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b-flex-promo-card__image-square-mobile-left c-it-border__bottom c-it-border--mobile c-it-border--tablet c-it-border--desktop"><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/opinion/2025/04/04/from-damned-englishman-to-fking-ahole-a-history-of-ireland-in-25-dail-insults/" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img fetchpriority="low" data-chromatic="ignore" alt="From ‘damned Englishman’ to ‘f**king a**hole’: A history of Ireland in 25 Dáil insults" class="c-image b-flex-promo-card__mobile-image-1-1 b-flex-promo-card__desktop-image-16-9" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/MXL7FWCR7FGSRGG3YS2CAAME4I.jpg?smart=true&auth=37159deecaab86086fa48b3514165334ceb8b3c868287acc8f89d2bedf93369e&width=274&height=154" srcSet="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/MXL7FWCR7FGSRGG3YS2CAAME4I.jpg?smart=true&auth=37159deecaab86086fa48b3514165334ceb8b3c868287acc8f89d2bedf93369e&width=200&height=112 200w, 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href="/opinion/2025/04/04/from-damned-englishman-to-fking-ahole-a-history-of-ireland-in-25-dail-insults/">From ‘damned Englishman’ to ‘f**king a**hole’: A history of Ireland in 25 Dáil insults</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><article class="b-flex-promo-card b-flex-promo-card__left b-flex-promo-card__image-square-mobile-left c-it-border__bottom c-it-border--mobile c-it-border--tablet"><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/opinion/2025/04/04/justine-mccarthy-strip-search-of-protesters-is-a-scandal-of-unadulterated-hypocrisy/" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img fetchpriority="low" data-chromatic="ignore" alt="Strip-search of protesters is a scandal of unadulterated hypocrisy" class="c-image b-flex-promo-card__mobile-image-1-1 b-flex-promo-card__desktop-image-16-9" loading="lazy" 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class="b-flex-promo-card__text"><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/2025/04/03/eu-faces-moment-of-truth-as-it-faces-threats-from-trumps-tariffs-and-putins-war/">EU faces moment of truth as it faces threats from Trump’s tariffs and Putin’s war</a></h3><div class="b-flex-promo-card__metadata"><span class="c-it-byline c-it-byline--list"><span>By</span><span> Bobby McDonagh</span></span></div></div></div></article><article class="b-flex-promo-card b-flex-promo-card__left b-flex-promo-card__image-square-mobile-left c-it-border__bottom c-it-border--mobile c-it-border--tablet c-it-border--desktop"><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/opinion/2025/04/03/after-years-of-skilfully-playing-both-sides-of-the-boston-or-berlin-binary-we-must-now-choose-between-them/" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img fetchpriority="low" data-chromatic="ignore" alt="After years of skilfully playing both sides of the ‘Boston or Berlin’ binary, we must now choose one of them" class="c-image b-flex-promo-card__mobile-image-1-1 b-flex-promo-card__desktop-image-16-9" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/5SRZ6VMF2NDI5LPZNV2TXNWHYY.jpg?focal=731%2C461&auth=fa6057b7e1deb7832c621df24656ecb85e91259e9f18e867198af116f0e6638b&width=274&height=154" srcSet="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/5SRZ6VMF2NDI5LPZNV2TXNWHYY.jpg?focal=731%2C461&auth=fa6057b7e1deb7832c621df24656ecb85e91259e9f18e867198af116f0e6638b&width=200&height=112 200w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/5SRZ6VMF2NDI5LPZNV2TXNWHYY.jpg?focal=731%2C461&auth=fa6057b7e1deb7832c621df24656ecb85e91259e9f18e867198af116f0e6638b&width=400&height=224 400w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/5SRZ6VMF2NDI5LPZNV2TXNWHYY.jpg?focal=731%2C461&auth=fa6057b7e1deb7832c621df24656ecb85e91259e9f18e867198af116f0e6638b&width=600&height=337 600w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/5SRZ6VMF2NDI5LPZNV2TXNWHYY.jpg?focal=731%2C461&auth=fa6057b7e1deb7832c621df24656ecb85e91259e9f18e867198af116f0e6638b&width=800&height=449 800w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/5SRZ6VMF2NDI5LPZNV2TXNWHYY.jpg?focal=731%2C461&auth=fa6057b7e1deb7832c621df24656ecb85e91259e9f18e867198af116f0e6638b&width=1200&height=674 1200w" sizes="30vw" width="274" height="154"/></a></figure><div class="b-flex-promo-card__text"><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/2025/04/03/after-years-of-skilfully-playing-both-sides-of-the-boston-or-berlin-binary-we-must-now-choose-between-them/">After years of skilfully playing both sides of the ‘Boston or Berlin’ binary, we must now choose one of them</a></h3><div class="b-flex-promo-card__metadata"><span class="c-it-byline c-it-byline--list"><span>By</span><span> Finn McRedmond</span></span></div></div></div></article><article class="b-flex-promo-card b-flex-promo-card__left b-flex-promo-card__image-square-mobile-left c-it-border__bottom c-it-border--mobile c-it-border--tablet"><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/opinion/2025/04/03/the-family-business-stop-using-corporate-jargon-to-describe-drug-gangs/" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img fetchpriority="low" data-chromatic="ignore" alt="The Family business: Stop using corporate jargon to describe drug gangs " class="c-image b-flex-promo-card__mobile-image-1-1 b-flex-promo-card__desktop-image-16-9" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/DXYRCWFCAZH4HKF3QSRFL7NPZM.jpg?smart=true&auth=453b6938aaba37783969a456176d98298f6dd3bff7031960c9ead0122db3bd09&width=274&height=154" 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At the beginning of her short contribution she turned, looked directly at them and exclaimed: “Stop it, will you? Have respect. The deputies are a disgrace. I spent too long with them.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"4HEGZKI6YVGYVBQ2VNE2U62M64","additional_properties":{"_id":1743709761099},"content":"She went on to remark that the abuse heaped on the Ceann Comhairle was an advertisement to women to stay out of political life. Her most devastating comment was reserved for Mary Lou McDonald.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MLDHHPZULFHDJKJ6YM47AAWDSE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743709761100},"content":"“It was the deputies’ own dear leader, the feminist herself, who stood up and engaged in shocking behaviour in this House. What an example to lead by. What would that be like in government? What would the country be like? A disgrace. It is shameful.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"4S6RV7DWFZCR7K7D5ZLCM2YCJI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743709761101},"content":"That in a nutshell sums up the choice that is likely to face the Irish people when the next election comes around: another term for some version of the current Coalition or a leap into the arms of a Sinn Féin-dominated alternative.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WQHIQXUG7ZC3RJ3YRPKH2S427U","additional_properties":{"_id":1743709761102},"content":"The political narrative in western democracies has been coarsened in recent years, most notably by Donald Trump, but the trend has been evident across Europe as well. The normalisation of abusive rhetoric is designed to undermine faith in the institutions we have taken for granted.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QVG267UDGZC2TPRYTYPBOGIIE4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743709761103},"content":"A more polarised, confrontational Dáil takes shape","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"NRO4XH7KXBECDAQF6MZODIAZVY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743709761104},"content":"The best way Government parties can counter it is to show that they are capable of providing wise and competent leadership. Since they defied the predictions of most pundits and won re-election last November the Coalition parties have been distracted by the disruptive events in the Dáil.","type":"text"},{"_id":"P5NTSJEIGZBITBODGUCLQQ7UGQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743709761105},"content":"Unless they get on top of things soon and are seen to get to grips with the important issues facing the country they will find it impossible to generate the public confidence required to deal with a slew of challenges, starting with the impact of Trump’s tariffs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"N2POGKQANZAGDBS2YJFICFJ5UI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743709761106},"content":"On the domestic front, over which they have control, they need to take whatever steps are necessary to deal with the obstacles standing in the way of urgently needed development in housing, water and electricity for the past decade or more. That may require a bonfire of planning regulations and quangos that are blocking progress in so many areas.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GEXWNNOKHFGKPOEGL3R7HRTNNQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743709761107},"content":"The bottom line is that our political leaders need to take charge of events rather than being dictated to by regulators or judges. To do that will take courage but the time to start the process of reform is now, at the start of their term, as achieving results will take time.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ESM7MZNFRJF45GBHQQGC4P55ZE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743709761108},"content":"For instance, why is the proposal to pipe water from the Shannon to Dublin, first mooted more than 20 years ago, still being talked about rather than acted on? Why is it taking so inordinately long to get our offshore wind energy developed when other countries, less well placed, are racing ahead with their plans?","type":"text"},{"_id":"4NVQIJULKRCTPAVCQINF4T6YKU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743709761109},"content":"Ultimately, politicians have the duty to act in the public interest but they have abdicated far too much responsibility to judges and planners, who are bound by narrow interpretations of the rules. A rediscovery of the spirit that drove the building of the Shannon scheme in the early years of the State or the International Financial Services Centre in the 1980s is required.","type":"text"},{"_id":"COP7JKESJZFNHI7LPJEFRWQ5LM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743709761110},"content":"The comfortable victory by 96 votes to 71 on the motion of confidence in the Ceann Comhairle showed that there is a clear majority in the Dáil for a sensible but firm approach to difficult issues. The Coalition needs to build on that and drive its stated agenda through without delay.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AQFNWXHMGJHU7G4REVDCJU3RO4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743709761111},"content":"Taoiseach insists Government and Dáil are ‘working’ despite ‘unacceptable’ scenes","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"XRG46ZVXZZHBHHKPTK6NRJU42I","additional_properties":{"_id":1743709761112},"content":"As for the Opposition, the willingness of Labour and the Social Democrats to give such enthusiastic backing to the attack on the Ceann Comhairle showed clearly that those parties are now firmly in the orbit of Sinn Féin and the Trotskyist left.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y6YT3JPIPBAFZBRG3OKKGS7JUY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743709761113},"content":"Those same forces are lining up for another confrontation with the Government in the near future over the plan to remove the triple lock which currently gives Russia and China, never mind the United States, a veto over the deployment of Irish peacekeeping troops.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WN5QYRP67VBIXC3GCYSDLSDINI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743709761114},"content":"This will simply reinforce the claim made by the Taoiseach and other Government speakers during this week’s debate that Labour and the Social Democrats have now been reduced to the status of Sinn Féin puppets.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZAZTIUU475F2ZDTOXG5S2EIVOA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743709761115},"content":"One of the objectives of Sinn Féin in launching such a no-holds-barred attack on the Coalition was to demonstrate its total dominance of the Opposition benches. It has certainly achieved that goal.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Stephen Collins"}},"name":"Stephen Collins"}]},"description":{"basic":"Last week’s shouting down of the Ceann Comhairle by Opposition parties have set a dangerous new tone for Irish politics"},"display_date":"2025-04-04T05:00:01Z","headlines":{"basic":"Labour and the Social Democrats are now firmly in the orbit of Sinn Féin ","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"Q6TSLMFUDJCY7I7WX2SGTQV6OY","auth":{"1":"1c1d80a33f5e295d61719e1b220daf11507309c53844978e6edd29cf1624c567"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/Q6TSLMFUDJCY7I7WX2SGTQV6OY.JPG"}},"subtype":"columnist","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Opinion"},{"name":"Politics"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/opinion/2025/04/04/labour-and-the-social-democrats-are-now-firmly-in-the-orbit-of-sinn-fein/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/opinion","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Opinion"}}}},{"_id":"ZVO6VMEHLJA2LMD3HN5UJ7722Q","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":370,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/5469/podcasts/d8d33438-448f-4919-9c6b-58d20e44019b/versions/1743677132/media/6214ce32f9e036de1e2f15b886825e30_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/opinion/2025/04/04/from-damned-englishman-to-fking-ahole-a-history-of-ireland-in-25-dail-insults/","content_elements":[{"_id":"U2SUNL24J5FITGWX47OEEKEXSE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743709779645},"content":"The <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/03/25/shame-shame-shame-opposition-leaders-accuse-coalition-of-giving-two-fingers-to-democracy-in-row-over-speaking-rights/\" target=\"_blank\">recent sourness</a> pervading <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/dail-eireann/\" target=\"_blank\">Dáil</a> proceedings has generated understandable criticism of lack of decorum. There is little doubt the language heard in the Dáil has become coarser; insults such as buffoon, guttersnipe, corner boy and yahoo, once regarded as egregious, now look tame given the contemporary preponderance of the F- word and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/michael-lowry/\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Lowry</a>’s <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/oireachtas/2025/03/26/miriam-lord-lowry-gives-master-class-in-smug-ingratitude-amid-dail-chaos-over-speaking-time/\" target=\"_blank\">recent two fingered gesture</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6RH5YO5ERZFDDD4MPEXZFWRSSM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743709779646},"content":"Looking back, it is striking how fuelled by testosterone the Dáil has always been, but in the past, some parliamentary orators were cleverer in formulating words to chastise their nemeses.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XPMKTOAQPBETRAE7ZUJXLRVYPM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743709779647},"content":"Here is a brief history of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/\" target=\"_blank\">Ireland</a> in 25 Dáil insults:","type":"text"},{"_id":"IPCALFNQINGH7P5B6O4CAHW4NE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743709779648},"content":"1. “I will not reply to any damned Englishman in this Dáil.” (<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/arthur-griffith/\" target=\"_blank\">Arthur Griffith</a> to <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/erskine-childers/\" target=\"_blank\">Erskine Childers</a>, Treaty debates, 1922.)","type":"text"},{"_id":"CIJA76GMHBCJ3GAN3IPKVXYXWY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743709779649},"content":"2. “Is there any authoritative record of his having ever fired a shot for Ireland at an enemy of Ireland?” (Séamus Robinson, speaking of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/michael-collins/\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Collins</a>, Treaty debates, 1922.)","type":"text"},{"_id":"YTKY2RQECJA57JJXWAQW6WRFQA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743709779650},"content":"3. “Let there be no misunderstanding, no soft talk, no ráiméis at this last moment of the betrayal of our country ... half of them look for a gun and the other half are looking for the fleshpots of the Empire.” (<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/mary-macswiney-the-mourning-sister-who-turned-to-politics-1.4556198\" target=\"_blank\">Mary MacSwiney</a>, after the Dáil voted to accept the Treaty, 1922.)","type":"text"},{"_id":"NR5U2YHUEBA3NOSJEQDNGSR5QY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743709779651},"content":"4. “The minister has just now rivalled his previous performances in corner-boy vituperation.” (Clann Éireann TD William Magennis to Cumann na nGaedheal’s Patrick McGilligan, 1926.)","type":"text"},{"_id":"acc71ab2-9dd1-44ad-95bf-d9814d965750","additional_properties":{"_id":1743709779652},"subtype":"irish-times-video","type":"video"},{"_id":"YZI46RFVNBGBBIUY3TRHHCW534","additional_properties":{"_id":1743709779653},"content":"5. “He has endeavoured to hide his ludicrous failure, and the folly and futility ... by emotional references to Ireland’s just claims and his own marvellous pride.” (WT Cosgrave on Éamon de Valera, 1932.)","type":"text"},{"_id":"XLWQ3ACRCZACRL33IGA6WCP6CM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743709779654},"content":"6. “I respected the law when you and the taoiseach were destroying this country and violating the law ... If you object to me, you can come outside and do so. I will oblige you now.” (Fine Geal’s James Coburn to Fianna Fáil’s Michael Joe Kennedy, 1947. They did indeed take it outside for a “fracas”.)","type":"text"},{"_id":"2FXMWW7FTJAXXBW57KUK4FWCKU","subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"JBLTUZZNOZHI5O5IQSUNTUWJGE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743709779656},"content":"7. “Certain gentlemen wanted to make this parliament a parliament of guttersnipes.” (FF’s Seán MacEntee, 1947.)","type":"text"},{"_id":"J6NX7I2UQZDURESPR3QFHPWWCE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743709779657},"content":"8. “We have the yapping yahoos from all sections.” (FF’s Denis Allen, 1951.) “You must be a first cousin to a yapping yahoo.” (FG’s Seán Collins in response.)","type":"text"},{"_id":"4M5WKLCR3NCJHI7KEKK7TXB2XQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743709779658},"content":"9. “You shot off your toe on the eve of a pension.” (FG’s Seán Collins taunts Mark Killilea about his military record, 1952. Killilea crossed the floor for a “scuffle”.)","type":"text"},{"_id":"YCB6TNSITNETFLWMBETUHFGH3A","additional_properties":{"_id":1743709779659},"content":"10. “You are drunk, and everybody knows you are drunk.” (FF minister Kevin Boland to Labour TD Stephen Coughlan, after Coughlan called Boland an “imbecile,” 1964.)","type":"text"},{"_id":"7LBEHIXUDVDK3M5IKI6MMEZ3IQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743709779660},"content":"11. “What do you want to do: to start the Blueshirts again?” (Taoiseach Seán Lemass to FG’s Gerry L’Estrange, 1966.) “You, over there, started the Civil War.” (L’Estrange in response.)","type":"text"},{"_id":"5STVIDDDOBHPTLROOM7NV23BB4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743709779661},"content":"12. “The Labour Party are a nice, respectable, docile, harmless body of men – as harmless a body as ever graced any parliament.” (Lemass, 1966.)","type":"text"},{"_id":"6AOKMCZCOREWVCF5ELJLI5F5NQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743709779662},"content":"Ireland’s parliamentary standards have been trashed in recent weeks","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"JPXXOC3HL5E2BL73AIDDI5ZPMU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743709779663},"content":"13. “You would not know beet from turnips, you idiot.” (FF’s Martin Corry to L’Estrange, 1968.)","type":"text"},{"_id":"2HS7A7Q6KZATBL5PZGDCJITVHQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743709779664},"content":"14. “He is a dirty, cowardly cur, a dirty swine.” (Kevin Boland on L’Estrange, 1968.)","type":"text"},{"_id":"FU2ZA2CGZJG6BKHBGL7WZ4WRO4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743709779665},"content":"15. “Charles Haughey: guns, guns and more guns.” (FG’s Patrick Belton during the arms crisis, 1970.)","type":"text"},{"_id":"QQCPYCMK3VAD5H4LOCLPZIJWII","additional_properties":{"_id":1743709779666},"content":"16. “He is a Redmondite West Briton.” (FF’s George Colley on Labour TD Conor Cruise O’Brien, 1975.)","type":"text"},{"_id":"DZFUEQWMHNDJFEBFTJ6CIAVOFM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743709779667},"content":"17. “He comes with a flawed pedigree.” (Garret FitzGerald on Haughey’s nomination as taoiseach, 1979.)","type":"text"},{"_id":"WJWB4JPFTVEPZKPULWXISFBAHY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743709779668},"content":"18. “That minister over there is the 13th stroke of the clock in the Irish political system. He is the one who invites doubt not only about his own authenticity, but about the authenticity of all the other 12.” (FG’s John Kelly on FF’s Brian Lenihan, 1980.)","type":"text"},{"_id":"GHTDXG2EV5B5TMAMYG2BVWFINA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743709779669},"content":"Michael Lowry gives masterclass in smug ingratitude amid Dáil chaos over speaking time","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"OZCSEZQMFREJNLZYVCWHUTBQOE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743709779670},"content":"19. “You have led the country into the greatest humiliation in recent history.” (Haughey to taoiseach Garret FitzGerald after Margaret Thatcher’s dismissal of New Ireland Forum options, 1984.)","type":"text"},{"_id":"FO4MGSQWYNCXNPLXYBPLKARP5Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1743709779671},"content":"20. “A once great party has been brought to its knees by the grasping acquisitiveness of its leader ... the cancer that is eating away at our body politic – and the virus which caused that cancer, Charles J Haughey.” (Labour Party leader Dick Spring, 1990.)","type":"text"},{"_id":"FBYGNCKF4ZEA5AW3ZCWDMEXJH4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743709779672},"content":"21. “This is women now. You can’t even give way to somebody who wants to give you information.” (Taoiseach Albert Reynolds to FG’s Nora Owen, 1993.)","type":"text"},{"_id":"XCMJMVL6XNGL5JL7OGB3NXOT6A","additional_properties":{"_id":1743709779673},"content":"22. “You are a stomach-turning hypocrite ... How low can you go?” (Michael McDowell, Progressive Democrats, to Dick Spring, 1996.). “I would be falling for a long time to reach your depths.” (Spring in response.)","type":"text"},{"_id":"UOEIOOFWDJBA5HOA55AI6RWP6A","additional_properties":{"_id":1743709779674},"content":"23. “With all due respect, in the most unparliamentary language, f**k you, Deputy Stagg. F**k you.” (Green Party’s Paul Gogarty to Labour Party’s Emmet Stagg, 2008.)","type":"text"},{"_id":"T3EVE2JZJJD7XMVZMUXWJLPDPE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743709779675},"content":"24. “Try and rein her in now and again.” (Taoiseach Brian Cowen to Labour leader Eamon Gilmore about Joan Burton, 2010.)","type":"text"},{"_id":"AJI6D7BWT5ACXAAHI4JR7B6DIM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743709779676},"content":"25. “What do you know? Sure you do not know whether your own son, baby, is a boy or a girl.” (Danny Healy-Rae to Paul Murphy, 2024.) “You are a f**king asshole.” (Murphy in response).","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Diarmaid Ferriter"}},"name":"Diarmaid Ferriter"}]},"description":{"basic":"The language has become coarser but it is striking how fuelled by testosterone the Dáil has always been"},"display_date":"2025-04-04T05:00:01Z","headlines":{"basic":"From ‘damned Englishman’ to ‘f**king a**hole’: A history of Ireland in 25 Dáil insults","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"5469"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"MXL7FWCR7FGSRGG3YS2CAAME4I","auth":{"1":"37159deecaab86086fa48b3514165334ceb8b3c868287acc8f89d2bedf93369e"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/MXL7FWCR7FGSRGG3YS2CAAME4I.jpg"}},"subtype":"columnist","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Opinion"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/opinion/2025/04/04/from-damned-englishman-to-fking-ahole-a-history-of-ireland-in-25-dail-insults/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/opinion","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Opinion"}}}},{"_id":"O27UD7GB45H7DCHWO74257P724","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":393,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/f2a5e3bf-8026-4597-8b75-2bc519415974/versions/1743688974/media/640f24cbbb0d12fbbf1cdd53a423209f_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/opinion/2025/04/04/justine-mccarthy-strip-search-of-protesters-is-a-scandal-of-unadulterated-hypocrisy/","content_elements":[{"_id":"3JHAYZO6WRDJNAW2YGNEPQYOJ4","additional_properties":{},"content":"A group of women with offspring of their own gathered in Dublin’s Kildare Street on Mother’s Day. They spanned the age spectrum from new mothers to grandmothers. Some were Palestinian, but most were Irish. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"NDHBQV7R55CI5IFP7WOSZZ455E","additional_properties":{},"content":"They laid candles and pictures of massacred children on the ground in front of the gates of Leinster House. Upon each child’s picture, they placed a pair of small shoes and a flower. Through the night, they kept vigil with the images of the young innocents whose lives were obliterated by the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/israel-defence-forces/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/israel-defence-forces/\">Israel Defense Forces</a> in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/gaza-strip/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/gaza-strip/\">Gaza</a>. It was a tender demonstration by Mothers Against Genocide of solidarity with the parents of at least 16,000 children who have been slaughtered since October 2023.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GDAFLO5JGJHMXKAORN3DER57CU","additional_properties":{},"content":"What happened the next morning is a scandal of unadulterated hypocrisy. It ought to be the first item on the agenda for the new Oireachtas justice committee whenever it is, eventually, formed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JS46MJYOQVAIBPCZCIDO4GUV6M","additional_properties":{},"content":"The women had told a garda on duty on Sunday night that they intended moving from the gates by 7.30am to make way for people coming to work in Leinster House, a non-sitting day for the Dáil, which only cranks into action at 2pm on Tuesdays. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"54UICOPUVNEMNEORTB7GBRMGJQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"But before dawn, a small number of gardaí began removing the children’s pictures. In response, about a dozen of the mothers sat down in front of the gates, cradling “pillow babies” resembling the shrouded dead children carried by distraught parents that have become a familiar feature of news reports from Gaza. Garda reinforcements and vans arrived and 11 women, plus three men from different groups, were arrested and taken to Dublin Garda stations in Kimmage, Kevin Street, Irishtown and Pearse Street.","type":"text"},{"_id":"37LQFPUMC5GFPMARAZUCNL4LOE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Oonagh Peters from Rathmichael, South Dublin, told me she was brought to Sundrive Road station. She says she was led to a cell by a woman garda who told her to remove her coat and jeans, pull down her knickers and pull up her bra. When she did not pull her underwear down far enough or up far enough, the garda told her to lift them some more, she says. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"YDIRPBOLOFEMTEZKZZYTZWD4HI","additional_properties":{},"content":"The mother of three was later released without charge after she formally accepted a caution as she was under pressure to collect her children from school. “As if I’d have had a weapon hidden on me when the reason I was there was because children are being blown to bits and Ireland is allowing weapons to go through its airspace that are being used to kill them,” she said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NBG5BNA4P5HJ7PGCFDCI6ABHVI","additional_properties":{},"content":"TDs Ruth Coppinger, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/richard-boyd-barrett/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/richard-boyd-barrett/\">Richard Boyd Barrett</a> and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/paul-murphy/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/paul-murphy/\">Paul Murphy</a> <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/oireachtas/2025/04/01/women-protesting-outside-leinster-house-strip-searched-one-subjected-to-cavity-search/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/oireachtas/2025/04/01/women-protesting-outside-leinster-house-strip-searched-one-subjected-to-cavity-search/\">raised the issue of the strip-searches in the Dáil on Tuesday</a>. They said one woman, who was from Palestine, had been told to take off her hijab, which was temporarily “confiscated”. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"247O4XLNKRFVNEEXH7JQMC3QZU","additional_properties":{},"content":"In her own words, she said she was told to strip naked and she was touched in “all my sensitive parts”. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2025/04/02/garda-defend-treatment-of-gaza-protesters-outside-leinster-house-and-deny-cavity-search-allegation/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2025/04/02/garda-defend-treatment-of-gaza-protesters-outside-leinster-house-and-deny-cavity-search-allegation/\">Gardaí denied her assertion that she was “cavity searched”</a> and said the searches were conducted according to the Treatment of Persons in Custody in Garda Síochána Stations Regulations. In response, Mothers Against Genocide re-stated their original claim about both kinds of searches. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"WZ45XVDPQFEVDHEQZ4SMIVIMFI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Neither point is germane to the unsettling question as to why a decision was taken to employ the relatively rare measure of strip-searching women who had been peacefully protesting against the massacring of children. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q7IZBN6WAFEQHEBU4RX2OHIDR4","additional_properties":{},"content":"In contrast to how the women were treated outside Leinster House, the corridors inside the building were echoing with government accusations that Opposition parties had been “sexist” to the first woman Ceann Comhairle, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/verona-murphy/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/verona-murphy/\">Verona Murphy</a>. The word “misogyny” got flung around too. Either TDs need dictionaries or they need to stop weaponising allegations of sexism for their own cynical purposes, thus undermining its seriousness.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KG4AADTVLRHRVN6JNCML4FVFUA","additional_properties":{},"content":"The night after the women’s arrest, RTÉ’s Prime Time broadcast a video diary recorded in Nasser Hospital, Gaza, last month by Morgan McMonagle, an Irish trauma and vascular surgeon, while he was volunteering with Medical Aid for Palestinians. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"EY6P5TNPHFFAXOZMRC6KOUFAMQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"His film showed the surgical ward reduced to smouldering rubble in the immediate aftermath of an Israeli air strike. McMonagle lifted up the little leg of a four year old boy showing the flesh on the back of it hanging in a bloody mess. More worryingly, the boy was bleeding from behind his abdomen. The child lay in bed crying to go home, unaware that he was the last surviving sibling from his family.","type":"text"},{"_id":"D4RB76XMH5F2XC4AGBKKANVNYU","additional_properties":{},"content":"“We spent the first 20 minutes pronouncing people dead,” McMonagle said. The majority of them were children. The youngest child I passed dead was probably four or five months old.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"SEOEEUJC7FDF3NB66FUNCZBFBY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Two children aged four and five were dead on arrival from bullets fired from an Apache helicopter. A non-stop production line of surgeries the doctor performed in the following hours included the removal of a 14-year-old girl’s kidney, a six-year-old with wounds to the chest and abdomen who subsequently died, a four-year-old with a shredded artery and an 11-year-old girl with severe upper and lower limb injuries whose father was also brought in and died during the night.","type":"text"},{"_id":"H3E2WCNF6BGGPOFBRDP742TRFE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Dr Nabeel Rana, a vascular surgeon with Med Global, has said most of those being killed since Israel ended the ceasefire were children. “When you’re targeting the general population, civilians, children – we’re talking about children 12 and younger – how can you say the intent is not to wipe out this population?” she said on RTÉ Radio 1 Drivetime.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3CDWKXRXVRGP3PHMAB665ZJHWU","additional_properties":{},"content":"A March 13th report by the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/united-nations-un/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/united-nations-un/\">United Nations</a> Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory said Israel was engaged in “a genocidal act under the Rome Statue and the Genocide Convention” with the intention of destroying Palestinians in Gaza. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"E4WTXCOK7ZBTXLBFNBJB7XQBJ4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Basma IVF Centre, Gaza’s largest fertility clinic housed in a stand-alone building, was shelled by a tank in December 2023. The UN said about 4,000 embryos and 1,000 sperm samples and unfertilised eggs were destroyed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4FHKZJ6URBG5TNPFWODOGPVNWE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Meanwhile, mothers calling for the passage of the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/occupied-territories-bill/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/occupied-territories-bill/\">Occupied Territories Bill</a> – which was supported by all parties during the general election campaign – and an end to weapons flights transiting Irish airspace are arrested outside Leinster House and strip-searched.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KREBOOHCXNDB3EQLSCTATLYLE4","additional_properties":{},"content":"In the circumstances of children being slaughtered as part of a strategy to resettle Gaza, would it have been too much to ask those privileged few with access to Ireland’s most exclusive car park to walk into the campus through the separate pedestrian gates on Monday morning?","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Justine McCarthy"}},"name":"Justine McCarthy"}]},"description":{"basic":"Oonagh Peters says she was led to a cell by a woman garda, told to remove her jeans, pull down her knickers and lift up her bra"},"display_date":"2025-04-04T05:00:01Z","headlines":{"basic":"Strip-search of protesters is a scandal of unadulterated hypocrisy","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"KIDTK4VVFNBPXIEZY7UU6JM6MA","auth":{"1":"1083d2b8ac65aaaf83817c8f9a4ead80e0baca8072a06d0ffde6cca5f63564db"},"focal_point":{"x":759,"y":496},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/KIDTK4VVFNBPXIEZY7UU6JM6MA.jpg"},"lead_art":{"_id":"JML2HDIC5CQWOM3WKQLSX7MNP4","type":"image"}},"subtype":"columnist","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Opinion"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/opinion/2025/04/04/justine-mccarthy-strip-search-of-protesters-is-a-scandal-of-unadulterated-hypocrisy/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/opinion","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Opinion"}}}},{"_id":"6PKDSXILC5CVNL7NSZZS7WGNT4","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":355,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/ccbb912a-90c1-482e-8d84-bd00f5f93632/versions/1743614339/media/9768a6349652c2f8802ae0f99b4eb1f2_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/opinion/2025/04/03/eu-faces-moment-of-truth-as-it-faces-threats-from-trumps-tariffs-and-putins-war/","content_elements":[{"_id":"ZUANNVATFJBINPM4UJIF3F532Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1743592127962},"content":"The <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/european-union/\" target=\"_blank\">European Union</a> is facing a moment of truth.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IUGCDYWTGBC3DO6BSRF4PS6TZI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743592127963},"content":"With <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/vladimir-putin/\" target=\"_blank\">Putin</a>’s <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/russia/\" target=\"_blank\">Russia</a> marauding to the east and the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\" target=\"_blank\">Trump</a> regime rampaging to the west – as we saw again with the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/us-tariffs/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/us-tariffs/\">tariff announcement</a> – Europe is having to learn at breakneck speed both why it must stand up for itself and how. For the EU it’s no longer about being a proud advocate for decent values, Suddenly, of necessity, it’s also about being a determined defender of those values.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TTN4PWOE2BEKZKARATUQAHTMPM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743592127964},"content":"It would be both shameful and foolish for Ireland to behave as if we were a mere bystander. For our own sake, we can and must contribute as effectively as we can to shaping Europe’s future.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JVNXKLEDVVFMBHBKVRQ6ABWMYE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743592127965},"content":"The EU is by no means alone. Norway, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and Canada are among several countries that vigorously assert the same values. Indeed, most of the world, which has condemned Russia’s invasion of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/ukraine-crisis/\" target=\"_blank\">Ukraine</a> at the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/united-nations/\" target=\"_blank\">United Nations</a> and is horrified at the bullying and baseness of Trump’s America, is probably open to persuasion.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZO2KAMYDKRGBZKEBWNKIGOKNHU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743592127966},"content":"However, it is the EU alone that has the heft to provide the necessary leadership in support of democracy, multilateralism and respect between nations. The challenge it faces overlaps significantly with the vital parallel work on the harder aspects of security being led by France, the United Kingdom and what remains of a <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/north-atlantic-treaty-organisation/\" target=\"_blank\">Nato</a> undermined by Trump’s vacillation and unpredictability.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PIPSVLAEUBF43GYXVVUZV3UKRU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743592127967},"content":"For the governments of both Russia and the US, truth is a mere inconvenience, with Putin still claiming, absurdly, that Ukraine started the war and the Trump regime telling a litany of barefaced lies to its own people and the wider world. An additional challenge for Europe, therefore, is to work to ensure that words still retain meaning in our troubled world.","type":"text"},{"_id":"f9bc60dd-cce2-488f-9e4c-6e346f2c58bd","additional_properties":{},"subtype":"irish-times-video","type":"video"},{"_id":"4LQXWB3C3JDE3GSFTSELJDAZXM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743592127968},"content":"Nobody can say for sure precisely how Europe should respond to its immense challenges and responsibilities. There is no secret plan hidden away in a drawer in Brussels or Paris or Berlin. As always, given its very nature, the EU’s response will reflect the coming together of diverse national perspectives and the necessary compromises between them. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"O2D6YJVMNNAONDLVZFZW262F6Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"However, Europe has proved in the past that it is most effective when confronted by a crisis, such as Covid or Brexit. It is already becoming clear in recent weeks that the EU, even as it explores and engages with the complex detail, is aware of the magnitude and urgency of what is at stake. This is reflected, for example, in its willingness to step up its support for Ukraine, its focus on building up its own defence industry, its softening of budgetary rules to facilitate expenditure on defence and its careful work on a calibrated collective response to Trump’s tariffs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QYW35YBKCFDZXJLNJWTWW6B4OE","additional_properties":{"_id":"PBLLOLLUXBBHTAPS56NNURPOME"},"content":"Our rights and freedoms are at stake in times as perilous as the late 1930s","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"IKISFOMU65AWRJRQQDHN5O2FMY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743592127969},"content":"For Ireland, as for the EU as a whole, there are no easy answers. Our Government’s response thus far has been sure-footed. Our policy as it evolves should, I suggest, reflect five considerations.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5FMSFCOSLJAQDKY4YG7OHSPVQU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743592127970},"content":"First, Ireland can contribute, as we have done in so many areas, to shaping EU policy. We cannot determine the EU’s approach – indeed no member state can – but we can ensure that there is a limited but significant Irish imprint on that policy.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5C6JHG2RFRF7JFHWW77CF2DHXI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743592127971},"content":"Second, we should recognise, more so than ever before, that Ireland’s home in the world is in the EU. It is where we belong and from where all our other relationships branch out. It is the European flag, not the star-spangled banner or Union Jack, that flies comfortably beside the Tricolour. Any notion that we are triangulating between Boston, Berlin and Birmingham has been comprehensively rubbished, first by Brexit and then by <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/jd-vance/\" target=\"_blank\">JD Vance</a>’s poisonous attack on European values. This core reality necessarily requires a further enhanced prioritisation of the EU in Ireland, and of European policy formulation across government and the public service.","type":"text"},{"_id":"E3VT4I5J6JGILKDYKOCFC5YTJY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743592127972},"content":"Needless to say, the improved relationship between Ireland and the UK, as well as between the EU and UK, under prime minister <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/keir-starmer/\" target=\"_blank\">Keir Starmer</a>, is to be warmly welcomed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7RGZMRI52BCFLPD2MPDCMVJLKQ","embed":{"config":{},"id":"acast_podcast-53007","url":"/"},"subtype":"acast_podcast","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"QOMXQB4X6FG5LGEA4D4PNRJEFQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743592127973},"content":"Third, Ireland’s approach, in order to maximise our influence in the EU, must be based on honest recognition of the new and dangerous global environment in which Europe finds itself. There are legitimate domestic debates about Irish military neutrality, a neutrality that is called into question neither by Nato nor the EU. However, we must at the same time continue to raise our vision beyond our own shores to the reality of unprovoked war on our continent and the unprecedented uncertainty about US values and intentions. The wellbeing of our citizens depends on the ability of Europe to defend itself, whatever we in Ireland decide freely to contribute to our own security.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AQ6R7HQT3BFQTDU4BVVAWHJ37Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1743592127974},"content":"Fourth, we should, under all circumstances, be ambitious about ramping up Ireland’s national defence, as increasingly seems to be the Government’s intention. The threats to our underwater cables and to our cybersecurity are direct and immediate.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RO5VUC6F7ZE4FAKONBDVC755U4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743592127975},"content":"Finally, we must understand where our European partners are coming from. This is both fundamental and self-evident. If we want our EU partners to have our back on Brexit, as they so comprehensively did, and on Trump’s tariffs, as we fervently hope, this means reciprocal empathy. We should understand, for example, that Poland and our Baltic partners face a palpable military threat from Russia; and that Finland and Sweden, two countries which can be every bit as proud as Ireland about their long-standing independent foreign policies – have felt compelled to join Nato.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Bobby McDonagh"}]},"description":{"basic":"If Ireland wants its EU partners to have the country’s back on issues related to our national interests, this requires reciprocal empathy"},"display_date":"2025-04-03T05:45:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"EU faces moment of truth as it faces threats from Trump’s tariffs and Putin’s war","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"RN7VCNTTD6OCTUPZTPVLGPQF2A","auth":{"1":"6cd13e15f7f6363b03b5a75b373bfeb81aca963d2d3607779a8325febde8f5e2"},"focal_point":{"x":4335,"y":2732},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/RN7VCNTTD6OCTUPZTPVLGPQF2A.jpg"}},"subtype":"opinion","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Opinion"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/opinion/2025/04/03/eu-faces-moment-of-truth-as-it-faces-threats-from-trumps-tariffs-and-putins-war/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/opinion","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Opinion"}}}},{"_id":"5QTZWR6AERD33APHX7V23TDBFU","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":342,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/5c5c3c26-674e-4394-aaa4-d135575e3b24/versions/1743609445/media/a7da36e2b0e25b4efd58c70f18a34c99_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/opinion/2025/04/03/after-years-of-skilfully-playing-both-sides-of-the-boston-or-berlin-binary-we-must-now-choose-between-them/","content_elements":[{"_id":"6GBEU4VQWZCU5G67OP6VARRUNQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743591513388},"content":"In last year’s film Irish Wish, <a href=\"https:///www.irishtimes.com/tags/lindsay-lohan/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:///www.irishtimes.com/tags/lindsay-lohan/\">Lindsay Lohan</a> stood on the Cliffs of Moher, stared out to sea and said she felt as though she had “stepped into a James Joyce novel”. Not an obvious leap, as our <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio/2024/03/17/planning-to-hate-watch-lindsay-lohans-irish-wish-micksploitation-addicts-should-prepare-for-disappointment/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio/2024/03/17/planning-to-hate-watch-lindsay-lohans-irish-wish-micksploitation-addicts-should-prepare-for-disappointment/\">film critic Donald Clarke said at the time</a>, but expected in a US-made film about a 21st century encounter with St Bridget, one that trades in stereotype and kitsch “hello-der!” accents.","type":"text"},{"_id":"S3LFUKV345EDNPYDW5JKXQIFSQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743591513389},"content":"Even <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/joe-biden/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/joe-biden/\">Joe Biden</a> can’t resist turbo-Hibernian pageantry: he walked out in Ballina, Co Mayo, in 2023 on to an emerald green carpet to a soundtrack of the Dropkick Murphys. For all the talk of the American-Irish bond, the Ireland of America’s imagination is synthetic and unreal. It suggests the cultural distance between the two countries is bigger than we like to imply.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DVRYKYNM4NACXHOXPSCD7JAHEY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743591513390},"content":"In summer 2000 Mary Harney, then tánaiste, set up what seemed to be a defining binary for Ireland: Boston or Berlin? A common language, an influential diaspora, artistic exchange and a low-regulation economy all pointed towards Ireland’s stronger bond with the US. Europe’s sluggish bureaucracy seemed at odds, too, with the spirit of the Celtic Tiger years. When everything went awry in 2010, Ireland cleaved to Europe. Brexit later proved the logic of closer association with the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/european-union/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/european-union/\">European Union</a>, too. But Ireland’s economy remained firmly in the hands of American investment.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MT5VTSUVCFHKFA7PQBXWIJQTAI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743591513391},"content":"All of this is to say the Boston vs Berlin binary was never really a binary at all – Ireland was good at playing both sides and didn’t accept the zero-sum calculation. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"HVZU5IXNSVE37K2ODIBKNKRR5U","additional_properties":{},"content":"In a matter of weeks, though, that has changed and, finally, 25 years later from when the conceit was first established, Ireland has a decision to make. (Berlin, if it weren’t obvious.)","type":"text"},{"_id":"3VG3T67K3ZCHJKADJY6LDUCFA4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743591513392},"content":"As recently as two weeks ago, Europe was clinging on to an optimistic version of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\">Donald Trump</a>. It went something like this: he is a transactionalist; what he says and what he does doesn’t always cohere; he views ally and enemy nations as a locus for profit or loss; he is shorn of any moral dimension; the hot emotion of his block-capital’d written statements is superficial and unserious; if Europe is nice to him and makes him money then it can be expected to be treated accordingly.","type":"text"},{"_id":"W2MTT6YJIBEZ5MW3RNCPLAP2FY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743591513393},"content":"That may have been a salve then – that the antagonism was a political show for a domestic audience (please!). But we know now that the contempt for Europe in Trump’s administration is a deeply held thing. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"RJVBXPJ7FVD4RPT4UM24BDIQXM","additional_properties":{},"content":"It was first obvious when <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/jd-vance/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/jd-vance/\">JD Vance</a> <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2025/02/15/european-leaders-left-in-stunned-silence-as-jd-vance-harangues-them-over-approach-to-far-right/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2025/02/15/european-leaders-left-in-stunned-silence-as-jd-vance-harangues-them-over-approach-to-far-right/\">dressed down the Continent on matters of speech and migration at the Munich defence conference</a> in February. When details of a group chat between the US vice-president and other senior US officials were leaked last month, the suspected antipathy was revealed to be outright loathing (“I just hate bailing out Europe again,” the vice-president said, emphasising his disdain for Europe’s “freeloading” on the US for defence capacity).","type":"text"},{"_id":"LFDZDFZO3BBONCJ7BIJGO5IJ2M","additional_properties":{"_id":1743591513394},"content":"The anti-European turn is visible elsewhere: “The UK Thought Police owe Orwell royalties,” one American author said, piling cliche upon cliche, of the UK government’s response to the summer riots. Canadian author Jordan Peterson suspects that Britain is about to enter a Venezuelan nightmare. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/elon-musk\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/elon-musk\">Elon Musk</a>’s adventures in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/germany\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/germany\">Germany</a> led him to give vocal support for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD): “I think you really are the best hope for Germany,” said a man barely able to conceal his contempt for the centre European status-quo.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GI3VJBGVGJCG3PANOTRIACIZ3U","additional_properties":{"_id":1743591513395},"content":"I remember when this used to happen in reverse. And that is not as far back as the haughty Jacques Chirac’s fondness for telling colleagues: “I have a simple principle in foreign affairs. I see what the Americans are doing and I do the opposite.” ","type":"text"},{"_id":"PZV2CAVAVNBHRG3USJQYEAHQUY","additional_properties":{},"content":"No, far more recent than that. In my adulthood I have borne witness to a broad-stroke, impressionistic anti-Americanism, typified by disdain for the national character (so gauche!), the direction of its politics (neocons once, neolibs after that, protectionist lunatics now – all met with similar disdain), and its cultural production (Hollywood has flattened the artistic realm world-over, so goes the claim). ","type":"text"},{"_id":"D64LAQV2LFEKDJW3QLKGKEPVLQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"And don’t take it from me: in 2017 the BBC found 14 of 17 countries surveyed had an overall negative impression of the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/united–states\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/united–states\">United States</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3QELELZAI5FS7JQIZRBSUW274M","additional_properties":{"_id":1743591513396},"content":"That anti-American reflex was as unfair as JD Vance’s anti-European prejudice now. The US vice-president’s breakout book Hillbilly Elegy derives its title from Ancient Greek and modern American vernacular – which would have served as a neat romantic metaphor for the enduring bond between the two continents had he not been happy to smash it to pieces. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"4QYF3ID7DFANPPC25U7RSI3P24","additional_properties":{},"content":"Counterfactuals aside, as these two continents turn their back on each other Ireland, a nation prone to “both side-ism”, has to choose.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AZO4FGHGJJE4XD44VMIF4AL7BI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743591513397},"content":"And perhaps that choice should be routed back in the first principle of this column. There is plenty Ireland owes the US in recent history; that the Democrats see the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/belfast-agreement/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/belfast-agreement/\">Belfast Agreement</a> as a key part of their legacy is fair and worth celebrating. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"H4F3DUQI6NGJRB7HB5TCPAT37M","additional_properties":{},"content":"But the cultural chasm between the two places is wider than it is convenient to admit. Berlin, Paris and London meanwhile are not ones to overstate their Hiberno-philia. They have been much better friends for a much longer time.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Finn McRedmond"}},"name":"Finn McRedmond"}]},"description":{"basic":"European capitals have arguably been better friends of Ireland for a much longer time"},"display_date":"2025-04-03T05:00:24Z","headlines":{"basic":"After years of skilfully playing both sides of the ‘Boston or Berlin’ binary, we must now choose one of them","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"5SRZ6VMF2NDI5LPZNV2TXNWHYY","auth":{"1":"fa6057b7e1deb7832c621df24656ecb85e91259e9f18e867198af116f0e6638b"},"focal_point":{"x":731,"y":461},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/5SRZ6VMF2NDI5LPZNV2TXNWHYY.jpg"},"lead_art":{"_id":"SNEN2GJMRTO5OVPL6ZBTZO2LCE","type":"image"}},"subtype":"columnist","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Opinion"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/opinion/2025/04/03/after-years-of-skilfully-playing-both-sides-of-the-boston-or-berlin-binary-we-must-now-choose-between-them/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/opinion","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Opinion"}}}},{"_id":"CYRRGD3NQ5FG5BXEHFTVG2CD74","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":362,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/bfd13439-5bf8-4627-95d8-897a30451b16/versions/1743617383/media/581f71c2eefc9d348eeec39058a0b625_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/opinion/2025/04/03/the-family-business-stop-using-corporate-jargon-to-describe-drug-gangs/","content_elements":[{"_id":"VAKFMAUCHFDXJJ4D2BP2QQJG6M","additional_properties":{"_id":1743598999044},"content":"Listening to veteran crime correspondent Paul Reynolds describe the activities of the “Family” drug gang on the radio over the weekend, you could be forgiven for thinking you had tuned into the business news.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RZV5OCFD4FFZVJPKUYAMSQQL2I","additional_properties":{},"content":"Reynolds leant heavily and deliberately into corporate jargon to describe their structure, which includes a “main administrator” who manages their communications and phone system. The same person also seems to be responsible for human resources in so far as they decide who goes on what job.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JCBA45YJXNGTNH63XPDESPVES4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743598999046},"content":"Another key member of the management team, according to Reynolds, was the “head of logistics” who operates a “sophisticated transport network” using “deep concealment methods” that require heavy engineering and precision design.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UWJ323XGPRFYZCOKKXNTXIDC34","additional_properties":{"_id":1743598999047},"content":"The respected reporter went on to elucidate the competitive advantage of the new incumbents at the top of Ireland’s criminal underworld. Their unique selling point appears to be that they don’t do gangland killing.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NOQOZIRSRJFOBDATM7O4NH76ME","additional_properties":{"_id":1743598999048},"content":"Another element of brand differentiation between the Family and the Kinahan cartel they have replaced is that they don’t attract attention to themselves. They live relatively modestly in their west Dublin community, in contrast to the conspicuously consuming Kinahan mob.","type":"text"},{"_id":"X337MN5A65GJBD6JUICL6S7NA4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743598999049},"content":"Their “turnover”, by which the reporter meant drug sales, is €10 million a year and the business model is resilient enough to sustain multimillion-euro losses – which is one way of describing Garda drug busts.","type":"text"},{"_id":"37APMKVX7BH4JKWRXIH3OC7ZC4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743598999050},"content":"By the end of the segment, it would not have come as a complete surprise to hear that the Family met its obligations under the transfer-of-undertakings legislation in respect of the terms and conditions of Kinahan underlings.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SYKL3BOQ6BHUXLGISCVNWTJFWU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743598999051},"content":"The co-opting of corporate jargon to describe drug gangs is an almost inevitable consequence of the long-established practice of the police and media putting some sort of public face on the chaotic and opportunistic groups that fight for control of the market for drugs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"P3MKQIAX55HBPLEV6N7BIQY76I","additional_properties":{},"content":"Reynolds is by no means the only journalist reporting this way on crime gangs. Most outlets do it to a greater or lesser extent. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"XMGUTQU3WJEPND75HHKRJ3L3XQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"The Irish Times has also reported on the Family, and has explained the inner workings of other crime organisations. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"BIJV3GD7XBDSNACZDOUP6SRO5U","additional_properties":{},"content":"Spanish police say Ireland’s Family drugs gang ‘enjoyed high economic status and influence’","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"I3KF5GJTRFCWRKVDB2CFB72PHY","additional_properties":{},"content":"The focus on a particular individual or group at any point in time is itself a reflection of the reality that there is no winning the whack-a-mole war on drugs. There will always be drug dealers and traffickers for as long as people have the motivation and the opportunity. Neither is in short supply in wealthy but unequal societies such as ours.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TYYVFFPWLNB6LNX5TCEHJTH6VQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743598999053},"content":"The Family is just the latest cipher. Before them were the Kinahans and the Hutches. Before that there were others such as John Gilligan and the Penguin.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZRIZYPPJ55B73BELHVZ3ZUSMC4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743598999054},"content":"This depressing truth, that victory in the war on drugs is impossible, presents a problem for the Garda and its political masters. It is not a good look to tell the public, we are doing a good job keeping a lid on the problem but most likely we will be at this until kingdom come because people are people.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GYRCGKBM6JC7HAXJNZ7NCKGDYE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743598999055},"content":"The reality of this, however, is clear from the crime statistics. There were 14,905 recorded incidents of offences against Government, justice procedures and organisation of crime last year, according to the CSO. This is in line with the five-year average.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OPLAYOONLJB5TAZW4WVLIDOKSQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743598999056},"content":"There was a decline in controlled drug offences, which can be seen as a proxy for the activities of the Family and their rival gangs. There were 16,450 offences last year, down on the five-year average of 19,240, although a lot of the decline is linked with the end of Covid.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZBXUWNKNYRAR7BAVYQSVLIXQYI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743598999057},"content":"It is quite rational in this context for the Garda to eschew trying to explain the Sisyphean nature of policing the drugs trade and instead present their actions as a series of battles won. And winning a battle requires defeating an identifiable enemy. There is no shortage of candidates, and the media is only too happy to help.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LJNACTXGCVEIPLSVHH3UNXJGZY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743598999058},"content":"The approach is by its nature media-friendly, and the Garda appears to be pretty expert at managing it, often inviting journalists along to see drug lords’ expensive SUVs being taken away on lorries and the like.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ERYFYXKTVBAGZOAUBTESXS7QW4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743598999059},"content":"Nothing about this effective Garda media strategy diminishes the important, hard and very often dangerous work that goes into suppressing the drug trade. The risks taken by gardaí in the course of their work are serious and real. So are the results. More than 80 individuals associated with the Kinahan operation are currently behind bars,","type":"text"},{"_id":"Z6KOUKOFQBG4ZIW7QGT6TYAFDU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743598999060},"content":"There is also an argument for their approach in so far as it underpins public confidence in both the Garda and the Government. There is a certain chicken-and-egg dimension to it, however. The drug kingpin du jour is frequently built up into a fearsome opponent before they can be taken down.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7ESJ4TJYDVEU5NK4CGKH4PSW6U","additional_properties":{"_id":1743598999061},"content":"The counter argument is that this approach paints a misleading picture of what is going on and makes it harder to hold the Garda to account. For journalists it is worth remembering that while metaphor is an important part of storytelling, if it is stretched too far it descends into parody.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HEKQXPAI75E6FAWK5YVS4SCKZU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743598999062},"content":"In any event the Family’s moment in the spotlight would appear to be coming to an end. Their secure communications system has been compromised, and they are the subject of pan-European policing efforts. Their leaders were questioned by the Garda last week and the Director of Public Prosecutions will decide how to proceed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NFN6TT73EBDCTKW4YZ4ZYRPCBY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743598999063},"content":"As Reynolds put it in an accompanying piece on the RTÉ website, hopefully with his tongue firmly planted in his cheek, “It has not been a good week for the CEO, the senior leadership team, the executives, the facilitators and the transport managers of the country’s biggest drug trafficking gang.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"HC3ETUU7MVHDNN3TGJORDSV6JQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743598999064},"content":"Other drug gangs are presumably looking on with interest and planning their own “hostile takeovers”.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"John McManus"}},"name":"John McManus"}]},"description":{"basic":"‘It has not been a good week for the CEO … of the country’s biggest drug trafficking gang’"},"display_date":"2025-04-03T05:00:01Z","headlines":{"basic":"The Family business: Stop using corporate jargon to describe drug gangs ","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"DXYRCWFCAZH4HKF3QSRFL7NPZM","auth":{"1":"453b6938aaba37783969a456176d98298f6dd3bff7031960c9ead0122db3bd09"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/DXYRCWFCAZH4HKF3QSRFL7NPZM.jpg"}},"subtype":"columnist","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Opinion"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/opinion/2025/04/03/the-family-business-stop-using-corporate-jargon-to-describe-drug-gangs/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/opinion","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Opinion"}}}},{"_id":"3RDD7FB5QRDFHFQMUQI2WVMGIY","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":289,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/5469/podcasts/0d06747b-1d02-4ad9-b750-78492269a662/versions/1743606026/media/97bed852db52eb4c7b6bc7738546abcf_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/opinion/2025/04/03/underinvestment-in-water-is-harming-the-environment-and-economy-but-no-politician-dares-mention-a-solution/","content_elements":[{"_id":"64ZGWM2XCBCOFDQH4BQDGCC6KM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743524100899},"content":"Neglect of the water system is an all-Ireland issue, in the straightforward sense that both parts of Ireland have the same problem: long-term underinvestment is causing increasingly serious damage to the environment and the economy. Recent headlines in the Republic about the impact on house building could have been lifted from any Northern newspapers from the past five years.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RVMKHSLLBNHA3HMBAP5I5DAXPY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743524100900},"content":"Neglect is also an all-Ireland issue in the more complicated sense of involving cross-Border politicking.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZPS2BTI5HBG6TNXR52DFGLA62Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1743524100901},"content":"In recent years this has mainly operated through <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/sinn-fein/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/sinn-fein/\">Sinn Féin</a>, as the only large all-Ireland party. It is opposed to domestic water charges and wants to present this as a consistent position, north and south. Circumstances are different either side of the Border, however, and require different approaches. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"3QP2MGFCPBHPJM6KDE7SHTMY64","additional_properties":{},"content":"Sinn Féin has been in office at Stormont since 1999, with direct responsibility for water for half of the 16 years devolution has been operating. This has provided the party’s opponents with enough ammunition to accuse it of inconsistency. During the height of water protests in the Republic a decade ago, Sinn Féin found itself under attack from left and right, with its record at Stormont sometimes cited against it.","type":"text"},{"_id":"P7ZTIITRHVCIVAA6FD4ION5A4Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1743524100902},"content":"As a result, what little pragmatism the party was once prepared to show on water has been replaced with a safety-first populism. It will not countenance anything that might look like a new tax or a household bill.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KMQ3LS2XKRHHXAKTKTURU4CWXY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743524100903},"content":"One example is Sinn Féin’s former policy to raise domestic rates, the standard property tax in Northern Ireland, while itemising how much is spent on water. This was the party’s big idea when devolution was restored after the 2006 St Andrews Agreement, but it has long since become unmentionable.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DOS2GHXZRRACXH7MDVHVQOK64A","additional_properties":{"_id":1743524100904},"content":"In reality, Sinn Féin should have little to fear from accusations of inconsistency as voters on each side of the border have little interest in politics on the other. But that is a rather awkward thing for republicans to admit, let alone to exploit.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KD7PUHG64VD77PM52K2GV2SQ5I","additional_properties":{"_id":1743524100905},"content":"The indifference is mutual and almost total. Sinn Féin has been flying a kite at Stormont over the past year to fund water through a levy on new housing development. The seriousness of this proposal is open to question – it may simply be another way to avoid discussing domestic charges. Nobody in the Republic seems to have noticed. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"XZWLULLJ65GZ7L2KSAWTNVCRAA","additional_properties":{},"content":"In Northern Ireland, people are oblivious to the constitutional referendum against water privatisation that Irish governments have been promising since 2016 (although this has disappeared from the latest programme for government). Privatisation is the spectre haunting the water funding debate across Ireland, yet it is a British issue and a redundant one at that.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OEJV42VASZAHXD2VH6EHTK5CEE","subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"C43UJGE77VHENGQLVLLE4FKXAM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743524100906},"content":"It is often noted that Northern Ireland and the Republic are among the few places on earth without domestic water bills. Less noted is that England and Chile are the only places with fully privatised systems.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GEQCH4FKYJGYNCEU4X4THFKPMU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743524100907},"content":"Chile’s is a legacy of the Pinochet dictatorship. England’s is a Thatcherite experiment that appeared to work for a while, but is now universally regarded as a fiasco. There was a time when the English model might have been imposed on Ireland, by London in the North and the Troika in the south. Any such danger has passed: no government wants to set up the next Thames Water and no private investor would buy it.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZRJM2WVTEBHPLDFBYKNIHVETTA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743524100908},"content":"As the deadlocks on both sides of the border are connected, movement on one side might unlock the other.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TLF6WQFELNG35PEU73SIQV6WIU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743524100909},"content":"Last week’s statement from <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/uisce-eireann/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/uisce-eireann/\">Uisce Éireann</a> about the “desperate state” of its system due to “extraordinary complacency” about investment has been rather helpful. For those paying attention in Northern Ireland, it debunks Stormont’s excuses about a unique problem that only money from London can fix.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2P3MEXEGEJEMJBP2BZ5KSHMKZA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743524100910},"content":"More awareness of the proposed referendum in the Republic could also be useful. Northern Ireland needs the reassurance that the referendum is meant to provide that water privatisation and water charging are two separate issues. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"6CZKIPWDSBGGLAR3JBIEGK6YYA","additional_properties":{},"content":"This distinction was clearly understood in the years before the St Andrews Agreement, when British direct rule ministers set up a new government-owned water utility and attempted to introduce domestic charging. Their denials about preparing the system for sale were widely disbelieved. Most Stormont parties at the time said privatisation was their concern, but the public still needed to pay more for water. Sinn Féin and the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/democratic-unionist-party/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/democratic-unionist-party/\">DUP</a> need to get back to this position before there is much hope of moving forward.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SKUN4S3C6VBDDERLLSLCBGMNVQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743524100911},"content":"The Republic could gain a fresh perspective on its own debate by taking more interest in Stormont. The Northern executive has considered different approaches to the same problem, given its different circumstances. Although it may have ruled all of them out, at least it has given them some thought.","type":"text"},{"_id":"R5ACJUFQINGSBLPPWNXY7I7YBQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743524100912},"content":"Sinn Féin’s limitations on the issue deserve to be put on the spot, but they also deserve more scrutiny than the hunt for a cheap jibe.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Newton Emerson"}},"name":"Newton Emerson"}]},"description":{"basic":"Domestic bills and privatisation are off the agenda, but politicking is thwarting proper debate on who pays"},"display_date":"2025-04-03T05:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Underinvestment in water is harming the environment and economy, but no politician dares mention a solution","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"5469"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"DUNONFPAHVBBPJ636QOJWRFGFI","auth":{"1":"e2037f4368a87c8a81908d1d8ad59c2a066847253ac4163811d183a8fdbbfb78"},"focal_point":{"x":742,"y":372},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/DUNONFPAHVBBPJ636QOJWRFGFI.jpg"},"lead_art":{"_id":"E3S7KUWTQZHPJMP2T3WIPWBO7E","type":"image"}},"subtype":"columnist","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Opinion"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/opinion/2025/04/03/underinvestment-in-water-is-harming-the-environment-and-economy-but-no-politician-dares-mention-a-solution/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/opinion","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Opinion"}}}},{"_id":"D64D3ZQZUVE45PYLFTJZAVSYPY","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":381,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/35c9c8a4-f47a-41a9-931b-da37be31b4ed/versions/1743525585/media/e6af23b2afa8623c17addd4198400b6e_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/opinion/2025/04/02/a-quiet-unease-is-building-among-tech-sector-employees/","content_elements":[{"_id":"PRSRYDXYENEE3ILLFA6KDBK3NI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743439587552},"content":"In the past few months I have noticed a steady uptick in a particular type of message from friends and acquaintances. It is the “I think it is time to move on” email, WhatsApp or LinkedIn private message, quietly asking for a coffee and a chat. They are coming – not exclusively, but primarily – from people working in tech.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OL2Y7NEAN5AWPHK5NDIEW4Y5ZM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743439587553},"content":"There is a mood of quiet unease out there in the land of suddenly less fancy in-house canteens. This is no doubt contributing to the success of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025/03/28/laura-slattery-facebook-expose-careless-people-is-a-gruesome-update-to-the-social-network/\" target=\"_self\">a new tell-all memoir by former Facebook executive Sarah Wynn-Williams</a>, and why I had to visit multiple bookshops to track down a copy of Careless People: A Story of Where I Used to Work.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QVL7UMYOBZFRHAMKRZBQJ4T4QY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572714067},"content":"The book landed without much warning, perhaps an attempt to get it out into the world before the lawyers could shut it down. Perhaps this was even a subversion of Tech World’s “move fast and break things” approach to making facts on the ground that then have to be dealt with.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RF3U66TQL5GLPATADCI2CM24PA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572714068},"content":"Either way <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/meta/\" target=\"_self\">Meta</a>, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/facebook/\" target=\"_self\">Facebook</a>’s parent company, managed to get <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2025/03/13/meta-wins-emergency-ruling-to-temporarily-stop-promotion-of-tell-all-book/\" target=\"_self\">an order blocking Wynn-Williams from promoting the book</a>, but did not succeed in getting the book itself taken off the shelves. What better marketing strategy can you have in 2025 than “being silenced”?","type":"text"},{"_id":"5M4MPYGZUNDM7ECD3SYS2YHWYM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743439587554},"content":"Careless People is very readable, and you get the sense that <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/sarah-wynn-williams/\" target=\"_self\">Wynn-Williams</a>, a one-time junior New Zealand diplomat turned Facebook lobbyist, would be a very entertaining dinner party guest. It is a collection of well honed anecdotes from her seven or so years helping the company figure out how it engaged with governments around the world.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y53QMITJBBDTPLNLBJLFWCQKTM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572714070},"content":"The endless name-dropping – from dancing near Hillary Clinton at a Colombian salsa club, to mixing with cultural megastars such as Beyoncé and parties at Davos with our own Enda Kenny – is usually juxtaposed with stories of just how inept and/or callous the leaders of the company were.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OPKUTQB2JFGEJNI5WSZR47TVLI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Facebook whistleblower finds mischievous party animal Enda Kenny ‘almost charming’","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"LFA35FV7S5DCLLZM3QDQZYSSNE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743439587555},"content":"Storytelling is perhaps the strongest currency in Silicon Valley, where company valuations can rely as much on the origin stories of founders and fantastical tales of future growth as on any rational assessment of business fundamentals. The author of the Financial Times’s Lex column recently stated that for companies such as <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/nvidia/\" target=\"_self\">Nvidia</a> and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/palantir/\" target=\"_self\">Palintir</a>, “80 per cent of the value comes from things that happen after 2030″, or, put another way, from the stories these companies tell about that future.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LOL7DO5TOBAIVLT4EI6DPX2T3E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572714072},"content":"Wynn-Williams’s book uses storytelling to make pointed critiques of this very culture, yet falls into some of the same traps. A story is not an analysis. (For that you would do better to tune into the likes of historian Jill Lapore’s excellent new podcast series X Man: The Elon Musk Origin Story).","type":"text"},{"_id":"VTVZZLVM5JCDJODZ7QQPPYUHNU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743439587556},"content":"The central thesis of this book is that Facebook – the product and the company – had enormous potential, but people – a small handful of people – messed it up. Three very well known executives are singled out for blame: <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/mark-zuckerberg/\" target=\"_self\">Mark Zuckerberg</a>, who is presented as controlling and aloof; Sheryl Sandberg, who is portrayed as vain and manipulative; and Joel Kaplan, who comes in for the sharpest criticism, including accusations of inappropriate behaviour.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q2OR7FO2ZFBIPDW62CZJASQLIM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572714074},"content":"While these portrayals are not especially new, Wynn-Williams’s proximity to these people combine with her power with the pen to bring these caricatures into startling, damning, technicolour light. (Meta has characterised the book as “a mix of out-of-date and previously reported claims about [Meta] and false accusations about our executives”).","type":"text"},{"_id":"OKHJO7RBMZCQZDWMQGGIVBK2WM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743439587557},"content":"The author is very explicit about pinning blame on these individuals. In her closing arguments she states: “It really didn’t have to be this way ... something else was possible. They really could have chosen to do it all differently”. When you present the story of Facebook as one of merely people making bad decisions based on moral weaknesses, you ignore the wider context of an industry that systematically rewards companies that let these kinds of people rise to the top.","type":"text"},{"_id":"W5ZKG5M6UZE5TPXMY3P7SSBEIA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572714076},"content":"Facebook wasn’t ruined by careless people, Facebook grew into what it was, and then what it is, because ruthless, growth-oriented careless people were in charge.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UVC5LCFYKRCVDAFL2K6FX5CIRY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743439587558},"content":"This line of thinking also implies that if people caused these problems, then maybe people could have fixed it. The arc of the book is one of personal disillusionment, how Wynn-Williams “told myself I could do more on the inside than the outside”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LSO6XYLMTBANJH5VKYIN2JCSZY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743439587559},"content":"That echoed the refrain I heard repeatedly from digital rights activists through the late 2010s as they were recruited in their droves by companies such as Facebook and Google. These smart, committed and capable people had been advocating for tech companies, and the governments who were failing to regulate them, to do better.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XJ7CHWLTIREGXMMFIZHERDI7MY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572714079},"content":"The activists turned tech workers got impressive-sounding job titles, and signed non-disclosure agreements (NDAs). From one conference to the next, brilliant advocates from across the world went from speaking out to handing out branded merch and cocktails at fancy corporate drinks receptions.","type":"text"},{"_id":"34BHF422MRDWBOH4M22YYZH2KU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743439587560},"content":"Many no doubt did difficult and underappreciated work to try to make these companies better. They will have had some real wins. But they were never going to have any real power inside corporate behemoths that prize growth above all else. As the tech oligarchy pivots to appease an increasingly authoritarian White House, many of this wave of hires are no doubt coming to the same conclusion as Wynn-Williams, that “being the grit in the machine wasn’t working”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PS33UXAC7ZE4BPIY4GYM33OONI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743439587561},"content":"In the end Wynn-Williams didn’t leave the company of her own volition. She was let go for “poor performance”, something she portrays as a vindictive response to her HR complaints against executives. Her immediate concerns are for the big house she has purchased, the golden handcuffs of tech salaries that, along with the NDAs that employees sign, make leaving and speaking out as she has done very difficult. The financial and legal power that tech companies possess is as much a force against its own staff as it is against regulators’ attempts to tame it. Careless People is an entertaining act of resistance against that power but does little to challenge the system that enabled it.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Liz Carolan"}]},"description":{"basic":"A new tell-all memoir by a former Facebook executive is selling fast, but it fails to recognise the full nature of corporate behemoths that prize growth above all else."},"display_date":"2025-04-02T05:30:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"‘It’s time to move on’: Unease is growing among my friends in the tech sector","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"CNYZLETBDYIJORVTY22T5XRE3Q","auth":{"1":"afa1dd48d3466503814d5bcdf8e78ba6fd95b0ee7fca66e19a47ebb136fa36d1"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/CNYZLETBDYIJORVTY22T5XRE3Q.jpg"}},"subtype":"opinion","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Opinion"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/opinion/2025/04/02/a-quiet-unease-is-building-among-tech-sector-employees/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/opinion","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Opinion"}}}},{"_id":"GFDDEOPWZZC7JL3XLRX7UYGAOE","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":384,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/ac73937a-3769-4969-99be-4e4bb939ff8b/versions/1743524480/media/6ffaadaeb3837aba1bd9e1cf007d4f21_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/opinion/2025/04/02/irelands-parliamentary-standards-have-been-trashed-in-recent-weeks/","content_elements":[{"_id":"2TAL65IEK5CAXDCYRRELRRAUSA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743504845637},"content":"The exit of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/primark/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/primark/\">Primark</a>‘s boss on Monday <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2025/03/31/primark-chief-paul-marchant-resigns-after-investigation-into-inappropriate-behaviour/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2025/03/31/primark-chief-paul-marchant-resigns-after-investigation-into-inappropriate-behaviour/\">following an investigation into his behaviour</a> towards a woman “in a social environment” was swift and clinical.