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href="/podcasts/the-counter-ruck/is-irelands-production-line-of-talent-beginning-to-falter/">Is Ireland’s production line of talent beginning to falter?</a></h3><div class="b-flex-promo-card__audio"><button aria-label="Listen to Is Ireland’s production line of talent beginning to falter?" class="c-button c-button--small c-button--primary-reverse" type="button"><svg class="c-icon" width="48" height="48" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 512 512" fill="currentColor" aria-hidden="true" focusable="false"><path d="M425 215C439.3 223.8 448 239.3 448 256C448 272.7 439.3 288.2 425 296.1L137.03 472.1C122.21 482 103.66 482.4 88.52 473.9C73.377 465.4 64 449.4 64 432V80C64 62.64 73.377 46.63 88.52 38.13C103.66 29.64 122.21 29.99 137.03 39.04L425 215Z"></path></svg></button><span class="b-flex-promo-card__audio-text">Listen | 36:31</span></div></div></div></article></div></div><div class="c-stack grid-item " data-style-direction="vertical" data-style-justification="start" 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472.1C122.21 482 103.66 482.4 88.52 473.9C73.377 465.4 64 449.4 64 432V80C64 62.64 73.377 46.63 88.52 38.13C103.66 29.64 122.21 29.99 137.03 39.04L425 215Z"></path></svg></button><span class="b-flex-promo-card__audio-text">Listen | 29:51</span></div></div></div></article></div></div></div></div></div><hr class="c-divider b-it-divider-block"/><div class="c-grid b-it-header-block"><div class="b-it-header-block__header-block font-normal "><a class="c-link b-it-header-block__link font-normal" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/podcasts/ross-ocarroll-kelly/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"><div class="c-stack b-it-header-block__heading-h5 font-normal" data-style-direction="horizontal" data-style-justification="start" data-style-alignment="center" data-style-inline="false" data-style-wrap="nowrap"><div class="c-stack headline-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:0"><h2 as="h5" class="c-heading font-normal margin_none"><span class=" font-normal">ROSS O'CARROLL-KELLY<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="14" height="24" viewBox="0 0 14 24" fill="none" fill-rule="evenodd" clip-rule="evenodd" class="c-icon"><path d="M1.13096 0.799122C1.80974 0.102652 2.7203 -0.288062 3.25008 0.255525L13.3161 10.5835C14.2279 11.4523 14.228 12.9331 13.3161 13.802L3.78 23.0857C2.92237 23.9029 2.18997 24.7165 0.637788 22.9345C-0.650965 21.455 0.273466 20.6414 1.1311 19.8243L8.71733 12.5593C8.91647 12.3686 8.92364 12.0527 8.73336 11.8531L0.748709 3.47961C-0.108924 2.6625 0.0713963 1.88627 1.13096 0.799122Z"></path></svg></span></h2></div></div><span class="visually-hidden">Opens in new window</span></a></div></div><div id="lazy_41002" class="lazy_container"><div class="b-flex-chain"><div class="b-flex-chain__grid-container b-flex-chain__grid-container__222222 has-divider gap-divider"><div class="c-stack grid-item " 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Of course, my father despised her and he made that very clear. He saw her for what she was. He used to call her The Prospector. We fell out over her. Very badly in fact. He slapped me hard across the face – it was after I bought her the ring – and told me I was a stupid boy.","type":"text"},{"_id":"STS5XTKLPFCNTPFN5TL3TPVGLE","subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"RL2W3JIMHJCQ7E7D56YIATGNUY","additional_properties":{"_id":1740742853853},"content":"“Anyway, as time went on, and there was no talk of an actual wedding, Fionnuala started to become impatient. Eventually, I was presented with the ultimatum – marry me or I’m gone. 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I can’t talk to you while you’re standing above me like that. Look, I’ll swim to where it’s shallower. You take your clothes off.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"ULEHR2BDHBEJLNLRRTKVTSWGFU","additional_properties":{},"content":"I’m there, “But I’ve no actual swimming togs with me.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"FZPTVTXQUNFHZINM34MYHITNDY","additional_properties":{},"content":"She’s like, “Oh, you’re a prude now, are you? How many times have I walked in on you while you were going at yourself?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"B2XOAMYWYBBEHJYSC625453G2M","additional_properties":{},"content":"I’m there, “The whole boundaries thing was a conversation we never had, wasn’t it?” as I stort unbuttoning my shirt. “Actually, turn around, will you?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"VBHFOPYNLFFATK6GJFGFJE6OXU","additional_properties":{},"content":"I strip down to my boxers. I can always drive home commando. 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I just need to know if what you said was true.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"MWTZJV2C5VCMREOBXBPLX3LY7U","additional_properties":{},"content":"She goes, “Hold my hands.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"MNXLG25IKNEERMMBWILXKXVU44","additional_properties":{},"content":"I’m like. “Seriously?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"PLZ4IVMMTJFWJABY5VVNEKPBSI","additional_properties":{},"content":"She grabs a hold of them.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XVWWIZRJTREFDLZZ3WPBYZCNH4","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Now,” she goes, “I’m going to count to three and then I want you to stort kicking your legs, okay?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"NOXYGZHXT5BQFCIEMX6JNDQ42E","additional_properties":{},"content":"I’m there, “I don’t know about this.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"EQZRNC5UC5GFXHPJHSXJDBFCAI","subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"BWCBM7LZ65D73LHDGFEBLBLHBI","additional_properties":{},"content":"She goes, “Do you trust me?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"G4YDDP3SXNAA7CRJWCGC7LEF6Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"I’m like, “Absolutely not. Never have, never will.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"VHSHD6UHXFG3BHUD5LMWDNVXGU","additional_properties":{},"content":"She goes, “One ... two ... THREE!”","type":"text"},{"_id":"DKIWNJ4NFJDTZPGTOBDJYKVUDE","additional_properties":{},"content":"And then she tugs violently on my famous guns. I end up falling forward and losing the old footing.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RSMNEXYKWJF6PKUXUAS7AYL4FI","additional_properties":{},"content":"She’s like, “Kick your legs, Ross! Kick them! Kick them!”","type":"text"},{"_id":"7HNUHEMIZ5HHLPZS53JUFGWFHQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Which is what I end up doing, while she walks backwards, pulling me through the water.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JRGPWRFDQZEKTGH4CAWHGJ3O5Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"“That’s it!” she goes. “Kick horder! Kick horder!”","type":"text"},{"_id":"UW4KJMAJXNC4DPM4G4NHJAR5MA","additional_properties":{},"content":"I can feel myself sort of, like, rising up in the water.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NCNRMGM4MVB3JGW7KAWC72VCCM","additional_properties":{},"content":"She goes, “That’s it! Look at you!”","type":"text"},{"_id":"YZKVD5MW6ZGFFNF7VUH43W4HOM","additional_properties":{},"content":"I’m there, “Okay, now tell me,” as my mouth fills up with water. “Do I have a brother or a sister out th–”","type":"text"},{"_id":"LQYABXDSZVDAHBEGIQ4WEENKQU","additional_properties":{},"content":"She’s like, “Don’t talk while you’re swimming, Ross. You’ll swallow half the pool. Right, now I’m going to let go of your hands–”","type":"text"},{"_id":"LG653QRIYNA5XPN5VSLC3HTJ3Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"I’m there, “No!”","type":"text"},{"_id":"HFGHZDWNSJDKPATC7NWJSVC2JY","additional_properties":{},"content":"She goes, “ – and I want you to use those big, strong orms of yours to power yourself through the water.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"VE7ZI737EJAAJDD2Z4Y5QESKFM","additional_properties":{},"content":"I’m like, “Don’t let go of me.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"EC3ENJ3YZVA7BKB43GKVPAZMYA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Except it’s too late. She already has. And suddenly I’m thrashing at the water with – like she said, in fairness to me – my big, strong orms and I can hear her going, “You’re swimming, Ross! You’re swimming!”","type":"text"},{"_id":"XPS6UKT4YRE73OIGRXXQT2GMIM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Except I’m <i>not</i>? I can suddenly feel myself sinking to the bottom and my nostrils filling with water and I’m storting to panic now, convinced that I’m going to, like, <i>drown</i>?","type":"text"},{"_id":"7MWP26BWWJH2NGIXCHJEFK2DVM","additional_properties":{},"content":"All of a sudden, I feel two hands grabbing at me and a few seconds later I’m pulled to the surface, then I’m lying on my back and I’m being dragged backwards through the water towards the edge of the pool.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WTWCZ55KXBDV7NI3NCFB4L53YA","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Breathe!” a voice says. “You must breathe!”","type":"text"},{"_id":"CVZP74KMQJGFZPR6YJVEXUMBLQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"I open my eyes and it ends up being Dalisay. She’s still in her nurse’s outfit, which is soaking wet, which ordinarily would be a major turn-on for me, but I’m trying to take in huge gulps of air to, like, stay alive.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RTAMB3I3JFE73MZVO2TFEBDTFE","additional_properties":{},"content":"She’s like, “Visitors are not allowed in the pool.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"CA4Z4SKFLNDWXEWMEZV33MMC2U","additional_properties":{},"content":"The old dear goes, “I just remembered why he couldn’t swim. His body isn’t buoyant for some strange reason.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"M6DU5FCXT5AQLJI2K3JJFC4AJI","additional_properties":{},"content":"At this point, she’s out of the pool and she’s, like, towelling herself off.