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There have been glowing tributes paid to Pope Francis in the wake of his death—including from some of his most bitter adversaries. Brian Kelly examines Francis’s legacy in attempting to ‘renew’ a scandal-ridden church and re-position Catholicism as a ‘progressive’ force in a global order marked
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The news that the fascist National Party has had €400,000 worth of gold stolen from a vault has prompted many questions about how they amassed such a fortune. Clara McCormack takes a look at the funding behind the far-right. The public announcement of an enormous quantity of gold
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Eugenics neither began nor ended with the Nazis, despite the term being most-often associated with their despicable crimes. As the far-right attempt to rehabilitate these abhorrent ideas, Aislinn Shanahan Daly traces some of the hidden history of eugenics. It is a dark omen that the word eugenics has
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As the advertising standards agency of Ireland bans a tampon ad deemed ‘widely offensive’, Fiona Ferguson argues that the women of Ireland, North & South, are up for the fight against period stigma. God love the conservatives of Ireland. Tormented by Repeal, tortured by endless LGBTQ+ campaigns, and lately, a
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In the wake of the landslide vote to Repeal, Kieran Allen looks at how the vote was won and what else can be achieved by people power in ‘conservative’ Ireland. The huge Yes vote to repeal the 8th Amendment has finally put an end to the myth that the Irish