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6G7XDB2W7FAPZKO2A4BLVIM2CU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743504845638},"content":"Paul Marchant was a successful chief executive of 16 years’ standing and Primark (trading here as <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/penneys/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/penneys/\">Penneys</a>) accounts for roughly half of Associated British Foods’ profits, yet ABF’s chief executive George Weston addressed the problem in terms of culture. “Colleagues and others must be treated with respect and dignity. Our culture has to be, and is, bigger than any one individual”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"X2DN6XDX5NAPDPFJJFT2ULZUFU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743504845639},"content":"If a food and fast-fashion retailer feels strongly enough about its culture to oust a successful chief executive, how should we deal with the brawlers and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/03/25/shame-shame-shame-opposition-leaders-accuse-coalition-of-giving-two-fingers-to-democracy-in-row-over-speaking-rights/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/03/25/shame-shame-shame-opposition-leaders-accuse-coalition-of-giving-two-fingers-to-democracy-in-row-over-speaking-rights/\">two-fingers merchants</a> who mock and coarsen the political institutions at the heart of our priceless democracy?","type":"text"},{"_id":"CPSFYQSS6VFQ7FLKLU7JMOBQRY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743504845640},"content":"That old-fashioned word dignity pops up four times in a couple of short pages about parliamentary decorum and standards distributed to every new <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/oireachtas/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/oireachtas/\">Oireachtas</a> member. Concern about the erosion of standards may sound like pearl-clutching, but standards exist for a reason. Peaceful deliberation has indeed always been considered to be at the very core of the democratic ideal. The coarsening of a political culture bleeds into every part of it.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FI3KE5DS2FC3TPJZWODOSDVC54","additional_properties":{"_id":1743504845641},"content":"Yet all five principles of the code of parliamentary standards have been trashed in a few weeks.","type":"text"},{"_id":"acc71ab2-9dd1-44ad-95bf-d9814d965750","additional_properties":{},"subtype":"irish-times-video","type":"video"},{"_id":"ZPC4YSO6QJHIJFLSXULLN4PNYE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Michael Lowry gives masterclass in smug ingratitude amid Dáil chaos over speaking time","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"BLLYDH365NCRVMP6D7MDZEBNOE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743504845642},"content":"The line about “respect for the person and authority of the Chair [being] fundamental to the orderly and efficient conduct of the business of Dáil Éireann” was trampled into a nonsense from day one of this Dáil. There may be persuasive defences for it, but not excuses.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KTSVBZTFWFAOBEXEPCTQSL7KNQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743504845643},"content":"Conspicuous among the rules is a “strict” prohibition on “the use of mobile phones for the taking of photographs within the buildings of Leinster House” and the use of “offensive, provocative or threatening language” in the House is “strictly forbidden”. You might think therefore that Michael Lowry’s prohibited f**k off gesture to Paul Murphy’s prohibited camera phone in the Dáil chamber demands a response beyond the “lads will be lads/sure it’s just the cut-and-thrust” narrative. But you might be waiting.","type":"text"},{"_id":"E6HL4AOZJZF5DOEAQJSEYRU4SY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743504845644},"content":"Some elements of the media-political complex are convinced that the “punters” just love a good old political brawl. This presumes the punters are idiots who think that serious debate about life-changing legislation by well-paid public representatives is no different from scenes on a social media hell-site.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4SGT7GC5CVAMHMCYCEBGTKRQZE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743504845645},"content":"But any cultural change carries risk.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SOE5GHBMUFAMZJGU7AC2JN75AQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743504845646},"content":"Many Americans still recall the moment when a Republican representative shouted “You lie” at President Obama during a joint session of congress. Significantly, members of both parties condemned the heckler, Joe Wilson, who apologised “for this lack of civility” and was formally rebuked by the House, but it marked a turning point. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi slowly ripped up Donald Trump’s speech at one such address. Marjorie <a href=\"https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/marjorie-taylor-greene-biden-state-of-the-union-address-heckler\">Taylor Greene</a> shouted “Liar” at Joe Biden in 2023. Six minutes into Trump’s recent address to Congress, a Democratic representative was removed for repeated interruptions. Then again those Democrats who managed to remain civil got little thanks for it either.","type":"text"},{"_id":"T3NLZ4XSF5HNDHTVCGWF7IW5X4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743504845647},"content":"This is the cruel dilemma in autocratising countries where parliament has been reduced to a façade, where opposition participation is limited to derisory levels, questions are forbidden and voting on amendments is blocked. Civility in such circumstances requires a certain kind of strategic heroism. Last year alone, full-blown parliamentary brawls were reported in Italy, Hungary, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2025/03/24/turkish-opposition-seeks-boycott-of-pro-erdogan-media-over-failure-to-cover-protests/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2025/03/24/turkish-opposition-seeks-boycott-of-pro-erdogan-media-over-failure-to-cover-protests/\">Turkey</a>, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/video/world/europe/2025/03/04/serbian-opposition-lawmakers-threw-smoke-grenades-and-tear-gas-inside-the-parliament-in-belgrade/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/video/world/europe/2025/03/04/serbian-opposition-lawmakers-threw-smoke-grenades-and-tear-gas-inside-the-parliament-in-belgrade/\">Serbia</a>, South Africa, Taiwan, Ukraine, Ghana, Georgia and Kosovo.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RUDOPHP52JCLLMPDOAEJIJKVA4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743504845648},"content":"Call it luck, instinct or good stewarding but we haven’t yet descended to fists or smoke bombs in parliament. In fact Ireland is the sixth-most democratic nation in the world, according to <a href=\"https://www.v-dem.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.v-dem.net/\">the latest report</a> from the University of Gothenburg’s V-Dem (Varieties of Democracy) Institute.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BPTWIFK5VRFG5BB3G6KXL6TBGM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743504845649},"content":"But in global terms, the truth is that we are now outliers. Liberal democracies such as ours have become the least common regime type in the world – one of just 29 in 2024, representing under 12 per cent of world population. For the first time in 20 years the world has more autocracies than democracies and nearly three out of four people live in autocracies compared to just half in 2004. And Europe is not immune. Hungary ranks first of 45 for magnitude of decline in a top 10 that includes Serbia and Greece. Countries on V-Dem’s watch list include Cyprus, Slovakia, and Slovenia and it talks of “worrisome trends” in Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal and the US.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WXXT3FKKUVGXXLTZGNLIUOSAHI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Complacent liberals were too slow to see Trump coming","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"CBMPJADG6NFLXOKJQRBX7HNC34","additional_properties":{"_id":1743504845650},"content":"Democracy is fragile. Political leaders who dabble in rule changes and procedures without respectful consultation or rationale have a duty to reflect on the ramifications. The consequences of leaders or rank-and-file breaking with parliamentary norms and standards are not just theoretical or “far-fetched”. What happens when the next incumbents decide to raise the stakes?","type":"text"},{"_id":"6JKS5HDWAZENDHOR2C5XK5BLUY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743504845651},"content":"Currently there is no real cost to breaking the rules, especially for the mass of independents not subject to party sanction. Official sanctions available even to a broadly respected Ceann Comhairle – such as “naming” a member which “may” lead to suspension from the House – are often a badge of honour for a publicity hound. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"BZWEB5M4J5GOLNCGEMAH3BE5D4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Other European countries favour a more direct approach by which MPs excluded on disciplinary grounds have their remuneration for the sittings deducted. In France’s National Assembly, even a call to order once entered in the records automatically entails a deduction of a quarter of the member’s allowance for a month. Censure with temporary exclusion entails the loss of half the allowance for two months.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VEHZ4DZTKRG2BG7WOS72VOFZEA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743504845652},"content":"Our old-fashioned reliance on shame as a deterrent won’t work any more. The Oireachtas has to be bigger than any one individual. Fresh thinking is required.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Kathy Sheridan"}},"name":"Kathy Sheridan"}]},"description":{"basic":"Democracy is fragile - the consequences of politicians breaking with parliamentary norms and standards are not just theoretical"},"display_date":"2025-04-02T05:00:54Z","headlines":{"basic":"Ireland’s parliamentary standards have been trashed in recent weeks ","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"VI6ES2OUMBCNNJZ2DTNIX4JA7U","auth":{"1":"e15959b974060f189ee7aaa1151f15398c9a4eb77bbe9f61a293170c2d7455b3"},"focal_point":{"x":733,"y":491},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/VI6ES2OUMBCNNJZ2DTNIX4JA7U.jpg"},"lead_art":{"_id":"UAREQKWCNJHSRAC2HNIUHESEXU","type":"image"}},"subtype":"columnist","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Opinion"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/opinion/2025/04/02/irelands-parliamentary-standards-have-been-trashed-in-recent-weeks/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/opinion","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Opinion"}}}},{"_id":"H5UNFF3TYBGVNCSOTFYGVH5DYE","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":307,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/5469/podcasts/42a06d27-4c83-4744-b46b-bc9f69a82b03/versions/1743523512/media/6d6612137fe9e88d47355979d983e6dc_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/opinion/2025/04/02/our-rights-and-freedoms-are-at-stake-in-times-as-perilous-as-the-late-1930s/","content_elements":[{"_id":"5UHIS7LJABABPFNWOPXHZIUXCA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743508577030},"content":"The global omni-crisis has the capacity to numb us into a catatonic mental state; many people say that they tune out of news coverage because they need to avoid worry, stress and unease in the face of events utterly beyond their control or influence.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EYMHW4X3NZA4TCMZMCIBI5KYNE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743508577031},"content":"Therse are indeed dangerous times. Rule books and values are being thrown on to intellectual and moral bonfires. We risk descent into a global free-for-all.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4JFONVNNRZCLXI3LCI7CBRQZEI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743508577032},"content":"And yet we must face up to new realities. And double down on our own values.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2FNFYIU32FAZ3KQ4SRL5ITELPI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743508577033},"content":"We live in a good society – by no means perfect, but what society is? We live in an independent state. We have our own Constitution and institutions.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KPMQ7SIH6VCQLBEWJQN4TUSPPU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743508577034},"content":"Article nine of the Constitution states that “loyalty to the State” is a “fundamental political duty” of “all citizens”. What does that mean? Is it mere rhetoric?","type":"text"},{"_id":"USIGO47JFVGTDDU3XOZ3PFMVVU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743508577035},"content":"I think not. I think it is a proposition that should be widely taught, always remembered and deeply pondered. The very idea that every Irish citizen has a fundamental political duty of loyalty to the Irish State has profound implications for us all.","type":"text"},{"_id":"L56DDQ526JGMTM6SKB5OD7XKKA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743508577036},"content":"Citizenship is not just about having a passport. While we live in a free, democratic society, we do not dine à la carte as consumers of entitlements from some great ATM outlet known as government.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BXJPF2CXRBAS3G6BLYV4UA5UCQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743508577037},"content":"We live in a political community that has rules and obligations; we have a fundamental political duty to uphold those rules. We owe that democratic state and its institutions our respect. We have each a duty to obey its laws. We not only owe that duty to the State; we owe it to each other as citizens.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PJDHHQP7HVBZHDRXTEWC6WP75Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1743508577038},"content":"Perhaps the greatest constitutional jurisprudent, the late John M Kelly, author, professor, parliamentarian, orator, minister and attorney general, taught students in UCD that rights were meaningless in the absence of some corresponding duties to uphold those rights.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MR5SPPU2GJHSNP5ITPYGLVSVHY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743508577039},"content":"We live in a society where invocation of rights is the very coinage of social discourse. No project, political or social, is of much consequence, we are led to believe, unless it is described as “rights based”. Every political demand is elevated to the level of sacrosanct if it can be described in terms of “human rights”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WRASDOOF4RFZLDUME7WIGVKOGM","subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"4ATA3NYZCJHZXAKHCCNCJQT6G4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743508577040},"content":"A whole international academic community has evolved what they themselves describe as “rights speak”. International covenants and conventions are written in rights speak. They argue that these international instruments transcend the constitutions of independent states.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BCYUBG4HWRA7ZGOEZEUU3IKF7Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1743508577041},"content":"But where is there a word spoken in “duty speak”?","type":"text"},{"_id":"UTDXNHQPVNFZ3NKX3P4U5FMAPI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743508577042},"content":"If JM Kelly was right, and I believe he was, why are we rarely, if ever, reminded of our duties to each other and to our democratic State and Constitution? If every desideratum is expressed in rights speak – including human rights, civil rights, economic rights, social rights, environmental rights, climate right and so on, where are the corresponding duties? And by whom are they owed? Are all of those duties only owed by the State as the ultimate collective?","type":"text"},{"_id":"DXL7XBT7UBCX7CZGTUTJ6QWOVY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743508577043},"content":"Take one example. We all have as citizens, “men and women equally”, a constitutional right (referred to in Article 45) “to an adequate means of livelihood” through our occupations. Do we have any corresponding duty to work if we can for a living? Or do we simply have a right to a “universal basic income”, as some argue?","type":"text"},{"_id":"4VHI4T75TNCRJCVEWZXZL3DG5I","additional_properties":{"_id":1743508577044},"content":"If I think myself creative and spend my time painting, writing or making installations as a matter of right, does the State collectively owe me the duty of paying an artist’s basic income? And if I succeed, should my royalties be relieved of the duty to support the State in taxation, while my secretary has no such right?","type":"text"},{"_id":"LFTZHW3JHJED7MJZF73VPCXABI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743508577045},"content":"Can I opt out of work as a matter of right but invoke a duty on the part of everyone else to pay me while I do? Does my citizen’s constitutional right to emigrate and become taxation non-domiciled here while deriving all my income from Ireland entirely relieve me of any duty to pay personal taxes to the Irish State in the same way as my employees here must do?","type":"text"},{"_id":"K5G2CLAMCBCKDIRC45T4ENLAJE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743508577046},"content":"We accord parents educational rights. But the Constitution speaks of their parental educational duties. What do we really mean by that? What can parents do about that? Demand newly built classrooms but abdicate from what is taught there?","type":"text"},{"_id":"D24MDAS3MJC77O46LUF7QQS2MY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743508577047},"content":"If you completely divorce right from duty – or conceive of duty as collective and right as individual – you create the duty-less selfish ideology of the plutocrats in Washington and Moscow.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZCWFZZ5T2ZF2VBHY63OV44GOJ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743508577048},"content":"If your right to freedom of speech (especially when combined with <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/elon-musk/\" target=\"_blank\">Musk</a>-like resources) is entirely relieved – US-style – of the duty not to wantonly destroy the character and good name of others (especially those too poor to stand up for themselves), have they rights?","type":"text"},{"_id":"NOHZIET7XBDIVD3GYZU4CIKCN4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743508577049},"content":"In these perilous times, as perilous as the late 1930s, our rights and freedoms are at stake. Our citizen’s duty of loyalty is to our State to defend them. We are not helpless onlookers.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Michael McDowell"}},"name":"Michael McDowell"}]},"description":{"basic":"If you completely divorce right from duty you create the duty-less selfish ideology of the plutocrats in Washington and Moscow"},"display_date":"2025-04-02T05:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Our rights and freedoms are at stake in times as perilous as the late 1930s","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"5469"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"O3INQZYAKBO6BF3T7GX2X2ALUM","auth":{"1":"911b5f58a0c279ddfcee6674acc22027f53d27a0e4f7a80832db33c86a0e1cc4"},"focal_point":{"x":4438,"y":1896},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/O3INQZYAKBO6BF3T7GX2X2ALUM.jpg"}},"subtype":"columnist","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Opinion"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/opinion/2025/04/02/our-rights-and-freedoms-are-at-stake-in-times-as-perilous-as-the-late-1930s/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/opinion","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Opinion"}}}}],"count":10000,"_id":"3659246a639452ebdbf2696c93070dbbe3e4137f83a84e89912be66663fd3386"},"expires":1743809097067,"lastModified":1743808796732},"{\"feedOffset\":0,\"feedSize\":1,\"offset\":0,\"query\":\"(taxonomy.primary_section._id:\\\"/opinion/cartoon\\\") OR (taxonomy.primary_section._id:\\\"/opinion/an-irish-diary\\\")\",\"size\":1}":{"data":{"content_elements":[{"_id":"CD46LR2CAJEQJJJJWFUCHZ4KRQ","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":339,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/c377c140-58a9-40ca-8800-df14504c8d5b/versions/1743781988/media/9e32fea78fa1462aaef9bb34cff58520_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/opinion/an-irish-diary/2025/04/04/war-and-diplomacy-john-mulqueen-on-how-anglo-irish-relations-deteriorated-during-the-falklands-conflict/","content_elements":[{"_id":"F3662TKUJNCA3PHUY6VX4BRJME","additional_properties":{},"content":"Irish dancers tapping the cobbles as guests arrive, a harpist, pints of stout – the genial host raising his glass, “Sláinte everyone!” Last month’s celebration of St Patrick in 10 Downing Street, presided over by Keir Starmer, was the first such event at this famous London address in the ongoing “re-set” between the British and Irish governments. 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The expedition comprised 127 warships, submarines and requisitioned merchant ships carrying troops, aircraft and equipment. One Thatcherite, the Tory MP Alan Clark, thought that it would require a miracle for the “armada” to succeed. If it did, “The Iron Lady” – or “The Lady” as Clark referred to her in his diary – would “be established forever as a national hero”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LO5H4LZ6FBGLJBCIVRB6IVXMMQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"The first major loss of life in the conflict came when the obsolete Argentinian cruiser General Belgrano was torpedoed by a British submarine on May 2nd with the loss of 323 lives. The Sun captured the jingoistic mood with the infamous headline “Gotcha”. The British action met with widespread criticism, in Ireland and elsewhere.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZQSTXE42ORAMJFVJVUEXZLZUWY","additional_properties":{},"content":"One critic included the minister for defence, Paddy Power, who described Britain as “very much the aggressor now”. And, he added, the British should withdraw from “this little island of ours” to bring an end to the Northern Troubles. The taoiseach’s press secretary told Power he would have to retract his remarks, but the minister told him, bluntly, and colourfully, that he was not for turning. Mindful, perhaps, of his precarious situation in the Dáil, Haughey did not rebuke Power publicly – it was made known that his comments were personal and did not reflect the government’s attitude.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QEUVYAXPCRGXNEXQXW3NQL2KFY","additional_properties":{},"content":"However, in keeping with the Irish mood, the government announced that it intended to seek an immediate meeting of the Security Council to call for a ceasefire in the Falklands. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"QZATMRRT65CITGFAKCA2QNNEJ4","additional_properties":{},"content":"It also demanded the lifting of European sanctions against Argentina. 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The Argentinians hit the Royal Navy destroyer HMS Sheffield, and 20 were killed in the explosion and resulting fire, which destroyed the ship.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BCJ7L46EURDNHGKN7476XW43BA","additional_properties":{},"content":"On May 11th, Haughey said he wanted to “make it clear that we have not acted in any spirit of animosity towards our closest neighbour but rather in a desire to help. We believe that we can see the Falklands crisis objectively and separate it from other issues as a mature and responsible member of the community of nations . . . In trying to halt the conflict and prevent further loss of life we are acting in a way that seems to us the only sane and reasonable course to take.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"WO3ULW36AFCK5LFNZ2DV6MOBCQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"From May 21st, the British task force landed 4,000 troops on East Falkland where they faced a numerically-superior but largely conscripted enemy. The Argentinian forces surrendered three weeks later. More than 900 servicemen were killed in the Falklands War – 649 Argentinian and 255 British. Clark believed everything had changed for Britain over the course of 10 weeks. “Now not only have we redeemed everything that was at stake then,” he wrote in his diary, “but one has advanced immeasurably in self-esteem and in the status accorded to us by the whole world.” But he came face to face with the price to be paid in all wars when he attended the memorial service for the British dead in St Paul’s. As he passed row after row of next of kin, he anxiously “scanned their faces, but the only emotion I could see was anguish, sheer anguish”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"G2PW6GC7LNC4TMVITJ3FLCUC5E","additional_properties":{},"content":"Thatcher won a landslide victory in the 1983 general election, and civilian rule was restored in Argentina the same year. 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Ooooooh, they might advertise to me based on my preferences? The monsters! ","type":"text"},{"_id":"EXHI7JUR3RAGNPHEAGFTJSPFAY","additional_properties":{},"content":"I don’t feel particularly good about this, what would I call it, digital ignorance. It’s getting harder and harder to keep my head in the sand about online manipulation. My late-night catastrophising sessions have me worrying that allowing huge companies to sell my data might make me personally liable for funding fascism and the rise of the far right. I don’t need that on my conscience when I’m just one person who cannot fathom clicking “accept cookies” seven times a day for the rest of my life. Jeff Bezos can have my pin number if it means the cookies can be eternally accepted. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"B6KJ35BFJRCYPMYVDJUZPJ32MQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"I don’t want the billionaires to win, obviously. 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Honestly, the idea of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2023/09/04/aisling-ever-after-oh-my-god-what-a-way-to-complete-the-aisling-series/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2023/09/04/aisling-ever-after-oh-my-god-what-a-way-to-complete-the-aisling-series/\">Complete Aisling</a> books training computer brains tickles me. Which indicates strongly that I need to think more critically about it. I need to care more about it. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"QYCFALRZNZFBLCIBYTERJKDGGM","additional_properties":{},"content":"I was a teenager when the internet started pushing its way into our homes. We had a family computer and the Encarta CD-ROM. Encarta was an “interactive multimedia encyclopedia” and, to me, it contained everything that we could ever wish to know about the world. I was frightened by the breadth of its contents, and worried that I would never be able to get around to every corner of it. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"K6JOWWNSDFAOPBMUYTV2GYXIL4","additional_properties":{},"content":"The internet, then, terrified me. I fretted that there would simply be too much information for me to potentially look up and I would never reach the end. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"YSD3EXLJSRF4DFCVLCYOOSSB4Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"Emer McLysaght: Five lessons Dublin can learn from Zurich","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"M7APOMPALRFARD7DB6RUHUQ6ZQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"This fear of never being able to know everything the internet had to offer kept me away from it for a year or two. Ignorance felt safer than oblivion. AI presents a similar void. I feel that by keeping a distance between myself and it, I can’t know what I’m missing or ignoring. There is so much potential for good, and yet so many warnings about disasters we haven’t even conceived of yet. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"MWJISA3Z6VBV7PRDO3FPAEQRGU","additional_properties":{},"content":"I do actually care about my work being used by Meta to train its AI systems. I just feel helpless to do anything about it. I am worried about AI-generated art and the axe blow to creativity. I’ve never asked Chat GPT to “write an Irish Times column by Emer McLysaght”, not because I don’t think it would be able to produce anything but because I’m afraid that maybe it would, and it would drag me for filth in the process. “Oooh, I’m a millennial cat lady who’s afraid of phone calls and beans. Read all about it.” ","type":"text"},{"_id":"J2UPHNGVCZF7FC5MF32DB2ECVM","additional_properties":{},"content":"If AI really is coming for my job, I’d like to see it procrastinate for six hours before actually attacking the task. I’d like to see it pay the rent on a freelance writer’s income. And look, if it can figure out how to buy the right-sized black sacks for the kitchen bin, I’ll take it. 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","type":"header"},{"_id":"VTQMAFS6PJG5ZH7CLBSVFOK55Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"The cost of chocolate has jumped alarmingly due to higher input costs, poor harvests in west Africa, where much of the world’s cocoa is produced, and a warming planet which has forced growers everywhere to plant in more difficult terrain.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PPIJFE6TZFGILOGS2VOIS5EOBM","additional_properties":{},"content":"So by how much have prices gone up? ","type":"header"},{"_id":"LQJCXU4N25AKPFV4ATKJN3VNOY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Earlier this year, cocoa was selling for just over $10,000 (€9,211) a tonne on global markets. That is more than four times the price it was selling for two years ago. 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Or maybe they’ll sell out, leaving you with nothing. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"GLJUHKXLGJBIXF7EW7KXISESBA","content":"Cost of living: ‘You are going to see €5 lattes in Ireland by the end of the year’","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"LEJYYCOXYJF3DHPHAKVKFHBCLQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Heaven forbid. Do we buy a lot of Easter Eggs?","type":"header"},{"_id":"Z2UVJ3QUCRFOVAPPFA7BIPOVIE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Last year more than a third of Irish consumers bought at least one egg, with a record €9.9 million spent on them in the seven days before Easter Sunday, up 22 per cent on 2023. Our total spend on the chocolatey treats this year is likely to soar beyond €30 million.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TOBK6EKOSNHAJPXOWQ3SDJVGNE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Why do we eat eggs at Easter anyways?","type":"header"},{"_id":"4YNRCBZBAJEXXMDNZLNCNTI6IU","additional_properties":{},"content":"We thought you’d never ask. 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It’s about emigrants during the Famine who settled close to where I live in London, Ontario, and I’m using traditional Irish songs to tell the story. It is good to be in that beginners’ mindset, and that was also the way I felt adapting my novel Room into my first film screenplay under the tutelage of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/lenny-abrahamson/\" target=\"_self\">Lenny Abrahamson</a>. You don’t want to be getting smug or repetitious.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BCGHH6SDCRBU3KQNT4PPU4JBDU","additional_properties":{"_id":1742907394052},"content":"When The Wonder was being shot in Ireland in 2021, I got to be an extra, but in that classic extra way, my scene was then completely cut from the film. I was a particularly bad extra, I would say. I acted hammily – I was quite ashamed of myself.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7LJUTXINY5DNBI3OKI2N5AMYPU","additional_properties":{"_id":1742907394053},"content":"I still take part in Ireland as much as I can and in as many ways as I can. I don’t just go there on holiday because then I would feel I was only passively visiting it.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GH4IHOUYQ5CJPOOYOWBKOVDMMI","additional_properties":{"_id":1742907394054},"content":"A crucial part of Irish culture for me is that we can slag each other. I feel instantly comfortable if I am working with people who I can make fun of, and vice versa. In Canada people need to be my friends and know me before we can slag each other, whereas in Ireland I feel that we start with the slagging. That is something I really treasure.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QF24MKDKO5B7RJTGXC2DRX5Z2Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1742907394055},"content":"During the long years that my mother had Alzheimer’s, my trips to Ireland were tinged with sadness because visiting her would make me aware of what she was enduring. Since my parents have died, in a way Ireland feels less fraught to me. I still have lots of family and lots of friends there, so the link hasn’t weakened.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FF2R65NCIFC55J4A6UDQZMFW5I","additional_properties":{"_id":"6L6LI3MVXZDOTG75N2F63IDKZE"},"content":"‘The first time I didn’t feel shame for being Palestinian was in Ireland’","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"JH56E7GMOJATXKI4GSPXAMASHM","additional_properties":{"_id":1742907394056},"content":"I have both Canadian and Irish citizenship, and I love that our kids [Finn and Una] have both identities too. They have grown up well-used to the taste of Tayto, and it makes me feel less lonely as an emigrant that they know what I’m talking about when I talk about Ireland. Even though it was only the first 20 years of my life that I lived there, it has marked me so much that nowhere else will ever feel quite as much like home.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7HXEZAC4LJHDLLE6JE323RGINU","additional_properties":{"_id":1742907394057},"content":"<i>In conversation with Laura Slattery. 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I appreciate that she hasn’t brought out a ridiculous number, as many brands often do (realistically, we use two or three makeup brushes a day, if that, and so I feel nine is not an entirely unreasonable offering).","type":"text"},{"_id":"B4DY7EUYIRBWFA5Y3DZR6IK4NY","additional_properties":{"_id":1742989214076},"content":"This decision, Beckham tells The Irish Times, was based on her experience with brushes that didn’t quite hit the mark. “I’ve collected so many brushes over the years, but I could never find the perfect ones – I always ended up with too many. So, I went back to my favourites, looked at how I could improve each one, and created something that’s really focused and beautifully simple,” she says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3ETV2Z7KYZHBZKCPIJEEDGXFBA","additional_properties":{"_id":"4PSFHVRYWZFWPCYWLFV22VP7M4"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"UGMLBZ3Y2ZEZZGGHLDTCUPMB5Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1743510792165},"content":"“For me, it’s all about functional, beautiful tools. 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According to Beckham, they’re made from “synthetic hair that mimics natural squirrel hair”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"U4Y5QO6WPJGPNMZWMDELS7ZJPY","additional_properties":{"_id":"7GNMK5AR2FCXBKGHIK4L4EWWAY"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"2HRVHQJFJREQPIS4WNPJL3F6MU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743510792168},"content":"The most multifunctioal brushes in the collection are the <b>Conceal and Detail Face Brush </b>(€46) and the <b>Sculpt and Blend Face Brush</b> (€68). “I wanted to do something truly versatile, which is why some of the brushes are double-ended, like these – you get more function without needing multiple different tools,” says Beckham. “Every product I create starts with why: why is it needed, will it make your routine better? 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I’m also pleased to see a brand not just releasing the same products as everyone else (like eye cream, for example. Every beauty brand seems to have launched one recently). According to Beckham, that’s exactly what she’s not trying to do – follow trends. “It’s never about launching products just for the sake of it. People have so much choice and I respect that. I’m not trying to follow trends or do what everyone else is doing. 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Our beliefs, perceptions and thoughts all affect our <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/mental-health/\" target=\"_self\">health</a>, mind and body. As a society, we have long explored the inner reaches of our mind to support our lives and while we still have a lot to learn about modern society and civilisation, many of these lessons come from our past, from ancient wisdom, and thought leaders who we have long looked towards to help understand life, health and wellbeing.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CMLYKSNT7NEPHBOOYTM6OANXUY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393696},"type":"image"},{"_id":"RUN6OQ2AZRFHFHGM44CPVOJDBM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393697},"content":"The wisdom held in our personal, cultural and social histories can have far reaching impact on our health and wellness.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2PFSNIDCOFD7XKGXOYEKV7PMFQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393698},"content":"But are we listening and what can we learn?","type":"text"},{"_id":"IZQXRPE5WBA7BLXHTHZPH3C2ZY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393699},"content":"Dr Tim Crowley, lecturer and assistant professor at the School of Philosophy, UCD, argues that the problem of presentism – the practice of judging historical figures by the moral and ethical standards of the present day – can negate the lessons to be learned. He refers to it as a “<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/tiktok/\" target=\"_self\">TikTok</a> history”, leading to demands “to pull down statues, rename or de-name buildings, or ransack curricula in schools and universities with a view to removing those parts of the canon that people today, in our present moment, might find problematic or not reflective of our values”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"52GJA7LQJRDEFPHO6VY2VKMBVE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393700},"content":"These reactions are not helpful as this attitude is a form of cognitive bias that prevents us from seeing what is being communicated and the lessons to be learned from history. Learning comes from challenging the past and present while being aware of our own thinking traps.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ESSUSYRYTNG5TOVPA637MKN7ME","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393701},"content":"“Understanding that we too occupy a particular moment in history, and we too have our own blind spots, should open up an approach to history that is not motivated by denunciation and resentment, but appreciation and wonder,” says Crowley, which means “we may gain insights into human nature, as well as developing a sense of intellectual humility and indeed fallibility”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DAEULNJFYZBJTDSMZH5FR7LHUM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393702},"content":"Looking to ancient wisdom not only allows for reflection on humanity, human thought and action, but also the understanding that this translates to our mental wellness, our health and wellbeing and the knowledge that the body and mind are connected. Crowley specialises in ancient Greek wisdom and notes that the Greek revolution revolves around inquiry, criticism and self-reflective argument.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2EUCHOTUNVHVLLWSKHNX6BFHTM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393703},"content":"“The exemplar of Greek wisdom is Socrates,” he says, “but all he claimed to possess was a merely human wisdom, which is partial, limited and of little worth. It consists of knowing the extent of his ignorance. 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Shallow, fashionable ideas are always lurking in the shadows.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"5KAD53NUEFCPPEY6EUFCKQIPN4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393707},"content":"These “mind viruses” as Crowley puts it, limit free inquiry, which is crucial for society to not only have freedom of speech but also the freedom to hold others accountable.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PKKAY4XQVBA6VIXZEMCPKN7FJY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393708},"content":"Ancient wisdom encourages us to ask questions, challenge ideas and enable free thought, but is this happening?","type":"text"},{"_id":"FCSUDO5ADRDERLTHMQWJ3VVDDE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393709},"content":"Crowley suggests that university should be a place of free and open inquiry, a place we have “inherited from Socrates”. While we expect it to be a “mental or intellectual gymnasium devoted to mental fitness”, Crowley believes it is anything but that.","type":"text"},{"_id":"I63FEZADSFGC3EWVN5IEPYQJFM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393710},"content":"“Students are directed straight into the steam-room,” he says. “The hot house of homogeneous opinions. The weights are hidden, the spin bike disabled, the rowing machine locked up, the swimming pool empty. And yet even here in this sedentary, inert, comfortable and comforting scenario, which seems designed so that one enters and leaves with the same, unexamined opinions, mental health supports for anxiety and depression among the student body increase annually.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"DTXUOCDW5NEJHPH5WBAIHPA7XE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393711},"content":"Crowley suggests this is not a coincidence. “Perhaps mental health demands not safety, or protection, but resistance, and opposition, without which we become intellectually weak and vulnerable.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"BMUVC4KMIJG65IYKQMDNGW4SVU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393722},"content":"Is humour an effective way of communicating wisdom?","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"ANXGINAU2VFX5OXJAXZHFIPGZI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393712},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"BCHRVW2YZBFB3PFDFQZUJFDLDQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393713},"content":"Three things ancient wisdom teaches us","type":"header"},{"_id":"GN5O6ZBOIFGEXCLFSQRYYKOLEA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393714},"content":"Intellectual Humility","type":"header"},{"_id":"WYPKQN3VEBHEXP34O6JCICBDVA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393715},"content":"Or, as Crowley describes it, “the embrace of fallibility”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PFDUNDYNIRDLXKIY33NPRYGYV4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393716},"content":"“The Socratic claim to ignorance, that what one knows is that one knows nothing, is fundamental,” he says. “This is not the same as open-mindedness. One can be so open-minded that one’s brains fall out, to be filled with all sorts of nonsense. This ignorance is linked to the beginning of wonder and remains mere ignorance if not allied to a critical tool kit, and readiness to interrogate whatever comes before you, for its soundness and consistency.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"HDRNNDUU4JAVJEOLSCRWWYYXQU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393717},"content":"Intellectual Autonomy","type":"header"},{"_id":"RKJXXJFY4BHGXF7MWKHVYPVOO4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393718},"content":"“This goes together with a healthy scepticism of authority,” says Crowley, who explores how we may question what is fashionable today with how Aristotle challenged thought leaders. “For Aristotle, not even his teacher Plato, the greatest philosopher of all time, could be taken as an unapproachable authority. ‘Plato is my friend,’ he said, ‘but truth is a greater friend’.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"BRUDT6M55BECDDPOK6AYJR5E4U","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393719},"content":"Crowley recognises that ancient wisdom can feel close and familiar, but it is also “alien and unfamiliar”. Our understanding comes from “contexts and assumptions that we may need to reconstruct in order to make sense of their arguments, and frequently this can have the merit of helping us to see beyond the contexts and assumptions, or intellectual fashions, of our own situation.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"UU7E5GHZHRGDTCW7DLGQI6JJYA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393720},"content":"The Importance of Freedom","type":"header"},{"_id":"PQTFD4QWYRABJBSZO43MUSGH7U","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393721},"content":"”In a trivial sense, the need for leisure time, or freedom from immediate want, related to basic survival, to conduct philosophical investigations was apparent to the ancients,” says Crowley. “But such freedom is for the body and, while necessary for the business of doing philosophy, is not sufficient.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CB2QGMEZZ5CO3JBIIHUGTUVUWY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393723},"content":"“For that, one needs the freedom of the mind, firstly to question, and secondly, to pursue and disseminate results without restraint or regardless of any restraints. 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In the past two years, I have been invited to eight </b><a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/weddings\" target=\"_blank\"><b>weddings</b></a><b>, eight hen parties and now baby showers too.</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"OYJ6OSGZRFB2HGDVEGDYFRQVHY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743498317198},"content":"<b>This is driving me crazy, as it has literally taken over my life.</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"VIB52R2DTBGSXBED7Q3FTVSVRM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743498317199},"content":"<b>I am single so cannot share the cost of accommodation or presents, and this is even before the cost of travel is taken into account. 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Another of my best friends got engaged on Valentine’s Day and I live in fear of her asking me to be bridesmaid. I think she will ask and I know it is a great honour, but I want to scream in frustration. I know it’s unfair to comment, but the best man does not have to buy a new expensive outfit for each wedding, and I now have a wardrobe of clothes that really can only be worn once. It’s unfair.</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"H7IEKMXZDBHHTEHKHDYKVYHMYM","additional_properties":{"_id":"J3Y6KWTE3JERJIM7RAFYQBZWDU"},"content":"‘Our son is getting married soon, but we think he’s making a very big mistake’","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"QODBKGKOWJAIZKLK466BJOKXOA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743498317202},"content":"<b>I calculated that the average cost of attending a wedding (including travel, accommodation, hen and present) is a conservative €3,000. Think of what I could have saved towards a mortgage in only two years.</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"XRZAQATDUZAVLJXRWQ5HK43XYQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743498317203},"content":"<b>Why are more people not talking about this? I feel bad about letting friends down, but this has to stop.</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"VDXHK5TBV5HRFGZBUXRCAEM6SU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743573324924},"content":"A: I imagine there are many readers who feel like you do, and you are right in saying that this needs more discussion. The answer is, of course, to speak to your friends and let them know that your finances do not allow you to go to all the weddings that you are invited to. But the big difficulty is that your resentment and frustration might be all they get to hear and this would not be good.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7Y7PNI5VVZFURDOTHMK3HU2Y6U","additional_properties":{"_id":1743498317206},"content":"For your friends who are getting married, it is one of the most important days in their lives and they want to share this with the people who mean the most to them. This is, as you say, an honour to those who are invited or who are asked to be in the bridal party, but it does not mean that they cannot understand if someone has to say no. This “no” can be related to lots of things, but it can also be moderated with alternatives, such as you taking the couple out for a special meal and send a meaningful card to be read out at the wedding, or you could get them a voucher for a restaurant in their place of honeymoon, and so on.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZZN7NO47JFF4ZD4C7EBU2W3KH4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743498317207},"content":"‘Quiet’ weddings: My ceremony took 20 minutes and afterwards I went back to work","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"GKRJASEFQZGHTCKL5WPIOQ2VEQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743498317208},"content":"The best way to deliver this message is early and honestly. If you are truthful, your friend will understand and not pester you with all kinds of solutions to the problem, but if you tell a half-truth, they will really try to come up with a way for you to attend the wedding, as this is what they think you want. The resentment comes from you feeling that you have no choice or from a place where you fear that if you say no your friend group will think badly about you. Many of your group will have had at least some of the same feelings you are having and therefore may not be as judgmental as you might think. They will be open to compromise, such as attendance at part of the celebrations (the hen only or the after-party). The worst possible position is to attend everything with a false smile and internal bitterness.","type":"text"},{"_id":"COYK4VKYXRFIXOGEZDCM3OBMC4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743498317209},"content":"The way to address this is to accept fully that these are the circumstances of your life right now and choices need to be made and followed through on. If you practise acceptance, you will find that the resentment falls away and you get a chance to think creatively about how to respond to invitations. Tell your friends also that you do not want to be matched up at the moment, but that you might be open to this in the future – we know that friendship groups are often astute in knowing who might make us a good partner.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5QP343NXHFF7JH77GFETHFKH4E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743498317210},"content":"The important thing is to enjoy the atmosphere of love and celebration that is in your circle right now and include yourself in it by speaking up for your needs and engaging in a way that does not break your bank.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5TVDKH266JBKNPHEMCPTA5532Q","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"},{"_id":"VQSPOUVH3VHTTGWB2XOQS3GI54","additional_properties":{"_id":1743580781070},"content":"<span class=\"contribly-contribute\" data-client=\"9fc0f2a4-9bf9-4464-8b77-ec351ad0db03\" data-assignment=\"f26a8e48-147d-4799-be2a-71800fcd067e\" data-display=\"inline\"></span><script type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/contribly-widgets/contribute/contribute.js\"><\/script><link href=\"//www.irishtimes.com/static/aprimo/temp/inline-contribute.css\" rel=\"stylesheet\" /><style>.form-group {width:100% !important;}</style>","type":"raw_html"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Trish Murphy"}},"name":"Trish Murphy"}]},"description":{"basic":"Tell Me About It: ‘Think of what I could have saved towards a mortgage in these two years. 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I know this because of the app on my phone. The same app tells me that so far this morning I have walked exactly 133 steps having sloped down to the kitchen to make a giant mug of coffee and then dandered back up to the bed-office to write this column.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TULQUODTCVDKPGQX7IMJGUZNNU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743507015591},"content":"The app tells me loads of other things about myself of which I mostly take no notice. Sometimes, I wonder if I should buy one of those watches that give more detailed updates regarding the state of my body, but then maybe less information is more. The adage “Know thyself” is taken to the wildest extremes these days.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DS6SCLNA5JEWBFOQUTR6MTU2BE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743507015592},"content":"Approaching 600 days since my last period and deep into the menopause, I nevertheless found myself a few weeks ago in a London branch of Boots starting at the, frankly, head-spinning array of period products. My friend Jan had just sent me a text asking could I bring her some “pantyliners”. “Okay!” I had texted back, keeping my feelings on “pantyliner” to myself. If there is a more cringe-making word than “pantyliner” I have yet to hear it. Firstly, I have never heard any woman or girl describe their underwear as a “panty” in real life. I’ve only read the word “panties” in bad novels. In real life people say “knickers”, in my experience. I could get behind “knickerliner” because it’s more truthful. Or “underwearliner”, which is not admittedly as catchy.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EXQFQWQOBZHQPC25MFUARRNIWI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743507015593},"content":"The phrase “pantyliner” was invented in the 1980s. The first known use, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, was in the Washington Post. Makes sense that the Americans, who use “panties” much more widely, were to blame. It’s probably far too late to change the menstrual lingo now. We are stuck with it even though most English-speaking women on this side of the world would never be caught dead talking about their knickers as “panties”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RDTANWEY2ZBHPHKLKXGIDPAQYA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743507015594},"embed":{"config":{},"id":"acast_podcast-72174","url":"/"},"subtype":"acast_podcast","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"GXR54OBQNNEEJBIR7JN7MUDWFA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743507015595},"content":"Jan wanted an ultra-thin pantyliner from Boots. She even sent me a photo of the exact brand so that I wouldn’t purchase the wrong one. She was texting me from her dressingroom in THE LONDON PALLADIUM where she was about to go onstage reading her poetry to an audience of a couple of thousand. Neither of us could quite believe this turn of events, hence the gratuitous use of capital letters. She did not want the “pantyliner” for the usual reasons a woman needs a “pantyliner”. 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She wrote so many poems she published two books of them: What Day Is It? and Everybody Is A Poem. She’s a regular now on Ireland AM and on Ray D’Arcy and after she supported rock star poet John Cooper Clarke at his gig in The Olympia last year, he asked her to join him on tour. Which is how she ended up in THE LONDON PALLADIUM.","type":"text"},{"_id":"D3KENS34NRDWDIHQUTRBS2PBTY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743507015597},"content":"‘I think I wrote a poem,’ I told my husband. ‘Are you okay?’ he said","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"73KAYOFYN5E53J6JBDEESL7VKA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743507015598},"content":"I bought the pantyliners, ultra-thin, and headed to the storied theatre - my mother saw Judy Garland live at the London Palladium - where I met Jan at the stage door. She was wearing a black leather jumpsuit. “I’m in my Elvis era,” she said. Just then, a load of Jan’s friends, women who had travelled over to London from Clontarf, appeared to wish her luck. I went and took my seat in the theatre beside a man named Paul, a John Cooper Clarke fan who had, serendipitously, been listening to his audiobook when he got the text from a friend offering him the ticket. “My friend is going to be reading her poetry up there,” I told him proudly pointing to the stage. “She’ll be wearing the pantyliners I bought her, under her arms,” I said, a touch unnecessarily.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4H2KXHUYGZG4BO64ZHNBDPQB4M","additional_properties":{"_id":1743507015599},"content":"Jan walked on to that stage like she owned it. She charmed the LONDON PALLADIUM with her poetry of lipstick and love and midlife woes. People laughed their heads off at her take on things. They nodded. They cheered. The Clontarf mams and me and my new friend, Paul, cheered loudest of all.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QBZRQLZMKVBZPAR7DODVYV4FXM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743507015600},"content":"Last Friday John Cooper Clarke became the first poet to headline an arena in the UK when he performed at the Co-op Live in Manchester. Jan performed that night too. I’m going to guess she’s the first Dublin poet to perform at an arena in the UK, playing to 4,000 appreciative poetry and spoken word fans. What’s next for the accidental poet Jan Brierton as she approaches her 50th birthday? Who knows. 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In my teens and 20s, mortifying situations became the rocket fuel for my late-night insomnia. They would be replayed on a loop by a brain that could not get over the awkwardness of my own actions, making me go blisteringly red in the face and dying a little inside.","type":"text"},{"_id":"F3VPYAIPTRDU3DE7TQH7CSC5NA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743497012227},"content":"In my early 20s, I remember standing in the baggage claim of Dublin Airport after getting off a long flight from South Africa. My first port of call was the bathroom to freshen up while I waited for the bags to come through. I used the facilities, took my time, and splashed some water on my face, before casually strolling over to the baggage belt to wait with my family. I had been standing there for what felt like a good 15 minutes before a lady tapped me on the shoulder. I sort of rolled my eyes and turned around thinking ‘shur lookit you can’t go through the airport without meeting someone you know,’ only to find I didn’t recognise her. I looked at her for a moment, puzzled that I couldn’t place her. Then she leaned in and whispered to me very slowly that she was sorry to tell me, but my skirt was tucked into my knickers. I turned a shade of red that probably only exists on the surface of the sun and nearly hopped on the next flight out of the country to flee the shame.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZXN7AB2YQRHY3B7MVGRXCZKX6M","additional_properties":{"_id":1743497012228},"content":"Occasionally, it still gets played as part of my brain’s highly curated embarrassing moments reel and I cringe a little inside. However, if the same thing happened to me today, I’d probably laugh it off a lot more quickly and feel far less mortified. I might even take a bow and simply reclaim the moment as my own laugh instead of everyone else’s. 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Or that time I answered the door to the postman with one side of my nursing bra still down, unknowingly flashing the poor man and only realising what I’d done at the next feed. My sense of embarrassment went out the window along with my sleep.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VRVJ6QB7NZG4ZDU4CYO5PB5GLM","subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"SISLEQ47XFBFJOLUOCLFVO62OM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743497012232},"content":"All of that was nothing compared with life with toddlers, which humbled me far beyond the bodily. Toddlers may appear small and cute, but their complete lack of filter or fear of embarrassment is nothing short of liberating. Whether it’s them asking very loudly why you’ve got a hairy bum in the stall of a public bathroom or commenting about random people’s bellies or lack of hair in the queue at the supermarket, you could say parenting a toddler is the ultimate crash course in embarrassment. 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The book explores the life of 18th-century poet Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill, author of the poem, Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire, intertwined with Ní Ghríofa’s own reflections on motherhood, identity, and the power of language.","type":"text"},{"_id":"E23RWC3HZNDT5PVNLTXECFJRJM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743765033887},"content":"Ní Ghríofa was given her award by the Ambassador of Austria to Ireland, Melitta Schubert, at a ceremony at the Austrian Ambassador’s Residence in Dublin. Peellaert was presented with her translation award by the Director of Literature Ireland, Sinéad Mac Aodha.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OWZY22WME5EZZG4BZTKPFRW3CQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743765033888},"content":"Mac Aodha said: “We are delighted to work as Irish partners with all the Ambassadors of the Francophonie on this special literary prize which recognises the best of Irish literature and its great reach in French translation to readers across the Francophone world. Literature Ireland congratulates Doireann Ní Ghríofa on her hugely original and moving writing, which has captured so many hearts. We also congratulate Élisabeth Peellaert on her sensitive and beautiful French translation. We also commend Éditions Globe, the French publishers, for producing such a beautiful book. Comhghairdeas ó chroí libh go léir.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"3XW6QGVABNGQPMRW5PQRVIA3MA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743765033889},"content":"Previous recipients are John Banville (2016), Edna O’Brien (2017), Lisa Mclnerney (2018), Sara Baume (2019), Paul Lynch (2020), Claire Keegan (2021), Maggie O’Farrell (2022), Colm Tóibín (2023) and Louise Kennedy (2024).","type":"text"},{"_id":"2QXZ74K3MVBW3IROKCZSUZPFHE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743765033890},"content":"*","type":"text"},{"_id":"AWEHYOADQVBKLOGW6QLZ3ESNU4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743765033891},"content":"President Michael D Higgins paid tribute to Galway crime writer Ken Bruen who died last week.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RINWCUDTLNFXFFLE7JFPJZRGKE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743765033892},"content":"“May I join with all those who have expressed their sadness on learning of the death of the writer Ken Bruen. Ken was an accomplished writer whose work was recognised not only by his fans, but also by his peers, including his receipt of the Shamus Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year. In addition to his own writing, Ken was also of assistance to many in assisting them through workshops.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M4YCPYBONZGCJPGIXSHNWSM37I","additional_properties":{"_id":1743765033893},"content":"“Sabina and I would like to offer our sympathies to Ken’s wife Philomena, to his daughter Grace, and to all of his family, friends, fellow writers and readers both in Ireland and internationally.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"5AICKRRQWBFX5IUKSRJENDXAYI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743765033894},"content":"*","type":"text"},{"_id":"W2ZXNWPM6FG7RNRPJ2WHWAQO2U","additional_properties":{"_id":1743765033895},"content":"Now in its 24th year, the Strokestown International Poetry Competition has announce this year’s shortlist, judged by acclaimed poet Jane Clarke. The following five poems and poets have been selected, and listed in alphabetical order: René Laennec Remembers the day he dreamt a stethoscope by Olga Dermott-Bond; Driving Across the Humber Bridge by Paul McMahon; Footfall by Winifred McNulty; On Leaving by Judy O’Kane; Americana by Matthew Wimberley.","type":"text"},{"_id":"52BW6PY46FFNTFFE3OKMZ7HXT4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743765033896},"content":"Clarke commented: “Among the 700-plus entries, many poems stood out and warranted rereading. The five shortlisted poems shone in their exploration of relationships with both intimacy and restraint, bringing diverse people, times, and places to life through a deft use of language that evokes music and imagery.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"LHEQGWTLAJATRMPC4SLISJP3OA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743765033897},"content":"The overall winner will be announced on Sunday, May 4th, as part of this year’s Strokestown International Poetry Festival. 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Curated in collaboration with the Polish Book Institute’s Best of Polish Books award, this youthful and vibrant collection showcases the breadth and creative curiosity at the heart of children’s books.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WAGXC4YHXRATVIUJI3D75GWXPU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743765033901},"content":"*","type":"text"},{"_id":"U6MICS6ZQFF5FLZZSNNPREYBGA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743765033902},"content":"The title of this year’s Hubert Butler Essay Prize is: ‘Men must endure / Their going hence, even as their coming hither’ – King Lear. Have we no more active rights over life, birth and death?","type":"text"},{"_id":"7BBE33T3G5ALJBZNUWHN4H7VOY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743765033903},"content":"The attitude of passive acceptance of birth and death, preached by Edgar to his father in King Lear, has been variously challenged in the modern period. The nature of human rights in the matter have been hotly contested: the right to life of the unborn child as against women’s reproductive rights, the principle of the sanctity of all human life clashing with the right to a chosen, dignified death. 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Participants are invited to take their passport and embark on an adventure through the heart of a city’s/region’s indie bookshops, gathering stamps, discovering hidden cultural gems, availing of discount vouchers and connecting with other readers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TIIRGI2ER5C2HA3VABJ7UK7244","additional_properties":{"_id":1743765033908},"content":"Each participating city is organising a unique book crawl, inviting the community to explore, discover, and support local bookshops.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WHD77FPMSJHM7BQDE5NTW3PNAY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743765033909},"content":"The initiative is the brainchild of three bookshops; Tertulia bookshop, Westport, Federico Lang, Libreria Luces, Malaga, Spain and Jessica Stockport, Greenlight Books, Brooklyn, New York who realised the power of independent bookshops when they collaborate. The Global Book Crawl is more than an event, it’s a movement. 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This sounded like my kind of thing, and so it proved.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NSM73BJAGFEYTEBSAPKC6B5HK4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743668364524},"content":"Two years later, Christie’s satisfyingly feminist but still surreal show A Bic for Her played in a bigger, standing-room-only venue at the festival and won her the Edinburgh Comedy Award and, with it, a profile.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UXBPUMULURFNBAXQLMEQQHSMWM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743668364525},"content":"But the mainstream is a funny old club. There’s no membership list, because there’s no need for one: it’s possible to intuit who belongs to it and who doesn’t. Plenty of people with undeniable markers of popularity and acclaim – fans, sales, awards love, second seasons – remain on the outside.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GU5ZYOQWRBH7ZLKL5CLAOQ6LKQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743668364526},"content":"Women who are original and daft in a clever way, like Christie, and women who are radical and individualist, like July, may be denied entry even as they run from the door.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SDUBRF3QRJEI3PGZ3GEKHIO4Y4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743668364527},"content":"Christie actually gasped in horror in a 2016 interview with The Irish Times when it was suggested she was moving into the mainstream. “Oh my God. No. No, no, no, no no,” was <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/stage/bridget-christie-i-m-glad-there-s-misogyny-it-turned-my-career-around-1.2593971\" target=\"_blank\">how she reacted</a>, before observing that every year she felt as if she was “starting again”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6LZQBWC5CJC7VAJPVX3ZGZZALE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743689688767},"content":"From the archive – Bridget Christie: ‘I’m glad there’s misogyny – it turned my career around’","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"V7OVHPV2ZBFVHFOYSITH6FKU3U","additional_properties":{"_id":1743668364528},"content":"It probably says something about the status of a Channel 4 comedy in the age of streaming, but it doesn’t feel as if the commissioning, and subsequent recommissioning, of The Change has fundamentally altered that.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MSVMO5KV7RHNHM5FNGO5CH5B4Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1743668364529},"content":"As for All Fours, well, it’s a phenomenon, but in that literary-fiction sense. Women press it into each other’s hands and discuss it at length, yet its existence doesn’t impinge on the consciousness of nonreaders.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3NSMN5Y4EBBWDL2OSAENO5JT2M","additional_properties":{"_id":1743668364530},"content":"The creative visibility of the menopause has improved since 2019, when a brief Kristin Scott Thomas speech – “horrendous, but then it’s magnificent” – in a single scene of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/phoebe-waller-bridge/\" target=\"_blank\">Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s </a><a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio-web/fleabag-three-final-minutes-at-a-bus-stop-will-go-down-as-classic-1.3854423\" target=\"_blank\">Fleabag</a> elicited semi-shocked gratitude faster than anyone could say “Shirley Valentine was only 42”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2N3RQ3GRLVG6XMZFWUL2M6OR7A","additional_properties":{"_id":1743668364531},"content":"Those headlines about the mainstreaming of the menopause are understandable on one level: celebrities have been campaigning hard on it, while women have been obliged to add “roll eyes at workplace menowashing” to their list of stuff to do.","type":"text"},{"_id":"75N6HASJTVBLDIUPAFPPLRTN4E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743668364532},"content":"But they’re not true, are they? 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At a moment when so many video games look increasingly like $200 million movies, Minecraft players can build their own worlds, explore alternative dimensions and battle Creepers and Zombies in a world whose purposely pixelated aesthetic has a nostalgic eight-bit appeal.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UETCTOOK3NBB7IBP5VNXB2UUUA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743371548132},"content":"The environment of the game, which was created by Markus Persson in 2009, consists entirely of cubes. The simple mechanics of building with these blocks have encouraged collaboration and creativity on a global scale, inspiring not only huge online communities but also educational applications: the Danish designer Bjarke Ingels, a proponent of fun, sustainable building, has argued that Minecraft paves the way for a more democratic, populist approach to architecture. Schools have used the game to teach coding, mathematics and history. 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It seems like Napoleon would be wearing this home-made Vote for Pedro T-shirt with iron-on letters.’ When we were shooting the dance scene, where he wears it to the assembly, I remember thinking, Oh, that’s actually a pretty cool shirt.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HBWQJVFVC5HJPFKBIMFVGILODM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743428401463},"content":"“We had no idea that it would take off. It was ridiculous. One time we saw <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/denzel-washington/\" target=\"_blank\">Denzel Washington</a> wearing one for an interview. To this day you see it all the time,” Hess says. “You do something and it takes on a life of its own. It doesn’t even feel like yours any more. That’s definitely how we feel about the shirt.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"GFH4W7NCPBHV3FA7VLBG5N2L4A","additional_properties":{"_id":1743371548145},"content":"Hess subsequently directed the comedy films Gentlemen Broncos, Don Verdean and Masterminds. In 2022 he was nominated for an <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/oscars/\" target=\"_blank\">Oscar</a> for the short animation Ninety-Five Senses. The following year he codirected the feature-length animation Thelma the Unicorn for <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/netflix/\" target=\"_blank\">Netflix</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6WY3TYSGBJA47F5JAIUAIDAPWQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743428401465},"content":"A Minecraft Movie is his first collaboration with <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/jack-black/\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Black</a> since the $100 million-grossing wrestling romp Nacho Libre, from 2006.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BCDRTXBIQ5AXLLLRVL6LFGAENM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743371548146},"content":"“We wanted to work together again for ages,” Hess says. “And the timing finally worked out perfectly for this one. Jack is a massive gamer, but he’s just one of the funniest people ever. We kind of have a shorthand when we work together. 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The director Pat Collins, who <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/review/2024/04/24/that-they-may-face-the-rising-sun-the-best-irish-film-in-a-very-long-time/\" target=\"_blank\">won plaudits</a> for his screen adaptation of John McGahern’s novel That They May Face the Rising Sun, has turned his attention to another Irish literary giant, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/patrick-kavanagh\">Patrick Kavanagh</a>, to produce a quietly hypnotic piece of audio theatre.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5ZH75WDSPVBYJDTDEZC2PNWJ6A","additional_properties":{"_id":1743713698143},"content":"Collins’s play reimagines a pivotal episode in Kavanagh’s life from 1931, when the budding poet (played by Mikel Murfi) walked from his home village of Inniskeen, in Co Monaghan, to Dublin, to meet the writer George “AE” Russell. The action, such as it is, has Kavanagh encountering characters such as an old woman – portrayed with deadpan wryness by Rosaleen Linehan – and a young mother (the Monaghan native <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/charlene-mckenna/\" target=\"_blank\">Charlene McKenna</a>). These vignettes are interspersed with snippets of Kavanagh’s writing, as well as field recordings that conjure up the poet’s journey, from the wildlife sounds to snippets of song, hummed by Murfi.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7SXCHR2BOJEPXIHK64OZ3R2O3U","additional_properties":{"_id":1743713698144},"content":"This could be an affected or worthy mishmash, but the disparate elements gel to beguiling – and surprisingly accessible – effect. The dialogue, its terse vernacular peppered with lightly worn religious references, evokes a bygone Ireland of poverty and goodwill while gently hinting at Kavanagh’s own ambivalence about the place. Murfi’s nicely pitched performance also captures the poet’s yearning vision, chronic self-doubt and crotchety gruffness. And, far from being background noise, the atmospheric sound design by Damian Chennells and Chris Watson is integral to proceedings, inviting the listener to share Kavanagh’s contemplative travels.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BYX2NDBNQFAR3LKWUIKHGGUBHA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743713698145},"content":"It all amounts to an original, ahem, portrait of the artist as a young man, as a vividly sketched Kavanagh seeks inspiration from the rough realities of his rural homeland. With the unspoken as important as what is said, it’s a wonderful piece to hear over the airwaves, but – sacrilegious though it is to say in a radio column – possibly even better experienced as a podcast, ideally while taking a walk on these spring mornings. Tariffs may weigh heavily on us all, but Collins’s meditative drama lifts the spirits.","type":"text"},{"_id":"C5O4LT7J3BAUNJXQUG4M7EO4NI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Moment of the week","type":"header"},{"_id":"Q6JIANA4QVGFHFQIEZAZDCNEQU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743713698147},"content":"Prompted by the earth-shattering news of the former England footballer Wayne Rooney being caught urinating in public, <b>Seán Moncrieff</b> (Newstalk, weekdays) dispatches Henry McKean, his roving reporter, to investigate “suspect streams on the street” here in Ireland. Sure enough, he hears unedifying accounts of al-fresco micturition – and worse – from his respondents. But the most striking revelations come from McKean himself. The ever-candid correspondent describes having “a little bit of an accident” when participating in Dublin’s half-marathon on Sunday (“I did have a bit of a wee stain on my shorts”), as well as speedy movements of another variety during “a really bad day” in an airport toilet: “I basically had the runs.” Not the kind of trots you need to hear about.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Mick Heaney"}},"name":"Mick Heaney"}]},"description":{"basic":"Radio: The Newstalk host rejects the Tánaiste’s tact as a trade war looms, and a poetic Drama on One provides welcome inspiration"},"display_date":"2025-04-04T04:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Pat Kenny unleashes on ‘dictatorial and despotic’ Donald Trump","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"5469"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"I3SIM7UPKFCSHJRQFYTAEMXQGU","auth":{"1":"95a7b82a68f659fb614cc6a2fb335ec65501dac66deb4f6003aca2949c76a558"},"focal_point":{"x":1511,"y":1174},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/I3SIM7UPKFCSHJRQFYTAEMXQGU.jpg"}},"subtype":"columnist","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"TV & Radio"},{"name":"Culture"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/culture/tv-radio/2025/04/04/pat-kenny-unleashes-on-dictatorial-and-despotic-donald-trump/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/culture/tv-radio","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"TV & Radio"}}}}],"count":10000,"_id":"81027b179b2d6b19893721ef309b47ff4c7f7cd49468d0e466b479697e3cae2c"},"expires":1743808855630,"lastModified":1743808555469},"{\"feedOffset\":0,\"feedSize\":5,\"offset\":0,\"query\":\"(taxonomy.primary_section._id:\\\"/your-money\\\")\",\"size\":5}":{"data":{"content_elements":[{"_id":"SHXX4AH6CZCDZFBKFIMP3H2NTQ","additional_properties":{},"canonical_url":"/your-money/2025/04/04/scams-insurance-not-paying-out-and-tracker-issues-among-complaints-to-ombudsman/","content_elements":[{"_id":"KUOWR4HTHRCI3LWKITFUJJKKTU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743676799171},"content":"It won’t come as much of a surprise to learn that the number of complaints lodged with the financial ombudsman jumped sharply last year, with poor levels of customer service and a surge in scams behind much of the increase.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CRRFCVL3K5GILHAKW4RQUWPNVM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743676799172},"content":"According to a recent report from the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman (FSPO) a total of 5,907 complaints were concluded last year, up 14 per cent on the 2023.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ARHJGNYVJNGKXGEQI2EZ7FUFIM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743676799173},"content":"Concluded does not mean resolved in the favour of consumers and while individuals and small businesses benefited to the tune of just under €5.8 million as a result of the processes the FSPO oversaw, others found rulings going against them.","type":"text"},{"_id":"B5KGBJPFIBET7HMH6PICUHQCVE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743676799174},"content":"For instance, the ombudsman issued 127 tracker mortgage interest rate related legally binding decisions in 2024, with 120 complaints not upheld.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2YFNVQDFLFHRTGSX75HN53BH2U","additional_properties":{"_id":1743676799175},"content":"As part of its report, the FSPO publishes some case studies - with names changed - to illustrate the work it does and they are illuminating for anyone considering lodging a complaint in the future.","type":"text"},{"_id":"THVOLWHDMRDA5IYWSBNPFZ34II","additional_properties":{"_id":1743676799176},"content":"Here are just some of them.","type":"text"},{"_id":"C7EB6QV7CRHRVHPHNRVWNVQUDM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743769594657},"content":"<b>Mortgage complaints</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"NFLT6AN55BFC7HBWBVTWY5EJPI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743676799177},"content":"Elliot drew down a mortgage loan with his bank in 2004 for just over €232,000 on a fixed interest rate of 2.75 per cent for 12 months with a standard variable interest rate to apply after that.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JWRRXC4XYJH4RH4NMMXYRWAZ2Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1743676799178},"content":"Elliot reckoned the bank fell short of its responsibilities and did not carry out a proper assessment of his affordability to ensure that an appropriate loan was offered to him and he said the level of due diligence carried out by the bank was unreasonable, improper and lacked consideration.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UG2LU63STVFX3CMIKDKBIEBPXU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743676799179},"content":"The bank contested this view, submitting they were satisfied that they correctly assessed Elliot’s mortgage application based on his net disposable income. The complaint was rejected.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZRUPFOVCRZGEDEV2CS7KZEZDJM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743676799180},"content":"Imogen and Liana held a mortgage loan with a bank of €300,000 which operated on a tracker interest rate of European Central Bank (ECB) + 0.60 per cent. In 2015, they experienced financial difficulties and decided to sell the mortgaged property. Imogen and Liana stated that the bank was incorrect in not allowing them to retain the tracker interest rate of ECB + 0.60 per cent that had applied to their original mortgage loan when they sold the property and purchased a new property. The complaint was rejected with the ombudsman noting that the original loan offer was for the specific property named in the loan agreement.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ADC4VYTFONGLVLSZFPOBRKQHT4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743676799181},"content":"Fintan held a mortgage loan with a bank for €242,000 repayable over a term of 35 years commencing on a fixed interest rate. Fintan stated that his mortgage documentation provided that his mortgage loan would change to a “variable base rate” at the end of the fixed interest rate period.","type":"text"},{"_id":"O7R4KD5PJFC4TMPKYC2HK7EYME","additional_properties":{"_id":1743676799182},"content":"Fintan was of the view that the variable base rate equated to a tracker rate of interest. This was due to the bank’s tracker rate and variable rate products operating at the same rate up until mid-2008. He believed that when the fixed interest rate period expired in 2012, the bank should have applied a tracker interest rate to his mortgage loan account instead of a standard variable rate of interest.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KO5G63427BAUTI4NNKS5G43VEY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743676799183},"content":"The ombudsman noted that while the bank’s tracker rate and variable base rate reflected similar rates during certain periods, the loan offer made no reference to either rate being linked in any way. On the basis of all the evidence the complaint was rejected.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GVQTCUXCVFERZCLFNK6SOYC4CI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743769594665},"content":"<b>Insurance complaints</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"PTWWLBV7JZCWXESJAZRSIUSH64","additional_properties":{"_id":1743676799184},"content":"Other stories were about insurance products.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6UJWTFN44JA55ANBRRO2MKGG4I","additional_properties":{"_id":1743676799185},"content":"Dermot purchased travel insurance when buying airline tickets for him and his family. Later, due to illness, some of the party could not travel, which led to the cancellation of the holiday. Dermot wanted to claim a refund for the cancelled holiday from his insurance company. Having contacted the airline, Dermot was informed he needed to submit a claim through an online portal.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XMXPNQ7GCZFHVFI2VSB6HFQ3NM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743676799186},"content":"Dermot attempted to submit the claim but was not making any progress and was frustrated by the lack of engagement from the insurance company. He submitted a complaint to the FSPO and it emerged that he had been contacting the wrong company, but nobody had explained this to him when he was seeking updates on his claim. The FSPO contacted the insurer of the policy and asked it to review the complaint. The claim was ultimately processed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3XPVLC2RGJE5LN4OKT4TVZGDSE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743676799187},"content":"Karl booked a holiday for himself and his girlfriend. The holiday was a Christmas present for her. Karl also took out a travel insurance policy in his own name around the same time. His girlfriend was not named on the policy. Shortly before they were due to go on the holiday, Karl fell ill. He was certified by his doctor as unfit to travel and the holiday was cancelled.