"EDTQQIAZ6BFNTMN2E73SS457ZY","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"JVRL6HJVNBFXXBTKCD3R6URJUU","additional_properties":{"_id":"7BEHID3MKNH7NDWRMEN5OBAGAA"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732918842978},"id":"timestamp-29462","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"NJFSTT7RDZAA3MSQYLVDNVAXKI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136785},"content":"What does it mean for the smaller parties and Independents?","type":"header"},{"_id":"RKNIMEKZ5RBDXGNC2ZI4DUMBT4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136786},"content":"There is a clear winner among the smaller parties and that is the Social Democrats with a 5.8 per cent showing. Depending on how it attracts transfers (and it is transfer friendly) the party could see its seat numbers creep into double figures. Likewise, Labour will be content enough with its showing of 5 per cent. It’s an increase on its 2020 election result of 4.4 per cent, if borne out, and could deliver extra seats for the party.","type":"text"},{"_id":"D6V5ZRPLLRE6FMR522ULSWZP6E","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136787},"content":"Another smaller party which will be thrilled is Aontú which has 3.6 per cent, according to the poll. People Before Profit has also marginally increased its support levels from 2.6 per cent to 3.1 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YXKYQWMNZFHNLJG7DA4PZ4EK7M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136788},"content":"And the Greens? It is at 4 per cent, down 3 per cent from 2020. That means it could lose half its seats or more. But it’s not as calamitous for the party as 2011, when its support levels dipped below 2 per cent and it lost all its seats as well as the right to receive State financing.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TS2WCJHJKNHM7NNQDU3YRTXSSE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136789},"content":"The Independent Alliance has 2.2 which suggests it did not attract the kind of support it set out to do. The figure for Independents is 12.7 which is close to the 2020 figures. It suggests there might not be a big increase in their number.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GGPLC33JWBCMHEYMIKXNAFWWVQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"IVKZBDPNJZEX3F4SYFS6BCSEVM"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732919666612},"id":"timestamp-35173","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"ELEHSMMRGJHXPK2ABZJH56TOWE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136791},"content":"Where are the Second Preferences Going?","type":"header"},{"_id":"SFFEGE4FKBBQBLLZG66LFJ44MI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136792},"content":"There is a slight bias toward the two Government parties over Sinn Féin. Again Fianna Fáil will be disappointed as it looked from other polls this week that it might be more popular than the other two parties.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FB5UYZDWSZHJDBEA2E3SV6FD5Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136793},"content":"How will that translate into seats? It’s hard to say. If there is a disciplined transfer between the two Coalition parties they could get a seat bonus. But Sinn Féin’s clever endorsement of the Social Democrats and People Before Profit could allow it to close that obvious gap a lot, especially in the capital.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QN7BZ6ZYGJHUVKWX7WDK6FDNCQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136794},"content":"Second preferences","type":"text"},{"_id":"L4J3FFQXIRE6ZOA3BDASQGWLAA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136795},"content":"Fianna Fáil 20","type":"text"},{"_id":"PBENUUFD6JAMPJ4VYYHHXMDNKI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136796},"content":"Fine Gael 20","type":"text"},{"_id":"VDRI32FDURHZDIC5THXA4PL37U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136797},"content":"Sinn Féin 17","type":"text"},{"_id":"2I3QAYFXJ5AUTEZT644NHGZO4U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136798},"content":"Social Democrats 5","type":"text"},{"_id":"NLHESEOU3BERHA2R42WKMVMERA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136799},"content":"Labour 5","type":"text"},{"_id":"BFK6QZGN3RHLLKC6QGTUBJ2ZYI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136800},"content":"PBP-Solidarity 4","type":"text"},{"_id":"3ZWLLOF6MBEI7DCNRBFS7E6YAE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136801},"content":"Greens 3","type":"text"},{"_id":"3VL3FIMEOBCT3EC4ONWAM3BTTA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136802},"content":"Aontú 3","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZKVBBKHSENFXJGJIPDYXZGJHLA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136803},"content":"Ind Ireland 3","type":"text"},{"_id":"TQ6VOHCPC5FB5GQTXBNWTIWLKY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136804},"content":"Independent 14","type":"text"},{"_id":"AILY4H5GGBE55KEWD4RU32O3O4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136805},"content":"Other parties 2","type":"text"},{"_id":"O5J5Q676FRHMBHPCAOOFU5RZQE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136806},"content":"Here are two tweets from Cormac McQuinn where he looks at the transfer patterns between parties.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5V4F2HYTMZBD3PIUL4ASIVTPMI","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"6TQHYFLOARBXRPP7SYYQSK4YIM","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"CVQMTJRLVVAVDBM7IDDUCUG45A","additional_properties":{"_id":"JAAOOHCARJB3HKIB725SJ72QUY"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732921514861},"id":"timestamp-2038","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"A7NIXYS4QBELVGY7VJJP5OEO74","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136810},"content":"Reaction from the larger parties","type":"header"},{"_id":"GEWLSTRPSZE7HGJPTQUDKAHNI4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136811},"content":"Senior figures from the three largest parties have been giving their reaction to the exit poll on RTÉ.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TMHXHI2MJJHHZLLHNFJGVLQBYY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136812},"content":"Jack Chambers of Fianna Fáil said the three parties were all within the margin of error or each other.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CZL7Q6TNJBFFXFYTUPYPTYLGAQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136813},"content":"“I think there’s a three way race now to see who become the largest party, and we have to see how that manifests tomorrow morning when the ballot boxes are opened.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"SWWE5N7WM5H5VKBEZMMWM4P5WE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136814},"content":"He also cited geographical and constituency issues.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UPKK2XW5XNH3HOB7SHWDGRKIXM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136815},"content":"Chambers said that the wider context was a further fragmentation of Irish politics with the vote split across many small parties and independents.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KYO5EVDIYBALTAD5M3MJCTMLUU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136816},"content":"Damien English of Fine Gael said his party had put in a “very solid performance” and that seemed to be borne out by the findings of the exit poll.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GBAZ2ZYFJRB7LGOAMNRDK2TJ6I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136817},"content":"“Bearing in mind that we set out with 17 sitting TDs it’s a very positive solid result.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZB3KU5GXIJEYRASHDLEL7RWZ6Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136818},"content":"Sinn Féin director of elections Matt Carthy said the truth was the the combined support of the two main Government parties had fallen 6 per cent on their 2020 performance.","type":"text"},{"_id":"53QPGIAWRFCW3F53QC6QLRJIZU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136819},"content":"“I think any anybody looking at the trajectory of the political discourse, particularly since last June’s local elections - when Sinn Fein’s obituary had been written - will have to acknowledge that quite an amount of people came out to vote against the outgoing government. They came out to vote for change.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"P7L4PFFMLVFW3PQ6N5FILV5GWE","additional_properties":{"_id":"DRCWZSGGFNAJROBF6Q55CCSDA4"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732922034759},"id":"timestamp-6858","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"PPVDEXDW3JE23KOTHOHDFAHJKU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136821},"content":"Reaction on Social Media","type":"text"},{"_id":"VUJKHS742FG73JW6HW5WWHMUQE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732923136822},"content":"Here is a selection of the reaction to the exit poll that has featured on social media.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IHEEISSWVVDVRAQ4E7Y6TJVEQM","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"2DUH53XE45HGBN4S2KJB27D3LY","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"AIOHVG6ZK5DIFNLCLYUR7ABVOE","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"E5VXRFKW5NELNJB64YXYQMJGZM","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"ACFK5ZKY2JHTPH3PD5CMJ5TQZU","additional_properties":{"_id":"S7HTMIXCLBB4JNGWWK5N5EG6IU"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732923404971},"id":"timestamp-6738","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"NLK3KBHMWNAELLIDJ5FGV5QCTM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732925462975},"content":"Exit Poll: None of three larger parties have gained: two have made lossses","type":"header"},{"_id":"64EF2CTKSVAGLA3HANHS5CYV5M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732925462976},"content":"A very interesting statistic for me is that all three larger parties are either even or down compared to 2020. Fianna Fáíl at 19.5 per cent will be down almost 2.7 per cent, if the election matches the exit poll results. Sinn Féin is down 3.4 per cent compared to 2020. And Fine Gael is marginally up, from 20.9 per cent to 21 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KSACTOV7QZG2LMCIHEY4KQYBKE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732925462977},"content":"All of those figures are subject to change once counting begins tomorrow.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7ZBV2OPLHRBRBGTHWIF27E2COE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732925462978},"content":"A long day beckons on Saturday (and on Sunday). We will be with you ever step of the way!","type":"text"},{"_id":"L4DWSXMV7REANC7W4PJP5YYWLY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732925462979},"content":"Here is a sample of what we are covering tomorrow.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KL7QCN67WVB57PNN7UXARNNIQU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732925462980},"content":"<b>8am: </b>Subscribers to our <b>Inside Politics newsletter</b> (you can <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/newsletters/inside-politics-newsletter/\">sign-up here</a>) will receive an election special edition newsletter with extra details from The Irish Times <b>exit poll.</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"LPUESTATGBGOZNHZGMKNMSMDZE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732925462981},"content":"<b>9am: </b>Counting begins in all 43 constituencies. In the last general election in 2020, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/galway-east/\">Galway East</a> was the first constituency to report full results.","type":"text"},{"_id":"N66THNWTIJG2FL3SGYU5PHIP4E","additional_properties":{"_id":1732925462982},"content":"Our rolling live coverage will feature up-to-the-minute updates, analysis and reaction as tallies emerge, counts are completed and seats filled. We will also provide detailed results for each of the 43 constituencies, along with graphics showing how the country and each constituency voted.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4F2DGOENTVEZ7DPAY62TL2VVOM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732925462983},"content":"Our politics team will provide analysis of the emerging results online, on our podcasts and via video while our columnists, including Justine McCarthy and Diarmaid Ferriter, will share their views.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UJUEPQ2DHVCO7H6SALUCYLRESQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732925462984},"content":"<b>Late afternoon/evening: </b>Details of first counts should start emerging on Saturday afternoon with first seats filled later on that afternoon and into the evening. Depending on the individual returning officers, counts in some constituencies may run into early on Sunday morning.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IJOBG5KGBZEE3M5AFAMLZLLTUQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732925462985},"content":"More details on our extenisive coverage over the weekend can be <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/11/28/general-election-2024-how-the-irish-times-will-cover-the-results-and-key-times-to-watch-out-for/\" target=\"_blank\">found here.</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"T2RLFLPVDBEX3KNWGDBRW72JGI","additional_properties":{"_id":"W52DHGOA55D2PJV6GLMG3MIQKQ"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"VQ4UV5PMQJDNNIB7OYX5TTCN6M","additional_properties":{"_id":"ST57GPF6MNEPZGDCJQEHYPWHCE"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732924591309},"id":"timestamp-50848","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"MMYEUZRNSREBHLHJH5SFVHODVU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732925462988},"content":"Further Reading and Listening as Live Coverage winds down","type":"header"},{"_id":"RO3XESOSA5BCRM5QJVYDJQO2FQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732925462989},"content":"Thank you for staying with The Irish Times live coverage of polling day, and the excitement of the exit poll tonight.","type":"text"},{"_id":"46PCWWCXTBBLRAI6OW5VXAFXDM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732925462990},"content":"We will leave you with two further excellent piece of analysis. The first is <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/podcasts/inside-politics/election-daily-listen-to-analysis-of-the-exit-poll/\" target=\"_blank\">tonight’s special Election Daily podcast </a>with Hugh Linehan and Pat Leahy, which parses the results and implications of the poll.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BHV75FSAHRCSLGILBMKLCOMYX4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732925462991},"content":"The second is <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/11/30/election-2024-exit-poll-analysis-fine-gael-and-fianna-fail-will-be-in-driving-seat-to-re-establish-coalition/\" target=\"_blank\">Pat’s analysis for the The Irish Times on the poll findings</a> and how it might translate into government formation: that’s if the findings are borne out by the reality of the count.","type":"text"},{"_id":"B2ZYE4ODZFG45K43PBYK7S27E4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732925462992},"content":"And if that was not enough, there is also this <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/11/29/as-if-the-election-campaign-wasnt-tedious-enough-brace-yourself-for-the-counts/\" target=\"_blank\">excellent piece of analysis from John McManus</a> on how non-eventful the election campaign was (agree) and how tedious the count will be (disagree).","type":"text"},{"_id":"7JXIS5R4WRCJBGHTXYBCKYTAE4","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"6XFUH4FATZHJFPMKPXZZBYYVEU","additional_properties":{"_id":"MRGKV7DZK5E4ZLXILSWZXTUBKA"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732863420000},"id":"timestamp-19809","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"VG4J5NXG2RFDZLMHI6QX7UWAVQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732917899514},"content":"Voting is over in the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/election2024/\" target=\"_blank\">2024 general election</a> and our exit poll shows that there is little to separate between the three largest parties.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2DSVYZ2X4VHBLNR4OZRDDRX6MY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732921605633},"content":"The exit poll was conducted among over 5,018 voters at more than 200 locations nationwide, as they left polling stations. 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Having dropped its previous freeze on hiring in many areas the unions say the executive’s Pay and Numbers Strategy effectively places new restrictions on hiring, albeit with senior managers having some flexibility regarding how they allocate resources. 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These days (mostly through the FT) I get job protection, a generous chunk of maternity leave at full pay and even a coach to ease my return to work. In general I am in favour of policies to support those of us who nobly breed future taxpayers. But is it possible to go too far?","type":"text"},{"_id":"RYU5JRD5JNES5LLHZHIVABRLNQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732881104578},"content":"At first, the point of parental leave was to protect the health of mother and baby. Childbirth warrants some recovery time, and though communication isn’t my toddler’s strong suit, I think he appreciated the home rest too. More recently, expanded benefits for parents have been seen as a way to promote gender equality or even boost the birth rate. By pulling men on to more nappy duty, paternity leave could even out the load of child rearing.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2VFCQ6JYJJETNFPGKZVNTKYN5M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732881104579},"content":"Sadly, the unintended consequences are easy to imagine. Extended maternity leave could detach mothers from paid work. Generous benefits could make managers hesitant about hiring potential parents. Exposing more fathers to the realities of full-time childcare could even turn some of them off the pursuit.","type":"text"},{"_id":"44T35WDXJRAUZF7AMLY7AWBOXM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732881104580},"content":"Helpfully, governments have provided economists with plenty of reforms to evaluate. And at least some parental leave has lots of nice effects, from health benefits for mother and child to greater involvement of fathers in family life.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2B4J2B4MPVGIVGW3KIOBR4N4JA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732881104581},"content":"But at least when it comes to maternity leave, the economic benefits do seem to have a limit. One review found that although leave of up to around six months improves mothers’ chances of returning to paid work, more than about a year has the opposite effect. When in the 1980s and 1990s the French and German governments expanded it beyond that point, paid employment and wages for mothers suffered.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4KZFKBSM5FDW7JORY2BXSU2OBU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732881104582},"content":"There is also some awkward evidence of benefits at least partly backfiring. One working paper by Jenna Stearns of the University of California, Davis found that in Britain expanding the period of job protection to a year lowered the chances of being promoted or holding a managerial role. Another found that in Germany more generous maternity benefits meant small companies hired fewer women of childbearing age into roles that were tricky to cover.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YFKWKAUCYZABZITFWAFQ2GFVLE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732881104583},"content":"Paternity leave is no more straightforward. A new working paper finds, for example, that men taking long stints are penalised when applying for jobs in male-dominated sectors. Another study found that in Norway, making paternity leave more generous lowered men’s earnings by 1-3 per cent. They argued that this was because of a “rat race”, whereby one father taking time out opened up space for colleagues to get ahead. (The authors’ fix is for <i>all</i> fathers to use their allotted leave.)","type":"text"},{"_id":"TDQY36KOJ5HQPDBNQEBBHKKXPY","additional_properties":{"_id":"KMP5CQLZQ5GJFF3HK4FAHSOHAA"},"embed":{"config":{},"id":"acast_podcast-36818","url":"/"},"subtype":"acast_podcast","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"C6NONAC7A5HWFA6SPXSWHWBAS4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732881104584},"content":"Other alarming studies include one examining a Swedish reform that reserved a month of paid parental leave for fathers, which found that it raised the chances of divorce by around one percentage point. 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Prices have been steadily increasing in the area since number 37 achieved €539,000 back in 2016. The most recent sale on the street listed on the Property Price Register was number 23, a 93sq m three-bedroom D1-rated house (albeit with a larger rear space out back), which achieved €598,000 in September this year.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Elizabeth Birdthistle"}},"name":"Elizabeth Birdthistle"}]},"description":{"basic":"Dating from 1922, updated home has stylish kitchen with checkerboard floor and atrium roof light"},"display_date":"2024-11-29T05:45:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Three-bed terrace with trendy interior in Dublin 8 for €550,000","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"V2CEW5VNCNGGBOVG6PO4HPSAFA","auth":{"1":"bd66aafb730a4dfaa0533848d27554fe44f4d8d5d3a99cb2949f0f3cf297b2cc"},"focal_point":{"x":4075,"y":2940},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/V2CEW5VNCNGGBOVG6PO4HPSAFA.JPG"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Residential"},{"name":"Property"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/property/residential/2024/11/23/three-bed-terrace-with-trendy-interior-in-dublin-8-for-550000/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/property/residential","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Residential"}}}},{"_id":"P7CWW6LBEFEYVEKDSODNSILPRE","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":184,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/83e55e24-240c-443a-9f30-daadae244971/versions/1732107328/media/70b76785e575af80de896c6741ec0552_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/property/residential/2024/11/29/what-will-330000-buy-in-italy-menorca-sardinia-france-and-connemara/","content_elements":[{"_id":"NR4XXSCDBJD7TPEDDYSIY4LO7E","additional_properties":{"_id":1731491555037},"content":"<b>Ireland: Galway</b>","type":"header"},{"_id":"L5NPDXTPW5DTHCQM6DONHYWFF4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732099773484},"content":"In the heart of Connemara, just “out the road” on the Galway side of Clifden, is a sizeable, three-bedroom bungalow of 106sq m (1,140sq ft) within walking distance of the tourist town. 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Agent: <a href=\"https://www.maiorcapital.com/en/property/villetta-vista-mare-a-baja-sant-anna\">Maior Capital</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"J3RYM2B7ZVGE5OMM76LYQPC26A","additional_properties":{"_id":"PSWCNBMJWRD2TBPIUEOOZ4KG5E"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"7GBMOTLNXBHUNF76NWMRTYGVIY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731491555046},"content":"<b>France: Marseillan</b>","type":"header"},{"_id":"77LNI3663FH2PB3JG6VVZ5643E","additional_properties":{"_id":1731491555047},"content":"In Marseillan, north of Lourdes, is a postcard-pretty stone cottage with four bedrooms, three of which are under beamed eaves on the first floor. It has a separate kitchen and large lounge as well as charming exterior features such as a white picket fence surround and timber shutters. The property, extending to 130sq m (1,399 sq ft), includes an outdoor swimming pool and decked surround, a shaded dining and cooking area and a garden. Price: €336,000. Agent: <a href=\"https://healeyfox.com/properties/occitanie/gers/marseillan/old-stone-cottage-with-pool-and-wooden-terrace-marseillan/\">Healey Fox</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"CGIFP5JJQ5BRLOJBQMMSKKS5YA","additional_properties":{"_id":"NU5DINRIRBGTZLPA2R2QGXTC5I"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"NR4XXSCDBJD7TPEDDYSIY4LO7E","additional_properties":{"_id":1731491555037},"content":"<b>Italy: Cinque Terre</b>","type":"header"},{"_id":"M7ZZ2JW5NFDILNHTRYWHMIMVPE","additional_properties":{"_id":1731491555038},"content":"Drink in views of the Gulf of Levanto on Italy’s Riviera from the garden of this one-bedroom ground-floor apartment in a villa that was renovated in 2007. Extending to 78sq m (839sq ft), it features an open-plan livingroom with a sunny yellow kitchen and an additional 70sq m of space in the garden, where you can enjoy cooling sea breezes. When the haze lifts you can see up the coast to Portofino. The property includes parking and cellar space. Price: €330,000. Agent: <a href=\"https://www.engelvoelkers.com/en/exposes/de723850-c2df-5955-b624-6738eab3b3a3\">Engel Voelkers</a>","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Alanna Gallagher"}},"name":"Alanna Gallagher"}]},"description":{"basic":"One price, home and away: A garden flat on Italy’s Riviera, an apartment with a roof terrace on Menorca, a maisonette in Sardinia, a postcard-pretty French country house with a pool or bungalow bliss outside Clifden?"},"display_date":"2024-11-29T05:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"What will €330,000 buy in Italy, Menorca, Sardinia, France and Connemara?","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"65H3EYP54RDA3JZSJ4AZ4ZLX3M","auth":{"1":"0d28bc60c301c3651aa5de95062112c998099dea309f2b677104802cb4a61550"},"focal_point":{"x":1490,"y":580},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/65H3EYP54RDA3JZSJ4AZ4ZLX3M.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Residential"},{"name":"Property"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/property/residential/2024/11/29/what-will-330000-buy-in-italy-menorca-sardinia-france-and-connemara/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/property/residential","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Residential"}}}},{"_id":"OHN5NWD7PRDXNJNVYDAY4G6S3Q","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":805,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/668a3f77-4134-4c30-8b31-6e7ce9b0a6bd/versions/1732201195/media/c88b82abd1aa306ec684f199e5795819_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/property/residential/2024/11/28/the-secret-loves-of-property-writers-our-top-10-favourite-homes-of-2024/","content_elements":[{"_id":"BS62DKRROZASRHJ3TCM2TMONAQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732193690871},"content":"<b>The Lakehouse, 6 Claremont Road, Howth, Co Dublin</b>","type":"header"},{"_id":"HVDYFKTFGVF6XIIYB5XTWB37RY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732186639961},"content":"<b>Status: </b>Brought to market in April by Sherry FitzGerald, seeking €3.6 million. It was sold in September for €3.2 million, according to the Property Price Register (PPR).","type":"text"},{"_id":"XRAVMSVC2BEQTOPG4ZWI6XQXXQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732186639962},"content":"Architectural gems are my thing, and houses right beside the sea would also (imaginary budget allowing) most definitely be my thing. The Lake House in Howth is a place of absolute wonder, hemmed between its own lake and the endless stretch of Burrow Beach, which overlooks Ireland’s Eye.