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4V6XRYHE4JC4RL3RC34RSJIY7E","additional_properties":{},"content":"I’m there, “You told me to get in! The only reason I came here was–”","type":"text"},{"_id":"SAERBLYITZDADAEXIRN5ZONMMY","additional_properties":{},"content":"And she goes, “It was a little boy, Ross. 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Wouldn’t be my type.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"M3WJHAONU5HITD763L2YUWIPAY","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Well, she obviously was once.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"K42W3G3NZBAOLI3KE6D6LH3A3Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Yeah, no, that was a long time ago.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"XW2PSB2CSJCARGAG3RBOQVSU2A","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Do you ever think about her?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"BOS3VNWIDRFILGRNWETMFWE7O4","additional_properties":{},"content":"“In terms of?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"S4MPGFIATZD2RJMBBEEQSC6LNY","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Well, what might have happened if, you know – ”","type":"text"},{"_id":"BS3TE44A35C3JFPIOXZRTKPBPU","additional_properties":{},"content":"“What, if Hennessy Coghlan-O’Hara hadn’t sent her a letter denying paternity and ordering her to stay away from me and my family for the first six years of Ronan’s life?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"IC7BKUIW7BA4VFJ6DFQP7TGCIM","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Yes, that.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"ET6PGKPVRBF6NPAFMB5DBADYAE","additional_properties":{},"content":"“No, I’m happy for the girl. Although I’m not denying that there’s something about seeing my exes move on with their lives that pisses me off.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"ME2AHQYOOZG77F6SB52BPMFH6Y","subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"WTTYPQLN3BHKRD3AEAY334DHTM","additional_properties":{},"content":"“That’s a weird thing to say.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"IQW4RKQ6EBER3FU63YEMMGAPVE","additional_properties":{},"content":"“You did ask.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"NNJAOAD4PNBAPAOHEBRAXCH3GE","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Rosser,” a voice suddenly goes, “you bleaten tulip!”","type":"text"},{"_id":"EODCVM65ONACJLFWYHA42TAFEI","additional_properties":{},"content":"I turn around and – yeah, no – it ends up being the man himself, home for two weeks.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YXZGJTVZUBBCFJV5N6SBYUYZZE","additional_properties":{},"content":"I’m there, “Hey, Ro, how the hell are you?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"DVOLH6AVOFDGTJCTGQ6K56ZJS4","additional_properties":{},"content":"He goes, “How the hell <i>orrrrrr</i> you?” doing an impression of me. “Sudeka, how’s things? You look beautiful, so you do.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"IHKZR5QBPVFETPVJDY5MHJZSXI","additional_properties":{},"content":"She’s like, “It’s so lovely to see you, Ronan. And great that you could make it home for your mom’s engagement porty.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"YB7GUE4L6JGM7CTNCUMELHYHH4","additional_properties":{},"content":"He goes, “I wouldn’t have missed it for all the muddy in the wurdled.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"FUKA22APF5BPRL6TBUFHFB46GI","additional_properties":{},"content":"His Dublin accent has become even stronger since he moved to the States. He’s obviously hamming it up like Irish people do on their J1ers because the yanks think it’s cute.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WWGOMKVDSZD7RBGBA4UYGJK45I","additional_properties":{},"content":"I’m there, “So how’s college?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"BF5LPQVQMBGOLMXBSXEW7MODJ4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Yeah, no, some law firm in New York is paying for him to go to Horvard.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3VNKENZNJRBG3KVXPO7XUBWP3M","additional_properties":{},"content":"He’s like, “It’s going moostard, so it is, Rosser. And what about you, are you coaching addyone?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"SDYXL2B6IZBEHNB72TAPXOCMPI","additional_properties":{},"content":"I’m there, “Er, kind of <i>between</i> coaching roles at the moment, Ro?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"QS44HCM47NELPODZ46CQZCVR5E","additional_properties":{},"content":"“You know, me ma’s new fedda played for Beernhall.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"SQYPKI4CONBJ3LLNXJTPEQFJ2Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"“We’ve been introduced.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"YFQNPXOORJFHLPYUPSTYPAOCGU","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Tree-hundoord-and-odd matches in the AIL, Rosser.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"7OUYZLGN4VBQ7OWOSAPHEUHVNI","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Bornhall, though.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"YZXGX4THBZEQZBBM7LD56A2EJQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"“It’s a lot more matches than you ebber played.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"FRGFMRCHYRDVXGCMC47E3MCLAA","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I’m going to get a drink.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"EICCCWR4HBFBBKRFQQSF2222NY","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Get a rowund in, Rosser.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"TA7A453HMBFT7GE556RXUNXJTM","additional_properties":{},"content":"So – yeah, no – I tip up to the bor. Tina is standing there with the famous Anto, her brother. We exchange pleasantries. If I hadn’t swapped homes with him for two weeks in 1996, as part of Castlerock College’s well-meaning but disastrous Urban Plunge Exchange Programme, I would never have met Tina and there would be no Ronan.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2FMVVQFHOFBC7GN7WPRJF6KEAQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"After a minute or two, he focks off, leaving me alone with his sister.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LIA3QFULZNEIBD5FWOJUDOKBFM","additional_properties":{},"content":"I’m there, “You look really happy.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"6TVTRNJZLFFSBHS2HJRDIGA5QU","additional_properties":{},"content":"She goes, “Does that bother you?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"COLVMUZ63ZD5DDRFXHCQLWXKAM","additional_properties":{},"content":"“A bit. So you’re really doing it then? You’re getting married?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"76TNCGMN75HCPORKIVAPUSMPBA","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I love him, Rosser.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"5EHVSRWFVFAVBHUOEVSW4G4FKQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"“That’s a good enough reason, I suppose.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"P6K3I3SX65HDRBXJYHJDUKAWVM","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Here, Rosser, look.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"EQEAC3EQIVD3RMERQXBCJK2SCQ","subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"EDDMYX5VIZGFZFEXJIYXL64AXM","additional_properties":{},"content":"She’s pointing at Ronan, who’s now shooting the shit with his mates, Nudger, Stacks of Money and Buckets of Blood.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HBDRVFN7U5HAXERGCPRB3XJRT4","additional_properties":{},"content":"She goes, “We made that.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"MY2NP7K355ANLM7AUFOSA4XO4U","additional_properties":{},"content":"I’m there, “We did, didn’t we? I can’t believe he’s going to be 28 this year.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"IEMQSOSAMJBAJJW2HWIVNMPSKY","additional_properties":{},"content":"She smiles to herself.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CUZYNEOK3JGXZGITVLVYRACAMQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"She goes, “I’ll never forget the day you turned up at me door to meet him for the first time.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"R3IBYQKMYJA5HJJMOMNQGQH4IU","additional_properties":{},"content":"I’m there, “I was gicking myself.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"4N66BWRLJ5HHHED3FSHJUITROQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"“He took one look at you and he said, ‘This sham? What in the name of Jaysus were you thinking, Ma?’ Do you remember that?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"JZ4BB62MJFEXJNO3MPKK7O23EE","additional_properties":{},"content":"“My son’s first words? Of course I do.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"LE5UTS4FXRDAJCD6ZHYJL3R2HI","additional_properties":{},"content":"“He said, ‘The fooken state of him – big fat rugby head on him.’”","type":"text"},{"_id":"EV3PYU36O5ECVAQYZONLIVOVEA","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Yeah, I said I <i>remember</i>, Tina?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"XGL5D5HOZBFVJFRUB5T5F3AHKE","additional_properties":{},"content":"“And then you took him into town for the day.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"7UP7CTEJG5GVZD3W3PRM352KJQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"“To Dr Quirkey’s Good Time Emporium. He got thrown out for kicking the coin cascades to try to make the money fall. Happy days. And do you remember the time you asked me to talk to him about the birds and the bees?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y6ZBE6EGJRBNBECQHO7OJ6P5UQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"“What happened there?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"FFFNDOJQ5BERVN6YFK44R7DUKA","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Ten years old, Tina. I said to him, ‘Ro, I need to have the big chat with you about sex.’ And he said, ‘Game ball. What are you wanting to know, Rosser?’”","type":"text"},{"_id":"CYSJYR6DQNFVPNC2N3S26MVWDI","additional_properties":{},"content":"She laughs, then she’s suddenly serious.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XV2UURVMIVEZLNXJV5TLNCX5CY","additional_properties":{},"content":"She goes, “I know it was hard on you – when he moved away.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"WRGDPOT7E5BSBCAWPRW7AX5NYI","additional_properties":{},"content":"I’m there, “We had to get him away from Hennessy. He corrupted my old man. I couldn’t stand by and watch him corrupt my son.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"6KUUDW26ZFDNHMSWBOE6OE3RWY","additional_properties":{},"content":"“He’s making a great life for himself over there, Rosser. College. Has a girlfriend. A job waiting for him in New York. None of it would have happened without you.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZTXDRPCSAZB6BDZJXPPUM4SHI4","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I don’t know that that’s true.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q373FZOOCVGKXIOMINUFDLEIGE","additional_properties":{},"content":"“He says it himself – the day you knocked on our door was the luckiest day of his life.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"PP73SCFGOZDYPBITME5UP7TZEI","additional_properties":{},"content":"“He never says anything like that to me.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"ET3MFXV4WVE53GZLNMK64GSHBQ","subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"NFVICXGKBNERVARBJUA4Q4BXYQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"At that moment, he shouts across the bor, “Rosser, you spanner – are you getting them in or what?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"JSXKVOLLJFFNTJ7V3BH5H44BI4","additional_properties":{},"content":"I’m there, “I’ll be over in a minute.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"B7QDKR6T3RDW5L5DDJ3QG3QLTA","additional_properties":{},"content":"She goes, “He’s too cool to ever admit it to your face.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"MJR3OIE3ZNGFZA6F6SQKSYIWVU","additional_properties":{},"content":"I’m like, “And what about you, Tina?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"WPYYG4GSPJHVRPLFRCEWUFTUBU","additional_properties":{},"content":"“What about me?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"YXG6BKZPUJEHBB6GLC4IDT3PLI","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Do you ever wonder what might have happened between us if Hennessy hadn’t sent you those cease-and-desist letters?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"6HEUFAWIQ5CIJB77V7AL2PL5OQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Are you asking me do I think <i>we’d</i> have gotten married?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"F2REBQW4MFCMBA2R4GTXH65PZ4","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I suppose I am. I wonder what that would have been like.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"7Y7XJE2FZJHHFGVUNF47RPP4X4","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Wouldn’t have lasted.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"6WXFE4IJCZH3JMQO6Z56KSQ4S4","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Why do you say that?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"7WZKV7VPTFHU3GQBYAGWDTUNFE","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Because you’d have cheated on me the same way you cheated on Sorcha. I wouldn’t have put up with it like she does.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"DAO6VWQPKJD2FECQHHDM6OZVYA","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I think I still have feelings for you.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"IN6UU3ACZFF4NKFDX6GDDJNBQE","additional_properties":{},"content":"“You don’t, Rosser. You just want what you can’t have.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"FTNYD5EOWJCNNJSD35Q32RT7DI","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Three-hundred appearances in the AIL – in fairness to him.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"O7QUNM2ZZBF6PATHXVENMQKBLM","additional_properties":{},"content":"All of a sudden, I notice Hennessy lurching over to talk to Ronan, no doubt to try to get him to come home and work for him, doing evil.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LMEN5T7ZNFFQTKURXI6ECHIDEQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"I’m there, “I better break this up before it becomes a thing.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"6CJSPSM3ONGNRCHGXAZLEVR3OI","additional_properties":{},"content":"She goes, “Good idea,” then as I’m moving away from her, she’s like, “I do, Rosser. 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In the seven weeks of the Gaza ceasefire, Israel has also massively intensified its deadly attacks on Palestinian communities in the West Bank, forcing some 40,000 from their homes.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XV5YCSBLBBFPFJZCNFKKX3DLRA","additional_properties":{"_id":1742136031832},"content":"On Thursday,<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/middle-east/2025/03/13/un-experts-accuse-israel-of-genocidal-acts-and-sexual-violence-in-gaza/\" target=\"_blank\"> a UN human rights committee</a> accused Israel of targeting hospitals and other health facilities in Gaza that provide reproductive services, including an IVF clinic where thousands of embryos were destroyed, in what it called an effort to prevent Palestinian births.","type":"text"},{"_id":"62K5AOAZ6NBP5HI7P33VDAJBSM","additional_properties":{"_id":1742136031833},"content":"The second talks round of the ceasefire process was to begin two weeks ago, during which the parties were supposed to agree a permanent ceasefire and the full withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza. But Israel is now demanding that Hamas release half the remaining hostages on day one, rather than in a sequenced manner.","type":"text"},{"_id":"S73DXRNUCJHBXMK7FMTLCEFZXI","additional_properties":{"_id":1742136031834},"content":"Hamas is believed to still hold 24 living hostages in Gaza and the remains of 35 others. Despite pressure from mediators Qatar and Egypt and the US<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/middle-east/2025/03/14/hamas-to-hand-over-american-hostage-held-in-gaza/\" target=\"_blank\">, it is thought unlikely to give up many</a> ahead of an agreement providing for a long-term settlement. It sees them as its bargaining chips in talks tentatively beginning in Qatar.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YGE36IC2FJDJ7CXGMKGDNLCL4U","additional_properties":{"_id":1742136031835},"content":"This illegal abuse of civilians by both sides must stop..","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[]},"description":{"basic":"Israel’s blockage of aid deliveries is punishing the civilian population"},"display_date":"2025-03-16T20:15:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"The Irish Times view of events in Gaza: despite the ceasefire, civilians are still suffering","native":"Despite the Gaza ceasefire, civilians are still suffering"},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"MKN4A6AO3VAMW52BLSHYFFHTFA","auth":{"1":"6014853173da303cc11b707c07b9beb87bbda082cc72286a353ad143e78fe927"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/MKN4A6AO3VAMW52BLSHYFFHTFA.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Editorials"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/opinion/editorials/2025/03/16/the-irish-times-view-of-events-in-gaza-despite-the-ceasefire-civilians-are-still-suffering/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/opinion/editorials","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Editorials"}}}},{"_id":"GTVNSPCRDNBTNBZIKF7VJ4BQUY","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":304,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/83869315-cd96-41b4-b430-8fdda6367083/versions/1741977460/media/6d5589bf9318756c267bfb787d2e9f6d_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/opinion/an-irish-diary/2025/03/16/an-irish-diary-the-days-when-one-third-of-torontos-population-was-born-in-ireland/","content_elements":[{"_id":"5WNQLGCK4RDFDBXSLSMIFUGOAU","additional_properties":{"_id":1646672616301},"content":"It is a common misconception that Irish transatlantic emigration began with the Famine. In reality, while it did increase hugely during the years of the Great Hunger, the Irish had begun to migrate to British North America – of which Canada was part of – much earlier. By 1846, almost 450,000 Irish had arrived in Canada, creating a large Irish community there.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2YGDYW5N3RB2FDEWSTFIO5YHQA","additional_properties":{"_id":1742140606614},"content":"As the fastest growing city in Upper Canada, as it was known until 1841, Toronto saw many Irish arrive on its shores. By the end of the 19th century almost one-third of Toronto’s population was born in Ireland, a greater percentage at that stage than New York or Boston. In the summer of 1847 alone, 40,000 Irish immigrants arrived in Toronto, more than twice the population of the city at that time.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VUUVDWG2MBF4NCA7OPVXN2YFEE","additional_properties":{"_id":1741626204338},"content":"While the United States saw an influx of Catholic immigrants from Ireland, Canada proved to be a more attractive destination for Protestants. Seen as a place of loyalism and defiance since the war of 1812, Toronto soon began to earn a reputation as the “Belfast of North America”. Irish Protestant dominance was so profound that from the mid to late 19th century, and well into the 20th century, the local branch of the Orange Order in Toronto dominated many of the city’s institutions.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VQ4BAFU6X5F4RJAYVB4PZUDALI","additional_properties":{"_id":1742140606616},"content":"The mayor’s office, fire department and police department were all controlled by Protestant majorities, making it very difficult for Irish Catholics to find work and any sort of upward social mobility. By the late 19th century it was clear that the most ancient of Irish phenomena, sectarianism, was alive and well in Canada’s largest growing city. With sectarian tension building, the city was like a tinderbox and the proverbial match was soon struck over 7,000km away in Rome.