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Last week
12th April 2026 - 18th April 2026
Surrealing in the Years: At least Fianna Fáil will be okay, and that's what really matters
Carl Kinsella
This month
April 2026
Surrealing in the Years: 'Fuel protests' are bad news for a society that's given up on nuance
Carl Kinsella
Last month
March 2026
Surrealing in the Years: This week we mourn Ireland's World Cup that never was
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: You are watching the obliteration of standards in real time
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: Solution to the housing crisis was in the French Riviera all along
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: Is it the biblical End of Days? Yeah, sure, why not?
Carl Kinsella
This year
2026
Surrealing in the Years: There was never any chance that we wouldn't draw Israel
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: Oh good, something else that Magic Wand Micheál is powerless to solve
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: Climate change is on our doorstep in the least metaphorical way possible
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: We've found out we know nothing about a lot of Very Important Things
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: We're entering a new era of lawlessness. Don't expect much help from our leaders
Carl Kinsella
Last year
2025
Surrealing in the Year 2025: Let's hope 2026 is absolutely nothing like that, then
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: 'How To Suffer Indignity' - a documentary by the Department of Housing
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: Government could learn something from RTÉ's delayed bravery
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: Looks like you win this round, Ranelagh
Carl Kinsella
The evenings are long... How about a Christmas movie night?
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
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