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J6NGUUPJLNE3TPUYGJEWWG7X7Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732186639963},"content":"The back garden is knitted into the dunes, with specific decks on which to enjoy a tipple of your choice. It also has an outdoor terrace at the end of the extensive living area that faced west to catch sunsets; the roof of the terrace was carved in the shape of a keel, to honour the owner’s legacy of sailing.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MHPQ63FA2FEK3LJZ2GJHCLKI4Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1732186639964},"content":"Inside, the living areas are well considered, with a long sittingroom graduating into a Snaidero kitchen. The house splits into two levels, with a study set between them on the landing. The views from The Lake House over the sea were staggering, and it was clear that the previous owner had loved every minute of living there. <i>Read our full review </i><a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/property/residential/2024/04/10/stunning-beachfront-house-hovering-over-the-water-in-howth-for-36m/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>here</i></a><i>.</i> <b>– Miriam Mulcahy</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"7S25RDHIWZBF5BOGTGJE6V4GRM","additional_properties":{"_id":"CNAJRE2RUVAQ5JYFO6RVEH54UE"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"FGI77UCI7JHYVPFHCVX2AOBQE4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732204947864},"content":"<b>Linziestown House, Tomhaggard, Co Wexford</b>","type":"header"},{"_id":"A7JD47UZIZBYTJOGWH4OANAGBU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732195113464},"content":"<b>Status:</b> Listed in June 2024 at €1.75 million through Sherry FitzGerald Country Homes & Sherry FitzGerald Radford. Achieved in excess of its asking price, according to selling agent John Radford. It appears on the Property Price Register as having sold for €1.35 million in October 2024, which accounts for the house on one acre. The remainder of land, almost 27 acres, was sold separately.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5225SWCXJFGXHGKLXTQMH3JJQE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732195113465},"content":"Situated along Wexford’s historic Norman Way, this Georgian residence dates all the way back to 1801. Though described on the National Built Heritage website as “a farmhouse”, the five-bedroom pile extends to a considerable 483sq m (5,198sq ft). Lying on almost 30 acres, the grounds have two paddocks, four stables and a hay barn likely to have attracted those who wish to entertain equestrian pursuits.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RYDIHAHOWZCSDFEAYYH3AYJXXM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732195113467},"content":"In addition to its pristine condition, as owners who had lived there since 1997 had restored it fully to its former glory, there is a restored coach house, offering a large livingroom and games room. Add to this a 13m swimming pool and its proximity to a number of beaches and golf courses, along with access to fresh fish at nearby Kilmore Quay, and you can understand why it was on the market for such a short time. <i>Read our full review </i><a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/property/residential/2024/06/21/quintessential-country-estate-on-almost-30-acres-in-wexford-for-175m/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>here</i></a><i>.</i> <b>– Elizabeth Birdthistle</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"NI3YUESHKBHNVGQGWYRIAIUZL4","additional_properties":{"_id":"D5B5XWEL4NBSBAMW25XQTD4NNQ"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"YO6UWPR7YNFKFFULC5MSJUS44A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732204947870},"content":"<b>Lynam Cottage, Cronroe, Ashford, Co Wicklow</b>","type":"header"},{"_id":"EJ7KNXKT5BBP5IOPBMTF26QSQM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732114991116},"content":"<b>Status:</b> On the market through Sherry FitzGerald Catherine O’Reilly since October, seeking €695,000.","type":"text"},{"_id":"U4PPOEZPA5EA7H2UTDXH7NFC2M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732114991117},"content":"Lynam Cottage has been my favourite house reviewed by The Irish Times this year, not just for its postcard-perfect exterior, light-filled interior and stunning surroundings, but for the fact that it introduced me to the story of its namesake – the author, journalist, linguist and administrator <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/joan-shevawn-lynam-1.216416\" target=\"_blank\">Joan (Shevawn) Lynam</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ED7OHOI4VJEMVMOI5KA3UJU2I4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732204947873},"content":"Elizabeth Birdthistle’s research into Lynam, who bought and refurbished the cottage in the 1960s, painted a portrait of a fascinating woman who worked for Alfred Hitchcock, worked and wrote for various media outlets, and who was passionate about Basque independence and found herself banned from Spain for a time because of it. She put her knowledge of the region into a novel, The Spirit and the Clay, which she set during the Spanish Civil War.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5OLJESOIXZHBRCO3TMXWF5O5ZQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732114991118},"content":"Lynam wrote her second book, Humanity Dick – a biography of eccentric TD Richard Martin – no doubt surrounded by the rolling Wicklow hills at the cottage. And today, following a thorough renovation by its current owners, Lynam Cottage is an idyllic retreat – the envy of writers and artists alike. It also incorporates some of my favourite interior features, such as a checkerboard floor at its entrance, skylights in the living areas and a window seat overlooking the countryside. <i>Read our full review </i><a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/property/residential/2024/10/30/irish-writers-charming-countryside-cottage-in-wicklow-for-695000/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>here</i></a><i>.</i> <b>– Jessica Doyle</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"IMMIHUQFIJF77OOEDM7QDJXCXI","additional_properties":{"_id":"FIVVY2PYUVDPLBAKYEZOFLFFAE"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"7XCQZVTUBRBGZGCPMNVZYZWVKE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732204947877},"content":"<b>Seagrange, Sandycove Avenue East, Sandycove, Co Dublin</b>","type":"header"},{"_id":"ECZ6TSUMYFFV7CPYOSKVWH4TIM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732111227698},"content":"<b>Status: </b>Brought to the market by Sherry FitzGerald seeking €10 million in September, and went sale-agreed that month, according to the selling agent. The selling price has yet to be confirmed, and it has yet to appear on the Property Price Register.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KVVAMESPZZGPLKOH6JKN43XUPM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732111227700},"content":"Hidden away down a long driveway off Sandycove Avenue East, this very private period home on three-quarters of an acre of gardens that run down to the sea is a few minutes’ walk from the Forty Foot and Joyce Tower.","type":"text"},{"_id":"46TU4VF5IFCUHKREKJENNJ4LOI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732204947880},"content":"The 594sq m (6,394sq ft) five-bedroom villa-style detached house, built in 1840, was effectively rebuilt and completely modernised over the past 24 years. Inside, it’s all bright, modern and warm (it has a B3 Ber), with rooms opening on to terraces that look over the formal gardens to the sea. A separate two-storey studio mews is accessed from Sandycove Lane. <i>Read our full review </i><a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/property/residential/2024/09/05/modernised-villa-style-sandycove-home-with-gardens-stretching-to-the-sea-for-10m/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>here</i></a><i>. </i><b>– Frances O’Rourke</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"EINWPMLBCVEU5C7DGYCN46THXM","additional_properties":{"_id":"SPO7MSTVQZHEXFDGZJHKP3EIDU"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"LO4EN4HGG5F5JB2NMNMIY5HQJY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732204947883},"content":"<b>5 Palmerston Villas, Rathmines, Dublin 6</b>","type":"header"},{"_id":"K7IUBJYHIJDM5OXGQLJH2HKCAU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732111227706},"content":"<b>Status:</b> On the market with Lisney Sotheby’s International Realty since September, seeking €3.8 million.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2SRMX3HNDVEUBIPPWZCLLP4MYU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732111227708},"content":"It may seem obvious to choose a very large period property in Rathmines as the home that stood out for me in 2024, but it wasn’t the sheer size of it or the Dublin 6 address that impressed me most, it was how the house was lived in.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KSPMUG3FC5FPNDNHIOUJS2P4OI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732204947886},"content":"This six-bedroom home, measuring 410sq m (4,413sq ft), is set out over three floors, with every corner in use. For the last 22 years it has worked around family life, so there were no rooms that were kept out of bounds for visitors’ eyes only. The ground-floor level adapted to every stage, from toddlers to teenagers. The reception rooms are both refined and relaxed, with the shuttered sash windows facing out to Brookfield Tennis Club. And the beauty of it all is that number 5 has not lost an ounce of its period charm along the way.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZJMO6M4OENAX5OXHQ3FIRLMVDM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732204947887},"content":"Here’s hoping it goes to another family that will fill each room with life and love. <i>Read our full review </i><a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/property/residential/2024/10/03/vast-victorian-villa-offers-elegance-and-functionality-in-rathmines-for-38m/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>here</i></a><i>.</i> <b>– Alison Gill</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"LG2NSN3KKJDGNGQVOQY5ZWQKZY","additional_properties":{"_id":"3X6NOP3POBHDXJG3RPZ3YERODA"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"6GECDMQZKJAMFPLUAPO4IRNOG4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732204947890},"content":"<b>3 Victoria Lane, Rathgar, Dublin 6</b>","type":"header"},{"_id":"4ZQXNON5GVH47GQ6ZPV25UHHK4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732186639956},"content":"<b>Status: </b>Came to the market with Knight Frank in September seeking €2.1 million. 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The name means “Falling Plaster” in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/slovakia/\" target=\"_blank\">Slovak</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3M5YF4D3VFBJ3LDT2KPBRZRRCI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732875221117},"content":"A few years ago many of the ornate buildings in the city were in a state of disrepair and were covered in signs warning of falling plaster; these somewhat limited the insurance liability of the building owners should pedestrians be hit by a piece of early 20th century facade. There aren’t as many as <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/abroad/2022/08/08/this-kerryman-didnt-just-walk-into-a-bar-in-bratislava-he-opened-one/\" target=\"_blank\">when I first moved here</a>, but you still see the odd one affixed to an ornate mansion. 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To be honest, it has sometimes been a drag on the operations of The International, our flagship brand, but now we’re making moves to turn this new bar into the economic engine that’s going to propel us forward.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3XXHYUMHE5CONJ4JHODXY2VH2Q","additional_properties":{"_id":"22SCQN7CZFCADLLV22OEUYHS6Y"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"3YISGM677ZBR3OAHHLRP3XBQSI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732875221119},"content":"There were several factors working against us until now, chief among them being that to access this club you had to walk through a functioning Slovak <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/food/restaurants/\" target=\"_blank\">restaurant</a>. And the lack of a sign on the street. We were too hidden. But the restaurant has now vacated the upstairs, which leaves us with much more space to work with, a new bar and, most terrifyingly, a kitchen.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JBLUWE5URNHZROMFUQYTXQSP3I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732875221120},"content":"I know nothing about running a kitchen. I know enough from friends in the business and from watching Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares that it looks like absolute hell – tiring, time consuming and extremely risky.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IAY3EIUY4RGB5O5FP4EUXIKBXM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732875221121},"content":"We’re not looking for that kind of stress in our lives. Our expertise lies in having a room with stuff happening in it that people come and buy drinks in. So we’re opting for a different tack with the kitchen – we’re going to sublet it. Someone operates the kitchen, pays a flat rate for it, another bit for energy and then keeps the take from food – they can even sell food via delivery apps.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VTBSZYUJKVD7LO7ZCG5OSZN4VY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732875221122},"content":"So we offset our monthly rent, some enterprising chef tries out their dream, and customers can have a munch. Everyone wins. That said, we are now entering an interesting situation after putting the word about the kitchen out: we’ve been approached by a few potential suitors for it.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BUL4DBYWG5AIDOBK7LLSSCYYYQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732875221123},"content":"First was an English gentleman, who is the associate of a Slovak sausage maker. People from Ireland and Britain struggle with accessing our style of sausages and rashers here. The spices just aren’t right; if you order a full Irish or full English breakfast in Slovakia, you’re most likely getting hot dogs with your eggs and beans. So on top of turning the kitchen into a sausage-making facility, they would also offer customers British/Irish-style breakfasts. We would probably be the only place in Slovakia where you’d get a really authentic one.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EJQN5YLHGRBDNH5B5G7I34YM6I","additional_properties":{"_id":"DHC3WKTOXNHFLB4JJN6ZRBWGPQ"},"content":"How Slovakia’s poisonous politics left prime minister fighting for his life","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"GXIEAT6ZIZBJDAL63T43M6TMVU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732875221124},"content":"A problem with a strictly meat-based place is the clientele we intend to serve in this bar. We have teamed up with people behind Koncerty Na Garazach (Concerts at the Garages). During the warm half of the year, these guys run concerts of many genres, but especially those of an underground variety. Hard-core punk, thrash metal, grindcore, hip-hop. Bands from Europe, Asia, South America. And, as you might guess, a lot of the crowd that follows them are vegan.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UOACYY3OW5EVNHYQGNGVX3ZE4Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732875221125},"content":"So we have decided to walk down the grassy path of veganism. But veganism is a broad church. Without getting too much into the weeds of Slovak vegan politics, it seems like it’s going to boil down to whether we want whoever has the kitchen to have dreadlocks and piercings or not.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TPWFAT47MFAEJIQCUCSVXRKYTM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732875221126},"content":"The Slovak vegan offering would most likely take the form of veganised Slovak dishes prepared en masse for the daily lunch rush. Restaurants here typically serve a set daily menu for between €7 and €10, offering a soup, a small drink and a choice of two mains. Sheep cheese and bacon gnocchi, duck leg with grease pancakes, chicken or pork schnitzel, and breaded deep-fried cheese are all typical offerings.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EPXXOIGH6NG3HG73XCGJONGT7A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732886312511},"content":"I am not sure how you make a duck leg vegan, but I’m sure they’ll make it work.","type":"text"},{"_id":"L7JNWDK3Q5FDRCOIZH5LPVWN3Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1732875221128},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Oscar Brophy"}]},"description":{"basic":"Irishman Oscar Brophy is subletting the kitchen of his new Bratislava bar-cum-nightclub, whose name translates as Falling Plaster"},"display_date":"2024-11-29T14:08:48.319Z","headlines":{"basic":"‘I know nothing about running a kitchen . . . it looks like absolute hell – tiring, time consuming and extremely risky’","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"B5ABLLB7EZFHTIJD4Q37KNJQ5I","auth":{"1":"6435e4cf0f14d4e57c6d1d067e2095fdbf8d8b630ec68bbb22834d176ecdda18"},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/B5ABLLB7EZFHTIJD4Q37KNJQ5I.jpg"},"overline_logo":{"_id":"ODAASV4SBNHATJHOBHB3XTYX7U","auth":{"1":"01de107310c65c790f0e72a62f7eb87cddfc1fe10f2cdce99735ddc6dcb0cb41"},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/ODAASV4SBNHATJHOBHB3XTYX7U.png"}},"subtype":"columnist","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Abroad"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/abroad/2024/11/29/i-know-nothing-about-running-a-kitchen-it-looks-like-absolute-hell-tiring-time-consuming-and-extremely-risky/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/abroad","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Abroad"}}}},{"_id":"XLUG5VFQUFGMNBEX67AH4VVR2Y","additional_properties":{},"canonical_url":"/abroad/2024/11/27/irish-times-abroad-newsletter-learning-gaeilge-is-a-true-challenge/","content_elements":[{"_id":"SYOE4WCB7ZCYDLYYZDB26XFKFA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732190133254},"content":"Anna Derrig, from Offaly, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/abroad/2024/11/21/an-offaly-woman-learning-gaelige-in-london-i-was-a-teenager-before-i-had-the-guts-to-identify-as-irish/\" target=\"_blank\">writes about</a> how she started to learn to talk as Gaeilge despite moving to Yorkshire as a three-year-old. 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However, the opportunity to enrol in a school in Spain “to be immersed in Spanish language and culture, was too good to pass up”. The family stayed in Spain, using their boat as a base, until it was sold in 2018; when they moved life ashore. Now, Martina works as a ghostwriter and editor from Spain.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CHJ7P6IQSRDNZDG2DEXM4U57LE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732190133256},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/abroad/2024/11/04/i-moved-to-london-certain-that-id-eventually-return-home-now-ive-settled/\" target=\"_blank\">Francesca Shaw</a> left Dublin three years ago and made her way to London. A lot has happened in Britain since. She has “watched the British mourn the loss of their queen, seen the constant turnover of Conservative prime ministers” as well as listened to pub talk grow sour as prices rose. Despite a personal hope to move back to Ireland, Shaw is enjoying her time abroad with many other people who have decided to take the same road. “I have, as an Irish person, found a home with our problematic neighbours.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"42D3IELJBNGTPFXO5I3P5IHAN4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732190133257},"content":"Belfast native <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/abroad/2024/11/07/irishman-in-canada-for-50-years-i-was-about-to-return-home-after-three-years-but-then-things-changed/\" target=\"_blank\">Patrick McKenna</a> writes about his move to Canada. Despite not loving Ontario at first, his move to Montreal three years later “was love at first sight”. McKenna received an E grade in his French exams at school, however, once in Montreal he embraced the language. “I jumped into French and picked it up as I went along. Soon, I was enjoying my second language so much I thought a third would be even more fun.” He received a certificate of fluency in German and took up work as a consultant and then as an English as a second language teacher. Of all my jobs, it was the one I loved the most, he writes.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UDTMO542T5D5DGKBPBEE3ICULM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732190133258},"content":"Lawyer <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/business/work/2024/11/03/standing-in-the-donegal-rain-sunny-malta-sounded-appealing/\" target=\"_blank\">Fiona Healy</a> moved to the sun-soaked island of Malta in 2011. In the beginning, she ran a business called Aircraft Corporate Services on behalf of the Alpine Group. “I figured I would give it a few years before returning to Ireland,” she said. However, she did not expect to enjoy working in the aviation sector as much as she did. Thirteen years have passed, and Healy set up her own aviation consultancy company in Malta in 2015 called FCF Assets, following brief stints working in Canada and the UK.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QHVYS6JOVJBFPCWALCS4MWWQUA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732190133259},"content":"A <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/education/2024/11/15/study-reveals-4600-irish-teachers-working-abroad-as-schools-at-home-struggle-with-staff-shortages/\" target=\"_blank\">study released in November</a> showed more than 4,600 Irish teachers are working abroad. The research by the education authorities in Ireland showed 4,672 registered teachers are assumed to be living abroad as they are not active in the economy or receiving social welfare. About 60 per cent of these teachers fall into the 25-34 year old age bracket, according to the study.","type":"text"},{"_id":"THBHHMB7NVCHVKF3X747K73WTQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732190133261},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/abroad/2024/11/18/in-paris-its-always-about-your-next-meal-here-are-my-my-favourite-restaurants-in-the-city-of-light/\" target=\"_blank\">Patricia Killeen</a> writes about food in France and lists the must-go places for anyone planning a visit to Paris. “Here, you can generally have a good meal without breaking the bank, but there are also restaurants in the City of Light for which you would gladly break it,” she says. Killeen has lived in Paris for decades and goes on to recommend a number of different restaurants for multiple palettes. She recommends Café Blanche for its French onion soup. Bouillon restaurants offer retro classics while art-deco brasserie La Couple has a varied menu, she says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LEBCJXWAJRCMPBAGX47GS23HCU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732190133262},"content":"Pulitzer Prize-winning poet <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2024/11/01/poet-paul-muldoon-my-dad-a-market-gardener-was-a-guy-who-could-barely-write-his-own-name/\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Muldoon</a> writes about living in Belfast during the time of the Troubles: “I spent a lot of time running up and down stairs during bomb scares, of which there were many.” Muldoon was one of three siblings, “one of them is no longer with us”. He moved to the US in 1987 with his then-girlfriend, now wife, but always stayed in touch with his Irish roots. Despite moving away, he feels a degree of attachment to Ireland having been appointed professor of poetry, working with Queen’s University Belfast, Trinity College Dublin and UCD.","type":"text"},{"_id":"A6HOSHS2FBEZTGOYM5U7PDFWHY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Thanks for reading.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Fiona Keeley"}},"name":"Fiona Keeley"}]},"description":{"basic":"Anna Derrig talks about life in London and Martina Tyrrell discusses settling in Spain after sailing around the globe"},"display_date":"2024-11-27T17:03:07.111Z","headlines":{"basic":"‘Learning Gaeilge is a true challenge’","native":"Irish Times Abroad newsletter: ‘Learning Gaeilge is a true challenge’"},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"LB4KXXFGLBGG7BPC5H6A2X3QXE","auth":{"1":"2f314fad54b1937a3f04462b36b53a1c556d87cef912e670a119623435148981"},"focal_point":{"x":2058,"y":422},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/LB4KXXFGLBGG7BPC5H6A2X3QXE.jpg"}},"subtype":"editors-note","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Abroad"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/abroad/2024/11/27/irish-times-abroad-newsletter-learning-gaeilge-is-a-true-challenge/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/abroad","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Abroad"}}}},{"_id":"4OYBCEGXK5DALKDZSALDZEQG2E","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":489,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/147eb940-4fc0-457e-80df-41f6141550c9/versions/1732115058/media/0595d1407052455c0df9d2130da5d451_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/abroad/2024/11/27/the-italian-job-in-dubai-you-eat-on-the-go-here-lunch-is-two-hours-minimum-and-you-savour-every-bite/","content_elements":[{"_id":"I2YZESHS2BGATIZW4MGJOGAWNE","additional_properties":{"_id":1727284442122},"content":"Niall O’Toole didn’t just <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/irish-abroad\" target=\"_blank\">leave behind</a> a slick legal career when he swapped <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/dubai/\" target=\"_blank\">Dubai</a> for Tuscany in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/italy/\" target=\"_blank\">Italy</a> – he left Cork. It’s where he’s originally from, but the Middle East became home in 1997. Not the obvious prelude to a vineyard in Montepulciano.