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QGYLPF6N25FNXPSHAMWYDATYAE","additional_properties":{"_id":1741626204339},"content":"On December 24th, 1874, Pope Pius IX issued the Papal Encyclical Gravibus Ecclesiae which designated 1875 as a jubilee year. Citing the “corruption of sound doctrine and the spreading of impiety, widespread scandals, the spreading corruption of morals”, Pius IX offered special indulgence to any Catholics who paraded from church to church within a city.","type":"text"},{"_id":"67ZB6VWUD5CKRKUOQF3ONRTMKM","additional_properties":{"_id":1742140606618},"content":"Catholic pilgrims advertised for such a march to take from the Bishops Palace to St Michael’s Cathedral in the Irish Canadian newspaper. Almost immediately a petition was sent to Mayor Francis Medcalf to have the procession banned. Mr Medcalf allowed the march to take place on the condition that Catholics would march peacefully. However, it wasn’t long before stone-throwing between pilgrims and protesters broke out on Spadina Avenue and Queen Street. It soon spread to neighbouring streets. Toronto police formed a human chain to shield Catholic pilgrims from missiles. Shots were fired on nearby Simcoe Street before the rioters were eventually dispersed by a police baton charge.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XGNVOOMFFJEZZF7VEV3OKOBWNY","additional_properties":{"_id":1741626204340},"content":"A second attempt to hold the procession took place on October 3rd and led to much more severe rioting. Stone-throwing began at McGill Square before eventually spreading to other areas of the city. Full pitched battles between Catholic pilgrims and Protestants demonstrators began to engulf the city. The violence was eventually ended when the mayor ordered in the cavalry to protect Catholic pilgrims.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FY57TDYRO5ESHN2Z3AQJMCNLKQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1742140606620},"content":"Parades continued to be flashpoints between Catholics and Protestants in Toronto and both the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/st-patrick-s-day/\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/st-patrick-s-day/\">St Patrick’s Day</a> and Twelfth of July parades were occasionally banned in the city in the decades that followed due to the civil disturbances that broke out.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WWJFIDEC7BCGHCOSCL5DNXLNK4","additional_properties":{"_id":1741626204341},"content":"In the aftermath of the “Jubilee Riots”, as they became known, the celebration of St Patrick’s Day fell out of favour with Catholic Torontonians. It is often believed that the parade was banned from the 1870s until the first contemporary parade in 1988. However, in reality the practise was simply replaced by luncheons, concerts and theatrical productions organised by the Irish expatriate community in the city.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HV5PXDLP6VDJRKI7IAPSNALV5I","additional_properties":{"_id":1742140606622},"content":"The first modern-day parade in 1988 was a much different affair from the “Jubilee Riots”, with 1,000 participants in 88 marching groups, bands and floats taking part in the city’s first such celebration in more than a century. According to the Toronto Star, the city’s paper of record: “It was a grand day for the Irish and a proud one for Toronto, the Orange marched along with the Green, amid flutes and pipes, drums and fiddles, harps, laughter, floats, leprechauns and the massed flags of the 32 counties of the Emerald Isle.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"GZFIGFEIGNAUDMS7OBMOCMPGT4","additional_properties":{"_id":1741626204343},"content":"As festivities wound down a local Irish businessman remarked to a news reporter that the city had “finally laid its ugly ghost to rest”.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Marc McMenamin "}]},"description":{"basic":"Remembering the days when one-third of Toronto’s population was born in Ireland "},"display_date":"2025-03-16T19:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"An Irish Diary on the St Patrick’s Day riots in 19th-century Toronto ","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"PBFXSH5G24252LADIOM66KY5GE","auth":{"1":"d5a4d36ef337e29c6ca1016df94aed0af7a44eceabbe465dc289eaf0d99a3467"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/PBFXSH5G24252LADIOM66KY5GE.jpg"}},"subtype":"columnist","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"An Irish Diary"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/opinion/an-irish-diary/2025/03/16/an-irish-diary-the-days-when-one-third-of-torontos-population-was-born-in-ireland/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/opinion/an-irish-diary","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"An Irish Diary"}}}},{"_id":"AJJZ46J35NHUTLERZ7NONZF6K4","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":377,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/5469/podcasts/d12af1ce-10ec-4b08-a015-7925a3a71dfc/versions/1741964553/media/88481b0592bddc6e6a5c4027f89b5c8e_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/opinion/2025/03/16/future-of-dart-west-extension-should-not-hang-on-interests-of-two-businesses/","content_elements":[{"_id":"DUVZEX4GYVB4DIFIDESTKFOIMU","additional_properties":{"_id":1741946593642},"content":"The expansion of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dublin/\">Dublin</a>’s <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/dart/\">Dart</a> network is a vital cog in planning for the capital city.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LSIC46ZM55FERDZUWEXCAVM7YU","additional_properties":{"_id":1741971871264},"content":"Better public transport improves people’s lives and saves them from painful commutes. In turn, this helps reduce transport emissions. These transport links are central to spatial planning and so-called compact housing development. Fail on public transport, and a central plank of Ireland’s climate strategy is broken. And with the completion of the last commuter rail project, the Luas cross-city, now more than seven years in the past, there is a lot of catching up to do.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NHUL6FQG7NCXBFFFVLFDNOZWKM","additional_properties":{"_id":1741949480464},"content":"Big infrastructure projects take time. And while construction is part of this, so is our planning process. And as the first big Dart expansion – the Dart West project to improve services out to Maynooth and Dunboyne – now shows,<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/transport/2025/03/04/new-dart-west-extension-to-maynooth-faces-judicial-review-challenges/\" target=\"_blank\"> when objectors go to court, </a>everyone has to hold their breath to see what emerges.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CKZKB4UB6JB3DAFQKVF7GOT754","additional_properties":{"_id":1741971871266},"content":"Like many big projects, this was first mooted in the early 2000s and subsequently put on hold following the financial crash. Now the future timeline – and perhaps shape – of this key project depends on what happens over a few days in the High Court in June, following objections from two local businesses which will be seriously affected.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MM5UJZQEWJFUFMG4W54ZDD3NQM","additional_properties":{"_id":1741971871267},"content":"And this will be a key marker in the wider plans to expand the wider Dart network in a sequences of projects.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SMWNGH724BGIPJTPUJM6OG2COE","additional_properties":{"_id":1741949480465},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/editorials/2024/07/31/the-irish-times-view-on-dart-west-very-slow-train-coming/\" target=\"_blank\">Dart+ West</a>, as it is formally known, is designed to double train services along the Maynooth line from six to 12 per hour, increasing hourly passenger capacity from 5,000 to more than 13,000 each way. It is a significant piece of work, including a new station at Spencer Dock in Dublin and the electrification of the rail line to Maynooth and the M3 Parkway near Dunboyne. It involves the closure of level crossings, and the building of new bridges, underpasses and station infrastructure.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JCLKETUXRZHG5MMSCNH7FLHKEU","additional_properties":{"_id":1741971871269},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.dartplus.ie/en-ie/projects/dart-west\" target=\"_blank\">Read the planning and consultation documents </a>and you get a sense of the big challenges in retrofitting existing rail lines that run through urban areas. As the old saying of the reply to the person looking for direction in rural Ireland goes: “If I was you, I wouldn’t start from here.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"AZMTUGZF5JBN7PW2QPGVTYXK3Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1741949480466},"content":"The Dart West project first went to consultation in 2020<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dublin/2022/07/25/dart-west-project-application-to-be-submitted-to-an-bord-pleanala/\" target=\"_blank\"> and to Bord Pleanála in 2022</a> and<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/transport/2024/07/30/plan-for-dart-extension-to-maynooth-gets-green-light/\" target=\"_blank\"> emerged two years later</a> with the granting of a Railway Order, effectively the go-ahead to start building. The timeline reflects the complexity of the planning process and the regulations involved – including consultations with those affected, environmental impact studies, interactions with planners and so on.