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RMATOE2GKZH2FKSWEWZG2T46GY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743676799188},"content":"After cancelling, Karl made a claim on his policy for the full cost of the holiday. He gave the insurance company a copy of his credit card statement showing that he had paid the full cost of the holiday for his girlfriend and himself.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NCGIGFKYQ5CS7EM56UIAYLUVQQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743676799189},"content":"The insurer paid Karl’s claim for half of the cost of the holiday. The insurer said that payment of half of the total cost of the holiday was in line with the policy as only one of the two people travelling was named on it. Karl complained that the policy stated that it would cover the policyholder’s costs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FS3VU6DLWREANGBPIUOEKVL5EA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743676799190},"content":"Karl believed he had proven that he had paid for the full cost of the holiday and, therefore, should have been paid in full by the insurance company. As they could not resolve their differences through the insurance company’s formal complaints process, Karl made a complaint to the FSPO. The complaint was not resolved during mediation and was referred for formal investigation in the FSPO.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GCKO6ZBE3BDR3HEZMUPP656I7I","additional_properties":{"_id":1743676799191},"content":"The insurer responded to the summary of complaint issued by the FSPO saying that it had reviewed the complaint again and as a result, its stance had changed since the complaint was raised. The insurance company offered to pay the remainder of the claim costs in full and final settlement. This was accepted by Karl and the complaint was closed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KIQYGLEZ5FFZHI5KSLNWHB52NA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743676799192},"content":"Declan had a credit card which he always paid on time until he stopped using it and did not think there was a problem as the balance was zero. Declan moved house and didn’t think he needed to change his address with the bank as he was not using it anymore.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FTPMT3GFNZD6DJWRJ2X7HTUKE4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743676799193},"content":"As Declan had simply stopped using his credit card rather than formally closing it, the bank was obliged to apply the annual €30 government levy to the account. As Declan had not changed his address, he did not see the credit card statements and he did not know there was money due.","type":"text"},{"_id":"U56OHBOPLZFZLO7KANPRGGK4XI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743676799194},"content":"When the €30 was not paid it gathered interest and late fees, and the card fell into arrears of €127.59. The credit card company then put a block on the card. The Credit Reporting Act obliges banks to report to the Central Credit Register (CCR) on lending over €500. Declan’s lending was not over €500 but his credit limit on his card was over €500 which brought it into the reporting net.","type":"text"},{"_id":"54YJO2CBIFGBPNZMN422RPY4LM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743676799195},"content":"When Declan applied for credit elsewhere, he was declined as his Central Credit Register report showed a cancelled credit card with an unpaid balance of €127.59. Once he knew of the debt, he paid it immediately.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MNMZZZ57W5DVDEUCPJEK64FBBM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743676799196},"content":"However, he discovered that the CCR report, with the unpaid balance, would be visible to any future lenders for five years from the day he paid it off.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VLA26CXYMNE7RPFDPG2EZLQW5Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1743676799197},"content":"He complained to his bank for not ringing him in time for him to pay the debt. His bank told him that it does not ring customers when the debt is below €300. It said that in order to stop paying the annual government levy it is essential to actually close the card. In terms of the poor credit report, the bank said its report to the CCR must be factual. It said that it can only change a credit report if it is inaccurate, and that Declan’s card had an unpaid debt and was cancelled. Declan accepted the explanation and closed his complaint.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DNWSVQWT75FOPAOO46LGSTYERM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743769594680},"content":"<b>Scams</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"IFVA7KKXRZDYXIYSG4HXKALMRM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743676799198},"content":"And then there were the scams.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6RT2BYCLS5HMDEKYZXWBQUONLU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743676799199},"content":"Simone and her friends hopped into a taxi while away on holiday. They noticed that the meter seemed to be running very fast while the taxi was stuck in traffic. They decided to walk.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BTDUKDPPJBFFDECC2WQE34HDG4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743676799200},"content":"The taxi driver told them the fare was €20 but covered the screen when Simone put in her card and pin. Later that day Simone noticed that €2,000 had been taken from her account. She reported this to her bank.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6QBWATAVKVGMBM2IIFC26OYG5Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1743676799201},"content":"Simone’s bank raised a fraud chargeback in an attempt to get the funds returned. However, as Simone had approved the payment with her pin, the fraud chargeback was not allowed under the rules of her card.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HXBKV2O2KBC6LHEAUCNXDCXEQ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743676799202},"content":"Another option offered by Simone’s bank was to initiate a dispute chargeback which is available when a service is not delivered or is not as described. However, Simone did not get a receipt from the taxi driver, and a receipt was required under the rules of Simone’s card, in order to start a dispute chargeback. Having heard these explanations, Simone decided to close her complaint","type":"text"},{"_id":"2C6NR3SL4JFQNJK6USH6UBTB3Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1743676799203},"content":"Alan had a current account with his credit union and in 2022, he activated a payment service on his mobile phone by clicking on a link. The following day, Alan noticed 13 transactions on his account totalling €1,280 which he said he did not authorise.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HCRBSHTSB5BWLHFY6A2WMOXMVU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743676799204},"content":"These transactions had taken place during the previous night and appeared as payments to an entity in another country. Alan said that he did not receive any alerts or notifications from his credit union in relation to these transactions. He contacted the credit union both over the telephone and in-person at his local branch and arranged for his card on the account to be cancelled and a replacement card issued.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BETWA5Y7SRFYTO64KCAUW3W45Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1743676799205},"content":"Alan said the branch staff informed him that the amounts in dispute had not left his account but that if they were to, they would be refunded to him. Alan contacted the credit union again after he discovered the amounts in dispute had left his account. His request for a refund was declined in a final response letter issued by the credit union, which asserted that Alan had shared his one time passcode with a third party, which allowed the third party to make the fraudulent payments on his account. Alan was not happy with this outcome and made a complaint to the FSPO.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UN7IMYBJRJDMJAMQRLJPRJLDR4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743676799206},"content":"As the complaint was not resolved in mediation, the FSPO began the formal investigation process by sending a summary of complaint to the credit union. This included copies of all communications between Alan and the credit union which, in Alan’s view, supported his argument that he should be refunded the amount of the transactions in dispute. Following the issue of the summary of complaint, the credit union contacted the FSPO to make a settlement proposal.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BM3MJ37DLZCODCMPSSHI4YKXQY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743676799207},"content":"It acknowledged that the information given to Alan by the credit union’s outsourced customer service provider had raised his hopes of a refund, and so the credit union offered Alan a full refund of the amount in dispute, which he accepted.","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, you can read it </i><a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/your-money/2025/03/28/home-care-plays-vital-role-filling-the-gap-between-family-and-nursing-homes/\" target=\"_self\"><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":"Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman case studies illuminating for anyone considering lodging a complaint"},"display_date":"2025-04-04T12:23:22.476Z","headlines":{"basic":"Scams, insurance not paying out and tracker issues among complaints to Ombudsman","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"},"basic":{"display":true,"text":"On The Money Newsletter"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"6Q7UM2WHBZGXHGBDYTGXGJM5ZQ","auth":{"1":"6697d4fa087e3f87aeac3dd473dd0ee09517438e2b09ced58ae136a4f88042d5"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/6Q7UM2WHBZGXHGBDYTGXGJM5ZQ.jpg"}},"subtype":"editors-note","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Your Money"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/your-money/2025/04/04/scams-insurance-not-paying-out-and-tracker-issues-among-complaints-to-ombudsman/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/your-money","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Your Money"}}}},{"_id":"V7GBOAPJNBCILHS4J24CKC5CBU","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":699,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/5469/podcasts/e1163a35-71a8-4b69-8de5-af9c1383c686/versions/1743695831/media/9d16144751fdbc1fef84ffa75fb11bf4_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/your-money/2025/04/04/trump-has-changed-the-world-how-will-the-us-eu-and-irish-economies-react/","content_elements":[{"_id":"AQ2DOVMUFBECNGIIOMSBTZBA6E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743689413819},"content":"Well at least we now know what round one of this trade war involves. After weeks of speculation, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/united-states/\" target=\"_blank\">US</a> president <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump</a> has unveiled his so-called reciprocal <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/us-tariffs/\" target=\"_blank\">tariffs</a>, applying to imports from all other countries. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"FLRNWUC4D5HYFH55YV2LKFRXA4","additional_properties":{},"content":"While we tend to focus on <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/\" target=\"_blank\">Ireland</a>, there is no doubt this is a high-risk attempt to remake the global trade system, which is going to cause chaos and disruption. We do not know how this will end up, but what is clear is that there will be no going back to the way things were before.","type":"text"},{"_id":"f8ff9978-59d0-4152-955f-9a2788b1e7b0","additional_properties":{},"subtype":"irish-times-video","type":"video"},{"_id":"EHUUUZEQAFCPJG5TDJKHKBIDKA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678591689},"content":"A Rubicon has been crossed – what we don’t know is whether this will lead to a full-scale, prolonged trade war or whether negotiations will undo some of the damage over time and remove some of the uncertainty which is now stopping investment in its tracks.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2GJSN2PWHJEULPQKLLKNWDFKJ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743689413821},"content":"And while we focus on the impact of exports, this hit to investment will also be really significant economically, curbing growth and future job creation and ending a period when massive projects here from multinational businesses helped to drive the economy forward.","type":"text"},{"_id":"D524LZMS6FFLZK6I2BQ2HERJYA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743713288381},"content":"Five key tariff takeaways: From the pharma sector to uninhabited islands","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"3BAANJMAIZHATIW44EJYYWAKME","additional_properties":{"_id":1743678591690},"content":"So how do we make sense of what has just happened and what is to come? What are the risks of what Minister for Finance <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/paschal-donohoe/\" target=\"_blank\">Paschal Donohoe</a> called the “<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/04/03/trump-tariffs-ireland-eu-us-live-reaction-latest/\" target=\"_blank\">dark and damaging scenarios</a>” which he hoped could be avoided through negotiations with the US?","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZOWHWHELYBDEDKGTHIZXZWRK3U","additional_properties":{"_id":1743689413823},"content":"Let’s unpick the scenarios and see what they might mean for Irish businesses, households and the economy. But first, a health warning. In modern times we have never seen general tariffs at these levels – and so there is no experience to base forecasts off. We are heading, to a large extent, into the unknown.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BHA57SGL45BIHPQGYYTYVDXCWA","additional_properties":{},"content":"1. The tariffs","type":"header"},{"_id":"TNET3JJ7SJGYNP3Y3B3JFSUYNU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743713288385},"content":"The US has announced 20 per cent tariffs on <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/eu-us-trade/\" target=\"_blank\">EU</a> exports. This covered most products, but <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/pharma/\" target=\"_blank\">pharmaceuticals</a> – by far Ireland’s biggest export to the US – are excluded. For now anyway. So on the basis of what is announced so far, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/ibec/\" target=\"_blank\">Ibec</a> calculates that around 25 per cent of Irish exports to the US are hit by the 20 per cent tariff, which equates in cash terms to an annual figure of €3.6 billion. This creates significant problems for the food and drink sectors – Kerrygold and Irish whiskey and spirits in particular, and for a range of SMEs that have been helped by Enterprise Ireland to diversify into the US.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MT3XW3FIDZCBNBSNTYGXEUAOBA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743681986689},"content":"There were a string of warnings yesterday about the impact. The companies will have to calculate whether they can pass on the tariff to consumers or absorb it in their profit margins in order to stay in the US market. Typically, the cost might be spread along the supply chain, with the company, its distributors and consumers all taking a bit of a hit. Kerrygold survived 25 per cent tariffs imposed in late 2019 and lasting to mid-2021, though there was an initial hit to the volume of sales. However, consumer price sensititivy may now be higher.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6BRMZIR5GFHMJP4L3ASOQYFK64","additional_properties":{"_id":1743713288387},"content":"Trump’s tariffs: what do they mean for Ireland and the economy here?","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"ACRF2SW3OVAUFMYIGM2KVLFWOQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743681986690},"content":"Initially, Ibec estimates a falling off in exports of between €4 billion and €6 billion due to the tariffs, out of total annual exports of goods of around €224 billion. Were the tariffs to be extended to pharma and thus cover all Irish exports to the US, the hit would rise to a more significant €16 billion to €23 billion.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NL4EYACGRFAJPKMRK2JZFQSBUU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743681986691},"content":"Companies will also be trawling through the detail – as are senior Government officials. Carol Lynch, trade partner with BDO, points out that companies that import products from the US for further processing can deduct this from the base price on which the tariff is calculated, provided it accounts for 20 per cent or more of the total value. This may be relevant for sectors such as <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/medtech/\" target=\"_blank\">medtech</a>- which appears to be included in the tariffs – and for pharma, if tariffs are extended to it, as the big US players typically import inputs from America.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7XQOUNCARVG5LH22HOF52JYQ5I","additional_properties":{"_id":1743713288390},"type":"image"},{"_id":"E54SCEMLFBE3DJRYVKJ6KLHVCU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743681986692},"content":"In terms of the total economy, the Economic and Social Research Institute (<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/economic-social-research-institute-esri/\" target=\"_blank\">ESRI</a>) and the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/department-of-finance/\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Finance</a> ran the numbers in a recent study. It had similar figures in terms of the hit from 20 per cent tariffs including pharma, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2025/03/21/us-tariffs-could-cost-irish-economy-more-than-18bn-in-lost-trade/\" target=\"_blank\">estimating lost trade of around €18 billion.</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"PASAMLRLSJBN7FCP3IHBXMLUGY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743713288392},"content":"In about four years, assuming the tariffs remained in place for a prolonged period, it said that employment in the economy could be about 50,000 to 80,000 lower than it would otherwise be – this would be a mix of jobs lost and other jobs not created.","type":"text"},{"_id":"I7ACNS6CBBCJXBLJXPRCZGC7OM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743713288393},"content":"Trump tariffs: How did the White House come up with different rates for different countries?","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"PTVZILQC4FE4HBVC2NMAZXP3V4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743713288394},"content":"After the announcement Dr Paul Egan of the ESRI, one of the report’s authors, said the high level of tariffs across the world included in the announcement could push the economic hit towards the higher end of their estimates, or even slightly above this. What he called a “very big shock” to the global trading system is now under way and a small trading country like Ireland will be caught up in this.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QTRZC3CXVBGCJPOL73QAWLCKIE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743681986693},"content":"The length tariffs remain in place will be key. And the risk that they could go higher in a full-scale trade war remains a risk.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LJEXVMQKPNEMZCJGVRJ3UCQN7M","additional_properties":{},"content":"2. Pharma","type":"header"},{"_id":"2XWSMC3D5JCO5HSNZKOG5SKPFI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743713288397},"content":"Senior Ministers have said that they presume that pharma tariffs will follow before long. Previously, Trump has signalled that these could be applied at a rate of 25 per cent – the same applied on car imports.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MNHJR6ERRVGHVI5D322GSJIRQQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743713288398},"content":"Semiconductors, also excluded yesterday, may also be covered by special tariffs. While anticipating pharma will be covered, Tánaiste Simon Harris pointed out that there is now room for negotiation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PIPVYRI7LZBTVOYUWJINGEYVSU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743713288399},"content":"He has spoken to other countries with big pharma sectors and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen is hosting a round table with big pharma companies with EU operations next Tuesday.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TRRN4TLRVKDQY7BIZL4D3WCMTY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743713288400},"type":"image"},{"_id":"QONFGX6HKZBT3HSGSHWIBLGE5I","additional_properties":{"_id":1743689413831},"content":"The EU will also see if the US is prepared to include this in its talks – and a string of the major companies have already announced big US investments in recent weeks, including a number with significant operations here.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UABYBXX6SNEERKW632STIRCC3Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1743713288402},"content":"For now, the big pharma players will watch and wait. Relocating production takes time and – while happy to pander to the US president with new announcements – they will do nothing major in a hurry.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WEIXKYUKNJAHJKEC2XJHRP3KIY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743689413832},"content":"Harry Harrison, international trade partner at PwC who specialises in the sector, said the expectation was still that pharma tariffs were coming and probably at a level of 20 to 25 per cent, though it said that the timing now remained unclear.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ERP77PR6KZGYPBBARFQN6C7M5M","additional_properties":{"_id":1743713288404},"content":"While reports say that big pharma companies have been pressing the Trump administration to phase tariffs in, rather than introduce them in one fell swoop, Harrison pointed out that despite similar lobbying from the auto sector, Trump still went for the big bang approach in this area.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6GKDQC43RZEJ3NHPF7NAKLPFKA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743713288405},"content":"Donald Trump is nothing if not a showman but his instincts deserted him on Liberation Day","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"H3SI3LVZ2BFHFFAA3PZZ5IT3P4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743689413833},"content":"There is a clear longer-term danger to activity and jobs in the pharma sector here. And as this plays out, we may also see the US pressing these companies to declare more profit in the US and less in countries like Ireland. This is not a straightforward exercise, but by accounting for different aspects of their product in different ways it could happen and the companies could even decide to relocate some of their intellectual property – key to their tax arrangements – back to the US from countries like Ireland.","type":"text"},{"_id":"L4U2VKZL3RFBFE5GKMBQST3RDA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743713288407},"content":"Are the pharma companies in EU commission president Ursula von der Leyen’s sights when she conceded on Thursday that some companies were taking “unfair advantage” of the global trade system?","type":"text"},{"_id":"YNFC3SGJ45EZBG23WDD5I6EWPY","additional_properties":{},"content":"3. The wider impacts","type":"header"},{"_id":"MARJIGB7G5GE3JVE7GW34ND2FY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743713288409},"content":"We are understandably focusing on the impact on Ireland. But Trump’s tariffs cross the world, from major players like China to the uninhabited Heard Island and McDonald Islands in the Antarctic. But we should look in particular to Asia, with a US tariff of over 50 per cent on goods from China and mid to high 40 per cent on countries such as Cambodia and Vietnam, the latter in particular home to the overseas operations of many big US companies such as Nike.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3GYFFIOHS5DSNHOVASZ3BRTFCE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743713288410},"content":"Trade is going to be diverted across the globe and these Asian countries will be looking to the EU and elsewhere to substitute for sales lost in the US, creating new competition for EU producers. The European Commission is promising to act to stop a “flood” of goods entering the EU.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IA5CG7R7UJFSZG6CFPHL45AUBY","additional_properties":{},"content":"4. The EU reaction","type":"header"},{"_id":"RLSK5CDOFRA6LLSV32CTNZ7JMU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743713288412},"content":"The EU, according to reports yesterday, will leave around four weeks before responding to Trump’s reciprocal tariffs – though it remains to be seen if they will respond to earlier moves on steel, aluminium and cars in the meantime. The four-week window is to leave room for talks and to try to avoid the outbreak of a tit-for-tat trade war. Trump has said that he will respond to any retaliation against his tariffs – and the executive order he signed gives him scope to do this.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VAFOKD6IUJDJTB4EXUGSIQ5LOI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743713288413},"content":"However, what concessions he might seek from the EU, or other countries, to reduce what has been announced is far from clear. The EU must judge whether Trump wants to talk now, or could only be dragged to the table with measures that seriously damage US companies selling to and operating in Europe. And there is politics at play here, too, with the EU not wanting to appear weak in the face of a bullying US president.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q7X6QU3MS5BCTEGX6EMLN6Q6QI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743689413836},"content":"Ireland will be one of the EU countries urging that time be left for negotiation and exploration of whether tariffs could be suspended while these were under way.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GWMZ3YGENJGIFCMPNSH3RT2DPY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743713288415},"content":"Much may depend, too, on how the tariffs play in the US. Investment bank JP Morgan says they will add a hefty 1.5 percentage points to US inflation this year and the financial markets have taken fright. The White House – and Republicans in Congress – will be subject to massive lobbying from businesses and also, at a local level, from voters. The EU will hope this makes Trump more ready to compromise. But he has already warned of short-term cost and disruption in pursuit of a long-term goal, so it remains to be seen how this plays out.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3YKXDTCE7JECBIQOVVXPWIOMEA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743713288416},"content":"Big Tech raised among European tariff response options","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"FVUHI2NBSJB7HG6ONSDQ6DU5MI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743689413837},"content":"The darker scenarios pointed to by Donohoe would be those involving a full-scale and prolonged trade war. Barriers to imports into the US would rise further and EU tariffs would increase costs to consumers and hit supply chains. A particular worry to Ireland is that the EU could use measures agreed during the last Trump presidency – the so-called anti-coercion instrument – which could target the big US tech companies in Europe, many with their international bases in Ireland, through a range of possible policies which could be highly disruptive for them.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AVQXXYIM6ZHPNE4XQWZKHP2YAA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743713288418},"content":"Meanwhile France has said the EU should introduce a special EU-wide digital services tax on these companies, which would enrage Trump and cost Ireland lost tax revenue, as some of the money currently paid here would go to other EU countries.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YXO5UJJLYNCTFD2VYZRZK77UBI","additional_properties":{},"content":"5. The Irish Government","type":"header"},{"_id":"WXJSB3XWLRFA3EKY2F5JHLCFWY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743713288420},"content":"Domestically the Government faces a range of short-term issues. Ibec’s chief executive Danny McCoy has been out arguing for short-term supports to businesses to help them keep employees on – much as happened during Covid-19. Finance Minister Donohoe did not rule this out, but said scope was limited and pointed out that the Government could simply not step in to compensate firms on an ongoing basis for lost markets in the US. Some compromise may be found here and much will depend on whether the EU and US look to be heading for negotiation – or for escalation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RGAYQ6QOAZDRFAGTS2B7VUDKEI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743689413839},"content":"Beyond that, the Government will be trying to figure out the wider economic impact – the Department of Finance and the ESRI are to update their predictions here, but they still face the same uncertainties as the rest of us in terms of how it will play out. By summer, at the latest, the Department of Finance will have to update its forecasts for the public finances.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UTOWOSVBKJAKDODEFMTI4AEOFM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743713288422},"content":"Donohoe has already warned that income tax reductions planned in the budget could be at stake – but in a worst-case scenario bigger issues may be at risk in terms of future spending plans.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KBT5PO5HTRGGNHVIB7DHIC7Z6M","additional_properties":{"_id":1743689413840},"content":"This is impossible to call and may take time to play out. But the risks are clear. Trump wants investment to return to the US and is willing to upend the world trade system to achieve this. As a key home for US investment in the EU, this is bad news in the longer term for Ireland. And the wider hit to the world economy also poses a significant threat.","type":"text"},{"_id":"R57MNTXIRZF35KUMBOQ3AD5PK4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743713288424},"content":"It is impossible to put numbers on this, but the economic world has changed and Ireland has to adapt.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Cliff Taylor"}},"name":"Cliff Taylor"}]},"description":{"basic":"Trump tariffs: The focus might be on exports but the hit to investment will curb growth and job creation"},"display_date":"2025-04-04T05:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Trump tariffs: What ‘dark and damaging scenarios’ could economies face in Ireland and worldwide?","native":"Trump tariffs: What ‘dark and damaging scenarios’ could economies in Ireland and worldwide face?"},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"5469"},"basic":{"display":true,"text":"Smart Money"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"H4T2MS6BQZFBXK66H3ABO4POWU","auth":{"1":"0f1cfcb6102b21709a469ee785b7faa0ed29873db27c74e320decf2edbda6331"},"focal_point":{"x":752,"y":482},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/H4T2MS6BQZFBXK66H3ABO4POWU.jpg"},"lead_art":{"_id":"FWQOYQXZGBGTDDUKEL7Q6MFA3M","type":"image"}},"subtype":"analysis","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Your Money"},{"name":"Business"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/your-money/2025/04/04/trump-has-changed-the-world-how-will-the-us-eu-and-irish-economies-react/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/your-money","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Your Money"}}}},{"_id":"YPVA46NFNRFWXI263DTGIWIIRU","additional_properties":{},"canonical_url":"/your-money/2025/04/03/am-i-too-late-to-apply-to-boost-my-uk-pension/","content_elements":[{"_id":"Q7CKJRBAN5ACZJGYR5T5H6VQMA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743695987336},"content":"<b>Can I get an application for the to pay extra contributions to get the full English pension.</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"RBXSGX7YS5FGNDZR5QE2F43O7E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743695987337},"content":"<b>Ms C.F.</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"BT3KUBTKDBGS7GOOT5FVTIZT3Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1743695987338},"content":"As you’ll know by now the clock is ticking fast on the deadline to apply to pay voluntary national insurance contributions going back to 2006 either to secure a UK state pension at all or to enhance the pension you will get at the age of 66 or 67.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IDP7DRBEG5AXRGNYY6XVII6YGY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743695987339},"content":"As a result, this is probably the last in the series of questions on the application process that we will be publishing, although there will be other elements of paying voluntary UK national insurance that will be relevant in the coming weeks.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NP7QUIYWZNHJ3CPSC5GASCUUGQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743695987340},"content":"The key thing to note is that you have to have the application in by Saturday (which, I would advise, really means close of business tomorrow to be sure). You can apply using a paper Form CF83 or an online version of the same which you can find <a href=\"https://www.tax.service.gov.uk/guidance/apply-to-pay-ni-contributions-abroad/start/about-this-form?c=1\" target=\"_self\">here</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MSC7BJUIUBCPHDWDTRFSGJZLTE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743695987341},"content":"This really is the last chance for possibly hundreds of thousands of people who worked either in Britain or Northern Ireland at any time since the early 1970s to lock in what must be one of the biggest “no-brainer” investments you are likely to come across.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LKBTNYXHVBHAPLEDTYSACJGN5M","additional_properties":{"_id":"WAG7LSJRCBBWJJTOTK7RWALW2U"},"content":"UK pension buyback: I cannot find my national insurance number - what should I do?","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"d4a72354-f52a-4842-917a-a278d3e5f88e","additional_properties":{},"subtype":"irish-times-video","type":"video"},{"_id":"UV4PFKTHPJDE7DSFOE5OL6VDPU","additional_properties":{},"content":"The deadline has already been extended a couple of times and no further extension is likely - not least as I suspect the British never really considered the wave of applications they would receive from people in Ireland and other countries.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AJ625NG6TFH4JCFND3ON6EQHWM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743695987343},"content":"Clearly, given the limited time available, you will not get a paper form to them in time so online is really your only option at this point.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5WZ3XK26MNC3PJMXISR42FL3BY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743695987344},"content":"Assuming you meet the basic criteria – you have worked three years consecutively in the UK or you have three years of national insurance over a longer period – you should be able to “buy back” any year between 2006 and now in which you have not already paid national insurance.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JWANFSFB5ZDU7OHZ3YBNBUJDPM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743695987345},"content":"There is another criteria – age. If you were a man born before April 5th, 1951 or a woman born before April 5th, 1053, you will not qualify as you will have hit retirement age under the old pre-2016 UK state pension arrangements.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PSF6FOEDYFCDBO6QCIQHZKDCGA","additional_properties":{"_id":"JLLJIXFTNZHYBGC2O4PJ2TS5WE"},"content":"Long delays in UK pension buyback programme leave people worrying they could miss out","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"V65D6QM3TRCOLBUROT5TDDPTEY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743695987346},"content":"Note, you are only eligible to buy back years after you first worked in the UK. So if you first worked there in 2009, you will not be able to buy back years in the 2006-2008 window. Yes, I have heard that some people have been allowed to do so but that seems to be in error and may well be amended down the line.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SVFWZOEJURAXTMHSHQQNZ32EOQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743695987347},"content":"If you worked there right up to the time you left the UK and worked on your return to Ireland or some other country, you should be eligible for the cheaper Class 2 contributions which will cost £3.45 per week acquired, or £179.40 per year.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Z7QR4D3345GYJAB24Z6OO4JMKM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743695987348},"content":"Otherwise, you are buying at Class 3 which costs £17.45 a week or £907.40 per year acquired.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RFUXU6N6WFGXJNXK36K7U3GL6Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1743695987349},"content":"The key is your status in the particular year you are buying back. If you came home in 2010 and worked for five years before leaving the workforce voluntarily or otherwise, you should be able to pay at Class 2 for the five years you were working, and Class 3 for any other years being purchased.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6MDYTY6Q7RH63EP3P5FJUEIFRM","additional_properties":{"_id":"H6LLMFISWFBT3F2JAFNVPU2JWI"},"content":"Am I too old to buy back UK pension years?","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"PYOFWODPSVF2ZKLYP4LGCNWQTU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743695987350},"content":"A number of people who have applied thinking they were due to pay at Class 2 have been told they are Class 3. In most cases, this appears to be an error by the UK authorities and should be appealed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WIYPYURTXFCOXA3CSAFWBCAWIE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743695987351},"content":"However, you may find you need to make the payment upfront under protest – assuming you have the funds – even as you appeal. As John Ring at Xtrapension, a Galway-based financial adviser who has been active in this area, notes, we are pretty much in uncharted territory as far as appeals go.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DQNJY65SN5AHBKHIEGPYHLTZ3Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1743695987352},"content":"In any case, if you are claiming at Class 2, the Department of Work and Pensions or HMRC, the UK Revenue, will ultimately want proof that you are eligible. That proof is your PRSI record – or similar social insurance record from any other country you worked in – which shows when you have been working (and paying social insurance) and when you have not.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6XGJ3WWMIRAWNLKCCSOXOU5ZRI","additional_properties":{"_id":"ZTEWP72SXVA25AUXRMPHN6V7FY"},"content":"Will paying voluntary UK national insurance cancel out my PRSI payments?","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"Z32HNWBUU5GSNA7YNMQCXG4CO4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743695987353},"content":"Assuming you returned to Ireland, you’ll need to get a copy of your PRSI record from the Department of Social Protection PRSI records office in Buncrana, Co Donegal to show you were working here once you left the UK.","type":"text"},{"_id":"A6PQPFNJGJDNXESODUK6YFKKVE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743695987354},"content":"The easiest way of doing that is via MyWelfare.ie as long as you have a verified GovID. If not, you can apply by post to PRSI Records, Department of Social Protection, McCarter’s Road, Ardaravan, Buncrana, Donegal. It will take about 10 working days to get to you.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MGIUI77NWNBM5PKFC4KPJTPIOE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743695987355},"content":"Given how close to the deadline you are, I would also advise filling out the call back form – available <a href=\"https://secure.dwp.gov.uk/request-a-call-back-to-pay-voluntary-national-insurance-contributions/contact-form\">here</a> – which UK authorities say will be accepted as evidence that you have made the deadline. It will at least give you some time to get any information you require together.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CF64DTM4QBDNXOJ5DJTAUUAXA4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743695987356},"content":"Keep screenshots / photocopies of anything you file – including the online Form CF83 that I mentioned earlier.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7DE4RHGQLJGY5GGQUH4YMJEL6U","additional_properties":{"_id":1743695987357},"content":"And be aware that when they do call bank, you are likely to have only 31 days to complete the process, including paying for any years acquired through voluntary contributions.","type":"text"},{"_id":"I6JNVK3ATRCXNDNBMQQIIUOSQY","additional_properties":{"_id":"FY37PPOIWJBOHFF6FP7PA7CBSA"},"content":"Will I lose out on UK pension because I didn’t live there for three consecutive years?","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"CDWOHQKUFZDMLJ6Z427U4W4TCI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743695987358},"content":"However, if reports I am hearing elsewhere are anything to go by, you could be waiting. One reader who requested a call back and also applied online to make back payments in the past 10 days or so was told he can expect a reply in September!","type":"text"},{"_id":"KIPZW2FUSZHJLJLSPIBVZBVDYU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743695987359},"content":"Another reader who had actually made the payments to secure his enhanced pension was told recently that it cold be July of next year before his UK national insurance record was updated to reflect the additional pension payment due.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IZG2K7X7K5EE3MBPZS4W65FD3A","additional_properties":{"_id":1743695987360},"content":"Having said that, once the tsunami of paperwork subsides when the deadline passes this weekend, I expect the UK authorities will make some of that time back. You need to ensure everything is in order to make the payment when you get the call back, so don’t be tempted just to file the application and leave things sit.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BZANTPQBOVF4FDVQYK6BQ2N6GI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743695987361},"content":"All is not lost for anyone who does miss the deadline. While you won’t be able to buy back the 18 years of contributions available under this transition period deal, you still have the right to pay voluntary contributions for any gaps in your record over the past six years.","type":"text"},{"_id":"T532WD3SNNFTFIGUG4T3YQ5GRU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743695987362},"content":"And of course, you can continue to make such voluntary payments into the future which is certainly something worth considering if they are still working and therefore subject to the cheaper Class 2 buyback rate.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Dominic Coyle"}},"name":"Dominic Coyle"}]},"description":{"basic":"Effective deadline is just over 24 hours away so this really is your last chance to lock in access to a UK state pension or enhance the pension already paid into "},"display_date":"2025-04-03T15:31:07.987Z","headlines":{"basic":"Am I too late to apply to boost my UK pension?","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"5469"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"YR2HLYFSLZFWXOLBW6XLTUUQ2I","auth":{"1":"aec824555feafbb59f2a83bc51553646d9cdde036356263c05da04d450305e22"},"focal_point":{"x":745,"y":494},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/YR2HLYFSLZFWXOLBW6XLTUUQ2I.jpg"},"lead_art":{"_id":"P22S5UTIDNHA3NDNZKMV2RZ3GY","type":"image"}},"subtype":"columnist","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Your Money"},{"name":"Business"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/your-money/2025/04/03/am-i-too-late-to-apply-to-boost-my-uk-pension/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/your-money","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Your Money"}}}},{"_id":"VUJHOFGUZFFH3NNCUC6FQEPQLQ","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":313,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/5469/podcasts/48f4db7e-f595-4e77-93e6-f975a50d571e/versions/1743621627/media/41f641ae9f2752c200bfa0892779a7f2_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/your-money/2025/04/03/has-ryanair-started-penalising-people-with-carry-on-luggage-no-says-ryanair-yes-say-our-readers/","content_elements":[{"_id":"DPH2BTDOAFHJ7E6RQT47SLUQUU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743606755962},"content":"Has <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/ryanair/\" target=\"_self\">Ryanair </a>adopted a stricter policy when it comes to carry-on bags over the last couple of weeks?","type":"text"},{"_id":"SI45SQFRSZGQZOEIBM7HW47PXU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743606755963},"content":"“Absolutely not,” the airline said. “Everything is the same as it ever was. 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We’ll give the first word to our readers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WDFJIQKNKVATJCZM2RD2MZX5LE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743606755968},"content":"Starting with Catherine, who mailed us last week to ask if we were “aware of the recent changes to Ryanair’s baggage policy”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"USD6VNFC3FBFNAI6BQUJ5CLN4Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1743606755969},"content":"She said she wasn’t aware of them at all, despite being a regular Ryanair traveller.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QTV642LRFFGTHPOJAX7KU6HL7M","additional_properties":{"_id":1743606755970},"content":"We have to confess that, like Catherine, we were entirely unaware of any changes, which is why what she had to say piqued our interest.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CQJAXBVJOZFAJBWSZ5PFVFKP5Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1743606755971},"content":"“I think [the changes] might only be a week old as I travelled last week and it didn’t appear to be in place,” she said in the mail.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AMOGZIL3S5HD5AX7A45UIIFZVQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743606755972},"content":"“They have added a sticker to the side of the sizers which makes the sizers smaller as the bags need to be within the stickers rather than the iron sizer,” Catherine said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MBACKJCOMVBPHMMJ3FEDLASEZ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743699782569},"content":"“So, though my bag fits the sizers, it doesn’t fit the ‘new’ sizer because of this additional sticker.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"XL4PF2Z75RAGRFMQ4SXHKOF44E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743606755973},"content":"First of all, we must commend Catherine for using the word sizer – one we have never typed before now – so many times in a single sentence. 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Otherwise, I would have used a different suitcase.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"4E5SVDIOWFGRDOOK7DGXTOV3YI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743606755976},"content":"Now, that story would have been of interest had it been the only such tale we heard but it wasn’t.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6XSDUI6AXRFCTOMZH35324OSWU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743606755977},"content":"Next up was Louise, who flew from Dublin to Birmingham with Ryanair on a Wednesday and flew back to Knock a few days later.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QH6NZCNE6NHCLCRLCFKYTRZVAA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743606755978},"content":"“On the outbound flight, my cabin bag was checked and accepted. On the return flight, I was charged a whopping £75 for the same bag, even though it fit in the sizer again,” she said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5IBJVCJSPVDTFBX2WW7RQRUBHM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743606755979},"content":"“Apparently, it did not sit behind a new sticker,” she continued.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LXTWIFJLJ5FYHLI2DDMKMNEAI4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743606755980},"content":"She urged people to beware if they have been using the same case for years. “You may wind up in the same situation as me,” she said, and warned people travelling with children or as part of groups as they could all end up being hit with the higher charge.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YXVHREO6MZDY7CHQLOPOCSTENM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743606755981},"content":"In hindsight, she said, if she had put the case upside down, it might have fit as the wheels were the issue. “Or, if I had tied my scarf around the case, it would have made it less wide. My case wasn’t even full.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"342RMI5L4NASZMF3B6LOLILZSM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743699782579},"content":"Cost of living: ‘You are going to see €5 lattes in Ireland by the end of the year’","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"IRON3TQD7ZBF5MNDK7N6NEJKYM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743606755982},"content":"And, then, there was Chris. She was also stopped recently as the case which she has used when travelling with Ryanair for seven years was found to be too big and “over the new dimensions”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CZWVA5I3INHPZEIDYPDB3JQ2SY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743699782581},"content":"She said: “If the dimensions are that strict, [Ryanair] should have an alert. 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There has been no change to our agreed bag dimensions for many years.","type":"text"},{"_id":"K422KXMZ75CAVAGHVAWWRQC32A","additional_properties":{"_id":1743606755988},"content":"“2. Our new Boeings have exactly the same baggage space as our existing fleet.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MVRAYZFOBRAGJMXINQV2A567UI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743606755989},"content":"“3. New stickers have been fitted to the front and sides of our sizers to show the exact permitted dimensions of our two bag sizes (40 x 20 x 25cm) and (55 x 40 x 20cm). These stickers show that our permitted dimensions are smaller than our sizers. Our sizers are, therefore, bigger than our permitted/agreed bag sizes. 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Three readers – entirely independent of each other – contacted us to say they had been hit with charges in recent days because Ryanair had decided their carry-on bags were too big and, even though they fitted in the sizers, they had to pay a fairly hefty charge.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KEIRBWHSQVFG7BI4JH2HXH7TL4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743606755992},"content":"Ryanair said we are “as usual, misinformed”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6QDNERFPU5AHZGYLGLKZBCQK5I","additional_properties":{"_id":1743606755993},"content":"That is where we will leave it for now but if you have found yourself hit with a surprising baggage charge in recent days please feel free to <a href=\"mailto:pricewatch@irishtimes.com\">get in touch</a>.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Conor Pope"}},"name":"Conor Pope"}]},"description":{"basic":"The airline tell us we are ‘as usual, misinformed’ but three separate people have had the same experience"},"display_date":"2025-04-03T05:00:01Z","headlines":{"basic":"Has Ryanair started penalising people with carry-on luggage?","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"5469"},"basic":{"display":true,"text":"Pricewatch"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"3O37HZWPUMTL37JDA2NDMYYCP4","auth":{"1":"b5f74337b53132f3c66bca2c25b813399bca231d7a5c2a7d0df3fac31e5380b3"},"focal_point":{"x":780,"y":371},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/3O37HZWPUMTL37JDA2NDMYYCP4.jpg"}},"subtype":"analysis","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Your Money"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/your-money/2025/04/03/has-ryanair-started-penalising-people-with-carry-on-luggage-no-says-ryanair-yes-say-our-readers/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/your-money","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Your Money"}}}},{"_id":"RTTCCMS2RVEZXCHS53AXGO3GUY","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":320,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/5469/podcasts/57a6c354-b1da-4094-8182-a2f17f04add5/versions/1743532420/media/b966c9e0c003be8e0d23fb5ee23e7e5c_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/your-money/2025/04/02/i-cannot-find-my-national-insurance-number-what-can-i-do-now/","content_elements":[{"_id":"IPPK6P4W2BD43NSMR6AOJI3MCI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743584459934},"content":"<b>I returned to Ireland in 2010 having worked in the UK for almost 17 years. 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You can find it <a href=\"https://secure.dwp.gov.uk/request-a-call-back-to-pay-voluntary-national-insurance-contributions/contact-form\">here</a>. Take a screenshot of the completed form before you hit the “send request” button if only to prove it was sent and when.","type":"text"},{"_id":"d4a72354-f52a-4842-917a-a278d3e5f88e","additional_properties":{"_id":1743584459940},"subtype":"irish-times-video","type":"video"},{"_id":"QBNPFEF7R5HFZEPAHLOZSTQ5Y4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743584459941},"content":"That’s not a get-out-of-jail-free card but it does buy you time. 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Your <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/easter/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/easter/\">Easter</a> eggs are almost certainly getting smaller again thanks to the curse that is shrinkflation. And they are probably more expensive too. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"4XZMBWVSMRFRFCHAGMNIKEL3I4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Well, that’s not good – who can I blame?","type":"header"},{"_id":"6VVZYC5FR5GBTDTHRJEMAF3ZUQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"The climate, international commodity markets and huge multinationals who will do whatever it takes to keep their revenues up. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"SAEJP4OEP5HDJK5Q6SWFTR2W5M","additional_properties":{},"content":"So what is going on? ","type":"header"},{"_id":"VTQMAFS6PJG5ZH7CLBSVFOK55Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"The cost of chocolate has jumped alarmingly due to higher input costs, poor harvests in west Africa, where much of the world’s cocoa is produced, and a warming planet which has forced growers everywhere to plant in more difficult terrain.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PPIJFE6TZFGILOGS2VOIS5EOBM","additional_properties":{},"content":"So by how much have prices gone up? ","type":"header"},{"_id":"LQJCXU4N25AKPFV4ATKJN3VNOY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Earlier this year, cocoa was selling for just over $10,000 (€9,211) a tonne on global markets. That is more than four times the price it was selling for two years ago. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"RLAXS6XVY5FOJG4VAHGYRGR7ZU","additional_properties":{},"content":"What does that mean for my egg, though?","type":"header"},{"_id":"E22HO5HWM5C6JAD2NOKJ32CZQ4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Well, according to <a href=\"https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/is-your-easter-egg-smaller-than-last-year-aNCOs0T4bgec\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/is-your-easter-egg-smaller-than-last-year-aNCOs0T4bgec\">British consumer watchdog Which?</a>, Easter eggs are likely to cost up to 50 per cent more this year than they did last year, while many eggs are likely to be considerably smaller than they once were. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"A3DDEYJYHBDMPKD6QSLTTZJXZA","additional_properties":{},"content":"How much do they cost?","type":"header"},{"_id":"XMNXNPZ5VBH3NPH4QYOI7XKWJI","additional_properties":{},"content":"That very much depends on the egg but we looked at some popular options earlier this week and prices of around €7.50 for 200g of Easter-themed chocolate were not uncommon. That is more than twice what the same products would have cost five years ago. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"DBYOOLQZKRHZBEDWS5GRHPA6DQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Is there anything I can do to save a few bob?","type":"header"},{"_id":"XGTMEA7IV5FCRHPIUCOMQI465Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"Make sure to look out for special offers, particularly as Easter Sunday approaches. For obvious reasons retailers struggle to shift their eggs in the post-Easter period. So if you’re willing to play a game of chicken with your eggs you’ll get a good deal on Easter Sunday. Or maybe they’ll sell out, leaving you with nothing. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"GLJUHKXLGJBIXF7EW7KXISESBA","content":"Cost of living: ‘You are going to see €5 lattes in Ireland by the end of the year’","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"LEJYYCOXYJF3DHPHAKVKFHBCLQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Heaven forbid. Do we buy a lot of Easter Eggs?","type":"header"},{"_id":"Z2UVJ3QUCRFOVAPPFA7BIPOVIE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Last year more than a third of Irish consumers bought at least one egg, with a record €9.9 million spent on them in the seven days before Easter Sunday, up 22 per cent on 2023. Our total spend on the chocolatey treats this year is likely to soar beyond €30 million.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TOBK6EKOSNHAJPXOWQ3SDJVGNE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Why do we eat eggs at Easter anyways?","type":"header"},{"_id":"4YNRCBZBAJEXXMDNZLNCNTI6IU","additional_properties":{},"content":"We thought you’d never ask. In times past, eating eggs during Lent was frowned upon but the chickens of the Christian world didn’t pay much heed to the rules and laid them anyway. The faithful had no choice but to set them aside. Confectioners in Britain began selling chocolate eggs in the late 19th century and there was no stopping it after that. ","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Conor Pope"}},"name":"Conor Pope"}]},"description":{"basic":"If you’re willing to play a game of chicken with your eggs, you’ll get a good deal on Easter Sunday. Maybe …"},"display_date":"2025-04-04T05:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Easter eggs will be smaller in Irish shops this year and likely much more expensive. Why? 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Opened by the Doyle Family in 2001, it’s the original store in the group – there are now five. After 17 years it was sold to the Musgrave Group in 2018.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VVEYQM7GKBEKFIHPT2RLQPHJ7Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1743510575600},"content":"Rotisserie chicken is part of the new offering, currently available only in Morehampton Road. They use Manor Farm free-range chickens, which are cooked sous vide in their south Dublin kitchen - ensuring “extra-juicy meat”, they say - then finish them in the in-store rotisserie. It is available as a whole roasted chicken or in a build-your-own pulled chicken sandwich – served on Tartine sourdough or a wrap, with your choice of three fillings and a sauce. Monthly specials have included a Korean roast chicken wrap with Chimac Korean barbecue sauce, which adds sweetness and a mild chilli heat.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UTCYGD6YTNHOFFIXNB3VDT3RWE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743510575601},"content":"The handmade meals range is extensive; some of the dishes are par-cooked and can then be finished at home in the oven or microwave. Quiches with an all-butter pastry base are made in their off-site kitchen.","type":"text"},{"_id":"G23PTXZN6JFGNIL3AUG4B4GCZY","additional_properties":{},"content":"What did we order?","type":"header"},{"_id":"VFB5GBH7TBDQFPS5H3IE7YXDRU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743510575603},"content":"A rotisserie chicken, garlic butter baby potatoes, honey-roast carrots and a slice of leek and cheese quiche.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AU6WVRILDBH3ZI2C32VDB4XIAE","additional_properties":{},"content":"How was the service?","type":"header"},{"_id":"USGXHIMT4VAWRFQLPQ4WG2WG4E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743510575605},"content":"Straightforward. The quiche is behind the deli counter, other items are in preheated or chilled units. Payment is at the till.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TPS34LZGIRDGBDMNXZKP2FV7YA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Was the food nice?","type":"header"},{"_id":"LZY2A6DVI5HGDE374KLDWPHFNI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743510575607},"content":"Yes. The quiche was notably good. The pastry was buttery and well cooked, especially on the base, which is crucial. The filling of leek and cheese was delicious. The chicken skin lacked crispness, and the outer meat was dry – like it had waited too long in the hot cabinet. Underneath, the meat was juicy. The baby potatoes and honey-roast carrots (30 minutes in the oven) were good.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FVNQBRG2EFBI5DRXSK3XM76XRA","additional_properties":{},"content":"What about the packaging?","type":"header"},{"_id":"CQZARIBS2RHLNNW2TCBBTNHWB4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743510575609},"content":"The chicken came in plastic, and the other items were in foil trays covered in cling film, which is typical of how these dishes are generally packaged. So a mixture of single-use plastic, reusable and recyclable materials.","type":"text"},{"_id":"U7XHBAGK4JDFBM7OEUTR4BILZE","additional_properties":{"_id":"OWK4R7PIDRFANODKV4GSQOTBXQ"},"content":"Wholegrain foods: Are they really healthier than white rice, bread and pasta?","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"53JOIXXKZJBZFN22AGS6BWYF6E","additional_properties":{},"content":"What did it cost?","type":"header"},{"_id":"V36SLNC6X5FXZPFYWXHCJ5IMSQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743510575611},"content":"€26.90 for dinner for three people: rotisserie chicken, €14.95; baby potatoes, €3.95; honey-roast carrots, €3.95; and quiche, €4.95; less €0.90 as part of a “two for €7″ special on the vegetables.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XFL22JNMG5C5VKEXXG2JJ24OJA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Where does it deliver?","type":"header"},{"_id":"WG63RSFYN5AVFFG5RA322FM6WU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743510575613},"content":"Takeaway only, at branch in Morehampton Road, Donnybrook. Open Mon-Sat, 7am-10pm; and Sun, 8am-9pm.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BA7JMHWPF5FNRCW7SBNHUP34E4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Would I order it again?","type":"header"},{"_id":"5KKJH66YJRGQTL4ABI6YQHBNW4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743510575615},"content":"Yes, I’d get the quiche again. The rotisserie chicken is fine if you live nearby, but I’ve had better. 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Except it is not in Bordeaux. It is in Dublin, hidden away in the well-heeled neighbourhood of Ranelagh. It is French, obviously, but not in an <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio/2024/08/15/emily-in-paris-the-equivalent-of-binging-on-marzipan-delicious-at-first-too-much-after-a-while/\" target=\"_blank\">Emily in Paris</a> way.","type":"text"},{"_id":"U3C2DGBU2JDWPIKYGR5GOY6D3E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743601744962},"content":"It was opened last autumn by Colin Dapot from Toulouse, who manages front of house, and his wife, Sidjy Batista, from La Rochelle, who commands the pans. It is long and narrow, with a deli counter to the front, and just enough space for a handful of tables at the back. By day it sells coffee, croissants, deli bits and does a good brunch trade. More recently it has extended its opening to evenings (Wednesday to Sunday). There is a short, quietly confident menu and an interesting wine list.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OPIHGOBUX5FDPG7W4W7OW5FATY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743601744963},"type":"image"},{"_id":"U3C2DGBU2JDWPIKYGR5GOY6D3E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743601744964},"content":"Dapot moves from table to table, chatting in a way that makes you feel less like a customer and more like a friend who has just happened to stop by for some food. He remembers faces, recommends dishes, pours small tastes of wine and generally ensures that no one leaves feeling anything less than delighted. He’s a man who appears to have cracked the very particular formula of making people feel welcome without ever trying too hard. Similarly, our waiter, Lucas Soret, is warm, chatty and disarmingly French.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CHVXJM62ZZBPTJVHEPQ2J5LF7E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743601744965},"content":"There’s a small selection of starters, five mains and three desserts. We start with the cheese croquettes (€7) and onion soup (€9). The three croquettes are small, crisp and piping hot, oozing with raclette-laden béchamel, accompanied by a tomato jam that is not too sweet and delivers a gentle touch of acidity. The soup is lighter than expected, the onions not quite cooked down to the dark, sticky depths they usually reach, the whole thing on the milder side. Not bad, just gentler than it could be. It would benefit from a few more onions and being taken further, to the point where the onions collapse into the deep, burnished, borderline-blackened intensity that gives a true French onion soup its power.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GJA4QZM7WRDMPHAEJZJNXDJFGI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743601744966},"type":"image"},{"_id":"46F4LSOI2BDYLLZS6Y4HAZMAH4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743601744967},"content":"The wine list is smart – nearly 20 by the glass and a strong spread of French regions. There is also an option to pick a retail bottle and add €10 corkage. A Famille Paquet Mâcon-Villages (€43) suited our meal well.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SA4ZV2JJJ5G6LNHPUTLOBEZH2E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743601744968},"content":"Then the mains. The fish pie (€21) is good, more of a gratin than a pie, with a crisp, golden top and a filling that veers just on the right side of indulgence: a mixture of white fish, a little smoked fish, and some small, neatly cut potatoes. Fish pie can often feel heavy, a solid brick of mash and béchamel that sits in the stomach for hours. This one is lighter, more refined, but still satisfying. The accompanying green salad is more than just an obligatory handful of leaves: there’s bite to the leaves, a proper vinaigrette and a sense someone actually tasted it before it left the kitchen.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ABYUOR6IWFHCLBEZBEGRPDPMSI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743601744969},"type":"image"},{"_id":"SA4ZV2JJJ5G6LNHPUTLOBEZH2E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743601744970},"content":"The pork in mustard sauce (€22) is a rich, old-fashioned dish, properly sauced, served with spaetzle<i> </i>(Alsatian egg-based dumplings) and courgette spaghetti, the latter a little under-seasoned and perhaps slightly unnecessary addition. The spaetzle are the real highlight, soft, buttery and just the right side of substantial. The pork itself is tender and perfectly cooked, the mustard sauce the sort of thing you would happily drink from a spoon. It is a dish that feels genuinely French, in the way that most self-consciously French<i> </i>restaurants fail to achieve. It is comforting, nostalgic but never heavy-handed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OY53RV75O5HJ7GKJPVDWEI5RUY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743601744971},"content":"Desserts are simple but tasty. The speculoos biscuit with marmalade cream (€9) has a buttery, firm base, similar to what you get with a cheesecake, and is topped with orange-scented cream piped in rosettes. The apple cake (€9), a recipe from Batista’s mum, is a spongy cake with chunks of apple running through it and caramelised on top. Served with ice cream, it tastes home-made in the best way.","type":"text"},{"_id":"P6Z4MAJBQZDVXAMOPZRSM652QU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743601744972},"content":"The thing about Excuse My French is that it doesn’t overreach. The plates arrive simply, without flourishes or smears of sauce. And yet, for all that restraint, nothing about it feels basic. The service is notably good, and inspires a quietly brilliant atmosphere – a place where people meet over a casual bite and a good bottle of wine. 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I certainly get a kick from knocking on the closed door of The Sackville, in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dublin/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dublin/\">Dublin</a> city centre, where I am due to meet owner Dave Mulligan for a sneak peek at his latest venture opening this week. 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We can’t fix the issues of the world, but we can make great drinks.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"B2BUBZAPNBF3LJBPGIGLZNVN7M","additional_properties":{"_id":1743521202286},"content":"Dave is ebullient about the classic aesthetic of the bar. “A lot of people have had a go at the building over the years. The same architect designed the Stag’s Head. 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Rather than completely removing the hand-painted mirrors which featured portraits of the 1916 Easter Rising leaders, Dave has elected to cover them up with panelling, thus safely preserving them for the future.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FHVVPIXYENGQXN2QJFI5IPLTJE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743521202288},"content":"But there are new touches also. A smart new marble bar top will brighten the dark room, along with marble topped tables, black leather banquettes and black velvet stools. It’s inspired by the great hotels bars of the world, from Paris to New York. “It’s elegant but elevated. I joke that we will have the number one hotel bar in Dublin, we just won’t have any rooms.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"OXEEWNTNUZGMFHHSGAHADB26QI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743521202289},"content":"The original back bar has been expanded, and will showcase a carefully curated selection of 25 whiskeys, all chosen by Mulligan himself. “We will cater to all price points, but these are all whiskeys that I love, I spent ages agonising over the list.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"6ONOIQY2GZFAHEHU7F3WOTLSSU","additional_properties":{"_id":"LCOMOMN365FT5FDVIMPEAP5HWI"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"5ODNBUP6NRAYNHPRLYO3PLFTWY","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"NV6PQBARVRCCDODEHOFCC64A3E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743521202290},"content":"The theme of careful selection continues through the rest of the drinks menu where there will be three signature house drinks and 12 classic cocktails. “We’ll do them to the same high standards as we do in 1661, we don’t operate any other way, but they are ones that everyone will recognise.” Beer drinkers will have a choice of three taps and there will be a simple selection of bar snacks.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IJNPSWAKAFCCJNWUGT4YTHPDSE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743521202291},"content":"The showpiece drink will be the Irish Coffee, which will share a recipe with 1661’s Belfast Coffee, only here it will be made with Tullamore Dew whiskey instead of poitín. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"H5RJOIZZ55AXRJML2OPED7PWIU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743521202292},"content":"With room for 50 people seated, or 65 with standing, it’s not a large bar, but Mulligan is confident it will find its audience with Dubliners and tourists alike. In a lovely touch for visitors to the city, guests can fill in specially designed postcards which will say “Posted from the GPO, O’Connell Street, Dublin”, which will then be taken across the street by staff and posted from direct from the GPO.","type":"text"},{"_id":"P7VHI44RHFCKDNDCZ5U6QOYVLU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743521202293},"content":"The Sackville will open from 5pm this Thursday, April 3rd, and will trade from Tuesday to Saturdays. The bar will be open initially from 5pm, Tuesday to Saturday, with plans to open from noon by summer time, while a small DJ space will allow for live sets late at night.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GI2WRGUXLBHMJCKX2H46XJA42M","additional_properties":{"_id":1743521202294},"content":"Stepping back out into the daylight I see the words “Beloved Dirt” emblazoned across the new awning – a reference to Joyce’s “dear dirty Dublin”. 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Your <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/easter/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/easter/\">Easter</a> eggs are almost certainly getting smaller again thanks to the curse that is shrinkflation. And they are probably more expensive too. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"4XZMBWVSMRFRFCHAGMNIKEL3I4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Well, that’s not good – who can I blame?","type":"header"},{"_id":"6VVZYC5FR5GBTDTHRJEMAF3ZUQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"The climate, international commodity markets and huge multinationals who will do whatever it takes to keep their revenues up. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"SAEJP4OEP5HDJK5Q6SWFTR2W5M","additional_properties":{},"content":"So what is going on? ","type":"header"},{"_id":"VTQMAFS6PJG5ZH7CLBSVFOK55Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"The cost of chocolate has jumped alarmingly due to higher input costs, poor harvests in west Africa, where much of the world’s cocoa is produced, and a warming planet which has forced growers everywhere to plant in more difficult terrain.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PPIJFE6TZFGILOGS2VOIS5EOBM","additional_properties":{},"content":"So by how much have prices gone up? ","type":"header"},{"_id":"LQJCXU4N25AKPFV4ATKJN3VNOY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Earlier this year, cocoa was selling for just over $10,000 (€9,211) a tonne on global markets. That is more than four times the price it was selling for two years ago. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"RLAXS6XVY5FOJG4VAHGYRGR7ZU","additional_properties":{},"content":"What does that mean for my egg, though?","type":"header"},{"_id":"E22HO5HWM5C6JAD2NOKJ32CZQ4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Well, according to <a href=\"https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/is-your-easter-egg-smaller-than-last-year-aNCOs0T4bgec\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/is-your-easter-egg-smaller-than-last-year-aNCOs0T4bgec\">British consumer watchdog Which?</a>, Easter eggs are likely to cost up to 50 per cent more this year than they did last year, while many eggs are likely to be considerably smaller than they once were. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"A3DDEYJYHBDMPKD6QSLTTZJXZA","additional_properties":{},"content":"How much do they cost?","type":"header"},{"_id":"XMNXNPZ5VBH3NPH4QYOI7XKWJI","additional_properties":{},"content":"That very much depends on the egg but we looked at some popular options earlier this week and prices of around €7.50 for 200g of Easter-themed chocolate were not uncommon. That is more than twice what the same products would have cost five years ago. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"DBYOOLQZKRHZBEDWS5GRHPA6DQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Is there anything I can do to save a few bob?","type":"header"},{"_id":"XGTMEA7IV5FCRHPIUCOMQI465Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"Make sure to look out for special offers, particularly as Easter Sunday approaches. For obvious reasons retailers struggle to shift their eggs in the post-Easter period. So if you’re willing to play a game of chicken with your eggs you’ll get a good deal on Easter Sunday. Or maybe they’ll sell out, leaving you with nothing. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"GLJUHKXLGJBIXF7EW7KXISESBA","content":"Cost of living: ‘You are going to see €5 lattes in Ireland by the end of the year’","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"LEJYYCOXYJF3DHPHAKVKFHBCLQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Heaven forbid. Do we buy a lot of Easter Eggs?","type":"header"},{"_id":"Z2UVJ3QUCRFOVAPPFA7BIPOVIE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Last year more than a third of Irish consumers bought at least one egg, with a record €9.9 million spent on them in the seven days before Easter Sunday, up 22 per cent on 2023. Our total spend on the chocolatey treats this year is likely to soar beyond €30 million.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TOBK6EKOSNHAJPXOWQ3SDJVGNE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Why do we eat eggs at Easter anyways?","type":"header"},{"_id":"4YNRCBZBAJEXXMDNZLNCNTI6IU","additional_properties":{},"content":"We thought you’d never ask. In times past, eating eggs during Lent was frowned upon but the chickens of the Christian world didn’t pay much heed to the rules and laid them anyway. The faithful had no choice but to set them aside. Confectioners in Britain began selling chocolate eggs in the late 19th century and there was no stopping it after that. ","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Conor Pope"}},"name":"Conor Pope"}]},"description":{"basic":"If you’re willing to play a game of chicken with your eggs, you’ll get a good deal on Easter Sunday. Maybe …"},"display_date":"2025-04-04T05:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Easter eggs will be smaller in Irish shops this year and likely much more expensive. Why? 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Opened by the Doyle Family in 2001, it’s the original store in the group – there are now five. After 17 years it was sold to the Musgrave Group in 2018.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VVEYQM7GKBEKFIHPT2RLQPHJ7Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1743510575600},"content":"Rotisserie chicken is part of the new offering, currently available only in Morehampton Road. They use Manor Farm free-range chickens, which are cooked sous vide in their south Dublin kitchen - ensuring “extra-juicy meat”, they say - then finish them in the in-store rotisserie. It is available as a whole roasted chicken or in a build-your-own pulled chicken sandwich – served on Tartine sourdough or a wrap, with your choice of three fillings and a sauce. Monthly specials have included a Korean roast chicken wrap with Chimac Korean barbecue sauce, which adds sweetness and a mild chilli heat.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UTCYGD6YTNHOFFIXNB3VDT3RWE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743510575601},"content":"The handmade meals range is extensive; some of the dishes are par-cooked and can then be finished at home in the oven or microwave. Quiches with an all-butter pastry base are made in their off-site kitchen.","type":"text"},{"_id":"G23PTXZN6JFGNIL3AUG4B4GCZY","additional_properties":{},"content":"What did we order?","type":"header"},{"_id":"VFB5GBH7TBDQFPS5H3IE7YXDRU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743510575603},"content":"A rotisserie chicken, garlic butter baby potatoes, honey-roast carrots and a slice of leek and cheese quiche.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AU6WVRILDBH3ZI2C32VDB4XIAE","additional_properties":{},"content":"How was the service?","type":"header"},{"_id":"USGXHIMT4VAWRFQLPQ4WG2WG4E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743510575605},"content":"Straightforward. The quiche is behind the deli counter, other items are in preheated or chilled units. Payment is at the till.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TPS34LZGIRDGBDMNXZKP2FV7YA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Was the food nice?","type":"header"},{"_id":"LZY2A6DVI5HGDE374KLDWPHFNI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743510575607},"content":"Yes. The quiche was notably good. The pastry was buttery and well cooked, especially on the base, which is crucial. The filling of leek and cheese was delicious. The chicken skin lacked crispness, and the outer meat was dry – like it had waited too long in the hot cabinet. Underneath, the meat was juicy. The baby potatoes and honey-roast carrots (30 minutes in the oven) were good.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FVNQBRG2EFBI5DRXSK3XM76XRA","additional_properties":{},"content":"What about the packaging?","type":"header"},{"_id":"CQZARIBS2RHLNNW2TCBBTNHWB4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743510575609},"content":"The chicken came in plastic, and the other items were in foil trays covered in cling film, which is typical of how these dishes are generally packaged. So a mixture of single-use plastic, reusable and recyclable materials.","type":"text"},{"_id":"U7XHBAGK4JDFBM7OEUTR4BILZE","additional_properties":{"_id":"OWK4R7PIDRFANODKV4GSQOTBXQ"},"content":"Wholegrain foods: Are they really healthier than white rice, bread and pasta?","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"53JOIXXKZJBZFN22AGS6BWYF6E","additional_properties":{},"content":"What did it cost?","type":"header"},{"_id":"V36SLNC6X5FXZPFYWXHCJ5IMSQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743510575611},"content":"€26.90 for dinner for three people: rotisserie chicken, €14.95; baby potatoes, €3.95; honey-roast carrots, €3.95; and quiche, €4.95; less €0.90 as part of a “two for €7″ special on the vegetables.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XFL22JNMG5C5VKEXXG2JJ24OJA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Where does it deliver?","type":"header"},{"_id":"WG63RSFYN5AVFFG5RA322FM6WU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743510575613},"content":"Takeaway only, at branch in Morehampton Road, Donnybrook. Open Mon-Sat, 7am-10pm; and Sun, 8am-9pm.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BA7JMHWPF5FNRCW7SBNHUP34E4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Would I order it again?","type":"header"},{"_id":"5KKJH66YJRGQTL4ABI6YQHBNW4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743510575615},"content":"Yes, I’d get the quiche again. The rotisserie chicken is fine if you live nearby, but I’ve had better. 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Enjoy as an aperitif or with herby Asian prawn dishes.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YZ4X6LWVQ5CPHNECPKATRIQ7BM","additional_properties":{"_id":"BC6RCH4CJVFRDBWXVAABJCSOP4"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"GQTUCHVRDJG4VLK2SJIEIF23SU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Wairau Cove Hawke’s Bay Merlot 2022, New Zealand","type":"header"},{"_id":"AXUTKPGIJZEKDKS57UK54V6ORA","additional_properties":{},"content":"13% abv, €13 (€10 for Tesco Club Card Holders)","type":"header"},{"_id":"TJIXKVCILBBF3AJM2NNTLRHTKM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743673050187},"content":"Plump, smooth, ripe plum and dark cherry fruits with a rounded finish. 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Except it is not in Bordeaux. It is in Dublin, hidden away in the well-heeled neighbourhood of Ranelagh. It is French, obviously, but not in an <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio/2024/08/15/emily-in-paris-the-equivalent-of-binging-on-marzipan-delicious-at-first-too-much-after-a-while/\" target=\"_blank\">Emily in Paris</a> way.","type":"text"},{"_id":"U3C2DGBU2JDWPIKYGR5GOY6D3E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743601744962},"content":"It was opened last autumn by Colin Dapot from Toulouse, who manages front of house, and his wife, Sidjy Batista, from La Rochelle, who commands the pans. It is long and narrow, with a deli counter to the front, and just enough space for a handful of tables at the back. By day it sells coffee, croissants, deli bits and does a good brunch trade. More recently it has extended its opening to evenings (Wednesday to Sunday). There is a short, quietly confident menu and an interesting wine list.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OPIHGOBUX5FDPG7W4W7OW5FATY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743601744963},"type":"image"},{"_id":"U3C2DGBU2JDWPIKYGR5GOY6D3E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743601744964},"content":"Dapot moves from table to table, chatting in a way that makes you feel less like a customer and more like a friend who has just happened to stop by for some food. He remembers faces, recommends dishes, pours small tastes of wine and generally ensures that no one leaves feeling anything less than delighted. He’s a man who appears to have cracked the very particular formula of making people feel welcome without ever trying too hard. Similarly, our waiter, Lucas Soret, is warm, chatty and disarmingly French.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CHVXJM62ZZBPTJVHEPQ2J5LF7E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743601744965},"content":"There’s a small selection of starters, five mains and three desserts. We start with the cheese croquettes (€7) and onion soup (€9). The three croquettes are small, crisp and piping hot, oozing with raclette-laden béchamel, accompanied by a tomato jam that is not too sweet and delivers a gentle touch of acidity. The soup is lighter than expected, the onions not quite cooked down to the dark, sticky depths they usually reach, the whole thing on the milder side. Not bad, just gentler than it could be. It would benefit from a few more onions and being taken further, to the point where the onions collapse into the deep, burnished, borderline-blackened intensity that gives a true French onion soup its power.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GJA4QZM7WRDMPHAEJZJNXDJFGI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743601744966},"type":"image"},{"_id":"46F4LSOI2BDYLLZS6Y4HAZMAH4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743601744967},"content":"The wine list is smart – nearly 20 by the glass and a strong spread of French regions. There is also an option to pick a retail bottle and add €10 corkage. A Famille Paquet Mâcon-Villages (€43) suited our meal well.