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ER3FLNRBPVHI7NJZL4EZ53GMZQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1727284442123},"content":"It was more like a great, unplanned escape for him and his wife Paari, who grew up in Dubai after her family moved there from India in 1993. Both corporate lawyers, the pair met at the same firm, with Paari later setting up her own practice.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6NDLPPRJ7FEGRPFG7NJMQPGZUA","additional_properties":{"_id":1727284442124},"content":"They could hardly have imagined that a belated honeymoon in 2017 would spark a chain of events that would uproot their entire lives. 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The vineyard was about quantity, not quality.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"VHCA53OZ7RAABNJGPPDC55DHWM","additional_properties":{"_id":1727284442131},"content":"Forget the sunset strolls through the vines; winemaking, it turns out, is less romantic than it looks on Instagram. The couple’s first harvest, in 2021, was a trial by fire. They had to rely on neighbours for facilities to make the wine, and the learning curve was steep. This first vintage is particularly special, says Paari, as they made all the decisions themselves.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FEWNJT2BGNHV5NKMJMZ3KISD2I","additional_properties":{"_id":"ZMHNM3ABQFFA3AAX3NVA3KEMBE"},"content":"Australia is so very far from Europe and US, and yet is as deeply rooted in Anglosphere norms, customs and culture","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"BDKHFNB7AZGXZKWL2EP6CTNVQA","additional_properties":{"_id":1727284442132},"content":"Running the vineyard, as the O’Tooles have discovered, is a daily challenge – managing harvest teams, figuring out yields, and understanding the land’s needs. They have hired an agronomist and an oenologist to help steer them through the more technical aspects, but it remains very much a hands-on, passion-driven job. There are also regulations around organic certification, soil compaction issues, and the endless battle with mildew. “Last year, we lost 85 per cent of our harvest to rain and heat,” says Niall.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OFPGCQLUUBAWRK26KRA6XLF6NE","additional_properties":{"_id":1727284442133},"content":"Their annual output hovers at around 30,000 bottles a year, a combination of Rosso di Montepulciano DOC, Nobile di Montepulciano DOCG and an IGT Toscana red. Sangiovese is king in these parts – specifically the Prugnolo Gentile variety – and the O’Tooles are learning to treat it with the reverence it deserves. Their wine has already made it to local restaurants, and their next goal is to crack the export markets in Europe, North America and beyond. They even managed to get their first batch of bottles out to <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/mozambique/\" target=\"_blank\">Mozambique</a> as part of their slow-burn expansion beyond Italy.","type":"text"},{"_id":"F3L5FNOFFBC2TJCU5RZDJM7BQY","additional_properties":{"_id":1727284442134},"content":"And then there’s the villa, which they spent six months upgrading after their first season. A six-bedroom estate house with views across the Tuscan hills, it’s also a fully functioning agriturismo, where guests can rent the villa for a week and live their own Tuscan dream.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3BJM4M7NOJDF7BATGQOAXMDHM4","additional_properties":{"_id":1727284442135},"content":"Despite the challenges, Paari and Niall have settled into the rhythm of Tuscan life. If there’s a meeting, it’s in person, and if it’s lunch, it’s a leisurely affair, unlike the frantic desk-side salad back in Dubai. “In Dubai, you eat on the go. 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There will be enough solar panels on the roof to supply all of their energy needs, except for four or five days a year when everything is running at full capacity.","type":"text"},{"_id":"S2G3ORMLURHQ3LWGX4I7I7MAGU","additional_properties":{"_id":1727284442139},"content":"So, was the move worth it?","type":"text"},{"_id":"WBHAXM6TDBG2RCXFA42AYI4LDE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732112064353},"content":"“There’s no question in our minds that we did the right thing by having this life change,” says Paari. “That’s not to say that there haven’t been challenges, but our life is amplified in every way. Your joys and highs are higher, and the lows are lower, too. 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The answer is found underground in tiny nodules on the roots of clover plants, where soil bacteria pull nitrogen from the air and convert it into fertiliser, which surrounding plants use to grow. This natural process doesn’t cause greenhouse gas or ammonia emissions, and clover is a firm favourite of insects such as wild bee species – 30 per cent of which face extinction here within a few years.","type":"text"},{"_id":"V5M2BKINODY4XQEZYYELENRQWQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"SGTCYTO7ZZDULA3KJ7XGHMBFBU"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"J2GKKHXU5NA3TA6TQRDHRBYJ5A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732622192357},"content":"If clover is to work for conventional, intensive and non-organic farmers, only one question matters: Can a farm with clover fields but little to no chemical fertiliser grow enough grass to feed the cows and maintain profit?","type":"text"},{"_id":"FO3IM3PC75BUZAMBHRKY5XCXVQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732622192358},"content":"For the past two decades, this has been the question asked by a small, under-the-radar team of Teagasc scientists in Solohead research farm in Tipperary. Earlier this month, on the back of four years of work there, dairy farmer and academic Owen Cashman and his colleagues published a <a href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308521X24002555\" target=\"_blank\">paper</a> in a highly reputable international journal that included some remarkable results: by swapping chemical fertiliser for clover, the same amount of grass can be grown, farm profitability can be maintained (and possibly improved), and greenhouse gas emissions can be reduced by 21 per cent per hectare.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZE62OC3LGBH5RJ7Y6S72J5P6TA","additional_properties":{"_id":"FHQHXTXKGZEW5BHCT4HSPX4OKE"},"content":"How to achieve farming sustainably in a globally connected world","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"L7OF4XION5FRLKIUFVCTHIUZ3U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732622192359},"content":"None of this can happen instantly. Establishing a grass management system reliant on clover rather than chemicals takes up to 10 years. 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Earlier this year a booklet about clover included a recommendation to spread quantities of fertiliser when clover is seeded in the ground, which is at odds with other research indicating that clover won’t bother to make its own natural fertiliser if the chemical alternative is spread over it.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HVJOWBYS75EVTEQNQQDPRFTZCY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732622192361},"content":"Ireland faces billions of euro in fines, paid for with public money, if we don’t meet our emission reduction targets. In 2022 Irish farmers spent €1.2 billion on fertiliser alone. 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The water is suitably muddied enough to ensure people are confused, unsure and unlikely to place their trust in what they’re being told.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6SJV76NMXRCF5KXEKB35IAULVE","additional_properties":{"_id":"BTTZDNGIHJDG7MDZQIVDQ5ZXVM"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"CYLNRD7FDBG5VH6OB342BRICW4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731340829296},"content":"The message of the benefits of environmental policy are not getting through and rightly or wrongly ordinary people feel the burden lies on their shoulders. There is a perception that environmental policies hit people in their pockets.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3TFWEQMVW5GJDFLWEHPUH5CODE","additional_properties":{"_id":1731340829297},"content":"Some of the blame lies with various governments; lacklustre at best in their support of environmental measures, cynical at worst. Whether or not you agree with a <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/carbon-tax/\" target=\"_blank\">carbon tax</a>, it seems to be a lightning rod that is used to damn all environmental measures, despite not accounting for a fraction of fuel costs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BZBD3RO22VCYXG4UBUTQ3RUY64","additional_properties":{"_id":1731340829298},"content":"For example, on a<a href=\"https://www.theaa.ie/aa-membership/fuel-prices/\" target=\"_blank\"> litre of petrol </a>costing 171.52 euro cents, carbon tax accounts for 14.69 cents, while excise accounts for 54.18 cents and VAT is 32.07 cents. 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They have been successful at painting environmental measures as anti-people, anti-progress – evident from the success of Trump and Brexit, while environmentalists have been portrayed as sanctimonious, well-off, out-of-touch elites who are inflicting costly measures on the less well-off.","type":"text"},{"_id":"H5TUKB44WFHWHCY5BDOLBKZWK4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731340829302},"content":"And as we have seen, governments and politicians, wary and scared of being outflanked by right-wing populism, have no problem sacrificing nature and the environment for power. 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They provide a central hub around which people from a given county can gather, discuss projects, ask for help, create change and become involved in their local Public Participation Network, which lets them take part in council committees and be a voice for nature and sustainable development in local policy creation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HEBCKPKT5NHCXADZIVTRDRPMOQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731340829307},"content":"We are lucky in Ireland we all have the opportunity to take part in policy creation at this level. Local environmental groups can get involved from the beginning of policy creation and ensure action is taken in the interest of the local community and our environment. It’s an opportunity for people to be a voice for nature in planning, housing, heritage, transport, tourism, economic development and more. It’s an opportunity to show that, far from being a burden, good environmental stewardship is a win-win for everyone.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ELD42FZQJRCIFNCRKRX7NHOQAM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731340829308},"content":"Clean air, fresh water, vibrant towns and villages, reliable and sustainable public transport, safe places for families to walk and cycle, local jobs – it shouldn’t be a burden. 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The largest dairy processor in Finland, the co-operative Valio, has committed to achieving a carbon-neutral milk value chain by 2035.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZZWVNTE2FNCNJGD76YG3SOFKAQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731915912959},"content":"There is a critical role for regulation, policy supports and industry-driven action to mesh throughout the supply chain to increase the sustainability of agricultural systems. We have many of the technological tools needed to make significant reductions in emissions through using protected urea fertilisers, replacing fertilisers with multi-species pastures, breeding cows of higher quality, feed additives to reduce methane production and chemicals added to slurry to reduce emissions.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EELMA2AGONDZPDAULG2ILZBNZI","additional_properties":{"_id":1731928632901},"content":"While some of these solutions are economically advantageous for individual farmers as they reduce input costs, other solutions are costly. 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The <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/special-reports/2023/10/26/the-new-csrd-has-huge-implications-for-companies-in-ireland/\" target=\"_blank\">Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive</a> requires that large companies, including co-ops, food processors and retailers in Ireland report reliably on their climate and biodiversity impacts.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NV3QE5XXXFF7RA7XWXPYCNEAZA","additional_properties":{"_id":1731915912961},"content":"By focusing on entire supply chains companies can drive positive impacts right back to the source of emissions, including avoiding the import of animal feed from biodiversity rich countries at risk of deforestation, as well as investing in on-farm technologies to reduce emissions from livestock and pasture systems here in Ireland.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RSUGZSUGUVAZ7DJXDB2FWL34VI","additional_properties":{"_id":1731928632904},"content":"This is called “insetting” where industries invest in their own supply chains to meet their environmental and sustainability targets. In the <a href=\"https://www.farmcreditproject.com/\" target=\"_blank\">FarmCredit</a> project funded by the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/department-of-agriculture-food-and-the-marine/\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine</a>, we are researching the scaling-up of insetting mechanisms.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PLBVTLIC4JCPHCOPKEWDNHM4GA","additional_properties":{"_id":1731915912962},"content":"Technological solutions and private finance are important but will only get us so far. Big problems such as climate change and biodiversity loss require long-term solutions with reliable policy signals. Systemic change through regulation to protect our waterways, restore nature and reduce emissions from agriculture are needed. Government policy also urgently needs to focus on diversification of farm incomes into domestic animal feed production, sustainable forestry, alternative crops, horticulture, agritourism, conservation and restoration schemes and payments for ecosystem services.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IRG2PO34ARHI5OVP2MUUYY336M","additional_properties":{"_id":1731915912963},"content":"Government subsidies need to switch from subsidising environmentally damaging farming systems, which make Irish farmers uncompetitive on a global stage, to farming systems that can demonstrably sequester carbon, provide clean water and flood mitigation services and support nature while producing high quality and sustainable products.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OPH43PFNQ5E5VILBZ7GEN3AOZI","additional_properties":{"_id":1731915912964},"content":"<i>Prof Yvonne Buckley is co-director of the Co-Centre for Climate + Biodiversity + Water at Trinity College Dublin</i>","type":"text"},{"_id":"YCDY6C2IB5FUNMX3YVDX7FFP3I","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Yvonne Buckley"}]},"description":{"basic":"We have many of the technological tools needed to make significant reductions in emissions"},"display_date":"2024-11-28T06:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"How to achieve farming sustainably in a globally connected world","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"KCN3OZTU25HX5IFJSJCFSC6IRU","auth":{"1":"0d327630d17fcbd6bf025edbc6ed046fa48fb581e76526f34fea3109a2a8ca1e"},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/KCN3OZTU25HX5IFJSJCFSC6IRU.jpg"}},"subtype":"feature","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Food"},{"name":"Science"},{"name":"Climate Crisis"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/food/2024/11/28/how-to-achieve-farming-sustainably-in-a-globally-connected-world/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/food","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Food"}}}},{"_id":"GAT6EKHWSNAPXCE34ZMUUQI24Y","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":560,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/3f807b74-edc5-4717-8314-2427e68c4196/versions/1730731543/media/009585bdfe6bd7ab208deec977bda751_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/science/2024/11/28/lesson-in-physics-we-now-know-why-carbon-dixoide-is-such-an-antagonist-in-global-warming/","content_elements":[{"_id":"2HOKRH2B4RGVBBMKCKBLN2OLOE","additional_properties":{"_id":1728319080868},"content":"Carbon dioxide is the main culprit in causing our <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/climate-change/\" target=\"_blank\">climate to change</a>, but it is only recently that a key property of CO2 has been elucidated. 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Some of that light hits molecules in the atmosphere, notably water vapour and CO2. A molecule absorbs the light, and then re-emits it, either upwards or downwards.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NB2SEHWA5FCC3DG6KXZJ5HAEBA","additional_properties":{"_id":1729678974730},"content":"Some of the energy is lost to space while some is returned to Earth. NOAA’s Global Monitoring Laboratory reported in January that the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere has risen by 50 per cent from its pre-industrial level of 280 parts per million to 420 parts per million — triggering a warming of about 1 degree.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WSPUJBFJ45HUTAMNNULP7NRSAA","additional_properties":{"_id":1728319080872},"content":"About 1860, Irish-born physicist John Tyndall was the first person to measure the absorption of infrared light by water vapour, carbon dioxide and other atmospheric gases. Tyndall’s work demonstrated how Earth’s surface would be warmed by this process, the phenomenon we now call the greenhouse effect. In 1896, Svante Arrhenius, a Swedish physicist and chemist, used scientific principles to estimate the increase in the Earth’s surface temperature due to rising levels of CO2. His work was the beginning of modern climate science.","type":"text"},{"_id":"263EYFUBZRB4FPI4YJP5JAKAFA","additional_properties":{"_id":"RBUQHLVWRNCJ7LB7VRQQ4BIDVA"},"content":"How Joseph Fourier discovered the greenhouse effect","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"JLNUDO5WFFFPRAJCZ2ZNP463PI","additional_properties":{"_id":1728319080873},"content":"Another Swedish physicist, Knut Ångström, argued that CO2 molecules only absorb a specific wavelength of 15 microns (15 millionths of a metre). Since there was already enough of the gas in the atmosphere to trap all the 15-micron light emitted by Earth, the addition of more CO2 would have no effect. However, this “carbon saturation argument” is erroneous, because CO2 can absorb energy over a broad band of wavelengths, as we shall see.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IYS5FMEDBNCP5MCANYLX3PYAN4","additional_properties":{"_id":1728319080874},"content":"Molecular vibrations of carbon dioxide","type":"header"},{"_id":"FX3A7YV36ZCP3BHEGT54UTEMPY","additional_properties":{"_id":"NDFIA4KO2REGTJMFKG57JK2NOQ"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"S5C45AGZIJH4FKG7KSUFKJBF3Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1728319080875},"content":"The schematic diagram shows what a CO2 molecule looks like and how it vibrates. On top, we see the triatomic molecule made up of one carbon atom (black) and two oxygen atoms (red) linked by chemical bonds depicted as springs. The bonds linking the atoms are not rigid but can stretch and bend. The panels in the central part of the diagram show two of the primary modes of vibration, a stretching mode (centre left) in which the oxygen atoms move symmetrically towards and away from the carbon, squeezing and stretching the bonds, and a bending mode (centre right) in which the angle between the bonds oscillates.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WADXZASROZB75JGNWYEIY2PSH4","additional_properties":{"_id":1728319080876},"content":"It seems a fluke of nature that the frequency of the stretching vibrations is almost exactly twice the frequency of the bending modes. The bending mode vibrates 20 trillion times per second (20 THz) and the stretching mode at about double this rate. Because of this two-to-one frequency ratio, these two types of oscillation are coupled: if a photon hits the CO2 molecule causing it to bend, this energy can transfer easily to the stretching motion. This interaction is called <i>Fermi resonance</i>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"O3NHG64CRBDFFIJZP2SCEXYW7Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1728319080877},"content":"Swinging Spring","type":"header"},{"_id":"B533IOJS4VA5BOSS3QJVEAOJ2U","additional_properties":{"_id":"F4YEBCI3I5HULDHEOWTG76R4DQ"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"3DNECVZSO5BF3CU42JUDODLPX4","additional_properties":{"_id":1728319080878},"content":"The complete explanation for how CO2 behaves lies in quantum mechanics, but we can explain the essence of the phenomenon by means of a simple mechanical analogue, the elastic pendulum or “Swinging Spring” (lower left panel of diagram). If a heavy mass or bob is suspended from a spring or elastic cord, two kinds of behaviour are found.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GKNJLKSVZZDJTEKYNNISXQDEBU","additional_properties":{"_id":1728319080879},"content":"The bob may oscillate up and down if pulled away vertically from its equilibrium position (red arrows). If the bob is moved slightly sideways, it will swing back and forth like a clock pendulum (green arrows). Normally, these two kinds of behaviour — swinging and springing modes — do not interact strongly.","type":"text"},{"_id":"45MREE3WMVEVROTSPZUJNGKVIM","additional_properties":{"_id":1728319080880},"content":"However, if the bob is of just the right mass to stretch the spring by one-third of its natural length, something remarkable happens: the swinging and springing motions are then strongly coupled and energy flows back and forth between them. This non-linear interaction is called <i>resonance</i>. In resonant conditions, the bob is observed to bounce up and down for a time but then change to a sideways motion, swinging back and forth. A little later, the energy flows back to the springing mode and the motion is vertical again. This behaviour is similar to Fermi resonance. It is fascinating to watch a resonant swinging spring exchanging energy periodically.","type":"text"},{"_id":"N42GJGJS55FIZL6LSVNQYLY7MA","additional_properties":{"_id":1728319080881},"content":"Fermi Resonance","type":"header"},{"_id":"AX55PJJCZBH67BCIDMRFOPCZQ4","additional_properties":{"_id":"U7WNXJBKVBDBLPL5MZJL43KQEA"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"VDEUJNBLXNARRCVNSQRDQGHV3Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1728319080882},"content":"The phenomenon of Fermi resonance was discovered by Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi, who derived it in 1931. Fermi is remembered for building the first artificial nuclear reactor in Chicago and for his involvement in the Manhattan Project. In addition to nuclear physics, he made substantial contributions to statistical mechanics, quantum theory and particle physics. A family of subatomic particles – fermions – are named in his honour. In 1938, Fermi was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics.","type":"text"},{"_id":"35WZA3XETNEOTC56JJZDI3E6YI","additional_properties":{"_id":1728319080883},"content":"Fermi resonance might appear to be somewhat arcane, but it is relevant for water waves, Rossby triad interactions in the atmosphere, phonons (sound waves) in crystals, resonance in plasmas and non-linear optics. Moreover, the research described below shows that it has big implications for the future of our climate.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6G6RIHHI7FBEVJWOO3G2X3UOPU","additional_properties":{"_id":1728319080884},"content":"The climate link was made only last year by Prof Keith Shine of the University of Reading and his student Georgina Perry. They studied the climate effects of CO2 with and without Fermi resonance. The two graphs (lower right panel of diagram) show the radiative forcing for a doubling of CO2. In simple terms, this measures the warming effect of carbon dioxide without Fermi resonance (blue graph) and with Fermi resonance (red graph). The inclusion of Fermi resonance broadens the spectrum of CO2 absorption, contributing approximately half the total warming due to increased carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere.","type":"text"},{"_id":"REBZNUTD2FA7DMO5KESBT5EWG4","additional_properties":{"_id":1728319080885},"content":"Quantum Mechanics and Climate","type":"header"},{"_id":"HYN5LHIZC5EQVKQUKNQE5ULXY4","additional_properties":{"_id":1728319080886},"content":"This year, in The Planetary Science Journal, Robin Wordsworth, Jacob Seeley and Keith Shine reported the results of a quantum mechanical study of “CO2 radiative forcing”. Their results show how directly the basic physical principles of quantum mechanics are relevant to large-scale climate change: their analysis shows why CO2 is such a powerful greenhouse gas and why increasing it further will continue to change the climate.","type":"text"},{"_id":"U6UXM3OZXJEF3DKXPKBT6HTUSM","additional_properties":{"_id":1728319080887},"content":"Every time the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere doubles, Earth’s temperature rises by about 3 degrees (best estimate). This “logarithmic scaling” means the Earth’s temperature increases by the same amount in response to any doubling of CO2. The physical reason for this remained a mystery until, in 2022, a team at the University of California, Berkeley, led by climate physicist David Romps, showed the logarithmic scaling comes from the shape of the CO2 spectrum – the way in which the energy absorption depends on wavelength or frequency.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y2JMWZRPFFCF3O5YUVCBYFTB6E","additional_properties":{"_id":1728319080888},"content":"It was found that absorption falls off on either side of the peak at just the right rate to give rise to the logarithmic scaling. Most gases absorb energy in a narrow range of wavelengths. The spectrum of carbon dioxide is unusually broad, with a distinct triangular shape. Why does it have this shape? The comprehensive quantum analysis of Wordsworth et al supplies the answer.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MONREFQTGFDLRK5WKQLVVUTEDI","additional_properties":{"_id":1728319080889},"content":"Fermi resonance has profound consequences for the climate. Without it, CO2 would absorb radiation only in severely restricted bands of wavelengths around 15 microns (20 THz), and the warming due to it would be less than half the observed value. With Fermi resonance, the absorption band is broadened so that energy over a greater range of wavelengths is possible. As a result, additional CO2 will continue to force the temperature to ever greater heights.","type":"text"},{"_id":"USXNV53TQNG37DY33YW4KKX3SI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732878818624},"content":"<i>Peter Lynch is emeritus professor at the School of Mathematics & Statistics, University College Dublin. 