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3CMQGTKVWZATNEFEFFX4SEQVAU","additional_properties":{"_id":1741971871271},"content":"The procurement process for building the project is now under way, with construction due to start in late 2026.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FDA23Q2PT5EKHNVNUVTAHFISRU","additional_properties":{"_id":1741949480467},"content":"But now there is a new risk of delay. Two companies in Ashtown, which is near the Phoenix Park and along the railway line, are taking judicial review proceedings to object to the Railway Order. These proceedings will be heard in June and the outcome is, by its nature, unpredictable. Until the proceedings are decided, the Railway Order remains on hold.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JM3P24FKQJDVPK3FCDZUKETSI4","additional_properties":{"_id":1741953768527},"content":"The proceedings are from two adjacent businesses in Ashtown – a branch of Gowan Motors, a car sales company, and Burke Brothers, a hardware and electrical wholesaler. Part of the land on which both operate would be the subject of a compulsory purchase order. According to consultation documents published by Dart West, a range of options were considered for Ashtown, a complex challenge involving the replacement of a level crossing with an underpass.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7JPVFHLRXZBJBPS74XVZ6F6QSI","additional_properties":{"_id":1741971871274},"content":"The one chosen was judged to be the best and least disruptive generally. But the impact on Gowan Motors was said to be “severe” and on Burke Brothers even more serious, or “profound” in the planning jargon. For Burke Brothers, the documents say that “it would require this business to operate at a reduced scale on the existing site or to move to a new location to ensure the continuity of the business”. A large number of submissions expressed concern about this.","type":"text"},{"_id":"43KBDX7JSZFRBPKQ7YWXARQSBY","additional_properties":{"_id":1741957119300},"content":"A few things seem clear here. This project needs to go ahead as quickly as possible. A 50-year-old wholesaler and a car sales business have a right to try to safeguard their future. And in a rational process there has to be a way to sort this out – even if it involves compensation to allow for the relocation of one or even both of the businesses in excess of what would be received under the compulsory purchaser order for the land involved.","type":"text"},{"_id":"S3UM3RPTKFAXFBMU7NQ236ETXY","additional_properties":{"_id":1741957119301},"content":"While we don’t know what the judicial review proceedings will seek, the companies in their submissions during the planning consultations have noted other options for Ashtown that could have been chosen.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RCD4MLBYEBHTDI5QZAB7HXLFV4","additional_properties":{"_id":1741971871277},"content":"They have also taken issue with some of the processes. Were the court to direct that these options need to be looked at again, or that the planning process was not properly followed, further delays would occur. The new planning court is dealing with issues much more expeditiously and is, presumably, developing its expertise. But it is still not its job to look at the wider interest of the community, beyond what is laid down in legislation. It has to decide on the legal arguments.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TAHBVIMRYFFO3KXBN7T4JSCZ24","additional_properties":{"_id":1741957119302},"content":"We have seen before how long Humpty Dumpty can take to be put together again when planning issues go to court. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/judge-rules-against-500m-clonshaugh-wastewater-plant-1.4418048\" target=\"_blank\">A High Court decision in 2020 </a>on a single objection to a large wastewater project in Clonshaugh in north Dublin quashed the existing planning permission and sent the project back to An Bord Pleanála.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SNO6YIRFSBE4FOXATHU6QLAA2Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1741971871279},"content":"The reason was that Irish Water had not fulfilled obligations under the Waste Water Discharge Regulations to seek observations from the Environmental Protection Agency on wastewater discharges. This project is required to underpin the building of houses on land across north County Dublin and commercial development, because the Ringsend facility is operating above capacity.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DCZP3ZGR2JDH7I7KVXNP6UBC6U","additional_properties":{"_id":1741957119303},"content":"The case shows that the courts, rather than seeking a solution to a procedural problem, can often upend a project timeline fundamentally. The overly complex web of processes and procedures with which those promoting big projects have to comply gives ample room for objectors. Somewhere in all of this, the wider public good is all too often not getting sufficient weight.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IZPR6IJO7RA4ZGD47SPGZWRRBU","additional_properties":{"_id":1741971871281},"content":"When a big project goes to court, everyone is forced to hold their breath. And with large public investment planned in the coming years, there is going to be a lot more of this to come.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Cliff Taylor"}},"name":"Cliff Taylor"}]},"description":{"basic":"The firms must try to safeguard their future, but the project has to proceed. There has to be a way to resolve this "},"display_date":"2025-03-16T07:05:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Dart West’s completion should not depend on how it affects two businesses ","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"5469"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"H4T2MS6BQZFBXK66H3ABO4POWU","auth":{"1":"0f1cfcb6102b21709a469ee785b7faa0ed29873db27c74e320decf2edbda6331"},"focal_point":{"x":684,"y":407},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/H4T2MS6BQZFBXK66H3ABO4POWU.jpg"},"lead_art":{"_id":"JTR5ZAJRLQE3EXD372LPN2R6VA","type":"image"}},"subtype":"columnist","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Opinion"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/opinion/2025/03/16/future-of-dart-west-extension-should-not-hang-on-interests-of-two-businesses/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/opinion","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Opinion"}}}},{"_id":"BIBWH347U5AUJIUZZNCJX66OQ4","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":397,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/288c43c1-6841-4bbd-87be-4873aaa7ce5b/versions/1741876941/media/41f6d73fb4f3cca1e25478b4c495f911_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/opinion/2025/03/16/micheal-martin-chuckling-about-the-lack-of-housing-was-a-stark-reminder-of-irelands-identity-crisis/","content_elements":[{"_id":"EHM3ZFYNZ5FUNG7NDLMH6UVXDY","additional_properties":{"_id":1741870333826},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/st-patrick/\" target=\"_blank\">St Patrick’s Day</a> can be a bizarre day for Irish people, and never more so than this year.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NNJ46CQYCZGLFBKFTHW5PHP4XM","additional_properties":{"_id":1741870333827},"content":"As Taoiseach <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/micheal-martin/\" target=\"_blank\">Micheál Martin</a> guffawed “that’s a good answer” to US president <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump</a>’s description of the Irish <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/housing-crisis/\" target=\"_blank\">housing crisis</a> as a “good problem” and a symptom of Ireland “doing so well”, it’s hard to say precisely where we stand on the diplomacy front. To stay in the good graces of an unpredictable US, Martin was the picture of submissiveness on <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/03/13/martin-sat-smiling-and-nodding-struggling-to-interject-but-there-was-no-mistaking-it-this-was-the-donalds-show/\" target=\"_blank\">his Washington trip</a> – so deferential to Trump that it seemed as though he could still smell Ukrainian president <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/volodymyr-zelenskiy/\" target=\"_blank\">Volodymyr Zelenskiy</a>’s fright on the air. He had the look of a boy who feared being embarrassed in front of the class.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3TIYTNFU35HU5H5BY3P6XHKOCA","additional_properties":{"_id":1741870333828},"content":"The mention of the housing issues was a stark reminder of Ireland’s roiling identity crisis. We have always been a nation of people who sometimes happen not to be living in Ireland, usually given overwhelming economic conditions that have, at various points in history, driven us out in search of another kind of life. When our nationhood was a contested concept, we understood Irishness to be a shared condition that could flourish separately from the land itself. The Irish in Britain and America held a claim to the identity that was not just respected, but very much needed and affirmed, at home.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FGMNYM5VLBAW5EBZEXCEVZSIZU","additional_properties":{"_id":1741870333829},"content":"The present reality is different. With increased <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/immigration/\" target=\"_self\">immigration</a>, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2024/08/27/immigration-to-ireland-hits-17-year-high-as-emigration-also-rises/\" target=\"_blank\">once-again rising emigration</a>, and rapid social change accelerated by generational shifts in attitude, technology and ideas, Irish identity has never been less straightforward.