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SA4ZV2JJJ5G6LNHPUTLOBEZH2E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743601744968},"content":"Then the mains. The fish pie (€21) is good, more of a gratin than a pie, with a crisp, golden top and a filling that veers just on the right side of indulgence: a mixture of white fish, a little smoked fish, and some small, neatly cut potatoes. Fish pie can often feel heavy, a solid brick of mash and béchamel that sits in the stomach for hours. This one is lighter, more refined, but still satisfying. The accompanying green salad is more than just an obligatory handful of leaves: there’s bite to the leaves, a proper vinaigrette and a sense someone actually tasted it before it left the kitchen.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ABYUOR6IWFHCLBEZBEGRPDPMSI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743601744969},"type":"image"},{"_id":"SA4ZV2JJJ5G6LNHPUTLOBEZH2E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743601744970},"content":"The pork in mustard sauce (€22) is a rich, old-fashioned dish, properly sauced, served with spaetzle<i> </i>(Alsatian egg-based dumplings) and courgette spaghetti, the latter a little under-seasoned and perhaps slightly unnecessary addition. The spaetzle are the real highlight, soft, buttery and just the right side of substantial. The pork itself is tender and perfectly cooked, the mustard sauce the sort of thing you would happily drink from a spoon. It is a dish that feels genuinely French, in the way that most self-consciously French<i> </i>restaurants fail to achieve. It is comforting, nostalgic but never heavy-handed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OY53RV75O5HJ7GKJPVDWEI5RUY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743601744971},"content":"Desserts are simple but tasty. The speculoos biscuit with marmalade cream (€9) has a buttery, firm base, similar to what you get with a cheesecake, and is topped with orange-scented cream piped in rosettes. The apple cake (€9), a recipe from Batista’s mum, is a spongy cake with chunks of apple running through it and caramelised on top. Served with ice cream, it tastes home-made in the best way.","type":"text"},{"_id":"P6Z4MAJBQZDVXAMOPZRSM652QU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743601744972},"content":"The thing about Excuse My French is that it doesn’t overreach. The plates arrive simply, without flourishes or smears of sauce. And yet, for all that restraint, nothing about it feels basic. The service is notably good, and inspires a quietly brilliant atmosphere – a place where people meet over a casual bite and a good bottle of wine. And that absolutely works for me.","type":"text"},{"_id":"44OX3WGC65GU5HNOVT7KIVL2LQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743601744973},"content":"Dinner for two with a bottle of wine was €120.","type":"text"},{"_id":"32HEYQDGIJAKFPASPZYFLC2SUQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743601744974},"content":"<b>The verdict</b> Simple French food and the most wonderful neighbourhood atmosphere.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AJX7LS2RBJBLDJCF5RFDS24IWQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743601744975},"content":"<b>Food provenance</b> Free-range pork from McCarren’s in Cavan, and free-range chicken from Glinvalley Farm.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GCEJ2ACDE5ESPPFFB6WYGUR6VA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743601744976},"content":"<b>Vegetarian options</b> Red spices hummus, cheese croquettes, roasted Camembert and roasted vegetable crumble.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OV3WPDZRXRAGBAN4C2GXTSCLDI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743601744977},"content":"<b>Wheelchair access</b> Fully accessible with an accessible toilet.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2AKVWXXVSFD5JGIK4X6BU23URI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743601744978},"content":"<b>Music</b> If there is any, it’s not audible over the buzz of chat.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Corinna Hardgrave"}},"name":"Corinna Hardgrave"}]},"description":{"basic":"This Ranelagh restaurant is the sort of place you’d stumble into on a rainy evening in Bordeaux and spend the rest of your trip trying to find again"},"display_date":"2025-04-03T04:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Excuse My French restaurant review: An experience simply unlike anything else in Dublin","native":"Restaurant review: An experience simply unlike anything else in Dublin"},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"MEPDD46NRVA4JC2F7S2APOZ4KA","auth":{"1":"d178b39b3cd835810ab249424e2cbca235684c984fe61d255e9f7966552fe40d"},"focal_point":{"x":1674,"y":1643},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/MEPDD46NRVA4JC2F7S2APOZ4KA.JPG"}},"subtype":"review","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Restaurants"},{"name":"Food"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/food/restaurants/review/2025/04/03/excuse-my-french-restaurant-review-an-experience-unlike-anything-else-in-dublin/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/food/restaurants","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Restaurants"}}}},{"_id":"DAQBCGJHARDI3PPQM4QJ5U5IFY","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":307,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/e120286b-bad4-498e-a830-0ef21f357892/versions/1743522774/media/bbdbb8479c12f5cabeeee9ffa46cdf24_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/food/drink/2025/04/02/sackville-lounge-dublin-cocktail-bar-pub/","content_elements":[{"_id":"PR7FQC5GSZGOBFJUKYBJV444MM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743521202282},"content":"It always feels a little naughty to be in a <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/food/drink/\" target=\"_blank\">pub</a> when it’s closed. I certainly get a kick from knocking on the closed door of The Sackville, in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dublin/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dublin/\">Dublin</a> city centre, where I am due to meet owner Dave Mulligan for a sneak peek at his latest venture opening this week. 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We can’t fix the issues of the world, but we can make great drinks.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"B2BUBZAPNBF3LJBPGIGLZNVN7M","additional_properties":{"_id":1743521202286},"content":"Dave is ebullient about the classic aesthetic of the bar. “A lot of people have had a go at the building over the years. The same architect designed the Stag’s Head. For me this pub should have been listed and nobody should have been allowed to touch it.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"7POKX533JFABBHZJLQ3RWXMI6M","additional_properties":{"_id":"ECDDBQ6DAFGXXJCFWY6DEQL3DM"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"B7AYMFG54BFMPKC64ZLALHHEJU","additional_properties":{"_id":"BYBGSICNYFELNMNDLADIAMQCHQ"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"YPILRKG7DRDAZBQU3YFD5YV5QQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"TNOCG6OLHRBZ7AFF33ZPOP4FTA"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"TRLDGIZV6FHCTA2NRSGTWRV6YQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743521202287},"content":"For this project, Mulligan has worked in tandem with Nigel Dunning of Oakheart & Co who also helped design Bar 1661 and the adjacent Craft Cocktails. The ceiling has been beautifully restored, the misaligned wainscoting has been straightened and the original floor has been retained. Rather than completely removing the hand-painted mirrors which featured portraits of the 1916 Easter Rising leaders, Dave has elected to cover them up with panelling, thus safely preserving them for the future.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FHVVPIXYENGQXN2QJFI5IPLTJE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743521202288},"content":"But there are new touches also. A smart new marble bar top will brighten the dark room, along with marble topped tables, black leather banquettes and black velvet stools. It’s inspired by the great hotels bars of the world, from Paris to New York. “It’s elegant but elevated. I joke that we will have the number one hotel bar in Dublin, we just won’t have any rooms.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"OXEEWNTNUZGMFHHSGAHADB26QI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743521202289},"content":"The original back bar has been expanded, and will showcase a carefully curated selection of 25 whiskeys, all chosen by Mulligan himself. “We will cater to all price points, but these are all whiskeys that I love, I spent ages agonising over the list.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"6ONOIQY2GZFAHEHU7F3WOTLSSU","additional_properties":{"_id":"LCOMOMN365FT5FDVIMPEAP5HWI"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"5ODNBUP6NRAYNHPRLYO3PLFTWY","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"NV6PQBARVRCCDODEHOFCC64A3E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743521202290},"content":"The theme of careful selection continues through the rest of the drinks menu where there will be three signature house drinks and 12 classic cocktails. “We’ll do them to the same high standards as we do in 1661, we don’t operate any other way, but they are ones that everyone will recognise.” Beer drinkers will have a choice of three taps and there will be a simple selection of bar snacks.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IJNPSWAKAFCCJNWUGT4YTHPDSE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743521202291},"content":"The showpiece drink will be the Irish Coffee, which will share a recipe with 1661’s Belfast Coffee, only here it will be made with Tullamore Dew whiskey instead of poitín. 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Then, oil and gas prices on already-jittery international markets will jump, which would mean the cost of domestic gas and electricity in Ireland goes up.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NTI76757ARAM5F7PO4J6CRND7I","additional_properties":{},"content":"Will things improve if the EU imposes reciprocal tariffs?","type":"header"},{"_id":"W5VDDLXK3NGCFNOQGPSY4Y4MVY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743790618081},"content":"Likely not. If the EU imposes tariffs on products coming from the US, then prices much closer to home will start to climb.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LLB46BUWAVCRXF2IT46H3L4UWM","additional_properties":{},"content":"What products in Ireland will be affected?","type":"header"},{"_id":"AGH7BWUY65DE7CBBJUGRW5SHSA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743790618083},"content":"Harley-Davidsons and bourbon have attracted attention because both are eternally associated with America. The latter cannot be called bourbon if it is not made in the US. But there are all manner of other products that will be affected.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PVZILFHFXRGPJPKSEVKOQ6B2IY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743790618084},"embed":{"config":{},"id":"acast_podcast-26532","url":"/"},"subtype":"acast_podcast","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"AWTMAM3VHFGZ3LUC4YN5HE3DXA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743790618085},"content":"While Coca-Cola and Pepsi might be quintessentially American, they are typically produced in the markets they serve, so will not be caught up in the tariff net. Other American brands like Budweiser will similarly escape.","type":"text"},{"_id":"T72F3JJSDRACBISFIZT2KZAWUU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743790618086},"content":"The impact on cars and electrical appliances will depend on where they are assembled. Many US brands have manufacturing plants in the EU, so they might also escape.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7PQHAOVXVZFXNEMEDUYY2USVPM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743790618087},"content":"You might want to stock up on Californian wine and fancy IPAs you like. It is too early to say exactly what will happen as we do not yet have a clear idea of the EU’s plan. If it matches Trump’s tariffs, you will see the Pinots and Zinfandels from Napa disappear or rise in price. It will be the same story for the craft beers from the US.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6CTOVPVP3VGVDFDESQTFDBLFTI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Are there other products we don’t associate with America?","type":"header"},{"_id":"XTPX6SI44FBABNKLYBKHJEQWQA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743790618089},"content":"Sadly yes. The US is a huge exporter of almonds, pistachios, walnuts and peanuts. If they become more expensive or scarcer, the prices when sourced elsewhere will also climb. This will not just affect the actual nuts but also the products made with them.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CYD6S7WKWNFS3KBCTWN64EUJUY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743790618090},"content":"And then there are soybeans. They are a key ingredient in many products you buy and are used to make cooking oils and animal feed. The US is one of largest exporters of soybeans. If the price of US-sourced soybeans climbs, the impact will be felt up and down the supply chain. It is the same story when it comes to wheat, produced in vast quantities in the US.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ffafe95e-fd4c-4305-a181-8f5226c62350","additional_properties":{"_id":1743790618091},"subtype":"irish-times-video","type":"video"},{"_id":"XXN6LU725NHHXOLVGWOGWNOT2I","additional_properties":{"_id":1743790618092},"content":"The US also produces a significant amount of the world’s fruit and vegetables; avocados and oranges are just two such products. Even if we don’t source them from the US, the disruption of the supply chain will inevitably mean the prices of products sourced elsewhere climb.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LBTDUC3USRDQVEBSYXF5BEGM6Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"How will the tariffs affect the economy?","type":"header"},{"_id":"AL4RLW533REKPJVAKZ74SVI7MU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743790618094},"content":"We’re in the early stages of what might become a full-blown trade war, but the impact on financial markets is clear, with Wall Street recording its bleakest day since the height of the Covid pandemic on Thursday.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YDNVJNKJKFHFPPFNYSEE3XKKLA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743790618095},"content":"While you might not own any shares, your pension fund does. And while a 3 or 4 per cent dip this week will not affect your retirement plans, if things get worse with the economic uncertainty becoming a depression, it will have a serious and seriously detrimental impact on pension funds everywhere.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LXODN3D5BZEG3NM6CMFTFLAMZY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743790618096},"content":"But this is not inevitable. It is important to remember that we have not reached the doomsday scenario yet. 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We’re waiting to see the wider fiscal picture – trade, tariffs, today’s announcements, all the rest of it,” he said. “Whether there is money for welfare, energy or education credits remains to be seen.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"P27C2S33YVB2FGPZ23PUSZTDSA","additional_properties":{},"content":"While the programme for government pledges to “reduce the student contribution fee over the lifetime of the Government”, Mr Lawless said the starting point for this was €3,000 rather than €2,000.","type":"text"},{"_id":"I5GOSCPBXZBTBIWHDTOWSKCGB4","additional_properties":{},"content":"“There isn’t a budget line within the department to subsidise €100 million a year [the cost of college fee reductions] as it stands. 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His policies represent a radical departure from the economic orthodoxy of the past 30 years, during which globalisation and free trade elevated many countries (including Ireland) from relative poverty to economic prosperity.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OER7IRNWSJAHVJDR6YVHCQMEBI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504004},"content":"But, and this is crucial, we cannot forget that this process of global integration created losers, as well as winners. Many of Donald Trump’s most fervent supporters, the farmers and the factory workers of the US rust belt, for instance, probably loathe free trade. After all, it directly contributed to their demise.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2ASTMCOGIFF3REKHWRR7BQB7XI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504005},"content":"Mr Trump and his acolytes are mercantilists. They have hoodwinked their supporters into thinking that protectionism and economic nationalism make a nation rich. That might have been true in the 18th century, when markets were less integrated and trade surpluses were measured in gold. But surely it isn’t still valid now.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CWHT5KJSIJCBRE7MJZIUVZEYSU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504006},"content":"If his policies actually work and return America to a golden age, it will represent a feat like no other. But it will come at the expense of the rest of the world. – Yours, etc,","type":"text"},{"_id":"T2FASPBLMRFCBBJHX5ZASK4Y3U","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504007},"content":"THOMAS CONWAY,","type":"text"},{"_id":"DAVVRPVAZNG3JN2YFYNL4NXN34","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504008},"content":"Ballina,","type":"text"},{"_id":"RDHC2LEHBJH6XMIJF2NAJIVY7M","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504009},"content":"Co Tipperary.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2A4YEJWLAJHM5BT365W7D6UV5Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504010},"content":"Sir, – In responding to President Trump’s imposition of tariffs, the international community would do well to resist the urge to retaliate in kind. These measures are not grounded in sound economic thinking, nor do they aim at mutual benefit. Rather, they serve a performative agenda – an attempt to position Mr Trump as the ultimate dealmaker in a zero-sum game, where one party’s gain must be the other’s loss.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GCFCBM7VBFGX7KRA66Z5PMR4TI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504011},"content":"This is not diplomacy, but spectacle. Mr Trump cannot countenance being seen to lose or to have been mistaken. To respond with tariffs of our own merely plays into his hands, encouraging further provocation. He thrives on conflict and cannot admit defeat – even when the consequences of his actions become painfully clear.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GICLIAMZERFENIN2NKVUIKHCXI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504012},"content":"Instead, other nations must hold their nerve. It may require enduring a measure of short-term economic discomfort. But in the longer run, the internal pressures within the United States, from citizens facing rising prices, farmers and workers losing markets, and the wealthy watching their fortunes shrink, will generate the kind of backlash that no tweet can spin away.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QTY2J4OJTNC5JH2FMTR6Q6XD5E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504013},"content":"Add to this the mounting disarray within his cabinet, the growing litany of missteps, and the inevitable corruption scandals, and the illusion will begin to crumble. The image of the master strategist will fade, and it will become apparent – even to his most ardent supporters – that the emperor truly has no clothes.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SKZERE6ETFA33HS2ZUWKYU6VFA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504014},"content":"To engage with him on his own terms, playing by his rules, would not only be an exercise in futility, but a dereliction of duty by governments whose responsibility is to act wisely, and in the long-term interests of their people.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M3UDMLGEINDPHA63KJEV42NZCY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504015},"content":"Now is a time for measured resolve, not tit-for-tat reactions. We must tread carefully, but with courage and fortitude, in these momentous times. – Yours, etc,","type":"text"},{"_id":"XBRH6KBQ7VCURC6NTEJJ4FYIP4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504016},"content":"ADRIAN TAHENY,","type":"text"},{"_id":"7VG26BKBA5DATLCG37UXLOQXY4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504017},"content":"Dublin 18.","type":"text"},{"_id":"V4YVFM5XSVA2XMQBWRYQT72KXA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504018},"content":"Sir, – The Taoiseach “deeply regrets” the tariffs announced by Donald Trump on Wednesday.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RWK7C5Z6YRD5BHC63WYD7LJMDU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504019},"content":"Meanwhile, 60 cent of every euro I spend on diesel goes to the Government, accompanied by 9 cent of every euro I spend on electricity and gas, 23 cent of every euro I spend on bottled water, and 33 cent of almost every euro I will inherit from my parents.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GPNC6ELBSBB5BI5X3J24B6YP6M","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504020},"content":"If I called all of these taxes “tariffs”, would the Taoiseach deeply regret them too? – Yours, etc,","type":"text"},{"_id":"H2NMCA3VBRDCZJG4WJHSHQ2KO4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504021},"content":"KILLIAN FOLEY-WALSH,","type":"text"},{"_id":"QVRBQUOKO5BIPGYF5HMKV7ECNM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504022},"content":"Kilkenny.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3IIYP65EDZDK3KCTAQZ5CTUJJM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504023},"content":"Sir, – Regarding the slapping of US tariffs on Kerrygold products, “All changed, changed butterly: A terrible duty is born”. – Yours, etc,","type":"text"},{"_id":"FNJJBKPXSVGQNOATA4JUAMZBGU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504024},"content":"PAUL DELANEY,","type":"text"},{"_id":"AUWYQ32R3NE4XODJ7BSFTNB3ZE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504025},"content":"Dalkey,","type":"text"},{"_id":"GVHNGRXUW5AWBMXZYNYUBRAMQE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504026},"content":"Co Dublin.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JWFABQNV2FCORMKYLFSS5DAR34","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504027},"content":"Sir, – Minimum standards are there to protect the public, but Donald Trump seems to believe that they are merely unnecessary red tape that stifles enterprise, business and profit. Unfortunately his administration’s failure to insist on adherence by industry to required standards has stymied foreign sales of US products and has added to its trade deficit. In essence, the “rip-off” is self-inflicted and needs to be self-repaired. – Yours, etc,","type":"text"},{"_id":"OTMHWQZDENF2RDA7JOO2CI42BI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504028},"content":"BOBBY CARTY,","type":"text"},{"_id":"LKV4Q2VCOFF7DPZELGTXOJIPHU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504029},"content":"Dublin 6W.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CEFR6OD5RVHWHGPQIPRAH2D7RQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504030},"content":"Southwest Dublin and MetroLink","type":"header"},{"_id":"WD5R6NP4HRGMDFJ4JMXED4LYCA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504031},"content":"Sir, – I refer to the recent letter from Anthony Cooney, CEO Fingal Chamber, in which he argues strongly that MetroLink is essential to meet the public transport needs of North Dublin (<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/2025/03/22/metrolink-the-time-for-debate-is-over/\" target=\"_blank\">Letters, March 22nd</a>). Once the MetroLink, the extension of the Luas line to Finglas and the electrification of the Irish Rail network are complete, the northside of Dublin will have an excellent, high-capacity public transport network. We fully support this. Similarly and no less important than these investments are the public transport needs of southwest Dublin, the area between the Red and Green Luas line which are both rapidly approaching capacity. The population of this quadrant of the city, unserved by high-capacity public transport, is 355,000 people. The only proposal from the National Transport Authority (NTA) for this often gridlocked quadrant of the city is buses until post 2042. The Programme for Government 2025 contains the commitment “to commission a new independent feasibility study into continuing MetroLink from the city to South West Dublin”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OKSGKBQQLFDWXHECRRMRWI6O2Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504032},"content":"We believe that it is essential that MetroLink is continued towards Tallaght/Kilinarden area, to serve Rathmines, Terenure, Rathfarnham, Templeogue, Knocklyon and that any contract the government may enter into for the construction of the metro makes provision now for its future continuation to southwest Dublin as a Phase 2 project. – Yours, etc,","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZTPWPMXDZ5FXJF574AMPEZ3JFI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504033},"content":"PAULINE FOSTER,","type":"text"},{"_id":"D7CA2LOZEFEGRGMAGYJR7G5NKI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504034},"content":"Secretary,","type":"text"},{"_id":"3H2VOP3B35DYNPR2NVUT2ZXIX4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504035},"content":"Metro South West Group,","type":"text"},{"_id":"4CR7FMZMBVHG5CPPM7YACGJMT4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504036},"content":"Dublin 12.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7DUPQKUNKJGQZLOBGFAOFY463Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504037},"content":"The rights of older persons","type":"header"},{"_id":"CHBJCD2C5NBG5EJ542P6ODVSZM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504038},"content":"Sir, – This week, a historic resolution was passed by the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. It was decided to establish an intergovernmental working group to begin drafting a long overdue treaty on the rights of older persons. The commencement of this process has been broadly welcomed not least by the UN special rapporteur on the rights of older persons – Claudia Mahler – who has been instrumental in persuading the UN Human Rights Council that the time is right. Some 44 states co-sponsored the resolution including 10 EU states. Sadly, Ireland was not among them.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7ICMCEAEUBAP7NSJE77SWYOJSA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504039},"content":"Why this treaty and why now? Contrary to popular misperception, this treaty drafting process is not a reaction to the growing numbers of older persons. Still less is it due to the rising cost of old age. Instead, it is a reminder that, regardless of years, older persons are persons too and have the full range of hopes, expectations and rights in life. Just because you are older does not mean any diminution of autonomy, dignity and equal respect.","type":"text"},{"_id":"V5EVPDSXQREZNCKK5GHDFYJUAQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504040},"content":"The treaty drafting process will be led by an intergovernmental working group. This basically means that whatever states wish to participate can do so. Hopefully Ireland will turn up. The resolution also calls on the intergovernmental process to encourage and support civil society organisations of older person to participate and make their voices heard. Important topics are likely to be voice, choice and control of services and supports, autonomy and legal capacity, community engagement and independent living.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TP27GKKBTNA4NM3IKCOCSPY4LI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504041},"content":"Ireland played a key role in ensuring that the drafting of the treaty on the rights of persons with disabilities got under way in 2001. That treaty has had massive impact throughout the world. A similar paradigm shift is now taking place with respect to older persons and the resulting treaty should help reverse the ageism of the past and usher in a new era for older persons. Only one political party pledged support for the drafting of a treaty on the rights of older persons in the run-up to our general election in November last year (Sinn Féin). It is earnestly hoped that the Government and all political parties, as well as organisations of older persons, will now support this process and get involved. The time is right. – Yours, etc,","type":"text"},{"_id":"O5RDZLATHZD4ZEARDOZJKFF2XM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504042},"content":"GERARD QUINN,","type":"text"},{"_id":"6ZRXP2ZSZFB4TCADM7I53ORPBE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504043},"content":"Professor emeritus,","type":"text"},{"_id":"5TLSFU4MG5BKLJNTIJGKCM5WRQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504044},"content":"School of Law,","type":"text"},{"_id":"OBQBBGBBPZGUFPZLO6FKUMJ23E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504045},"content":"University of Galway.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LEILPXXOQNESTLY6XJIHKHDFVE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504046},"content":"Israel and judicial independence","type":"header"},{"_id":"7W2FNAO5HFHO3DTPIICBTGH67Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504047},"content":"Sir, – In his defence of the Israeli government’s decision to change their judicial appointments structure, Barry Walsh fails to point out that this is taking place against a background of government actions intended to erode the Israeli legal system of its checks and balances (<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/2025/04/03/letters-to-the-editor-april-3rd-on-hedgerows-and-the-climate-crisis-and-apps-and-public-transport/\" target=\"_blank\">Letters, April 3rd</a>).","type":"text"},{"_id":"K6B7IJMAJRFFTH3QAQHK6ULTIA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504048},"content":"Currently there are strident calls from Israeli government ministers to sack the attorney general, a decision has been made to limit the terms of office of certain government legal advisors, the government refuses to appoint a judicial complaints ombudsman and has failed to establish a state commission of inquiry to investigate the events leading up to the October 7th terrorist attack and the subsequent conduct of the war in Gaza.","type":"text"},{"_id":"35ZF56FL3RHUPG4FE5MEQWL3VY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504049},"content":"Even more concerning is the fact that the Israeli justice minister, Yariv Levi, who chairs the judicial appointments committee, has blocked all judicial appointments until the change has been implemented. The minister has also declared that that he does not recognise the president of the supreme court and has refused to work with him, having preferred the appointment of another candidate who shared his strongly conservative views. Mr Levi has also said publicly that that there are no supreme court judges who represent his view that judges should exercise the utmost restraint in striking down Knesset legislation or government actions, even when they are patently unreasonable and worthy of challenge by civil society. In that context, the new system removes any real influence judges may have over appointments to the supreme court while granting vetoes to the coalition and opposition political parties.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RSMBTVWMEJCB5BGN52DEOYGXMM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504050},"content":"In terminating the Israeli Bar Association presence on the judicial committee, the balance of power has been radically changed. It is reasonable to say that the strength of the previous system was that it was very much professionally oriented, with five politically independent judges and lawyers versus four politicians.","type":"text"},{"_id":"D72QSYOEWVFYBCR6FDJNOWKITQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504051},"content":"The Netanyahu-inspired system is now politically weighted with three independent judges versus two government ministers and four members nominated by politicians. The question is whether this is the right time to make this change at a time when Israeli society is divided and when their prime minister is arraigned before the very courts whose membership the government wishes to transform. – Yours, etc,","type":"text"},{"_id":"OAZZEKSHIJGDFOWOFZSXHAFPG4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504052},"content":"MARTIN McDONALD,","type":"text"},{"_id":"X3YPWZKDXBC6XHPVMZHH36LP3M","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504053},"content":"Terenure,","type":"text"},{"_id":"V7NDTWATYBETLJKBAZZTEE2QCA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504054},"content":"Dublin 12.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M222SFDZYFGLBOQQDJFGIDA63E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504055},"content":"Tourism sector faces crisis","type":"header"},{"_id":"OU5IBLFBTZFGRL5LJHF4WTN6CM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504056},"content":"Sir, – It would be wise to ignore the arcane academic arguments about our current tourism crisis. What really matters is the experience on the ground, and I can report, as someone who has been running a holiday letting in the north of Donegal for the past 10 years, is that it is real and not an academic talking point. Our bookings, usually from northern England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, have dried up this year. I believe that we as a country have completely priced ourselves out of the running. – Yours, etc,","type":"text"},{"_id":"3IMFLO7CT5CCRP6K5TXUBJHVBA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504057},"content":"ANDREW MORROW,","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q4SSB5FDQ5FUPGK54ABDG3DG7U","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504058},"content":"Portsalon,","type":"text"},{"_id":"L33JZRGLYZC7XJQE2OKY5ZLU6Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504059},"content":"Co Donegal.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KTBMC2HR4VGJBGOXQU527UELYA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504060},"content":"Remembering Mick O’Dwyer","type":"header"},{"_id":"USHTDVF2YFGMTFBPQQDS6FKHIM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504061},"content":"Sir, – When Mick O’ Dwyer was training the Wicklow team I needed a Wicklow jersey for an “All Counties Night” in the US. I asked the Wicklow County Board for one. My request was ignored. I contacted Micko. The next day two jerseys arrived in the post. – Yours, etc,","type":"text"},{"_id":"XT3UQFOVW5FKHCE5VECGGLLMCA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504062},"content":"MATTIE LENNON,","type":"text"},{"_id":"H7VIY5TNJVFVNCMKNRXENT34PM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504063},"content":"Blessington,","type":"text"},{"_id":"L3HFULSXZFG2JI23KC3QZUQXPI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504064},"content":"Co Wicklow.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6VXQXWGHHVBFJA75C77N3IFBGQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504065},"content":"The Irish Times – 1001 uses","type":"header"},{"_id":"XJ3YGSZLHFAAFNDB3WBZWOS34A","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504066},"content":"Sir, – As children we all sat around the kitchen table at least once a week and made “spills”. You spread a sheet of the newspaper diagonally and starting at one corner rolled it tightly to the the far corner. You then took this long roll and criss-crossed it from the centre, like plaiting hair, to form a “spill”. The spills were used to start the fire years before firelighters were ever heard of. – Yours, etc,","type":"text"},{"_id":"WNIWGBEJ7NHX5AZONBFOHGLSRU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504067},"content":"URSULA HOUGH-GORMLEY,","type":"text"},{"_id":"JC642ST2BRDRHI73APT5YVWRQU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780504068},"content":"Dublin 4.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[]},"description":{"basic":"By slowing the tempo and calibrating its response, Europe is allowing the US to feel the consequences of its own actions"},"display_date":"2025-04-04T23:02:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Letters to the Editor, April 5th: On the EU response to Trump’s tariffs, and southwest Dublin and the MetroLink","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"VHFAVTA4U5C7FE2ZTPOGOKHXN4","auth":{"1":"1f202b740bd44798a55898a19ef6a892873ae4e538e9e94222c2b3519c6cad0e"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/VHFAVTA4U5C7FE2ZTPOGOKHXN4.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Letters"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/opinion/letters/2025/04/05/letters-to-the-editor-april-5th-on-the-eu-response-to-trumps-tariffs-and-southwest-dublin-and-the-metrolink/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/opinion/letters","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Letters"}}}},{"_id":"6SGLMVO6XNGN5OCI6DGCS453WY","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":158,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/895cd775-efef-4d2a-841f-698ae7554250/versions/1743578352/media/6b19cb645e2050b47e10ea40a9b59a55_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/culture/books/review/2025/04/05/gilbert-george-and-the-communists-back-in-the-ussr/","content_elements":[{"_id":"WN4C3YCEZBGKZFANZNZIAT4UA4","additional_properties":{"_id":"OIG5M4BCO5FYDKUDPKOZ75I6S4"},"embed":{"config":{},"id":"review-highlights-55622","url":"/"},"subtype":"review_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"N2CK2VK7KZFLVHPPRKACPVLWXQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743696709708},"content":"When I was nine years old, my parents brought me to see Rosc ′84, one of a series of international <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/\" target=\"_blank\">art</a> showcases hosted in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dublin/\" target=\"_blank\">Dublin</a> between 1967 and 1988 roughly every four years. Alongside contributions by Joseph Beuys, Richard Sera and Bruce Nauman, I first encountered a dazzling multi-panelled artwork by Gilbert & George, which took up an entire wall of the Guinness Storehouse.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AQVYH4YZ5RBG5GAHQ65ZLVJMWQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743696709709},"content":"This gigantic piece, provocatively entitled Drunk with God, initiated a lifelong fascination with the London-based collaborative art duo, who inspired <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/kraftwerk/\" target=\"_blank\">Kraftwerk</a>’s besuited image and often portrayed nudity, faeces and urine in their frequently controversial pictures.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WL6SOEHNKJAJ3IDGCF3JHNR3GU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743696709710},"content":"Despite my enthusiasm for their colourful creations, I’ve always understood why some people react to their work with complete bafflement, or even hostility. Much of what has been written about Gilbert & George to date is misrepresentative and dreadfully dry, with the honourable exception of the writer, novelist and cultural critic <a href=\"https://www.tate.org.uk/audio/gilbert-and-george-michael-bracewell\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Bracewell</a>, who pens the majority of their catalogue essays and wrote This is Gilbert & George, which commemorated half a century of their creative partnership in 2017.","type":"text"},{"_id":"F56UITNYSNHVNOR4F24BYITU7Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1743696709711},"content":"Gilbert & George and the Communists is the second book by the British art dealer, curator, and gallery owner James Birch, following his 2022 debut, Bacon Goes to Moscow, which documented his successful crusade to exhibit <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/francis-bacon/\" target=\"_blank\">Francis Bacon</a>’s paintings in Russia, which was also adapted into a BBC radio play, with Timothy Spall playing Bacon.","type":"text"},{"_id":"G3JGZVZYZ5ASPIRGQYCRTLCLBE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743696709712},"content":"While Bacon was one of the largest personalities in 20th-century art, Gilbert & George are more in the vein of classic comedy double acts such as Morecambe and Wise or Laurel and Hardy, providing copious raw material to lend plenty of sparkle to Birch’s recollections. However, he can be serious when required, such as when recounting their efforts to raise money and awareness for Aids charities in the 1980s, a cause close to their broken hearts as the disease wiped out so many of their friends and contemporaries. 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Still, critics have argued Church of Ireland clergy were involved in managing homes, fundraising and arranging places for unmarried pregnant women and teenagers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5QAC7QYU7JBH3IQX2Z23LWEWM4","additional_properties":{"_id":"H3WUMCUFZBB4VDW5XIY6DOPCVA"},"content":"‘Philomena’s Law’: Labour MP introduces Bill to end penalty on compensation from Irish mother and baby homes","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"FMAN6RMFUZD3DB5ZD5KHGMBBTU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743532625132},"content":"Ms Nunan took on the negotiation in May 2023 at a rate of €377 per day and worked with instructions to recommend a “best and final offer” from religious orders within six months.","type":"text"},{"_id":"P7D3GUPPUBFIRNI26KTZRUKZOU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743532625133},"content":"She was hired by former minister <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/roderic-ogorman/\" target=\"_blank\">Roderic O’Gorman</a>, now Green leader, after he failed to land a deal with religious institutions for a financial contribution to the €800 million State redress scheme for survivors.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VXZDLFZ6NBHT3FCPKLJCSJFUIQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743532625134},"content":"Accountants <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/ey/\" target=\"_blank\">EY</a> carried out a financial assessment for Ms Nunan of each order’s resources.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TPD7YNTNJNHWLDF3UDGXU665M4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743532625135},"content":"In a Tuesday email, Ms Foley told survivors she had “just received” the report. “Be assured, I am committed to making the necessary arrangements so that you will receive this report prior to publication,” she said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ULNCVDN3VVB2TF2WD7GEC6S4QI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743532625136},"content":"Ms Nunan separately told the orders her work was complete, saying her email would no longer function and any further dealings would be with Ms Foley’s department.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VLKGAVGDZNBIDJJEXSIM3MQAHE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743532625137},"content":"The end of talks comes 10 years after the commission was established in February 2015 to examine harm caused to tens of thousands of women and children at 14 mother-and-baby homes and four county homes. 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Circumstances have made it so I have to be one, but it’s a reluctant change.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3JJVFAXELRBRLCEDKVJGDZ6VL4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743446123911},"content":"When you look at the alarm clocks on wheels that zip around the room so you can’t hit the snooze button and wonder who on earth would need one of those, it’s me. They are aimed at people like me to force me out of bed at the appropriate time.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SDP3NDOXQJGZXFRJUY2VOEDPNU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743446123912},"content":"In general, I hate alarm clocks. I wish I was one of those people who woke up full of energy and ready to greet the challenges of the day, but I resent the alarm every time it goes off. Whoever came up with the radar noise for the iPhone’s alarm is a genius in torture.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2DU7DQ5RGBBRHGUJQX7XX3TVX4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743446123913},"content":"But the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/nintendo/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/nintendo/\">Nintendo</a>-designed Alarmo is an alarm clock I might be able to get on board with.","type":"text"},{"_id":"V467QRDZMVAWJB74AYAIMOPO2A","additional_properties":{"_id":1743446123914},"content":"The key difference? It makes everything seem like you are in a Nintendo game, complete with graphics and sound effects.","type":"text"},{"_id":"45DQIX4G2VCP5B5NN5J45KDFRM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743446123915},"content":"This clock is firmly under the heading of “products that don’t need to exist but are still fun”. Even the design is friendly and non-threatening, and very Nintendo-like. 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As you move around, the picture on the screen gets smaller and smaller, until it disappears altogether.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SISHN3G2TVCLJMQSS4QHDOEHM4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743446123926},"content":"For the most part, it worked well. 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The sting in the tail: Nintendo doesn’t include the AC adaptor, so you will have to unearth one yourself.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CTYH2BBG4JDXZINKRH5JDNOIOA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Good","type":"header"},{"_id":"46GZS3ZTERGNFMP2MWHD2P3CBU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743446123932},"content":"As far as alarm clocks go, I didn’t want to hurl this one across the room. The customisation options mean you don’t have a chance to get sick of the same alarm tone every morning, with 35 different alarms included on the clock.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DBC7KEOXMNDRFGEXHGZRMZL3BM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743446123933},"content":"You can add alarm sounds by connecting the device to your home internet and a Nintendo account (come on, Animal Crossing).","type":"text"},{"_id":"5VWHNN3H2NHXJKKKY57MYJUTCU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Bad","type":"header"},{"_id":"NY7E4G7RKVEIHKSEFBVI726KJM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743446123935},"content":"It only works effectively for one person – a second person in the bed means the alarm will not turn off automatically when you get up.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NVGTB26BTJAGRO6SV2OGZBK6TY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743446123936},"content":"Plus, it needs to be a certain distance from the bed so the motion sensors can accurately detect your movement. That won’t suit every bedroom set-up.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CFXQVK2ALZFN5IBHFD5YZKGS5Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1743446123937},"content":"At the end of the day, it is still just an alarm clock, so that price tag is a little on the steep side.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3QTPLPK4BBAYTLGAOOEPB6TWTU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Everything else","type":"header"},{"_id":"MYK5DTPJ2RAZ5JVMYPUBQEOQLA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743446123939},"content":"The clock needs a power supply – USB C, handily – so it requires careful placing.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J3H2OGEINZHKJELWCBNU5KBFYQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Verdict","type":"header"},{"_id":"JLVTJQBZWJAX7N4IE6D6XOP5CM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743446123941},"content":"As far as alarm clocks go, this is a pricey but fun take. Actually paying attention to it long term? That is something we will have to see about.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3ODVRD5MNJFVTO7FYFL7247K2A","additional_properties":{"_id":1743446123942},"content":"<a href=\"https://store.nintendo.ie/en\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://store.nintendo.ie/en\">store.nintendo.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"EPIC3FVWRNHTFOHTTYHZWRJFPE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743446123943},"content":"","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Ciara O'Brien"}},"name":"Ciara O'Brien"}]},"description":{"basic":"Spoiler alert: Not really. 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The text message, sent to the subject instead of the intended recipient. A stray photograph mistakenly included in a photo dump on social media. A “reply all” that clogged up the whole company email list. An embarrassing chat message that ended up in the wrong group.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MISIAJM5XVBRDGKWMIH2B6CDQQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743602922636},"content":"If you are lucky, you catch it just before hitting send. 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Nothing screams “check your email” louder than a recall message or piques your interest in a group chat than when someone deletes a message.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DSNEHONJE5BQVMEFC3I3K6D7SI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743602922639},"content":"If you have been following the events in the US – where top US government officials apparently <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/03/24/atlantic-magazine-editor-says-he-was-added-to-trump-advisers-text-group-on-bombing-houthis/\">shared plans</a> for an attack on the Houthis in Yemen on a Signal group chat created by national security adviser Mike Waltz that included a reporter – you can see how this situation can sometimes lead to more serious consequences.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HYDFPQFMWOM4O5YO3PRNWS7FBM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743602922640},"type":"image"},{"_id":"4QN4NH23JNCKZDYJGPONOUGCPU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743602922641},"content":"That doesn’t mean I have any sympathy for Waltz and his Signal screw-up. Highly paid, supposedly skilled government officials can’t afford to accidentally tag journalists in on the group chat and try to style it out afterwards.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ENCN4W3KAFE3NMYJJUCQLQZV2I","additional_properties":{"_id":1743602922642},"content":"But we can all learn a couple of things from it. First, some people need to be banned from using emojis. Second, it is always worth double-checking who you are sending things to.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AAOW5NZ7JRG4PL57D42YZASRTI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743602922643},"content":"In an increasingly digital world, these mishaps and near-misses are becoming more common. Look at the HSE, for example. Recent reports showed that it had more than 600 data breaches last year. In one case a patient record was uploaded to Facebook by mistake; emails were sent to the wrong person 37 times, and on more than 130 occasions, letters were sent to the wrong address.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IK6I3QZIGRE2LICJNEFAJ3DSP4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743602922644},"content":"I may be responsible for some of those data breach reports. For the past few years, at least three Ciara O’Briens have been merrily handing out my email address to everyone from online shopping sites to their doctors, in the mistaken belief that the email address I’ve had for about 20 years is, in fact, theirs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IC2V6E2UP5HQ5I7YH7YSBPG4JM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743602922645},"content":"At various points they have all used my email to sign up for various services, from receipts for their therapy sessions and massages to their car insurance quotes. The online dating profiles could have got me in trouble; the medical results that were sent to the wrong email address were more personal, as were the payslips that were emailed to me long after I alerted the company that they were sending them to the wrong person.","type":"text"},{"_id":"E7HKBRTOEVBPNHZPEMHYSGAE54","subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"F5SXR777TRGLJJZLH7Z5WAX2QI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743602922647},"content":"A birth notice for someone in a natural birthing class, who had managed to get through the labour and delivery using only the methods that had been taught in the class (delighted for her, but certainly not meant for me).","type":"text"},{"_id":"IMJREXNITJDBNJPX7PLW7KEOYE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743602922648},"content":"I’ve had reservations for hotels and receipts for holiday bookings, which could have resulted in a nice break if I’d been willing to jump on a flight to Bali at the last minute. Less pleasant was an emailed ticket to see Nigel Farage speak at an event in the UK when he was riding the momentum of his Brexit campaign.","type":"text"},{"_id":"B4E6SW2RNFHJLLOO4UZMSOSR6Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1743602922649},"content":"What do you do when your email is being freely handed out to all and sundry and you have no control over it? I spend a lot of time closing down accounts and changing passwords. If the emails keep coming, they get tagged as spam.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4MUWXX3CP5ABJCNZE5IT2OWVL4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743602922650},"content":"Occasionally I’ll alert the person that they’ve been given the wrong email and ask them to change it or remove it from their records.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EENYQMJ6IVDAXD565CDNM6K6L4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743602922651},"content":"The most recent was a trial for ClassPass (I requested an account deletion), but more personal stuff could land the person in hot water.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TLYQXSPTDRGXJLEIC4LQLJGPQU","embed":{"config":{},"id":"acast_podcast-368","url":"/"},"subtype":"acast_podcast","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"RPZIM6NZ3FBNXHCX35QYYFOFNU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743602922652},"content":"In an era where data breaches are commonplace and can have devastating effects, we are supposed to be better at guarding our personal data.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7MERG2ETHJEYTOBDELIJZIPQ6U","additional_properties":{"_id":1743602922653},"content":"Are fears over the cashless society exaggerated? Ciara O’Brien versus Conor Pope","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"WA5GZH7YJJHZXMMW5Y3OMNBZJM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743602922654},"content":"In the past few years I’ve built up enough information on at least three Ciara O’Briens – date of birth, address, mother’s maiden name – to make a decent stab at identity theft, if I was so inclined. I’m not, but the next person may have a different outlook.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6JOLN52SIJH2JDQ3U3CIKEM4BY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743602922655},"content":"And all because someone mistakenly put the wrong email address on a form.","type":"text"},{"_id":"U7YOIR3IVBDFFJPLCAN6OUT3F4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743602922656},"content":"At least I’m assuming it is largely a mistake. It is possible that at least some of the emails are deliberately sent my way. While signing up to mailing lists to get a discount will see you throw any old email address in there, most of these transactions are fairly important ones. 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I’ve only recently switched away from an older Intel-based MacBook Air through necessity – the software no longer updated, and it was starting to sound like a jet engine when carrying out even the simplest of tasks. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"4JMZ4WXZORH6BNSIE4FUWSAP7E","additional_properties":{},"content":"But do the newer MacBook Airs have the same pulling power? In a word, yes. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"HUGWLY7SIND7NGB2BZYQY2VAFE","additional_properties":{},"content":"The past few years have seen a change in design to bring it in line with the MacBook Pro, and a switch to Apple’s own silicon with the M series of chips. For most people, the MacBook Air is the ideal laptop: compact yet powerful, without going overboard – and over budget. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"QEJNTU7BX5AARMTF3YCDMY7CYY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Like the 2024 model, very little has been changed. It has a new chip, with the M4 finally coming to the Air. 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","type":"text"},{"_id":"SUN4LZ47JZH4NNXHKPDA63DJEA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Port-wise, the MacBook Air has a MagSafe 3 charging port, plus two Thunderbolt 4 enabled ports, which also double up for USB-C charging. On the right side, you have a single headphone jack, and that is it. I’d have preferred to have the option of charging from either side, but Apple has chosen to locate everything on one side. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"UZ7W5N2IUNBNLPJMUDATAWBZMU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Apple’s AI patience may be paying off","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"327OVRFZYZASXLGLXJW2UVN3PM","additional_properties":{},"content":"On the whole, though, I loved the design of the 13-inch model. It is light and compact, but still easy to use for working all day. The display is a 13.6-inch liquid retina display (translation: high quality) that manages to stay compact but yet feel roomy. The laptop tops out at 500 nits of peak brightness, which might be a problem in bright sunlight, but that is not usually a problem for Irish users – at least not in our native habitat. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"J4TYQVIZRVHSJAH2H2DCXHCJCY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Once thing I am still not keen on is the large notch at the top of the screen. Yes, you get a little extra screen space but the notch that accommodates the webcam is a little too big. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"7VMXEN5WHNBGLAXLAOGWWTTBVM","additional_properties":{},"content":"The new camera upgrade means you get a higher-resolution webcam, closer to the iPad offering in terms of resolution. The Centre Stage feature is one you might be familiar with from the iPad too, panning to make sure you are centred in the frame at all times, as if you have your own personal camera crew. It’s a feature that not everyone likes, but it can be easily disabled. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"QACOCVV4QVHMTD5OBEGIVP4KJM","additional_properties":{},"content":"You still can’t use Face ID, though, which is an continuing source of frustration here. If you are going to take that much of a chunk out of the screen, at least let it be for something more useful. Instead, we are stuck with Touch ID, which is fine but less convenient than facial recognition. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"KBT7OFFDE5GH3PQ5ADIITUSWPU","additional_properties":{},"content":"The really important thing, though, is the new chip. So how does the M4 stack up? If you have been using a 2024 model, don’t expect to see a huge performance jump. Yes, it is faster, but the more startling comparison would be with the M1 MacBook Air, or an Intel machine. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"3TMRZNE3KNASBJL4XWSSKNRQV4","additional_properties":{},"content":"It is impressive, though. As a work laptop, it went above and beyond, dealing with everything from word processing to video editing with ease. It didn’t heat up too much either, even though it has a finless design. In fact, that is one of my favourite things about the redesigned MacBook Air: even when you are pushing the machine to work harder, it manages to keep its cool. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"PRTTQ4MAGZF5ZP4E6DTSELELQI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Apple has made one other notable change. The computer supports up to two external displays – and this time, it means it. Unlike last year’s MacBook Air, you don’t have to keep the lid closed to get two displays working; essentially, you can work across three displays. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"TCMAQP7SK5ADTJYZ47HGDIBCZM","additional_properties":{},"content":"With all the upgrades and additions, you would expect a change in the price. Apple has indeed introduced a new price for the MacBook Air, but it has made it cheaper, shaving €100 off both the 13-inch and 15-inch models’ base price. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"PUXZU3BZTZAE5MSWGWRDRMSW5Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"Good","type":"header"},{"_id":"KVSLKREOGRH7DOZ3HKWCEXOAU4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Apple knows what works, and has largely stuck to the formula. That means no real design changes – not since the new design debuted in 2022 – apart from the introduction of the new Sky Blue colour. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"F7J2QJFJZRBGRK4JG6RE7IDM2Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"But the changes to the camera are welcome, and the decision to finally support two external displays in addition to the notebook’s screen was a welcome one. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"H5YZIXM3JBCG5IN3DJQZSCMSBM","additional_properties":{},"content":"The MacBook Air is silent too, with a fanless design that means even under the heaviest workloads it is silent. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"44OPEDL7MZBRNNBU4EBVWCFCGQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Bad","type":"header"},{"_id":"MGTCEUEGXVG6XNPQEOHCG2V4GI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Not a huge upgrade from last year’s M3-powered MacBook Air. There is still no Face ID support, and the camera notch on the display is a bit on the large side. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"5PMZ4UC2HNHHZCYETYOSQUBSPA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Everything else","type":"header"},{"_id":"U3YNS3CNSRCRBPFI6JJQUFSY3A","additional_properties":{},"content":"The new Sky Blue colour is a very delicate shade of blue, and seems a lot more resistant to smudges and fingerprints than last year’s colour options. At times it looks almost silver, so if you are hoping for a stronger pop of colour, this won’t keep you happy. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"LJKVIPY4QJBCZKEJ3NMMFUIRGQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"It is made for Apple Intelligence too, if that is important to you. 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This flight departed 55 minutes late due to a “tech issue”. In all it took 10 hours to reach Marseilles, due to being forced to fly from Dublin Airport.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RT2GVXXEIVAKJIFYY7LKNXA3GI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743692231333},"content":"There are now five million air travellers from the Shannon Airport region, flying via Dublin Airport annually, who have to endure these marathon travel days, due to insufficient consideration being afforded by both airlines and government to the needs of air travellers from the midwest region.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OJGDCAICQJE6BKCJCP7OU2RVXQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743692231334},"content":"This at a time when airlines are demanding that the passenger cap at Dublin Airport be increased from 32 million to 40 million. Airlines say pilots prefer to locate in Dublin.","type":"text"},{"_id":"77XOBHNFKZA4DIEOTGXUBDX3FE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743692231335},"content":"Pilots blame the airlines.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LR7EQXCRCRELLEJVPTCJXMDUOQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743692231336},"content":"This Government and Minister for Transport need to sort out this madness and waste of time and fuel, not to mention damage to the environment, by insisting the passenger cap remains at 32 million for Dublin, until the industry gets its act together and share the number of routes to meet the clear demand from the regions.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Z7CJOED5NVEVZO2RI3P2IYU3K4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743692231337},"content":"This enforced “stopover” in Dublin is costing the country way way too much in lost time. Get a grip, Government, and intervene urgently. – Yours, etc,","type":"text"},{"_id":"MASGKEHBPFCFPAZMIPSEKFYXTA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743692231338},"content":"JAMES RYAN,","type":"text"},{"_id":"O25SDHAYWRGLVAPS6FXO6IENRE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743692231339},"content":"Limerick.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[]},"description":{"basic":"Mid-west air travellers’ needs must be considered"},"display_date":"2025-04-04T05:00:01Z","headlines":{"basic":"Ignoring regional airports wastes everybody’s time","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"},"basic":{"display":true,"text":"Letter of the Day","url":"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/letter-of-the-day/"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"6GVJTWXOI5FYPOLOK3JLHZZVVU","auth":{"1":"2781af11b396c223ac2b1f05df19ecc2dafc39caa2ffa2f14069f0e5a11189ee"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/6GVJTWXOI5FYPOLOK3JLHZZVVU.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Letters"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/opinion/letters/2025/04/03/ignoring-regional-airports-wastes-everybodys-time/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/opinion/letters","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Letters"}}}}],"count":334,"_id":"cde3c05d89f21d803407a8eff577b575898e4b5e19b1173d35036a143ca9afb9"},"expires":1743808928193,"lastModified":1743808627923}},"story-feed-sections":{"{\"excludeSections\":\"\",\"feedOffset\":0,\"feedSize\":3,\"includeSections\":\"/opinion/editorials\"}":{"data":{"content_elements":[{"_id":"3RCMH2TMN5ED7JAID7H7AJPFFI","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":175,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/20f8dd96-737c-4c9f-8acd-5b9ac6f60963/versions/1743781546/media/8048b8eb750e37f368ebe2cba615edab_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/opinion/editorials/2025/04/04/the-irish-times-view-on-tariffs-fallout-shockwaves-around-the-world/","content_elements":[{"_id":"KCSOJGJ54ZCDVEA2E42K4JRGLI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780291584},"content":"Two days after Donald Trump’s imposition of swingeing global tariffs, the ramifications are beginning to be felt. On Thursday, the announcement triggered the biggest one-day drop on international stock markets since the start of the Covid pandemic. Markets plunged further on Friday following China’s declaration that it would place a 34 per cent retaliatory tariff on American goods. Tech companies such as Apple, which does most of its manufacturing in China, were among the worst hit.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EGELNTV3OBFFREVEXEXV53IZE4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780291585},"content":"The burgeoning trade war with China, along with the severity of tariffs imposed on other Asian manufacturing hubs such as Vietnam and Cambodia, are already leading to predictions of a drastic reconfiguration of global trade, with fears that Europe and elsewhere could be flooded with cheap Asian goods.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SQ734NP37RDPFIWN4O2BZ4UTLA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780291586},"content":"The reaction so far from the European Union to the 20 per cent tariff imposed on it has been measured. That is in line with the promise made in advance of Trump’s announcement that the EU would take time to reflect and to negotiate with Washington before deciding on a course of action. But it also reflects the differing sectoral interests of individual member states, which will not be easily resolved.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GG3RH2TXBRHSXNFU256JWVNRNU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780291587},"content":"There is, nonetheless, a broad recognition that Brussels is dealing with a US administration which is actively antagonistic to European interests and wedded to a strategy of economic domination. It appears the EU will have no choice but to reciprocate with tariffs of its own.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2PIPII2KGBCURPTCPBIESCYISU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780291588},"content":"For Ireland, with its heavy reliance on US investment, the path ahead is perilous. The Government will do its best to resist French proposals for fresh restrictions on American technology companies. Meanwhile, the reprieve for pharmaceuticals announced on Wednesday may prove brief. The expectation remains that a rate of 25 per cent or more for pharmaceuticals will be announced in the near future. But the industry has been lobbying hard and could yet persuade the US administration to phase in tariffs to avoid sudden price spikes or drug shortages. That decision could be significant in the short term for Ireland.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ORPVH4Q3ARHNRM5S3ZJINOLV7U","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780291589},"content":"But it is the long-term consequences of this week’s events that will prove more important. Responding on Friday to calls for Government support for at-risk sectors, Taoiseach Micheál Martin was swift to reject comparisons between this crisis and the pandemic, when the entire resources of the State were mobilised.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VLKMA6ZQ75FM3KQN2UCJPDN2AQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743780291590},"content":"Despite the incoherent and self-contradictory manner in which it is delivered, Donald Trump’s America First message is transforming geopolitics and the global economic order. It would be naïve to think that things will ever return to the way they were. The challenge for Ireland and other countries is how to chart a safe passage through this uncertain new world.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[]},"description":{"basic":"Donald Trump is transforming geopolitics and the global economic order. It would be naïve to think things will ever be the same again"},"display_date":"2025-04-04T19:30:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"The Irish Times view on tariffs fallout: shockwaves around the world","native":"The shock of Trump’s tariffs is being felt around the world"},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"UOEPKSOQG777AH7V7VOVM7OQEQ","auth":{"1":"c8cfd4c7e3c59e96f9e4a1ca43763a77811e35f7d49c1bde619c8905873ba2b1"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/UOEPKSOQG777AH7V7VOVM7OQEQ.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Editorials"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/opinion/editorials/2025/04/04/the-irish-times-view-on-tariffs-fallout-shockwaves-around-the-world/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/opinion/editorials","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Editorials"}}}},{"_id":"ITGPGXJKFVDOFEKMT3BSMN7H2I","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":139,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/1c1c5d00-1b9c-43e0-b423-0dd0aa1c9422/versions/1743780176/media/0bae722b230beecde75da7f602a943ab_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/opinion/editorials/2025/04/04/the-irish-times-view-on-mick-odwyer-a-man-who-defied-the-odds/","content_elements":[{"_id":"SWVGPEIEBJCKZL44VUSFWWGGU4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743778614868},"content":"For a man who cherished the simplicity of life in a remote part of Kerry, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/mick-o-dwyer/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/mick-o-dwyer/\">Mick O Dwyer</a> still emerged as one of the most influential figures in GAA history. A native of Waterville in south Kerry, O’Dwyer carved out a playing and managerial career in Gaelic football that will probably never be equalled. As well as all the All Ireland football titles he won, both on the field and on the sideline for Kerry, he went on to bring success to three less-celebrated counties – Kildare, Laois and Wicklow.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LFYJKTLL6BGTTPWSXBRDLVHF3I","additional_properties":{"_id":1743778614869},"content":"All through his career, O’Dwyer defied the odds and challenged convention. From his first senior appearance for Kerry in 1954 to his last in the famous green and gold jersey in 1974, O’Dwyer battled serious injuries that almost prematurely ended his playing days. After making the remarkable switch from playing as a defender to lining out as a corner forward in the latter part of his inter-county career, O’Dwyer was ideally placed to take up the mantle as Kerry manager in 1975.","type":"text"},{"_id":"A6SGDGQGTZCFXPTHOJB3IV6SGU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743778614870},"content":"That ground-breaking year started his great managerial rivalry with Dublin’s Kevin Heffernan. Taking a young Kerry team to Croke Park to face the reigning All Ireland champions didn’t faze the 38-year-old O’Dwyer in the slightest and their victory provided the impetus for a golden era in Gaelic football. O’Dwyer went on to lead Kerry to eight All Ireland wins over a 12-year period although his great ambition to win the cherished five-in-row was thwarted by a last-minute goal for Offaly in the 1982 final.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3G5LFF4ZJBCDPC3TE7QYYRHW74","additional_properties":{"_id":1743778614871},"content":"That crushing setback derailed Kerry for a few years but O’Dwyer’s prowess as a brilliant man manager and tactician led to three more Sam Maguire successes between 1984 and 1986.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QA4UW7QDJ5FYDAY73GABL6FAKA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743778614872},"content":"Never afraid of pushing boundaries, O’Dwyer felt that the GAA authorities saw him as a radical who challenged their rules on sponsorship and commercialism. That individual streak could probably be traced back to his childhood roots in south Kerry. Despite all his achievements, it was fitting, therefore, that his last success should have been where it all began, managing an under-14 Waterville side to a a league title at the age of 79.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[]},"description":{"basic":"One of the most influential figures in GAA history, he left a big legacy both as a player and a manger"},"display_date":"2025-04-04T19:05:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"The Irish Times view on Mick O’Dwyer: a man who defied the odds ","native":"Mick O'Dwyer was a Kerry GAA legend who defied the odds"},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"MHDP6S76LVH3PPNMAR73PSFFNU","auth":{"1":"d393bc7babafff62015e96cd247270c4fc02828645ba358840579c14fc398cb5"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/MHDP6S76LVH3PPNMAR73PSFFNU.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Editorials"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/opinion/editorials/2025/04/04/the-irish-times-view-on-mick-odwyer-a-man-who-defied-the-odds/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/opinion/editorials","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Editorials"}}}},{"_id":"2TMCK27O2ZEOHF5YLIWASTVCZU","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":169,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/61833da2-f1d6-4d24-802c-d15d1d97dbb6/versions/1743710134/media/4ebb3bc63e3bb8094c8b90814410fcf9_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/opinion/editorials/2025/04/03/the-irish-times-view-on-the-dublin-airport-cap-will-politicians-or-the-courts-finally-decide/","content_elements":[{"_id":"CZ2RUHNBPBBRPMJGIZF7GLZIYM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743697506110},"content":"The effective suspension of the 32 million cap on the number of passengers that can travel through Dublin airport in any given year has brought much needed clarity at an important time. The suspension,<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2025/04/02/court-suspends-dublin-airport-passenger-cap-beyond-summer/\" target=\"_blank\"> ordered by the High Court this week, </a>will remain in place until the European Courts of Justice rule on aspects of a legal challenge to the cap brought by several airlines last year.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2RAODRAQ4FE5RE72KTVYDMOAT4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743697506111},"content":"Last December, the court referred issues raised by Irish and US airlines relating to European Union law and the EU’s air travel treaties with North America to the European courts.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YG57YMQMRJAO5DJ6P4JWKMWEX4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743697506112},"content":"The passenger cap and other Dublin airport linked issues seem to take up a disproportionate amount of Government time and energy compared to other important projects. Our fondness for international air travel ensures that the cap is promoted up the political agenda ahead of issues such as energy and water supply.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MYXUPQRQUBC3XOLOVWZF62P2LU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743697506113},"content":"Hopefully the parking of the issue means the Government can focus more fully on these other infrastructural challenges and more pertinently the dangers posed to the economy by the disruption to world trade instigated by sweeping tariffs announced the US president Donald Trump.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6PVCRPOL7FABXMJGMKPPUHV7CQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743697506114},"content":"In framing its response to the new tariffs, the Government can be secure in the knowledge that capacity constraints at the airport are not a consideration. One of the many peculiarities of the mercantilist policies being adopted by the US government is that increased access to Dublin airport for US airlines could potentially have become an issue in the negotiation set to follow Wednesday’s announcement.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HL53EXEUDRHMDA2O4QCYOOG3XM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743697506115},"content":"The benefit for the tourism sector of the cap being suspended will be more straightforward and immediate. Representatives of the industry warned this week that it has become increasing dependent on high spending North American visitors as inflation and other costs have undermined the appeal of Ireland as a tourist destination for European visitors .Visitor figures for the early months of the year have been weak. While the industry’s dependence on US and Canadian visitors does not look sustainable the threat of a shock due to capacity constraints at Dublin airport has, at least been lifted.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VEIGEXLWMVDMFJVSANW3Y46ZTY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743697506116},"content":"A further benefit of this week’s High Court ruling is that it creates space to resolve the issue once and for all. The Government <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/03/31/legislation-being-examined-as-way-to-deal-with-dublin-airport-cap-once-and-for-all/\" target=\"_blank\">is considering exempting the airport from the planning legislation</a>, a measure sought by the airlines. A planning application to increase capacity to 40 million passengers is also working its way through the system. And then there are the legal proceedings.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IM7C6S6C4VHD3AQB7OKNSPRQPU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743697506117},"content":"A legislative route to finding a solution would allow a Government decision, balancing the varying interests involved. But it remains to be seen if this is a viable option or if, as so often in planning matters, the courts ultimately decide.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[]},"description":{"basic":"A legislative route to finding a solution would allow the Government to balance the varying interests involved"},"display_date":"2025-04-03T20:10:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"The Irish Times view on the Dublin airport cap: will politicians or the courts finally decide?","native":"Will the courts finally decide the fate of the Dublin airport cap?"},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"PL7WWKHIBSHMVQA424SZMOMQ7Q","auth":{"1":"d0d776e3230ab32266e8d99ccec35847671d9e2c92ec100a4822c117f8426394"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/PL7WWKHIBSHMVQA424SZMOMQ7Q.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Editorials"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/opinion/editorials/2025/04/03/the-irish-times-view-on-the-dublin-airport-cap-will-politicians-or-the-courts-finally-decide/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/opinion/editorials","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Editorials"}}}}],"count":6271,"_id":"b0615b849ac1a85995e52a337b817d3bd4acde00b7406f911c9cb5e8b64e8de1"},"expires":1743809096630,"lastModified":1743808796126},"{\"excludeSections\":\"\",\"feedOffset\":1,\"feedSize\":3,\"includeSections\":\"/opinion/editorials\"}":{"data":{"content_elements":[{"_id":"ITGPGXJKFVDOFEKMT3BSMN7H2I","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":139,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/1c1c5d00-1b9c-43e0-b423-0dd0aa1c9422/versions/1743780176/media/0bae722b230beecde75da7f602a943ab_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/opinion/editorials/2025/04/04/the-irish-times-view-on-mick-odwyer-a-man-who-defied-the-odds/","content_elements":[{"_id":"SWVGPEIEBJCKZL44VUSFWWGGU4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743778614868},"content":"For a man who cherished the simplicity of life in a remote part of Kerry, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/mick-o-dwyer/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/mick-o-dwyer/\">Mick O Dwyer</a> still emerged as one of the most influential figures in GAA history. A native of Waterville in south Kerry, O’Dwyer carved out a playing and managerial career in Gaelic football that will probably never be equalled. As well as all the All Ireland football titles he won, both on the field and on the sideline for Kerry, he went on to bring success to three less-celebrated counties – Kildare, Laois and Wicklow.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LFYJKTLL6BGTTPWSXBRDLVHF3I","additional_properties":{"_id":1743778614869},"content":"All through his career, O’Dwyer defied the odds and challenged convention. From his first senior appearance for Kerry in 1954 to his last in the famous green and gold jersey in 1974, O’Dwyer battled serious injuries that almost prematurely ended his playing days. After making the remarkable switch from playing as a defender to lining out as a corner forward in the latter part of his inter-county career, O’Dwyer was ideally placed to take up the mantle as Kerry manager in 1975.","type":"text"},{"_id":"A6SGDGQGTZCFXPTHOJB3IV6SGU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743778614870},"content":"That ground-breaking year started his great managerial rivalry with Dublin’s Kevin Heffernan. Taking a young Kerry team to Croke Park to face the reigning All Ireland champions didn’t faze the 38-year-old O’Dwyer in the slightest and their victory provided the impetus for a golden era in Gaelic football. O’Dwyer went on to lead Kerry to eight All Ireland wins over a 12-year period although his great ambition to win the cherished five-in-row was thwarted by a last-minute goal for Offaly in the 1982 final.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3G5LFF4ZJBCDPC3TE7QYYRHW74","additional_properties":{"_id":1743778614871},"content":"That crushing setback derailed Kerry for a few years but O’Dwyer’s prowess as a brilliant man manager and tactician led to three more Sam Maguire successes between 1984 and 1986.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QA4UW7QDJ5FYDAY73GABL6FAKA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743778614872},"content":"Never afraid of pushing boundaries, O’Dwyer felt that the GAA authorities saw him as a radical who challenged their rules on sponsorship and commercialism. That individual streak could probably be traced back to his childhood roots in south Kerry. Despite all his achievements, it was fitting, therefore, that his last success should have been where it all began, managing an under-14 Waterville side to a a league title at the age of 79.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[]},"description":{"basic":"One of the most influential figures in GAA history, he left a big legacy both as a player and a manger"},"display_date":"2025-04-04T19:05:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"The Irish Times view on Mick O’Dwyer: a man who defied the odds ","native":"Mick O'Dwyer was a Kerry GAA legend who defied the odds"},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"MHDP6S76LVH3PPNMAR73PSFFNU","auth":{"1":"d393bc7babafff62015e96cd247270c4fc02828645ba358840579c14fc398cb5"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/MHDP6S76LVH3PPNMAR73PSFFNU.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Editorials"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/opinion/editorials/2025/04/04/the-irish-times-view-on-mick-odwyer-a-man-who-defied-the-odds/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/opinion/editorials","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Editorials"}}}},{"_id":"2TMCK27O2ZEOHF5YLIWASTVCZU","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":169,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/61833da2-f1d6-4d24-802c-d15d1d97dbb6/versions/1743710134/media/4ebb3bc63e3bb8094c8b90814410fcf9_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/opinion/editorials/2025/04/03/the-irish-times-view-on-the-dublin-airport-cap-will-politicians-or-the-courts-finally-decide/","content_elements":[{"_id":"CZ2RUHNBPBBRPMJGIZF7GLZIYM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743697506110},"content":"The effective suspension of the 32 million cap on the number of passengers that can travel through Dublin airport in any given year has brought much needed clarity at an important time. The suspension,<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2025/04/02/court-suspends-dublin-airport-passenger-cap-beyond-summer/\" target=\"_blank\"> ordered by the High Court this week, </a>will remain in place until the European Courts of Justice rule on aspects of a legal challenge to the cap brought by several airlines last year.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2RAODRAQ4FE5RE72KTVYDMOAT4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743697506111},"content":"Last December, the court referred issues raised by Irish and US airlines relating to European Union law and the EU’s air travel treaties with North America to the European courts.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YG57YMQMRJAO5DJ6P4JWKMWEX4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743697506112},"content":"The passenger cap and other Dublin airport linked issues seem to take up a disproportionate amount of Government time and energy compared to other important projects. Our fondness for international air travel ensures that the cap is promoted up the political agenda ahead of issues such as energy and water supply.