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They added to their musical repertoire by singing “the wheels on the bus won’t go through town, all day long”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZFXXYCHQF5D3BLK5FFA5BNZFM4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732722251966},"content":"David Rees of Hilcrest Park, Glasnevin , said he took his six-year-old daughter on the bus to St Stephen’s Green every morning and she returned on the bus in the evening.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CODGVKX3PRDF5JC4KGG5OCTBYI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732722251967},"content":"But he said Route 19 terminates in Parnell Square, leaving them with delays and inconvenient changing to another bus or the Luas.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6WE6S44GKZD6HNQ5ZKYTNKQU3A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732722251968},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"TR6U5NBFXJDFDEI5WVGZVTLYFI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732722251969},"content":"“This is because the National Transport Authority described Parnell Square as a destination with a hospital. 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She said in addition to terminating at Parnell Square, Route 19 would come from the airport and serve Phibsboro rather than Drumcondra.","type":"text"},{"_id":"B4RXHNGQIBA33IDMG64PH6KUOM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732722251973},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"IHBRR4IIDFFC5DD62SZ33HFTBY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732722251974},"content":"Patrick Fallon of Glasnevin said the new number 19 bus route starts at the airport and there were capacity concerns among the local community. “The 19 also goes through Phibsboro, where there is no bus corridor so it is going to be very slow,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5KVWLF4ICFA3HKBUD3WQBA2QIU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732740786379},"content":"Mr Fallon added the 11 route linked the three universities – DCU, TCD and UCD – and its loss would be felt deeply on both sides of the city.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VE4RGO2QYJGSFFBOCZOE5JP6GE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732722251975},"content":"Mr Rees said: “Our number-one objective is to have a conversation with the NTA to talk about it.” But he said although the authority had met local public representatives, “they refused to meet us”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EKQYIH6X4JFZRFSGL7SGT4PTSA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732722251977},"content":"The National Transport Authority said public consultation on the Dublin network redesign had been under way since 2017. A spokesman said “much of what the 11 currently does will be done by a new route, the 19, which will run from Dublin Airport, through Ballymun, serving Wadelai Estate, (the current 11 terminus) and on to the centre of Dublin.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"ISNVN4S7RBCHZL363FFKDX77VA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732739526584},"content":"He said Route 19 would operate to a greater frequency than the 11, and “Parnell Square is home to a gallery, a theatre, a music venue and a big hospital along with offices, shops and hotels, so for many customers is a destination in its own right.”","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Tim O'Brien"}},"name":"Tim O'Brien"}]},"description":{"basic":"Locals say they are losing the cross-city Route 11 for an airport link that ends at Parnell Square"},"display_date":"2024-11-27T20:55:13.438Z","headlines":{"basic":"Local residents protest over change to cross-city 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The Queen’s University Colleges of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/university-college-cork-ucc/\" target=\"_blank\">Cork</a>, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/university-of-galway/\" target=\"_blank\">Galway</a> and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/queens-university/\" target=\"_blank\">Belfast</a> were created in 1845 “to afford a university education of members of all religious denominations” in Ireland and as an alternative to the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/church-of-ireland/\" target=\"_blank\">Church of Ireland</a>-administered <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/trinity-college-dublin-tcd/\" target=\"_blank\">Trinity College Dublin</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"65Y7FUSY4VDXLOSHPHRRVOZSRU","additional_properties":{"_id":1730986794776},"content":"The National University of Ireland, as originally constituted in 1908, saw the coming together of University College Dublin (UCD), University College Cork (UCC) and University College Galway (UCG). Maynooth College, then the national seminary for the Catholic Church, became an affiliated college of the NUI in 1910. Queen’s University Belfast decided to remain unaffiliated.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3L5FJ2WXHZCFZCXFC5QGRTM2SY","additional_properties":{"_id":1730986794777},"content":"The men listed in the Roll of Honour were the sons and grandsons of prosperous Irish businessmen, doctors and solicitors. They were from the class that Irish revolutionary CS “Tod” Andrews described as at “the top of the heap in terms of worldly goods and social status”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OBMAMQHC2JD4TFGX7TCMPOPOKE","additional_properties":{"_id":1730986794778},"content":"He described them as “the medical specialists, fashionable dentists, barristers, solicitors, wholesale tea and wine merchants, owners of large drapery stores and a very few owners or directors of large business firms”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FG3S4IQYINHYTHF62ZSRT5NFIU","additional_properties":{"_id":1730986794779},"content":"These also included Dr William Lombard Murphy, the son of one of Ireland’s most successful businessmen, William Martin Murphy, and Dr John Donal (JD) Carroll from the famous cigarette dynasty.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3M77LCR2KNHNVNJU6S3XVPEAWM","additional_properties":{"_id":1730986794780},"content":"Many were from the vanished tribe of Catholic “loyalists” who saw no contradiction between their faith, their desire for Home Rule for Ireland and their loyalty both to the United Kingdom in time of war and the British Empire.","type":"text"},{"_id":"A6ADA7R235FS7PUXMIWOLO234E","additional_properties":{"_id":1730986794781},"content":"The motivations of the Irish who served in the first World War were complicated, but those listed in this Roll of Honour were not all compelled by “economic conscription”, to use James Connolly’s famous phrase, to go and fight. Some had everything to lose from participation in the war and 80 of them lost their lives.","type":"text"},{"_id":"64V5ZDUOURB5PC322MVQWNC3LA","additional_properties":{"_id":"FOWSEFP5FZDVTDGMXU2PDICABY"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"ERMYBQPGCJFL5P47QYHAUYCA7I","additional_properties":{"_id":1730986794782},"content":"Charles Casey, who served in the 7th Leinsters during the war and later became attorney-general, wrote years later to “dispel the myth that all who fought and died in the Great War came from the ranks of the unemployed, uneducated and deprived”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GAP6HRDV7RESPKVI3ZDZ2MRFUY","additional_properties":{"_id":1730986794783},"content":"A large number of Irish doctors and medical students served in the war – 3,336 in total – of whom 261 died, according to the book Irish Doctors in the first World War by Patrick Casey, Kevin Cullen, and Joe Duignan. Some 808 Irish-born doctors already had commissions in the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) before the war. They represented 20 per cent of serving officers in the RAMC, though Ireland accounted for just 10 per cent of the population of the United Kingdom at the time.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3SNLXS47HFFCRGAPZV3CGGMOOQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1730986794784},"content":"Some 60 chaplains from St Patrick’s College in Maynooth served. They include Fr Francis Gleeson, who was the subject of the famous painting by Italian artist Fortunino Matania. Another noteworthy priest is Fr Thomas Duggan who served in the British army in both world wars and for whom a bridge in Kinsale is named.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MW7CU23G4ZBQTBYMN3R3QQT724","additional_properties":{"_id":"7RPIJJX6QNBCVNGP6FBROB2F5M"},"content":"From the archive: Mystery surrounds location of haunting image of Irish soldiers in first World War","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"XAPRVQ5ZGNEOPL45NZOCJ2MY24","additional_properties":{"_id":1730986794785},"content":"He later recalled the ambiguities and competing loyalties of the time: “My generation in Maynooth embraced the ideals of Easter Week 1916 with 100 per cent fervour. That did not prevent us from become chaplains in the British army. Hence, when in 1917, Cardinal Logue issued a special appeal for Irish chaplains, I volunteered. And I went off to France with the blessing and the encouragement of every friend I had in advanced Sinn Féin circles in Dublin.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"I37TGF4VEVA3TCNBBNQTWVXEPI","additional_properties":{"_id":1730986794786},"content":"Multiple members of the same family often served in the war. Emily Anderson, the subject of the book <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2023/05/06/invisibly-famous-the-brilliant-irish-wartime-codebreaker-who-worked-at-britains-bletchley-park/\" target=\"_blank\">Queen of Codes by Dr Jackie Uí Chionna</a>, joined the Foreign Office and worked as a codebreaker in the Middle East. She was the daughter of Alexander Anderson, President of University College Galway. Her brother, Alex Jr, was reported missing in November 1916, and remained a prisoner until the end of the war.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TJVGMVIPXBACRNEBN3FZ5QLGIA","additional_properties":{"_id":1730986794787},"content":"Higher education was still a relatively new phenomenon for Irish women at the time of the outbreak of the war in 1914. By 1895 all NUI colleges were made available to women, nine years ahead of Trinity . Some of the women graduates also played a notable role in the war effort, according to Fionnuala Walsh author of Irish Women and the Great War.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GCSFONBHMZBJPKP6GZJTRE7P3Y","additional_properties":{"_id":"3FL5YJQYZZDA7GBLHWONLWZTPA"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"J6OQURTQQVGUJJ2ZRA7LIFJSZQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1730986794788},"content":"Iris Cummins, the daughter of a UCC professor, took up munitions work in the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich in London, a factory which employed many Irish women over the course of the war. Another UCC woman student, Ellen Casey, was awarded a war degree (a BSc) in 1917 as she was serving as scientific assistant in the Munitions Department.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SZZMWAF6TBAA5IFIXV3PIYHEL4","additional_properties":{"_id":1730986794789},"content":"NUI women were among those engaged on the home front. Mary Donovan O’Sullivan, who was appointed the first professor of history at University College Galway, chaired the Galway Ladies Recruitment Committee. Alice Perry graduated from Queen’s College Galway in 1906 with a Bachelor in Engineering, the first woman in Ireland or Britain to qualify as an engineer. Perry spent the war in England and Scotland serving as a factory inspector.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6E3XFV6GQZCPRAIZKIXFOF3BJE","additional_properties":{"_id":"CEM5NGCD3FEEDJ2FTKJXHJIY24"},"content":"Ireland’s first World War veterans: Shunned, ostracised, murdered","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"XBKYJEHOH5EFJHTRA2QNMRSXU4","additional_properties":{"_id":1730986794790},"content":"The NUI’s decision to republish this Roll of Honour is an act of remembrance extended to those Irish who served in the first World War in British uniforms. It is a timely reminder that all those Irishmen who fought were volunteers. 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Equally, he remembers a night in Daisy Hill Hospital, in Newry, when his cousin Sean Farmer and friend Colm McCartney had been found shot dead and dumped on a road near Newtownhamilton after they had been stopped at a bogus UDR checkpoint.","type":"text"},{"_id":"U7TA2CH4A5FSFFZ7QNQY7FZKR4","additional_properties":{"_id":"N2P23452SFFVFNQBHVIOE622NU"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"GNS3P7VEDFERHIMOCAUCUK4GGU","additional_properties":{"_id":1728211465119},"content":"“It was a horrible time, a terrible time in our history. I lived through it as a teacher, and I don’t want to see it come back again, ever. 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Prescott became both deputy prime minister and the cabinet minister responsible for the environment, transport and the regions in the new administration.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GQ7FKHGWXGHTIZTIMFL5R54QFI","additional_properties":{"_id":"FYCKOEUIOBDNJAR5Q5325PLDFM"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"Z7EH527TF5DRZAUDESTZEOMHBY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732640793051},"content":"Entering his government office for the first time, Prescott, who was not normally at a loss for words, stopped in mid-sentence when the blinds started to lower. “Yes, deputy prime minister,” a civil servant explained, “it is an automatic device to control the internal temperature.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"RPEBEAOHKREQXNII34QCVJLFGM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732640793052},"content":"Prescott became used to his elevated position and to the trappings of power. He was nicknamed “Two Jags” by the tabloids, which enjoyed taunting him, after it emerged that he owned two Jaguar cars. He was photographed playing croquet with his staff on the lawn at Dorneywood, the official country home that came with the job of deputy prime minister. His reputation suffered in 2006 when he admitted to a two-year affair with a civil servant.","type":"text"},{"_id":"24SAESEJ55HF7AMZEW5F6R5JHM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732642448726},"content":"He suffered from chronic illnesses: <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/news/british-mp-john-prescott-praised-for-admitting-he-suffered-from-bulimia-1.915287\" target=\"_blank\">bulimia</a>, which he struggled with in silence for 20 years, and type 2 diabetes, diagnosed in 1990, which he also kept quiet about.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EA27TFSIGBABJM4RLZDDM5LTKE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732640793053},"content":"In Prescott’s political endeavours, environmental issues were a central concern. 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The American model might produce more jobs, but it couldn’t really care a damn about the social justice.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"IXPQ35LCDNBBTEGH2YCDFMR7B4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732640793055},"content":"He retired as an MP in 2010 and was made a member of the House of Lords.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BVYZZVUEZVDIVPNDC4DZBLQJAQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732640793056},"content":"Blair paid tribute to his former deputy, telling the BBC that there was “no one quite like him in British politics” and calling Prescott “a titan of the Labour movement”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LNZH6UDWCRDVXF77G4AN54DU2U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732640793057},"content":"Peter Mandelson, another architect of Labour’s modernisation who is now a member of the House of Lords, said Prescott had “kept us anchored in our working-class roots, our trade union history”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UFPQRQARKJG5JGJL63GMEWR5A4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732640793058},"content":"He added: “He was in many respects the cement that kept New Labour together.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"5L4MGNTOENDJ3PAHS4LR5KOVMQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732642448733},"content":"He <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/uk/john-prescott-former-deputy-british-pm-suffers-stroke-1.3935708\" target=\"_blank\">suffered a stroke</a> in 2019, and was later diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. 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During her tenure, she led the organisation back into a better financial position and revived the Boyle Award for high-calibre scientific research in association with The Irish Times for a number of years. While governor of The Irish Times Trust and director of The Irish Times Ltd, she influenced the then editor, Conor Brady, to establish the position of Science Editor.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RGIFJ2VBTFEKHCN23D3X3OLCII","additional_properties":{"_id":1732633140071},"content":"A true mentor, friend and role model to many – and particularly to women – her inspiration was acknowledged in 2011 when she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Women in Technology and Science (WITS). The year before she was awarded the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, First Class.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YGHLN4KN4JASJFWVS7UVHV7F3A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732633140072},"content":"She inspired secondary-school students through her role as a judge in the Young Scientists Exhibition from its first competition in 1964 until 2004. Donnelly was also awarded a number of honorary doctorates.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ENGV46KCT5EX5NVADWN7KLNX6M","additional_properties":{"_id":"4H6FZFDTWFCMNJARYR4H4M6R3Y"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"NWDBCVKHCBBZ5C5NAND4KRGDH4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732633140074},"content":"Dervilla Maura Xavier Donnelly grew up in the south Dublin suburb of Dartry, the second of three daughters of May and Kieran Donnelly. She attended the Sacred Heart School on Lower Leeson Street, Dublin, where the emphasis was on languages rather than science. She studied chemistry theory privately in her final year of school before completing the entrance exams for UCD. She later credited her interest in science to her father, an engineer, but her mother was determined her three daughters would be well educated.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DFOEMO2725CT5J7YIBVWPLXHDY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732633140075},"content":"Graduating with first-class honours in chemistry, she remained at UCD to do her PhD into flavonoid chemistry under Prof Tom Wheeler.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5SZLFX2DPNDVXP2WJY6UY6MN7A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732633140076},"content":"Following postdoctoral studies at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA), she opted to return to her alma mater rather than take a lectureship in pharmacology at UCLA. She began her teaching career in 1956 in the old School of Chemistry on Merrion Street, Dublin, and later moved to lecture at the new campus at Belfield in 1965. She was made professor in 1979, a position she held until her retirement in 1995.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LBDF2LEG7JD5RCRM4NBWRQG7SM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732633140077},"content":"Her research shaped the development of the School of Chemistry and is recognised in the annual award of the Prof Dervilla Donnelly medal to the highest-achieving student in the BSc in medicinal chemistry and chemical biology.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JC2QOYI6TBFJVMDOHAIZRLXH3U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732633140078},"content":"However, in spite of her absolute dedication to her career and her roles in several public bodies, she also found time to enjoy her favourite sport, horse racing (steeplechase). She often said that she had a golden rule: that one day a week she didn’t do any chemistry. “Every Saturday, you’ll find me at a racecourse somewhere in the State.” With her sister, Keara – with whom she lived in the family home in Dartry – she held shares in several horses and used to joke “we only need one more leg to have a complete animal”. She also enjoyed tending to her wonderful garden, playing golf and nurtured close relationships with her niece, nephews and their families.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7W5CAXYQSNGDFLB2XFFNBUKK4A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732633140079},"content":"At a ceremony in UCD in 2023, the current president of the RIA and professor of synthetic chemistry at UCD, Prof Pat Guiry, presented Donnelly with a newly commissioned portrait of her by artist Emer Doyle. As one of her 85 PhD students, he thanked her for her support, career advice and kindness.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZDMBND64D5B3ZFOSWKDYHGQBT4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732633140080},"content":"“Her leadership experience and ability to chair boards and committees, work well with people and to clearly identify both the problem and the solution are well recognised,” Guiry said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JLCEB57FJNBCDGH2ZE3KAOOVWY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732633140081},"content":"The portrait of Donnelly is on permanent display at the main entrance to the UCD School of Chemistry in the Science Centre South on the Belfield Campus.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ICO3CTZPBFFDVLD7HHK7MKLM3E","additional_properties":{"_id":1732633140082},"content":"Dervilla Donnelly is survived by her niece, Frances; her nephews, Charles and John; grandnieces and grandnephews; and great-grandnieces. 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However, possibly his most lasting legacy is his chairmanship of Forfás, the State agency responsible for advising the government on economic policy, from 1993 to 1999. One of the first challenges he faced after taking on the job was to deal with the European Commission’s decision to end the state aid waiver that had enabled the government to extend the special 10 per cent corporate tax rate for manufacturing to create a special economic zone that became the International Financial Services Centre in Dublin’s docklands.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FJXIX7WCP5BY7FENL7GSOSGW7U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732016166918},"content":"Forfás recommended that a 12.5 per cent tax rate be applied to all industries. It was the single most important policy decision that transformed Ireland from a backwater to one of the most successful economies in the developed world. Other notable achievements during his period at Forfás were the creation of a number of agencies to develop industrial policy, research and innovation, particularly in the areas of science and technology. This culminated in the establishment of Science Foundation Ireland in 1999. He developed a close working relationship with John Travers, the chief executive of Forfás, and they remained friends until his death.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AYGVWCCIYJDKHLI4D3N3OODHQU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732016166919},"content":"Toner was born in the Curragh army barracks in 1932. His father had fought the War of Independence in his native Armagh and later joined the Irish Army upon the foundation of the Free State. A sign of his later character was evident in his early years at the Curragh. He chafed at the social hierarchy of the camp as the families of army officers were extended privileges, including their own entrance to the church, that were not available to lower-ranking personnel. He said that although his time at the Curragh was happy, he never felt he belonged there.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BGDTOV7W3JH77FYDWQUA3W4ETY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Toner attended De La Salle school in Kildare, where he was described as a gifted student. Sport was an early passion. He captained the Kildare minor football team in 1950. He was also a voracious reader.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IQTKNRVE6RDZ7OST433O6MRQHQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732016166921},"content":"He won a Kildare county council scholarship to study science at UCD in 1950, although he quickly transferred to commerce. He completed an MA in economics in 1955. His first role was with CIÉ in 1954, where he would come under the guidance of Todd Andrews, one of the founders of Fianna Fáil. Toner used the management principles he had learned in his economics MA to help modernise CIÉ. In later life, Toner said his proudest career achievement was a collaboration with Donogh O’Malley’s Department of Education in 1966 to roll out free transport to second-level students in rural areas.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YXUGQNBESVEQDMVW4P4KEAMXPU","additional_properties":{"_id":"5ME2VUT5TRFG5JKGJHX46E3HUU"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"SAPRSMWEZNA4THBV54BZVB5S7I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732016166922},"content":"In 1968, he left CIÉ to join Allied Irish Investment Bank, where he met his close friend Richard Hooper. In 1972 he took over Brooks Watson, a food and drinks company, with two AIIB colleagues, Martin Rafferty and John Harnett.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BH2MHIHMRNBVBJPSARX4RAGETM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732016166923},"content":"In 1970 he stopped drinking and joined Alcoholics Anonymous. Even though he faced many personal and professional hardships in the years ahead, he never touched alcohol again.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OJ6AELD2SNBQVIRKNJUN6BFY74","additional_properties":{"_id":1732016166924},"content":"The 1973 oil crisis roiled the Irish economy. Toner had to make many painful redundancies to keep Brooks Watson afloat. He later said it took a huge toll on him.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6A57ATOPOVCX3LZYXWCR2LDQBQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732016166925},"content":"However, much worse was to come. In 1956 he met Audre Isdell, a student at UCD. They would soon start a relationship and married in 1963. Over the next 10 years they had four children, Kevin, Oonagh, David and Alan.