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5GFTAKLS7BAONEAHVHYIHI47CI","additional_properties":{"_id":1741870333830},"content":"It may be easier to say what it isn’t. The hyper-commercialised “Irish” national brand that dominates at this time of year may be all in good fun, but it bears little resemblance to anything authentically Irish. As we grapple with complex questions of belonging, home and national identity, much of the world indulges in a performative caricature of our culture that can range from “fond (if largely inaccurate)” to “a bit embarrassing for all involved, really”. And overall, it’s fine. We’re used to it. We profit from it. It is a symptom of the affable goodwill much of the world still has toward us. We don’t take it for granted, even if we disdain some of the forms that goodwill takes (we’re not big on artificial ginger beards or green vomit).","type":"text"},{"_id":"JRNKL3TAZVC3XK4Y3YG5JEE7UE","additional_properties":{"_id":1741853659533},"content":"That goodwill can sometimes entail a bigotry of low expectation. Our international reputation for scholarship and letters seems rivalled only by our international reputation as Europe’s drunken eejits, but this too we tolerate. Irish people have better things to do than get offended. If French tourists want to come to Dublin and fritter away a month’s salary on overpriced beer and inflammable polyester hats, we’re happy enough to let them. If a guy from Ohio wants to Sellotape cardboard buckles on to his New Balance trainers and ask what a Tayto sandwich is before telling us about his Irishness at the decibel level of a small aircraft, we can bring ourselves to nod politely for one afternoon a year.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FMT6JPLBCNGWDHOF3ZU37XUY3E","additional_properties":{"_id":1741853659534},"content":"We operate on a collective understanding that while St Patrick’s Day is our day of national celebration, it is also a day of international PR. It’s a diplomatic occasion on which we maintain global relevance, showcase what Martin knowingly called “a good defensive style” when it comes to awkward questions about trade deficits, and the Irish diaspora is encouraged to renew their links to Ireland, even if people who actually live in Ireland are secretly grumbling about how that diaspora isn’t really Irish at all.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EL4LQHUUNJCXDCNNIE6RLUOWSE","additional_properties":{"_id":1741853659535},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"U74X6VKRQRFXTE6FBU44M5J3RE","additional_properties":{"_id":1741853659536},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"DZM7KC4KAZGBNHR6SC6GHQNQO4","additional_properties":{"_id":1741853659537},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"6L2E3XQHKBHYPMRE5NLW2RS2NY","additional_properties":{"_id":1741870333836},"content":"This is one of the more benign manifestations of a virulent disagreement and tension over what constitutes Irishness broadly, and over who is entitled to police or to claim it. Conversations about birthright, citizenship, ancestry, culture and language are taking place even as there is debate over the right of the sprawling diaspora to lay claim to Irish identity from abroad. This is all unfolding amid the pervasive feeling among some sections of the population that there are “real” Irish people and then there are “the others”, whether those others are immigrants or emigrants.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NFHQQM2WZRCHFF4ODJBZMTXYYQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1741870333837},"content":"Despite our reputation for friendliness and generosity, we sometimes seem to be clutching Irish identity in a pinched fist. We struggle to reconcile our long history of migration with growing unease about immigration – an unease which is considered too unpalatable to be directly addressed by most politicians, but which is clearly unsustainable to ignore. A shifting political landscape across the West is sufficient evidence that this avoidance is not constructive.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RLZ4B5YQTVAMVPPD2LZBDS4BGI","additional_properties":{"_id":1741981664233},"content":"Irishness is as vague a concept as there is. When you leave, that vagueness only escalates","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"V7EGRSKGRVE5DK5M7ROCNH773A","additional_properties":{"_id":1741870333838},"content":"And then there are the generations that feel locked out. While our leaders represent our interests on the world stage by chuckling about the housing crisis, Ireland is once again experiencing an exodus of younger people. A fresh wave of emigration continues, with the number of those emigrating at its highest level in a decade, as the Central Statistics Office confirms that approximately four in 10 Irish people aged between 18 and 34 live with their parents.","type":"text"},{"_id":"K6JOV3PKWZAEFDJHRGHUOGWXDM","additional_properties":{"_id":1741870333839},"content":"Emigrants who move to avoid a life in the box room are viewed with both nostalgia and resentment. During a recent radio segment in which Pat Kenny asked a young Irish journalist about her recent move to Sydney and her planned swim across Sydney harbour, Kenny read a begrudging text from a listener that was the equivalent of “we have good swimming at home”. We do indeed. If only 41 per cent of 18- to 34-year-olds could live underwater.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GENXIB4KBFEFXPB43VA5VJ5AQI","additional_properties":{"_id":1741853659539},"content":"Hopefully some of these emigrants will return. We have a reputation for coming back as well as for leaving, after all. The Ireland they return to will need to make room for them, their new habits, expectations and experience. They may bring back with them a generation raised elsewhere.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HZ27NGDSX5CQ3PIUJG3BFS57QA","additional_properties":{"_id":1741870333841},"content":"Clearly, a vibrant and open conversation about what it means to be Irish – and what Irishness looks like in a complex world – is now more important than ever. Many among us have become accustomed to focusing our energy on what and who isn’t Irish. As other nations dabble in our culture and identity and our politicians sell a pastiche around the world this week, Irish people may be better served by considering what Irishness really is and, without deference to the vicissitudes of an erratic international climate, who we want to be.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Laura Kennedy"}},"name":"Laura Kennedy"}]},"description":{"basic":"We sometimes seem to be clutching Irish identity in a pinched fist. We struggle to reconcile our long history of migration with a generation locked out of Ireland over housing and growing unease about immigration"},"display_date":"2025-03-16T06:45:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Micheál Martin chuckling about the lack of housing was a stark reminder of Ireland’s identity crisis","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"CLZ5ZFROUDBWVCTXZOI2PQXCCQ","auth":{"1":"4a7d09186801ac85778a7978e0aec26902d5356abd4ecbec58ef19c94b897715"},"focal_point":{"x":1124,"y":372},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/CLZ5ZFROUDBWVCTXZOI2PQXCCQ.jpg"}},"subtype":"opinion","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Opinion"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/opinion/2025/03/16/micheal-martin-chuckling-about-the-lack-of-housing-was-a-stark-reminder-of-irelands-identity-crisis/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/opinion","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Opinion"}}}},{"_id":"JNPAHNX7PVF47P26A47EDRXDRA","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":326,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/4f6648b2-76a6-4c69-90d5-5d19c9db2fe4/versions/1741957547/media/52f2f25e289c69ca9df31f4781495815_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/opinion/2025/03/16/is-it-wrong-to-treat-lent-as-purely-a-time-for-self-improvement/","content_elements":[{"_id":"XPFDQAHEM5EQDJVC2PZ5GSV2VQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1741952977779},"content":"It’s funny how giving things up for Lent has persisted in Ireland as one of the remnants of Catholic culture, while elsewhere, cultural customs originating in Catholicism are much more colourful and celebratory.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UODBLHYXQBA7HHT7OWQIT4U4JQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1741952977780},"content":"The Continent secularised even more rapidly but in Spain, every area has an annual religious procession to celebrate a patron saint. The Holy Week (Santa Semana) processions – with the penitents in tall, pointy hats – are baroque in their extravagance.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IUEN3PHOVFATPAPVMYJ5HGPICA","additional_properties":{"_id":1741952977781},"content":"France, for all its traditions of laicité, retains the Catholic names for its public holidays, such as le lundi de Pentecôte (Pentecost) l’Assomption, (The Assumption of Our Lady) and la Toussaint (All saints.) However, in Ireland, we have even abandoned Shrove Tuesday in favour of Pancake Tuesday. France, too, has colourful outdoor processions with distinct religious themes that even Marxists participate in. Maybe it’s the better weather?","type":"text"},{"_id":"WQL7KUJA6FADBBH7GEB4E77Q64","additional_properties":{"_id":1741981787777},"content":"The <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/st-patricks-day\">St Patrick’s Day</a> festival does not really count as a religious festival, given that we imported so many of the current customs from the US, a bit like the humble turnip carved at Halloween traversing the Atlantic and then returning to us as a pumpkin.