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MYXUPQRQUBC3XOLOVWZF62P2LU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743697506113},"content":"Hopefully the parking of the issue means the Government can focus more fully on these other infrastructural challenges and more pertinently the dangers posed to the economy by the disruption to world trade instigated by sweeping tariffs announced the US president Donald Trump.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6PVCRPOL7FABXMJGMKPPUHV7CQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743697506114},"content":"In framing its response to the new tariffs, the Government can be secure in the knowledge that capacity constraints at the airport are not a consideration. One of the many peculiarities of the mercantilist policies being adopted by the US government is that increased access to Dublin airport for US airlines could potentially have become an issue in the negotiation set to follow Wednesday’s announcement.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HL53EXEUDRHMDA2O4QCYOOG3XM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743697506115},"content":"The benefit for the tourism sector of the cap being suspended will be more straightforward and immediate. Representatives of the industry warned this week that it has become increasing dependent on high spending North American visitors as inflation and other costs have undermined the appeal of Ireland as a tourist destination for European visitors .Visitor figures for the early months of the year have been weak. While the industry’s dependence on US and Canadian visitors does not look sustainable the threat of a shock due to capacity constraints at Dublin airport has, at least been lifted.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VEIGEXLWMVDMFJVSANW3Y46ZTY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743697506116},"content":"A further benefit of this week’s High Court ruling is that it creates space to resolve the issue once and for all. The Government <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/03/31/legislation-being-examined-as-way-to-deal-with-dublin-airport-cap-once-and-for-all/\" target=\"_blank\">is considering exempting the airport from the planning legislation</a>, a measure sought by the airlines. A planning application to increase capacity to 40 million passengers is also working its way through the system. And then there are the legal proceedings.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IM7C6S6C4VHD3AQB7OKNSPRQPU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743697506117},"content":"A legislative route to finding a solution would allow a Government decision, balancing the varying interests involved. 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The 7.7-magnitude quake on Friday, the world’s most powerful since the ruinous tremors that hit Turkey and Syria in 2023, struck close to its second-largest city Mandalay and also hit neighbouring Thailand.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HCKSPBBQ5NCTZDGTMTI6SGIEIA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743697537857},"content":"The secretive military regime, which is denying access to journalists and hampering international aid efforts, now puts the death toll at over 3,000 and rising. The real figures are likely to be far higher. The quake worsened an already dire humanitarian crisis, with more than 3 million people displaced from their homes and some 20 million in need even before it hit, according to the UN.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HOXO6SVDJ5EIFN26MTUVC54VII","additional_properties":{"_id":1743697537858},"content":"Key infrastructure has been devastated with thousands of buildings collapsed – the World Health Organisation reports that one in three houses in the town of Sagaing, 15 kilometres from the epicentre, have been destroyed. Four hospitals and one health centre had been completely destroyed while more have been damaged.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7XHSOLFXXBF3XHPGZT3L3UW3MQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743697537859},"content":"The army has at last also joined resistance groups in calling a temporary ceasefire in the ongoing civil war until April 22nd to allow humanitarian aid to get to those who need it. Aid and assistance has been dispatched from 17 countries.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4IX2JTUHTFFY7BH44LZ2TNLRFE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743697537860},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/asia-pacific/2025/04/02/myanmar-earthquake/\" target=\"_blank\">Myanmar’s military, the Tatmadaw,</a> seized power in 2021 from the democratically-elected government of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, sparking a bloody civil war which has killed thousands and degraded hospitals, roads and electricity supplies. The military, accused of multiple war crimes by the UN, is believed to control less than half the country, with other areas still contested or held by ethnic armed groups or resistance forces.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NKKLTGTBJJFWHDLDDUGCG2GVEU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743697537861},"content":"The quake could hardly have come at a worse moment. Decades of repressive military rule and internal insurgencies have undermined the country’s development and ability to respond to such a “natural” catastrophe. Nature’s brutality has been compounded and magnified by all too human action.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[]},"description":{"basic":"The quake could hardly have come at a worse moment, following decades of repressive military rule and internal insurgencies"},"display_date":"2025-04-03T19:59:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"The Irish Times view on the earthquake in Myanmar: nature’s brutality compounded by human action","native":"Myanmar: nature’s brutality compounded by human 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href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/myanmar/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/myanmar/\">Myanmar</a>’s ostracised junta chief met the leaders of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/india/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/india/\">India</a> and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/thailand/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/thailand/\">Thailand</a> during a regional summit in Bangkok on Friday, as the UN said his military was limiting humanitarian aid following the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/asia-pacific/2025/03/31/myanmar-earthquake-latest-news/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/asia-pacific/2025/03/31/myanmar-earthquake-latest-news/\">earthquak</a>e that killed over 3,100 people amid <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/asia-pacific/2024/12/25/myanmars-war-has-forced-doctors-and-nurses-into-prostitution/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/asia-pacific/2024/12/25/myanmars-war-has-forced-doctors-and-nurses-into-prostitution/\">civil war</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SHSVWHQ6PZET7BSRNDOFXFKXQQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Shunned by most world leaders since leading a <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/asia-pacific/military-coup-sparks-anger-in-myanmar-and-draws-condemnation-abroad-1.4472837\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/asia-pacific/military-coup-sparks-anger-in-myanmar-and-draws-condemnation-abroad-1.4472837\">2021 coup</a> that overthrew an elected government and ignited nationwide conflict, Min Aung Hlaing’s rare foreign trip exploits a window opened by the earthquake to ramp up diplomacy.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YTTZXSEQANF4FIVTVJF4YANPHQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"On the sidelines of the Bimstec summit of seven south Asian and south-east Asian nations, Min Aung Hlaing had two-way meetings with Thai premier Paetongtarn Shinawatra and Indian prime minister <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/narendra-modi/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/narendra-modi/\">Narendra Modi</a>, with recovery from the earthquake a common topic.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2TP2SMJXZZHWJEI2JRRMFO36P4","additional_properties":{},"content":"With a protracted civil war ravaging Myanmar since the coup, Mr Modi called for a post-earthquake ceasefire in the country of 55 million people to be made permanent, an Indian foreign ministry spokesman said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7FSDQAZTSBA4PCVUPEOWLKQOBI","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Political resolution to the conflict is the only way forward, starting with inclusive and credible elections,” the spokesman, Randhir Jaiswal, said in a post on X.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VHWBHJI7HBAE7DAI2THBPEOO7U","additional_properties":{},"content":"Myanmar’s junta announced a temporary ceasefire on Wednesday until April 22nd in operations against armed opponents, reflecting moves by a rebel alliance and a shadow government that includes parts of the previous administration.","type":"text"},{"_id":"C4SH5HRKGNGO5IRZTEHKS3DKBE","additional_properties":{},"content":"The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights said the junta was restricting aid supplies to earthquake-hit areas where local communities did not back its rule. It also said it was investigating 53 reported attacks by the junta against opponents, including air strikes, of which 16 were after a ceasefire on April 2nd.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HIIM5PTKCZGZXOCGQJ2WK3WJWU","additional_properties":{},"content":"A junta spokesman did not respond to calls seeking comment.","type":"text"},{"_id":"47MYSL3C3ZDP5E2M2IWKNNU63Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"The death toll from last Friday’s 7.7-magnitude earthquake climbed to 3,145, with more than 4,500 injured and more than 200 still missing, the junta said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PYEUA5SPSRFPBD7I3TMRFFM2EQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"“The earthquake has supercharged the suffering, with the monsoon season just around the corner,” UN secretary general António Guterres told reporters on Thursday, referring to the civil strife unleashed by the 2021 coup.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YQYJTUT5MFDF7PCNZBIZ67X5RM","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I appeal for every effort to transform this tragic moment into an opportunity for the people of Myanmar.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"ERLDQFP5IZHQJJJCDCTESI62RE","additional_properties":{},"content":"United Nations aid chief Tom Fletcher was set to arrive in Myanmar on Friday, followed by a visit by Julie Bishop, the UN’s special envoy for the country.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KAGGTSVVXFHMZDUKNKM2B7J6MU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Myanmar’s neighbours, such as China, India and southeast Asian nations, are among those that dispatched relief supplies and rescuers to aid the recovery effort in quake-hit areas that are home to about 28 million people over the past week.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NLKCML62LZEO7MDN6BB4CDENJM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Extreme heat and forecast heavy rain could cause disease outbreaks among earthquake survivors camping in the open, as the risk of cholera grows in such areas, namely Mandalay, Sagaing and the capital of Naypyitaw.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XW5S6YU6L5GCTP476YAKM4XUJI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Even before the earthquake, millions had suffered in Myanmar’s widening civil war, triggered by the coup that ousted the government of Nobel peace laureate <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/aung-san-suu-kyi/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/aung-san-suu-kyi/\">Aung San Suu Kyi</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SI32KWYSUVBI5AARMNANZQV62A","additional_properties":{},"content":"It has decimated the mainly agrarian economy, driven more than 3.5 million people from their homes and crippled essential services such as healthcare.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IMDZXO5GCNGAPCFQOFWCBWM24Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"On the sidelines of the Bimstec summit in Bangkok, Min Aung Hlaing with met the prime minister of Nepal, India and Thailand. Bimstec, or the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation, grouping also includes Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Bhutan.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XPAIOFWDRJGLHGRRR3T44QCHWM","additional_properties":{},"content":"The junta leader’s discussions with the Thai prime minister included disaster prevention and transnational crime, Thai officials said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DBUWYSJGLZC45PF473UIMNKHKE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Thailand’s foreign ministry said the Thai and Malaysian foreign ministers would visit Myanmar on Saturday. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"RCS5LHYJ5JEPJFAKXX5OXSQ7UI","additional_properties":{},"content":"At the summit, Thai premier Paetongtarn urged the group to forge a free trade agreement and to co-operate on completing a highway connecting Thailand, Myanmar and India, the Thai government said. 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Waltz was in the meeting.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CIPJPFT55JER7G3XBNBT3ZWQGA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743772418784},"content":"Loomer posted on X on Thursday that it had been an “honour” to meet Trump and “present him with my research findings”, but declined to divulge any of the details of her encounter.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RAMD2I6O2FAJBHDGTPTKVJR4UY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743772418785},"content":"Among those dismissed was Thomas Boodry, a senior director for legislative affairs, who previously worked for Waltz when he was a member of Congress.","type":"text"},{"_id":"V54A6SRMPNEH5KLL7CPJS2PNH4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743772418786},"content":"But the sackings were only the latest setback for the former special forces colonel in the wake of the Signalgate affair.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WIXV623YQJGBDG2WP5V7F54Q5Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1743772418787},"content":"Earlier this week the Washington Post alleged he and other NSC members had used private Gmail accounts to conduct government business. NSC spokesperson Brian Hughes pushed back on the report, saying Waltz had “never sent classified material over his personal email account or any unsecured platform”, though he acknowledged the national security adviser had “received emails and calendar invites from legacy contacts on his personal email”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LOWPS6WV7ZBE3CNRCSSYODD7PM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743772418788},"content":"The Wall Street Journal also reported Waltz had created and hosted multiple conversations on Signal with cabinet members that dealt with sensitive issues of national security, including separate threads on military operations and how to broker peace between Russia and Ukraine.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WGLZEL5RSREJHKXAOWN5S6TTRM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743772418789},"content":"Hughes said Signal was an “approved, encrypted messaging app” and “any claim NSC officials sent classified information over these channels is false”. He said some federal agencies “automatically install” the app on government devices.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JWDDW5VLMFCQPMZJ26CWIAAAIA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743772418790},"content":"Former government officials say Trump – who on Sunday dismissed the negative press as “witch-hunts” – does not want to sack Waltz lest it appear that he had caved to pressure from Democrats and mainstream media. They say the president regretted his decision to fire national security adviser Mike Flynn in his first term, after Flynn admitted lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russia.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GXAZZIVKYRGJ7MVVSYXD3HYZ7U","additional_properties":{"_id":1743772418791},"content":"But Waltz could still be in trouble. “He’s living on borrowed time,” said one former White House official in Joe Biden’s administration. “He made the government look like idiots, which Trump would not have liked.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"OUOKZPZVIBHHPB6N636JFRGOWU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743772418792},"content":"“He doesn’t have a whole lot of get-out-of-jail-free cards left,” said Aaron David Miller, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a former department of state official.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FM7SWXE2CREZJMW6DW5KOCDWOI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743772418793},"content":"Trump was reportedly less annoyed by the revelations about the Signal chat than by the fact Waltz had the number of Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief at the Atlantic, stored in his list of contacts.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CGARLZHD65ADVIMOP6ZCKNQUWA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743772418794},"content":"Critics say Waltz did not do himself any favours with the strange explanations he gave for the Signal affair. 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He denounced the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, and espouses hawkish views on Russia, Iran and China that are anathema to some in the more isolationist Maga movement, with its sympathy for autocratic leaders such as Russia’s Vladimir Putin.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6WMOUP7XX5BHHFAK7FXMIFQC5I","additional_properties":{"_id":1743772418802},"content":"Waltz said in an op-ed in 2023 that Putin was to blame for the war in Ukraine, “like al-Qaeda was to blame for 9/11” – a view that clashes with some of Trump’s recent pronouncements.","type":"text"},{"_id":"63W6VOLYV5COPDN4SZNWJEAIJU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743772418803},"content":"Compared with the president’s other national security picks, “Waltz is more of a traditionalist”, Miller said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AX4OUBMVYVAZBKETDP76RQHMXA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743772418804},"content":"“There’s still a lingering question mark hanging over Waltz,” said one diplomat in Washington. “The knives are definitely out for 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There were many single gunshot wounds, all to the head, some in children, he said. Once, Min helped an old woman into a private ambulance with flashing lights, only for soldiers to strafe the van with gunfire.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NPG6ZQWT7RCMVNB6LPUHHX2FGQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"After the protests, Min escaped to a jungle where professionals like him – lawyers, accountants, doctors – formed an armed struggle against the junta. He learned how to sleep with the noise of night insects and how to dig a latrine. The unit started with 80 soldiers. It has lost about 20 on the battlefield.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J7BTY3PTLJDGTNNSTYP3WQDV7Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"When the earthquake struck, rebel groups had been advancing against the military, which has fortified the big cities, Mandalay included. 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The junta’s soldiers occasionally kick them out, forcing them to find new shelter. Food and water are running low.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UF2ZNYH2CVHCLHB7ATS7O6OEMQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"“The junta cares more about shutting down hospitals and blocking doctors than saving lives after the earthquake,” Min said. “They are not acting like humans.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"3TJ555B25JAFJEVIYR5IIZXE3A","additional_properties":{},"content":"After watching more bodies emerge from the rubble, Min took a break. There were, he feared, no more lives to save.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GXUJZ2OC3FFVLPA3P4WFMT6MNM","additional_properties":{},"content":"He passed buildings listing at strange angles. He avoided the growing piles of rubbish, walking down a familiar lane toward his family home.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2UXANE4RGNEC5LWPZR4UHB6O6U","additional_properties":{},"content":"It was still standing. His family spilled out to greet him. Everyone was alive. 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The junta’s soldiers occasionally kick them out, forcing them to find new shelter. Food and water are running low.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UF2ZNYH2CVHCLHB7ATS7O6OEMQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"“The junta cares more about shutting down hospitals and blocking doctors than saving lives after the earthquake,” Min said. “They are not acting like humans.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"3TJ555B25JAFJEVIYR5IIZXE3A","additional_properties":{},"content":"After watching more bodies emerge from the rubble, Min took a break. There were, he feared, no more lives to save.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GXUJZ2OC3FFVLPA3P4WFMT6MNM","additional_properties":{},"content":"He passed buildings listing at strange angles. He avoided the growing piles of rubbish, walking down a familiar lane toward his family home.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2UXANE4RGNEC5LWPZR4UHB6O6U","additional_properties":{},"content":"It was still standing. His family spilled out to greet him. Everyone was alive. 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After the global financial crash in 2008, the American experts recommended that money should be repaid to individual investors, and the money was returned to Ireland. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"HCNSTYC4MZBTJPUVHZPBVN7R5E","additional_properties":{},"content":"The court heard that while there had been some expenses, there was still more than €5 million in the investment pot at this point.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QD673SD5CJACZOLEZXDPBULK7M","additional_properties":{},"content":"However, Kiely didn’t immediately return the money to investors and instead, began to repurpose the funds. He transferred various amounts into an account in his own name, then into an account for trading on the stock market.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2TH4W3EHHJFIFPVLGY2LSDBGG4","additional_properties":{},"content":"At the same time, Kiely told investors he intended to pivot the investment structure, but didn’t outline this in detail except to say it would be connected to an American share index.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BY5GY7THFZC3JMAKQTKUAJUVCI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Many investors indicated they were not interested and their money – in excess of €3 million – was returned.","type":"text"},{"_id":"H7JDECWMWVEJZAPWPWMHBQVMDY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Others said they were open to the pivot, but wanted more information. 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He stopped communicating with investors and effectively disappeared, the court was told.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4OAEU6URNNEAHHVJMOMSI6FA24","additional_properties":{},"content":"Most of the transfers made were through Kiely’s personal account, but some went into an account in name of Barrington Capital Ltd, a company operated by him.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GBPC5E4WLFBWTECF2RK4LGZGOM","additional_properties":{},"content":"The court heard that much of the funds went towards lifestyle expenses unrelated to the business and Kiely also paid himself an amount each month.","type":"text"},{"_id":"74TMCIQMMNFDXL7WEB266OJRTU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Between July 2007 and February 2010, Kiely was operating the company for a fraudulent purpose, the court heard.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4ZN7BU3NDRGPVF4LZNGOWTHX2I","additional_properties":{},"content":"Kiely also falsified a financial statement in March 2010, which set out expenses on the account and what was left, however, at this point the funds were completely depleted.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GHRBRZE2VRHXDBRIS2ZYS6BPUU","additional_properties":{},"content":"The court was told this statement was false, and designed to reassure investors about the security of their investment.","type":"text"},{"_id":"W43B2TE2BFGIRBMKHTEQWO26UM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Kathleen Leader SC, defending, asked the court to take into account that Kiely was a man of previous good character and to consider his guilty pleas as an acknowledgment of responsibility.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ENPRIW4SM5G47H2JD3ZDDYIDO4","additional_properties":{},"content":"“He acknowledges these people trusted him and he is very sorry that things worked out as they did. 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With an inbuilt majority, unionists always won elections so they “built a cold house for nationalists”, because they feared being outnumbered.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RQE4643MLJFIXAV3YTVWAKVXEE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743785666771},"content":"Today, however, the “only way forward is constitutional government or powersharing”, so unionists realise they cannot govern Northern Ireland without the consent and the co-operation of nationalists and republicans.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7QXM73KP7JC63MRYBI67N3WE3E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743785666772},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"BNBNWWCF5NHGPFWG7MQBM7FYJ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743785666773},"content":" ","type":"text"},{"_id":"63QULLTQOVBABGIPOZBRDPXY6A","additional_properties":{"_id":1743785666774},"content":"Stormont must now push “a prosperity agenda”, where people can wake up “feeling good about life and get out of bed with a sense of purpose”, he said, financially secure, with well-educated children and decent public services.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XNSRHEPBHJHMDDAZ4VJDZSIWQU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Reforms that undermine Belfast Agreement will be ‘dangerous’, experts warn","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"DSX5ZKT6JJDVZMZ3CAV7X3YGYI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743785666775},"content":"The best measurement for a society’s success is healthy life expectancy, but by that yardstick Northern Ireland is failing badly, said Mr Nesbitt, who was offered the Stormont Health Ministry a year ago, much to his own surprise.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WWHIPOBYX5FCPAYTDLKJJIS2YE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743785666776},"content":"However, a baby girl born at a Belfast maternity hospital into a family living in an affluent district in the city will have 14.2 more healthy years of life than a girl born in the same hospital into a family living a mile away in one of the city’s deprived neighbourhoods.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LGTC4ILPBNHKZIJFWBJJQQMD5Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1743785666777},"content":"“In a first-world country a quarter of the way into the 21st century, I don’t even understand why that is tolerable. 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He said the Government “stands ready” to assist businesses and support workers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YOZNL24VTRBZ5DUG3X5O7BDDOM","additional_properties":{"_id":"RN3LXTRQL5B3DNRNNZV7K4VIHA"},"embed":{"config":{},"id":"acast_podcast-71626","url":"/"},"subtype":"acast_podcast","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"EGB2CONFUJB7NJUU3I7RMK3QJE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743785345827},"content":"But he added: “There isn’t any scheme the benefit of which would outweigh the progress that we could make in terms of getting to a better place with tariffs in the days and weeks ahead, and that’s what our focus as a Government should rightly be on.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"5WCEIYKVZ5F5RL3F3UKMCMT6HM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743785345828},"content":"Asked about the response of the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/european-union/\" target=\"_blank\">European Union</a> to the US tariffs, and the potential use of the bloc’s Anti-Coercion Instrument – characterised as a “nuclear weapon” in a trade war, allowing wide-ranging limits on a country’s trading relationship with Brussels – Mr Harris said he didn’t believe it was the majority view of member states or the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/european-commission/\" target=\"_blank\">European Commission</a> that it should be deployed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RFCX2Q3N3RDWXL6EAQBZS7PXII","additional_properties":{"_id":1743785345829},"content":"Mr Harris suggested it was part of a negotiating strategy to discuss potential mechanisms to target the US, but that his interactions with counterparts and the European Commission indicated that the “overwhelming view” was for a graduated response, engagement, and to seek to de-escalate the situation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UP3LUYLN6JCZDO45B3JRXS5CDY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743785345830},"content":"He reiterated that he expected tariff measures on the pharmaceutical sector to follow, but that their absence for the current period had lessened in the immediate term the impact of the Trump tariffs to date.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BGZPA6MGDVFZLDNR22NW3YASXA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743785345831},"content":"Mr Harris said there was “unanimity” among the forum members regarding the importance of European unity, and the importance of the EU being “calm, measured in our responses” and with interventions aimed at bringing the US around the negotiating table.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KRROJDWLGNHCJKMESIVSFKWWOU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743785345832},"content":"He said that despite three occasions on which the EU has been “provoked” by the US – with tariffs on steel and aluminium, on automobiles, and during Wednesday’s announcements by President <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump</a> – it had not reacted in anger or sought to escalate.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UFF3WWHGMZH7FOO64GHNT5B4T4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743785345833},"content":"He said a call between Howard Lutnick, the US commerce secretary and EU trade commissioner <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/maros-sefcovic/\" target=\"_blank\">Maros Sefcovic</a> on Friday would be an “important moment”. 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As a small, open economy with a huge flow of trade to the US, Ireland is the most exposed to a prolonged trade war. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"F6A4RXYDBJEJZBUFYROC7HAVRY","additional_properties":{},"content":"It is understood that European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has privately expressed an appreciation for how Ireland is vulnerable on pharmaceutical exports. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"GJLTTEPMRVCJVL5KEIQD3YBKVE","additional_properties":{},"content":"The pharma sector is a strategically important one for the EU, so the idea of US companies uprooting manufacturing capacity in Ireland and moving it back home is something the commission wants to avoid. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"7VMC4OEHF5BSFG4MIQKYAFU2ME","additional_properties":{},"content":"Pharmaceuticals were not included in the blanket 20 per cent tariffs announced this week, but are expected to be targeted at a later date, possibly at a rate of 25 per cent. 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When the commission was negotiating with the UK in its Berlaymont headquarters in Brussels, an Irish delegation was often holed up in a room two or three doors down the hall, to allow EU officials to pop in to get quick feedback mid-discussion.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5WCLTRDTCHIGEVBC5MMV56OYT4","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"DKXXBR2GGRA2TELUVMU5AMSTRU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Harris has been in regular contact with European trade commissioner Maroš Šefčovič, who is taking point on tariffs. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"NFOPMCRMOBGWRI5XEFHKBF3PIE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Harris and the Slovakian politician have spoken on the phone several times in the last fortnight. However, Dublin is just one of 27 capitals that Sefcovic has to try to keep happy and up-to-date. 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There has been one concession where the Home Office accepted that foreigners who are legally resident in the Republic can travel into Northern Ireland without an ETA.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2DOZ5UOYIZFKZKCK7SPQAM6ISI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743607125449},"content":"Minister for the Economy Caoimhe Archibald says the changes will have a “considerable” impact. “We’re already seeing signs. Tour operators are beginning to see tours and trips cancelled and the North being removed from itineraries. 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At the beginning of her short contribution she turned, looked directly at them and exclaimed: “Stop it, will you? Have respect. The deputies are a disgrace. I spent too long with them.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"4HEGZKI6YVGYVBQ2VNE2U62M64","additional_properties":{"_id":1743709761099},"content":"She went on to remark that the abuse heaped on the Ceann Comhairle was an advertisement to women to stay out of political life. Her most devastating comment was reserved for Mary Lou McDonald.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MLDHHPZULFHDJKJ6YM47AAWDSE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743709761100},"content":"“It was the deputies’ own dear leader, the feminist herself, who stood up and engaged in shocking behaviour in this House. What an example to lead by. What would that be like in government? What would the country be like? A disgrace. It is shameful.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"4S6RV7DWFZCR7K7D5ZLCM2YCJI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743709761101},"content":"That in a nutshell sums up the choice that is likely to face the Irish people when the next election comes around: another term for some version of the current Coalition or a leap into the arms of a Sinn Féin-dominated alternative.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WQHIQXUG7ZC3RJ3YRPKH2S427U","additional_properties":{"_id":1743709761102},"content":"The political narrative in western democracies has been coarsened in recent years, most notably by Donald Trump, but the trend has been evident across Europe as well. 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Since they defied the predictions of most pundits and won re-election last November the Coalition parties have been distracted by the disruptive events in the Dáil.","type":"text"},{"_id":"P5NTSJEIGZBITBODGUCLQQ7UGQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743709761105},"content":"Unless they get on top of things soon and are seen to get to grips with the important issues facing the country they will find it impossible to generate the public confidence required to deal with a slew of challenges, starting with the impact of Trump’s tariffs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"N2POGKQANZAGDBS2YJFICFJ5UI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743709761106},"content":"On the domestic front, over which they have control, they need to take whatever steps are necessary to deal with the obstacles standing in the way of urgently needed development in housing, water and electricity for the past decade or more. 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One senior figure flatly ruled out Covid-style wage supports.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YO6W45ISB5ETZLMRWX3OJGZZSE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743713152518},"content":"On Thursday, Minister for Finance <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/paschal-donohoe/\">Paschal Donohoe</a> outlined exchequer figures showing high employment and consumption, but warned that US tariffs would hit families, businesses and job creation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"65FJID47MFCKJFTOFICI2PABFQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743713152519},"content":"Revenue collected €21.9 billion in tax in the three months to the end of March and Mr Donohoe said the returns showed the State was “at least” facing the threat of Mr Trump’s tariffs plan with a resilient economy.","type":"text"},{"_id":"S5STGXGXMZENRJIANIWHMA4FT4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743713152520},"content":"Mr Martin is to attend the Labour Employer Economic Forum on Friday, with economic and trade developments top of the agenda. Senior officials and Cabinet Ministers Mr Donohoe, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/peter-burke/\" target=\"_self\">Peter Burke</a> and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/jack-chambers/\" target=\"_self\">Jack Chambers</a> will also attend.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TJJASEUNX5AW7GT63QDF4TWWD4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743713152521},"content":"Tánaiste <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/simon-harris\" target=\"_self\">Simon Harris</a> is to chair a meeting of the Government’s trade forum focused on the tariffs, with discussions expected to include the potential threat of further levies on the pharma industry.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MARFDUJVPNCZNPN5GPEZYZ6SDE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743713152522},"content":"With regards to Northern Ireland, Mr Harris is also expected to say there is an “immediate North-South challenge” due to the US tariff differential between Ireland and the UK. A Cabinet source said the Government was to open channels with London on the issue, expressing the hope that UK prime minister <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/keir-starmer/\" target=\"_self\">Keir Starmer</a>’s desire for improved links with the EU would lead to close co-operation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NUQG4NVHMVA57FQNPDQHWILIYE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743713152523},"content":"Global stock markets nosedived in response to the tariff announcement, while the value of the dollar also plunged. Analysts warned that investors should prepare for further falls amid expectations of further tariffs and a potential global trade war. 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He said the Government “stands ready” to assist businesses and support workers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YOZNL24VTRBZ5DUG3X5O7BDDOM","additional_properties":{"_id":"RN3LXTRQL5B3DNRNNZV7K4VIHA"},"embed":{"config":{},"id":"acast_podcast-71626","url":"/"},"subtype":"acast_podcast","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"EGB2CONFUJB7NJUU3I7RMK3QJE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743785345827},"content":"But he added: “There isn’t any scheme the benefit of which would outweigh the progress that we could make in terms of getting to a better place with tariffs in the days and weeks ahead, and that’s what our focus as a Government should rightly be on.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"5WCEIYKVZ5F5RL3F3UKMCMT6HM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743785345828},"content":"Asked about the response of the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/european-union/\" target=\"_blank\">European Union</a> to the US tariffs, and the potential use of the bloc’s Anti-Coercion Instrument – characterised as a “nuclear weapon” in a trade war, allowing wide-ranging limits on a country’s trading relationship with Brussels – Mr Harris said he didn’t believe it was the majority view of member states or the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/european-commission/\" target=\"_blank\">European Commission</a> that it should be deployed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RFCX2Q3N3RDWXL6EAQBZS7PXII","additional_properties":{"_id":1743785345829},"content":"Mr Harris suggested it was part of a negotiating strategy to discuss potential mechanisms to target the US, but that his interactions with counterparts and the European Commission indicated that the “overwhelming view” was for a graduated response, engagement, and to seek to de-escalate the situation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UP3LUYLN6JCZDO45B3JRXS5CDY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743785345830},"content":"He reiterated that he expected tariff measures on the pharmaceutical sector to follow, but that their absence for the current period had lessened in the immediate term the impact of the Trump tariffs to date.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BGZPA6MGDVFZLDNR22NW3YASXA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743785345831},"content":"Mr Harris said there was “unanimity” among the forum members regarding the importance of European unity, and the importance of the EU being “calm, measured in our responses” and with interventions aimed at bringing the US around the negotiating table.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KRROJDWLGNHCJKMESIVSFKWWOU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743785345832},"content":"He said that despite three occasions on which the EU has been “provoked” by the US – with tariffs on steel and aluminium, on automobiles, and during Wednesday’s announcements by President <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump</a> – it had not reacted in anger or sought to escalate.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UFF3WWHGMZH7FOO64GHNT5B4T4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743785345833},"content":"He said a call between Howard Lutnick, the US commerce secretary and EU trade commissioner <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/maros-sefcovic/\" target=\"_blank\">Maros Sefcovic</a> on Friday would be an “important moment”. 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The contrast between the ruling class and many of our homeless citizens could not be clearer,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FH362T4I7BFXXIUFWUWDD4OAJQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743711525270},"content":"A Government source said, however, that Mr Martin has deliberately not stayed there because every stay would have led to additional costs for the taxpayer in the form of the staff required.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YIQ43B2AXFBMJJU5B7A7FDRSSU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743711525271},"content":"Mr Tóibín has also highlighted the substantial fall in the number of foreign dignitaries and delegations who stay in the main residence in Farmleigh house, formerly the home of the Guinness brewing family in Dublin. 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A Cabinet source said the Government was to open channels with London on the issue, expressing the hope that UK prime minister <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/keir-starmer/\" target=\"_self\">Keir Starmer</a>’s desire for improved links with the EU would lead to close co-operation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NUQG4NVHMVA57FQNPDQHWILIYE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743713152523},"content":"Global stock markets nosedived in response to the tariff announcement, while the value of the dollar also plunged. Analysts warned that investors should prepare for further falls amid expectations of further tariffs and a potential global trade war. 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","type":"text"},{"_id":"NARKL3MYMBDUDD7O6GVJN7AUDU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Separate data shows the uptake of childhood vaccines in Ireland dropped 6 per cent from 91.5 per cent to 85.5 per cent between 2019 and 2021.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TEQKDRYD6FFJZEJFQKXDW7EDOA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Across Europe, more than 50,000 cases of measles – which can lead to complications such as pneumonia, brain swelling and blindness – involved children under the age of five.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5OVZDZPMFNBRJF3NVTLCJA2FAI","additional_properties":{},"content":"‘This is a disaster waiting to happen, and it will happen’: Ireland’s falling child vaccine rates","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"6BJO3LMNQVCH5ID5NXDBCYY4JE","additional_properties":{},"content":"About 60 per cent of people who became ill required hospitalisation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4Z4QRUI5RFAIXNUPVO3FN2I3JI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Health officials linked the soaring number of cases to the fact that in many countries vaccination rates had yet to return to pre-pandemic levels.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JXZAXZEQBFFX5KBCLZ3LYJOU4A","additional_properties":{},"content":"Signs and symptoms of measles include cold-like symptoms such as a runny nose, sneezing and a cough.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IKPMWJUJM5D5HO25NM5ED5BW4I","additional_properties":{},"content":"Other symptoms include sore red eyes, a temperature of 38 degrees or above, and a rash, which usually appears on the head and neck first before spreading to the rest of the body.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Colin Gleeson"}},"name":"Colin Gleeson"}]},"description":{"basic":"Staff and students have been warned to be vigilant about symptoms following possible exposure last week"},"display_date":"2025-04-03T18:00:01Z","headlines":{"basic":"Measles case reported at Dublin art college in second HSE alert in two days","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"SX7H3G4KNJA73A77QGLXHRMHSQ","auth":{"1":"8a57ed9b125e61c963e156a9af9a6125178e35fe250586f2fb4d81dd3a4c65a4"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/SX7H3G4KNJA73A77QGLXHRMHSQ.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Health"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/health/2025/04/03/measles-case-reported-at-dublin-art-college-in-second-hse-alert-in-two-days/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/health","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Health"}}}},{"_id":"VFIGQWRF7JFRPN2RRSUAGPF2KU","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":421,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/7aededfd-83b1-42b7-8e09-5dc22f9e12a9/versions/1742905667/media/e3a325da9c0c2efd4397cf3169e18742_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/health/your-wellness/2025/04/03/the-three-simple-lessons-we-can-learn-from-ancient-wisdom/","content_elements":[{"_id":"MPYO5QJRIREC3HDOJZV3VDEBIU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393695},"content":"Wellness goes hand in hand with how we think. Our beliefs, perceptions and thoughts all affect our <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/mental-health/\" target=\"_self\">health</a>, mind and body. As a society, we have long explored the inner reaches of our mind to support our lives and while we still have a lot to learn about modern society and civilisation, many of these lessons come from our past, from ancient wisdom, and thought leaders who we have long looked towards to help understand life, health and wellbeing.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CMLYKSNT7NEPHBOOYTM6OANXUY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393696},"type":"image"},{"_id":"RUN6OQ2AZRFHFHGM44CPVOJDBM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393697},"content":"The wisdom held in our personal, cultural and social histories can have far reaching impact on our health and wellness.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2PFSNIDCOFD7XKGXOYEKV7PMFQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393698},"content":"But are we listening and what can we learn?","type":"text"},{"_id":"IZQXRPE5WBA7BLXHTHZPH3C2ZY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393699},"content":"Dr Tim Crowley, lecturer and assistant professor at the School of Philosophy, UCD, argues that the problem of presentism – the practice of judging historical figures by the moral and ethical standards of the present day – can negate the lessons to be learned. He refers to it as a “<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/tiktok/\" target=\"_self\">TikTok</a> history”, leading to demands “to pull down statues, rename or de-name buildings, or ransack curricula in schools and universities with a view to removing those parts of the canon that people today, in our present moment, might find problematic or not reflective of our values”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"52GJA7LQJRDEFPHO6VY2VKMBVE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393700},"content":"These reactions are not helpful as this attitude is a form of cognitive bias that prevents us from seeing what is being communicated and the lessons to be learned from history. Learning comes from challenging the past and present while being aware of our own thinking traps.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ESSUSYRYTNG5TOVPA637MKN7ME","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393701},"content":"“Understanding that we too occupy a particular moment in history, and we too have our own blind spots, should open up an approach to history that is not motivated by denunciation and resentment, but appreciation and wonder,” says Crowley, which means “we may gain insights into human nature, as well as developing a sense of intellectual humility and indeed fallibility”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DAEULNJFYZBJTDSMZH5FR7LHUM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393702},"content":"Looking to ancient wisdom not only allows for reflection on humanity, human thought and action, but also the understanding that this translates to our mental wellness, our health and wellbeing and the knowledge that the body and mind are connected. Crowley specialises in ancient Greek wisdom and notes that the Greek revolution revolves around inquiry, criticism and self-reflective argument.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2EUCHOTUNVHVLLWSKHNX6BFHTM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393703},"content":"“The exemplar of Greek wisdom is Socrates,” he says, “but all he claimed to possess was a merely human wisdom, which is partial, limited and of little worth. It consists of knowing the extent of his ignorance. But from this comes the desire to seek out the truth, to the extent that one can.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"BTKLTB7M3VEEFBLH6JJAW3HSFE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393704},"content":"What’s so funny about philosophers?","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"UBUKWJBRSFGAZMV7LMUGVJQQPU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393705},"content":"This, Crowley suggests, is what ancient Greek wisdom can give to us, “not maxims or slogans to learn and repeat, but an attitude of inquiry, criticism and self-criticism,” he says. “In Greek philosophy, there is an invitation to participate, not to regurgitate.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"XYYKCD4J5RF5RKYPV7FF4YTJ7U","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393706},"content":"And yet, as with anything, this wisdom and learning can be manipulated towards specific agendas or individual ideologies, and not always for the good. “In the wrong hands,” Crowley says, “this inward self-criticism can easily turn toxic. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/plato/\" target=\"_self\">Plato</a> warns us of this in his Republic: in the hands of the young, philosophy can be destructive. Shallow, fashionable ideas are always lurking in the shadows.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"5KAD53NUEFCPPEY6EUFCKQIPN4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393707},"content":"These “mind viruses” as Crowley puts it, limit free inquiry, which is crucial for society to not only have freedom of speech but also the freedom to hold others accountable.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PKKAY4XQVBA6VIXZEMCPKN7FJY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393708},"content":"Ancient wisdom encourages us to ask questions, challenge ideas and enable free thought, but is this happening?","type":"text"},{"_id":"FCSUDO5ADRDERLTHMQWJ3VVDDE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393709},"content":"Crowley suggests that university should be a place of free and open inquiry, a place we have “inherited from Socrates”. While we expect it to be a “mental or intellectual gymnasium devoted to mental fitness”, Crowley believes it is anything but that.","type":"text"},{"_id":"I63FEZADSFGC3EWVN5IEPYQJFM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393710},"content":"“Students are directed straight into the steam-room,” he says. “The hot house of homogeneous opinions. The weights are hidden, the spin bike disabled, the rowing machine locked up, the swimming pool empty. And yet even here in this sedentary, inert, comfortable and comforting scenario, which seems designed so that one enters and leaves with the same, unexamined opinions, mental health supports for anxiety and depression among the student body increase annually.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"DTXUOCDW5NEJHPH5WBAIHPA7XE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393711},"content":"Crowley suggests this is not a coincidence. “Perhaps mental health demands not safety, or protection, but resistance, and opposition, without which we become intellectually weak and vulnerable.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"BMUVC4KMIJG65IYKQMDNGW4SVU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393722},"content":"Is humour an effective way of communicating wisdom?","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"ANXGINAU2VFX5OXJAXZHFIPGZI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393712},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"BCHRVW2YZBFB3PFDFQZUJFDLDQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393713},"content":"Three things ancient wisdom teaches us","type":"header"},{"_id":"GN5O6ZBOIFGEXCLFSQRYYKOLEA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393714},"content":"Intellectual Humility","type":"header"},{"_id":"WYPKQN3VEBHEXP34O6JCICBDVA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393715},"content":"Or, as Crowley describes it, “the embrace of fallibility”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PFDUNDYNIRDLXKIY33NPRYGYV4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393716},"content":"“The Socratic claim to ignorance, that what one knows is that one knows nothing, is fundamental,” he says. “This is not the same as open-mindedness. One can be so open-minded that one’s brains fall out, to be filled with all sorts of nonsense. This ignorance is linked to the beginning of wonder and remains mere ignorance if not allied to a critical tool kit, and readiness to interrogate whatever comes before you, for its soundness and consistency.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"HDRNNDUU4JAVJEOLSCRWWYYXQU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393717},"content":"Intellectual Autonomy","type":"header"},{"_id":"RKJXXJFY4BHGXF7MWKHVYPVOO4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393718},"content":"“This goes together with a healthy scepticism of authority,” says Crowley, who explores how we may question what is fashionable today with how Aristotle challenged thought leaders. “For Aristotle, not even his teacher Plato, the greatest philosopher of all time, could be taken as an unapproachable authority. ‘Plato is my friend,’ he said, ‘but truth is a greater friend’.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"BRUDT6M55BECDDPOK6AYJR5E4U","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393719},"content":"Crowley recognises that ancient wisdom can feel close and familiar, but it is also “alien and unfamiliar”. Our understanding comes from “contexts and assumptions that we may need to reconstruct in order to make sense of their arguments, and frequently this can have the merit of helping us to see beyond the contexts and assumptions, or intellectual fashions, of our own situation.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"UU7E5GHZHRGDTCW7DLGQI6JJYA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393720},"content":"The Importance of Freedom","type":"header"},{"_id":"PQTFD4QWYRABJBSZO43MUSGH7U","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393721},"content":"”In a trivial sense, the need for leisure time, or freedom from immediate want, related to basic survival, to conduct philosophical investigations was apparent to the ancients,” says Crowley. “But such freedom is for the body and, while necessary for the business of doing philosophy, is not sufficient.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CB2QGMEZZ5CO3JBIIHUGTUVUWY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393723},"content":"“For that, one needs the freedom of the mind, firstly to question, and secondly, to pursue and disseminate results without restraint or regardless of any restraints. Conditions preserving and promoting this latter freedom have been rare and precious throughout history and are never, not even today, guaranteed.”","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Geraldine Walsh"}},"name":"Geraldine Walsh"}]},"description":{"basic":"Wellness Wisdom: Ancient wisdom encourages us to ask questions, challenge ideas and enable free thought, but is this happening?"},"display_date":"2025-04-03T05:01:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"The three simple lessons we can learn from ancient wisdom","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"SXEH5U3EODCVCG6TSXIOIOBFSA","auth":{"1":"9e6f0e6883b2da50cbd205247b79abcdff8b59d847a68d93a295f7984162c82f"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/SXEH5U3EODCVCG6TSXIOIOBFSA.jpg"}},"subtype":"feature","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Your Wellness"},{"name":"Health"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/health/your-wellness/2025/04/03/the-three-simple-lessons-we-can-learn-from-ancient-wisdom/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/health/your-wellness","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Your Wellness"}}}},{"_id":"C45UOUE3EBG2HN5GP3VIB6ZVDU","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":304,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/5469/podcasts/0d8de239-2d22-4949-96e7-da163aec9e30/versions/1742903291/media/e9301cb75a397c54ceece40d9d04af05_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/science/2025/04/03/misinformation-disinformation-and-conspiracy-theories-are-not-exclusive-to-the-political-right/","content_elements":[{"_id":"3WQI72GCIBGSLIAOQ3R5QJ2A5M","additional_properties":{},"content":"The great majority of conspiracy theories and disinformation spread about <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/environment/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/environment/\">environmental</a> and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/health/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/health/\">health</a> topics are popularly attributed to the conservative/right side of the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/\">political</a> spectrum. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"BLEEGIHVXRCB5P6FP3C7ROBC4E","additional_properties":{},"content":"But there is no shortage of conspiracy theories and disinformation generated by the left/liberal side of the spectrum – as <a href=\"https://reason.com/volokh/2023/05/31/political-ignorance-and-misinformation-on-the-left/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://reason.com/volokh/2023/05/31/political-ignorance-and-misinformation-on-the-left/\">outlined by Ilya Somin in Reason</a> (May 2023). ","type":"text"},{"_id":"XH3H5GC65NGAJK3MBLIINA2EJI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Misinformation is incorrect information spread without intent to harm, while disinformation is false information designed to mislead others. A conspiracy theory is a belief that some influential organisation/group is responsible for a notable event. Misinformation, disinformation and conspiracy theories are harmful, regardless of origin.","type":"text"},{"_id":"33IVYW4YH5CS5FML643STXI66M","additional_properties":{},"content":"Examples of misinformation and disinformation emanating from the left/liberal side include exaggerations about <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/environment/climate-crisis/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/environment/climate-crisis/\">climate change</a> and nuclear power, and dangers posed by genetically modified (GM) food. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"3VCBT2RIX5GXLDSWEIJSIHW4LI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Examples on the conservative/right include claims that Covid vaccines are ineffective or that drinking pasteurised milk is dangerous. Examples of conspiracy theories emanating from the left include the old theory blaming international Jewish wealth and influence for injustice, unemployment and corruption, echoed in recent years in <a href=\"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-45030552\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-45030552\">allegations</a> regarding the UK Labour Party at the time of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"2JC5CDKIOFAFNBBZ6HFZS2CI5E","additional_properties":{},"content":"And the “great replacement theory” is a well-known conspiracy theory on the right claiming a “race war” is ongoing to replace white people in the West with non-whites.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y5HZIDM74FEBVJFNZD4B2CV6HI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Wrong-headed ideas conflicting with science concerning climate change and other aspects of the environment are currently popular on the left. One such notion claims that the world faces an imminent climate change “tipping point” into global apocalypse within the next 10–20 years, whereas <a href=\"https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/observations/no-climate-change-will-not-end-the-world-in-12-years/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/observations/no-climate-change-will-not-end-the-world-in-12-years/\">science</a> tells us that things may get worse but civilisation will certainly not end within 20 years. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"RFEMHDE44ZBX3JMUAYPNYNBLGA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Significant minority of Irish people believe conspiracy theories, research shows","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"CJS2UMNGURDT3HVE2UKI4VPEHM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Another example is outright condemnation of GM foods as deadly dangerous both to human health and natural ecology, despite scientific validation of specific GM foods as safe for human consumption. Finally, we have the outright Green rejection of nuclear energy, the most effective clean energy source, to supplement renewable energy.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KC6K7BFKFRBMXHSHGX6CM7ZV5Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"A particularly egregious example of the left’s opposition to the settled position of science is the outright opposition to the introduction of golden rice (GR) to poor countries whose national diets centre entirely around white rice. White rice is devoid of essential Vitamin A. Vitamin A deficiency causes blindness and death, killing up to half a million people worldwide annually.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J4M4JML4VZBGJIYJVXFEALG6SQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"The tragedy is that this huge loss of life could be prevented by substituting GR for white rice. GR is genetically modified to produce a Vitamin A precursor Beta Carotene, which is converted to Vitamin A in the human body. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"GY7WJQ74LVGUPBOHPCJ2IUJKMA","additional_properties":{},"content":"GR is scientifically certified as safe to eat but nevertheless its introduction has been successfully frustrated by anti-GM organisations, principally Greenpeace. These organisations trumpet science when it suits them but ignore science when it doesn’t. They also have an ideological aversion to genetic engineering and a technical understanding of its effects that, in many respects, diverges considerably from mainline science.","type":"text"},{"_id":"C5LTSOAKKBEA7EZSDDOVKVHPBA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Greens are ideologically opposed to nuclear power, to some extent because nuclear power companies are capitalist corporations. That is not to say of course that there have not been genuine reasons to feel apprehensive about traditional large-scale nuclear power plants and about nuclear waste. However, we must also remember that the nuclear industry’s safety record in terms of deaths and injuries to workers is far better than any other energy industry – for example, coal or oil.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HMLFES6BS5HFDHII3FC23OLGSU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Recent nuclear power industry developments include small modular nuclear plants, factory-manufactured and assembled on-site. These plants largely rule out accidents that could threaten human life – if problems arise, the reactors fail safe. One modular plant could power a data centre. If a second data centre is needed, a second reactor can be placed on-site.","type":"text"},{"_id":"O4XNEGGTO5HW3NCKMJYRWJ6SXA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Of course, even small modular reactors generate high-level nuclear waste that must be segregated from the environment for thousands of years. But such waste is converted into a stable glass form for safe storage, stored long term in deep underground stable geological repositories. In Ireland’s case the overseas nuclear plant manufacturer would both supply the nuclear fuel and take back the high-level waste.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XERZRMWQ3ZDL3HGRF3XSCV7VAM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Ireland should consider small nuclear reactors to achieve zero-carbon energy by 2050, engineers’ think tank urges","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"2EPI4SWE6FGFFNA52CXTWVJPGM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Environmental groups generally greatly underestimate the difficulty in achieving net-zero carbon dioxide emissions if relying exclusively on renewable energy. It may be well-nigh impossible to reach net-zero without some assistance from nuclear energy.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KMI4E2GQNVD6BGAPNGF6BVWQFQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"In summary, misinformation, disinformation and conspiracy theories arise all along the political spectrum and they all sow confusion and frustrate progress.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PQPAT53RHBCLJP34FUWEPFL2XU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<i>William Reville is an emeritus professor of biochemistry at UCC</i>","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"William Reville"}},"name":"William Reville"}]},"description":{"basic":"From GM foods to nuclear power, there is no shortage of incorrect and harmful messaging on the left side of the spectrum"},"display_date":"2025-04-03T05:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Misinformation, disinformation and conspiracy theories are not exclusive to the political right","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"5469"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"EH2RIY7IJVNTJI4ESDXPQOGIIQ","auth":{"1":"88f818469eb31b9e4733b0cd09d4c2bfdd90a207b1ad0ab9328f26e1087a7ec8"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/EH2RIY7IJVNTJI4ESDXPQOGIIQ.jpg"}},"subtype":"columnist","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Science"},{"name":"Health"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/science/2025/04/03/misinformation-disinformation-and-conspiracy-theories-are-not-exclusive-to-the-political-right/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/science","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Science"}}}},{"_id":"LZ2TP4YZPJAAZCE5QORUBZX6NI","additional_properties":{},"canonical_url":"/ireland/social-affairs/2025/04/02/access-to-new-cancer-drugs-key-focus-of-new-patient-advocacy-group/","content_elements":[{"_id":"QF4JNBH4D5DMBFJF6AJDBQLVWI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Securing access to cutting edge cancer drugs is the initial focus of a new patient advocacy group, United Cancer Advocates Network (Ucan) Ireland.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MYHHJVBTJFD3VGPJAJ4B5YNFRM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Co-chairwoman Miriam Staunton, who was diagnosed with stage 3 melanoma back in 2018, says that the group brings together advocates across Ireland who have been living with a range of cancers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M5CNH5EXPRCRBA52WO6B5R5WMY","additional_properties":{},"content":"“While traditionally we have been advocating in our own disease areas, now we come together to speak as one voice on key issues that impact the whole cancer community,” she said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MVMXPWOVKBFLLIN4KQ2JRAAUJA","additional_properties":{},"content":"She described access to drugs as the “most pressing issue” for cancer patients. “This is an issue that has been dragging on for many yeas and is getting progressively worse,” she said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RNRHS7FI3JE4ZKYEEIOJMBULVE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill was in touch with the new group just ahead of its formal launch on Wednesday to say that she was happy to engage with them.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LQ4NBPZDVZHODN4U66HVZ5HXS4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Ucan Ireland says reports from the OECD and industry groups show that Ireland is much slower to approve new cancer drugs and approves fewer new medicines in the area than most other countries in western Europe.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DORCKZZOMNEPLNYQZZQBYS6NHM","additional_properties":{},"content":"She notes that Denmark approved the use 36 European Medicines Authority-approved medicines in an average of 134 days between 2019 and 2022 while Ireland backed the use of just 14 and took an average of 600 days to do so, citing a paper from the Irish Pharmaceutical Healthcare Association (Ipha), which represents drug developers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DU4ETQQVD5D4FO37JYXTPHTOEY","additional_properties":{},"content":"“The OECD paints a similar picture on access to medications deemed of high clinical; benefit,” she said. “Ireland languishes in 21st of 25 places, with access to under 40 per cent of these high benefit medications.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2YFXD3Q74FDJRF6HUA7WPFIOVU","additional_properties":{},"content":"“To make matters worse, many countries also have early access schemes so patients can access medications while health technology assessments and negotiations on price are under way. 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Our beliefs, perceptions and thoughts all affect our <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/mental-health/\" target=\"_self\">health</a>, mind and body. As a society, we have long explored the inner reaches of our mind to support our lives and while we still have a lot to learn about modern society and civilisation, many of these lessons come from our past, from ancient wisdom, and thought leaders who we have long looked towards to help understand life, health and wellbeing.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CMLYKSNT7NEPHBOOYTM6OANXUY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393696},"type":"image"},{"_id":"RUN6OQ2AZRFHFHGM44CPVOJDBM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393697},"content":"The wisdom held in our personal, cultural and social histories can have far reaching impact on our health and wellness.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2PFSNIDCOFD7XKGXOYEKV7PMFQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393698},"content":"But are we listening and what can we learn?","type":"text"},{"_id":"IZQXRPE5WBA7BLXHTHZPH3C2ZY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393699},"content":"Dr Tim Crowley, lecturer and assistant professor at the School of Philosophy, UCD, argues that the problem of presentism – the practice of judging historical figures by the moral and ethical standards of the present day – can negate the lessons to be learned. He refers to it as a “<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/tiktok/\" target=\"_self\">TikTok</a> history”, leading to demands “to pull down statues, rename or de-name buildings, or ransack curricula in schools and universities with a view to removing those parts of the canon that people today, in our present moment, might find problematic or not reflective of our values”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"52GJA7LQJRDEFPHO6VY2VKMBVE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393700},"content":"These reactions are not helpful as this attitude is a form of cognitive bias that prevents us from seeing what is being communicated and the lessons to be learned from history. 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Crowley specialises in ancient Greek wisdom and notes that the Greek revolution revolves around inquiry, criticism and self-reflective argument.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2EUCHOTUNVHVLLWSKHNX6BFHTM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393703},"content":"“The exemplar of Greek wisdom is Socrates,” he says, “but all he claimed to possess was a merely human wisdom, which is partial, limited and of little worth. It consists of knowing the extent of his ignorance. 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Shallow, fashionable ideas are always lurking in the shadows.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"5KAD53NUEFCPPEY6EUFCKQIPN4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393707},"content":"These “mind viruses” as Crowley puts it, limit free inquiry, which is crucial for society to not only have freedom of speech but also the freedom to hold others accountable.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PKKAY4XQVBA6VIXZEMCPKN7FJY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393708},"content":"Ancient wisdom encourages us to ask questions, challenge ideas and enable free thought, but is this happening?","type":"text"},{"_id":"FCSUDO5ADRDERLTHMQWJ3VVDDE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393709},"content":"Crowley suggests that university should be a place of free and open inquiry, a place we have “inherited from Socrates”. While we expect it to be a “mental or intellectual gymnasium devoted to mental fitness”, Crowley believes it is anything but that.","type":"text"},{"_id":"I63FEZADSFGC3EWVN5IEPYQJFM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393710},"content":"“Students are directed straight into the steam-room,” he says. “The hot house of homogeneous opinions. The weights are hidden, the spin bike disabled, the rowing machine locked up, the swimming pool empty. And yet even here in this sedentary, inert, comfortable and comforting scenario, which seems designed so that one enters and leaves with the same, unexamined opinions, mental health supports for anxiety and depression among the student body increase annually.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"DTXUOCDW5NEJHPH5WBAIHPA7XE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393711},"content":"Crowley suggests this is not a coincidence. “Perhaps mental health demands not safety, or protection, but resistance, and opposition, without which we become intellectually weak and vulnerable.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"BMUVC4KMIJG65IYKQMDNGW4SVU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393722},"content":"Is humour an effective way of communicating wisdom?","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"ANXGINAU2VFX5OXJAXZHFIPGZI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393712},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"BCHRVW2YZBFB3PFDFQZUJFDLDQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393713},"content":"Three things ancient wisdom teaches us","type":"header"},{"_id":"GN5O6ZBOIFGEXCLFSQRYYKOLEA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393714},"content":"Intellectual Humility","type":"header"},{"_id":"WYPKQN3VEBHEXP34O6JCICBDVA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393715},"content":"Or, as Crowley describes it, “the embrace of fallibility”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PFDUNDYNIRDLXKIY33NPRYGYV4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393716},"content":"“The Socratic claim to ignorance, that what one knows is that one knows nothing, is fundamental,” he says. “This is not the same as open-mindedness. One can be so open-minded that one’s brains fall out, to be filled with all sorts of nonsense. This ignorance is linked to the beginning of wonder and remains mere ignorance if not allied to a critical tool kit, and readiness to interrogate whatever comes before you, for its soundness and consistency.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"HDRNNDUU4JAVJEOLSCRWWYYXQU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393717},"content":"Intellectual Autonomy","type":"header"},{"_id":"RKJXXJFY4BHGXF7MWKHVYPVOO4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393718},"content":"“This goes together with a healthy scepticism of authority,” says Crowley, who explores how we may question what is fashionable today with how Aristotle challenged thought leaders. “For Aristotle, not even his teacher Plato, the greatest philosopher of all time, could be taken as an unapproachable authority. ‘Plato is my friend,’ he said, ‘but truth is a greater friend’.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"BRUDT6M55BECDDPOK6AYJR5E4U","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393719},"content":"Crowley recognises that ancient wisdom can feel close and familiar, but it is also “alien and unfamiliar”. Our understanding comes from “contexts and assumptions that we may need to reconstruct in order to make sense of their arguments, and frequently this can have the merit of helping us to see beyond the contexts and assumptions, or intellectual fashions, of our own situation.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"UU7E5GHZHRGDTCW7DLGQI6JJYA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393720},"content":"The Importance of Freedom","type":"header"},{"_id":"PQTFD4QWYRABJBSZO43MUSGH7U","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393721},"content":"”In a trivial sense, the need for leisure time, or freedom from immediate want, related to basic survival, to conduct philosophical investigations was apparent to the ancients,” says Crowley. “But such freedom is for the body and, while necessary for the business of doing philosophy, is not sufficient.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CB2QGMEZZ5CO3JBIIHUGTUVUWY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743588393723},"content":"“For that, one needs the freedom of the mind, firstly to question, and secondly, to pursue and disseminate results without restraint or regardless of any restraints. Conditions preserving and promoting this latter freedom have been rare and precious throughout history and are never, not even today, guaranteed.”","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Geraldine Walsh"}},"name":"Geraldine Walsh"}]},"description":{"basic":"Wellness Wisdom: Ancient wisdom encourages us to ask questions, challenge ideas and enable free thought, but is this happening?"},"display_date":"2025-04-03T05:01:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"The three simple lessons we can learn from ancient wisdom","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"SXEH5U3EODCVCG6TSXIOIOBFSA","auth":{"1":"9e6f0e6883b2da50cbd205247b79abcdff8b59d847a68d93a295f7984162c82f"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/SXEH5U3EODCVCG6TSXIOIOBFSA.jpg"}},"subtype":"feature","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Your Wellness"},{"name":"Health"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/health/your-wellness/2025/04/03/the-three-simple-lessons-we-can-learn-from-ancient-wisdom/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/health/your-wellness","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Your Wellness"}}}},{"_id":"C45UOUE3EBG2HN5GP3VIB6ZVDU","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":304,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/5469/podcasts/0d8de239-2d22-4949-96e7-da163aec9e30/versions/1742903291/media/e9301cb75a397c54ceece40d9d04af05_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/science/2025/04/03/misinformation-disinformation-and-conspiracy-theories-are-not-exclusive-to-the-political-right/","content_elements":[{"_id":"3WQI72GCIBGSLIAOQ3R5QJ2A5M","additional_properties":{},"content":"The great majority of conspiracy theories and disinformation spread about <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/environment/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/environment/\">environmental</a> and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/health/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/health/\">health</a> topics are popularly attributed to the conservative/right side of the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/\">political</a> spectrum. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"BLEEGIHVXRCB5P6FP3C7ROBC4E","additional_properties":{},"content":"But there is no shortage of conspiracy theories and disinformation generated by the left/liberal side of the spectrum – as <a href=\"https://reason.com/volokh/2023/05/31/political-ignorance-and-misinformation-on-the-left/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://reason.com/volokh/2023/05/31/political-ignorance-and-misinformation-on-the-left/\">outlined by Ilya Somin in Reason</a> (May 2023). ","type":"text"},{"_id":"XH3H5GC65NGAJK3MBLIINA2EJI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Misinformation is incorrect information spread without intent to harm, while disinformation is false information designed to mislead others. A conspiracy theory is a belief that some influential organisation/group is responsible for a notable event. Misinformation, disinformation and conspiracy theories are harmful, regardless of origin.","type":"text"},{"_id":"33IVYW4YH5CS5FML643STXI66M","additional_properties":{},"content":"Examples of misinformation and disinformation emanating from the left/liberal side include exaggerations about <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/environment/climate-crisis/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/environment/climate-crisis/\">climate change</a> and nuclear power, and dangers posed by genetically modified (GM) food. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"3VCBT2RIX5GXLDSWEIJSIHW4LI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Examples on the conservative/right include claims that Covid vaccines are ineffective or that drinking pasteurised milk is dangerous. Examples of conspiracy theories emanating from the left include the old theory blaming international Jewish wealth and influence for injustice, unemployment and corruption, echoed in recent years in <a href=\"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-45030552\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-45030552\">allegations</a> regarding the UK Labour Party at the time of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"2JC5CDKIOFAFNBBZ6HFZS2CI5E","additional_properties":{},"content":"And the “great replacement theory” is a well-known conspiracy theory on the right claiming a “race war” is ongoing to replace white people in the West with non-whites.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y5HZIDM74FEBVJFNZD4B2CV6HI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Wrong-headed ideas conflicting with science concerning climate change and other aspects of the environment are currently popular on the left. One such notion claims that the world faces an imminent climate change “tipping point” into global apocalypse within the next 10–20 years, whereas <a href=\"https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/observations/no-climate-change-will-not-end-the-world-in-12-years/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/observations/no-climate-change-will-not-end-the-world-in-12-years/\">science</a> tells us that things may get worse but civilisation will certainly not end within 20 years. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"RFEMHDE44ZBX3JMUAYPNYNBLGA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Significant minority of Irish people believe conspiracy theories, research shows","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"CJS2UMNGURDT3HVE2UKI4VPEHM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Another example is outright condemnation of GM foods as deadly dangerous both to human health and natural ecology, despite scientific validation of specific GM foods as safe for human consumption. Finally, we have the outright Green rejection of nuclear energy, the most effective clean energy source, to supplement renewable energy.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KC6K7BFKFRBMXHSHGX6CM7ZV5Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"A particularly egregious example of the left’s opposition to the settled position of science is the outright opposition to the introduction of golden rice (GR) to poor countries whose national diets centre entirely around white rice. White rice is devoid of essential Vitamin A. Vitamin A deficiency causes blindness and death, killing up to half a million people worldwide annually.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J4M4JML4VZBGJIYJVXFEALG6SQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"The tragedy is that this huge loss of life could be prevented by substituting GR for white rice. GR is genetically modified to produce a Vitamin A precursor Beta Carotene, which is converted to Vitamin A in the human body. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"GY7WJQ74LVGUPBOHPCJ2IUJKMA","additional_properties":{},"content":"GR is scientifically certified as safe to eat but nevertheless its introduction has been successfully frustrated by anti-GM organisations, principally Greenpeace. These organisations trumpet science when it suits them but ignore science when it doesn’t. They also have an ideological aversion to genetic engineering and a technical understanding of its effects that, in many respects, diverges considerably from mainline science.","type":"text"},{"_id":"C5LTSOAKKBEA7EZSDDOVKVHPBA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Greens are ideologically opposed to nuclear power, to some extent because nuclear power companies are capitalist corporations. That is not to say of course that there have not been genuine reasons to feel apprehensive about traditional large-scale nuclear power plants and about nuclear waste. However, we must also remember that the nuclear industry’s safety record in terms of deaths and injuries to workers is far better than any other energy industry – for example, coal or oil.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HMLFES6BS5HFDHII3FC23OLGSU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Recent nuclear power industry developments include small modular nuclear plants, factory-manufactured and assembled on-site. These plants largely rule out accidents that could threaten human life – if problems arise, the reactors fail safe. One modular plant could power a data centre. If a second data centre is needed, a second reactor can be placed on-site.","type":"text"},{"_id":"O4XNEGGTO5HW3NCKMJYRWJ6SXA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Of course, even small modular reactors generate high-level nuclear waste that must be segregated from the environment for thousands of years. But such waste is converted into a stable glass form for safe storage, stored long term in deep underground stable geological repositories. In Ireland’s case the overseas nuclear plant manufacturer would both supply the nuclear fuel and take back the high-level waste.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XERZRMWQ3ZDL3HGRF3XSCV7VAM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Ireland should consider small nuclear reactors to achieve zero-carbon energy by 2050, engineers’ think tank urges","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"2EPI4SWE6FGFFNA52CXTWVJPGM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Environmental groups generally greatly underestimate the difficulty in achieving net-zero carbon dioxide emissions if relying exclusively on renewable energy. It may be well-nigh impossible to reach net-zero without some assistance from nuclear energy.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KMI4E2GQNVD6BGAPNGF6BVWQFQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"In summary, misinformation, disinformation and conspiracy theories arise all along the political spectrum and they all sow confusion and frustrate progress.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PQPAT53RHBCLJP34FUWEPFL2XU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<i>William Reville is an emeritus professor of biochemistry at UCC</i>","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"William Reville"}},"name":"William Reville"}]},"description":{"basic":"From GM foods to nuclear power, there is no shortage of incorrect and harmful messaging on the left side of the spectrum"},"display_date":"2025-04-03T05:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Misinformation, disinformation and conspiracy theories are not exclusive to the political right","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"5469"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"EH2RIY7IJVNTJI4ESDXPQOGIIQ","auth":{"1":"88f818469eb31b9e4733b0cd09d4c2bfdd90a207b1ad0ab9328f26e1087a7ec8"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/EH2RIY7IJVNTJI4ESDXPQOGIIQ.jpg"}},"subtype":"columnist","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Science"},{"name":"Health"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/science/2025/04/03/misinformation-disinformation-and-conspiracy-theories-are-not-exclusive-to-the-political-right/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/science","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Science"}}}},{"_id":"LZ2TP4YZPJAAZCE5QORUBZX6NI","additional_properties":{},"canonical_url":"/ireland/social-affairs/2025/04/02/access-to-new-cancer-drugs-key-focus-of-new-patient-advocacy-group/","content_elements":[{"_id":"QF4JNBH4D5DMBFJF6AJDBQLVWI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Securing access to cutting edge cancer drugs is the initial focus of a new patient advocacy group, United Cancer Advocates Network (Ucan) Ireland.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MYHHJVBTJFD3VGPJAJ4B5YNFRM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Co-chairwoman Miriam Staunton, who was diagnosed with stage 3 melanoma back in 2018, says that the group brings together advocates across Ireland who have been living with a range of cancers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M5CNH5EXPRCRBA52WO6B5R5WMY","additional_properties":{},"content":"“While traditionally we have been advocating in our own disease areas, now we come together to speak as one voice on key issues that impact the whole cancer community,” she said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MVMXPWOVKBFLLIN4KQ2JRAAUJA","additional_properties":{},"content":"She described access to drugs as the “most pressing issue” for cancer patients. “This is an issue that has been dragging on for many yeas and is getting progressively worse,” she said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RNRHS7FI3JE4ZKYEEIOJMBULVE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill was in touch with the new group just ahead of its formal launch on Wednesday to say that she was happy to engage with them.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LQ4NBPZDVZHODN4U66HVZ5HXS4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Ucan Ireland says reports from the OECD and industry groups show that Ireland is much slower to approve new cancer drugs and approves fewer new medicines in the area than most other countries in western Europe.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DORCKZZOMNEPLNYQZZQBYS6NHM","additional_properties":{},"content":"She notes that Denmark approved the use 36 European Medicines Authority-approved medicines in an average of 134 days between 2019 and 2022 while Ireland backed the use of just 14 and took an average of 600 days to do so, citing a paper from the Irish Pharmaceutical Healthcare Association (Ipha), which represents drug developers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DU4ETQQVD5D4FO37JYXTPHTOEY","additional_properties":{},"content":"“The OECD paints a similar picture on access to medications deemed of high clinical; benefit,” she said. “Ireland languishes in 21st of 25 places, with access to under 40 per cent of these high benefit medications.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2YFXD3Q74FDJRF6HUA7WPFIOVU","additional_properties":{},"content":"“To make matters worse, many countries also have early access schemes so patients can access medications while health technology assessments and negotiations on price are under way. 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Average property values are up 7.5 per cent over the past year, it added.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AEB6BLPMKNEZNCGCSULZYZ633M","additional_properties":{"_id":1743692883916},"content":"“The first quarter of 2025 witnessed sustained and robust price growth in the residential market,” Sherry FitzGerald managing director Marian Finnegan said. “A critical factor underpinning this trend is the persistent shortage of supply in the second-hand housing sector, with stock levels reaching historic lows in January this year.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"M7KGB3ATF5AZLNSD6HWCAEIO2E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743692883917},"content":"Prices in Dublin continued to rise at a faster pace than the rest of the country, increasing 2.6 per cent in the quarter and 7.6 per cent year-on-year. 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Prices increased last year at almost double the rate of 2023, according to data from the Central Statistics Office (CSO), while Minister for Housing <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/james-browne/\" target=\"_self\">James Browne</a> acknowledged last month that apartment building had “collapsed” and needed a “radical” response from the Government to get construction going again.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DYNHCEWRCRFRRC6UI6KUS6FSHY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743692883919},"content":"Overall, housing completions fell to just over 30,000 last year, according to the CSO – barely half the 62,000 Sherry FitzGerald says is needed to meet demand.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GOCHDQRSSBBXDK3GJS4WZVZDKU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743692883920},"content":"About 0.5 per cent of the housing stock was listed for sale at the start of the year – far below the historic norm. Sales of second-hand homes declined 5.8 per cent in 2024 compared with a year ago, something the agent said was a “direct consequence” of the supply shortage overall.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M3QSOXYGEJHLPCVEAC7SFP3CCE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743692883921},"content":"Meanwhile, new home sales continued to rise, jumping 7.7 per cent in 2024. The Greater Dublin Area accounted for about 54 per cent of all new-home transactions.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6PXAAHUC7ZGCXOQPHM4CFASJ24","additional_properties":{"_id":1743692883922},"content":"“The residential market in 2025 continues to grapple with persistent challenges,” Ms Finnegan added. “Declines in planning permissions, housing commencements, and completions, as highlighted in recent reports, emphasise the urgent need for Government action to tackle the housing crisis.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"YZY5GWJBNJA33OPETBJWL7Z724","additional_properties":{"_id":1743692883923},"content":"Sherry FitzGerald also highlighted that landlords continue to leave the market, undermining the rental market.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WELUOEQMYFGNDPH7NBFPEUVKIM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743692883924},"content":"About 8 per cent of second-hand home buyers through Sherry FitzGerald were investors during the first quarter, it said, while 30 per cent of vendors were investors selling their properties.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Peter Flanagan"}},"name":"Peter Flanagan"}]},"description":{"basic":"Estate agent shows second hand home prices rose 2.3% between January and March"},"display_date":"2025-04-04T05:00:01Z","headlines":{"basic":"House prices in Ireland continue to rise as shortage drives demand higher","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"5469"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"WBN7CCFQM5HOPJOBHB6HQ2QNZI","auth":{"1":"47245db3e483093bf5beddca209d2cc8af4b65f93bd00c302492eb2603e60026"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/WBN7CCFQM5HOPJOBHB6HQ2QNZI.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Business"},{"name":"Property"},{"name":"Residential"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/business/2025/04/04/housing-stock-levels-reached-a-historic-low-in-january/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/business","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Business"}}}},{"_id":"JVLYIJGCYJCC7NPT55TGDCHNJY","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":206,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/9f664daa-0b13-4936-bbd9-65709e84c81f/versions/1743177822/media/23b89f22700bce8c41633bef1b962bc4_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/property/residential/2025/04/04/what-will-165000-buy-in-france-turkey-spain-sweden-and-co-leitrim/","content_elements":[{"_id":"CS4KFY5GZNEMZLF2BRXW676UWM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Ireland: Co Leitrim","type":"header"},{"_id":"IH4G2X4PGJHFFFY3SEAZP6YVPQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"This <a href=\"https://oboyleproperty.ie/listing/curraun-kiltyclogher-co-leitrim-f91-dv20/\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://oboyleproperty.ie/listing/curraun-kiltyclogher-co-leitrim-f91-dv20/\">double-fronted, four-bedroom house</a> on an elevated site outside the village of Kiltyclogher, Co Leitrim, requires refurbishment. The house is on about an acre of land and extends to 117sq m (1,259sq ft). Included are numerous stone outhouses. The G-rated residence is near the homestead of Seán MacDiarmada, signatory of the 1916 Proclamation. 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Its bedrooms, under the eaves, lead one through to the other. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZUCORCQRJJFP5JRSJBLNN4NK4U","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Agent </b>Christophe Legoffe Capi France","type":"text"},{"_id":"22VA5LYVPFDHPC2SC7K5FHESPE","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Price </b>€165,000","type":"text"},{"_id":"ADCIYG6CRFCVDHT43E4QWZE56Y","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"22VA5LYVPFDHPC2SC7K5FHESPE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Spain: Playa Flamenca","type":"text"},{"_id":"ACILDBXGQFFTHDXQCDXN4QRO74","additional_properties":{},"content":"This centrally located <a href=\"https://yourdreamhome.es/property/orihuela-costa-YDHR4987369/\" rel=\"\">two-bedroom, two-bathroom villa</a> in Playa Flamenca, about 4km south of the Mediterranean city of Torrevieja on the Costa Blanca, is within a very short walk of a beach, Playa de Cala Mosca. It has a private, shaded front terrace, and a south-facing roof terrace of 35sq m (376sq ft). The main bedroom and en suite are on the ground floor, with a second bedroom and bathroom upstairs. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"Z2LGEVKG45GQHEJEAMJY7ZWHMU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Agent</b> Your Dream Home","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZG6QQ2HP65B6PEIY5FW2BLZB3Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Price</b> €165,000","type":"text"},{"_id":"3M7CGSRMUZAI3FEZTM3QIU2TOE","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"SXRTO2WR4ZAXNKQAGUYT2IQY5Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"Turkey: Lara","type":"header"},{"_id":"JUCGYQRZTREF3HVF377UZ3VQKE","additional_properties":{},"content":"At the start of the Lyncean Way, Anatalya offers a mix of culture, gastronomy and beach vibes. This <a href=\"https://www.spotblue.com/properties/tranta648/\" rel=\"\">newly built one-bedroom apartment with communal pool</a>, in its eastern suburb of Lara, is just a few streets from the centre and a 15-minute walk to Larena beach. This spacious property extends to 84sq m (904sq ft) and includes a large balcony. In winter you can turn your attention to the ski slopes, for it is about a 75-minute drive to Saklikent, a high-altitude resort to the northeast. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"OJ6GQL7RINFBDP3KTCCQNKCQ5M","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Price </b>€162,257 (UK£135,459) ","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q4RHS6MP2BBLNCPYPB32ODWCLM","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Agent </b>Spot Blue","type":"text"},{"_id":"WL7EEE6XD5ASTBEGF35TIARU6Y","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"BOHPSJFDCZG73D7427UVSS4HIU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Sweden: Broby","type":"header"},{"_id":"DG67LQYXQJD4PJ64IUVV6OWUUY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Broby, in the heart of Skåne County, is about a 90-minute drive north of Malmo, Sweden’s third-largest city. This <a href=\"https://smalands.sfbab.se/fastighet/cmvilla5kj2lsst656ctcmm/\" rel=\"\">two-bedroom, two-storey timber house</a> dates from 1909 and has Scandi-chic pale timber floors, white painted timber ceilings and a similarly pale kitchen with a range cooker. Classic and antique furniture decorate the house, which extends to 67sq m (721sq ft). From the covered back porch you can survey the gardens, which extend to 0.4 of an acre. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"RLOLYNBD4ZADFIUDFWDWK6JCAU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Price</b> €165,426 (SEK 1.795million)","type":"text"},{"_id":"5WKLWT6WZZCSDPJ6NF4BZIRO2E","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Agent</b> Smålands Fastighetsbyrå","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Alanna Gallagher"}},"name":"Alanna Gallagher"}]},"description":{"basic":"Two apartments in Castellane, an apartment in Anatalya’s seaside suburb, a two-bedroom villa on the Costa Blanca, a timber house in Skåne County, or a fixer-upper in Kiltycloger?"},"display_date":"2025-04-04T04:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"What will €165,000 buy in France, Turkey, Spain, Sweden and Co Leitrim?","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"73NHIOQ6JNFRBMXY3S5AZVGIAQ","auth":{"1":"2eed11439cc313466bbb55397733627ce7994394a8a58aa4e7763b4f93ad21a7"},"focal_point":{"x":1853,"y":1165},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/73NHIOQ6JNFRBMXY3S5AZVGIAQ.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Residential"},{"name":"Property"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/property/residential/2025/04/04/what-will-165000-buy-in-france-turkey-spain-sweden-and-co-leitrim/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/property/residential","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Residential"}}}},{"_id":"HUWT33ZV6BCUXDFLKZ2K6FBBE4","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":180,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/c6626e1d-5fca-4f74-85d7-eeb9bb2f9b8f/versions/1743428841/media/9558f9f8ca318f12a0dc7e697cab382d_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/property/residential/2025/04/03/five-homes-on-view-this-week-in-dublin-and-offaly-from-250000-to-985000/","content_elements":[{"_id":"XWMUZXDIZZGX3BUOJHJR2OFWXI","additional_properties":{},"content":"23 Parkside Close, Balgriffin, Dublin 13","type":"header"},{"_id":"34L4UTCCFJAE3A2SAIEQFPNNLE","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>€525,000, Auctioneera</b>","type":"header"},{"_id":"UZ7C4ZW4INESFKQXJGNJXNFNUA","additional_properties":{},"content":"This <a href=\"https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/23-parkside-close-balgriffin-dublin-13/4912704\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/23-parkside-close-balgriffin-dublin-13/4912704\">three-bedroom, three-bathroom terraced property</a> extends to 113sq m (1,216sq ft) and is within about a 20-minute walk of Clongriffin Dart station. The property has a separate livingroom and kitchen, downstairs WC and a large kitchen that opens out to a southwest-facing garden. The main bedroom is en suite. Ber A3.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EPLWV5WI4FGFNKZJMUJA2M5EVA","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>On view</b> By appointment at auctioneera.ie","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y5QRYPQMYRH2NH5RDYXFKWHEIM","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"NILRPJQF6NFBLAVQ4ICCXTIANQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"41 Hermitage Drive, Rathfarnham, Dublin 16","type":"header"},{"_id":"N7DJV4PTF5HQTONKHZA7LHZRZM","additional_properties":{},"content":"€895,000, DNG","type":"header"},{"_id":"GVLPEP2TSVCHRPK2HUIYFR72SE","additional_properties":{},"content":"This double-fronted, <a href=\"\" rel=\"\" title=\"\">detached four-bedroom, three-bathroom house</a> is just a few streets from St Enda’s Park and within easy access of schools. It extends to 148sq m (1,593sq ft), has interconnecting reception rooms, a family room and a kitchen that opens to a conservatory. The main bedroom includes an en suite. 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In walk-in condition, the house extends to 103sq m (1,109sq ft) and is close to shops, schools and restaurants. Ber C1.","type":"text"},{"_id":"X4XFLXEHXBCPFDT77BFBYYWOLE","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>On view </b>By appointment at huntersestateagent.ie","type":"text"},{"_id":"3WCEFZVQSFAENJ4HVT623HEZ4M","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"OQPXSBEFDBDI7P4OL25KPZ5CKI","additional_properties":{},"content":"3 Prospect Hill, Donabate, Co Dublin","type":"header"},{"_id":"QO7BT465TVEYHBOSAHQEA26DEQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>€985,000, Sherry FitzGerald</b>","type":"header"},{"_id":"XBNK7BTH5VHVXG2SMTE22WKXLA","additional_properties":{},"content":"This <a href=\"https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/3-prospect-hill-donabate-co-dublin/4913294\" rel=\"\">four-bedroom, four-bathroom detached house</a> is on the edge of the extensive Newbridge House demesne, outside Donabate village and a short walk from its train station. It is within easy reach of north Dublin’s best beaches. The 255sq m (2,744sq ft) home has mature planted gardens. Ber C2.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2UOLLSWXWRGBVGYQ3GXJJN6TTU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>On view</b> By appointment at sherryfitz.ie","type":"text"},{"_id":"32FCSTM3JZET3OL6LNUB3YK4U4","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"4WDML6PTQBG6TCDWREIV4DFZWQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Ballyegan Lodge, Ballyegan, Birr, Co Offaly","type":"header"},{"_id":"RQ5Q4RGKV5EADH6KE5MUAXJNQE","additional_properties":{},"content":"€250,000, Sherry FitzGerald Fogarty","type":"header"},{"_id":"JN2VXQ2FCRH2BPOYTOPSY3FQ24","additional_properties":{},"content":"Set on half an acre, this <a href=\"https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/ballyegan-lodge-ballyegan-birr-co-offaly/4913336\" rel=\"\">two-bedroom, one-bathroom Ber-exempt detached house</a> has been gently restored to make the most of its period features, which include high gables and an oriel window. 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Whether home or abroad, there are constant reminders of Ireland everywhere – whether it’s Seachtain na Gaeilge, the minty McDonald’s milkshake or a big bowl of shamrock being handed over across the pond. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"LYOMEBMYM5FSXASY6I7UZOBSPY","additional_properties":{},"content":"For John Molloy, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/business/work/2025/03/23/the-irish-man-behind-memo-perfumes-my-wife-interviewed-22-of-the-best-noses-in-the-world/\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/business/work/2025/03/23/the-irish-man-behind-memo-perfumes-my-wife-interviewed-22-of-the-best-noses-in-the-world/\">a perfumer based in Geneva</a>, although he’s been away a long time, he misses the Irish “countryside, horses, the fresh air, culture, the banter and storytelling, the smiles and generosity, and living close to the elements”. 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After <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/business/work/2025/03/16/a-carlow-man-of-steel-who-helped-build-dubai-there-was-always-money-available-to-make-construction-projects-look-good/\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/business/work/2025/03/16/a-carlow-man-of-steel-who-helped-build-dubai-there-was-always-money-available-to-make-construction-projects-look-good/\">four decades in the sun</a>, O’Kelly is well acclimatised to desert living. He does say, however, that, “sometimes I miss the soft Irish rainfall after many months of continuous sunshine”. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"UMDWWZP2HJARLBID475UKSAFSE","additional_properties":{},"content":"With the many transatlantic crossovers over the last few weeks – and not all positive – one welcomed comment came from the Irish-born head of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Prof Louise Richardson, who said that the contribution of immigrants to the United States has “been called into question” but they “<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/03/18/immigration-makes-the-united-states-what-it-is-boston-irish-audience-told/\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/03/18/immigration-makes-the-united-states-what-it-is-boston-irish-audience-told/\">make the country what it is</a>”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2CQVCF3X5JBBHAATELTTUHG32E","additional_properties":{},"content":"In a similar vein, London Correspondent Mark Paul writes about the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2025/03/22/im-not-a-plastic-paddy-we-have-irish-americans-so-why-not-irish-britons/ \" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2025/03/22/im-not-a-plastic-paddy-we-have-irish-americans-so-why-not-irish-britons/ \">Irish identity of people born in Britain</a>, where six million have at least one Irish grandparent, which can be complex and personal. London cab driver John Swaine, whose parents are both Irish, for example, refutes the idea that he is a “plastic Paddy”. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"3FHVYYHZ6NBM3NMPFA63VZ7J6Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"Meanwhile, columnist Laura Kennedy, who is based in Canberra, Australia, writes that Irish people abroad often have an obligation to act in an “<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/abroad/2025/03/26/laura-kennedy-as-an-irish-person-abroad-you-are-handed-a-minor-unofficial-diplomatic-role-i-do-it-gracelessly/\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/abroad/2025/03/26/laura-kennedy-as-an-irish-person-abroad-you-are-handed-a-minor-unofficial-diplomatic-role-i-do-it-gracelessly/\">unofficial diplomatic role</a>” to the everyday stereotypes of drinking Guinness and having red hair.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Z2DM5UAYWZFUXLBCLIVXTBJWWU","additional_properties":{},"content":"“You field the assumptions of other people, understanding that their lack of familiarity with your place of origin leads them to rely sometimes on tired stereotypes because they aren’t sure what else to say to you,” she says. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"IWDHSO37AZFSTJNNYZPPNHUSKQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Elsewhere, Irish man Daryl O’Leary and his wife Maiara dos Santos Carvalho <a href=\"\" rel=\"\" title=\"\">spoke to Niamh Towey</a> about how despite the fact the housing crisis drove them out of the Irish capital, they “couldn’t be happier” in their move to the German capital.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2IRCPYVRIJD7RNFER3THW2KXT4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Scott McCormack left his job at Intel in Naas for a chance at a better work-life balance in Spain. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/abroad/2025/03/05/an-irishman-in-spain-salaries-are-much-lower-here-but-my-mental-health-is-far-better/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/abroad/2025/03/05/an-irishman-in-spain-salaries-are-much-lower-here-but-my-mental-health-is-far-better/\">He followed his parents to Torrevieja on the Costa Blanca</a>, where he finds “the cost of living is so much cheaper than at home”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HFUF2QEJFFAYTG7ODZ4T4V4QJE","additional_properties":{},"content":"“When I get up in the morning here and feel the sun on my face, I feel alive. My mental health is so much better here – doing my job with huge satisfaction every day.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"UC6JC6GT7ZCVPHEMFMUFJGX3CQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"That’s it for this month, thanks for reading. See you in the next. ","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Rebecca Daly"}},"name":"Rebecca Daly"}]},"description":{"basic":"We hear from an Irish man who helped build Dubai and a couple enjoying their move to Berlin"},"display_date":"2025-03-27T13:57:30.42Z","headlines":{"basic":"A ‘gentler’ life in Geneva","native":"Irish Times Abroad newsletter: An Irish perfumer’s ‘gentler’ life in Geneva"},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"WJC5XYPIE5CRJCJVEVM2YBFUUA","auth":{"1":"4134ddf614d1309c270637479dfdf3844ef7bb765e80a9663a3fc6b8d3faac7d"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/WJC5XYPIE5CRJCJVEVM2YBFUUA.jpg"}},"subtype":"editors-note","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Abroad"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/abroad/2025/03/27/irish-times-abroad-geneva-canberra-berlin-spain/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/abroad","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Abroad"}}}},{"_id":"BXO4BSKAYNDAJMUWB6RXBODBCM","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":416,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/4fafb85b-ca8c-4333-be1a-0f11d7571a09/versions/1742314758/media/65420f70b99dc3b2af09076e2e1f1dbb_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/abroad/2025/03/26/laura-kennedy-as-an-irish-person-abroad-you-are-handed-a-minor-unofficial-diplomatic-role-i-do-it-gracelessly/","content_elements":[{"_id":"HYTMRNZI6NAJ5AFBH762IMK7EM","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I read your article in the paper a few weeks back.” An older lady has come up to me with a slightly disapproving tone in her voice.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OJP27MLJ4NGBZNQMHZT33YESCE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Oh no, I think. Who have I offended now?","type":"text"},{"_id":"DXOAFDVQKRDSVMZSSW6ASNSCRM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Her accent is distinctly Irish, but flecked with Australian cadence. The sort of accent an Irish person might develop after decades of living here in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/australia/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/australia/\">Australia</a>. The earthy notes of a midlands accent occasionally soar off at the end of a word, shooting upwards with the sort of warm climate tonal optimism Australians have. “It was <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/abroad/2025/02/13/the-word-now-is-a-weapon-that-irish-people-wield-as-needed-but-australians-use-it-differently/\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/abroad/2025/02/13/the-word-now-is-a-weapon-that-irish-people-wield-as-needed-but-australians-use-it-differently/\">that article</a> about how Irish people say ‘now’ all the time,” she told me, her eyebrows furrowed suspiciously. “I think if Australians read that kind of thing, they won’t take us seriously.” ","type":"text"},{"_id":"WVB7EXSNIFAZTA3J5EJBA45FGA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Well, look. It was the most affectionate article I’ve written in some time. And, in my defence, we really do have countless uses for the word “now”. So much so that there is that viral video online of an Irish dog jolting upright from his rest every time the woman who owns him says “Now!” because he knows it means a new activity is about to happen. I consider the best reply and tell the woman that I think she might be mistaken. I’m pretty sure it was <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/author/fintan-otoole/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/author/fintan-otoole/\">Fintan O’Toole</a> who had written that particular article. While the woman battles a deep instinct that this really doesn’t sound right at all (reasonable), I politely excuse myself to get a drink.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QP45K5WQSZBRLOKS7EC73NDCSQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"The Irish woman and I are both at the Irish Embassy in Canberra for the annual St Patrick’s Day celebration. It’s a lovely event. People come along festooned in green and you can watch diplomats from around the world primly eat mini bits of Guinness fruit loaf and black pudding on a tiny slice of potato (delicious) and politely avert their gaze from that one guy who has gone full tilt and dyed his beard green. Children perform Irish dance for the gathering, and there is one impossibly tiny little girl among their number whose enthusiasm for the dance slightly outstrips her still developing motor skills and attention span. She freestyles joyfully as the bigger kids stick to their routine. All the respectable grown-ups in the crowd clearly envy her sort of just vibing things out to the music, her little face aglow with happiness.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XT4U6Q4Z7NFIZEW6H7FRXJ5DKI","subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"ZMBYMF4MOVBIVNNSIWNGPHF3CE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Some of the attendees are Irish-born, but Canberra’s supply of more recent Irish immigrants is lower than that of Melbourne, Sydney or even Brisbane. It is a stark reminder that, as an Irish person in Australia, you are sort of handed an unofficial diplomatic post on arrival. This realisation concerns me deeply as I look around at how well-behaved the actual diplomats are and consider my most recent (but not most egregious) instance of identity fraud against a veteran Irish journalist just minutes before.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JMBOJ3JUF5GDPCXZR5F5VAZB6I","additional_properties":{},"content":"Wherever you go, the accent gives you away. You become answerable for everything from the political decisions of Irish leaders (“What’s going on over there? Don’t a lot of US troops move through Ireland?”) to “What is this stuff about a Tayto sandwich I saw on TikTok? Who is Tayt O’Sandwich?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"KSMHKOE3GRBFZK5ZYA6H2EA4YU","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Yes” is my answer to the first question and “a controversial Irish-American influencer from Philadelphia” my answer to the second.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EO3YQ5TA7FHLFGK6BZHOBN7F74","additional_properties":{},"content":"Autumn in Australia: I wonder if you ever get used to it?","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"YGEDTOE375D5ZAPF6UMPCHE6X4","additional_properties":{},"content":"You field the assumptions of other people, understanding that their lack of familiarity with your place of origin leads them to rely sometimes on tired stereotypes because they aren’t sure what else to say to you.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PNS6BN54YNEPXPAISKISS56EFU","additional_properties":{},"content":"“A big Guinness drinker then, are you?” my neighbour asks me in the lift later in the day.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DNGUCX5XCZFNDL6IEUS3KUJG7M","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Yes,” I reply, affecting a concerned expression. “It’s a real problem, actually. I’m worried about my liver.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"RWHSPC4XFBDRJDJ6ILOKD2L76M","additional_properties":{},"content":"We descend the remaining seven floors in total silence.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RSQSMI6JUZGO7CJWWJ2SJF6WE4","additional_properties":{},"content":"I decide not to tell him I’m a teetotaller.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MBG6KOB5ANFHNJPY7MOQS2UEEI","additional_properties":{},"content":"The problem with national stereotypes, of course, is that they are often rooted in some observable pattern over time. Are all Irish people drinkers? Certainly not. Are our culture and history infused with alcohol? Yes, a bit. If it caught light it might burn blue as a Christmas pudding. People know this about Ireland. Sometimes it’s all they know. As an Irish person abroad, you are kind of pitched into a deeply incompetent nonconsensual ambassadorial role.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4RRR3XVDV5EE5IWXB5W3WM5F2U","additional_properties":{},"content":"On the supermarket shelf, Mr Tayto felt as relatable as any other Irish immigrant in a new country. Out of place","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"6Z2KTUEQ4BBCZCJOEBSRU33RNQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"You’ll find yourself feeling defensive when a woman you just met bellows, “You don’t have red hair!” and think “and you don’t have an inside voice”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EWDY33QHCZFFDDD2B2RCKZBKZE","additional_properties":{},"content":"You’ll find yourself saying things such as “You should try Irish butter!” to a group of Australians you’re having lunch with, when one of them comments approvingly on the perfectly adequate (but not Kerrygold standard) butter in the restaurant. “Are you in the pay of big butter?” one guy will respond sardonically. Fair enough. Why do I feel the need to be out here – 17,400km from Kerry – shifting units for Kerrygold? ","type":"text"},{"_id":"DCYHKSX7M5G3NDZSBD5UEXBZK4","additional_properties":{},"content":"You have to watch yourself. Anything you do or say will be tied up in their conception of Irishness from then on. If an Irish person says something bigoted abroad, he will be remembered not as the bigoted guy, but the bigoted Irish guy. If he mistakes a dingo for a domestic dog, as I did recently at the zoo, then he is not the “guy who can’t tell what a dog is” but “the stupid Irish writer who doesn’t recognise a dog when she sees it”. In my defence, there was a sign next to the dingo enclosure announcing that the dingoes take “a walk around the zoo” with their keepers each morning <i>on a lead</i>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZRIETNJL2BCQVNFZ6DEBX4HRSE","additional_properties":{},"content":"So, you know. My mistake.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OAH5XJSUWNB75FBQOW6EIOLHPE","additional_properties":{},"content":"I perform my minor diplomatic role gracelessly. Honestly, I don’t want the job, for all it is part of the package when you emigrate. All we can do is rely on Irish thought leaders like Tayt O’Sandwich and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/conor-mcgregor\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/conor-mcgregor\">Conor McGregor</a> to represent us positively on the global stage.","type":"text"},{"_id":"H2WVF7QSZVBWNODNZ7TELZF2SE","additional_properties":{},"content":"And if anything goes wrong, I’ve found it helps to just blame it on Fintan O’Toole.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SNXWNMTNZ5FKDKP5SVKDQCL6CU","type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Laura Kennedy"}},"name":"Laura Kennedy"}]},"description":{"basic":"As an Irish person in Australia, you are handed a minor unofficial diplomatic role. 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Yet forces continue to work against this essential goal. A recent example is the granting of planning permission for a new large power plant on the Shannon Estuary. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"6IVDAXBWCVBEBPSVFEGEFBFXFQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Fuelled by natural gas, this plant will have two-thirds the capacity of Moneypoint, the coal-fired power station being retired after four decades. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZJ7LPSY6GJCHFLEVXRGYFVBQYA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Viewed in isolation, this project might appear to be consistent with climate goals: Gas-fired power can ramp up and down quickly to balance intermittent renewables, and natural gas has lower carbon intensity than coal. The emissions from a unit of electricity generated at a new gas plant would be around half those of Moneypoint.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CQW57CXUM5FQFD6CFRCRCJTRTA","additional_properties":{},"content":"New fossil power generation can, in theory, not be in conflict with Ireland’s climate law, as long as it is used to replace coal rather than meet new demand, and to meet peaks in demand that renewables cannot. The same logic underpins the government’s decision to develop a state-led liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal: that it will serve only as an emergency backstop, not to meet growing demand.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IO24PRGBIJDNFOJWULUWDYK6BM","additional_properties":{},"content":"But these projects do not exist in isolation. It is worth asking: what mechanisms are in place to constrain the use of this infrastructure in line with the climate law, and imperative to cut fossil fuel use rapidly? And do they outweigh the powerful incentives – financial, political, and institutional – that will push for its use?","type":"text"},{"_id":"UPQKCQ47NJHMHMSJE7UNZH5IOU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Take the example of the newly approved power plant. It is one part of a broader development proposed by Shannon LNG, a subsidiary of US company New Fortress Energy, which also includes a commercial LNG terminal and a large data centre campus. If developed, this project would spell booming demand and use for a fossil fuel that is more carbon intensive than coal. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"UUV23HQLABBWDP7YNLZX63ZDR4","additional_properties":{},"content":"There is no sign of a co-ordinated policy effort to limit the full buildout or operation of these developments. In fact, several of the policies to constrain developments like this put in place during the last government have been lifted. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"4QMKC7HFPNCCZEXGFZDVB5YVDU","additional_properties":{},"content":"The Government’s recent decision to move ahead with a state-led LNG terminal revoked the 2021 Policy Statement on the Importation of Fracked Gas, which had opposed LNG infrastructure and pledged support for an international phase-out of fracking. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"ODC63MD3GFH2FL776ZJOXR7DUI","additional_properties":{},"content":"That policy had a real impact: An Bord Pleanála cited it in refusing permission for the Shannon LNG terminal. But that refusal was overturned in the High Court in 2024, and the case continues. With the policy now withdrawn, one of the key constraints on LNG infrastructure has been removed. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"LIO42PY36RHOPJEVMGOTN2OHYM","additional_properties":{},"content":"If imported LNG is sourced from fracked gas in the US, as is highly likely, any theoretical climate benefit from switching from coal to gas largely disappears. Methane leakage during fracking and the emissions associated with liquefaction and shipping mean the life-cycle emissions can approach or exceed those of coal.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XOQZYOF35FAKBBM774NWBP7D3Y","subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"CB6TDU2G25AZTKDICVNCNEZ5JA","additional_properties":{},"content":"A similar dynamic is playing out with electricity demand. The Commission for Regulation of Utilities (CRU) recently published its policy on connecting Large Energy Users – mainly data centres – to the electricity grid. While many expected the policy to require data centres to procure or develop new renewable capacity to meet their demand, the CRU decided that the Climate Act does not give it a clear legal mandate to impose such emissions-related requirements. Instead, new data centres must now provide on-site dispatchable generation – most likely powered by gas.","type":"text"},{"_id":"A3P7PDD4BRDZLHE6GUPJM37R5I","additional_properties":{},"content":"This raises broader questions about the implementation of the Climate Act. Section 15 requires that all public bodies perform their functions in a manner consistent with climate obligations. If a regulator as central as the CRU does not interpret this as a mandate to constrain emissions through its policies, what does that imply for other state bodies? ","type":"text"},{"_id":"O62JGQS5UFD7NB63KZAHR22NHE","additional_properties":{},"content":"With a view of this bigger picture – with restrictions on LNG imports and data centre gas demand lifted – it is difficult to believe that new fossil fuel infrastructure is intended as a backup only. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"4NS5EMMJCJAWLIGKUVA4HBCQTY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Seen in this broader context, where the barriers to LNG imports are being lifted, and where fossil fuel demand from data centres is enabled rather than constrained, it is hard to maintain the pretence that new gas infrastructure will be used only as backup. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"NI5GD5NVFJBWDPRK6X2QOJ22HE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Indeed, projections for future gas use already exceed what is allowable under Ireland’s carbon budgets. The strongest driver of this growth is data centres, which are increasingly seeking direct connections to the gas grid. A direction to Gas Networks Ireland under Eamon Ryan’s tenure as minister for energy, to halt the permitting of new gas connection agreements to data centres, is unlikely to hold weight for much longer. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"YHP44H2KZNF25DLHD3TYJHY7YM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Geopolitical pressures further complicate the picture. Ireland, like many countries, is under pressure to approve new data centres to serve global tech interests, and to facilitate LNG exports from the United States, which are being aggressively promoted under the new US administration.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JX6PVYYY55GILEP7OTRNCU7LZE","additional_properties":{},"content":"If we continue to invest in securing yesterday’s energy system, the greatest cost may be the missed opportunity to build tomorrow’s. Investing in fossil fuel infrastructure under the banner of energy security risks delaying or diverting the investment needed to deliver a genuinely secure and sustainable energy system based on renewables, electrification, grid expansion and efficiency. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"GM3TC7HBJ5HF3JF6WZTAQ46IGQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"This same issue arises beyond the energy sector. Public bodies responsible for transport, food and land use also continue to support policies and investments that increase emissions – such as expanding road infrastructure or reinforcing emissions-intensive agricultural practices. If Section 15 of the Climate Act is not interpreted as a clear legal obligation to align all public functions with climate goals, then the credibility of Ireland’s decarbonisation pathway is at risk. The Climate Change Advisory Council’s recommendation to review and, where necessary, amend the mandates of all public bodies is therefore increasingly urgent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"P5EHSIETRVADVBWTHO7W2BKPQA","additional_properties":{},"content":"The fundamental question remains unanswered: once fossil fuel infrastructure is built, what enforceable constraints will ensure it is used only as a last resort?","type":"text"},{"_id":"HMGRQOI44RAVZBWNDFSWT3L6NY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Without a clear, legally grounded plan for how fossil fuels will be phased out, and how state bodies will be held accountable for that trajectory, the promise of clean energy remains undermined by the reality of ongoing fossil investment. The government must urgently introduce enforceable policies and accountability mechanisms to ensure that investments today do not compromise tomorrow’s climate and energy security.","type":"text"},{"_id":"44ZO3D4WCRC43IYPCV6QM2JMO4","additional_properties":{},"content":"<i>Hannah Daly is professor of sustainable energy at UCC</i>","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Hannah Daly"}},"name":"Hannah Daly"}]},"description":{"basic":"The greatest cost of new fossil fuel projects may be the missed opportunity to build clean energy"},"display_date":"2025-04-03T06:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Sunk costs in fossil fuel infrastructure could sink us","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"BW3JPMO457CFS3R5GWOSYPX2IQ","auth":{"1":"8798277ba6cdc9b28fdf3b89d8dc2d150e1ed0476f63886f4dfffabe44809c83"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/BW3JPMO457CFS3R5GWOSYPX2IQ.JPG"}},"subtype":"columnist","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Climate Crisis"},{"name":"Science"},{"name":"Environment"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/environment/climate-crisis/2025/04/03/sunk-costs-in-fossil-fuel-infrastructure-could-sink-us/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/environment/climate-crisis","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Climate Crisis"}}}},{"_id":"3KNNBW5DXRHDBGRMJN3NSKY3JY","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":295,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/d223c473-9714-42a5-bdf5-5a802af9358e/versions/1742822431/media/c1be9802a926302e9dbac5b9181121d1_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/life-style/people/2025/03/31/this-trend-for-lighting-up-gardens-may-seem-an-inviting-one-but-it-needs-to-be-done-with-care/","content_elements":[{"_id":"SHZRYO6LEBDGLERAJYEANI4Y64","additional_properties":{"_id":1743107894739},"content":"If you’ve got a garden, balcony or other outdoor space, lights are pitched as a way to add “atmosphere” and “enchantment” after dark.","type":"text"},{"_id":"L444WFNBEJGWDA5W47CGHF7PAM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743107894740},"content":"Visit a garden centre and you’ll see all manner of electric, battery and solar-powered kit. 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Located in a special area of conservation, flood protection is not considered to be a viable option to protect the area.","type":"text"},{"_id":"X6CCQO4SNBC3LJBX2LC7VRVN5E","additional_properties":{"_id":"GQJVV3QH7RAARJGFK5LBKPSO3I"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"V7D23ZAZ3RAHZMJDELJIM4FPHM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743087575447},"content":"Without any flood insurance, Forde had to rely on Government funding through the Red Cross and the support of family, friends and the local community to keep her business afloat.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NFBL6PN37ZFZJFB2P2I5HNE54E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743087575448},"content":"She says that if any of these supports had not been present, the business simply would not have survived.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XNFJPZLSDNDSDEFIKKZLIPTOYM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743087575449},"content":"“I came in around 6am on the day after the flood and the place was disgustingly dirty – it was horrible. I was looking around and I really didn’t know how we were going to attack it,” Forde says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DN27KOFV5VCMFG2RYBNUXT5ESQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743087575451},"content":"She left to attend a meeting with politicians and came back to find “a wave of local people who were ripping up the old floor, pulling down the wall”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LFKASS5RVFEUPIOYO3URBDU4EM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743087575452},"content":"“I can’t explain how it happened and I can never express enough gratitude for it.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"UZSRTX5Q3RHVPJKW22SDMOBZBY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743087575454},"content":"Forde believes she had “a certain responsibility” and “a duty” to reopen but she admits that had she thought about it fully, she may not have done it.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZGHPKSOUOVAFDPPREAAQATIAQE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743087575455},"content":"“There is now always the risk that it will happen again,” she says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YNTEQ2GR4FAEDFHZXP2A6KW6FA","additional_properties":{},"content":" If I can’t get flood insurance, can I still buy a particular house?","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"35H23VHNKRD6HC6LLPS6726IEI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743087575456},"content":"“I couldn’t have waited for a builder to be available to come and do the work, I couldn’t have paid a builder anyway. The only funding available was funding from the Red Cross. If it wasn’t for that, there wouldn’t have been a decision to make, we would have been done.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"KV74D5DK7ZHGXC2DPQ3VPCRMYI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743087575457},"content":"Next door to the PoppySeed Cafe sits the Clarinbridge Garden Centre. A fixture in the village for decades, it suffered damage in excess of €112,000 during Storm Debi.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TALFHO6TMZFGJCQCKRZWW3A5RU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743087575458},"content":"Owner David Farragher says the inability to obtain flood cover is calling the viability of the business into question.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6MIWI3VBPJBJ5JX3U5DPASFBTY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743087575459},"content":"“It is nerve wracking,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JG6PWUXAB5E5NA3N2NTLKBAZMQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743087575460},"content":"“You wouldn’t want to think too much about it. It is a cost that has to be borne by the business and if that cost becomes more frequent, then I have a problem.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q6H6ZXYOQNGQXJH6AQMJM5QQZM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743087575461},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"QFY4EHNZ7VC2LHSFFB3TC6KHO4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743087575462},"content":"“That cost might get too high and that will be the end of it,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IRMGXZZRWFEIJH3J56HVR37S6U","additional_properties":{"_id":1743087575463},"content":"“I feel a lot of loyalty to Clarinbridge and to the staff here. But I don’t know how viable this premises will be in the years to come.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"IRYQ56JXQFHWXLUE7THMIT3VXA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743087575464},"content":"Farragher says that even though he did not have insurance, he was able to pay part of the costs and the Red Cross was able to pay another part.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KZDY4EBGY5CJ7DE6I5JVZWPDTE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743087575465},"content":"“There is no way that I would have been able to bare the whole cost of it on my own,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MCSEES6UUNF4BNELQDAW3S2DQY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743087575466},"content":"“I was always going to reopen [after the flood] but if you asked me would I do it again, that is a different question. That would be more debatable.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YRO6EVHGBBHEPGRMJH2XXICGZU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743087575467},"content":"“One thing I am certain of is that the future of the garden centre in its current location is in doubt. I don’t know if it will be there in 10 years, I don’t know.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IZQ27777DRGBDATRN37SD6TE3U","additional_properties":{"_id":1743087575468},"content":"“It’s only a matter of time before it happens again. If it becomes more frequent, then there is a very strong argument not to be here. You can’t keep doing it. You can’t keep recovering. Why would you do that? That would be insane.”","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Andrew Hamilton in Clarinbridge"}]},"description":{"basic":"During Storm Debi, local businesses in The Bridge Centre were plunged into crisis after an unprecedented storm surge battered the premises"},"display_date":"2025-03-31T05:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Business owners in the Clarinbridge flood zone: ‘There is now always the risk that it will happen again’","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"OUWYJDZ255CSPISV5X7S5KNW5M","auth":{"1":"d3f3461f489c140e125a0ff9cd8a4cc24761307fd18cf6c6e7f84895be6f36bd"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/OUWYJDZ255CSPISV5X7S5KNW5M.jpg"}},"subtype":"feature","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Climate Crisis"},{"name":"Environment"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/environment/climate-crisis/2025/03/31/business-owners-in-the-clarinbridge-flood-zone-there-is-now-always-the-risk-that-it-will-happen-again/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/environment/climate-crisis","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Climate Crisis"}}}},{"_id":"AYIJTZ7PBVDV7OKOXWPLQM73ZY","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":354,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/5469/podcasts/e0c13c1a-f5e0-4a83-b886-05942abd69e6/versions/1743088784/media/4d2ef2ae9cc9d13683dd4dc3bf0bb0cf_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/business/2025/03/31/barry-andrews-wind-energy-can-deliver-clean-electricity-support-20000-new-jobs-and-lower-energy-bills/","content_elements":[{"_id":"IEBSKMQ66RGEHABZTSGMTSDEH4","additional_properties":{"_id":1742924425968},"content":"Imagine having a huge supply of clean, free water in the middle of a drought, but only being able to fill a few small buckets at a time because the pipes are too small. This is the challenge we face with wind energy: an abundant, renewable resource held back by an electricity grid that wasn’t built to handle it.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XQZR3PUSHBGJVLBBEB5CXCE4ZQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1742924425969},"content":"Last year our wind farms supplied <a href=\"https://windenergyireland.com/latest-news/7827-irish-wind-farms-provide-a-third-of-our-power-in-2024-and-set-new-energy-milestone\">a third</a> of our total power consumption. But we have the capacity to achieve far more. Wind energy could provide enough electricity to exceed our domestic demand by 2030.","type":"text"},{"_id":"APPWENAKUVEHNFNHHJKKE6SO4M","additional_properties":{"_id":1743094826760},"content":"By 2050 Ireland could supply as much as <a href=\"https://www.seai.ie/sites/default/files/publications/Wind_Energy_Roadmap_2011-2050.pdf\">2.5 per cent</a> of total European electricity demand, becoming a net exporter of clean energy. This scenario would see <a href=\"https://www.seai.ie/sites/default/files/publications/Wind_Energy_Roadmap_2011-2050.pdf\">20,000 new jobs</a> in the wind energy sector, initially in installation and later in operations and maintenance.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3UDBGVVP35ELBEJCCX34GLUZUU","additional_properties":{"_id":1742924425970},"content":"Our wind farms generate clean electricity across the country and rely on the grid to feed it into homes and businesses. But last year <a href=\"https://windenergyireland.com/latest-news/7815-wind-farms-provided-32-per-cent-of-ireland-s-electricity-so-far-in-2024-3#:~:text=Over%20the%20first%20ten%20months,strong%20enough%20to%20carry%20it.\">14 per cent</a> of this wind energy production was wasted because the grid was not strong enough to carry it. When the grid is under pressure, wind farms must be shut down and replaced with more expensive fossil fuels, which cost us €1 million an hour to import. This cost is reflected in our energy bills.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J65SOMNT2NDRJEPWGJATVTXX24","additional_properties":{"_id":1742924425971},"content":"Despite Ireland’s potential in wind energy, our wastage is higher than other European countries because we lack their extensive grid infrastructure and interconnection. It’s like having a Bugatti and trying to race it on a boreen.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UFX3FK4XSFAZDN5ARXYL74KLVE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743094826763},"content":"The Irish Times view on the funding of the energy transition: Europe needs to step up","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"4LARGA7BUBEGNLYO557MO6VL5Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1742924425972},"content":"This wastage creates a twofold cost for consumers. Wind farms have <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/2025/01/16/wind-and-solar-farms-saved-irish-electricity-consumers-840-million-since-2000-baringa-report/\">saved</a> us almost €1 billion over the past 25 years. This is an incredible sum of money, but it could be higher: 14 per cent wasted wind power translates to about €41.4 million in lost savings to consumers in 2024 alone.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JIU7JBVMDVEZXKYQVNZWUOLCXA","additional_properties":{"_id":1742924425973},"content":"The national targets of 9GW of onshore wind energy and at least 5GW of offshore wind by 2030, as well as being carbon neutral by 2050, <a href=\"https://windenergyireland.com/images/files/final-repowering-ireland-report-june-2024.pdf\">assume an ever-upward trajectory</a> for the amount of wind energy connected to the Irish grid. This will require huge investment in the transmission network.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QCJYTLMJNRHNBBQ5GAFBTH2CDE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743094826766},"content":"The Government’s initial commitment to spend €750 million to upgrade our grid infrastructure is hugely welcome. We must also begin to deliver the State-led plan to develop the offshore grids needed to harness our maritime wind resource.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OB2I4FKKWRAPPHC2UC6BNSV4XE","additional_properties":{"_id":1742924425974},"content":"However, reaching these targets will require more than investment. The slowness of the Irish planning permission process, permitting bottlenecks, and supply chain difficulties all hinder progress in the sector. These challenges – which are shared by many other European countries – are reflective of the wider crisis of competitiveness in the EU.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AXAOVTIWXBEULOWBJZQMLW32PQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1742924425975},"content":"Addressing this crisis will be a significant driving force behind the next five years of policy-making in Brussels. The European Commission has published its Clean Industrial Deal, a roadmap to enhance European competitiveness through the transition to green energy. I and my colleagues in the European Parliament will work with the commission to ensure that this transition supports workers whose livelihoods are at risk. This means the EU must support reskilling opportunities, invest in strategic sectors impacted by the green transition and facilitate public-private partnerships.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2Y2DGWNXVVFETLCPAKA7HKY5QA","additional_properties":{"_id":1742924425976},"content":"This strategy, alongside other European legislation on clean energy, has the potential to support the Irish Government in driving the wind energy sector forward. Europe’s competitiveness crisis is deeply intertwined with energy prices, and Ireland’s electricity costs, the <a href=\"https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjM9a-_7siLAxXyAfsDHWTTHTYQFnoECBIQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishtimes.com%2Fireland%2F2024%2F10%2F30%2Fireland-has-the-most-expensive-net-electricity-prices-in-the-eu%2F&usg=AOvVaw3F_M0A1meZ9uCHrovl7PxF&opi=89978449\">highest</a> in the EU, place our industry at a distinct disadvantage.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AE5BP5AK4NADBEUJ5YUIL6UZWQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743094826770},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"HECCTJGHKJFZ3FOTDPSB4SZJRE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743094826771},"content":"Wind energy is an opportunity to create a thriving industry that can both charge our economy and lower energy bills.","type":"text"},{"_id":"45VZAEWUDJG5DBYH74AZWD3CLA","additional_properties":{"_id":1742924425977},"content":"Key new interconnector projects, such as the privately financed <a href=\"https://www.greenlink.ie/post/greenlink-go-live\">Greenlink</a> Interconnector and the Celtic Interconnector to France, will deliver huge benefits. They will make our grid more flexible and efficient as excess power can be exported to a neighbouring network. This also contributes to Irish and European competitiveness, as well as security of supply.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MJAB65V4LNEZFPKDK6P7BI3IL4","additional_properties":{"_id":1742924425978},"content":"There are a number of actions we must take domestically to support the wind-energy sector. First the Irish Government should transpose the Revised Renewable Energy Directive as soon as possible. This would provide for the deployment of renewable energy in Ireland by simplifying and accelerating the permit-granting procedure for renewable energy projects.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZXO5UDIBCRBVTOWUIBLPDBNDAA","additional_properties":{"_id":1742924425979},"content":"Second, the slowness of the Irish planning permission process continues to hinder the development of the wind sector. The Planning and Development Act must be swiftly implemented. This will offer investors the necessary security to support renewable energy projects and foster better co-ordination at the local and national levels.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HLEYDXWTTRCVRBIN26KSJKMURY","additional_properties":{"_id":1742924425980},"content":"Third, as we approach the 2026 Irish presidency of the Council of the EU, there will probably be significant consideration of how the electricity market can work better for consumers. The EU, with Ireland’s input, has an opportunity to redesign the European energy market to increase EU competitiveness while delivering prosperity and sustainability.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5SSRLOFBM5HWVHTS4MNAKG4RA4","additional_properties":{"_id":1742924425981},"content":"Finally, we need a public awareness campaign to achieve public acceptance of renewable energy infrastructure and the inevitable disruptions associated with its construction. Short-term inconveniences such as road closures for underground cabling and the potential presence of overhead lines must be weighed against the long-term benefits: cleaner air, reduced pollution and decreased reliance on fossil fuels supplied by unreliable and expensive sources.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IHLE3EOBPJDB5IEPFBYZZD6VXQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1742924425982},"content":"In a post-fossil fuel world, our wind-rich coasts are the water supply in a drought. We must invest in their potential to ensure a thriving, sustainable future.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MWYE5FIPORDIVFSRGPT3AJQ2IY","additional_properties":{"_id":1742924425983},"content":"<i>Barry Andrews is an Irish MEP</i>","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Barry Andrews"}]},"description":{"basic":"To ramp up its wind power resources, Ireland needs to reform its planning system and launch a public awareness campaign to highlight the long-term benefits of the renewable energy source"},"display_date":"2025-03-31T05:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Barry Andrews: Wind energy can deliver clean electricity, support 20,000 new jobs and reduce energy bills","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"5469"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"NERIJPGVMNDJLKAUJ35MTUTBOU","auth":{"1":"928f90aa724f60d0bf07d4fc921fd361e671d88fb29aaaa6c489ef0e98cf622d"},"focal_point":{"x":496,"y":172},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/NERIJPGVMNDJLKAUJ35MTUTBOU.JPG"}},"subtype":"opinion","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Business"},{"name":"Environment"},{"name":"Climate Crisis"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/business/2025/03/31/barry-andrews-wind-energy-can-deliver-clean-electricity-support-20000-new-jobs-and-lower-energy-bills/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/business","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Business"}}}},{"_id":"W2XJBE56RNAJDB6KGLFCANHZJQ","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":571,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/5e9e9e8e-56aa-4108-9ca9-8fd69b14f8a2/versions/1742981787/media/019f2bb4823d5a69ed1eb9ec0431b350_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/environment/climate-crisis/2025/03/30/if-we-flood-again-were-homeless-midleton-homeowners-in-crisis-without-flood-insurance-after-storms/","content_elements":[{"_id":"55db1223-050b-4431-8078-bd0ff6d8f274","additional_properties":{},"subtype":"irish-times-video","type":"video"},{"_id":"WIMHPOPIM5BKNNFIMCTCG7KBJ4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Much has been written about the scale of damages experienced in Midleton and other east <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/cork/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/cork/\">Cork</a> towns as a result of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2023/10/20/flooding-in-cork-many-businesses-unable-to-access-insurance-as-clean-up-begins/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2023/10/20/flooding-in-cork-many-businesses-unable-to-access-insurance-as-clean-up-begins/\">Storm Babet in October 2023</a>. Estimates put the damage at almost €200 million.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M7EWNX7GJ5HTDK7IATV3EIMP44","additional_properties":{},"content":"The personal toll on the town’s residents is harder to quantify.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GXZG4HTCLBHHTJDI6SYMQ7IVX4","additional_properties":{},"content":"“It doesn’t turn off. You don’t get more than 30 minutes without thinking about the flood,” says Midleton resident Caroline Leahy. “It’s the F-word that’s barred in our house. You don’t mention the F-word”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HXZB4SCISJFCHIPKMQOR4FA2M4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Leahy lives in Tír Cluain, a <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/celtic-tiger/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/celtic-tiger/\">Celtic Tiger</a> housing estate that appears much like any other. Rows of neat semidetached homes lined shoulder to shoulder, adorned with hedges and young trees. Look closer and you’ll spot a few things amiss.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NY22CWWSOBCOZF7QFD7CDHCS3U","additional_properties":{},"content":"Sandbags perch alongside front doors. A fine layer of silt coats the tarmac. And most bizarrely, a construction site fence rests awkwardly along the remains of a crumbled concrete wall.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6WXG2GOOHFBU7A7BC23EROUJI4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Storm Babet: A slow-moving train of rain hit Ireland. The results were disastrous","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"3AMGFSTMBFAAZBFSVZHSGKFDMY","additional_properties":{},"content":"This estate was an epicentre of carnage when Babet hit, resting along a key bend in the Owenacurra river on the edge of the worst-hit town. A month’s worth of rain fell in less than 24 hours, causing the waterway to burst its banks and almost completely submerge Midleton.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EKWECKZ3YNHBHEQID4VGNLERUQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"“It was really by the luck of God that someone didn’t die on that day. It came so fast with no warning, and it was so deep,” says Leahy. “A car from the house behind me actually floated out of their driveway and went past my house.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"SYEXZ3DAAJGIFCLRT2A3HFE7IU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Her home was devastated by the flood, with mucky water rising to 4ft within a quarter of an hour, causing €86,000 worth of damage to walls, furniture, appliances, flooring and electrics.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FZ2MHWK3ORAYFJ4JLUYBO5L6SU","additional_properties":{},"content":"In pictures: Storm Babet brings heavy rain and flooding to Ireland","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"PHVAHC4UVVH4HEB2GNG5575CBE","additional_properties":{},"content":"The silver lining was that she and her partner had home insurance with flood protection. But after Babet, she was told this policy was no longer available.","type":"text"},{"_id":"POPERTMNGNGJXDGKDOZQSBFKUI","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Obviously enough, flood cover is the one thing we need,” she says. “We shopped around trying to find it from elsewhere, but no one would give me a quote for any insurance, even excluding flood cover.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"4IQBAYQERNGHXNDCAXO5NKKLE4","additional_properties":{},"content":"However painful her experience of flooding was, the fact that she is now unable to secure insurance has turned every weather warning or instance of heavy rain into a dread-infused panic.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VIYUS7FDFZDF7MQBRZ6RLSVBSQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"The Uninsurables: One in 20 Irish houses struggles to get flood insurance","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"BZYVLY35ZJEILI3BSZB2CMPTHY","additional_properties":{},"content":"“We don’t have €90,000 sitting around. If we flood again, we’re homeless, like,” she says, adding that it’s the same for 600 properties across east Cork.","type":"text"},{"_id":"I24EH62EBBC4JBR7LDL3EIPOOQ","additional_properties":{},"content":" ","type":"text"},{"_id":"PTZ2VYOXCVD27H4PCF4X6DJGRI","additional_properties":{},"content":"The town is now in “crisis”, she says because so few have been able to maintain their flood insurance after Babet. It would be like winning the lottery if they could get it back.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QUDZTSXCM5E7RPIBZ2NOVUO4VI","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"5AXCDTE4LBA7RJHCCUISJCCFYA","additional_properties":{},"content":"A self-described blow-in from Cork city, Leahy bought the house in 2015 with her partner, after an engineer gave them the all-clear.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YY5EATEDXNCUVMU5ASQZLYKTPM","additional_properties":{},"content":"“When we bought I obviously spotted the river, and asked them: ‘Are we at any risk of flooding from that river?’ They said: ‘No, no, no, that site’s been elevated purposely so you’re at no risk,‘” she says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YJAM2DDYQ5D5FC3JKDCYTRQIUI","additional_properties":{},"content":"“From speaking to local people who grew up around here all their lives, they’d tell me they used to swim in this field when they were kids. You presume the planning department is rigorous enough to check that beforehand, but that’s where we are.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"DQQ6XM7GYNHODOPPF7FSITGJCA","subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"5IQ3VWUKQZAZ3B5Q7AYJL7MFLY","additional_properties":{},"content":"She says local politicians have no appetite to get involved in insurance policies, seeing it as intervening with commercial entities, but she thinks the Government could introduce regulation to help the situation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7VTZ2ALDUFDEPDMOJCB3SHEEQQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"A model similar to the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/motor-insurers-bureau-of-ireland/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/motor-insurers-bureau-of-ireland/\">Motor Insurers’ Bureau of Ireland</a>, which compensates victims of uninsured drivers, could serve as a useful template for how newly uninsurable homes could be covered, she says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YXMNE4MZGRHIBIQMVQDR52FNKQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I’m a real believer in where there’s a problem, there’s a solution, if somebody is willing to find it. And that’s what it comes down to,” she says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NKGP6XD6XFETDDPACD2DC6M4N4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Two-and-a-half kilometres south, Midleton House is perched along the banks of the tidal Dungourney river, the second waterway of the town, facing the famous distillery. Owners Noreen and Liam Motherway have been there for 33 years, but they’d never seen anything like the speed and might of Babet.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FLMRUGNRHJAFVHIE7E2UE2CXNI","additional_properties":{},"content":"One in 20 buildings in Ireland have issues accessing flood insurance - Central Bank","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"MWUR72FAB5C37A7NQ3IC3Y326Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"“It did €100,000 worth of damage,” Noreen says, flicking through reams of photos on her phone showing the listed building being partially washed away.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SA5LZJUCA5H7LJUBAAXKEJ2W7Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"The floodwater surged down the main street and up their driveway, carving a metre-cubed hole in the front garden and coursing through the house. It ate into paint and plaster, destroyed much of their furniture and left a thick coating of sludge in its wake.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3JMBF6LZJNFLDNL6FYILSBXTAA","additional_properties":{},"content":"A small dehumidifier hums in the corner of the sittingroom, while the ends of their curtains remain upturned – signs of the devastation caused.","type":"text"},{"_id":"REHA4YGNTBF7TL4OHEO3JUGFTA","additional_properties":{},"content":"“We’re living in terror,” she says. Her husband nods alongside her.<b> </b>“Because it’s going to come again. There’s been nothing done to prevent it”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"I57V25OKBJEXRGKTX7MDDBWYQU","additional_properties":{},"content":"The Motherways were without flood insurance when the waters came, having lost their policy after Storm Frank in 2015, so the financial implications of Babet were enormous for the couple.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SCHFJZP67JEYBJC5WR6CMEWBCY","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"LI7PTBXVKZA27FUGUWNVCRNIVY","additional_properties":{},"content":"“It came up to the glass there,” she says, gesturing to a nearby window. “It was up to 4ft. And all caused by neglect.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"4FGUIUL62BBA7CITQHKSLEBDZI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Noreen points the finger at a lack of action from the council, which has been talking about flood relief measures since 2015’s Storm Frank, but has been sluggish in its actions to date.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PM3PMZ7K5BCLPA63UUUUZR6WYU","additional_properties":{},"content":"“The only practical things they’ve done are [installing] gauges in the river, which is kind of academic, moving gravel from two areas of the river, and cutting overhanging branches, which is Mickey Mouse stuff,” says Liam.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VGMS2F6UZVGI3OZCV6LBXOVQ34","subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"6535UFGBUZBE3JZYSB5EMMHQBA","additional_properties":{},"content":"In the wake of the flood, the Government introduced two financial schemes for residents to deal with property damage. The first is the Humanitarian Assistance Scheme (HAS), which aims to compensate uninsured homeowners for damage caused by severe weather.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CIZ4SHTDBZFCNPGGCXE5SMBMPE","additional_properties":{},"content":"However, it is only valid for works to bring the property into a liveable state, rather than providing full compensation. And on top of that, it is means-tested, meaning the Motherways, and many more people, were only eligible to get a fraction of the costs back.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4MBIAIGC3JBIBCC3324CO3WGDY","additional_properties":{},"content":"The second is the Individual Property Protection (IPP) scheme, which will install slot-in flood barriers at the doors of eligible properties at the State’s expense. Applications for this scheme closed in November.","type":"text"},{"_id":"I4S5WWMBDJFNLFUIZDSK2DRX3A","additional_properties":{},"content":"Dublin 4 residents waiting for flood defences as insurance premiums hit astronomical rates","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"TRRJ6UXNDVGWFLITNBBMHT7KLE","additional_properties":{},"content":"First deliveries of the IPP floodgates to east Cork are expected this month, Minister for Public Expenditure Jack Chambers said in a recent Dáil response, but a target completion date for installation was not given.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VVOTUFEP75AYLIYPSLOFWAJ63E","additional_properties":{},"content":"The minister added that the latest iteration of Cork County Council’s Flood Relief Scheme (FRS), expected to cost in excess of €50 million, should be submitted to An Bord Pleanála early next year and be “substantially complete” by 2031.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4VIPR2K5DRCZPE2XC442ZJ263E","additional_properties":{},"content":"But this date draws scepticism from the Motherways, who have seen flood protection timelines drag on for years.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PBW22LBQ45DYZCG2B2W7R7OCWI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Ireland’s flood defences are inadequate, experts warn","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"H6C7Q5T4PZEH5JM7YA5OUFTB4A","additional_properties":{},"content":"“If it takes that length of time to put a little flood gate outside our door, where are we going with the rest of the big project?” says Noreen, shaking her head.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BOHD2OECMJC7VLPECWWJVKJZDI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Even if the FRS is built, a question mark still hangs over whether it would finally allow homeowners to get flood insurance. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"XHBLIJCEDJGEVIYQCEWRN3E5J4","additional_properties":{},"content":"One of its aims is to provide residents and businesses with this protection once again, but a goal is not a guarantee, as locals point out.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2AVLTUFO2ZDFHKFEQF5ESF3RRA","additional_properties":{},"content":"And with climate change rewriting the rules underlying weather systems, guarantees are hard to come by when predicting future climate patterns. A warming atmosphere is simply more likely to produce extreme weather and intense rainfall, the science says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7CCNHK3PMFG6FFOEAYUDFCJ6ZU","additional_properties":{},"content":"The Motherways have seen this shift at first hand. Plotting out the major floods throughout the history of their home, which was built in the early 19th century, makes for uncomfortable reading.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4BTNZOTOJJHNNPBHBO2E322D2A","additional_properties":{},"content":"Before 2015 and 2023, they have to go back nearly a century to 1920 to find another flood that did damage of this scale. And their garden is also seeing increasingly regular flooding now too.","type":"text"},{"_id":"F3J6B6GKOFFWFI6NMP5NVN5SZA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Because of these trends and the significant upheaval caused by Babet, residents are uniting. The Midleton and east Cork Flood Action Group sprang up early last year and now has about 2,000 followers on Facebook.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DR5EWDPH25BQ5PC4PQQNRIYQ5I","additional_properties":{},"content":"Why was the Storm Babet flooding so bad?","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"OCFH3LOYIRFLHKENGPCQTP2AJ4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Caroline Leahy is its secretary and says the group’s goal is not only to fight for those whose properties have been flooded, but also people in the area who haven’t yet experienced the anguish it inflicts.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AB5RX23DWJBEDGFE6XPRCN4KHI","additional_properties":{},"content":"“It’s something that I don’t think anyone really fully understands until they’ve gone through it,” she says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CYSAPIRM35AGPNU2A5JC7OKCXI","additional_properties":{},"content":"“It’s horrific. A lot of people think: ‘Oh, it’s just water, you can just clean it up’. But no, it’s really traumatic actually. 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It has been reported that O’Brien has been told by the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/attorney-general/\" target=\"_blank\">attorney general</a>, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/rossa-fanning/\" target=\"_blank\">Rossa Fanning</a>, that the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/government/\" target=\"_blank\">Government</a> could potentially pass a law exempting the cap from planning and presumably handing it over to some other body.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KIVOGAAX2FAU5NG3B6HLYRSL2Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1743517666055},"content":"The cap currently falls into the bailiwick of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/fingal-county-council/\" target=\"_blank\">Fingal County Council</a>, which set it at 32 million passengers a year in 2007 when it granted permission for the airport’s expansion. It is currently suspended pending the outcome of lengthy litigation by several airlines and passenger numbers are expected to exceed 35.6 this year and 37 million next year.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CYHLCTVFMVFERM7KG7DBVCGINQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743517666056},"content":"The legislation apparently being considered by the Government would effectively sidestep the planning process and associated litigation that could take until 2028 to resolve. Why the Government is prepared to intervene in such a drastic fashion at Dublin Airport but not for other critical infrastructure projects is an interesting point. More of that later.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HKEHY375JJDJLFECE22J2GLJW4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743517666057},"content":"There is no doubt that the passenger cap issue is urgent. This week O’Brien is due to meet airline representatives to discuss it, including Airlines for America (A4A) which, as the name suggests, speaks for US airlines.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HDG4VE73Y5B2TMT3E44N3CT67I","additional_properties":{"_id":1743517666058},"content":"They are vehemently opposed to the cap which they feel limits their ability to access the European market and may be in breach of the European Union-North American air travel agreement.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DMS65CJEA5GSBGUKOS7OQKD4OE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743517666059},"content":"The risk – as the Government sees it – is that the cap gets caught up in the almost inevitable tariff and trade war between the EU and the United States which is expected to kick off in earnest this week. This possibility allows the Government to play – with some justification – what amounts to its get-out-of-jail card when it comes to any economic decision; namely that something is an impediment to foreign direct investment.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JCS74WGLKZALLNEA54QCW6BFJY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743517666060},"content":"There is another clear and present danger to leaving the cap in place: the slowly imploding tourism industry. The most recent figures from the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/central-statistics-office/\" target=\"_blank\">Central Statistics Office</a> show that <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2025/03/28/tourist-slump-deepens-with-30-fall-in-visitors-and-88m-revenue-loss/\" target=\"_blank\">tourist numbers fell 30 per cent year on year in February</a>, costing the sector €88 million.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PEO25GZVJVHXZGGT4GPUGLTIVI","subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"2F2KNOV7Y5FJDGSHY7K7OR37IM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743517666061},"content":"It is a big problem. Tourism is Ireland’s largest indigenous industry and biggest employer, with 257,900 people working in the sector. Last year it was worth €6.2 billion in terms of revenue from overseas tourists.