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VOHL3PPKRFEPBCDBWZ6NI7PUAU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732016166926},"content":"In 1976, Audre was diagnosed with breast cancer. After a successful operation she went into remission, but it reappeared in 1980. She defied expectations at the time and lived for another six years. Her death in December 1986, at the age of 50, deeply affected Toner. One of the ways he dealt with his grief was by increasing his work commitments. In 1984 he had become the president of the Federated Union of Employers, which later became Ibec. In 1986, Brooks Watson was sold to Irish Distillers, and Toner joined the board. Several other directorships followed over the years, including Arnotts, Bank of Ireland, Tullow Oil, Irish Continental Group and Inishtech.","type":"text"},{"_id":"D7PWINWMTNAJDIDNASXSQGC2NA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732016166928},"content":"Delivering the eulogy at the funeral Mass, Alan said his father enjoyed arguing both as an analytical method and a recreational activity.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4GIFOLSFKNHL7INX4SJIKFQ2VE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732016166929},"content":"Toner was a savage critic of the Irish State from its independence to the 1980s. He believed that economic growth was a precondition for a fair society. According to Alan, he often quipped, “too many people talk about dying for Ireland rather than living for it”. One of the main reasons he took on the Forfás role was to help solve the crushing unemployment problem.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BETCTFISFFACDJVJ6B2QAIPPAM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732016166930},"content":"Sport remained a passion throughout his life. He followed Ireland to both rugby and soccer World Cups. He travelled widely and developed a love of Cuba. He would learn Spanish in his advanced years. In 2018 he moved from the family home in Leopardstown Road to Sandymount, where he enjoyed he last years.","type":"text"},{"_id":"L4SIXR6BMVGWLIUMFT4ICNCUJI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732016166931},"content":"Warm tributes were paid following his death by Ibec, many former colleagues and friends. 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His <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/2024/11/16/best-known-as-one-half-of-dunbelievables-jon-kenny-was-both-an-anarchic-comedian-and-a-soulful-presence/\" target=\"_blank\">humour</a> fondly celebrated archetypes of small-town and rural Ireland but was often electrified by a surrealist streak suggestive of a more uproarious <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/flann-o-brien/\" target=\"_blank\">Flann O’Brien</a>. He was also a respected screen actor, appearing both in comedies such as Father Ted and straight dramas including Angela’s Ashes and Les Misérables and the Oscar-nominated animation Wolf Walkers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Z6WYRWNTIVDCBDQLGGYWGDPM24","additional_properties":{"_id":1732099578426},"content":"Kenny will be best remembered as one half of the D’Unbelievables, a duo he began with <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2024/11/16/actor-and-comedian-jon-kenny-dies-aged-66/\" target=\"_blank\">Pat Shortt</a>, whom he met in the late 1980s. They met when Kenny was looking for a saxophone player to add a splash to his comedy routines. They hit it off, and after several months of coaxing, Shortt, saxophone in tow, agreed to join his collaborator on stage.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HW5WSHW6PJEGJBTP37RHC7BRJU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732099578427},"content":"They were a chalk-and-cheese pairing. Kenny was naturally voluble, always with a gag or impersonation to hand, while Shortt could be shy when the spotlight was off. In an early interview on Bibi Baskin’s <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/rte/\" target=\"_blank\">RTÉ</a> chatshow, it is Kenny who does most of the talking and tells all the jokes, while Shortt plays the straight man.","type":"text"},{"_id":"43XZINCSIRAGHBFRQQZJEDHE6M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732099578428},"content":"But Kenny wasn’t just a natural comedian. He was a talented musician who continued to write and perform songs throughout his life. He also had a successful screen and stage career. His screen roles tended to be cameos – but he always made the most of them. In a 1996 episode of Father Ted, he carved out a piece of Irish comedy history as Eurovision presenter Fred Rickwood – a hilariously baroque figure who rambled incoherently offstage yet was as slick as lightning when the cameras rolled.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DFAH57FBEVDZTFBGZEUW2Y4IQY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732099578429},"content":"He will be forever associated with Father Ted but he excelled in straight parts too. As brutish Thénardier, he traded lines with Liam Neeson’s Jean Valjean in a 1988 adaptation of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables. He voiced a woodcutter in Wolf Walkers and portrayed Gerry the fiddler in Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin, his deadpan performance a perfect conduit for McDonagh’s bittersweet dialogue.","type":"text"},{"_id":"H7GPTG34KPPZX75OHTMH243CH4","additional_properties":{"_id":"QYGMXOPS7ZHHJCRTNOQA6VJQFY"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"CTGBM4NOIZD3RP3Q3LJG4GXZPA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732105029732},"content":"Kenny was born in 1957 in Hospital, 30km south of Limerick city. He had a brother, Tom, and sisters, Anne, Joan and Deirdre. His parents ran a family drapery on the main street and a pub at the opposite side of the town. Kenny’s father, John, died when Jon was young, and his mother, Mary, raised the family while running the business. “She was an amazing woman,” he would later say. “I don’t think I realised it at the time, how difficult it was.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"RYYOUACQZNAZBL3T4WAHNARKGY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732099578431},"content":"His childhood in Hospital would prove a huge influence on his comedy. A shop in rural Ireland was the perfect ringside seat from which to observe the quirks of ordinary people. It helped him develop an ear for the eccentricities and joys of small-town life.","type":"text"},{"_id":"46TRYXSQFFF2TNTIWBQB3GEXWY","additional_properties":{"_id":"ATLWYQGQS5FEXGE53CXWKKMCUA"},"content":"Best known as one half of D’Unbelievables, Jon Kenny was both an anarchic comedian and a soulful presence","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"GIAX536EFJBLHJWYUOA3J5D7SU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732099578432},"content":"Kenny had dyslexia as a child and left school, the vocational secondary in Hospital, before his 16th birthday to pursue his love of performance. The following year he and some friends formed the glam rock group Gimik. With Kenny playing bass and singing, they made a splash, appearing on Shay Healy’s Hullaballoo on RTÉ and supporting the Bay City Rollers around Ireland. But they were a band out of lockstep with the emerging punk scene – as they soon discovered.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XIONZTUBGZGD5P3BJL4LINFI6I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732099578433},"content":"“There were times when we were in places we shouldn’t have been at all,” Kenny told Hot Press in 2003. “You’d sit down and look out at the audience and say, “what the f***” are we doing here. There’s 400 punks at the gig and here we are doing glam rock!”","type":"text"},{"_id":"6VC6LSFKIFHINHLENN63S32F4M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732099578434},"content":"Gimik would break up within a few years. In 1983 Kenny joined Limerick’s improvisational dance company, Theatre Omnibus. He was also becoming successful as a stand-up, carving out a career through sheer force of will at a time when Ireland was a comedy backwater.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LTHLIMFFARB7HAJACTMOIQHAHE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732105029738},"content":"“I was on a stand-up circuit that did not exist,” he remembered. “I was young and slightly insane. Here was me going around wearing TV sets around my head, riding pantomime horses. Once at a gig, I drove in on a Honda 50 ... down the audience.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"LLPODS2UMBDYZOMKRY4FWF4TM4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732099578436},"content":"He crossed paths with Pat Shortt, from Thurles, on the small midwest comedy scene. Some of their earliest shows together were at Costello’s Tavern in Limerick, where owner Flan Costello offered the scrappy duo a midweek gig aimed at students. They were soon packing the upstairs room, and after a memorable performance as two confused gardaí on Gay Byrne’s Late Late Show, became a sensation across the country.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZPPMEZOZDFGYTH6PQ2DWUZAAIA","subtype":"youtube","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"HNXP5RKOWNBDFAFYHM4YGEI6HY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732099578437},"content":"Kenny’s characters were often based on people he knew from Limerick. In an interview with Hot Press, he explained how a Costa del Sol lounge singer named Pablo Maloney, who became part of his solo routine, was an amalgam of real-life individuals.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ORO6ROB3LBGADPAAWS34AWOO2M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732099578438},"content":"“He was actually a composite of two different people,” he said. “One guy was a lounge singer, and then there was another fellow I knew who actually went to France, but he wasn’t a singer at all – he was a chef. Anyway, he had gone away and spent a little time in Europe, not very long. But from the time he came back from Europe – which was many, many years ago – he had adopted a completely new persona.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"TNZULLBD3RA63J2X4C5MWOU2CU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732099578439},"content":"D’Unbelievables, as the duo were known from 1993, were one of the biggest names in Irish comedy, their rise coinciding with the dawn of the Celtic Tiger. Suddenly people had money to spend on luxuries such as a night out at a comedy show and Kenny and Shortt played to packed houses all year round. There was no let-up – until Kenny was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2000 and took a step back.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GLPYMMMG5W2IQRTJBLU7EOEFTI","additional_properties":{"_id":"4N2BIJKBFJAPJB4GRYWORSCZY4"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"5OB5BLMYRFGWRDIOVQJYVV25T4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732099578440},"content":"“I go to take a holiday and I’m not feeling the best and I get checked and they tell me I have cancer,” he told RTÉ in 2022. “I had to stop. I wasn’t able to do it, even emotionally I couldn’t do it.” He felt that overwork had led him to neglect his health.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MCXTR65FJ5EXNGXUGPDYRP772E","additional_properties":{"_id":1732099578441},"content":"“It’s so frantic, you just keep doing it but there was something inside saying, ‘you should take a break’. My body was suffering because of it. I wasn’t going to go back to it.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"YDSRMCYWRNH6LKEL6QW447FJIM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732099578442},"content":"He had to stop performing while receiving treatment, though he would return to a successful solo career. He and Shortt reunited for a sell-out D’Unbelievables tour in 2011.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EO3RJAUMXJEXBLO4AXXLTFBFL4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732099578443},"content":"Kenny and his wife Margy lived in Dublin for many years before returning to Limerick and an estate located in a 20-acre forest close to scenic Lough Gur, 10 kilometres from Hospital.","type":"text"},{"_id":"F4VLRIFQYBG3PE5TWEICJGBS6A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732099578444},"content":"Kenny was not the first comedian to look to small-town Ireland for inspiration. But his portraits of Irish eccentricity were frequently mingled with sadness. In an early D’Unbelievables show, One Hell of a Do, he played a character named Martin – an overbearing drunk whose ceaseless patter was gradually revealed to be a cover for the deep loneliness he felt after the death of his wife.","type":"text"},{"_id":"H3JWNIO6ENEIXNALA76BH72W54","additional_properties":{"_id":1732105029750},"content":"“It’s about people ... people are funny,” he would say of his comedic philosophy. “We are all funny. People do funny things. 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Mhol Fine Gael go múinfí ábhar amháin trí Ghaeilge i scoileanna Béarla.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FJ5ZUVCS4ZFE5DVANWM5RFICGA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732448278692},"content":"“Ní chosnódh sé pingin bhreise ar an Stát dá múinfí corpoideachas, tíreolaíocht nó stair trí mheán na Gaeilge. Gealladh go mbeadh polasaí againn ón luathoideachas go dtí an triú leibhéal. Cá bhfuil sé sin? Tá muid fós á lorg,” a dúirt sí.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FHS3FHVWH5GJDAQCX6VL3EBYAI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732448278693},"content":"“Ní raibh Sinn Féin sa rialtas ó dheas go fóill, ach cá raibh an Ghaeilge luaite sa dréachtchlár rialtais ó thuaidh? Ní raibh sí luaite. 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Éisteann siad go dtí an pointe go gcuirtear rudaí i bhfoirm scríofa ach bíonn easpa gnímh ann ar deireadh.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"PIBX2PRS5JHQZOD7J4NH2J6ZEU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732448278696},"content":"“Táimid ag súil le gníomh – gníomh, gníomh, gníomh,” a dúirt sí.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IEEXORTQMZALDCBDXMNUMEPJKQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732448278697},"content":"Roimhe sin, tá cruinnithe fós le reáchtáil agus tá stocaireacht fós le déanamh. “Tá [na baill] thar a bheith spreagtha,” a dúirt Melvin. “Tá muid ag dul thar timpeall na tíre ó Dhún na nGall go Muineacháin go Loch Garman agus eile.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"2ORDQ474LJEHPAHVASUSISWNI4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732448278698},"content":"“Tá muid ag iarraidh go gcuirfear ceisteanna ar na polaiteoirí áitiúla. Mar shampla, i gContae Liatroma, tá siad ag brú ar an gComhairle Contae oifigeach Gaeilge lán -aimseartha a cheapadh. Tá gaelcholáiste agus foirgnimh de dhíth in áiteanna eile.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"6GITDCRQQJGPHE44KLOJZA262U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732448278699},"content":"Dúirt Melvin nár cheart go mbeadh drogall ar dhaoine ceisteanna a chur.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XYPZMDURQNBMNBWBYEE4SNLQBI","additional_properties":{},"content":"”Nuair a chnagann polaiteoirí ar do dhoras, cuir ceisteanna orthu faoi chúrsaí oideachais Gaeilge, faoin Aire sinsearach Ghaeilge, agus faoi thithíocht sa Ghaeltacht. Seol ríomhphoist, nó cuir glaoch teileafóin. Má tá díospóireachtaí áitiúla á reáchtáil, bí i láthair agus cuir ceisteanna faoin nGaeilge,” a dúirt sí.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WLBMUU2ZYZAITKC6HCIEUQFZ3E","additional_properties":{"_id":1732448278700},"content":"I measc na gcuspóirí buanseasmhacha atá luaite ar liosta éileamh Chonradh na Gaeilge tá an t-éileamh go mbeadh Aire sinsearach ag Bord an Rialtais freagrach as cúrsaí Ghaeltachta agus Ghaeilge. Níor gheall Fianna Fáil é sin an babhta seo, agus ní léir gur thug Fine Gael freagra.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NR6I6L7TQNEY7HDIU7OLGW2VPM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732448278701},"content":"Ábhar suime, b’fhéidir, dóibh siúd atá ag breathnú ar chomhdhéanamh an chéad rialtais eile ná gur thug an páirtí eile is mó a luaitear mar chuid de chomrialtas, Páirtí an Lucht Oibre, tacaíocht don chuspóir.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WL44TQ5YHFHQVJRXQW72HM2KJA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732448278702},"content":"Ba mhinic cúrsaí oideachais na Gaeilge sna cinnlínte le linn téarma an rialtais dheireanaigh agus tá Conradh na Gaeilge ag éileamh freisin go gceapfar Aire Stáit sa Roinn Oideachais le comhordú a dhéanamh ar fhorbairt na Gaeilge sa chóras oideachais.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QADU7UDTMRHMHHS3HBI72NKREE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732448278703},"content":"De réir thaighde an eagrais, tá na páirtithe ar fad ‘uile ar a shon’, ‘dearfach faoi’, nó ‘sásta é a mheas’.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2JP5PDOC2BHKXEHPZCBYD2EZKI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732448278704},"content":"Tá an t-éileamh go bhforbrófar Polasaí don Ghaeilge sa chóras Oideachais ón luath-óige go dtí an tríú leibhéal luaite freisin chomh maith leis an sprioc go mbeadh gach céim den chóras sin bunaithe ar an bhFráma Tagartha Comónta Eorpach do Theangacha.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JGKQFVTGVNB3XPUWJKKM426VDQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732448278705},"content":"An tseachtain seo caite, shiúil daltaí Ghaelcholáiste Reachrann, an t-aon mheánscoil Ghaeilge i ndáilcheantar Cuan Bhaile Átha Cliath Thuaidh, amach as an seomra ranga de bharr dhrochstaid na bhfoirgneamh scoile agus an easpa mór áiseanna atá sa scoil.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LAHI5DVFBNEDTBOJOHCKRFMZOU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732448278706},"content":"Tar éis 24 bliain ag feidhmiú i mbotháin réamhdhéanta, is léir go bhfuil riachtanais bhunúsacha fós gan réiteach.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BXKI7DUGBJEBDE7O4JWS243AJQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732448278707},"content":"Is léir freisin, má táthar chun an cuspóir go mbeidh ar a laghad 20 faoin gcéad de scoileanna na tíre ina scoileanna lán-Ghaeilge laistigh de 20 bliain a bhaint amach, go mbeidh gá le breis infheistíochta ag gach leibhéal den chóras.","type":"text"},{"_id":"O36SSZYFBJFCFJTN3RRX7I34WY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732448278708},"content":"Beidh pobal Ghaelcholáiste Reachrann agus go leor eile i bpobail na Gaeilge agus na Gaeltachta ag súil go gcuirfidh an chéad rialtas eile níos mó béime ar a gcuid geallúintí a chur i gcrích go gasta.","type":"text"},{"_id":"O36SSZYFBJFCFJTN3RRX7I34WY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732448278708},"content":"Is éasca an rud é geallúint a thabhairt agus páirtithe ag iarraidh dea-thoil a chothú i measc an phobail vótála, ach mar a léiríodh cheana, ní hionann i gcónaí caint bhreá agus gníomh ceart.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EEORRV5M7JEOXGDNFU653MLF5I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732289487273},"content":"<b>Féiríní na Nollag</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"P4NHIZBL4FG7VDCLAQ2UOXE2ME","additional_properties":{"_id":1732289487274},"content":"An bhfuil gnó agat a fheidhmíonn agus a dhíolann earraí/seirbhísí trí Ghaeilge? Má tá, agus más mian leat go luafaí é i Tuarascáil, seol eolas le grianghraf más féidir chuig <a href=\"mailto:tuarascail@irishtimes.com\">tuarascail@irishtimes.com</a> roimh an 27 Samhain. Luaigh ‘Féiríní na Nollag’ leis an ríomhphost.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YCDY6C2IB5FUNMX3YVDX7FFP3I","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Éanna Ó Caollaí"}},"name":"Éanna Ó Caollaí"}]},"description":{"basic":"Tá na bileoga seachadta, tá na póstaeir crochta, agus tá geallúintí fós á dtabhairt."},"display_date":"2024-11-25T01:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"‘Tá muid ag súil le gníomh – gníomh, gníomh, gníomh!’","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"MMY7XT2UENDSDJVQJRWG2VTLSE","auth":{"1":"e984059b2e868aa3f0a81ed898553951d8a1c1caba441e9540fe9c52e5aefd8d"},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/MMY7XT2UENDSDJVQJRWG2VTLSE.JPG"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Tuarascáil"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/tuarascail/2024/11/25/ta-muid-ag-suil-le-gniomh-gniomh-gniomh-gniomh/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/tuarascail","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Tuarascáil"}}}},{"_id":"GXW5P7KF3JD2FB43FUL2P565RA","additional_properties":{},"canonical_url":"/tuarascail/2024/11/18/tiomanta-ar-son-normalu-na-gaeilge/","content_elements":[{"_id":"5VKSMV2YRJCGLMQEWY3JD4R6UU","additional_properties":{"_id":1731851492823},"content":"Más san ollmhargadh atá tú agus tú i do sheasamh sa scuaine, nó sa phictiúrlann nuair nach bhfuil scannán Gaeilge á thaispeáint, nó plódaithe isteach in ardaitheoir in Aerfort Bhaile Átha Cliath, nó i sráidbhaile atá go hoifigiúil sa Ghaeltacht ach nach bhfuil ina Ghaeltacht, is aoibhinn an rud é an Ghaeilge a chloisteáil á labhairt agus gan coinne ar bith agat leis.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZTOG76UGBZBGTN4N52TVFYLMNA","additional_properties":{"_id":1731851492824},"content":"Le gairid agus bhur gcolúnaí ag siúl abhaile trí lár na príomhchathrach oíche fhuar, cheobhránach, bhí duine ag trasnú na sráide agus é ag gabháil fhoinn in ard a ghutha. Céard a bhí á cheol aige ach ‘Beidh Aonach Amárach i gContae an Chláir’. Bhí an t-amhrán uilig aige agus nuair a bhí sé ráite aige lig sé liú as. Amanna tagann an teanga aniar aduaidh orainn mar sin. Is fánach an áit a bhfaighfeá gliomach a deir an seanfhocal - agus is fíor sin, cuma cá bhfuil tú.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2B3BPIZKVRH4ZFOYKIKR43L5OE","additional_properties":{"_id":1731851492825},"content":"Mar léiriú air sin, b’údar áthais agus iontais é dreas cainte Gaeilge a chloisteáil ar chlár Béarla ar an raidió an tseachtain seo caite. Gearrthóg a bhí ann ó ‘Crá’, scéinséir nua de chuid TG4. Craoladh é le linn agallaimh ar Arena, príomhchlár ealaíne RTÉ, leis an aisteoir Alex Murphy agus le scríbhneoir an tsraithdhráma, Doireann Ní Chorragáin.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QNZOOEVUEJFXPFGVE4S5QVH4P4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731851492826},"content":"Lena cheart a thabhairt dó, tá láithreoir an chláir, Seán Rocks, ar dhuine de líon beag láithreoirí ar RTÉ a dhéanann iarracht cúpla focal a labhairt ó am go chéile. Ní fhéadfá a rá gur mhórócáid náisiúnta a bhí ann, nó gur cheart scéal seacht mbliana a dhéanamh de scéal seacht nóiméad (nó de ghearrthóg 30 soicind mar ab amhlaidh sa chás seo) ach i gcomhthéacs an chraoltóra náisiúnta agus stair na Gaeilge ar RTÉ Radio 1, céim sách dána a bhí ann mar sin féin.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UPPR55NXDBGWVAFDP344QTUIFQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731851492827},"content":"Mar a tharla sé, craoladh mír eile an lá cheana faoin bhfeachtas Gaeilge24, nuair a rinne 25,000 dalta scoile sna 32 chontae iarracht Gaeilge amháin a labhairt ar feadh 24 uair an chloig.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EKMDN3KIDRE5RBAP4B7NWNUVFY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731851492828},"content":"I mBéarla a bhí an ceann seo ach labhair ionadaí an fheachtais ar ‘normalú’ na Gaeilge - sé sin go mbeadh an Ghaeilge le feiceáil agus le cloisteáil mar ghnáthnós.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DQQBC2N5WNFPFE4QYWV7N7KTVE","additional_properties":{"_id":1731851492829},"content":"Is léiriú ar an staid reatha é, is dócha, gurb é ‘normalú’ ceann de na focail is minice a chloistear i gcúrsaí pleanála teanga (cé go mbíonn sé sin i ndianiomaíocht leis an bhfocal ‘tiomanta’).","type":"text"},{"_id":"EXXJN2BYPBG37NKZEOUTJXRQI4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731851492830},"content":"Bíodh sin mar atá, ach ar an iomlán, taobh amuigh d’fhógraíocht Ghaeilge a bhfuil sé de dhualgas ar na meáin a chraoladh, is beag Gaeilge a chloistear ar an gcraoltóir náisiúnta.","type":"text"},{"_id":"46DO6EOISFGRXIXNE6TOTPR3AE","additional_properties":{"_id":1731851492831},"content":"Ar an gCéadaoin, mar shampla, craoladh díospóireacht idir iarrthóirí olltoghcháin i nDún na nGall, ach ní raibh gíog ná fiú amháin míog le cloisteáil faoin Ghaeilge ná faoi Ghaeltacht Thír Chonaill.","type":"text"},{"_id":"H5GMKK6DTJE7PHDPSRPIRK5PEE","additional_properties":{"_id":1731851492832},"content":"Cé nach dtugann ‘normalú’, mar fhocal, aitheantas ar bith do bheocht nó do ghaois na Gaeilge, agus go dtugann sé le fios go bhfuil rud éigin ainspianta ag baint léi, tá an smaoineamh atá taobh thiar de ceart. 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Má tá, agus más mian leat go luafaí é i Tuarascáil, seol eolas le grianghraf más féidir chuig <a href=\"mailto:tuarascail@irishtimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">tuarascail@irishtimes.com</a> roimh an 27 Samhain. 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Luann an scríbhneoir Seamus MacManus ina dhírbheathaisnéis go bhfeiceadh sé báid bheaga ag seoladh amach ó na Cealla Beaga agus iad ag iarraidh báid níos mó ó Dhoire a leanúint go Meiriceá; mar a bheadh siad ag síobshiúl ar an bhfarraige mhór ag dul siar. Ní hionann go baileach iad agus na naomhóga agus na curachaí rubair ag iarraidh dul trasna Loch an Bháis arb í an Mheánmhuir í, ach is den amhlachas céanna iad.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TC46IBU2KBGBFHQUCUQE6A6LOQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731672980616},"content":"Is suaitheanta soiléire fós, áfach, na cosúlachtaí le mar a caitheadh linne thall nuair a bhuail na mí-ámharaigh bhochta port i Meiriceá. Bhí na biogóidí dá ngairmtear na Know Nothings rompu ag cosaint an phobail, dar leo, ar an salachar seo nár bhain leo, a bhí ag tabhairt galair isteach, a raibh coirpigh ina measc agus a bhí ag truailliú na muintire. 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Dá éamais sin, chuirfí an dlí canónta i bhfeidhm sa tír agus chaithfeadh gach duine géilleadh dó. Anois, an airímid aon rud mar é inniu abhus, dlí Sharia agus mar sin de?","type":"text"},{"_id":"X2P2XBZ4CFESLPCX7WBVUHH4H4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731672980619},"content":"Mhair an chuid is measa de na saobhchlaonta seineafóbacha frithsinnemuidemuinne seo ar feadh dhá ghlúin sna Stáit ar a laghad, agus má dhéanaimid leamhgháire inniu mar gheall ar an léiriúchán a rinneadh ar Éireannaigh sa ré Victeoiriach, mhair iarsma na drochintinne seo níos gaire don bhaile agus dár linn féin. Rinne H.P. 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Ní fheicim dóthain ag tarlú ag an dara leibhéal.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"KSKCFQNOHFHNJAOVSLQDYDPYZQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731243277137},"content":"Ag tagairt don dúshlán seo, dúirt Ó Cuív go gcaithfear an reachtaíocht a chur i bhfeidhm.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WI4I4NLGBBCVNFMQEGVMKROYIY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731243277138},"content":"“Is dóigh liom go bhfuil mé tar éis a rá, arís agus arís eile, gur rud amháin é rud a scríobh in acht, is rud eile é gníomh a fháil ar an rud sin,” a dúirt sé.