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DHY4QILSMNAQBJ2WDHYIYX5ZK4","additional_properties":{"_id":1741952977784},"content":"I was never a fan of St Patrick’s Day in my youth, given that the local parades featured mostly agricultural machinery. However, I did like that Ireland had only 39 rather than 40 days of Lent due to our patron saint’s feast day. In a grave misunderstanding of the idea of sacrifice, my friends and I stockpiled all the sweets we gave up and gorged ourselves on St Patrick’s Day, although some people did abstain until Easter. The idea that acts of sacrifice were meant to benefit others, most particularly by filling the Trócaire box, was not lost entirely – but anything sweet received as a gift went straight into the stash.","type":"text"},{"_id":"V6H7WP2N6BDYPDYT23KTASULJE","additional_properties":{"_id":1741981787779},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"VAYFGLFDMRDSPIEJN3WFUXL3LA","additional_properties":{"_id":1741952977787},"content":"Sponsored 24-hour fasts to benefit the developing world were popular during my teenage years. When we moaned about fasting despite volunteering for it, my father, who was born in 1917, used to gently mock us with stories about the Black Fast of his early childhood. People abstained completely from food on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. No meat, milk or eggs were consumed during the six weeks of Lent, except for Sundays and of course, St Patrick’s Day.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JHRNAPXDXNAHXPPYR7MOV5UUM4","additional_properties":{"_id":1741952977790},"content":"Not everyone honoured the spirit of the fast. Cornelius Lucey – known as Connie, Bishop of Cork from 1950 to 1980 – issued a decree that a Lenten collation meal (one of two small meals allowed along with a main meal during fast days) could consist of tea with a biscuit. Canny Corkonian bakers, in the days when biscuits were about the size of the top of an egg cup, invented the Connie Dodger – a biscuit the size of a side plate. It is interesting to speculate what the secular effect of continuing with the tradition of fasting for people aged 14-60 might have been. Cutting out meat, milk products and eggs for six weeks annually and meat every Friday of the year could have radically changed both our agricultural production and our climate emissions for the better.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TZQBTGYHQRDXXFJYLCRH7XC4HU","additional_properties":{"_id":1741952977792},"content":"For my generation, the Trócaire box, even if reluctantly fed with pocket money, was a reminder of a wider world in need of solidarity and justice. Now, secular Lent is mostly just self-improvement projects.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UKWSTEQD5UCG2DBVLE2SO5EB24","additional_properties":{"_id":1741981787783},"type":"image"},{"_id":"2HYQ4FGMARCJPKZBG3T3JVX4YI","additional_properties":{"_id":1741952977793},"content":"There has been a troubling move away from focusing on low-income countries. When <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/jd-vance\">JD Vance</a> is not wearing shamrock socks to welcome Micheál Martin, he occasionally discusses Catholic social teaching, most recently, the idea of the ordo amoris. This concept from St Augustine, built on by Thomas Aquinas, discusses the right ordering of love.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IKNZYEJTXRBKHOLW2XCTI4XG3Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1741952977794},"content":"Vance’s take on Fox News was that “there is a Christian concept that you love your family and then you love your neighbour, and then you love your community, and then you love your fellow citizens, and then after that, prioritise the rest of the world. A lot of the far left has completely inverted that ... But we now have a president who will put America first.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"TYHSCHGUVFEN3PIEXEQNH7XJTE","additional_properties":{"_id":1741952977795},"content":"Unsurprisingly, Pope Francis, in <a href=\"https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/letters/2025/documents/20250210-lettera-vescovi-usa.html\" target=\"_blank\">an encyclical</a> to the US bishops last month, stated that “Christian love is not a concentric expansion of interests that little by little extend to other persons and groups”. He suggested that the true ordo amoris is found in the Good Samaritan, who reaches out in practical compassion to someone completely outside his own community. Pope Francis was building on well-known lefties such as Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict. <a href=\"https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/messages/peace/documents/hf_jp-ii_mes_19861208_xx-world-day-for-peace.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Pope John Paul asked</a> us to “adopt an attitude of social solidarity with the whole human family” and avoid “a xenophobia that closes nations in on themselves”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZFDFMZO7MZFSHCQPJ2LB5X6NPY","additional_properties":{"_id":1741952977798},"content":"Pope Benedict stated in <a href=\"https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20051225_deus-caritas-est.html\" target=\"_blank\">Deus Caritas Est</a> that “concern for our neighbour transcends the confines of national communities and has increasingly broadened its horizon to the whole world”. Whatever about importing US customs for St Patrick’s Day, rather than Lent being just about self-improvement, it might be a good time to reflect – and then act – on a wider vision of solidarity.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Breda O'Brien"}},"name":"Breda O'Brien"}]},"description":{"basic":"Most Catholic traditions have faded away, but the idea of giving something up for Lent persists. But many have lost sight of the idea that it should be about solidarity, rather than just sacrifice"},"display_date":"2025-03-16T06:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Is it wrong to treat Lent as purely a time for self-improvement?","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"RBUPEQQ3U6G3HK2Y2A3AQ2G6UA","auth":{"1":"3b876acf535e787b77de1e67dfb42518386ac6fe9d4a6c8e0d525d2a95f2ef68"},"focal_point":{"x":735,"y":362},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/RBUPEQQ3U6G3HK2Y2A3AQ2G6UA.jpg"}},"subtype":"columnist","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Opinion"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/opinion/2025/03/16/is-it-wrong-to-treat-lent-as-purely-a-time-for-self-improvement/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/opinion","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Opinion"}}}},{"_id":"4TP5CEDAA5F25LX4ZBUN2WP3YA","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":324,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/5469/podcasts/b58ce458-03d8-4ec5-a363-ee10bd730102/versions/1741970540/media/4407e9176e797cc8efc494654c79530d_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/opinion/2025/03/16/if-putin-emerges-victorious-i-think-he-wont-stop-a-us-former-national-security-expert-on-whats-next-for-ukraine/","content_elements":[{"_id":"4JJUMIDGDVCGNMKJ7I2O7XDFGQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1741966548786},"content":"What is going to happen in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/ukraine-war/\" target=\"_self\">Ukraine</a>? What happens next? And what is at stake? Tom Wright is in a better position than most to assess the biggest questions that Europe faces today. Wright may well be the most influential Irishman that you’ve never heard of. An international relations scholar, he was plucked from the Brookings Institution, perhaps the most eminent of the Washington think tanks, to lead the team responsible for strategic planning at the National Security Council during the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/joe-biden/\" target=\"_self\">Biden</a> administration.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JSWGQPLCUBC2BHBWI2EDB734QQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1741966548788},"content":"The NSC advises the US president on foreign and security policy and military issues, co-ordinating the work of the State Department, the Pentagon and the intelligence agencies as it feeds into the decision-making in the White House. Wright’s boss was national security adviser Jake Sullivan, who briefed Biden daily on security threats and related issues. “You get to do a bit of everything, sort of see the whole picture,” Wright says, but “about half my time” was spent on Russia and Ukraine. He left when <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\" target=\"_self\">Donald Trump</a> became president in January, and spoke to The Irish Times in Washington this week.","type":"text"},{"_id":"N62CZ7WECFDVPAWIMU467RLQJM","additional_properties":{"_id":1741966548790},"content":"The invasion of Ukraine, he recalls, was not a surprise to the White House. Their intelligence on <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/vladimir-putin/\" target=\"_self\">Vladimir Putin</a>’s intentions, he says, was “amazingly good ... from in or about October-November [2021] they had reason to think there would be an invasion in February. So even the timing was pretty accurate. But there was probably no way to deter it short of sending US troops to Ukraine.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"FTCXLD7QV5AN3DZ5LB2U3MI5WY","additional_properties":{"_id":1741966548791},"content":"Short of that though, the administration had made clear that “there would be much tougher sanctions, the US would arm the Ukrainians, if the Russians defeated the Ukrainians pretty quickly like a lot of people thought, then the international community might arm an insurgency so Russia couldn’t hold it – so all of that was said and communicated”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GN7IDFHGHNAE3CVNDVD7AWASTU","additional_properties":{"_id":1741966548792},"content":"It didn’t deter Putin. Or not sufficiently, anyway. “I think this was something that Putin was just committed to doing, because he thought it would be easy and he would be able to create facts on the ground at a relatively low cost.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"FT3ELYZ24JGHRMQJDXKF3IPYWY","additional_properties":{"_id":1741966548794},"content":"US and European support enabled Ukraine to survive the Russian onslaught. The country is still “today sovereign and independent”. Putin, he says, has about 18 per cent of Ukraine, “which is marginally more that he had at the beginning”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JYUYIFXQAZCOHG3BBE2DJN4EGY","additional_properties":{"_id":1741966548795},"content":"“Everyone looks at Ukraine’s vulnerabilities. And they may have to give up land. But Russia also has vulnerabilities. They are losing 1,500 people a day in this war – which is just an astonishingly high number, just a crazy high number of casualties and they’re gaining small slivers of territory in the Donbas ... So that’s not particularly sustainable for them.