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Surrealing in the Years
Surrealing in the Years: The vibes of this presidential election are badly off
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Surrealing in the Years: Ireland's latest Australian exodus has no shortage of explanations
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Surrealing in the Years: Starmer has chosen the wrong opponent in Sally Rooney
Surrealing in the Years
Surrealing in the Years: We're getting better at rejecting bad ideas, now all we need are some good ones
Surrealing in the Years
Surrealing in the Years: Does anyone want to go in on a four-person mortgage with me?
Surrealing in the Years
Surrealing in the Years: The American government is done pretending it respects us
Surrealing in the Years
Surrealing in the Years: At least 4,844 children homeless, and we ain't seen nothin' yet
Surrealing in the Years
Surrealing in the Years: Screw it, let's put a Carroll's Irish Gifts in the GPO then
Surrealing in the Years
Surrealing in the Years: Dublin city needs a new motto. I have some suggestions.
Surrealing in the Years
Surrealing in the Years: Mayo Pride's 'Child of Drag' is a 'dreadful blasphemy'. So what?
Surrealing in the Years
Surrealing in the Years: Wait a minute, the British Army did WHAT to Irish civilians?
Surrealing in the Years
Surrealing in the Years: You wouldn't pay €35 for a ride on the Norman Splash
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Surrealing in the Years
Surrealing in the Years: Why on earth would we want to follow in Britain's footsteps right now?
Surrealing in the Years
Surrealing in the Years: Ireland and the world at large descending into Dan Brown farce
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Surrealing in the Years: Protect our cultural history or solve the housing crisis? Neither, thanks
Surrealing in the Years
Surrealing in the Years: Don't worry, they're only telling us to sit down with their fingers
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Surrealing in the Years: Plámás is far too kind a word for what we witnessed this week
Surrealing in the Years
Surrealing in the Years: Granny flat plan would have us living like garden gnomes
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Boyzone documentary is a refreshingly real look at relationships of all kinds between men
Surrealing in the Years
Lowry's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle approach to Dáil speaking time isn't getting anything done
Surrealing in the Years
Surrealing in the Years: There was real catharsis in watching TDs losing the rag this week
Surrealing in the Years
Surrealing in the Years: Met Éireann succeed in diabolical plot to warn us that it's cold
Surrealing in the Years
Surrealing in the Years: 2025 begins on a Dickensian note, and not in a fun way
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Surrealing in the Years
Surrealing in the Year 2024: A year that exposed Ireland's shortcomings when it comes to women
Surrealing in the Years
Surrealing in the Years: Ceann Comhairle ballot could have used just a little more backstabbing
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Surrealing in the Years: It was a good week for the kind of people who have a lot of good weeks
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Surrealing in the Years: Tired five-second hoist a perfect symbol of Irish political climate
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Surrealing in the Years: Election has foregrounded empathy, or the lack thereof, in Irish politics
Surrealing in the Years
Surrealing in the Years: Has everyone in this country forgotten how to run for election?
Surrealing in the Years
Surrealing in the Years: Halloween hoax proves that we have to get smarter, like, right now
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