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SWZALWX53ZFGLIRPPBNIOHZWSI","additional_properties":{"_id":1731243277139},"content":"Dúirt an Teachta Dála Catherine Connolly gur chreid sí gur “míorúilt” é go bhfuil an Ghaeilge “fós beo agus bríomhar”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MPYOZCMUBNE7TM3L7VK47EBKU4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731243277140},"content":"“Tá an-dul chun cinn déanta go hoifigiúil le hAcht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla, ach an bhfuil seirbhísí i nGaeilge le fáil? Níl. An bhfuil tithíocht ar fáil? Níl.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"PUHILLZFUJB7VLLHL5CHQPBDM4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731243277141},"content":"Cáineadh creat an pholasaí don Ghaelscolaíocht taobh amuigh den Ghaeltacht go géar nuair a eisíodh é i Meán Fómhair mar gheall ar a laghad uaillmhéine agus físe a bhí ann. Dúirt Connolly gur cheart dréachtpholasaí a fhoilsiú agus próiseas comhairliúcháin nua a reáchtáil.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5COEOHRV7VGDBPRU7MD7BAG6GU","additional_properties":{"_id":1731243277142},"content":"Tharraing ceist na ndíolúintí aird an Chomhchoiste freisin - fuair beagnach 70,000 dalta díolúine ón nGaeilge anuraidh, an líon is airde riamh.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XSEKWTY6YRASNADIUQOVK6FLAM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731243277143},"content":"Rinne Uachtarán Chonradh na Gaeilge, Paula Melvin, tagairt don ábhar céanna ag an gcruinniú scoir nuair a dúirt sí go bhféadfaí Páirc Uí Chaoimh, ‘nó fiú amháin Páirc an Chrócaigh’, a líonadh le líon na ndíolúintí atá ceadaithe ag an Rialtas seo.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XTU4IHPGANAJVFZX3OPHSKALYE","additional_properties":{"_id":1731243277144},"content":"Dúirt an teachta Ó Snodaigh go bhfuil dul chun cinn déanta ag an gComhchoiste ach go bhfuil ‘jab mór eile le déanamh againn’.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UQMC7JGQFJCPPFKWXG2JCYH2KE","additional_properties":{"_id":1731243277145},"content":"“Tá orainn díriú isteach ar an gcóras oideachais agus ar na fadhbanna bunúsacha chun cinnte a dhéanamh de go bhfuil Gaeilgeoirí á gcur ar fáil ag an gcóras,” a dúirt sé.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2L7AUW3XNNEUZMOF2TJ35RCVKI","additional_properties":{"_id":1731243277146},"content":"“Ceist mhór” í ceist na hollscolaíochta agus líon na gcúrsaí Gaeilge atá ar fáil, a dúirt sé.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GJ5FWNJWNZFSHIUZME2BUIHKYU","additional_properties":{"_id":1731243277147},"content":"Ag moladh cheannaireacht an Chomhchoiste i gcur chun cinn seirbhísí poiblí trí Ghaeilge agus na gcearta teanga atá dlite do phobal na Gaeilge, dúirt an Coimisinéir Teanga Séamas Ó Concheanainn, go bhfuil “ról an-tábhachtach” ag an gComhchoiste ábhair atá ina n-údar imní do phobal na Gaeilge a phlé. “Tá na Tuarascálacha a d’fhoilsigh an Comhchoiste le moladh go hárd,” a dúirt sé.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SYSCR4GXHZGRBICNDR4GHNDN4M","additional_properties":{"_id":1731243277148},"content":"“Bhí ról lárnach ag an gComhchoiste i gcomhar leis an iarChoimisinéir Teanga agus páirtithe leasmhara eile i láidriú na reachtaíochta teanga in 2021 agus tá muid ag feiceáil torthaí an-dearfach cheana féin as feidhmiú na reachtaíochta seo.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"CPKNOEN5IBAJPGIZRXDURNWVNU","additional_properties":{"_id":1731243277149},"content":"<b>Ómós</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"J3KZAT2M3ZGG3CFBUGCMOCAW7M","additional_properties":{},"content":"Ghlac baill an Chomhchoiste an deis ómós a thabhairt don iarAire Gaeltachta, Éamon Ó Cuív, a d’fhógair i mí Iúil nach mbeidh sé ag seasamh sa chéad olltoghchán eile.","type":"text"},{"_id":"V6NTIEFIHNGFRCEYOCZTLURA64","additional_properties":{"_id":1731243277150},"content":"Le fiche bliain anuas, bhí ról ríthábhachtach aige i bhforbairt na gcosaintí reachtúla agus dlíthiúla don Ghaeilge. Nuair a síníodh Acht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla 2003, acht a thionscain Ó Cuív, ba é sin an chéad uair a cuireadh bunús reachtúil le soláthar sheirbhísí Stáit trí mheán na Gaeilge.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BJB4JF7KGJBHLMWFMICBT2UBLM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731243277151},"content":"“Ba léir ón obair a rinne sé, agus ón gcomhairle a thug sé dúinn go raibh, agus go bhfuil, an Ghaeilge fite fuaite i ngach uile gné den obair atá ar siúl aige agus guím gach rath air amach anseo,” a dúirt Aengus Ó Snodaigh.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3Z3AKQAODFGIJBOVGTIYI2NFS4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731243277152},"content":"Tionóladh cruinniú an Chomhchoiste díreach sular fhógair an Taoiseach Simon Harris faoi dheireadh go raibh sé beartaithe aige an Rialtas a scor agus Olltoghchán a reáchtáil ar an 29 Samhain.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ED5UJIJNYRCQTFUIRCUALHRGGA","additional_properties":{"_id":1731243277153},"content":"D’fhág na haíonna Teach Laighean agus cóip d’fhoilseachán deiridh an choiste ina seilbh acu, é leagtha amach go néata agus go soiléir, mar a bheadh mianliosta toghcháin ann. Agus cúrsaí boilscithe, costais mhaireachtála, pá íseal agus an slad sa Phalaistín san áireamh, beidh go leor le plé sna seachtainí amach romhainn.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VWDXXMBRUJEPVBKRLL4Z3G5MFI","additional_properties":{"_id":1731243277154},"content":"Ord an Eirmín","type":"header"},{"_id":"OSZOGPKHYFERLD7AN345PZ34KA","additional_properties":{"_id":1731243277155},"content":"Bronnfar gradam Ord an Eirmín ar Uachtarán na hÉireann, Micheál D. Ó hUiginn, ag searmanas bronnta in Áras an Uachtaráin ar an gCéadaoin.","type":"text"},{"_id":"I7YBX6W5BRAHJJ2E6CP64XF36E","additional_properties":{"_id":1731243277156},"content":"Tá an gradam á bhronnadh mar aitheantas d’obair an Uachtaráin ag cur chun cinn chultúr agus theangacha na dtíortha Ceilteacha, na Briotáine go háirithe.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VAAPRUBXNFHAJLJ6OR5632IRBU","additional_properties":{"_id":1731243277157},"content":"Tá an t-eirmín ar cheann de shiombail náisiúnta na Briotáine agus tá sé le feiceáil ar armas bailte, cathracha agus eagras sa Bhriotáin. Bronnfaidh Seansailéir an Oird, Lena Louarn, gradam agus slabhra an Eirmín ar an Uachtarán agus beidh Uachtarán Chomhairle Réigiúnaí na Briotáine, Loïc Chesnais-Girard, i láthair don ócáid. Bhronn Skol Uhel ar Vro/Institiúid Chultúir na Briotáine slabhra onórach ar Éamon Ó Ciosáin, léachtóir le Briotáinis agus scríbhneoir, an mhí seo caite.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FAKDNPP36ZHZPJWDTFDTSY3EFI","additional_properties":{"_id":1731243277158},"content":"Bronntar an gradam ar cheathrar gach bliain a bhfuil a gcion déanta acu chun an Bhriotáin, a cultúr agus a teanga a chur chun cinn sa Bhriotáin nó in áiteanna eile ar domhan.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YCDY6C2IB5FUNMX3YVDX7FFP3I","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Éanna Ó Caollaí"}},"name":"Éanna Ó Caollaí"}]},"description":{"basic":"Rinne Comhchoiste na Gaeilge agus na Gaeltachta 354 mholadh a bhain le cur chun cinn na Gaeilge, an Ghaeltacht, tithíocht, oideachas, seirbhísí poiblí agus cúrsaí foilsitheoireachta, i measc ábhar eile."},"display_date":"2024-11-11T03:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Córas Stáit ‘beag beann ar an nGaeilge’ – Ó Cuív","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"J7YM7BXBAVBCJMZCJ7IHI63FBM","auth":{"1":"665dbef354801b16d0b10513e8ad80093d4cfc83c2c2eb06c1f1de2762b9e5f9"},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/J7YM7BXBAVBCJMZCJ7IHI63FBM.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Tuarascáil"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/tuarascail/2024/11/11/coras-stait-beag-beann-ar-an-ngaeilge-o-cuiv/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/tuarascail","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Tuarascáil"}}}}],"count":4404,"_id":"d088d08bd2798d73047acccbb9302c069fc7507d14aeff9909e2a2b073d0b0bb"},"expires":1732945916548,"lastModified":1732945616443},"{\"excludeSections\":\"\",\"feedOffset\":0,\"feedSize\":5,\"includeSections\":\"/motors\"}":{"data":{"content_elements":[{"_id":"BTW62JBS2FGLJBNYQQHAEIBLRI","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":483,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/8dd9b73c-855c-4951-b45f-13e7104aea3e/versions/1732191057/media/8f46fe78d71ff4ae8163170067b6514c_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/motors/review/2024/11/27/new-dacia-duster-great-value-returns-in-a-much-prettier-package/","content_elements":[{"_id":"SLF52ESYWFAQNK6JRRAOXQ36CQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"L65JMK4W7JDNXD74OYQZUS6YKY"},"embed":{"config":{},"id":"review-highlights-42184","url":"/"},"subtype":"review_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"EHLFOCND55DRLGKCXY4GOMYRQ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732617528891},"content":"There is something so appealing about a <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/motors/\" target=\"_blank\">car</a> that just gets on with its job. A car that sets out its stall, and delivers on its promises. In a world where technological overkill is the order of the day, something that majors on functionality and simplicity feels like a dip in a refreshing pool.","type":"text"},{"_id":"D4V2ZD7CKBEZZIAZQJ7VO7UFTA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120803594},"content":"Perhaps, then, it’s little wonder that <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/dacia/\" target=\"_blank\">Dacia</a> leads the field in several key European markets when it comes to actual customers putting their own hands in their own pockets to buy a new car. Filter out the (often heavily discounted) company car and fleet sales, and this is what people are actually buying.","type":"text"},{"_id":"I4MIOFLA4REV5O2Y46E4VN4GSU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120803595},"content":"So the new Duster has to tread a delicate line. Clearly, technology counts when it comes to new cars, but if this new model were to overload itself with screens, gadgets and gewgaws it would likely offend and exclude the company’s huge base of existing Duster customers. A careful balance would have to be struck.","type":"text"},{"_id":"S3SSQTHWSJCGTKMOSWF3SQBB7A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120803596},"content":"That balance must be struck at a time when Dacia is moving, ever so slightly, away from its bargain bucket roots. When first envisaged, Dacia was supposed to be a style-free zone, with its car rigorously built down to a price with body panels as flat as pancakes in an effort to keep manufacturing costs down.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZFHFXZKX6VABJPVGY7NYJURKMI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120803597},"content":"Now, though Dacia says that it’s on a mission to create cars that customers actively crave, not to mention that through it’s outdoorsy Stepway models and Extreme trim levels it wants to appeal to some of the same customers as <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/jeep/\" target=\"_blank\">Jeep</a>, albeit at a much lower price level.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NFRZ26SHMJCU7BUBGRMLV6KF3A","additional_properties":{"_id":"DAH2ZS4ZNJGWFMIZCNMW7QFU4M"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"AFQMNUVKAFBR7BWXEXNQRLB5AM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120803599},"content":"So, that’s why this new Duster looks so much more visually exciting than the previous model – although it also looks arguably a little more fussy and perhaps even a bit over-styled. 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The brake lights are in one unit, and don’t stretch across the boot lid, which would have required extra bulbs, extra wiring and extra validation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JPDFR4RDDJHOREAGZUKQ23BCKU","additional_properties":{"_id":"TNWECWOUVRH2LNHF53XDS6UE5Y"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"S7LKXVAQZZD6VBAC4JC7TX327I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120803602},"content":"The rear door handles are simple plastic flaps integrated into the top rear of the door itself, rather than a pricier painted handle which would have to be integrated into the rear wheel arch flare. 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It powers those four wheels via a six-speed manual gearbox, and there’s a Land Rover-style selection switch on the centre console that allows you to tweak and tune the four-wheel drive and traction control settings to suit the immediate terrain.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3RH5MNAMHNGQVHW3GQSBRTRWCM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120803608},"content":"Thus equipped, the Duster – low-geared in first and second – will slither happily about in the mud and mire, thanks to standard-fit all-terrain tyres for the 4WD model. It’s really quite capable, but does that mean you pay a penalty when you’re back on tarmac?","type":"text"},{"_id":"J7TVRT5V2RDJNBWYJOETCW2NZA","additional_properties":{"_id":"TMETX5SW7JBRRELBVVLGQXJCVM"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"LYJAVC6Q65E6BLKXYY36H3OY4U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120803610},"content":"Not really, no. Dacia has given the Duster relatively soft suspension – well, are you buying this in place of a hot hatch? – which allows a degree of body roll, but it’s an agreeable degree. The softness of the springs also means that urban lumps and country road potholes won’t trouble you much. The steering doesn’t have much feel, but it’s well-weighted enough and the Duster feels fundamentally decent to drive. Only a touch of wind noise at higher speeds, along with a sense of breathlessness in those low gears, attempt to spoil the show and neither, to be honest, are much of an issue.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DNEYC2CNUVCRTIQBGRORJIJGCU","additional_properties":{"_id":"TLUIMOYZ6BD53OLXZXQ2QLYSQY"},"content":"Can the Ford Explorer arrive late to the EV party and still impress?","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"LJHDAA36LRBWJAL2N7JW5E6ZLM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732617528913},"content":"Fuel economy is also decent, and we averaged slightly more than 6.0 litres per 100km. If you want to do better than that, skip this four-wheel drive model and go for the front-drive hybrid model instead, which most customers presumably will do. There’s also a basic 1.0-litre three-cylinder turbo petrol for the entry-level model, which does the job just fine.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EBDEJWEYXVF5ZFXWJM5Z5ALP4U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120803612},"content":"Doing the job just fine is basically how the Duster goes about life. That’s why it is one of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/motors/2024/11/15/seven-shortlisted-for-europes-car-of-the-year/\" target=\"_blank\">seven finalists for Europe’s Car of the Year</a>. It’s a really well-thought out, well-executed car that remains affordable, but feels like less of a hair-shirt experience than once it would have. It’s practical, affordable, simple, and surprisingly good to drive. Honestly, what more do you want from a new car?","type":"text"},{"_id":"KSVLQLOXO5HYDFNJLGT6OGQCG4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120803613},"content":"<b>Lowdown: Dacia Duster 1.2 130 4x4 Extreme</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"EH6NCOTJRJCWJDV2VIUGC7FEXI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120803614},"content":"<b>Power: </b>1.2 litre three-cylinder turbo petrol engine with 130hp and 230Nm of torque driving the front wheels through a six gearbox.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3SPBCV3VBZGCDLF57NXXGVB3T4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120803615},"content":"<b>0-100km/h: </b>11.0 secs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"55IAVLOYXFCQ7DJFSWABKD25BY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120803616},"content":"<b>Emissions (motor tax):</b> 135g/km (€210).","type":"text"},{"_id":"N45YWAVBFFGITNU4YHZALRQRRI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120803617},"content":"<b>Fuel consumption:</b> 6.1l/100km (WLTP).","type":"text"},{"_id":"77UE3TRB2RBXNHAFDGYVSWA464","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120803618},"content":"<b>Price:</b> €34,840 as tested. 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Having resurrected the fortunes of Peugeot, it was time for the French man to work his magic in northern Italy.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6JNEMNIKBNETDDYEOOA3H5JD7I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120270302},"content":"His first priority was to improve quality and reliability. That’s a long-term effort, but the initial signs have been good. The Tonale may be a bit lacklustre on the road, but it does seem to be holding together well. And the pipeline of new models promise to put the Scudetto grille back in the mix with German premium brands.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6UBCFTGJSZG43OLA6CJ36L5CQU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120270303},"content":"But to fund its product offensive, it needs a steady flow of cash. And that’s where the Junior comes in. Alfa engineers may love a saloon, but they can’t ignore the public’s preference for a crossover.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QN3J3GGEKFHIVLL6MEHRDNY6ZA","additional_properties":{"_id":"5B7VYLM5J5FR5LRUMK3W7GTZNI"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"JSEDT7Z6NBAWBDHPGF7YQH4LQI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120270304},"content":"The good news for the Alfisti is that Junior is not just a cash cow, it’s a surprisingly impressive car to drive, both in terms of it being a crossover and also an EV. And that’s being recognised already: the Junior is one of the seven finalists for <a href=\"https://www.caroftheyear.org/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Europe’s Car of the Year</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NKZO4EQ6FJHHPLRYI5KNPBGN4A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120270305},"content":"Of course, it’s not sold only as an EV. Junior comes with a selection of powertrain options: a 136hp 1.2-litre petrol regular hybrid or an all-electric in either 156hp or 280hp output (both front-wheel drive). 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So have the regular engines that will power the non-electric versions.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6Z6ROX23JRGO5FL5XOVVM27VVI","additional_properties":{"_id":"TUUOGSO7EVF7FEZX4BFHT6XGQI"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"JONTJBCNXJFYRDS5XUVWFOQR3I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120270309},"content":"But don’t be fooled: this is not just a dressed-up Opel or rebadged Peugeot. The real magic with Junior is how it handles itself on the road. This car is fun.","type":"text"},{"_id":"O6GJOESTGNFPFL3P5BKF6KASDY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120270310},"content":"That’s what differentiates it from its otherwise competent siblings.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WTARLCQSLRB3FFQKVTLO5IPHAU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120270311},"content":"The 156hp version we tested isn’t necessarily fast, with a 0-100km time of nine seconds. For that you want the 280hp version, which cracks that distance in 5.6 seconds. 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But as a follow-up to the rather lacklustre Tonale, it’s a reminder of why so many people fell in love with Alfas in the first place.","type":"text"},{"_id":"X4PWXAZRDBHSHGENI5LPVBTR7A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120270314},"content":"In design terms, the crossover is squat enough to resemble a hatchback profile, while the high rear tailgate has touches of Kia’s current EV6, but links back to Alfa heritage as well.","type":"text"},{"_id":"F5DUQGDIJRBXVBGC5QIGWRJKDA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120270315},"content":"The plastic grille on the electric version is going to divide the crowd, but it’s a competent take on what is a vestigial feature in any event; they might as well have included a toy gearstick inside the car and added a V8 soundtrack.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4QTIT2R5OREP5MMSFKG4Y4HK2Q","additional_properties":{"_id":"4RRWJ46XNNBFHNWG4EVCJ37ZZM"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"GWRREROHFFEGZPUSO2SMJLA6FE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120270317},"content":"The interior is dark, at least on our test car. Trying to retain the sports car feel, it perhaps leans too much to the past and does itself a disservice in feeling at times a little dated.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KYWZ3GIAQNBAZM45HESD3OZSDA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120270318},"content":"It’s a solid effort, and while there are plenty of parts here shared with the rest of the Stellantis brands, it’s well put together. Pitching at premium buyers it might struggle a bit, with a launch price of €42,500, but get it out on the road and its entertaining handling will make up for any qualms you might have about the decor.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q3OGWIJTRJA3LGVDPLDL2CPV7Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120270319},"content":"To follow Alfa you need a degree of blind faith. It has promised so much in past, but disappointment lingers around the corner.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VH5JDNIRHBCCBOSGIZ22QR6AYE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120270320},"content":"Sadly, Imparato has handed over the keys of Alfa and moved on. Given the rollercoaster ride at Alfa these past three decades, it’s a retrograde step. Like every cult, a lot about success or failure comes down to the leader.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QHATA5BIQVE6FIVAVT5UFAAJLE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120270321},"content":"If this is his legacy, then he can certainly be proud. If it provides the cash to deliver his promised pipeline of new models, then he may one day be regarded as a motoring saviour – at least among the Alfisti.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6MYLJPKWNVB7RNXTAEIV3O6AKI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120270322},"content":"Alfa Romeo Junior Launch Edition 156HP BEV","type":"header"},{"_id":"7FK6XREKPJEKZJWMMOS5NFCB4Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120270323},"content":"<b>Power </b>A 156hp electric motor powered by a net 51kWh battery pack, driving the front wheels","type":"text"},{"_id":"I33YRXEJI5AELOZYWGYQMKVIIA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120270324},"content":"<b>0-100km/h </b>9.0 secs","type":"text"},{"_id":"S4IGQRZEAZFEHH2FERBT27QXWY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120270325},"content":"<b>Range </b>406km (WLTP)","type":"text"},{"_id":"WACZH2HK35BRBOQQKL7DOM4QWM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120270326},"content":"<b>Consumption</b> 15.3 kWh/100km","type":"text"},{"_id":"N3AHDFW7VNANPBDU73GDSPGLII","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120270327},"content":"<b>Price </b>€42,500 (launch edition price)","type":"text"},{"_id":"M5K4ZHYSXJAW3ENY6HVVLW57SY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120270328},"content":"<b>Our rating</b> 4/5","type":"text"},{"_id":"LP3MGODBE5F7FPERQKAGS7544Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120270329},"content":"<b>Verdict </b>Full-flavour Alfa driving fun for the electric era","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Michael McAleer"}},"name":"Michael McAleer"}]},"description":{"basic":"This finalist for Europe’s Car of the Year is just as exhilarating to drive as many traditional Alfas of old"},"display_date":"2024-11-27T00:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Alfa Romeo Junior EV delivers real driving fun despite seeming sacrilege to the brand’s fans","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"FGCUDX4CXZHVXLKIVEEGFFVGNU","auth":{"1":"66aeb56d482548a41e1a27b8d5e060269b1061a9f89a0bbabb2e8654239e0eb8"},"focal_point":{"x":3595,"y":1890},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/FGCUDX4CXZHVXLKIVEEGFFVGNU.jpg"}},"subtype":"review","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Motors"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/motors/review/2024/11/27/alfa-romeo-junior-ev-delivers-real-driving-fun-despite-seeming-sacrilege-to-the-brands-fans/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/motors","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Motors"}}}},{"_id":"7RRP7OBQ3JG5VOEYFVHM5G7Q3I","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":311,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/025a425c-ce0f-408e-ad07-d5bcdcce8f41/versions/1732546184/media/c597149285980be08c2808e5e4bdf02a_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/motors/2024/11/26/ev-qa-can-making-batteries-in-europe-slash-their-co2-emissions/","content_elements":[{"_id":"7FUVE7K2Z5D7HHPDWDIBBPTOV4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732544645477},"content":"When it comes to <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/electric-vehicles\" target=\"_blank\">electric vehicle</a> batteries, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/china\" target=\"_blank\">China</a> is the king, the alpha, and the 500lb gorilla all rolled into one. Both the Chinese government and Chinese battery manufacturers some years ago set out on a mission to dominate the global market for electric <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/motors\" target=\"_blank\">car</a> battery packs, vacuuming up global supplies of lithium, cobalt and manganese, and setting up an infrastructure to produce EV batteries on a huge scale.","type":"text"},{"_id":"H37VH2XKAZB23PPPHQDLDJL4JA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732544645479},"content":"Consulting group Benchmark Minerals reckons that even by 2030, with all the billions of euro and dollars being invested in setting up gigafactories in Europe, the US, Canada and elsewhere, China will still be making twice as many EV batteries as every other nation combined.","type":"text"},{"_id":"I3SFJEJENJAX3LXIDOBLJ2XHHU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732544645480},"content":"The biggest of them all is the Contemporary Amperex Technology Co Limited, better known as <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/motors/2024/11/22/new-battery-could-mean-phevs-with-a-400km-electric-range/\" target=\"_blank\">CATL</a>. In 2022, CATL made 34 per cent of all the world’s electric car batteries. 