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y6ZZHP7WKRC7RGWASYOLBIXQMU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743517666062},"content":"But the reality is that fewer tourists are coming, and they are staying for a shorter time, with the number of bed nights down 3 per cent last year. The reason is because Ireland is expensive for what it is compared with elsewhere in Europe. Inflation may have abated over the last 12 months, but the damage has been done in terms of value for money.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IR7DQNHWCFAELF2XMEWAIBUDXA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743517666063},"content":"Lifting the cap on passengers at Dublin Airport will not do anything to reduce costs but it will bring more tourists from North America, who are basically the only people who find Ireland affordable.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XTQB3PKHGVDD5HKNNII5NE76YA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743517666064},"content":"The <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/irish-tourism-industry-confederation/\" target=\"_blank\">Irish Tourism Industry Confederation</a> has noted that the sector is increasingly dependent on high-spending visitors from North America. They calculate that a visitor from across the Atlantic spent an average of €1,526 each on their holiday here compared with €509 for visitors from Britain.","type":"text"},{"_id":"I3GBQFMTWJF5ZGJ2SBND4TCUHM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743517666065},"content":"It is a compelling argument. The 1.44 million North Americans who travelled here last year were worth €2.2 billion while 2.44 million visitors from Britain were worth €1.2 billion.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5HMHH2ZEGZEYVNUYWFOKN4NV4I","additional_properties":{"_id":1743517666066},"content":"But the question still remains as to why the Government can be galvanised into radical action over the Dublin Airport cap – to the extent that it would consider passing a law to circumvent the planning system – when it is not prepared to countenance some similar action regarding the housing crisis which, hands down, must be the most serious problem facing the State.","type":"text"},{"_id":"B5OZXJTZQFA6JNZWGV7EGB6FCA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743517666067},"content":"The same goes for water and electricity infrastructure. Why not bypass the obstacles facing critical energy projects, such as offshore wind farms or the long talked about pipeline to extract water from the Shannon for the Dublin region?","type":"text"},{"_id":"JBVMDZHDTFGSZMQE5FI7L4OBHU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743517666068},"content":"It is worth noting that the precedent for what is being contemplated with respect to the Dublin Airport cap was legislation introduced in 2022 that disapplied planning laws to the construction of emergency power generation facilities as the State faced the non-trivial risk of blackouts.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VNB6IZFCMNDWLE5UYQH4JCSVYA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743517666069},"content":"The explanation would appear to be what psychologists term the mere urgency effect or the urgency trap, which is the all too human tendency to pursue urgent tasks over important ones even though they offer a better long-term pay-off.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7UAQGG4X4RC2DMDMNM6K3FEOKI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743517666070},"content":"Or as Dwight D Eisenhower, the second World War general turned US president put it: “I have two kinds of problems, the urgent and the important. 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It is in reality a problem that faces all governments that are elected democratically with relatively short, fixed terms.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IOPY4RZH5NGRTPTIQYCXMMOXJM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743517666072},"content":"But how much worse does the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/housing-crisis/\" target=\"_blank\">housing shortage</a> and some other problems facing Ireland have to get before they are deemed urgent enough for the Government to throw out the rule book?","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"John McManus"}},"name":"John McManus"}]},"description":{"basic":"Passenger cap is not a more important problem than housing or critical infrastructure "},"display_date":"2025-04-02T05:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Darragh O’Brien falls into the urgency trap at Dublin Airport","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"TXEJRGSZPQQO6PKWWRF7HAZWR4","auth":{"1":"6784f4c949612219aa295933e39f3b720435308eb1f5c07968221e41787cbede"},"focal_point":{"x":4056,"y":1495},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/TXEJRGSZPQQO6PKWWRF7HAZWR4.JPG"}},"subtype":"columnist","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Economy"},{"name":"Travel"},{"name":"Transport"},{"name":"Business"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/business/economy/2025/04/02/darragh-obrien-falls-into-the-urgency-trap-at-dublin-airport/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/business/economy","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Economy"}}}},{"_id":"RVRLQP4GUZEXBJDC34QQT62AJY","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":228,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/96934825-1041-4011-8a84-bd0dbdc75bb3/versions/1743363868/media/88949951308254abde9b22d73cedfe25_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/politics/2025/03/31/legislation-being-examined-as-way-to-deal-with-dublin-airport-cap-once-and-for-all/","content_elements":[{"_id":"FDDVICAWBFDOJGC5NWMYDLWPEA","additional_properties":{},"content":"The Government is to consider interventions to lift the passenger cap at <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/dublin-airport/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/dublin-airport/\">Dublin Airport</a>, including potentially passing laws allowing the limit to be increased. 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He will hold meetings with airlines this week, including the lobby group Airlines for America, amid suggestions the row could be politicised with the risk carriers could formally complain to the US government about the cap, which they believe breaches EU-North American air travel treaties.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UOR3HNID2VDXJKV2FUMF3U2PIE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Wednesday could see the start of a US-EU trade war – how would Ireland be affected?","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"WNAAIVHHPFBRLHWWFHPWD7HEOU","additional_properties":{},"content":"There is a view within Government that increased headwinds for foreign direct investment and the looming likelihood of an EU-US trade war have added to the case for action. “It’s clear the cap as it currently is in place, even if paused, has the potential to ensure we lose future investment,” a senior source said. 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[power supply] is a bit of a weak point,” he told reporters outside the airport. “But of course contingencies of certain sizes we cannot guard ourselves against 100 per cent and this is one of them.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"WBUDKRG45ZFTBD7VS6QPR5I5RE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Heathrow cancellations Q&A: what are my rights and options and how do I claim?","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"MSBKUSJNW5CFFFXRTOFY57CIRY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Asked who would pay, he said there were “procedures in place”, adding “we don’t have liabilities in place for incidents like this”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XDCJQ2DONJFG3MNDRC4GK22UME","additional_properties":{},"content":"British transport minister Heidi Alexander said the incident had been out of Heathrow’s control.","type":"text"},{"_id":"R5C22MYZE5HJ7LCZ2KI45VLECA","additional_properties":{},"content":"“They have stood up their resilience plans very swiftly and have been working in close collaboration with all the 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By morning the transformer could be seen smouldering, doused in white firefighting foam.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MTSJN2AYPFC4VJUBZFX5SMPGFU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Passengers stranded in London and facing the prospect of days of disruptions were scrambling to make alternate travel arrangements.","type":"text"},{"_id":"37CRJ4XMQZHAHK75RWJCWNH7JI","additional_properties":{},"content":"“It’s pretty stressful,” said Robyn Autry (39), a professor, who had been due to fly home to New York. “I’m worried about how much is it going to cost me to fix this.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"6OVXYQO3RZDT5OOG3YPR5FZIP4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Prices at hotels around Heathrow jumped, with booking sites offering rooms for £500 (€600), roughly five times the normal price levels.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IUYTTRK4JVAU3EVIBMX6XQ7T4U","additional_properties":{},"content":"Airline executives, electrical engineers and passengers questioned how Britain’s gateway to the world could be forced to close by one fire, however large.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LCVZ746ZWFC6TAR7HPXFKXU634","additional_properties":{},"content":"Heathrow, and London’s other major airports, have been hit by other outages in recent years, most recently by an automated gate failure and an air traffic system meltdown, both in 2023.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KY3IHTETGZB4RAW3MQVX7DZSVU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Philip Ingram, a former intelligence officer in the British military, said Heathrow’s inability to keep operating exposed vulnerability in Britain’s critical national infrastructure. “It is a wake-up call,” he said. “There is no way that Heathrow should be taken out completely because of a failure in one power substation.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"CNG5L72FWRACHE5GTMOSBAL26M","additional_properties":{},"content":"Willie Walsh, the head of the global airlines body Iata and a former head of British Airways, said Heathrow had once again let passengers down.","type":"text"},{"_id":"P2GRB3BGPBEJHLUD6EZBALS7TQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Heathrow said it had diesel generators and uninterruptible power supplies in place to land aircraft and evacuate passengers safely. 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The plaques were presented to Kevin Street Garda station in Dublin on November 11th, 2018, the centenary of Armistice Day that marked the end of the war.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CUSOHKVSOBHXHHIKEB6KD7L6NQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"A total of 12,566 men served with the DMP. From January 1923 their name was changed to Póliní Atha Cliath before they were brought under An Garda Síochána in April 1925.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4VBCZD2VDRD7VFK3MQX5NYCP74","additional_properties":{},"content":"Conducting proceedings in Irish, Harp Society chairman Eddie O’Donovan remembered the dead policemen with the words of poet and soldier Tom Kettle, who died in the first World War: “Níor troid siad ar son brat nó rí, nó impire, ach ar son bruadar. Ní raibh siad ag troid ar son Sasana, ar chor ar bith.” (They did not fight for flag, nor king, nor emperor, but for a dream. 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However, the three medals he wore, commemorating the visits to Ireland by Queen Victoria (1900), King Edward VII (1903) and King George V (1911), belonged to his great-grandfather, also a DMP member.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5JY4PSMMZVERPLJFDGDHRVJAEA","additional_properties":{},"content":"A stone sculpture in the Garda Memorial Gardens commemorates deceased members of An Garda, the RIC and the DMP.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Patsy McGarry"}},"name":"Patsy McGarry"}]},"description":{"basic":"Ceremony marks century of Act transferring 1,049 Dublin Metropolitan Police officers to the Garda"},"display_date":"2025-04-03T16:08:56.68Z","headlines":{"basic":"Dublin police officers killed before city’s force merged with An Garda Síochána are commemorated 100 years on","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"5469"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"ZIENQ36K7JHE7AEYB4KG7HL2F4","auth":{"1":"131ad313ecdbda36b61a30e83a1adb344e8fbfd3ef0593227a66074a54fdd393"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/ZIENQ36K7JHE7AEYB4KG7HL2F4.JPG"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Ireland"},{"name":"History"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/ireland/2025/04/03/dublin-police-officers-killed-before-citys-force-merged-with-an-garda-siochana-are-commemorated-100-years-on/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/ireland","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Ireland"}}}},{"_id":"HI3XOCB2XNAOXAJ45OEIU6NGNM","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":224,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/5469/podcasts/118b867b-b6c1-47b0-8255-bab130247b3f/versions/1743263594/media/588d8b804e8757fe99e86c5ba9744ea7_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/politics/2025/03/30/us-demands-for-its-airlines-to-land-at-dublin-threatened-aer-lingus-and-west-of-ireland-lynch-told-nixon/","content_elements":[{"_id":"J2IJ4PXQMNCN7ETN7CO2PXIZZM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743181736809},"content":"A bitter row between Dublin and Washington over United States demands for landing rights at Dublin Airport in the early 1970s threatened <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/aer-lingus/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/aer-lingus/\">Aer Lingus</a> and the Irish government’s plans to develop the west of Ireland, then taoiseach <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/jack-lynch/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/jack-lynch/\">Jack Lynch</a> told US president <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/richard-nixon/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/richard-nixon/\">Richard Nixon</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6ERY6TRKE5EVZBLZKLMBO3XLHQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743181736810},"content":"Washington had complained from the mid-1960s about the Irish government’s decision to force US airlines to land passengers at <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/shannon-airport/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/shannon-airport/\">Shannon Airport</a>, not Dublin as the airlines wanted as they preferred flying to capital cities.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FZWUVEH3GJGYFK7CHOKFZGY7JY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743181736811},"content":"In a frank letter to Mr Nixon in November 1971, Mr Lynch told the US president he needed to be forthright by stressing the government was “deeply concerned” about the landing rights row.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ROA3N3W7JJHERPFK2Q7IPTB5Z4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743181736812},"content":"The Irish government allowed the two big US airlines, Pan American and TWA, to land and, just as importantly, to refuel at Shannon, but they were not allowed land at <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/dublin-airport/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/dublin-airport/\">Dublin Airport</a>. Instead, Dublin-bound passengers were flown onwards by Aer Lingus.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JLAUUJMBGNBSXA7HY6DGWXOCZA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743181736813},"content":"In late July 1971, the US government said it would revoke Aer Lingus’s landing rights at JFK Airport in New York from August 1972 unless an agreement was reached with the government that dealt with the US complaints.","type":"text"},{"_id":"77DE4OQLONALJI6SLFXMNS6ZS4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743181736814},"content":"“In our view it is not contestable that the issues at stake are comparably greater for this country than for the United States,” Mr Lynch said, even though he accepted the US authorities believed the existing Irish/US aviation deal was unbalanced.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MQAMIZ6BFBDBNNMVHKT4Q325KU","additional_properties":{},"content":"“The facts seem to be quite clear. For the United States, whatever the merits of its case may be, Dublin rights are a peripheral matter. The granting or refusal of such rights is a matter of minuscule importance to the United States economy,” he wrote.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OCQBEM7GJFAWFDQAGLP4XWEXDM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Documents on Irish Foreign Policy (Vol 14) 1969-73: The North, above all else, required the Department of Foreign Affairs to up its game","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"YZE4R3AW4BEV5JNQCI5LDTX5HU","additional_properties":{},"content":"The letter is included in the latest volume of documents on Irish foreign policy covering the years 1969 to 1973, which will be launched in Dublin on Monday by Tánaiste <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/simon-harris/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/simon-harris/\">Simon Harris</a> at the Department of Foreign Affairs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4RQLSF7GQFGDHGUYMSRJH2ZR64","additional_properties":{},"content":"In his letter, Mr Lynch said the consequences of ending the Shannon rule were “of much greater importance” to the Irish government and for Aer Lingus, which was successfully operating on the JFK route, than they were for the United States.","type":"text"},{"_id":"U6WL6UZA6FDY5BK7JGHXB22C2U","additional_properties":{"_id":1743181736817},"content":"“The revenue implications for our small national airline are very considerable indeed. They have developed their existing traffic though great expense and effort. Their whole financial position would be imperilled,” he said. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"J5DJZKBEAVFIZPSXVOBBAU7DDY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743181736818},"content":"The impact on the government’s plans to develop the west of Ireland if Shannon lost services would be even more significant, Mr Lynch warned, stating such plans and the future of Shannon Airport “would be placed at hazard”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"V466DE4LH5EG3D7XHTIJM5P2N4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743181736819},"content":"“Indeed, the underdeveloped state of the west made it one of the main sources of the flow of Irish emigrants to your great country. The Shannon area is now our greatest growth centre outside of Dublin,” Mr Lynch said. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"MYOK2S3AAFCN3FQWVNNFXIDSNM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743181736820},"content":"The granting of Dublin landing rights for US airlines would have a significant impact “on the morale of all connected with the development of Shannon and the west”, he said, judging by the reaction from workers, politicians and the press.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Z2WMSVJX3VBP5PZOL27BHXWXP4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743181736821},"content":"The US threat to end Aer Lingus’ landing rights at JFK “has naturally caused the widest disquiet”, with “a great many people feeling that their jobs and their future are now in greatest jeopardy”, Mr Lynch told Mr Nixon.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5QOJKEB7R5BORFTRHR2CKSAOZ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743181736822},"content":"However, the Lynch letter failed to stem the US demand, with Irish-American relations worsening in spring 1972 to the worst they had been since the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/second-world-war/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/second-world-war/\">second World War</a> when Washington was annoyed with <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/eamon-de-valera/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/eamon-de-valera/\">Éamon de Valera</a>’s neutrality policy.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SKNKPCYPJ5FWJNK27BDOLWK5LE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743181736823},"content":"In 1973, Lynch lost power and was replaced by Fine Gael’s <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/liam-cosgrave/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/liam-cosgrave/\">Liam Cosgrave</a>, who allowed US airlines the right to land at Dublin. Pan American showed little interest in Dublin, while TWA flew the route only up to 1979.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Mark Hennessy"}},"name":"Mark Hennessy"}]},"description":{"basic":"Washington put pressure on government in early 1970s to stop forcing passenger planes from US to land at Shannon"},"display_date":"2025-03-30T14:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"US airlines’ demand to be allowed to land at Dublin threatened Aer Lingus and west of Ireland, Lynch told Nixon","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"5469"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"BHUIC6R3YOYMXQ4I6563ETO5PQ","auth":{"1":"45b0b1320857e9b62068748fc76d8f86e54e81d35ae763305470e3ba0eedc1b0"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/BHUIC6R3YOYMXQ4I6563ETO5PQ.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Politics"},{"name":"History"},{"name":"Ireland"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/politics/2025/03/30/us-demands-for-its-airlines-to-land-at-dublin-threatened-aer-lingus-and-west-of-ireland-lynch-told-nixon/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/politics","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Politics"}}}},{"_id":"3SHVCQ5OYRB5TMO2MCCB5L3QZQ","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":803,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/60ca1df8-ebbd-44da-b605-dddc5054cb73/versions/1741878345/media/14471fb6ff1866db27bbc08187b22f37_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/culture/art/2025/03/22/a-mummys-tale-from-cork-to-cairo-its-like-the-tomb-of-the-unknown-soldier-his-body-represents-us-all/","content_elements":[{"_id":"V35NP5SHX5BMFKIBQEVMK3IPSM","additional_properties":{"_id":1742311812076},"content":"An Egyptian mummy used to live under the floorboards at University College Cork. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/dorothy-cross/\">Dorothy Cross</a> first heard of it from her Aunt May. It was 1983, and the pair were sharing stories in May’s Victorian house, which was full of treasures, Cross says – “a doll’s house, a rocking horse, X-rays, damask and china, bones and intelligence”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QAO324M4VNE5ZPS3YOEUCIRJZM","additional_properties":{"_id":1742311812077},"content":"The artist, who had recently returned from studying in San Francisco, lapped it up. It would be four decades before those memories coalesced with action to become an extraordinary artwork and a new book, Kinship: Home. In the meantime Cross would become known internationally, winning awards and representing Ireland at the Venice Biennale.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XOGKA3E4FNFNDOUMTDAIWW6EAU","additional_properties":{"_id":1742311812078},"content":"May Cross, who was born in 1899 and had studied medicine by candlelight during the Civil War, married Billy O’Donovan, who became professor of pathology at the university. Rumour had it that he had hidden the body himself, but, the artist says, it had been put there years earlier, for storage. It was discovered by builders during renovation works in the 1940s.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NFY7ICWGXVEVRM5AKMCFHBG75E","additional_properties":{"_id":1742311812079},"content":"Cross is in her studio in Connemara, which is full of light and nature, and pieces of bone, silver, wax and gold. Her dog is snoozing at her feet. Outside, across the road, is the sea, which has featured in so many of her works, its constantly changing nature and power an intriguing presence.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RF4S2QAHWZFFLN63LY4KFKT6SE","additional_properties":{"_id":1742311812080},"content":"In 1999, for <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/news/sculptor-to-create-ghost-ship-with-40-000-award-1.157107\" target=\"_blank\">Ghostship</a>, Cross painted a decommissioned lightship with phosphorescent paint; it would glow after dark in Dublin Bay. The work seemed to hold time, as if the histories and memories of those who lived aboard, keeping sailors safe from maritime dangers, were somehow still there, out in the dark waters.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YWY7A7OH7VGUPGRVE3FDUUKHJE","additional_properties":{"_id":1742311812082},"content":"May’s story of the Egyptian mummy returned to Cross in 2019. The artist was driving home after the culmination of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/art-and-design/visual-art/dorothy-cross-teams-up-with-lisa-hannigan-for-new-heartship-art-project-1.4013800\" target=\"_blank\">Heartship</a>, a project that had the LÉ James Joyce sailing up the River Lee. Part of the Sounds from a Safe Harbour festival, it was carrying a relic of a human heart, to the accompaniment of music by Lisa Hannigan and Alasdair Malloy.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LD5JDEXUSVBM5FJZ7KV734ZRY4","additional_properties":{"_id":1742311812083},"content":"The ship, Cross says, had <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/le-james-joyce-to-return-to-ireland-from-mediterranean-1.2811701\" target=\"_blank\">saved thousands of lives</a> while stationed in the Mediterranean. Reports of the James Joyce’s work tend to describe those it rescued as migrants, but it is more accurate to speak of them as people who, but for the grace of chance and geography, could be any one of us.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3M4YNMWOFBCXJJIHEPHG6QC34A","additional_properties":{"_id":1742311812084},"content":"We are living in difficult times, but where do we even begin to think about addressing the injustices of the world? How can you make a hierarchy of care?","type":"text"},{"_id":"K7O3DSYE5JGPFLLPX4ABGVNC54","additional_properties":{"_id":1742311812085},"content":"Do you start with an elderly parent in need of medical treatment? A people expelled from their land? The attempted annihilation of an entire race?","type":"text"},{"_id":"N7TCXKUARBE6XHPSX6LSGOZBBA","additional_properties":{"_id":"7P2ICOYKABA35FXVOVC3HP2MIA"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"KOTII4UKLZAWXC3FBJ47TXCKQE","additional_properties":{"_id":"MYGP7C4VAJBN3ELHN4O2IXBNYA"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"U6ZV3AY5FND47AOF5ZNYC3ZEVE","additional_properties":{"_id":"3JMGRXKW4NCRTM5ANPTDJC4XTE"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"DYJO3K4NQRABRELHYFUVVWLCJA","additional_properties":{"_id":1742469140159},"content":"Or what about with the repatriation of the body of a man, 2,000 years dead, his tomb looted, his origins lost, his borrowed sarcophagus transported across continents to wind up half-forgotten in Ireland?","type":"text"},{"_id":"QLAGDN67QJDM3DKWLRGLHKL3K4","additional_properties":{"_id":1742311812087},"content":"Cross believes they are all connected. “I felt compelled to return the body to his homeland,” she says. “An act of kinship.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"GTZ7LE5F4VG77K7FSYQOQS3GQY","additional_properties":{"_id":1742311812088},"content":"Five years in the making, Kinship: Home traces through words and images this forgotten man’s journey home. Its meanings are extended through texts by writers who include Max Porter, Edmund de Waal, Hisham Matar, Michael D Higgins and Ahdaf Soueif.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3PW47XDV25BJRLKWKPY4GMJKOU","additional_properties":{"_id":1742311812089},"content":"There are poems, memories and thoughts, many of them moving to the point of inexpressibility. The barrister and international-law expert Philippe Sands writes of a journey to <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/10/12/uk-has-grudgingly-closed-a-long-chapter-in-its-inglorious-history-of-african-colonial-conquest/\" target=\"_blank\">Chagos</a>, a tiny archipelago in the Indian Ocean, the inhabitants of which were expelled in the 1960s by the United Kingdom at the request of the United States to build a military base.","type":"text"},{"_id":"S252NIIP2VEIDNWHIUBZUQS3E4","additional_properties":{"_id":1742311812090},"content":"In another text the American writer Rosemary Mahoney describes the strange urge to desecrate and loot, generally enabled by being thought of as souvenir gathering. (Mahoney quotes Florence Nightingale writing, “I bring home some little figures I found in the tombs.”)","type":"text"},{"_id":"7L4ZDSG4MJGODCO5NIOTCB32SE","additional_properties":{"_id":1742311812091},"content":"“I didn’t ask them to write particularly about moving a mummy back to Egypt,” says Cross, explaining the book’s making. “It was about the notion of displacement, migration, grief ... those little tendrils towards loss that guided me towards these people.” She also hopes to make a film. “I’m still kind of floating in this.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"NUV7DGOR6VCETG3NLN6ZAVPONQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1742311812092},"content":"Kinship is not a glossy coffee-table book featuring panoramas of ancient Egypt. Instead it quietly and subtly draws you into the realer meanings of lives across the world.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6PWBBSVTCBBCLCOACGBSIIDC3A","additional_properties":{"_id":1742311812093},"content":"Writing about the mummy, Soueif asks: “what do you do with the body once its occupant has gone?” Mummification enabled it to be the focus of the rituals at the heart of the Egyptian belief in the passage to the afterworld. “Men and women were meticulously documented working and wedding, sowing and reaping, playing and feasting so they could live their lives again in eternity.” Remove the body and the connection is lost.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6PWBBSVTCBBCLCOACGBSIIDC3A","additional_properties":{"_id":1742311812095},"content":"The significance of what happens to your body when you die, and to your soul if you believe in such things, depends on your cultural and religious background. As explorers, archaeologists, looters and some locals plundered the tombs of Egypt, both officially and unofficially, agents buying on behalf of private and public collections around the world fed the trade.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BHTKQB6N3RDX3EYR7UDSHN7EVA","additional_properties":{"_id":1742311812096},"content":"The mummified bodies were less valuable than the jewels that some of them were festooned with. Mark Twain claimed the bodies were used as fuel for trains, although this is most likely a myth. Another myth is of cursed tombs, which Cross says stems from a mould that grew on the bodies, which those who first opened the sarcophagi breathed in.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OGBLBZ2IQBG7XHTT43AS6FNWYU","additional_properties":{"_id":1742311812097},"content":"Mummified bodies were ground up as a pigment for a shade called mummy brown, the manufacture of which didn’t end until the 1960s. Discovering the true origins of one of his often-used colours, the Pre-Raphaelite painter Edward Burne-Jones buried a tube of the paint in his back garden. According to his wife, they planted a daisy on top. Depending on your world view, this is either a curiosity or a tragedy.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6JTL47224RB6XGQDNB35VZD3NQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1742311812098},"type":"image"},{"_id":"E3HJBGDN6JBJNDHFNQ3TDH4EBQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"2CY6MY7SB5AZFDNAUDSYTQJDEI"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"FYGCGF4BTJHYFJFOKA6J65IM5I","additional_properties":{"_id":1742469140172},"content":"An extraordinary coincidence followed Cross’s decision to explore the afterlife of the Cork mummy, who had locally come to be called Cecil. Approaching a restoration expert near her own home, she was astonished to discover that it had been sent there for preservation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4X63SUFMMVFR5IJOCAOO45CMYE","additional_properties":{"_id":1742311812100},"content":"“It had been in storage five miles from my house for the last 12 years. When my aunt first told me the story, she said that, when the builders found it, they opened the sarcophagus and pulled the linen off its face. That has been in my head since my 20s,” says Cross. “It went down to the bone. When they opened the box here, sure enough, that was the case.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"3TQXUMP2QZDVXLKBB7UGX2QMSQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1742311812101},"content":"In the intervening years, students agitated to have the mummy returned. “It is the body of a man believed to have died of natural causes. He was not high ranking. The sarcophagus dates from 300 years earlier and had originally been occupied by a higher-ranking man named Hor. We don’t know who this man is,” says Cross, drawing on research done in the 1970s by Helen Moloney. “That makes it more important, more inclusive. It’s like the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. His body represents us all.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"WJ637ATXJVAKFDFYLS75RNXSEQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1742311812103},"content":"A project team came together, including UCC’s then librarian, John FitzGerald, the cultural producer Mary Hickson and the producer and curator Maeve-Ann Austen. Simon Coveney helped, as minister for foreign affairs, as did the cultural director Eugene Downes. Ambassadors at either end helped. An introduction to the former secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt, Mostafa Waziry, was pivotal.","type":"text"},{"_id":"36ZS6GVSFNBRNECEMQDIAUMQWE","additional_properties":{"_id":1742311812104},"content":"It wasn’t simple. You don’t just go sending a mummy back to Egypt. Initially, Cross recalls, they said no. “We were sitting in Mostafa’s office, with a bust of Nefertiti on one side, and all these pictures, and he said, ‘We don’t want your mummy. We have too many.’”","type":"text"},{"_id":"3BJR6MDRJNAN7EOQXO2OBVKBXU","additional_properties":{"_id":1742311812105},"content":"Waziry was referring to the scale of Egypt’s continuing problems in protecting its legacies from looters, but ultimately he agreed to have him returned, to be housed in the Egyptian Museum, in Cairo.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BWYNMXQCZNBXJPXWO2TSCNEY3Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1742311812106},"content":"There were many moments of frustration. “You think so many things are possible,” says Cross. “Then people say they’re not. I know it should be so simple. And yet the world, and the institutions, make it difficult.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"AHEHHDEH7JCKPCCY4XQTVD7QZM","additional_properties":{"_id":1742311812107},"content":"I ask Cross about her own opinions on the afterlife. “I don’t think it’s as glamorous as the Egyptians,’” she says. “I live in a kind of space of already nearly being there. I think it’s almost like we’re there in this life, and there is not enough acknowledgment of the relationship between the now and the then. And I do believe in powers that people negate because we’re too afraid, and because science can’t prove them.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"A6CC3GCBSZBLJPB57J3GYV3K2U","additional_properties":{"_id":1742311812108},"content":"In some ways the complexities of quantum physics may prove such things after all. “I was very conscious of his presence,” says Cross. “When things were moving on, and he was ready to go, I did believe there was some kind of calm, a kind of exhalation, in that he got home. Someone said to me that ‘home’ is the wrong word, but I think it is a terribly, terribly powerful word to all of us. Being able to go home is a privilege.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"WNBI4P6PGNAADHIQ76MKJNYBM4","additional_properties":{"_id":"XJQ5NGN4WJEHNESJVGCYV7LQDQ"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"VEGHYXOPCZAJRPFCLJWDQIBG7M","additional_properties":{"_id":"2MCHJMUTT5EUPB5CVIIQO76OD4"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"7RCD5IR6INBETNJPXZVOW7TKOY","additional_properties":{"_id":1742311812110},"content":"All cultures have their wounds, but to have your heritage taken and misunderstood on such a scale is impossible to comprehend. Through her sculptures, Cross frequently draws attention to the small in a way that underlines its enormous significance. As with her work Tread, which is on show at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, in its exhibition Art as Agency, an exquisitely carved foot may emerge from a vast lump of marble: a detail that speaks volumes. In the book, a photograph of stone steps in Egypt’s Valley of the Queens has its own quiet power, the rock having been worn to slivers in places by countless now forgotten feet","type":"text"},{"_id":"OFHXTPVEVBCC3NOHDGKOS22RIQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1742311812112},"content":"Cross had initially wanted to sail the body to Egypt in a gilded ship, but that proved impossible. Instead it was sent on an aircraft. Cross is open about the setbacks and what might have been considered failures that she encountered en route to the project’s conclusion.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XI5IGOIQKZF77KCQJZB3UPJXHA","additional_properties":{"_id":1742311812113},"content":"It is a theme that Hickson, whose Sounds from a Safe Harbour festival partnered to create the project, takes up.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PQQ55JMKKZGHPCUZ7R2IFTODPI","additional_properties":{"_id":1742311812114},"content":"“We provide space and time for artists to come together, to play, to experiment, to fail,” she says. “When it fails, a thing becomes clearer. With Kinship we could never have prescribed that there would have been a certain output. We had to be patient. This is how art should be made. It should never be forced.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"E7FZDJXTHJD4RN3TXIXB52EUJY","additional_properties":{"_id":1742311812115},"content":"Still, so many of our funding systems require an outcome even before the process has begun. “A lot of what we do sits outside conventional funding models,” says Hickson. “We have to work a bit harder to figure that out.” Cross made and sold marvellous scarves to help fund the project.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VBVHNVHQXVCTVJQPTSUQHYDVPY","additional_properties":{"_id":1742311812116},"content":"Following the progression home of the body of the unknown Egyptian, and reading the associated writings, leads to moments that, as Seamus Heaney wrote in Postscript, “catch the heart off guard and blow it open”. Some of the pain of living comes from knowing that we are simultaneously important and not.","type":"text"},{"_id":"O3KUWVFWINEIBHIMFYTQ2DJFHQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1742311812118},"content":"Cross’s remark that this mummy’s body represents us all makes a connection with the body of another man who died 2,000 years ago, to become one of the world’s most powerful symbols of humanity, however such a symbol may have been later misused.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5GZJJAQRI5BIHPOGRJCULASHDU","additional_properties":{"_id":1742311812119},"content":"Often, just to keep going, we slide over the huge things in our minds: the dying, the burying, the surviving, the finding of home and the losing of it. Those who like to own things may look at Kinship and wonder what or where the artwork actually is. Is it the “wow” of a moment, an object that was created, or is it the lingering effects of the knowledge that something was done?","type":"text"},{"_id":"JTX64CN37VBFVK56GLKZLVLXPQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1742311812120},"content":"We may discover where to begin facing the world’s injustices by checking in with our own humanity. Art like this can remind us of where to find it.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2YYPSDSVZ5DC5AN4MVDKJSF2FI","additional_properties":{"_id":1742311812121},"content":"<i>Kinship: Home, by Dorothy Cross, is published by Lilliput. </i><a href=\"https://soundsfromasafeharbour.com/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Sounds from a Safe Harbour 2025</i></a><i> runs September 11th-14th</i>","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Gemma Tipton"}},"name":"Gemma Tipton"}]},"description":{"basic":"A new book by the artist Dorothy Cross tells the remarkable story of Cecil, UCC’s Egyptian mummy, and his return home"},"display_date":"2025-03-22T05:21:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"A mummy’s tale from Cork to Cairo: ‘It’s like the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. 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The Warren Commission found that the gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald, acted alone, yet two-thirds of Americans remain sceptical about the commission’s conclusions and not all of them are conspiracy theorists.","type":"text"},{"_id":"V5S6FC7K3NEYRAUS6HUMSSELRU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Why now?</b>","type":"header"},{"_id":"WOOMDQBCXFGSPAKGOD6D3JGDKI","additional_properties":{"_id":1742483961674},"content":"US president <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump</a> promised that, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/trump-presidency/\" target=\"_blank\">if re-elected</a>, he would release all the files to the public. He wanted to release all the files in 2017, but was persuaded by the intelligence services to hold back some for national security reasons. He has decided that now is the time for them all to be released.","type":"text"},{"_id":"V72GRE6ALNB2FPHGSNSLSGSV3E","additional_properties":{"_id":1742483961675},"content":"As often with Trump, there was chaos. On Monday, he gave the US National Archives 24 hours to open the files.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YDN5GVZVPVG55BFMGXDQXHCUSY","additional_properties":{"_id":1742483961676},"content":"Unredacted JFK assassination files released as history buffs hunt for clues","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"HYW653MFLJHSHBQKNQZPGO32HA","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>What has been released?</b>","type":"header"},{"_id":"623S2P22LBABHARSTVDFOQTZX4","additional_properties":{"_id":1742483961678},"content":"The files relate not only to the assassination of Kennedy but also to that of his brother Robert F Kennedy in 1968, the father of Trump’s health secretary <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/robert-f-kennedy-jr/\" target=\"_blank\">Robert F Kennedy jnr</a>, and the assassination of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/martin-luther-king/\" target=\"_blank\">Dr Martin Luther King jnr</a> – also in 1968.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M7VSJXCGFFGIXNF6K3DPE7N57Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1742483961679},"content":"On Tuesday, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/03/19/unredacted-jfk-assassination-files-released-as-history-buffs-hunt-for-clues/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/03/19/unredacted-jfk-assassination-files-released-as-history-buffs-hunt-for-clues/\">1,123 documents containing some 64,000 pages were released</a>. The papers are not sorted or catalogued, so researches and casual readers have to click on each one to see if they are of interest to them.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OUVSSC433ZENNHP4NWVNWK7CEI","additional_properties":{"_id":1742483961680},"content":"The New York Times’ national political reporter, Adam Nagourney, who is leading the paper’s coverage, says the manner the files were released may be a deliberate ploy on the part of the CIA to make it as difficult as possible for researchers to find out how the agency really operates.","type":"text"},{"_id":"O664FX5OJVGSLIQQRAIQ3L3TXA","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>What has been discovered to date?</b>","type":"header"},{"_id":"OVYP2BHJXFHYFL27LPU6ZMCZAY","additional_properties":{"_id":1742483961682},"content":"There’s an intriguing finding in one state department paper: a CIA agent, Gary Underhill, left Washington a day after the Kennedy assassination in a “very agitated” state, claiming to a friend that a CIA clique was behind the murder. Fewer than six months later Underhill was found dead in his Washington apartment, apparently having died by suicide. The confidential memo states that Underhill alleged the CIA clique was carrying on a “lucrative racket in gun-running, narcotics, and other contraband”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SPESENKPEFHCZEDYG5OR7W3QDU","additional_properties":{"_id":1742483961683},"content":"Another document reveals the KGB had investigated Oswald and found that at no time was he one of its agents. Oswald lived in the USSR between 1959 and 1961, when he tried unsuccessfully to become a Russian citizen. But he got bored with the grimness of living in a communist state.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TJUANEEO2NA5TOW54UDM7HH3SQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1742483961685},"content":"The KGB official noted that Oswald was a “poor shot when he tried firing in the USSR”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"H2IJVAW32NEKZDSKMH6F53FXXA","additional_properties":{"_id":1742483961686},"content":"Given the incredible accuracy of the shots that killed Kennedy, this is likely to strengthen the belief that there was more than one shooter on that fateful day in Dallas.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Ronan McGreevy"}},"name":"Ronan McGreevy"}]},"description":{"basic":"JFK files: Papers cover not just JFK’s assassination but also the 1968 killings of his brother Robert F Kennedy and Dr Martin Luther King jnr"},"display_date":"2025-03-21T06:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"JFK files: What do they reveal about John F Kennedy’s assassination?","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"244X7FSSCRZI5VB6B64CLUG3HM","auth":{"1":"520e08d38fa2b7d940b8c3483f63ec0dec7a0961c730e87ba1b175068682ebbb"},"focal_point":{"x":1825,"y":837},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/244X7FSSCRZI5VB6B64CLUG3HM.jpg"}},"subtype":"analysis","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"People"},{"name":"History"},{"name":"World"},{"name":"US"},{"name":"Life & Style"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/life-style/people/2025/03/22/jfk-files-what-do-they-reveal-about-john-f-kennedys-assassination/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/life-style/people","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"People"}}}},{"_id":"BTUUEU7VAVCUNC6CL6RGD3I52I","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":415,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/5469/podcasts/a9f2b65d-f10f-4ce4-be5d-6df8c89e8e7e/versions/1742315884/media/13b1a73820c4c224c5d6e641dc9f2706_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/history/2025/03/18/why-are-so-many-recipients-of-us-medal-of-honor-of-irish-descent/","content_elements":[{"_id":"JFIVIEGQ7VAZ5LDNF5FUVGBZ5U","additional_properties":{"_id":1741970598479},"content":"US president <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\">Donald Trump</a> is not noted for his fidelity to the facts or to fact-checking, but he promised to investigate a claim that more than half of all Medal of Honor recipients were Irish or of Irish descent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FDOSH6JZBFHGFEUV2OLGPKWQW4","additional_properties":{"_id":1741980600153},"content":"He was evidently startled when he recited the figure from a prepared script during the shamrock bowl ceremony in Washington DC last week.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BB7DHS2K55EZ5K5K6MXET7FD4M","additional_properties":{"_id":1741980600154},"content":"“It is an extraordinary fact – an ‘awfully good statistic’. How is that possible?” he asked.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TKHAWADRSFHRRPSTKT7ESVH7ZA","additional_properties":{"_id":1742295853756},"content":"How indeed?","type":"text"},{"_id":"VK5U3ZU55BFDFFGFBN37WDSN3Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1741980600155},"content":"The claim is that of the 3,515 Medals of Honor awarded by the US up to 2009, a total of 2,018, or 57.4 per cent, have gone to Irish-Americans. Other sources put the percentage of such recipients at 58 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KOMVRI2MPBGJXLD5U3MQJ6VK5Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"The source of the original statistic has been attributed to Irish Veterans, an organisation set up in Ireland and the US to commemorate and support past and present Irish veterans of military conflicts.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CCPG7WFNKFAFLEH3Y7RIINW2JQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"In a report in the Tampa Bay Times in 2019, the figure was cited by “Patrick McDermot of Irish Veterans Post 2, created in Tampa in 2017″. The newspaper report said research was funded by the Irish Government – but the Government has funded no such research.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XKB2GCNCYJE55O4H7D2LWFMKPA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Irish Veterans co-founder Declan Hughes said the figure did not come from them. “I read a transcript of his [Mr Trump’s] comments and it sounded to me like he was repeating what a staffer told him and he riffed off it while surrounded by all things Irish... To be fair to him, he rowed himself back by saying he found it hard to believe, which I did too,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AATA7ORLT5HMVLTMVU5GQPPEL4","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Irish and Irish-American medals combined are quite remarkable, but I don’t believe in a 58 per cent share-out – as the president doesn’t either.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"CO2LB5LRPJBBPBR2P6SXWX52YU","additional_properties":{"_id":"6MMHYNM4BNBNVAFO3EWR3ULQPA"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"IXOQIGVNYFEBNC65K3QJISGBSE","additional_properties":{"_id":1741980600158},"content":"Whatever the actual figure, the number of Irish-born or Irish-American winners of the Medal of Honor is disproportionately high, given that those who identify as Irish-American are about 10 per cent of the US population.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ML4PJDTI25BQZGYNW2UVOG5WWE","additional_properties":{"_id":1741980600159},"content":"The Medal of Honor was first introduced during the American Civil War of 1861-1865, though its first recipient retrospectively was the Roscommon-born doctor Bernard Irwin for bravery during the Apache Indian wars of 1861 when he rescued 60 US army soldiers who had been surrounded.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5JRB5RF4YZEYNJ3AYFXHUHDBYE","additional_properties":{"_id":1741980600160},"content":"The first Irishman in the American Civil War to be awarded the Medal of Honor was Corporal Owen McGough, who was born in Co Monaghan in 1829. McGough won his at the Battle of Bull Run, the first major battle of the conflict, in 1861, though he did not receive his medal until 1897.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NK5MV2KLN5DCBFSLFVYRXQ4AIQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1741980600161},"content":"At least 258 Irish-born soldiers have won the Medal of Honor since its inception. Of those, 148 won them during the civil war – 14 in one day when the Union Navy raided the Confederate port of Mobile, Alabama, in 1864.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BKEQFG5OI5GU5BZWHCWOXKA52A","additional_properties":{"_id":1742031899787},"content":"Ireland was third after New York and Pennsylvania as the location where the most Medal of Honor recipients during the civil war were born.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SENRLCDAVBABJD3RASMZJCKLZM","additional_properties":{"_id":1742295853766},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"PUT2AJVHUFAW7NHTOVDHDJXYMA","additional_properties":{"_id":1741980600163},"content":"Given that 180,000 Irishmen served with the Union in the conflict, the high number of Irish Medal of Honor recipients is not a surprise, said Damien Shiels, ahistorian of Irish involvement in the American Civil War.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FXI4PCJWHZDFPBYU3ET4N6UCQI","additional_properties":{"_id":1742295853768},"content":"He said the list of Irish-born recipients was being added to all the time as more research was done. For instance, Michael Ahern from Cork was awarded the Medal of Honor before he even set foot in the US.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EIIWJNZJR5DY5KHK53Z3LPA2B4","additional_properties":{"_id":1742031899791},"content":"He joined up with the USS Kearsarge in Queenstown, now Cobh, Co Cork, in 1863 and won the award for showing coolness under fire when the ship sank a Confederate vessel off Cherbourg, France. He was originally listed as French in his Medal of Honor citation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2PAE7GXRXFGQZBNZFVSXFMYKZI","additional_properties":{"_id":1741990613325},"content":"Irish emigration to the US continued en masse throughout the 20th century and many joined the US armed services. During the Spanish-American War of 1898 Mayo-born Michael Gibbons showed incredible bravery in cutting underwater cables to Cuba while under fire.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GJRYZCDTMBHULPQD2STMHTWKAU","additional_properties":{"_id":1742031899793},"content":"Unlike most other Medal of Honor recipients, he returned to Ireland. He died in Co Mayo in 1933. Another Mayo man, US Marine Philip Gaughan, won the Medal of Honor in the same action.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2Y7DBNNUW5EDFNM6GKG42NY33Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1741990613326},"content":"Perhaps the most accomplished Irish-American recipient of the Medal of Honor was William Joseph ‘Wild Bill’ Donovan, who had Cork and Down roots. He was the only American serviceperson to win all four top US honours for bravery: the Medal of Honor, the Distinguished Service Cross, the Distinguished Service Medal and the National Security Medal.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4WZSUZOSCNGJZCN4FT4JLUASVE","additional_properties":{"_id":1742295853773},"content":"He won the Medal of Honor during the first World War in October 1918 at the age of 35 when he organised his men in an assault on a heavily fortified German position and was shot in the legs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y5SBP2UPKFGEFK3EOETCCTCP2Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1742295853774},"content":"During the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/second-world-war/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/second-world-war/\">second World War</a> he became the founder and first head of the Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). He rose to the rank of major-general during that conflict and later served on the prosecution team at postwar Nuremberg trials of prominent Nazis.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5JZ6TV3SMBGDFAIBZB6BWPQ4GQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1742031899797},"content":"One of the most noted Irish-American recipient of the Medal of Honor was Audie Murphy, who has been described as the most decorated American soldier of the second World War, winning 33 medals. The son of Irish-American sharecroppers in Texas, Murphy went into Hollywood after the war, even playing himself in a film. He died in plane crash in 1971 at the age of 45.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ETZG4HZYG5D35DJTBXNOT5JCFE","additional_properties":{"_id":1742031899798},"content":"The latest Irish-American recipient of the Medal of Honor was Lt Michael P Murphy, a Navy Seal who was killed in Afghanistan in 2005. He died while searching for a Taliban leader in the mountains.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GB64H4ULEBFSTA3332JXCQDEUE","additional_properties":{"_id":"WWGXFNIMYJCWHCGZ6XJ3HGHWQ4"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"L754IVFDUZGIXMJB5SR362W37I","additional_properties":{"_id":1742031899800},"content":"The Irish and Irish-American winners of the Medal of Honor were the subject of an exhibition in Kinsale, Co Cork, in 2018.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RDCFMNJZY5C2FNUX4QTQEKFA3Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1742031899801},"content":"Dr Sheils said the precise figure of Irish-Americans was still in dispute. There is “no question... that an enormous number have been awarded to people of Irish descent, though in my own work on the Medal of Honor I tend to classify ‘Irish’ as people born in Ireland or to Irish emigrant parents”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MTXRSUTNIFGMDG4BCXZSDCON6U","additional_properties":{"_id":1742031899802},"content":"Why, though, are the Irish so disproportionately represented? “In my view there are a number of reasons for the scale of Irish American recipients. During the Civil War, when most awards were earned, the Irish and Germans were by far the two largest immigrant groups, with around 250,000 Irish-born men or children of Irish immigrants serving the Union,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J4TJCM7FB5HUFJBTQQFAL3TW3I","additional_properties":{"_id":1742031899803},"content":"“Beyond that conflict, the Irish had carried their tradition of military service as a form of employment with them from Ireland, so they served in the post-Civil War US military in extremely large numbers even when it was an unpopular career for ‘native’ born Americans.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HCXRDQRUHBCU7GF4Q5EPRRBFTE","additional_properties":{"_id":1742031899804},"content":"“By the 20th century, the scale of mid 19th century Irish emigration became the telling factor as there was an increasing population of second and third generation Irish-American descendants by the time of the World Wars.”","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Ronan McGreevy"}},"name":"Ronan McGreevy"}]},"description":{"basic":"Donald Trump expressed surprise at the very high number of recipients having roots in Ireland – and it seems he may be on to something"},"display_date":"2025-03-18T16:32:52.573Z","headlines":{"basic":"Why are so many recipients of US Medal of Honor of Irish descent?","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"5469"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"4VEJ3CE4FGZO3IAIZZKS3RSYME","auth":{"1":"73fd570d16a13f61793e0de78b79e0fbae118e274118a9aa3f4cdc71e6e6ddf2"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/4VEJ3CE4FGZO3IAIZZKS3RSYME.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"History"},{"name":"Ireland"},{"name":"World"},{"name":"US"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/history/2025/03/18/why-are-so-many-recipients-of-us-medal-of-honor-of-irish-descent/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/history","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"History"}}}}],"count":2990,"_id":"3fb3078d41a32c21c00016439fd3e58a4332c8e9811b88c2e929463c9f39344a"},"expires":1743808950545,"lastModified":1743808650414},"{\"feedOffset\":0,\"feedSize\":5,\"includeSections\":\"/obituaries\"}":{"data":{"content_elements":[{"_id":"ZRI2PET6Q5B7JGFN2SYUVGXN6Y","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":252,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/395a2b1c-c7a2-4788-80ce-8cbfc09cfd29/versions/1743345923/media/0129d4db0893ddcf3ab3d628ff77cee7_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/obituaries/2025/03/30/conor-keane-made-major-contributions-to-our-understanding-of-hospital-acquired-infections/","content_elements":[{"_id":"C6X5IHIJHZHX5PDEWTDARHRGFY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743340973306},"content":"Conor Keane died on January 9th, 2025, at the age of 87. 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In 1974, he was appointed associate professor/consultant at Trinity College Dublin (TCD). Following the centralisation of pathology services for the Federated Dublin Voluntary Hospitals with that of St James’s Hospital (SJH) Dublin, he was appointed consultant microbiologist there in 1981.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YWA2AP6D7RG2JOODOCESNEBMVM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743340973309},"content":"From a clinical base at SJH and his appointment with TCD, Conor forged strong collaborative research links with the Moyne Institute and the Dublin Dental Hospital Microbiology Unit at TCD to harness the rapidly advancing technologies of molecular microbiology and combine this with clinical observations, surveillance and epidemiology to combat hospital infections.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PAYRW5IA7VHAJG2OFXTMEJUQUQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743340973310},"content":"Conor was a regular contributor to the international scientific literature for over 40 years, ranging from MRSA to Helicobacter pylori and peptic ulcer disease. Conor was much sought after as a mentor and supervisor for students pursuing higher degrees in medicine, medical laboratory science, nursing and other sciences.","type":"text"},{"_id":"X7K5FZTDUREZTIRFGDTGVXOOOU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743340973311},"content":"In the early 1980s, Conor and collaborators secured major research funding on MRSA from the Medical Research Council. This defined the extent of the problem, the clinical impact, and for the first time, characterised the dominant strains responsible and highlighted the importance of travel in the spread of MRSA nationally and internationally.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YFZUT3K73BBDNAJWZNDFZQLGZE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743340973312},"content":"Conor made significant contributions to the evolution and development of SJH from the 1980s onwards. With senior laboratory scientists he consolidated laboratory diagnostics in the Central Pathology Laboratory at SJH, with the other disciplines of pathology. His contributions were critical to the funding and establishment of the National MRSA Reference Laboratory and the Irish Mycobacteria (TB) Reference Laboratories at SJH. This resulted in one of the most advanced hospital laboratories in the country, and which developed pioneering new techniques. Conor led the clinical microbiology service, especially in important patient groups such as those in intensive care, stem cell transplantation, and haematology/oncology units.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TPZLOVYAFNHHNKB4AQ2WU3SZCI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743340973313},"content":"Outside of work, Conor enjoyed spending as much time as possible with his family, especially on holidays in Ireland. With friends, family and colleagues, he was always great company, with a sense of humour, accompanied by his wonderful, hearty laugh.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BOFAZG6BYVGP5P7MY5PS2TEGZA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743340973314},"content":"After retirement in 2002, he had more time to devote to his outside interests that included rugby; he was an enthusiastic Leinster and Ireland supporter. He was a keen gardener and he was on the committee of the Royal Horticultural Society of Ireland, until he died.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PZTO2NO3KFAKDEBHTMK4IGQK54","additional_properties":{"_id":1743340973315},"content":"He is survived by his wife, Romney, sons Marcus and David, daughter Sinéad, sister Bernadette, brother- and daughters in-law, much loved grandchildren, many close friends, and former colleagues.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[]},"description":{"basic":"An Appreciation"},"display_date":"2025-03-31T09:15:07.459Z","headlines":{"basic":"Conor Keane — made major contributions to our understanding of hospital-acquired infections ","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"Q6AIMKLNDNELVEOAXSXTSJAVAE","auth":{"1":"16f23dd25d1d8c83e5eaa214cf3a696dd4220c252943d4dc2fd7dfab163be88d"},"focal_point":{"x":455,"y":465},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/Q6AIMKLNDNELVEOAXSXTSJAVAE.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Obituaries"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/obituaries/2025/03/30/conor-keane-made-major-contributions-to-our-understanding-of-hospital-acquired-infections/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/obituaries","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Obituaries"}}}},{"_id":"UI7LSTDYR5AKZIRA6EIZQQXUVY","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":533,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/ff7383b6-8b41-4ecf-9ab0-f8ec35930e89/versions/1742920567/media/ca6199e7332bbe38f0ce054679bc20af_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/obituaries/2025/03/29/eddie-jordan-obituary-motor-racing-entrepreneur-and-gifted-dealmaker/","content_elements":[{"_id":"7XKCK7C67ZHQRGSM23OI6C7PZ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1655126212489},"content":"<b>Born</b> March 30th, 1948","type":"text"},{"_id":"LNE3SNLQBVFALJJSTTWIDDSI4A","additional_properties":{"_id":"2RS2GOKGRJB75PO3O7ZNETYZ2Y"},"content":"<b>Died </b>March 20th, 2025","type":"text"},{"_id":"ETIB4JBR3RBGJEL7ZXX6ZY2YTI","additional_properties":{"_id":1742917804368},"content":"Viewers of Netflix’s Drive to Survive have become accustomed to the modern Formula 1 world of enormous high-tech teams supported by armies of corporate sponsors and marketing, media and PR specialists. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/eddie-jordan\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/eddie-jordan\">Eddie Jordan</a>, who has <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/2025/03/20/eddie-jordan-former-formula-one-team-owner-dies-aged-76/\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/2025/03/20/eddie-jordan-former-formula-one-team-owner-dies-aged-76/\">died</a> aged 76, represented a previous era of buccaneering individualists who made their own luck and built their teams in their own image.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XCC4XMJDYFDTZDN47YR7EXVQPY","additional_properties":{"_id":1742917804369},"content":"“We were johnny-come-latelies, noisy, brash, having a good time, giving the establishment two fingers,” Jordan told Motorsport magazine. “So we got lots of attention, lots of value for our sponsors and a huge fan base.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"QJQSPLZHRVFFNFW5QJGZKHFGEQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1742917804370},"content":"Jordan Grand Prix draped Page 3 models over cars and were the rock’n’rollers in the F1 paddock, not least because Jordan could frequently be seen flailing away behind his drum kit in his band Eddie’s Pitstop Boogie Boys or subsequently Eddie & the Robbers. He was good friends with rock stars including George Harrison, Mike Rutherford of Genesis, Chris Rea and John Lydon, and when Led Zeppelin staged their one-off reunion at London’s O2 Arena in 2007, Jordan was there.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y7FO5N2LDFFSNBOE7DIHYPSRPI","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"EZHF3CTC3JDFHFZHX3GT4XWEGY","additional_properties":{"_id":1742917804371},"content":"But he was also a brilliant entrepreneur and dealmaker. He gave Michael Schumacher his first Formula 1 drive, and his efforts also ensured that Jordan came fifth in the World Championship in their debut year of 1991, a remarkable achievement for a fledgling independent team. During his team’s lifespan from 1991 to 2005, he employed numerous top drivers including Eddie Irvine, Rubens Barrichello, the 1996 world champion Damon Hill, Heinz-Harald Frentzen and Jean Alesi.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2OFGVFKZUBDSLGJKK3JBAGRC3E","additional_properties":{"_id":1742917804372},"content":"In 1998 Hill brought the team their first win at the Belgian Grand Prix, and Frentzen added two more the following year, helping Jordan to reach third place in the World Championship, their best performance. In 2003 Giancarlo Fisichella won the team’s final victory at Interlagos in Brazil.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PSLCG6S73ZCPDNFCPBYVVA2SA4","additional_properties":{"_id":"ZNYJRGMRC5AHFPVJ7YWZ2CQGSY"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"TSVMEISPURHLRNABEE4HEO6IKA","additional_properties":{"_id":1742917804373},"content":"Jordan was a close friend of F1’s eminence grise Bernie Ecclestone, and shared something of his deal-making instinct. In 1995 he made a small fortune by selling Irvine’s contract to Ferrari. He explained: “Irvine would come to me for free and I’d give him a three-year contract, and build him up, and build him up, and then sell him to Ferrari. He’d get 13 or 14 million and Ferrari would pay me five.” A big sponsorship deal with Benson & Hedges for the 1996 season prompted Jordan’s cars to turn yellow.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ISAD4NCAOFECVE5EJCWHPH326I","additional_properties":{"_id":1742917804374},"content":"In 1998 Jordan sold half his shares to the private equity firm Warburg Pincus, then bought them back at a substantial profit. On Ecclestone’s recommendation, he sold Jordan Grand Prix to the billionaire Alex Schnaider for a reported $60 million, and in 2006 the team became Midland F1 (and would subsequently become Spyker and Force India before its latest iteration as Aston Martin).","type":"text"},{"_id":"KEFV2RNBQZBMLEEP3OOSUV7DVQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1742917804375},"content":"He pulled off another entrepreneurial coup in 2024, when acting as manager for Adrian Newey, arguably the greatest car designer in F1 history. He negotiated Newey’s transfer from Red Bull to Aston Martin, based at Jordan’s original Silverstone site, for a rumoured salary of £30 million.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XA22STMR4BDTNNRWQ6AXFHL6OE","additional_properties":{"_id":1742917804376},"content":"After selling his team, he had a media career as an F1 pundit, for BBC Sport’s Grand Prix programme from 2009, then for Channel 4’s F1 coverage from 2016. He presented Top Gear in 2016-2018, and in 2023 he and David Coulthard launched their podcast, Formula for Success.","type":"text"},{"_id":"N7L23HDKRNFTZL5XTQWDHBGH7Q","subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"SP4E2EZIXJC6NGIPR5OWRYYGXA","additional_properties":{"_id":1742917804377},"content":"Edmund Patrick Jordan was born in Dublin, the son of Paddy and Eileen Jordan. The family moved to Bray when he was 11 months, and even though they moved back to Dublin in his early teens, he retained a lifelong connection with the Wicklow town. His father was an accountant for the ESB, and his mother a housewife. He also had an older sister, Helen. “I was fortunate. I had a great upbringing. My parents strove very hard to make sure that I got a good education. And I didn’t want for anything,” he said in an interview with Hot Press magazine.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5IR6IHEMQ5AP7CI3HX4QH5Z2BA","additional_properties":{"_id":1742917804378},"content":"He attended Synge Street CBS, displaying early entrepreneurial flair by dealing conkers, marbles and school textbooks, and at one point considered becoming a priest. He briefly contemplated dentistry but then got a job in the Bank of Ireland. In 1970 a banking strike prompted him to move to Jersey to earn money, where he trained in accountancy and tried go-karting, becoming infatuated with it.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WMTBN3IODFH3BBZVL6NK77ATYQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1742917804379},"content":"Following a move home, he pursued his karting hobby and was successful enough to win the Irish Kart Championship in 1971. He then moved up to Formula Ford (partly sponsored by a Dublin carpet shop), although he suffered a temporary setback when he broke both legs in a crash at the Mallory Park circuit in Leicestershire in 1975. He bounced back in Formula Atlantic, and won the Irish Formula Atlantic title in 1978.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7EVJINFIVNAEXIK53ONUYVIIQQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1742917804380},"content":"He then moved to England and, now married to Marie McCarthy, a former basketball player for Ireland, tried his luck in Formula Three, but with little success. He decided to switch from driver to team owner, and formed Eddie Jordan Racing (EJR) in 1979.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MOHUMLYWLFFQJG664ESKC7CPPQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1742917804381},"content":"The team enjoyed a standout season in F3 in 1983, when their driver Martin Brundle came a close second to the gifted Brazilian driver Ayrton Senna. “We so nearly won the championship because we psyched Senna, and he started to make mistakes,” Jordan said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3EIMKUNHFFFWDBQJTROEAOQLYI","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"RVOUVPO5ARF2RE7OJDNF3PNIKQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1742917804382},"content":"In 1987 Johnny Herbert won the British F3 title with EJR, then in 1989 EJR’s new signing, the French driver Alesi, won the F3000 title. Herbert had now entered F1 with the Benetton team, and Alesi followed suit with Tyrrell (assisted by Jordan’s sponsorship contacts with the Camel cigarette brand).","type":"text"},{"_id":"NUFDNWK2XZEZVPKGDP2DKDPTI4","additional_properties":{"_id":1742917804383},"content":"This inspired Jordan to make the leap to F1 himself. He assembled a team including the designer Gary Anderson, and attracted sponsorship from Marlboro, 7Up and bizarrely the Irish government, after he persuaded Charlie McCreevy, the then minister for sport, that it would be a good look for the country.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XFK5USBPGNE7RKMLGV7TCEORBU","additional_properties":{"_id":1742917804384},"content":"He signed up the drivers Andrea de Cesaris and Bertrand Gachot, who racked up some solid results before Gachot was involved in a bizarre road-rage incident at Hyde Park Corner in London in which he sprayed a taxi driver with CS gas. This earned Gachot a prison sentence, and as replacement Jordan signed Schumacher for his F1 debut.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MLQN37DAZFDLFA5AIRWZXDRRRA","additional_properties":{"_id":1742917804385},"content":"Schumacher only drove once for Jordan, at Spa in Belgium, but his performance was so sensational that he was scooped up by the Benetton team, even though Jordan apparently had a watertight contract with him. The episode highlighted the Machiavellian politics lurking behind the glamorous facade of F1.","type":"text"},{"_id":"43C6TNLSZNFNXH4Y3FRJKOID6E","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"5E4JB5U7JNF3FGX4GIOUQP3RTU","additional_properties":{"_id":1742917804386},"content":"Jordan had numerous interests outside motor racing, building up a substantial property portfolio as well as being a shareholder in Celtic FC and co-owner of the London Irish Rugby Club. He had investments in gaming and entertainment businesses, was the patron of several charities, and launched his own V-10 vodka and the energy drink EJ-10. He also owned several luxury yachts.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GT45DDWVBVDRDGXIQ2TZSKQLDY","additional_properties":{"_id":1742917804387},"content":"His autobiography, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/independent-man-still-riding-waves-1.1206629\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/independent-man-still-riding-waves-1.1206629\">An Independent Man</a>, was published in 2007.","type":"text"},{"_id":"W3JQWXPXR5GQBJMFHISQEWAU2E","additional_properties":{"_id":1742917804388},"content":"Even though he lived primarily in the UK since the 1980s, he retained close ties with Ireland. There were many tributes from the Irish business, sport and music communities upon his death, including from his friend Bono. “The gift from the gods with the gift of the gab. A heart as big as his mouth, and that mouth was large,” said the U2 frontman in a video released on social media.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GR2WEJLQ4RGGPBJGRBAQEFR6M4","additional_properties":{"_id":1742917804390},"content":"“Living for love, laughter, noise, speed and loyalty. The man was Irish royalty. Eddie was a joy. Eddie brought joy. I will – we will – miss you. No one could keep up with you, in this life or the next.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"DRW2GLMVDNCGHGIRJGGVEDBMFM","additional_properties":{"_id":1742917804391},"content":"He is survived by Marie and their children, Zoe, Miki, Zak and Kyle.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[]},"description":{"basic":"‘No one could keep up with you,’ Jordan’s friend and U2 frontman Bono said in a video tribute"},"display_date":"2025-03-29T00:30:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Eddie Jordan obituary: Motor racing entrepreneur and gifted dealmaker","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"OQ6I4QTO4MR4XHWGDHR62J6AUY","auth":{"1":"3c0355d2edde6a61569fa7f64e51095a1abf820cbc577bb31e53363690fcd327"},"focal_point":{"x":1240,"y":644},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/OQ6I4QTO4MR4XHWGDHR62J6AUY.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Obituaries"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/obituaries/2025/03/29/eddie-jordan-obituary-motor-racing-entrepreneur-and-gifted-dealmaker/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/obituaries","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Obituaries"}}}},{"_id":"3ASWIO3KNJDKXNO4IS3TEXUURQ","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":355,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/06831231-9cd1-452c-b23c-4562b5579551/versions/1742921189/media/92da001897729a7bb614a315918c6194_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/obituaries/2025/03/29/john-hemingway-obituary-last-surviving-battle-of-britain-pilot/","content_elements":[{"_id":"B24JCHRWFJEO5FL5DUY7TEMSNM","additional_properties":{"_id":1655126212489},"content":"<b>Born: </b>July 17th, 1919","type":"text"},{"_id":"LNE3SNLQBVFALJJSTTWIDDSI4A","additional_properties":{"_id":"2RS2GOKGRJB75PO3O7ZNETYZ2Y"},"content":"<b>Died: </b>March 17th, 2025","type":"text"},{"_id":"5CJBU6JEJZFR7CD3AZWJRUKWAM","additional_properties":{"_id":1742915740158},"content":"John Hemingway, who has died aged 105 in a nursing home in Foxrock, Co Dublin, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/history/2025/03/17/last-known-battle-of-britain-pilot-irishman-john-hemingway-dies-aged-105/\" target=\"_self\">was the last of those whom Winston Churchill memorably called the “Few”</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GPW7VMEDAREBTF2RLDGL55FJ7Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1742915740182},"content":"Hemingway was one of the 3,500 or so Battle of Britain pilots Churchill had in mind when he made his noted remark in 1940: “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"TO5GREDSPRB5BB33AKB4ILKWDI","additional_properties":{"_id":1742915740183},"content":"Born to a middle-class <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/03/20/excitement-boredom-and-duty-the-reasons-southern-protestants-fought-in-second-world-war/\" target=\"_blank\">Church of Ireland family in South Dublin in 1919</a>, Hemingway attended St Patrick’s Cathedral Choir School, describing himself as a “very unsuccessful choirboy”. Later, he attended St Andrew’s College, then located on Merrion Square. His decision to join the Royal Air Force (RAF) was prompted by his father’s insistence that he choose a career upon leaving school.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2JYIX7EAJFEN5HN43WPAHFI7HU","additional_properties":{"_id":1742915740184},"content":"He went to London to sit examinations, followed by medical and physical tests, and was accepted into the RAF and offered a short service commission in March 1938.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PJ42WZXAIVAMHFQJO35AIXVD3I","additional_properties":{"_id":1742915740185},"content":"A year later, Hemingway had completed his initial flight training at Brough, east Yorkshire, and was appointed to the rank of acting pilot officer. After a period at the Flight Training School at RAF Little Rissington, Gloucestershire, Hemingway passed out successfully as a fighter pilot and was soon posted to No. 85 Squadron at RAF Debden in Essex, south-east England.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SEMGHHGZDBGVHLU3YHRVVATT5A","additional_properties":{"_id":1742915740186},"content":"This squadron was one of the first to be equipped with the Hawker Hurricane, a monoplane fighter interceptor which, together with the Supermarine Spitfire, was considered in the 1930s to be the cutting edge in military aviation – what we would today call a “next generation” fighter plane.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JVLNYKZMIZAUHPFM3VXZKQZEEE","additional_properties":{"_id":1742915740187},"content":"On the first day of the Battle of Britain, on May 10th, 1940, Hemingway claimed his first aerial victory – a Heinkel III bomber, which had been flying east. After he had opened fire, Hemingway questioned whether “he was doing the right thing – were we now in a shooting war?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"BXTGHWBWVBF4VK4O22NYAAM2HQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743420662308},"content":"Battle of Britain pilot at 100: ‘The only advice I can give to people is be Irish’","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"NQ2IQ44MLFFDLFSIA53RAGSKCU","additional_properties":{"_id":1742915740188},"content":"The following day, Hemingway was brought down by a German anti-aircraft battery near enemy lines in Belgium. He managed to evade capture, and joining throngs of fleeing Belgian civilian refugees and retreating British troops, he made his way back to his squadron near Lille, France, five days later.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WSF6TFBOEZG45LORK2TS2NFYS4","additional_properties":{"_id":1742915740189},"content":"In July 1940, Hemingway began serving with No. 85 Squadron under the command of Squadron Leader Peter Townsend, later noted for his relationship with Princess Margaret, the sister of Queen Elizabeth II.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OCVVJ7DDARBAXKSXG7AKZWZHAU","additional_properties":{"_id":1742915740189},"content":"Hemingway and his fellow airmen were thrust into the first phase of the Battle of Britain; what their adversaries named kanalkampf, or “channel battle”, and the defence of British shipping from Luftwaffe attack.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LBUVFJVOONCYNDKEBMOWW5B6IE","additional_properties":{"_id":1742915740190},"content":"On August 18th 1940, a date remembered in RAF circles as ‘The Hardest Day’, Hemingway was shot down over the North Sea, and bailed out off Clacton-on-Sea. He survived two hours in the water before being rescued by a lightship crew. When he returned to RAF Debden, he learned of the loss of his flight commander and friend, Flight Lieutenant Richard “Dickie” Lee, who was last seen flying out to sea in pursuit of German escort fighters.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YBNZ4A5MIVCZFMW6N76MK67VRU","additional_properties":{"_id":1742915740191},"content":"Eight days later Hemingway was brought down over the Thames Estuary while attacking a formation of JU 88 bombers on August 26. Bailing out over Pitsea Marshes, he left behind the buried wreckage of Hurricane P3966, which would be excavated from the marshes in 2019. This aircraft is now being restored to an airworthy condition from the recovered parts by a company in Suffolk.","type":"text"},{"_id":"E6DOUXKPWNHHXC33COSMUJVITU","additional_properties":{"_id":1742915740192},"content":"Hemingway went on to serve as an air controller during the 1944 D-Day landings and Operation Overlord, directing RAF fighter traffic over the Normandy beaches throughout the Allied invasion. However, he was always anxious to get back in the air and was eventually posted to command No. 43 Squadron in Italy later in 1944.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LH76VIHLHRB75OGXVKYEQFIA6A","additional_properties":{"_id":1742915740193},"content":"In 1945, he was brought down behind enemy lines near Rimini, northern Italy, and barely managed to evade capture by the occupying German troops. 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She trained fellow judges, taught with the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/law-society/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/law-society/\">Law Society</a> and was president of the Association of District Court Judges.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q4QQJ4BJWBBSBORAXJHPCN4HNY","additional_properties":{"_id":1742326642186},"content":"Born to farming couple Martin and Kitty Quirke in Ayle, near Oola, Co <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/tipperary/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/tipperary/\">Tipperary,</a> her academic prowess was evident from a young age and schoolfriends recalled how she would help others with school work.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PY2MF3QU2FH4PH45VYPXBS3KU4","additional_properties":{"_id":1742326642187},"content":"After obtaining her law degree in UCC, she trained as a solicitor and worked in private practice in Ennis, Waterford and Dublin before joining the Legal Aid Board. 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She was passionate about the training and education of judges and was involved with the judicial studies committee of the Judicial Council and frequently delivered training to newly appointed judges at all levels.","type":"text"},{"_id":"C36SLFL6Y5AIBEXOGAFUVASOXU","additional_properties":{"_id":1742326642192},"content":"In an online condolence, Judge Keenan Johnson said she was a positive force of nature who brightened every room she entered. “She was blessed with an amazing intellect and an insatiable appetite for knowledge,” he said. “She had incredible emotional intelligence, which enabled her to treat litigants with great empathy.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"K6NUAJ2VCNF2ZIKESTEZJ6MSXE","additional_properties":{"_id":1742326642193},"content":"Her family said she was extremely proud to be appointed a judge and she gave it her all. She was a familiar sight in the car park of the Four Courts where she could be seen chatting and laughing with friends and colleagues. Barristers Constance Cassidy and Edward Walsh said she was a judge at the peak of excellence. “She gave of her time, she listened, and was firm, fair and wise. She was nobody’s fool. Marie Quirke truly was a judge of and for the people.