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Last week
23rd November 2025 - 29th November 2025
Surrealing in the Years: Looks like you win this round, Ranelagh
Carl Kinsella
The evenings are long... How about a Christmas movie night?
Last month
November 2025
Surrealing in the Years: Paschal Donohoe leaves government unscathed, but how?
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: Yates' Fianna Fáil dealings an open kimono moment for Irish politics
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: Sorry Simon, maybe Ireland doesn't want to be a 'centrist' country
Carl Kinsella
This year
2025
Surrealing in the Years: Fianna Fáil once again aggrieved that their actions have consequences
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: Things are not as simple as Micheál Martin might like us to believe
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: You know who was really blocked from getting on the ballot? Me
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: Jim Gavin's answer on Gaza makes his Áras run look like a real gamble
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: The vibes of this presidential election are badly off
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: Ireland's latest Australian exodus has no shortage of explanations
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: Starmer has chosen the wrong opponent in Sally Rooney
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: We're getting better at rejecting bad ideas, now all we need are some good ones
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: Does anyone want to go in on a four-person mortgage with me?
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: The American government is done pretending it respects us
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: At least 4,844 children homeless, and we ain't seen nothin' yet
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: Screw it, let's put a Carroll's Irish Gifts in the GPO then
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: Dublin city needs a new motto. I have some suggestions.
Carl Kinsella
Quiz: How much do you know about your savings?
Surrealing in the Years: Mayo Pride's 'Child of Drag' is a 'dreadful blasphemy'. So what?
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: Wait a minute, the British Army did WHAT to Irish civilians?
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: You wouldn't pay €35 for a ride on the Norman Splash
Carl Kinsella
'The perfect balance between work and study’: Flexible courses helped Mark get his Master’s while working full-time
Surrealing in the Years: Why on earth would we want to follow in Britain's footsteps right now?
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: Kneecap are NOT the story. And yet.
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: Ireland and the world at large descending into Dan Brown farce
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: Protect our cultural history or solve the housing crisis? Neither, thanks
Carl Kinsella
Get on the property ladder in Cork from just €340,000
Surrealling in the Years: Keep your filthy hands to yourself
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: Don't worry, they're only telling us to sit down with their fingers
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: Plámás is far too kind a word for what we witnessed this week
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: Granny flat plan would have us living like garden gnomes
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: Ná bí ag insint bréaga, le do thoil
Carl Kinsella
Boyzone documentary is a refreshingly real look at relationships of all kinds between men
Carl Kinsella
Camping out for houses, waiting for ghost buses - has Halloween come early?
Carl Kinsella
Lowry's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle approach to Dáil speaking time isn't getting anything done
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: There was real catharsis in watching TDs losing the rag this week
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: Government formation is our problem, not theirs
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: Met Éireann succeed in diabolical plot to warn us that it's cold
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: 2025 begins on a Dickensian note, and not in a fun way
Carl Kinsella