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Indeed, it’s primarily down to battery manufacturing that making an electric car generates more CO2 emissions than making an internal combustion-engined car (of course, the combustion car starts to catch up fast once you start driving it around and burning dead dinosaurs in it).","type":"text"},{"_id":"72ARR4FK6VEVLFL3ZIAY2JQJRU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732544645483},"content":"Making batteries in China is slightly more problematic, because so much of China’s electricity production (some 1.04-terawatts, according to Reuters) still comes from coal. According to European eco-think-tank Transport & Environment, it means that each battery made there causes around 120kg of CO2 per kWh of battery capacity. Which means thousands and thousands of tonnes of CO2 for the thousands and thousands of batteries currently being made. 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According to their research, the emissions associated with making batteries could be slashed to just over 40kg of CO2 per kWh if they were made in Europe using largely renewable energy.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JAYTEQGG5JDLTEPX75IL2UEAKY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732544645485},"content":"Even if those batteries were made using the current EU grid average, they would be some 37 per cent more efficient than Chinese batteries.","type":"text"},{"_id":"D4EOSYMYDJG6TGPECHUYQD7EQQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732544645486},"content":"Julia Poliscanova, senior director for vehicles and e-mobility supply chains at T&E, said: “Batteries, and metals that go into them, are the new oil. European leaders will need laser-sharp focus and joined-up thinking to reap their climate and industrial benefits. Strong sustainability requirements, such as the upcoming battery carbon footprint rules, can reward local clean manufacturing. Crucially, Europe needs better instruments under the European Investment Bank and EU Battery Fund to support gigafactory investments.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZC4CUXYCAVCA5CHSS5JUA5VAME","additional_properties":{"_id":1732544645487},"content":"T&E says Europe desperately needs to catch up in terms of battery-making infrastructure, and in the infrastructure to strip batteries back down again and recycle them at the end of their lives – which will eventually become a crucial component in the supply of raw materials for battery factories.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DN57YR5TWNHPXHRLS32I43IMJU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732550303762},"content":"How far behind is Europe?","type":"header"},{"_id":"622C2W5DA5C6BJ5UZ6HIZ52KJA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732544645488},"content":"The report finds Europe has the potential to manufacture 56 per cent of its demand for cathodes – the battery’s most valuable components – by 2030, but only two plants have started commercial operations so far. By the end of this decade, the region could also fulfil all of its processed lithium needs and secure 8-27 per cent of battery minerals from recycling in Europe. But T&E said processing and recycling plants needed EU and state support to scale quickly.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TNXYJRVA4JC4DDUWYIHP5SUPNY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732544645489},"content":"Julia Poliscanova said: “The battery race between China, Europe and the US is intensifying. While some battery investments that were at risk of being lured away by US subsidies have been saved since last year, close to half of planned production is still up for grabs. The EU needs to end any uncertainty over its engine phase-out and set corporate EV targets to assure gigafactory investors that they will have a guaranteed market for their product.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"KE7BVA5EUZFBJHOM64YZBWDW5A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732544645490},"content":"There have been some high-profile casualties in the European battery-making stakes so far, however, such as the failure of the Britishvolt “gigafactory” plans and environmental activists causing havoc at Tesla’s Berlin factory, on the basis that the car maker is riding roughshod over local environment concerns.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RALQOD76KND5PPRO2SEOYIZTBU","additional_properties":{"_id":"WLJONDQDDNGFFJLIDI2QOTJPAM"},"content":"<div class=\"contribly-contribute-v2\" data-client=\"9fc0f2a4-9bf9-4464-8b77-ec351ad0db03\" data-assignment=\"21ca3670-4115-4300-9994-f7f164f2f7aa\" data-display=\"inline\"></div><script type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/contribly-widgets/contribute/contribute-v2.js\"><\/script>","type":"raw_html"},{"_id":"UARJJ6BOIFHI5NRP7DJVTH6TBI","additional_properties":{"_id":"2ZVHPM2DENF6XBN2AAHAJWS74M"},"content":"Can I tow a 1,200kg trailer with an EV?","type":"interstitial_link"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Neil Briscoe"}},"name":"Neil Briscoe"}]},"description":{"basic":"Your EV questions answered: Producing batteries in Europe could make them 60% more carbon-efficient than importing from China, study suggests"},"display_date":"2024-11-26T05:08:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"EV Q&A: Is it possible to reduce the environmental impact of building an electric car?","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"3TINXLBWYFBYOCY5GH2RP7WDLQ","auth":{"1":"dd8d5fcd49669607633de1ef4a393ac5e18c9b3f2baf9cd3f5deefffb27c08a9"},"focal_point":{"x":2140,"y":1820},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/3TINXLBWYFBYOCY5GH2RP7WDLQ.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Motors"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/motors/2024/11/26/ev-qa-can-making-batteries-in-europe-slash-their-co2-emissions/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/motors","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Motors"}}}},{"_id":"G2PZNSZESVAFZAG4EGSOOHLTGM","additional_properties":{},"canonical_url":"/motors/2024/11/22/new-battery-could-mean-phevs-with-a-400km-electric-range/","content_elements":[{"_id":"Q6NORQWZN5EPHNSY7DPKSN6SZU","additional_properties":{"_id":1730824609610},"content":"Plug-in hybrids have been on the receiving end of an awful lot of critical kicks over the past 15 years. Ever since the first truly popular plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (the full official title, PHEV for short) was first introduced in the shape of the Mitsubishi Outlander, there has been a constant flow of criticism.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QX4OZE3HTVC2VKCSSH4DGVQGYM","additional_properties":{"_id":1730824609611},"content":"PHEV models enjoy exceptionally low official CO2 emissions, thanks largely to the fact that the official WLTP test allows them to start with a full battery. 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Worse still, there have been plenty of horror stories of PHEVs being traded in with a pristine charging cable still wrapped in plastic in the boot, suggesting that they had never once been charged (which seems to ignore the possibility that many might have been connected to chargers with built-in cables, but anyway…). The reputation of PHEVs sank so low that influential environmental think-tank Transport & Environment once dubbed PHEVs as ‘fake electric cars’ merely used as an eco-fig leaf by car makers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ABJIAAUGI5H3PJTU3TV4L4D74I","additional_properties":{"_id":1730824609613},"content":"That narrative could be up-ended by new battery technology developments. Chinese battery maker CATL — one of the world’s biggest, which counts the likes of MG, Ford, Volvo, BMW, and Tesla among its clients — says that it has developed a new PHEV-specific battery — called the ‘Freevoy’ — which can stretch the electric range of such cars to more than 400km.","type":"text"},{"_id":"55UYY7DGABBODH7HIV3IB5YSS4","additional_properties":{"_id":1730824609614},"content":"That would indeed be remarkable. The current best-performing EVs, such as the Range Rover P400e and the Skoda Superb, have electric ranges of around 125km on a full charge. That’s the official range, which means of course that the actual useable range will be less. Many PHEVs can claim only a 50km electric range, and often can only manage around 30km or so in real-world condition.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WJVT7YO7OVDTTAI6NTXWZG64HE","additional_properties":{"_id":1730824609615},"content":"CATL’s news could change all of that utterly, with the company claiming that it can now offer PHEV technology “offering the convenience of one charge to power an entire week’s commute.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"DBHKHJRIXZHOZPDWAY7V5EGKXQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1730824609616},"content":"What we don’t know yet is precisely how big and how bulky these batteries are. It’s conceivable that CATL has simply developed a bigger, more powerful PHEV battery and will then leave it up to car companies to decide how to squeeze it into the bodywork of a given vehicle, but the company has previously said that it is developing a new family of batteries which is vastly more energy-dense — and therefore smaller — than current batteries. That technology was originally aimed at creating batteries which would be sufficiently small, light, and powerful enough to be used by aircraft, but it’s certainly possible that CATL is using the same technology to design its new PHEV battery.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LSASEQ46P5E3BOHIC3UNXMRUVA","additional_properties":{"_id":1730824609617},"content":"What we do know is that CATL says that it is also squeezing every possible drop of efficiency out of this battery design, thanks to new cathode designs, and a ten per cent improvement in the battery’s electric utilisation rate — the measure of how much of a battery’s total storage capacity can actually be used at any one time. The Freevoy battery uses a combination of lithium-ion and sodium-ion technology, working side-by-side in the same pack, to achieve its exceptional energy storage figures.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YUDK65HDYZGSHKHOSCW2HWPDMA","additional_properties":{"_id":1730824609618},"content":"CATL’s new battery has another trick up its sleeve; ultra-fast charging. Again, CATL is being coy about releasing a full set of figures, but it has said that the Freevoy can charge up at a rate that allows an extra 280km of range to be added in just ten minutes, using a high-speed CCS DC charger.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WHFOCSE3JREQ5C6NVHWD2V3ZXI","additional_properties":{"_id":1730824609619},"content":"Sounds like fiction? Not so, according to CATL. The battery maker says that it has already signed deals with several Chinese car makers — including Geely, Chery, and GAC — to use the design and that as many as 25 different models using the Freevoy battery are earmarked for production in 2025.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Neil Briscoe"}},"name":"Neil Briscoe"}]},"description":{"basic":"Chinese giant CATL develops a clever battery which could change the hybrid car paradigm"},"display_date":"2024-11-22T13:31:54.506Z","headlines":{"basic":"New battery could mean PHEVs with a 400km electric range","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"5469"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"SZAIJ4SPR3CKJOBLYQ2IPQUC2Q","auth":{"1":"9f9301f5b944e4e434e86ed94b58c7ed661ad4992f04557e0768a72e117a8bfd"},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/SZAIJ4SPR3CKJOBLYQ2IPQUC2Q.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Motors"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/motors/2024/11/22/new-battery-could-mean-phevs-with-a-400km-electric-range/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/motors","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Motors"}}}},{"_id":"YPCSUPIWVJHWRE76AEAGBMMSQY","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":512,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/c90c7e6b-0192-4c8d-9dcc-4ee84d94d7ca/versions/1731424804/media/cd3921048e1208f273144e90e5cf4741_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/motors/review/2024/11/20/test-drive-audis-revised-e-tron-gt-proves-electric-vehicle-fun-doubters-wrong/","content_elements":[{"_id":"5MPGR6BOCFHWBHRFG4YFAH4PFI","additional_properties":{"_id":"IZ4RKE7KVZA2PI6EZF2QXIIM7Y"},"embed":{"config":{},"id":"review-highlights-66437","url":"/"},"subtype":"review_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"OJYZ7ZVHMNCO5GJAY2IWOICYD4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732098510963},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/audi/\" target=\"_blank\">Audi </a>is in something of a crisis at the moment, with one of its factories closing down and sweeping job cuts on the horizon. Carmakers often endure crises, and equally as often come out the other side in the long run. Oddly, it also seems to be the case that when <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/electric-vehicles/\" target=\"_blank\">carmakers </a>enter a big crisis, they often as not produce one of their best cars ever.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ICR7LAFY7JCUDGYHV4RXDSBR3A","additional_properties":{"_id":1731416610643},"content":"It’s happened in the past – not least on two occasions with Rover, the 1976 SD1 and the 1998 75 – but Audi has definitely added to the annals of great cars built in hard times. The e-tron GT S is definitely one of those.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BWWZCVR3QNCRLK45SXHZTDMXLI","additional_properties":{"_id":1731416610644},"content":"For the €139,365 price tag for the basic model, you’d kind of hope it would be at least good. For the frankly-silly options-in price tag of the car we’re driving here, €174,077, you’d expect it to wake you up in the morning with tea and fresh pancakes. It doesn’t quite do that, but it does an awful lot of other good stuff.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WQ3C5EMG3JEY3DGRX3FSN2AKJQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731416610645},"content":"Of course, the e-tron GT has been on sale for three years now, and this updated version looks essentially – bar some tweaks to the lights, bumpers, and the grille at the front – basically the same as before. Ah, but there have been some more fundamental changes under the skin.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PATV2FFKJFC6NKFSGR7OIH64KM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731416610646},"content":"The battery pack is all new for a start, stretching its capacity to 97kWh within the same physical dimensions as the previous model’s 84kWh battery. In fact, it’s actually one while kilo lighter than before. That’s of small comfort when the whole car weighs in at a chonky 2,385kg, but at least it’s a step in the right direction.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7SQCUCWGHNGRBOLYWTFQIAB764","additional_properties":{"_id":1731416610647},"content":"The improved battery pack, aided by <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/electric-vehicles/\" target=\"_blank\">electric motors </a>which manage to be both more powerful and more efficient, means that this e-tron GT S – the entry model of the new e-tron GT line-up – has a claimed one-charge range of 609km.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5WZXYB4CFBGLHKUMY3LRFY4Y3A","additional_properties":{"_id":1731416610648},"content":"Not merely a claimed range, a realistic one. Here is one of the great benefits of taking a bit EV battery and, instead of fitting it to some lofty SUV, instead slotting it into something as low-slung and sleek as the e-tron GT. Drive this car gently and you could easily see that 600km range in real-world conditions. Even with lots of motorway miles and some rapid mountain-road driving, we were seeing a minimum of 550km available on a full charge.","type":"text"},{"_id":"746NRIQCW5BKZEZHJ3Q2YJHNIY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731416610649},"content":"Speaking of which, the e-tron GT S now charges faster than before. It was incredibly rapid already, boasting a maximum 270kW of DC fast charging power. Now, that’s been boosted to 320kW, assuming you can find a charger that’s actually pumping out that kind of power, and in theory you can charge this battery from 10-80 per cent in just 18 minutes. There’s also optional 22kW AC charging for making the most of kerbside charging points.","type":"text"},{"_id":"V5PH3IR72JEDXBZE5G7RGQNDCU","additional_properties":{"_id":"PP22YCM4KBGAXBEPDGCRWUNP2M"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"K4N4LT26Q5GP5KVNQP36JVDYEQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"7XRAC2A73ZEW5NVXGSOTOVH34I"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"24ZGIDHBC5BRRFYNXUCCNDRWE4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731416610650},"content":"If you think that’s brisk charging, wait till you get to the actual performance. Now, I mentioned that this S version is the entry-level e-tron GT model. However, thanks to a new rear electric motor, it has seen its power boosted from an already-impressive 530hp to a frankly silly 679hp. Yes, you have to activate a special Boost mode to unlock all of that power, and it only lasts for a few seconds at a time, but blimey, Charlie this is a quick car. 0-100km/h comes up in 3.4 seconds, by which time all of the blood will have drained from your feet. Incidentally, the top-spec RS e-tron performance model has 910hp.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IFCBH7PEPBBGTK6XJ5BRBDTMPI","additional_properties":{"_id":1731422322700},"content":"So, the e-tron GT S looks good, and goes every bit as well as it looks. Electric cars that are rapid in a straight line are two a penny, though. Heck, MG will sell you a 4 X-Power model which isn’t all that much slower than this six-figure Audi. The complaint that true petrolheads generally throw at electric cars is that they’re all mouth and no trousers. Or, to put it another way, speed is all well and good, but how a car corners and handles is what truly makes it special.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DT7ZZXJTCBA6HBQDR6SYQKOABM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731416610652},"content":"Consider the Audi e-tron GT S special, in that case. All four corners are sprung by adaptive air suspension, which automatically tweaks the ride height to suit your driving, which is good but it does tend to leave the nose at speed-bump scraping height, and the suspension lift button is on the touchscreen – Audi really should have put it on the steering wheel.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4GDQBELO5ZEAHDB5AQWP74PSGY","additional_properties":{"_id":"E7XBWERFCZESTMU5LI5VELJ5VU"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"6XXRLDAI6BGTROSZVONWUHMW7I","additional_properties":{"_id":1731416610653},"content":"Speaking of, the touchscreen is irritating in other ways, notably that it seems to bluntly refuse to accept that you’ve pressed it at times. Thankfully, Audi has left in physical buttons for the air conditioning system.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UZGPWL4LBZENZIP2TVGWWNGAK4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731416610654},"content":"You sit down low in the e-tron GT S, dropping way, way down through those slim doors. Elegant exits are an art form best left to those in their twenties, but you won’t care once you’re in. The steering wheel is oddly squared-off, but it’s reasonably comfortable to hold. You just wish Audi had followed its partner Porsche’s lead and fitted a simpler all-round steering wheel instead.","type":"text"},{"_id":"V3G35MYKX5HI7I6GH7VSNKMAJM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731416610655},"content":"However, that wheel is connected to steering that feels fantastically weighty, and which actually feeds back at least a little information about what’s happening under the fat front Continentals. It’s no Mazda MX-5 in this regard (what is?) but it’s better than almost any other EV out there.","type":"text"},{"_id":"A33PZNECKRG75LITRJ37MHABVA","additional_properties":{"_id":1731416610656},"content":"Find a series of challenging corners and the e-tron GT S really steps up. Yes, the weight is there, and yes you can feel it in the initial steering response which takes half-a-beat to convince that low nose to shrug off its inertia. Once it does so, the e-tron GT S has properly thoroughbred responses. It slices through corners, gently skimming each apex, and feels fabulously flat, poised, and performative. Actually, in many ways it feels much less like an electric car, and much more like an old-school V8 powered super-saloon. Except that there’s no engine noise, and you don’t wake up the entire county when you fancy a spirited drive in the country.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q5553QZTINFKZKA646KL3A3UOE","additional_properties":{"_id":"MUEOHGA2UVAGBHCY5SQYWQ33U4"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"J5CMLNCAIJFBLGLEANRGIY6CK4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731416610657},"content":"Honestly, it’s a remarkable car, and one transformed from its prior self far more than the same-again styling would have you believe. With that lengthy range, handling brilliance, and frankly silly performance, the Audi e-tron GT S is the EV from which the keys had to be aggressively pried from my tightly closed fist. Of course, it’s worth remembering that under the skin, a Porsche Taycan is identical, and actually you can buy a slower, rear-drive Porsche for less than the price of the four-wheel-drive-only Audi.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TCFL6ALN5BHKFE6AKL6YADPIBU","additional_properties":{"_id":1731416610658},"content":"The better news is that, inevitably, this is the one and only sphere where the idea of trickle-down actually works. Pricey six-figure cars get all the good stuff first, so hopefully the brilliant Audi e-tron GT S is a harbinger of more fun, more affordable electric cars to come.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PUUOJRO5BJCW5J7O2RBRJI7TLQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731416610659},"content":"<b>Lowdown: </b>Audi e-tron GT S","type":"text"},{"_id":"PF5RUIMTUNHA7E5PF6HTVHWPHE","additional_properties":{"_id":1731419694283},"content":"<b>Power:</b> 500kW twin e-motors developing 679hp and 740Nm of torque, powering all four wheels via a single-speed automatic transmission.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IRCUFBGNCNFZJPYBYDPAGNIYRE","additional_properties":{"_id":1731419694284},"content":"<b>CO₂ emissions (annual motor tax):</b> 0g/km (€120).","type":"text"},{"_id":"VUSW75V7YNHJ7CFHXOJ6GVLNPY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731419694285},"content":"<b>Electric consumption:</b> 19.7-18.0kWh/100km (WLTP).","type":"text"},{"_id":"AQLITOEEKJFNPFGFLLSCONSJCM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731419694286},"content":"<b>Electric range:</b> 609km (WLTP)","type":"text"},{"_id":"6I3V4FPHHBEGLLMY3SQWJN4OTQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731419694287},"content":"<b>0-100km/h: </b>3.4 seconds","type":"text"},{"_id":"6XMWAX6NTNGZZF5I3GFKCOVC5U","additional_properties":{"_id":1731419694288},"content":"<b>Price:</b> €174,077 as tested, e-tron GT starts from €139,365.","type":"text"},{"_id":"476S2MUMDZFRFL2NEWJWJ4SIKM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731419694289},"content":"<b>Our rating:</b> 4/5.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SPUUWZMXJNB2ZO2KPGP4RO4HB4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731419694290},"content":"<b>Verdict:</b> Proves that EVs can have soul, too.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Neil Briscoe"}},"name":"Neil Briscoe"}]},"description":{"basic":"Impressive power backed up by predictable poise and exceptional range"},"display_date":"2024-11-20T07:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Test drive: Audi’s revised e-tron GT proves electric car fun-doubters wrong","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"N7IJK2ASNVEIDECMBRLNG7U7PI","auth":{"1":"db2206c7864449aa088dec216e1b5e0435683da9e81a07fc2c211e3dd2a2fa76"},"focal_point":{"x":2910,"y":2425},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/N7IJK2ASNVEIDECMBRLNG7U7PI.jpg"}},"subtype":"review","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Motors"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/motors/review/2024/11/20/test-drive-audis-revised-e-tron-gt-proves-electric-vehicle-fun-doubters-wrong/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/motors","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Motors"}}}}],"count":10000,"_id":"e7099f2f9e531e8d3b09040b916053e4ff4f46569eae5f40a206e76dcf12b023"},"expires":1732945756365,"lastModified":1732945456253},"{\"feedOffset\":0,\"feedSize\":5,\"includeSections\":\"/motors\"}":{"data":{"content_elements":[{"_id":"BTW62JBS2FGLJBNYQQHAEIBLRI","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":483,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/8dd9b73c-855c-4951-b45f-13e7104aea3e/versions/1732191057/media/8f46fe78d71ff4ae8163170067b6514c_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/motors/review/2024/11/27/new-dacia-duster-great-value-returns-in-a-much-prettier-package/","content_elements":[{"_id":"SLF52ESYWFAQNK6JRRAOXQ36CQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"L65JMK4W7JDNXD74OYQZUS6YKY"},"embed":{"config":{},"id":"review-highlights-42184","url":"/"},"subtype":"review_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"EHLFOCND55DRLGKCXY4GOMYRQ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732617528891},"content":"There is something so appealing about a <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/motors/\" target=\"_blank\">car</a> that just gets on with its job. A car that sets out its stall, and delivers on its promises. In a world where technological overkill is the order of the day, something that majors on functionality and simplicity feels like a dip in a refreshing pool.","type":"text"},{"_id":"D4V2ZD7CKBEZZIAZQJ7VO7UFTA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120803594},"content":"Perhaps, then, it’s little wonder that <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/dacia/\" target=\"_blank\">Dacia</a> leads the field in several key European markets when it comes to actual customers putting their own hands in their own pockets to buy a new car. Filter out the (often heavily discounted) company car and fleet sales, and this is what people are actually buying.","type":"text"},{"_id":"I4MIOFLA4REV5O2Y46E4VN4GSU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120803595},"content":"So the new Duster has to tread a delicate line. 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The brake lights are in one unit, and don’t stretch across the boot lid, which would have required extra bulbs, extra wiring and extra validation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JPDFR4RDDJHOREAGZUKQ23BCKU","additional_properties":{"_id":"TNWECWOUVRH2LNHF53XDS6UE5Y"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"S7LKXVAQZZD6VBAC4JC7TX327I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120803602},"content":"The rear door handles are simple plastic flaps integrated into the top rear of the door itself, rather than a pricier painted handle which would have to be integrated into the rear wheel arch flare. 