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Julien Mercille: Liberals are wrong to cheer on Trump's bombs
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'Fox News' Bill O'Reilly will be replaced by another big mouth, cheering Trump on'
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'Trump’s budget is easy to understand: he’s boosting the military, cutting everything else. Scary'
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Julien Mercille: 'We should transform Paddy's Day into a people’s celebration, that's not about blind patriotism'
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American soap opera: 'Family, business and government all intertwined in Trump's presidency'
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Julien Mercille: 'From a progressive perspective, Obama's record is less than impressive'
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18 Jan 2017
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'The media should tell the truth about the alt-right'
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Julien Mercille: 'Trump is simply continuing policies pursued by Democrats'
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Opinion: Four reasons why Donald Trump won the election
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Opinion: We need a strike at 4.27pm this Friday for women’s pay
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Hillary Clinton and Wikileaks: Is it legitimate to release personal emails in full?
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Column: The US football players kneeling for the national anthem are doing something important
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If you use Whatsapp, your data is about to become the property of Facebook
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Where will Namaleaks lead us? The answer depends on you
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Why are so many British politicians resigning?
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The coup against Jeremy Corbyn is a case of elites trying to squash popular aspirations
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On the death of Jo Cox: Racist rhetoric contributes to the rise in violence
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The pink tax is just another cost of being a girl
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Atrocities you probably haven't heard about through the media
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Jack Chambers has taken some heat on social media, but public figures get criticised all the time
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Five simple reasons the government got the mood of the people so wrong
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'For me, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are virtually the same'
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'Anti-Islamic group Pegida are coming to town. We can't afford to laugh and dismiss them'
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Promoting 'brand Ireland' with a film about emigration? I'm not comfortable with that
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The Catholic Church does not promote an egalitarian ethic - it never has
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Students loaded with loans are less free to conduct their lives in the way they wish. It's a bad idea
Julien Mercille
21 Dec 2015
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Ireland's health system is broken, we need an NHS model like the UK
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To reduce the threat of terrorism, stop bombing and close Shannon Airport to the US military
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What are political leaders waiting for? It's time to liberalise Ireland's abortion laws
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