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"66XJ3XQSXVD5HF5H6VGAIIARSM","additional_properties":{"_id":1742326642194},"content":"She also sat in the small claims court and when The Irish Times consumer affairs correspondent Conor Pope attended a hearing <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2023/09/22/dissatisfied-consumers-go-legal-a-fly-on-the-wall-of-the-small-claims-court/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2023/09/22/dissatisfied-consumers-go-legal-a-fly-on-the-wall-of-the-small-claims-court/\">he described her court</a> as “a cocktail of kindness, crankiness and show business”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CPTFEUCCEZFCPFV2LDFYCHAUBM","additional_properties":{"_id":1742326642195},"content":"Judge Quirke was an encouraging presence in court for young barristers and gave them the space to develop as advocates. Law Society president Eamon Harrington said she was always keen to share her legal expertise, knowledge and guidance with others, and was a popular tutor at the society’s law school for many years. She was also part of the support group for the Afghanistan’s women judges who were forced to flee from their country when the Taliban took over.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OM2NVQX6OZAJXANOVMZAHHJDRI","additional_properties":{"_id":1742326642196},"content":"She had been a District Court judge for almost 13 years at the time of her death and Legal Aid Board chief executive Joan Crawford said her empathy and consideration to those who she represented or appeared before her in court had never diminished. Other colleagues remembered the glint of mischief in her eyes, and the deep belly laugh that seemed to erupt from nowhere and fill the room.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SYRM5IAZCZEOPKAMRGLVO6JBNM","additional_properties":{},"content":"District Judge Marie Quirke ‘gave justice a kind face’, funeral service told","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"D2JWIEFGDVFDHMKPMLCFNHFHNM","additional_properties":{"_id":1742326642197},"content":"While time was not always within her control, colleagues recalled how she was adept at scheduling and managing her work to maximise time with her husband Alan Fairbairn and their two children. Her family said she loved life and was always open to new experiences, even trying axe-throwing at Christmas. She loved to walk with family and friends, usually with her beloved dog Macy in tow. 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","type":"text"},{"_id":"RRC7C2Y5HNAO3IZK4S7M7QYOVY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Tá an crescendo de dhóchas gan fíorú an-chorraitheach go deo, bíodh is go raibh saol chomh tragóideach is a bhí ag Callas féin.","type":"text"},{"_id":"APQ5SXB5FJGELFITYNO4ZMK2EA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Nuair a chuir Puccini peann le pár chun Madama Butterfly a scríobh, ba mhinic go raibh steiréitíopaí ciníocha in úsáid. Bhí ról lárnach acu i gcothabháil an choilíneachais. Cé nár éalaigh Madama Butterfly ón nós sin sa léiriú a tugadh ar chultúr na Seapáine, d’fhéadfaí a rá go bhfuil féith frith-impiriúlach sa saothar. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"SFLYFBOUKFFCRDKLFBYL6XNHWY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Léirítear, trí iompar Phinkerton, an chaoi a chaití le pobail allúracha ag an am. Ar na saolta seo, chuirfí an dlí ar Phinkerton as mí-úsáid leanaí. 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That’s of course if you can find a superfast charger – and one that’s working properly.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UJYACX3JGNG7BEHZLYIMJUYK2U","additional_properties":{"_id":1743496471561},"content":"An admirable feature on the A6 e-tron is that you get a Type 2 charging port on both sides of the car, which is useful at charging points with short leads and also on awkward driveways.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4NDECMAAPRG2FB72NDOWOJKIOA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743496471562},"content":"As expected, the on-road experience is defined by refinement. Even in a class that sets very high standards, this A6 proved to be impressively poised.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IY5HHWCCH5BCTHYC6G3NQS57MA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743496471563},"content":"The battle here is mastering the agility of a 2.3-tonne car with a low centre of gravity. 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It does to the balance when you are weaving through the bends on Irish country roads littered with muck from tractors.","type":"text"},{"_id":"C25BTUUTBNHDPL3AGCD5OKF4NA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743496471567},"content":"Yet it never loses that sense of composure you expect from this car, always erring to a sensible rather than sporty drive.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NSJYR4VRVRBSJH5ZSGZKT22AZM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743496471568},"content":"In the pursuit of the corporate executive cash, Audi’s new A6 e-tron is competitively priced at €76,600 for the 210kW Advance version in sportback format.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TXWNJEX2RNDYRPZS2CJE2YFISU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743496471569},"type":"image"},{"_id":"EG62DSBSQNGVVJTHIVBPKURQ7A","additional_properties":{"_id":1743496471570},"content":"Our test car was the mid-level Performance S Line version, which starts at €92,775 but tipped into six figures with the addition of nearly €21,000 worth of options. It’s odd that so much was spent on options, for there is plenty of equipment and comfort features offered as standard.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YFB4KUQ2DRHGBC7D6RU7NQMFOU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743496471571},"content":"Of the options on our car, one deserves special mention: the virtual exterior mirrors at €1,861. Audi claims that replacing the wing mirror with a camera that projects on to a screen on the door delivers a few extra kilometres in range, but its main purpose is as a talking point. It’s meant to convey tech kudos on the owner.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YUXQ7JO6F5HCFKXPODXGCW5DWY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743496471572},"content":"We’ve tested these cameras on several cars at this stage, and on every occasion, the tech is simply not as useful as the simple wing mirror. 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How difficult is this to set up for a home in a residential estate, and does the ESB allow it? Also limited cars allow it, but will doing it void any warranties? </b>– <i>Reader, Co Dublin</i>","type":"text"},{"_id":"RVGKCDQBEZBNRDRUZ7NE7TFOTA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743408604598},"content":"<b>Q: What about EVs in places where the power has been out for several days? </b>– <i>B Ní Shuilleabhain, Co Kerry</i>","type":"text"},{"_id":"NDYF5LYHQRF2BAKNSKFFEUM2NQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1742477977866},"content":"<b>A:</b> We have partly covered these questions in a feature separate to our regular Your <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/evs-qanda/\" target=\"_blank\">EV Questions Answered</a> strand, but it bears a revisit, not least because bidirectional charging is so often touted as being a major benefit of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/electric-vehicles/\" target=\"_blank\">electric cars</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6OVKVSGQFFERLFVJZGZQHLOBJM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743408604600},"content":"In fact, as far back as 2010, bidirectional charging was being highlighted as a major boon to electric car owners, and this was when the only EVs on sale were the original Nissan Leaf and the Mitsubishi i-MIEV.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MIGUG5XSIZGDJERBOUJ7MGPQEI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743408604601},"content":"At that point, it wasn’t so much the prospect of powering your house from your EV, but more about making some handy cash on the side. The idea being that you could plug your bidirectional electric car into your home charger at 5pm or 6pm presumably with some amount of charge still left in the battery.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KPF4OJJZ6ZBYBLCDYNJSGNZFP4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743408604602},"content":"That being peak electricity use time, your electricity provider could then, in theory, draw on the excess juice in your battery to help balance the grid demand as everyone came home and started putting on kettles, ovens, PlayStations etc.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QYQKKSJ2MVFVTKQ3HCRS757SJM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743408604603},"content":"You would, in theory, be paid the peak electricity rate price for that power usage.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6RIKMP2L2FH4RLJUYIPX5EZLE4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743408604604},"content":"Later on, when the demand had dropped, the power company could sell you back the electricity again, charging up your car at the cheap rate.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UUZSTCJYRBEJTGA64HZV2EPD2Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1743408604605},"content":"The idea being that you could at least alleviate some of your charging cost, and potentially break-even given the disparity between peak and offpeak pricing.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AWGPW45CJRE4PFATCUGZQX6AWE","additional_properties":{"_id":"VEOLE7CIDRCXZOAIT3WL76MQTY"},"content":"Can software updates make my EV better?","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"JIZKPG4M75GVJCV36SPK6B6BDY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743408604606},"content":"To do that, you need two things – an electric car that has vehicle-to-grid charging (V2G) or at least vehicle-to-load (V2L) charging, and a smart home electricity meter.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RIP5SCX2PJDPBIHAXSTGAIDXSI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743408604607},"content":"The mechanisms for selling power to the grid as a private user are already in place, as some people already do this with their home solar panels or their home windmills.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LIVEVQSSENAMJG75MWO65ZDEME","additional_properties":{"_id":1743408604608},"content":"The downside, of course, is that although you’ve plugged your car in when you come home, it won’t be actually charging until later in the night, and indeed may actually lose some charge in the meantime – not great if you have to dash back out at short notice.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XVMNV3NMOBEGLJ7LWNOYKKKZ3Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1743408604609},"content":"However, what’s become a more pertinent benefit of late is the idea of actually powering your house directly from your car in the event of a power cut.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ILKUD44ZJJDBDB2SSUO7APPHJ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743408604610},"content":"As we all saw with <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/storm-eowyn/\" target=\"_blank\">Storm Éowyn</a>, if the power goes out, especially in a remote area, it can take a few days to come back on again. So can your EV really keep you going in the meantime?","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZROC6ZFGQJGL7GXIME7SMVXW3I","additional_properties":{"_id":1743408604611},"content":"In theory, yes, although it does help if you’ve come home with a full or nearly-full battery, which perhaps isn’t that likely. With the right car and the right meter, you could potentially keep your home running for two to three days from your car’s battery.","type":"text"},{"_id":"R22RJJJG6JGTNAQXLPOH6K4EKY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743408604612},"content":"According to the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/commission-for-regulation-of-utilities-cru/\" target=\"_blank\">Commission for Regulation of Utilities</a>, the average household in Ireland uses approximately 4,200 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity annually, so divide that by 365 and you get daily energy usage of 11.5kWh. The average electric car battery, in the European market, holds between 75kWh-80kWh, so that could be enough to keep you going for almost a full week.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4YKM7JXCXRCZXHPITGV3CZTEWY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743408604613},"content":"Indeed, one reader – P Fitzgerald from Co Limerick – recently told us: “I had my heating system running off the car this weekend when we had not power for three days. The only problem was that I didn’t think to plug in my freezer and fridge as well…”","type":"text"},{"_id":"E52ZOKJUGVF3REA7PKFNXO6QPE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743408604614},"content":"It is also worth remembering that the power output of some EV batteries and on-board chargers may not be enough to run all the high-power systems in your house at once.","type":"text"},{"_id":"USIEBF2URBEFRL2ICB46UQP3LA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743408604615},"content":"For instance, if you’re running your oven and an electric shower at the same time, that’s getting close to the peak power demand for your house, and not all EVs will have the capacity to do that, so a certain amount of power rationing might be needed. However, you will be able to at least keep the basics going – fridge, heating, lights, and crucially sockets for keeping mobile phones and wifi alive.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XCB4TRRW6NAR5CAG3TSVWETWBM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743408604616},"content":"Then of course, there’s a problem – as our reader from Co Kerry points out above: what to do if the power stays out for several days, something that most definitely happened for many people in the wake of Storm Éowyn.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SYLAWW3XMNFEHJLNNZSQBKQFOA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743408604617},"content":"Assuming that you haven’t plugged your car into your home charger with a full battery, it’s likely that you’ll only be able to get a couple of days, at most, out of the car before it too will need to be charged. At which point, you do… what, exactly?","type":"text"},{"_id":"VHVWBZMHNJHKVI5N3YQE2GN55U","additional_properties":{"_id":"FG76TAF7P5B5RCI5ZMJZJJ77NA"},"content":"Your EV questions answered: Do all electric cars only have rear-wheel drive? What about driving in snow?","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"VNOBRRVZ4FB5BH4SA6UWXQO4F4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743408604618},"content":"Here, you’ll need to do some planning. As an EV driver you’ll probably know where all the local public chargers are nearby, so start monitoring the battery level in your car, and when it reaches a point at which you can safely, with some in reserve, reach one of those chargers, it’s time to disconnect and get going.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4TRKWIFYDFEMHGJMFFESVIR4C4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743408604619},"content":"Power restoration after a storm is difficult business, but in theory power will come back on first in the major population areas, so it’s probably best to plan to head to the nearest town which has a fast charging point, and top up there. You’re effectively at this point using your car as a kind of electric bucket, carrying electricity back home. It’s not especially straightforward, and not foolproof, but hopefully it will keep you going.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IEDAG6QUTBBV7IC37XJN72OHXY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743408604620},"content":"There is a better way, however – which is to use an EV battery that’s no longer in an EV. Another of the potential benefits of electric cars is that when the batteries do eventually wear out, they’re not entirely dead.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7A6WLP6C5FAEPIMQ3ZZNFT77BE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743408604621},"content":"In an EV the battery is put under the kinds of stresses and strains that are entirely alien to other use cases, so most electric car batteries are considered to need replacement once they reach about 70 per cent of their original power storage capacity – something that is taking way, way longer in almost all cases, than we ever initially thought.","type":"text"},{"_id":"W2BIOU7P7VCI5A4EUKNY64U5MM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743408604622},"content":"However, at 70 per cent capacity, those batteries are still usable in other scenarios, and one of those is as a home power wall. Irish company Range Therapy is already taking batteries out of older, tired EVs, and indeed those that have become damaged in a write-off incident, and turning those valuable power cells into home energy storage.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BGTKJVTHTVDPRLMGEOPL6WY7KY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743408604623},"content":"With one of these, your home has a useful buffer in the event of a power cut and at peak electricity use times as a power wall battery that can work on the same basis as your EV – using the energy in it at times of high electricity cost, and then charging it back up again at night on the cheap rate.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YTHV24XZQFAIJPONGR6XHNGUI4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743408604624},"content":"Eventually, as EVs become more and more prevalent, and older cars age into the arms of the recyclers, hopefully this will become a more common fitment for Irish houses, and we can worry less about losing power in the event of a big storm.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BI64ORPVRBAE3BWYVXGK4ZEBJM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743408604625},"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"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[]},"description":{"basic":"Electric vehicles: Helping to separate EV myths from facts, we’re here to answer all your questions"},"display_date":"2025-04-01T04:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Will bidirectional charging power my house by using my EV’s battery?","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"DSK2APFSUFEWNI5OWOEBOE3F6I","auth":{"1":"5bae789b52fbf7ee7fe142eb505629e79265d2bdaaa0fdd2827755b8393f66c0"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/DSK2APFSUFEWNI5OWOEBOE3F6I.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Motors"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/motors/2025/04/01/will-bidirectional-charging-power-my-house-by-using-my-evs-battery/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/motors","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Motors"}}}},{"_id":"VLNCASXDAZGQ7AK3UW4RQSHGTI","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":306,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/5469/podcasts/351df2d9-d6db-40dc-af49-8a3b8db1a050/versions/1743363880/media/efc239df1945d6aa1d29d2228944bcff_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/business/economy/2025/03/30/which-will-get-to-musk-first-teslas-falling-share-price-or-trumps-maga-clique/","content_elements":[{"_id":"F4CEFVCX7FBMLMIGDDTDCLYMVY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743285514361},"content":"It’s edifying for liberals to see Elon Musk as a sort of madcap Icarus, flying higher and higher and into an inevitable crash and burn sequence.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LLIGMBPDJZC5VE7XBO3D4PZLG4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743285514362},"content":"Icarus’s folly (or arrogance) was to equate himself with the god of the sun, Helios, and to fly at a commensurate altitude with predictable consequences. The myth is typically read as a tale of self-sabotage brought on by unchecked ambition, but an alternative interpretation paints Icarus as a dreamer, beguiled by the sun (the ultimate source of all light) and striving against the odds, an interpretation that appeals to innovators.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SR2YTZOWZFEATO3ZBJYYMW6FSM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743285514364},"content":"Musk’s switch from political moderate (a term he once applied to himself) to far-right troll and propagandist is difficult to reconcile with his considerable achievements as an entrepreneur.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OEDXBL2UXZBZ5ARPYPX56X5GCA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743285514365},"content":"His Starlink satellite system, initially provided to Ukraine free of charge, replaced the country’s decimated communications system and has been crucial in fending off Russian aggression.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BA7KYOUWSNDC7JWDWB4M5G4MA4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743285514366},"content":"Earlier this month his SpaceX Dragon capsule splashed down off the coast of Florida after rescuing two Nasa astronauts stranded on the International Space Station for nine months.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PPV6JNKZLFDJVBK7RQDMPMTKXY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743285514367},"content":"And his Neuralink start-up has received FDA breakthrough device designation for Blindsight, an experimental implant aimed at restoring vision in individuals who have lost sight in both eyes.","type":"text"},{"_id":"E5IENDGIW5DC3PMERJUNKKIH3U","additional_properties":{"_id":1743285514368},"content":"But it is his amplification of various tropes and disinformation on X (formerly Twitter) combined with high-profile forays into UK and German politics on behalf of far-right parties that has zapped whatever goodwill he might have had previously, transforming him into a hate figure not only of the left but with moderates.","type":"text"},{"_id":"W2VKGESKXJB5VLGGEFWCTHUQCY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743285514369},"content":"According to the Center for Countering Digital Hate, Musk posted 50 false election claims on X in the first eight months of last year.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LFXP2FBPPZFJNDFYQYDMJHTTYQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743285514370},"content":"Many Tesla shareholders would probably like Musk’s wings clipped rather than crushed to corral his focus back to more earthly matters like the company’s falling share price. But liberals are hoping for a more complete evisceration.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VDJIVQ2VKRDBJP6XLCUCGEP5ZQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"IF6WB2SWA5ASDF7RGSK25C2G7A"},"content":"Just six people turn up for Tesla protest in Dublin as thousands demonstrate worldwide","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"YHLAZXFHLFCZPGGWN3FWP2MEKU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743332855849},"content":"But if we play out the liberal wish dream of Musk collapsing under the weight of his erratic behaviour, what is the sun or sanctioning stick that will plunge him, Icarus-like, back into the sea? Tesla’s share price?","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZDBLXFXVDNHWLARNHAFLF3H2QM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743285514372},"content":"The electric car maker is the dominant thread in Musk’s sprawling tapestry of business interests and the main source of his personal wealth. The acceleration in the company’s share price in the wake of Trump’s election victory last year drove his net worth to a colossal $550 billion (€508bn).","type":"text"},{"_id":"I7N5PMFS4ZFFNOHT4NSFEBRFKA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743285514374},"content":"But the stock has come crashing down since on the back of a near 50 per cent drop-off in European sales linked to a consumer boycott of Musk. The shares were trading as high as $480 in December but were under $260 last week, a slide that has wiped out up to $800 billon of Tesla’s market valuation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"77D7GVE6WZBJ5FAKIF233JOD2U","additional_properties":{"_id":"CUN6CWHUWVEINNGKDUBN7DGJRU"},"content":"What damage is Elon Musk doing to Tesla’s shares and sales?","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"SOIDAGUQCNADLIKLDBJPH52YLI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743285514376},"content":"The mitigating explanations – that weaker sales stemmed from the wait for a revised Model Y and/or greater competition from Chinese company BYD – can only explain so much, particularly when the EV market itself is growing.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5HHAZXTR2NAR7LMWLJYHUDY7IA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743285514377},"content":"Telsa has always had its sceptics, those who claim its perennially frothy valuation is at odds with the volume of cars it produces and the revenue it is likely to generate (a significant portion of its current revenue comes from selling emissions credits to rivals) but Musk, until now, has been able to face down his sceptics, convincing investors that Tesla is not just a car company but a revolution in transport stretching beyond mere car production.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UU2FQGNZE5AC7NMU4CQF3CTVWU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743285514378},"content":"It remains the most valuable car brand in the world, worth 10 times as much as the likes of General Motors, Volkswagen, or Ford despite making a fraction of the number of cars the others make.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SXKLXYEBF5AQVOBGJVXP2RT6PI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743285514379},"content":"But the current backlash is not an argument around valuations or future earnings or the company’s narrative but a more visceral rejection of Musk himself, something that won’t be easily reversed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UFKUUCOQT5EIHKZV2L53XGNJ3U","additional_properties":{"_id":1743285514380},"content":"Or will Musk have his wings melted in the political arena? He has potentially big enemies among Trump’s own Maga clique – Steven Bannon, Trump’s former adviser, being perhaps the biggest. Bannon has called Musk a “parasitic illegal immigrant”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7V6XI5LLXREELCSTFAO3JKLWEU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743285514382},"content":"The Maga movement has already clashed with Musk on visas for tech workers and believe he is redefining – in their eyes watering down – Trump’s immigration agenda. They’re waiting in the long grass for cracks in the Trump/Elon bromance.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FHFQTO2RAVCRJIG2ZZH4F6QNNU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743285514383},"content":"But perhaps the more immediate political threat stems from his role as Trump’s cost-cutting tsar and head of the Department of Government Efficiency, or Doge.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6Y6NZXZCYNCTDA5OW6OPUPWNVA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743285514384},"content":"The latter is increasingly beset with legal obstacles, allegations of conflicts of interest and a backlash from federal workers and Democrats who see it as a “hostile takeover” of government.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3U6QU5DLGZHZDOT7YGCN5CSNBE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743285514385},"content":"Opponents believe Musk is breaking federal law to purge perceived ideological enemies from the civil service and in defiance of the courts.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DU6RFFS6DVCNZEYKE4GQQOQCQ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743285514386},"content":"While Doge’s aim of saving taxpayers’ money and reducing US national debt, which stands at a whopping $36 trillion, still appears to have a popular mandate, Musk’s slash and burn tactics is making him a target.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Z5QWHYTCIRGNXLHQX2S4D3M3UU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743321872416},"content":"Where Musk’s political gambit ends is not obvious but he appears to have reached a dangerous point.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Eoin Burke-Kennedy"}},"name":"Eoin Burke-Kennedy"}]},"description":{"basic":"Tesla’s market value has slumped in recent weeks while he has potentially big enemies among Donald Trump’s Maga clique"},"display_date":"2025-03-30T11:05:59.584Z","headlines":{"basic":"Which will get to Musk first: Tesla’s falling share price or Trump’s Maga clique?","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"5469"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"A4JNPWBIRNDUZBRRXWJUHAKE3Q","auth":{"1":"fcb9114515b9e0a03af56ef5fdc50a280014ae65d6158469dff2a413837838e6"},"focal_point":{"x":754,"y":521},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/A4JNPWBIRNDUZBRRXWJUHAKE3Q.jpg"},"lead_art":{"_id":"ZRXEM3XT5R43IQU7JNMOXRR7GI","type":"image"}},"subtype":"columnist","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Economy"},{"name":"Technology"},{"name":"Big Tech"},{"name":"Motors"},{"name":"Business"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/business/economy/2025/03/30/which-will-get-to-musk-first-teslas-falling-share-price-or-trumps-maga-clique/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/business/economy","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Economy"}}}},{"_id":"NPOSOQICBFCKLO7F7TOMATYQYE","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":665,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/fbd2c401-ad90-481d-8c47-0ffe3fcc3e23/versions/1742825438/media/b1dbb8dbb7b6be2bbd68211da22d9bbc_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/life-style/2025/03/29/irish-tesla-owners-on-musks-ev-company-im-either-stuck-with-it-or-i-have-to-take-a-big-financial-hit/","content_elements":[{"_id":"7PQ324P72BHIBAOGR6KTCDRFT4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743110511095},"content":"Ever since <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/elon-musk/\" target=\"_blank\">Elon Musk</a> endorsed US president <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump</a> and gave a controversial salute at an inauguration event, the fortunes of the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/tesla/\" target=\"_blank\">Tesla</a> electric car company he owns have taken a dramatic turn. Musk’s political support for Trump, and his subsequent running of the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) in the US has been at best divisive, and has certainly stirred some into their own political actions.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YJKNHL6WLJBMRIYHVGKVTDUZD4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743110511096},"content":"In most markets, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2025/02/25/tesla-sales-fall-45-in-europe-amid-musks-political-meddling/\" target=\"_blank\">Tesla sales have fallen dramatically</a>, and the latest figures show that across Europe, sales of the Model Y SUV – not long ago the Continent’s bestselling car – have fallen by 53 per cent since the start of the year. Not only is that car no longer a top-seller, it’s not even in the top 30 any more.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RTJHRBTDUJAZHOYOGOK4KDZSFU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743110511097},"content":"There may be extenuating circumstances for that fall in sales, but what have Irish Tesla owners been feeling since Musk undertook his political lurch to the right?","type":"text"},{"_id":"DAWNVOG7AFBTJKJP5HUE7TLSFI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743173685524},"content":"‘I’m worried about the resale value now’","type":"header"},{"_id":"GYYXR2SPU5HKJHQE4UOVRLS6CA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743110511098},"content":"Tim McCarthy, from Co Dublin, is a <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/motors/review/2023/01/11/teslas-model-y-is-fast-its-roomy-and-it-goes-an-impressively-long-way-then-the-problems-start/\" target=\"_blank\">Tesla Model Y</a> owner who bought his car in 2023. “When I bought it, there was a bit of reluctance, because of Mr Musk. We had looked at other cars, such as the Volkswagen ID.4 and the Skoda Enyaq, but eventually we bought this because it just suited us in certain ways. And I like the car, the ride is a bit firm, but the build quality is good, it works for me in terms of space, and when we had one problem with it – a tow bar issue – that was sorted quickly,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZASPACQV35E5LLOILY63AIAGAE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743110511099},"type":"image"},{"_id":"Z3VZPMWB2FEBNI7OL6D6BUUZWU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743110511100},"content":"McCarthy’s strictly-vehicular experience has been good, but Musk’s recent actions have created disquieting background noise. “I would be worried about the resale value now, and that might actually encourage me to hold on to the car for longer. I think it’s a very fluid situation, and you’re aware of where things are going around the world with Tesla, but it’s a very fluid situation, and who knows? I might be stuck with it…”","type":"text"},{"_id":"MCQ5QH7EPZFQVKYTEFEZRNJXWU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743110511101},"content":"If it weren’t for Musk, McCarthy would be happy to buy another Tesla. “I think it’s a good company in general, in terms of innovation, software, customers’ backup, and the Supercharging network. So I’ve no issues with the company. It’s just him. I would consider buying from them again further down the line if he wasn’t there. 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I sort of had my doubts about Musk himself during the pandemic, when he was telling people to get back into the office.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"KWDHAG6PXNFIPH526PCEOUU5MY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743110511106},"content":"Tesla Model 3 Performance: It’s flawed, but this is an addictive electric vehicle","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"CBV5C7SOT5HEBHX36LYBMUR3YE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743110511107},"content":"Despite this, Mick bought a Tesla Model 3 saloon in September 2022. In normal circumstances, he’d currently be thinking about trading it in later this year. However, these are not normal circumstances. “I think at this point, I’m just going to have to hold on to it for as long as I can. The trade-in value was already trashed by the price cuts the company made in late 2022. And I can see how that made sense for Tesla — if they have reduced the cost to the point where they can sell it for less and still make a profit, and the mission is be competitive and get people to buy these cars rather than fossil-fuel cars, well I could see it from that point of view and just sort of suck it up.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZMBFKG6WIBFADIFAVOPQFJQJFQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743110511108},"content":"Given the recent spate of vandalism attacks against Tesla cars, dealerships and chargers, is Mick worried about his car suffering similar damage? “I doubt that very much,” he says. “I think the worst that might happen is that someone might ‘key’ it, but then that could happen anyway, so I don’t have much fear of that. I think most people are reasonable, and they don’t think that I went out and bought the car because of a certain salute gesture. But I think I’m going to have to live with the fact that I’m either stuck with it, or I have to take a big financial hit. 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In general, Irish car buyers have shown themselves relatively immune to broader political issues when it comes to their motoring choices – the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/business/transport-and-tourism/vw-emission-cheating-who-knew-what-and-when-1.3537754\" target=\"_blank\">“Dieselgate” scandal</a> certainly cost Volkswagen some buyers, but it remains a big-selling brand here. Likewise, Toyota’s unintended acceleration scandal didn’t do the brand much damage in Irish customers’ eyes – it has been and still is the top-selling car brand in the country.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FAQ52HSCT5HSPO3FP337HK2MOU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743110511112},"content":"Irish sales of Teslas have fallen this year, but to a far smaller degree than they have in the rest of Europe. Irish Tesla sales are down 6.1 per cent compared with the first two months of 2024, but there’s devil in that detail. Sales of the Model Y SUV, at one point the biggest-selling car in the world, have fallen by 53 per cent in Ireland, but that is potentially less likely due to attitudes to Musk, and more likely due to the fact that a new, potentially improved, Model Y has just been launched, but is yet to actually land on Irish shores. The Model 3 saloon, updated last year, has seen a 28 per cent increase in Irish sales.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DK4B4TT2EGMP6TXMER24GF5GNE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743110511113},"type":"image"},{"_id":"DRSCEVTPAJD2XBT7TZ6PXNBFNE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743110511115},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"E5Q7K4WVPNDCXCRTS4LNGFHUBI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743110511116},"content":"In the US, Ed Niedermeyer is one of Tesla and Musk’s staunchest critics. A former senior editor at The Drive, he’s also the author of Ludicrous: The Unvarnished Story Of Tesla Motors, published in 2019. Niedermeyer has some skin in this game – he’s a leading light in the recently-emerged #TeslaTakedown, a movement with the stated aim of damaging Musk economically by protesting the sales of his cars.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OILDX6URDFCFDKJFVOTKJIXQNA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743110511117},"content":"Asked if the current sales slump at Tesla is a blip, or something far more serious for the company, Niedermeyer says: “Like everything about the future, it kind of depends on us, right?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"A7EFQH2IWBHPHKHMGQPBUWB4XQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743110511118},"content":"“What I’ve been trying to communicate to people is that if taken seriously, Tesla is an immensely powerful lever that the public has to exert some influence over the political situation, at least with regards to Elon Musk. That there’s sort of fundamental vulnerabilities. That while he seems invulnerable, you look at the wealth.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BG2PGX2O3BGWLKNWJ4QH2T25E4","additional_properties":{"_id":"EVBBDJPI7BD5DNOGQFNM3LEBOA"},"content":"Tesla-owning taxi drivers in Germany squeezed as customers boycott Musk’s cars","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"PKKBU6Q55ZATVKGOHBQHQEFS24","additional_properties":{"_id":1743110511119},"content":"“And sort of like the Death Star, there’s that thermal exhaust port that is a very fundamental weakness. There’s no guarantee that that we’ll be able to blow up the Death Star, so to speak, but the opportunity certainly exists. I want to make people aware of that so they understand the options around the table.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"CSTP3R7265HLRAM3EJWET6ZF5E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743110511120},"content":"Is it actually possible to topple one of the world’s most powerful and influential people in such a manner, though? Niedermeyer certainly thinks so: “The first thing to recognise is that Elon Musk was not elected, that we as a body politic have not had a say in the power that he now wields. And so the question is, what can we do about it?","type":"text"},{"_id":"EMEU5LTQJBGNJG7F3KHJBYPGK4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743110511121},"content":"“And my argument is that this is the only real opportunity that we have to exert meaningful influence on the situation between now and the next election. Even in the next election, he wasn’t elected, so the idea that the political system is going to be the way to remove him is not, I think, any more clear than the opportunity that this opportunity presents.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HTZKTCBS3NA7FB4JYJTCBF3TMY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743110511122},"content":"“And while that’s uncertain, there’s an ‘X-factor’ to the extent to which people buy in and collective action is able to take place at real scale. But what I know is that if that scale of rejection of selling Teslas, divesting from the stock, of boycotting future sales, boycotting service revenue, boycotting charging revenue, if that all happens at scale, combined with the other trends in Tesla’s business and the fundamental instability of the stock valuation, and the sort of triggers that are built into that, that could fuel a downward spiral.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"BSAUSBVC4HZDEB6ME3P6DOIJKM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743110511123},"type":"image"},{"_id":"QNM3HKARLVAMBITZJGPLFDDAEI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743110511124},"content":"However, there remains the question of how much of the downward trend in Tesla sales and value is due to protest, and how much is merely a blip as the company refreshes an ageing model line-up.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HJGI3IL3YBADROLRTHBXLMZCFE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743110511125},"content":"Matthias Schmidt is the chief European auto market analyst at Schmidt Automotive Research, based in Germany, where <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2025/03/20/dont-blame-us-blame-musk-germanys-tesla-owning-taxi-drivers-appeal-for-customer-tolerance/\">taxi drivers are reporting growing resistance among customers to accept a trip in a Tesla</a>. Musk’s backing of Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) ahead of last month’s federal election infuriated many Germans.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4HL7MTWRJRGX5N6SR72CJ77BDQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743110511126},"content":"Elon Musk article praising far-right AfD condemned by German political parties and press bodies","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"SBSEACC5ZJEF3CFCFB6HITZYKY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743110511127},"content":"Schmidt says: “Tesla’s regional registrations trend has been downward, even prior to the Trump/AfD contagion. We see the withdrawal of purchase subsidies for EVs in many key European markets having a big negative impact, which was priced into Tesla’s business model and is now absent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RMCCM7MOD5HNVFKVJADKSRM6HE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743110511128},"content":"“Being a pure-player EV company, Tesla was most exposed to this. The ageing and limited model line-up is also impacting them, and alongside that, the market for first-time adopters who were drawn to new brands such as Tesla is likely seeing some market saturation as incumbents increasingly bring new EV models to market to reach sharpening regulatory emission levels. The imminent introduction of the Model Y refresh could also be causing some purchasing decisions to be delayed, impacting January even harder while the baseline last year was slightly inflated thanks to the Model 3 refresh rollout. EU anti-subsidy tariffs may be having a small impact but Tesla has the least exposure here due to it facing the lowest rate of all manufacturers exporting BEV models from China to the EU, and it impacts the Model 3 only.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZVLNFB5YZZHULE5PYNBKJRECBI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743110511129},"content":"However, Schmidt did say there is some underlying protest movement effect. “In highly emotional Germany, we are seeing increasing anecdotal evidence – such as bumper stickers – of a consumer shift due to the toxic fallout from the AfD comments as consumers vote with their feet and look for, shall we say, Alternatives Für Tesla.”","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Neil Briscoe"}},"name":"Neil Briscoe"}]},"description":{"basic":"What do Irish Tesla owners think about Elon Musk and his EV company? 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Consumers also held back due to the upgrade of its flagship Model Y car and hopes for a new affordable vehicle coming in the second quarter.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5UKGOX5RWZAZBLYA3VDEAGMH6Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"“We are not going to look at these numbers with rose coloured glasses ... they were a disaster on every metric,” said Dan Ives, an analyst at Wedbush. “This quarter was an example of the damage Musk is causing Tesla. The more political he gets with Doge, the more the brand suffers, there is no debate.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"BELZWNTHZFA75HWEJEUBHP4TLE","additional_properties":{},"content":"The company is banking on a revival in demand after finally launching the redesigned Model Y in China in February and Europe last month. 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He was in Wisconsin this week trying to influence the outcome of the state’s supreme court election, which he said could “determine the fate of Western civilisation”. 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It’s certainly smart, and in our Avant/estate format admirably sleek, but from some angles it also looks surprisingly like a Peugeot. And the Sportback version has a silhouette that could be an homage to the discontinued Ford Mondeo.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FWG7DCUXZRAB3DPOMQROOCOW6U","additional_properties":{"_id":1743496471549},"type":"image"},{"_id":"ZS5QQGPFQBGLRPISWAJQCCXQ2A","additional_properties":{"_id":1743496471550},"content":"You can take that many ways: as a critique of Audi or acclaim for Peugeot. I’d opt for the latter, for the French car brand is turning out some intriguing designs these days. The point is that it requires a bit of a leap for the current Audi A6 owner, used to decades of conservative “evolution”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XX5ZE3CR7ZGGPE3VLPUDPQMH3U","additional_properties":{"_id":1743496471551},"content":"And for all the time Audi has spent on naming conventions, the recently arrived design boss, Massimo Frascella, should now focus on the front nose. 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There are reports he is already working on a sleek revival of Audi’s famous TT.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5GNLYBWSSJFTJJHYCDWH3PVP5A","additional_properties":{"_id":1743496471553},"content":"On a more positive note right now, the A6 interior is as polished and premium as you’d expect, the MMI interface – with controls displayed on the 14.5in touchscreen – is as intuitive as you’d hope, and Audi is fighting hard against its German rivals to retain its place as the benchmark. 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That’s of course if you can find a superfast charger – and one that’s working properly.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UJYACX3JGNG7BEHZLYIMJUYK2U","additional_properties":{"_id":1743496471561},"content":"An admirable feature on the A6 e-tron is that you get a Type 2 charging port on both sides of the car, which is useful at charging points with short leads and also on awkward driveways.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4NDECMAAPRG2FB72NDOWOJKIOA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743496471562},"content":"As expected, the on-road experience is defined by refinement. Even in a class that sets very high standards, this A6 proved to be impressively poised.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IY5HHWCCH5BCTHYC6G3NQS57MA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743496471563},"content":"The battle here is mastering the agility of a 2.3-tonne car with a low centre of gravity. The A6 cruises smoothly at motorway speeds, just as you’d expect from a big German executive car, and is adept around town, even on the optional 21in alloys.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QUGCLONPCBDFTLRRZMHU5L2NYY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743496471564},"content":"When you start to push on, the power is delivered smoothly. Acceleration is sharp with a sprint to 100km/h in 5.4 seconds in our Performance version – even the entry model managed it in 6 seconds.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SJJNEM7V5RCEXHG6MKLE4WDPEE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743496471565},"content":"There is also a very good manual regenerative braking set-up, controlled from the steering wheel paddles, that can be used to mimic engine braking.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ESVYQAJQRFD3PISFPBQZMNM56Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1743496471566},"content":"The decision to opt for rear-wheel drive for its single motor versions is a step away for Audi – one that was heralded in the Q6 e-tron. 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It does to the balance when you are weaving through the bends on Irish country roads littered with muck from tractors.","type":"text"},{"_id":"C25BTUUTBNHDPL3AGCD5OKF4NA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743496471567},"content":"Yet it never loses that sense of composure you expect from this car, always erring to a sensible rather than sporty drive.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NSJYR4VRVRBSJH5ZSGZKT22AZM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743496471568},"content":"In the pursuit of the corporate executive cash, Audi’s new A6 e-tron is competitively priced at €76,600 for the 210kW Advance version in sportback format.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TXWNJEX2RNDYRPZS2CJE2YFISU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743496471569},"type":"image"},{"_id":"EG62DSBSQNGVVJTHIVBPKURQ7A","additional_properties":{"_id":1743496471570},"content":"Our test car was the mid-level Performance S Line version, which starts at €92,775 but tipped into six figures with the addition of nearly €21,000 worth of options. It’s odd that so much was spent on options, for there is plenty of equipment and comfort features offered as standard.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YFB4KUQ2DRHGBC7D6RU7NQMFOU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743496471571},"content":"Of the options on our car, one deserves special mention: the virtual exterior mirrors at €1,861. Audi claims that replacing the wing mirror with a camera that projects on to a screen on the door delivers a few extra kilometres in range, but its main purpose is as a talking point. It’s meant to convey tech kudos on the owner.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YUXQ7JO6F5HCFKXPODXGCW5DWY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743496471572},"content":"We’ve tested these cameras on several cars at this stage, and on every occasion, the tech is simply not as useful as the simple wing mirror. 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How difficult is this to set up for a home in a residential estate, and does the ESB allow it? Also limited cars allow it, but will doing it void any warranties? </b>– <i>Reader, Co Dublin</i>","type":"text"},{"_id":"RVGKCDQBEZBNRDRUZ7NE7TFOTA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743408604598},"content":"<b>Q: What about EVs in places where the power has been out for several days? </b>– <i>B Ní Shuilleabhain, Co Kerry</i>","type":"text"},{"_id":"NDYF5LYHQRF2BAKNSKFFEUM2NQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1742477977866},"content":"<b>A:</b> We have partly covered these questions in a feature separate to our regular Your <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/evs-qanda/\" target=\"_blank\">EV Questions Answered</a> strand, but it bears a revisit, not least because bidirectional charging is so often touted as being a major benefit of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/electric-vehicles/\" target=\"_blank\">electric cars</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6OVKVSGQFFERLFVJZGZQHLOBJM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743408604600},"content":"In fact, as far back as 2010, bidirectional charging was being highlighted as a major boon to electric car owners, and this was when the only EVs on sale were the original Nissan Leaf and the Mitsubishi i-MIEV.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MIGUG5XSIZGDJERBOUJ7MGPQEI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743408604601},"content":"At that point, it wasn’t so much the prospect of powering your house from your EV, but more about making some handy cash on the side. The idea being that you could plug your bidirectional electric car into your home charger at 5pm or 6pm presumably with some amount of charge still left in the battery.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KPF4OJJZ6ZBYBLCDYNJSGNZFP4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743408604602},"content":"That being peak electricity use time, your electricity provider could then, in theory, draw on the excess juice in your battery to help balance the grid demand as everyone came home and started putting on kettles, ovens, PlayStations etc.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QYQKKSJ2MVFVTKQ3HCRS757SJM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743408604603},"content":"You would, in theory, be paid the peak electricity rate price for that power usage.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6RIKMP2L2FH4RLJUYIPX5EZLE4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743408604604},"content":"Later on, when the demand had dropped, the power company could sell you back the electricity again, charging up your car at the cheap rate.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UUZSTCJYRBEJTGA64HZV2EPD2Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1743408604605},"content":"The idea being that you could at least alleviate some of your charging cost, and potentially break-even given the disparity between peak and offpeak pricing.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AWGPW45CJRE4PFATCUGZQX6AWE","additional_properties":{"_id":"VEOLE7CIDRCXZOAIT3WL76MQTY"},"content":"Can software updates make my EV better?","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"JIZKPG4M75GVJCV36SPK6B6BDY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743408604606},"content":"To do that, you need two things – an electric car that has vehicle-to-grid charging (V2G) or at least vehicle-to-load (V2L) charging, and a smart home electricity meter.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RIP5SCX2PJDPBIHAXSTGAIDXSI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743408604607},"content":"The mechanisms for selling power to the grid as a private user are already in place, as some people already do this with their home solar panels or their home windmills.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LIVEVQSSENAMJG75MWO65ZDEME","additional_properties":{"_id":1743408604608},"content":"The downside, of course, is that although you’ve plugged your car in when you come home, it won’t be actually charging until later in the night, and indeed may actually lose some charge in the meantime – not great if you have to dash back out at short notice.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XVMNV3NMOBEGLJ7LWNOYKKKZ3Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1743408604609},"content":"However, what’s become a more pertinent benefit of late is the idea of actually powering your house directly from your car in the event of a power cut.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ILKUD44ZJJDBDB2SSUO7APPHJ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743408604610},"content":"As we all saw with <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/storm-eowyn/\" target=\"_blank\">Storm Éowyn</a>, if the power goes out, especially in a remote area, it can take a few days to come back on again. So can your EV really keep you going in the meantime?","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZROC6ZFGQJGL7GXIME7SMVXW3I","additional_properties":{"_id":1743408604611},"content":"In theory, yes, although it does help if you’ve come home with a full or nearly-full battery, which perhaps isn’t that likely. With the right car and the right meter, you could potentially keep your home running for two to three days from your car’s battery.","type":"text"},{"_id":"R22RJJJG6JGTNAQXLPOH6K4EKY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743408604612},"content":"According to the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/commission-for-regulation-of-utilities-cru/\" target=\"_blank\">Commission for Regulation of Utilities</a>, the average household in Ireland uses approximately 4,200 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity annually, so divide that by 365 and you get daily energy usage of 11.5kWh. The average electric car battery, in the European market, holds between 75kWh-80kWh, so that could be enough to keep you going for almost a full week.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4YKM7JXCXRCZXHPITGV3CZTEWY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743408604613},"content":"Indeed, one reader – P Fitzgerald from Co Limerick – recently told us: “I had my heating system running off the car this weekend when we had not power for three days. The only problem was that I didn’t think to plug in my freezer and fridge as well…”","type":"text"},{"_id":"E52ZOKJUGVF3REA7PKFNXO6QPE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743408604614},"content":"It is also worth remembering that the power output of some EV batteries and on-board chargers may not be enough to run all the high-power systems in your house at once.","type":"text"},{"_id":"USIEBF2URBEFRL2ICB46UQP3LA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743408604615},"content":"For instance, if you’re running your oven and an electric shower at the same time, that’s getting close to the peak power demand for your house, and not all EVs will have the capacity to do that, so a certain amount of power rationing might be needed. However, you will be able to at least keep the basics going – fridge, heating, lights, and crucially sockets for keeping mobile phones and wifi alive.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XCB4TRRW6NAR5CAG3TSVWETWBM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743408604616},"content":"Then of course, there’s a problem – as our reader from Co Kerry points out above: what to do if the power stays out for several days, something that most definitely happened for many people in the wake of Storm Éowyn.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SYLAWW3XMNFEHJLNNZSQBKQFOA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743408604617},"content":"Assuming that you haven’t plugged your car into your home charger with a full battery, it’s likely that you’ll only be able to get a couple of days, at most, out of the car before it too will need to be charged. At which point, you do… what, exactly?","type":"text"},{"_id":"VHVWBZMHNJHKVI5N3YQE2GN55U","additional_properties":{"_id":"FG76TAF7P5B5RCI5ZMJZJJ77NA"},"content":"Your EV questions answered: Do all electric cars only have rear-wheel drive? What about driving in snow?","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"VNOBRRVZ4FB5BH4SA6UWXQO4F4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743408604618},"content":"Here, you’ll need to do some planning. As an EV driver you’ll probably know where all the local public chargers are nearby, so start monitoring the battery level in your car, and when it reaches a point at which you can safely, with some in reserve, reach one of those chargers, it’s time to disconnect and get going.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4TRKWIFYDFEMHGJMFFESVIR4C4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743408604619},"content":"Power restoration after a storm is difficult business, but in theory power will come back on first in the major population areas, so it’s probably best to plan to head to the nearest town which has a fast charging point, and top up there. You’re effectively at this point using your car as a kind of electric bucket, carrying electricity back home. It’s not especially straightforward, and not foolproof, but hopefully it will keep you going.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IEDAG6QUTBBV7IC37XJN72OHXY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743408604620},"content":"There is a better way, however – which is to use an EV battery that’s no longer in an EV. Another of the potential benefits of electric cars is that when the batteries do eventually wear out, they’re not entirely dead.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7A6WLP6C5FAEPIMQ3ZZNFT77BE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743408604621},"content":"In an EV the battery is put under the kinds of stresses and strains that are entirely alien to other use cases, so most electric car batteries are considered to need replacement once they reach about 70 per cent of their original power storage capacity – something that is taking way, way longer in almost all cases, than we ever initially thought.","type":"text"},{"_id":"W2BIOU7P7VCI5A4EUKNY64U5MM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743408604622},"content":"However, at 70 per cent capacity, those batteries are still usable in other scenarios, and one of those is as a home power wall. Irish company Range Therapy is already taking batteries out of older, tired EVs, and indeed those that have become damaged in a write-off incident, and turning those valuable power cells into home energy storage.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BGTKJVTHTVDPRLMGEOPL6WY7KY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743408604623},"content":"With one of these, your home has a useful buffer in the event of a power cut and at peak electricity use times as a power wall battery that can work on the same basis as your EV – using the energy in it at times of high electricity cost, and then charging it back up again at night on the cheap rate.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YTHV24XZQFAIJPONGR6XHNGUI4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743408604624},"content":"Eventually, as EVs become more and more prevalent, and older cars age into the arms of the recyclers, hopefully this will become a more common fitment for Irish houses, and we can worry less about losing power in the event of a big storm.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BI64ORPVRBAE3BWYVXGK4ZEBJM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743408604625},"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"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[]},"description":{"basic":"Electric vehicles: Helping to separate EV myths from facts, we’re here to answer all your questions"},"display_date":"2025-04-01T04:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Will bidirectional charging power my house by using my EV’s battery?","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"DSK2APFSUFEWNI5OWOEBOE3F6I","auth":{"1":"5bae789b52fbf7ee7fe142eb505629e79265d2bdaaa0fdd2827755b8393f66c0"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/DSK2APFSUFEWNI5OWOEBOE3F6I.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Motors"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/motors/2025/04/01/will-bidirectional-charging-power-my-house-by-using-my-evs-battery/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/motors","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Motors"}}}},{"_id":"VLNCASXDAZGQ7AK3UW4RQSHGTI","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":306,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/5469/podcasts/351df2d9-d6db-40dc-af49-8a3b8db1a050/versions/1743363880/media/efc239df1945d6aa1d29d2228944bcff_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/business/economy/2025/03/30/which-will-get-to-musk-first-teslas-falling-share-price-or-trumps-maga-clique/","content_elements":[{"_id":"F4CEFVCX7FBMLMIGDDTDCLYMVY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743285514361},"content":"It’s edifying for liberals to see Elon Musk as a sort of madcap Icarus, flying higher and higher and into an inevitable crash and burn sequence.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LLIGMBPDJZC5VE7XBO3D4PZLG4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743285514362},"content":"Icarus’s folly (or arrogance) was to equate himself with the god of the sun, Helios, and to fly at a commensurate altitude with predictable consequences. 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But liberals are hoping for a more complete evisceration.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VDJIVQ2VKRDBJP6XLCUCGEP5ZQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"IF6WB2SWA5ASDF7RGSK25C2G7A"},"content":"Just six people turn up for Tesla protest in Dublin as thousands demonstrate worldwide","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"YHLAZXFHLFCZPGGWN3FWP2MEKU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743332855849},"content":"But if we play out the liberal wish dream of Musk collapsing under the weight of his erratic behaviour, what is the sun or sanctioning stick that will plunge him, Icarus-like, back into the sea? Tesla’s share price?","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZDBLXFXVDNHWLARNHAFLF3H2QM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743285514372},"content":"The electric car maker is the dominant thread in Musk’s sprawling tapestry of business interests and the main source of his personal wealth. The acceleration in the company’s share price in the wake of Trump’s election victory last year drove his net worth to a colossal $550 billion (€508bn).","type":"text"},{"_id":"I7N5PMFS4ZFFNOHT4NSFEBRFKA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743285514374},"content":"But the stock has come crashing down since on the back of a near 50 per cent drop-off in European sales linked to a consumer boycott of Musk. The shares were trading as high as $480 in December but were under $260 last week, a slide that has wiped out up to $800 billon of Tesla’s market valuation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"77D7GVE6WZBJ5FAKIF233JOD2U","additional_properties":{"_id":"CUN6CWHUWVEINNGKDUBN7DGJRU"},"content":"What damage is Elon Musk doing to Tesla’s shares and sales?","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"SOIDAGUQCNADLIKLDBJPH52YLI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743285514376},"content":"The mitigating explanations – that weaker sales stemmed from the wait for a revised Model Y and/or greater competition from Chinese company BYD – can only explain so much, particularly when the EV market itself is growing.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5HHAZXTR2NAR7LMWLJYHUDY7IA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743285514377},"content":"Telsa has always had its sceptics, those who claim its perennially frothy valuation is at odds with the volume of cars it produces and the revenue it is likely to generate (a significant portion of its current revenue comes from selling emissions credits to rivals) but Musk, until now, has been able to face down his sceptics, convincing investors that Tesla is not just a car company but a revolution in transport stretching beyond mere car production.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UU2FQGNZE5AC7NMU4CQF3CTVWU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743285514378},"content":"It remains the most valuable car brand in the world, worth 10 times as much as the likes of General Motors, Volkswagen, or Ford despite making a fraction of the number of cars the others make.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SXKLXYEBF5AQVOBGJVXP2RT6PI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743285514379},"content":"But the current backlash is not an argument around valuations or future earnings or the company’s narrative but a more visceral rejection of Musk himself, something that won’t be easily reversed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UFKUUCOQT5EIHKZV2L53XGNJ3U","additional_properties":{"_id":1743285514380},"content":"Or will Musk have his wings melted in the political arena? He has potentially big enemies among Trump’s own Maga clique – Steven Bannon, Trump’s former adviser, being perhaps the biggest. Bannon has called Musk a “parasitic illegal immigrant”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7V6XI5LLXREELCSTFAO3JKLWEU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743285514382},"content":"The Maga movement has already clashed with Musk on visas for tech workers and believe he is redefining – in their eyes watering down – Trump’s immigration agenda. They’re waiting in the long grass for cracks in the Trump/Elon bromance.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FHFQTO2RAVCRJIG2ZZH4F6QNNU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743285514383},"content":"But perhaps the more immediate political threat stems from his role as Trump’s cost-cutting tsar and head of the Department of Government Efficiency, or Doge.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6Y6NZXZCYNCTDA5OW6OPUPWNVA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743285514384},"content":"The latter is increasingly beset with legal obstacles, allegations of conflicts of interest and a backlash from federal workers and Democrats who see it as a “hostile takeover” of government.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3U6QU5DLGZHZDOT7YGCN5CSNBE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743285514385},"content":"Opponents believe Musk is breaking federal law to purge perceived ideological enemies from the civil service and in defiance of the courts.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DU6RFFS6DVCNZEYKE4GQQOQCQ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743285514386},"content":"While Doge’s aim of saving taxpayers’ money and reducing US national debt, which stands at a whopping $36 trillion, still appears to have a popular mandate, Musk’s slash and burn tactics is making him a target.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Z5QWHYTCIRGNXLHQX2S4D3M3UU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743321872416},"content":"Where Musk’s political gambit ends is not obvious but he appears to have reached a dangerous point.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Eoin Burke-Kennedy"}},"name":"Eoin Burke-Kennedy"}]},"description":{"basic":"Tesla’s market value has slumped in recent weeks while he has potentially big enemies among Donald Trump’s Maga clique"},"display_date":"2025-03-30T11:05:59.584Z","headlines":{"basic":"Which will get to Musk first: Tesla’s falling share price or Trump’s Maga clique?","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"5469"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"A4JNPWBIRNDUZBRRXWJUHAKE3Q","auth":{"1":"fcb9114515b9e0a03af56ef5fdc50a280014ae65d6158469dff2a413837838e6"},"focal_point":{"x":754,"y":521},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/A4JNPWBIRNDUZBRRXWJUHAKE3Q.jpg"},"lead_art":{"_id":"ZRXEM3XT5R43IQU7JNMOXRR7GI","type":"image"}},"subtype":"columnist","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Economy"},{"name":"Technology"},{"name":"Big Tech"},{"name":"Motors"},{"name":"Business"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/business/economy/2025/03/30/which-will-get-to-musk-first-teslas-falling-share-price-or-trumps-maga-clique/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/business/economy","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Economy"}}}},{"_id":"NPOSOQICBFCKLO7F7TOMATYQYE","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":665,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/fbd2c401-ad90-481d-8c47-0ffe3fcc3e23/versions/1742825438/media/b1dbb8dbb7b6be2bbd68211da22d9bbc_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/life-style/2025/03/29/irish-tesla-owners-on-musks-ev-company-im-either-stuck-with-it-or-i-have-to-take-a-big-financial-hit/","content_elements":[{"_id":"7PQ324P72BHIBAOGR6KTCDRFT4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743110511095},"content":"Ever since <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/elon-musk/\" target=\"_blank\">Elon Musk</a> endorsed US president <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump</a> and gave a controversial salute at an inauguration event, the fortunes of the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/tesla/\" target=\"_blank\">Tesla</a> electric car company he owns have taken a dramatic turn. Musk’s political support for Trump, and his subsequent running of the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) in the US has been at best divisive, and has certainly stirred some into their own political actions.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YJKNHL6WLJBMRIYHVGKVTDUZD4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743110511096},"content":"In most markets, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2025/02/25/tesla-sales-fall-45-in-europe-amid-musks-political-meddling/\" target=\"_blank\">Tesla sales have fallen dramatically</a>, and the latest figures show that across Europe, sales of the Model Y SUV – not long ago the Continent’s bestselling car – have fallen by 53 per cent since the start of the year. Not only is that car no longer a top-seller, it’s not even in the top 30 any more.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RTJHRBTDUJAZHOYOGOK4KDZSFU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743110511097},"content":"There may be extenuating circumstances for that fall in sales, but what have Irish Tesla owners been feeling since Musk undertook his political lurch to the right?","type":"text"},{"_id":"DAWNVOG7AFBTJKJP5HUE7TLSFI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743173685524},"content":"‘I’m worried about the resale value now’","type":"header"},{"_id":"GYYXR2SPU5HKJHQE4UOVRLS6CA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743110511098},"content":"Tim McCarthy, from Co Dublin, is a <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/motors/review/2023/01/11/teslas-model-y-is-fast-its-roomy-and-it-goes-an-impressively-long-way-then-the-problems-start/\" target=\"_blank\">Tesla Model Y</a> owner who bought his car in 2023. “When I bought it, there was a bit of reluctance, because of Mr Musk. We had looked at other cars, such as the Volkswagen ID.4 and the Skoda Enyaq, but eventually we bought this because it just suited us in certain ways. And I like the car, the ride is a bit firm, but the build quality is good, it works for me in terms of space, and when we had one problem with it – a tow bar issue – that was sorted quickly,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZASPACQV35E5LLOILY63AIAGAE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743110511099},"type":"image"},{"_id":"Z3VZPMWB2FEBNI7OL6D6BUUZWU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743110511100},"content":"McCarthy’s strictly-vehicular experience has been good, but Musk’s recent actions have created disquieting background noise. “I would be worried about the resale value now, and that might actually encourage me to hold on to the car for longer. I think it’s a very fluid situation, and you’re aware of where things are going around the world with Tesla, but it’s a very fluid situation, and who knows? I might be stuck with it…”","type":"text"},{"_id":"MCQ5QH7EPZFQVKYTEFEZRNJXWU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743110511101},"content":"If it weren’t for Musk, McCarthy would be happy to buy another Tesla. “I think it’s a good company in general, in terms of innovation, software, customers’ backup, and the Supercharging network. So I’ve no issues with the company. It’s just him. I would consider buying from them again further down the line if he wasn’t there. Definitely.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"IPVFOPCQD5HITFVTN4LTZRI7NE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743110511102},"content":"Genevieve Carbery: Driving my Tesla in Ireland sometimes feels like wearing a red Maga hat","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"J7AZJD2OEVENPGJWQNBBVRNG5A","additional_properties":{"_id":1743173685530},"content":"‘I’m hoping to pick up a bargain’","type":"header"},{"_id":"XAM7U6NVVFDZBHVJN7W5SBAAJU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743110511103},"content":"One person who says that Musk’s political stance has actually inspired him to consider buying a Tesla is Lewis Duffy, who lives in Dublin and currently drives a BMW 330e plug-in hybrid. “With all the news surrounding Tesla, I’m hoping to pick up a bargain as a result,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XLPVMQCQC5DJDBJ5MVUAK7JH3M","additional_properties":{"_id":1743110511104},"content":"Duffy says he “absolutely” regards himself as a Musk supporter and hopes that his political influence might spread to this side of the Atlantic. “Just in terms of government efficiency, I feel that there’s so much bureaucracy in the Civil Service that we could save billions.” When we asked if he would be concerned that any Tesla he buys might be vandalised, Duffy responded: “Let them try.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"BXFSD24B4NGGZEP4QKK2YIAXUA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743173685533},"content":"‘I wasn’t a big admirer of Musk, but I was a big admirer of Tesla’","type":"header"},{"_id":"DXUSCOFRUFEMNMGASTSB3POXHE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743110511105},"content":"Mick, who lives in the southeast of the country, and asked that his surname not be used, takes a different approach. “I wasn’t a big admirer of Musk in the past, but I was a big admirer of Tesla,” he says. “As a company, as a technological innovator – fantastic. I sort of had my doubts about Musk himself during the pandemic, when he was telling people to get back into the office.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"KWDHAG6PXNFIPH526PCEOUU5MY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743110511106},"content":"Tesla Model 3 Performance: It’s flawed, but this is an addictive electric vehicle","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"CBV5C7SOT5HEBHX36LYBMUR3YE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743110511107},"content":"Despite this, Mick bought a Tesla Model 3 saloon in September 2022. In normal circumstances, he’d currently be thinking about trading it in later this year. However, these are not normal circumstances. “I think at this point, I’m just going to have to hold on to it for as long as I can. The trade-in value was already trashed by the price cuts the company made in late 2022. And I can see how that made sense for Tesla — if they have reduced the cost to the point where they can sell it for less and still make a profit, and the mission is be competitive and get people to buy these cars rather than fossil-fuel cars, well I could see it from that point of view and just sort of suck it up.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZMBFKG6WIBFADIFAVOPQFJQJFQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743110511108},"content":"Given the recent spate of vandalism attacks against Tesla cars, dealerships and chargers, is Mick worried about his car suffering similar damage? “I doubt that very much,” he says. “I think the worst that might happen is that someone might ‘key’ it, but then that could happen anyway, so I don’t have much fear of that. I think most people are reasonable, and they don’t think that I went out and bought the car because of a certain salute gesture. But I think I’m going to have to live with the fact that I’m either stuck with it, or I have to take a big financial hit. I might be well-off enough to afford to buy a Tesla, but I don’t make enough to sell it at a loss…”","type":"text"},{"_id":"BWMJVJTODZBCDPRDOK5CCBJYCA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743110511109},"content":"About 20 Tesla cars damaged at Belfast dealership","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"LSABUJYZZVC75PTGPSEMMCJ2KU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743110511110},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"MKN3MGCZRRHEZJZV626K7W4QOQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743110511111},"content":"It’s a curious situation for car buyers to be in, when politics and culture wars intrude into traditionally simpler questions of consumer value and car purchasing. In general, Irish car buyers have shown themselves relatively immune to broader political issues when it comes to their motoring choices – the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/business/transport-and-tourism/vw-emission-cheating-who-knew-what-and-when-1.3537754\" target=\"_blank\">“Dieselgate” scandal</a> certainly cost Volkswagen some buyers, but it remains a big-selling brand here. Likewise, Toyota’s unintended acceleration scandal didn’t do the brand much damage in Irish customers’ eyes – it has been and still is the top-selling car brand in the country.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FAQ52HSCT5HSPO3FP337HK2MOU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743110511112},"content":"Irish sales of Teslas have fallen this year, but to a far smaller degree than they have in the rest of Europe. Irish Tesla sales are down 6.1 per cent compared with the first two months of 2024, but there’s devil in that detail. Sales of the Model Y SUV, at one point the biggest-selling car in the world, have fallen by 53 per cent in Ireland, but that is potentially less likely due to attitudes to Musk, and more likely due to the fact that a new, potentially improved, Model Y has just been launched, but is yet to actually land on Irish shores. The Model 3 saloon, updated last year, has seen a 28 per cent increase in Irish sales.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DK4B4TT2EGMP6TXMER24GF5GNE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743110511113},"type":"image"},{"_id":"DRSCEVTPAJD2XBT7TZ6PXNBFNE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743110511115},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"E5Q7K4WVPNDCXCRTS4LNGFHUBI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743110511116},"content":"In the US, Ed Niedermeyer is one of Tesla and Musk’s staunchest critics. A former senior editor at The Drive, he’s also the author of Ludicrous: The Unvarnished Story Of Tesla Motors, published in 2019. Niedermeyer has some skin in this game – he’s a leading light in the recently-emerged #TeslaTakedown, a movement with the stated aim of damaging Musk economically by protesting the sales of his cars.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OILDX6URDFCFDKJFVOTKJIXQNA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743110511117},"content":"Asked if the current sales slump at Tesla is a blip, or something far more serious for the company, Niedermeyer says: “Like everything about the future, it kind of depends on us, right?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"A7EFQH2IWBHPHKHMGQPBUWB4XQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743110511118},"content":"“What I’ve been trying to communicate to people is that if taken seriously, Tesla is an immensely powerful lever that the public has to exert some influence over the political situation, at least with regards to Elon Musk. That there’s sort of fundamental vulnerabilities. That while he seems invulnerable, you look at the wealth.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BG2PGX2O3BGWLKNWJ4QH2T25E4","additional_properties":{"_id":"EVBBDJPI7BD5DNOGQFNM3LEBOA"},"content":"Tesla-owning taxi drivers in Germany squeezed as customers boycott Musk’s cars","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"PKKBU6Q55ZATVKGOHBQHQEFS24","additional_properties":{"_id":1743110511119},"content":"“And sort of like the Death Star, there’s that thermal exhaust port that is a very fundamental weakness. There’s no guarantee that that we’ll be able to blow up the Death Star, so to speak, but the opportunity certainly exists. I want to make people aware of that so they understand the options around the table.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"CSTP3R7265HLRAM3EJWET6ZF5E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743110511120},"content":"Is it actually possible to topple one of the world’s most powerful and influential people in such a manner, though? Niedermeyer certainly thinks so: “The first thing to recognise is that Elon Musk was not elected, that we as a body politic have not had a say in the power that he now wields. And so the question is, what can we do about it?","type":"text"},{"_id":"EMEU5LTQJBGNJG7F3KHJBYPGK4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743110511121},"content":"“And my argument is that this is the only real opportunity that we have to exert meaningful influence on the situation between now and the next election. Even in the next election, he wasn’t elected, so the idea that the political system is going to be the way to remove him is not, I think, any more clear than the opportunity that this opportunity presents.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HTZKTCBS3NA7FB4JYJTCBF3TMY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743110511122},"content":"“And while that’s uncertain, there’s an ‘X-factor’ to the extent to which people buy in and collective action is able to take place at real scale. But what I know is that if that scale of rejection of selling Teslas, divesting from the stock, of boycotting future sales, boycotting service revenue, boycotting charging revenue, if that all happens at scale, combined with the other trends in Tesla’s business and the fundamental instability of the stock valuation, and the sort of triggers that are built into that, that could fuel a downward spiral.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"BSAUSBVC4HZDEB6ME3P6DOIJKM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743110511123},"type":"image"},{"_id":"QNM3HKARLVAMBITZJGPLFDDAEI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743110511124},"content":"However, there remains the question of how much of the downward trend in Tesla sales and value is due to protest, and how much is merely a blip as the company refreshes an ageing model line-up.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HJGI3IL3YBADROLRTHBXLMZCFE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743110511125},"content":"Matthias Schmidt is the chief European auto market analyst at Schmidt Automotive Research, based in Germany, where <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2025/03/20/dont-blame-us-blame-musk-germanys-tesla-owning-taxi-drivers-appeal-for-customer-tolerance/\">taxi drivers are reporting growing resistance among customers to accept a trip in a Tesla</a>. Musk’s backing of Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) ahead of last month’s federal election infuriated many Germans.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4HL7MTWRJRGX5N6SR72CJ77BDQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743110511126},"content":"Elon Musk article praising far-right AfD condemned by German political parties and press bodies","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"SBSEACC5ZJEF3CFCFB6HITZYKY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743110511127},"content":"Schmidt says: “Tesla’s regional registrations trend has been downward, even prior to the Trump/AfD contagion. We see the withdrawal of purchase subsidies for EVs in many key European markets having a big negative impact, which was priced into Tesla’s business model and is now absent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RMCCM7MOD5HNVFKVJADKSRM6HE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743110511128},"content":"“Being a pure-player EV company, Tesla was most exposed to this. The ageing and limited model line-up is also impacting them, and alongside that, the market for first-time adopters who were drawn to new brands such as Tesla is likely seeing some market saturation as incumbents increasingly bring new EV models to market to reach sharpening regulatory emission levels. The imminent introduction of the Model Y refresh could also be causing some purchasing decisions to be delayed, impacting January even harder while the baseline last year was slightly inflated thanks to the Model 3 refresh rollout. 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