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It powers those four wheels via a six-speed manual gearbox, and there’s a Land Rover-style selection switch on the centre console that allows you to tweak and tune the four-wheel drive and traction control settings to suit the immediate terrain.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3RH5MNAMHNGQVHW3GQSBRTRWCM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120803608},"content":"Thus equipped, the Duster – low-geared in first and second – will slither happily about in the mud and mire, thanks to standard-fit all-terrain tyres for the 4WD model. It’s really quite capable, but does that mean you pay a penalty when you’re back on tarmac?","type":"text"},{"_id":"J7TVRT5V2RDJNBWYJOETCW2NZA","additional_properties":{"_id":"TMETX5SW7JBRRELBVVLGQXJCVM"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"LYJAVC6Q65E6BLKXYY36H3OY4U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120803610},"content":"Not really, no. Dacia has given the Duster relatively soft suspension – well, are you buying this in place of a hot hatch? – which allows a degree of body roll, but it’s an agreeable degree. The softness of the springs also means that urban lumps and country road potholes won’t trouble you much. The steering doesn’t have much feel, but it’s well-weighted enough and the Duster feels fundamentally decent to drive. Only a touch of wind noise at higher speeds, along with a sense of breathlessness in those low gears, attempt to spoil the show and neither, to be honest, are much of an issue.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DNEYC2CNUVCRTIQBGRORJIJGCU","additional_properties":{"_id":"TLUIMOYZ6BD53OLXZXQ2QLYSQY"},"content":"Can the Ford Explorer arrive late to the EV party and still impress?","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"LJHDAA36LRBWJAL2N7JW5E6ZLM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732617528913},"content":"Fuel economy is also decent, and we averaged slightly more than 6.0 litres per 100km. If you want to do better than that, skip this four-wheel drive model and go for the front-drive hybrid model instead, which most customers presumably will do. There’s also a basic 1.0-litre three-cylinder turbo petrol for the entry-level model, which does the job just fine.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EBDEJWEYXVF5ZFXWJM5Z5ALP4U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120803612},"content":"Doing the job just fine is basically how the Duster goes about life. That’s why it is one of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/motors/2024/11/15/seven-shortlisted-for-europes-car-of-the-year/\" target=\"_blank\">seven finalists for Europe’s Car of the Year</a>. It’s a really well-thought out, well-executed car that remains affordable, but feels like less of a hair-shirt experience than once it would have. It’s practical, affordable, simple, and surprisingly good to drive. Honestly, what more do you want from a new car?","type":"text"},{"_id":"KSVLQLOXO5HYDFNJLGT6OGQCG4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120803613},"content":"<b>Lowdown: Dacia Duster 1.2 130 4x4 Extreme</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"EH6NCOTJRJCWJDV2VIUGC7FEXI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120803614},"content":"<b>Power: </b>1.2 litre three-cylinder turbo petrol engine with 130hp and 230Nm of torque driving the front wheels through a six gearbox.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3SPBCV3VBZGCDLF57NXXGVB3T4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120803615},"content":"<b>0-100km/h: </b>11.0 secs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"55IAVLOYXFCQ7DJFSWABKD25BY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120803616},"content":"<b>Emissions (motor tax):</b> 135g/km (€210).","type":"text"},{"_id":"N45YWAVBFFGITNU4YHZALRQRRI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120803617},"content":"<b>Fuel consumption:</b> 6.1l/100km (WLTP).","type":"text"},{"_id":"77UE3TRB2RBXNHAFDGYVSWA464","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120803618},"content":"<b>Price:</b> €34,840 as tested. Duster from €25,990.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GV4FRPWHVVA7LPELLYTS77Z2ZE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120803619},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"JE2GKCXI2BA6TF7ND4BSE4DGKQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120803620},"content":"<b>Verdict: </b>As well-thought-out a car as you can currently buy. 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Having resurrected the fortunes of Peugeot, it was time for the French man to work his magic in northern Italy.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6JNEMNIKBNETDDYEOOA3H5JD7I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120270302},"content":"His first priority was to improve quality and reliability. That’s a long-term effort, but the initial signs have been good. The Tonale may be a bit lacklustre on the road, but it does seem to be holding together well. And the pipeline of new models promise to put the Scudetto grille back in the mix with German premium brands.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6UBCFTGJSZG43OLA6CJ36L5CQU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120270303},"content":"But to fund its product offensive, it needs a steady flow of cash. And that’s where the Junior comes in. Alfa engineers may love a saloon, but they can’t ignore the public’s preference for a crossover.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QN3J3GGEKFHIVLL6MEHRDNY6ZA","additional_properties":{"_id":"5B7VYLM5J5FR5LRUMK3W7GTZNI"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"JSEDT7Z6NBAWBDHPGF7YQH4LQI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120270304},"content":"The good news for the Alfisti is that Junior is not just a cash cow, it’s a surprisingly impressive car to drive, both in terms of it being a crossover and also an EV. And that’s being recognised already: the Junior is one of the seven finalists for <a href=\"https://www.caroftheyear.org/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Europe’s Car of the Year</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NKZO4EQ6FJHHPLRYI5KNPBGN4A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120270305},"content":"Of course, it’s not sold only as an EV. Junior comes with a selection of powertrain options: a 136hp 1.2-litre petrol regular hybrid or an all-electric in either 156hp or 280hp output (both front-wheel drive). 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But as a follow-up to the rather lacklustre Tonale, it’s a reminder of why so many people fell in love with Alfas in the first place.","type":"text"},{"_id":"X4PWXAZRDBHSHGENI5LPVBTR7A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120270314},"content":"In design terms, the crossover is squat enough to resemble a hatchback profile, while the high rear tailgate has touches of Kia’s current EV6, but links back to Alfa heritage as well.","type":"text"},{"_id":"F5DUQGDIJRBXVBGC5QIGWRJKDA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120270315},"content":"The plastic grille on the electric version is going to divide the crowd, but it’s a competent take on what is a vestigial feature in any event; they might as well have included a toy gearstick inside the car and added a V8 soundtrack.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4QTIT2R5OREP5MMSFKG4Y4HK2Q","additional_properties":{"_id":"4RRWJ46XNNBFHNWG4EVCJ37ZZM"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"GWRREROHFFEGZPUSO2SMJLA6FE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120270317},"content":"The interior is dark, at least on our test car. Trying to retain the sports car feel, it perhaps leans too much to the past and does itself a disservice in feeling at times a little dated.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KYWZ3GIAQNBAZM45HESD3OZSDA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120270318},"content":"It’s a solid effort, and while there are plenty of parts here shared with the rest of the Stellantis brands, it’s well put together. Pitching at premium buyers it might struggle a bit, with a launch price of €42,500, but get it out on the road and its entertaining handling will make up for any qualms you might have about the decor.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q3OGWIJTRJA3LGVDPLDL2CPV7Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120270319},"content":"To follow Alfa you need a degree of blind faith. It has promised so much in past, but disappointment lingers around the corner.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VH5JDNIRHBCCBOSGIZ22QR6AYE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120270320},"content":"Sadly, Imparato has handed over the keys of Alfa and moved on. Given the rollercoaster ride at Alfa these past three decades, it’s a retrograde step. Like every cult, a lot about success or failure comes down to the leader.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QHATA5BIQVE6FIVAVT5UFAAJLE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732120270321},"content":"If this is his legacy, then he can certainly be proud. 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Indeed, it’s primarily down to battery manufacturing that making an electric car generates more CO2 emissions than making an internal combustion-engined car (of course, the combustion car starts to catch up fast once you start driving it around and burning dead dinosaurs in it).","type":"text"},{"_id":"72ARR4FK6VEVLFL3ZIAY2JQJRU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732544645483},"content":"Making batteries in China is slightly more problematic, because so much of China’s electricity production (some 1.04-terawatts, according to Reuters) still comes from coal. According to European eco-think-tank Transport & Environment, it means that each battery made there causes around 120kg of CO2 per kWh of battery capacity. Which means thousands and thousands of tonnes of CO2 for the thousands and thousands of batteries currently being made. 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According to their research, the emissions associated with making batteries could be slashed to just over 40kg of CO2 per kWh if they were made in Europe using largely renewable energy.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JAYTEQGG5JDLTEPX75IL2UEAKY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732544645485},"content":"Even if those batteries were made using the current EU grid average, they would be some 37 per cent more efficient than Chinese batteries.","type":"text"},{"_id":"D4EOSYMYDJG6TGPECHUYQD7EQQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732544645486},"content":"Julia Poliscanova, senior director for vehicles and e-mobility supply chains at T&E, said: “Batteries, and metals that go into them, are the new oil. European leaders will need laser-sharp focus and joined-up thinking to reap their climate and industrial benefits. Strong sustainability requirements, such as the upcoming battery carbon footprint rules, can reward local clean manufacturing. 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Worse still, there have been plenty of horror stories of PHEVs being traded in with a pristine charging cable still wrapped in plastic in the boot, suggesting that they had never once been charged (which seems to ignore the possibility that many might have been connected to chargers with built-in cables, but anyway…). The reputation of PHEVs sank so low that influential environmental think-tank Transport & Environment once dubbed PHEVs as ‘fake electric cars’ merely used as an eco-fig leaf by car makers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ABJIAAUGI5H3PJTU3TV4L4D74I","additional_properties":{"_id":1730824609613},"content":"That narrative could be up-ended by new battery technology developments. Chinese battery maker CATL — one of the world’s biggest, which counts the likes of MG, Ford, Volvo, BMW, and Tesla among its clients — says that it has developed a new PHEV-specific battery — called the ‘Freevoy’ — which can stretch the electric range of such cars to more than 400km.","type":"text"},{"_id":"55UYY7DGABBODH7HIV3IB5YSS4","additional_properties":{"_id":1730824609614},"content":"That would indeed be remarkable. The current best-performing EVs, such as the Range Rover P400e and the Skoda Superb, have electric ranges of around 125km on a full charge. That’s the official range, which means of course that the actual useable range will be less. Many PHEVs can claim only a 50km electric range, and often can only manage around 30km or so in real-world condition.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WJVT7YO7OVDTTAI6NTXWZG64HE","additional_properties":{"_id":1730824609615},"content":"CATL’s news could change all of that utterly, with the company claiming that it can now offer PHEV technology “offering the convenience of one charge to power an entire week’s commute.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"DBHKHJRIXZHOZPDWAY7V5EGKXQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1730824609616},"content":"What we don’t know yet is precisely how big and how bulky these batteries are. It’s conceivable that CATL has simply developed a bigger, more powerful PHEV battery and will then leave it up to car companies to decide how to squeeze it into the bodywork of a given vehicle, but the company has previously said that it is developing a new family of batteries which is vastly more energy-dense — and therefore smaller — than current batteries. 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Carmakers often endure crises, and equally as often come out the other side in the long run. Oddly, it also seems to be the case that when <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/electric-vehicles/\" target=\"_blank\">carmakers </a>enter a big crisis, they often as not produce one of their best cars ever.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ICR7LAFY7JCUDGYHV4RXDSBR3A","additional_properties":{"_id":1731416610643},"content":"It’s happened in the past – not least on two occasions with Rover, the 1976 SD1 and the 1998 75 – but Audi has definitely added to the annals of great cars built in hard times. The e-tron GT S is definitely one of those.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BWWZCVR3QNCRLK45SXHZTDMXLI","additional_properties":{"_id":1731416610644},"content":"For the €139,365 price tag for the basic model, you’d kind of hope it would be at least good. For the frankly-silly options-in price tag of the car we’re driving here, €174,077, you’d expect it to wake you up in the morning with tea and fresh pancakes. It doesn’t quite do that, but it does an awful lot of other good stuff.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WQ3C5EMG3JEY3DGRX3FSN2AKJQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731416610645},"content":"Of course, the e-tron GT has been on sale for three years now, and this updated version looks essentially – bar some tweaks to the lights, bumpers, and the grille at the front – basically the same as before. Ah, but there have been some more fundamental changes under the skin.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PATV2FFKJFC6NKFSGR7OIH64KM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731416610646},"content":"The battery pack is all new for a start, stretching its capacity to 97kWh within the same physical dimensions as the previous model’s 84kWh battery. In fact, it’s actually one while kilo lighter than before. That’s of small comfort when the whole car weighs in at a chonky 2,385kg, but at least it’s a step in the right direction.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7SQCUCWGHNGRBOLYWTFQIAB764","additional_properties":{"_id":1731416610647},"content":"The improved battery pack, aided by <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/electric-vehicles/\" target=\"_blank\">electric motors </a>which manage to be both more powerful and more efficient, means that this e-tron GT S – the entry model of the new e-tron GT line-up – has a claimed one-charge range of 609km.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5WZXYB4CFBGLHKUMY3LRFY4Y3A","additional_properties":{"_id":1731416610648},"content":"Not merely a claimed range, a realistic one. Here is one of the great benefits of taking a bit EV battery and, instead of fitting it to some lofty SUV, instead slotting it into something as low-slung and sleek as the e-tron GT. Drive this car gently and you could easily see that 600km range in real-world conditions. Even with lots of motorway miles and some rapid mountain-road driving, we were seeing a minimum of 550km available on a full charge.","type":"text"},{"_id":"746NRIQCW5BKZEZHJ3Q2YJHNIY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731416610649},"content":"Speaking of which, the e-tron GT S now charges faster than before. It was incredibly rapid already, boasting a maximum 270kW of DC fast charging power. Now, that’s been boosted to 320kW, assuming you can find a charger that’s actually pumping out that kind of power, and in theory you can charge this battery from 10-80 per cent in just 18 minutes. There’s also optional 22kW AC charging for making the most of kerbside charging points.","type":"text"},{"_id":"V5PH3IR72JEDXBZE5G7RGQNDCU","additional_properties":{"_id":"PP22YCM4KBGAXBEPDGCRWUNP2M"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"K4N4LT26Q5GP5KVNQP36JVDYEQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"7XRAC2A73ZEW5NVXGSOTOVH34I"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"24ZGIDHBC5BRRFYNXUCCNDRWE4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731416610650},"content":"If you think that’s brisk charging, wait till you get to the actual performance. Now, I mentioned that this S version is the entry-level e-tron GT model. However, thanks to a new rear electric motor, it has seen its power boosted from an already-impressive 530hp to a frankly silly 679hp. Yes, you have to activate a special Boost mode to unlock all of that power, and it only lasts for a few seconds at a time, but blimey, Charlie this is a quick car. 0-100km/h comes up in 3.4 seconds, by which time all of the blood will have drained from your feet. 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All four corners are sprung by adaptive air suspension, which automatically tweaks the ride height to suit your driving, which is good but it does tend to leave the nose at speed-bump scraping height, and the suspension lift button is on the touchscreen – Audi really should have put it on the steering wheel.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4GDQBELO5ZEAHDB5AQWP74PSGY","additional_properties":{"_id":"E7XBWERFCZESTMU5LI5VELJ5VU"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"6XXRLDAI6BGTROSZVONWUHMW7I","additional_properties":{"_id":1731416610653},"content":"Speaking of, the touchscreen is irritating in other ways, notably that it seems to bluntly refuse to accept that you’ve pressed it at times. Thankfully, Audi has left in physical buttons for the air conditioning system.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UZGPWL4LBZENZIP2TVGWWNGAK4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731416610654},"content":"You sit down low in the e-tron GT S, dropping way, way down through those slim doors. Elegant exits are an art form best left to those in their twenties, but you won’t care once you’re in. The steering wheel is oddly squared-off, but it’s reasonably comfortable to hold. You just wish Audi had followed its partner Porsche’s lead and fitted a simpler all-round steering wheel instead.","type":"text"},{"_id":"V3G35MYKX5HI7I6GH7VSNKMAJM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731416610655},"content":"However, that wheel is connected to steering that feels fantastically weighty, and which actually feeds back at least a little information about what’s happening under the fat front Continentals. It’s no Mazda MX-5 in this regard (what is?) but it’s better than almost any other EV out there.","type":"text"},{"_id":"A33PZNECKRG75LITRJ37MHABVA","additional_properties":{"_id":1731416610656},"content":"Find a series of challenging corners and the e-tron GT S really steps up. Yes, the weight is there, and yes you can feel it in the initial steering response which takes half-a-beat to convince that low nose to shrug off its inertia. Once it does so, the e-tron GT S has properly thoroughbred responses. It slices through corners, gently skimming each apex, and feels fabulously flat, poised, and performative. Actually, in many ways it feels much less like an electric car, and much more like an old-school V8 powered super-saloon. Except that there’s no engine noise, and you don’t wake up the entire county when you fancy a spirited drive in the country.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q5553QZTINFKZKA646KL3A3UOE","additional_properties":{"_id":"MUEOHGA2UVAGBHCY5SQYWQ33U4"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"J5CMLNCAIJFBLGLEANRGIY6CK4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731416610657},"content":"Honestly, it’s a remarkable car, and one transformed from its prior self far more than the same-again styling would have you believe. With that lengthy range, handling brilliance, and frankly silly performance, the Audi e-tron GT S is the EV from which the keys had to be aggressively pried from my tightly closed fist. Of course, it’s worth remembering that under the skin, a Porsche Taycan is identical, and actually you can buy a slower, rear-drive Porsche for less than the price of the four-wheel-drive-only Audi.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TCFL6ALN5BHKFE6AKL6YADPIBU","additional_properties":{"_id":1731416610658},"content":"The better news is that, inevitably, this is the one and only sphere where the idea of trickle-down actually works. Pricey six-figure cars get all the good stuff first, so hopefully the brilliant Audi e-tron GT S is a harbinger of more fun, more affordable electric cars to come.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PUUOJRO5BJCW5J7O2RBRJI7TLQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731416610659},"content":"<b>Lowdown: </b>Audi e-tron GT S","type":"text"},{"_id":"PF5RUIMTUNHA7E5PF6HTVHWPHE","additional_properties":{"_id":1731419694283},"content":"<b>Power:</b> 500kW twin e-motors developing 679hp and 740Nm of torque, powering all four wheels via a single-speed automatic transmission.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IRCUFBGNCNFZJPYBYDPAGNIYRE","additional_properties":{"_id":1731419694284},"content":"<b>CO₂ emissions (annual motor tax):</b> 0g/km (€120).","type":"text"},{"_id":"VUSW75V7YNHJ7CFHXOJ6GVLNPY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731419694285},"content":"<b>Electric consumption:</b> 19.7-18.0kWh/100km (WLTP).","type":"text"},{"_id":"AQLITOEEKJFNPFGFLLSCONSJCM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731419694286},"content":"<b>Electric range:</b> 609km (WLTP)","type":"text"},{"_id":"6I3V4FPHHBEGLLMY3SQWJN4OTQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731419694287},"content":"<b>0-100km/h: </b>3.4 seconds","type":"text"},{"_id":"6XMWAX6NTNGZZF5I3GFKCOVC5U","additional_properties":{"_id":1731419694288},"content":"<b>Price:</b> €174,077 as tested, e-tron GT starts from €139,365.","type":"text"},{"_id":"476S2MUMDZFRFL2NEWJWJ4SIKM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731419694289},"content":"<b>Our rating:</b> 4/5.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SPUUWZMXJNB2ZO2KPGP4RO4HB4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731419694290},"content":"<b>Verdict:</b> Proves that EVs can have soul, too.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Neil Briscoe"}},"name":"Neil Briscoe"}]},"description":{"basic":"Impressive power backed up by predictable poise and exceptional range"},"display_date":"2024-11-20T07:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Test drive: Audi’s revised e-tron GT proves electric car fun-doubters wrong","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"N7IJK2ASNVEIDECMBRLNG7U7PI","auth":{"1":"db2206c7864449aa088dec216e1b5e0435683da9e81a07fc2c211e3dd2a2fa76"},"focal_point":{"x":2910,"y":2425},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/N7IJK2ASNVEIDECMBRLNG7U7PI.jpg"}},"subtype":"review","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Motors"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/motors/review/2024/11/20/test-drive-audis-revised-e-tron-gt-proves-electric-vehicle-fun-doubters-wrong/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/motors","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Motors"}}}}],"count":10000,"_id":"e7099f2f9e531e8d3b09040b916053e4ff4f46569eae5f40a206e76dcf12b023"},"expires":1732945753967,"lastModified":1732945453850}},"most-popular":{"{\"feature\":\"numbered-list\",\"size\":5}":{"data":{"content_elements":[{"_id":"LLJDLUQCK5B7FCO6KKIZIKGWVE","headlines":{"basic":"Election 2024 exit poll: Sinn Féin, Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil on course for photo finish "},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"T5HAJLXTDRHPNC25KW4GG2HCAI","auth":{"1":"2c1a2169fc2f6fdb28fd59afbb5ab8bbc96bd8517c01248ce0727713afd25f12"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/T5HAJLXTDRHPNC25KW4GG2HCAI.jpg"}},"websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_url":"/politics/2024/11/29/election-2024-exit-poll-photo-finish-with-sinn-fein-on-211-fine-gael-21-fianna-fail-195/"}}},{"_id":"XRRD5YWUF5F2PKK7FYZCURMVEM","headlines":{"basic":"Election 2024 live updates: Analysis and reaction as exit poll shows tight race, but what do these results mean?"},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"DIVGAD2FFVE2VNQRZXJEPWJOYU","auth":{"1":"56a51fc50533a7c0870294191408289e9344f62b416c68999d734f33be6e7b56"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/DIVGAD2FFVE2VNQRZXJEPWJOYU.gif"}},"websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_url":"/politics/2024/11/29/election-2024-live-updates-voting-begins-at-polling-stations-around-the-country/"}}},{"_id":"63QDIXFJ3NDYVBKSK6HHBALV6A","headlines":{"basic":"Exit poll suggests Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil will be in driving seat to re-establish coalition"},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"T2RLFLPVDBEX3KNWGDBRW72JGI","auth":{"1":"1d9c930c8a67396404719766bccb9f7d237191befa0a1c0b6b8d63deb0a04e07"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/T2RLFLPVDBEX3KNWGDBRW72JGI.jpg"}},"websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_url":"/politics/2024/11/30/election-2024-exit-poll-analysis-fine-gael-and-fianna-fail-will-be-in-driving-seat-to-re-establish-coalition/"}}},{"_id":"SDDF4Y47FBHMZACNDMELPIZYJI","headlines":{"basic":"Dee Devlin is not Conor McGregor’s moral keeper. 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