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"A424FKHSMJC3NLLV2PHI2TSTUY","additional_properties":{"_id":1741966548796},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"BXMM2BYD5RHJ7DU6K4RDXETWBQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1741981617431},"content":"At what point does it become unsustainable?","type":"text"},{"_id":"3J4HQP2RXFHABPJ7AN7E5A6YCM","additional_properties":{"_id":1741981617432},"content":"“At some point, Putin, if he wanted to continue the war, would have to order a mobilisation, which we know he doesn’t want to do, because he’s losing so many soldiers.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q4NQCNOLOVH4NOYJZYZA7HCLJ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1741966548798},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"32HMKWOS4JGDLNHX5YRZUKU7MQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1741981617434},"content":"For Ukraine, he says, giving up territory isn’t “the toughest problem ... I think the toughest problem is whether Ukraine can exist as a sovereign independent country ... Will Putin accept the right of Ukraine to exist as an independent sovereign country with the right to defend itself? Our view was he probably wouldn’t. At the moment, his aims are still pretty maximalist. He still wants to dominate Ukraine. He wants a neutered Ukraine, not just a neutral Ukraine. He wants real limits on its ability to defend itself, he wants to remove Zelenskiy and have a more pro-Russian leader there, a little like Belarus or Georgia, and that’s something that Ukraine can’t accept.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"GTFGBHJNXVD5NP5CKCRZPT77DY","additional_properties":{"_id":1741966548801},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"4BNVRSWNFZG2TMTFKJS4LXY6YQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1741981617436},"content":"On the question of whether the EU can replace the US, he says “Europe has given more to Ukraine already than the United States ... But the reality is they don’t have enough military equipment to get it there in the short to medium term. A lot of this will take years to develop the industry, to build it up ... They can do a lot but it will be tough for them to replace the US.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"GCMQ2GZDJJC2DHM33Y6FVOO6PA","additional_properties":{"_id":1741966548803},"content":"Ukraine, he says is “not going to collapse, at least in the short term”. They remain well equipped and are “not in a desperate situation”. But they are in a fight for their lives. War against a bigger neighbour will do that.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CWRB25TE5BH77BEAWQUGV46WGA","additional_properties":{"_id":1741966548804},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"TEEXUAH7C5GW3GENOE7LNAQT74","additional_properties":{"_id":1741966548805},"content":"One of Putin’s “core objectives” has been “to destroy the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/north-atlantic-treaty-organisation/\" target=\"_self\">Nato</a> architecture in Europe. Just before the war started in Ukraine, he issued a demand of the US that all Nato troops pull back to pre-97 borders, meaning all of eastern Europe”. Wright believes Putin is “almost certainly coming back to that in negotiations now”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AJQRI7PDQNAXRH6FEHAV7LFBAU","additional_properties":{"_id":1741966548806},"content":"To achieve that aim, Putin may try to provoke crises in eastern Europe “to try to raise doubts about whether the US would go in, or he does something and Trump doesn’t go in. He could launch a limited attack somewhere ... If he emerges victorious in Ukraine I think he won’t stop, in the sense he will try to erode and overturn the security architecture in Europe. And that would be very worrying to the Baltics and to others.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"4RZXGENHR5BVZPUF5KEUVTCQIQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1741981617441},"content":"Putin sent Trump message on Ukraine ceasefire idea, says Kremlin","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"NHE3NAJU6BB23O5EB5Y2AMYZE4","additional_properties":{"_id":1741966548809},"content":"Two things he regards as unwelcome developments. The Russians have got better at fighting and managing the war, and the Chinese have helped them rebuild their military. Combined with uncertainty over the US security guarantee, he says, “that would make anyone nervous about the next few years. I think the French and Germans are right to be worried.”","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Pat Leahy"}},"name":"Pat Leahy"}]},"description":{"basic":"Tom Wright may be the most influential Irishman you’ve never heard of. He was part of the team responsible for advising Biden on Russia and Ukraine"},"display_date":"2025-03-16T05:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"‘I think the French and Germans are right to be worried’: Former US national security expert on what’s next in war on Ukraine ","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"5469"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"WWWCW4BAIDPJMW6V35AWLLN4YQ","auth":{"1":"8f4ec17404d9856fea20eca447a452c19038af1292abd0bee851d2f6baecfa09"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/WWWCW4BAIDPJMW6V35AWLLN4YQ.jpg"}},"subtype":"columnist","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Opinion"},{"name":"Politics"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/opinion/2025/03/16/if-putin-emerges-victorious-i-think-he-wont-stop-a-us-former-national-security-expert-on-whats-next-for-ukraine/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/opinion","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Opinion"}}}},{"_id":"BCLI6FVAMNB3VLEQH43J7L76EQ","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":324,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/0ff425d0-0870-4076-9b62-ea16d4c7edc6/versions/1741965482/media/9932f557bd41331b00f49d014f1afb49_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/opinion/2025/03/16/how-does-a-buddhist-respond-in-a-world-where-might-is-right/","content_elements":[{"_id":"S2H7KTBHU5DTNJHUGXHNFKADDU","additional_properties":{"_id":1741798038059},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/religion-beliefs/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/religion-beliefs/\">Religious traditions</a> are repositories of values that are passed on, generation to generation. Without the spiritual dimension, we have only the mechanistic, materialistic, utilitarian, functional and individualistic values of the secular world.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2RH6OEU5YZASRLNYOMXUCNPFMI","additional_properties":{"_id":1741798038060},"content":"Where the spiritual imagination sees a homeland of the ancestors, the materialistic imagination sees only <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/02/05/trump-stuns-world-delights-netanyahu-with-proposal-for-us-to-take-over-gaza-to-build-riviera-of-the-middle-east/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/02/05/trump-stuns-world-delights-netanyahu-with-proposal-for-us-to-take-over-gaza-to-build-riviera-of-the-middle-east/\">prime real estate, ripe for development</a>. Where those that value justice see a <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/middle-east/2025/03/13/un-experts-accuse-israel-of-genocidal-acts-and-sexual-violence-in-gaza/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/middle-east/2025/03/13/un-experts-accuse-israel-of-genocidal-acts-and-sexual-violence-in-gaza/\">genocide</a> unfolding, the mechanistic mind sees only an indigenous population that needs to be <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/middle-east/2025/02/18/israel-sets-up-body-to-facilitate-emigration-of-palestinians-from-gaza/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/middle-east/2025/02/18/israel-sets-up-body-to-facilitate-emigration-of-palestinians-from-gaza/\">bulldozed away</a> to allow the diggers roll in.","type":"text"},{"_id":"R63WFNBVKVB6PKZ7FXPFYT5RBU","additional_properties":{"_id":1741798038061},"content":"Spiritual values include the values of justice and respect. They act as a bulwark against fascism. Dispense with them and fascism has free rein. And we have arrived at the moment where fascism has free rein.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3LT4EQQQKJDQ3MU57OK6SIZRY4","additional_properties":{"_id":1741798038062},"content":"The precarious nature of the cultural moment that we are at cannot be emphasised enough. This is a time when the richest man in the world wants to close down aid to the poorest on the planet. It’s a time when snipers target Palestinian children and desperate immigrants are pushed back in boats to drown.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7XKXXQSCMBFUDISPHI5AWK7NOU","additional_properties":{"_id":1741798038063},"content":"Never has it been clearer that might is right. Tech company <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/facebook/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/facebook/\">Facebook</a> censors our news feeds to silence voices for justice. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/google/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/google/\">Google</a> abandons geography for nasty right-wing politics, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/01/28/google-maps-in-us-will-rename-gulf-of-mexico-as-gulf-of-america/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/01/28/google-maps-in-us-will-rename-gulf-of-mexico-as-gulf-of-america/\">renaming the Gulf of Mexico</a> on Google Maps. 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