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The government’s attempts to buy off fuel protesters are pathetic. They consist mainly of ‘temporary measures’ and are geared to support small businesses. There is a ten-cent reduction in excise duty on petrol and diesel, but that does not bring prices below the level when Trump and Israel
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On the Claire Byrne show last month, Jim O’Callaghan was asked if it would be an “acceptable practice to lift people off the streets who shouldn’t be here”, in a manner similar to the deportations being carried out by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. “We’re nowhere
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One yardstick of the magnitude of crises engulfing our planet is the increased difficulty in writing any sort of end-of-year reviews. Genocide, war, famine, social explosion – what a decade ago would have been year-defining events now jostle for adequate coverage. In 2025, history’s ghosts have come