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Ireland should embrace being the land of the piseog

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ColumnLIFE IN 2026

Lise Hand: EnBritification - has Britain just run out of luck?

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Columnsimpler times

Silly season once meant moving statues and killer clowns. Now it's conspiracy theories

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Lise Hand: In this heat, Irish summers just aren't what they used to be

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Lise Hand: Our passport shouldn’t be relegated to being a handy life hack to skip airport queues

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courage under fire

Lise Hand: What Veronica Guerin can still teach us about dogged journalism

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Irish Literature

Beautiful Bloomsday: Where Joyce met Nora, and other Dublin stories we ignore

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Updated 16 Jun

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Wish you were here: Everyone up for the World Cup of global dreams and Irish regrets?

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Journalism

Lise Hand: 'Journalism matters. And this week has been a crucial reminder of that'

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23 Aug 2020

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'Here we are again. A global crisis rages and a government clown car is ablaze with a conflagration of its own making'

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22 Aug 2020

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Lise Hand: A leadership race in the midst of the Covid-19 outbreak? Labour can't catch a break

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6 Mar 2020

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Lise Hand: Mary Lou was borne aloft in a tricolour-draped golden palanquin carved from the bones of fallen Elites

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25 Feb 2020

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Lise Hand: After a long day, the prospect of an 'accidental' Green Taoiseach gave us 15 seconds of comedic drama

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21 Feb 2020

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Lise Hand: We might get a female taoiseach but gender balance stays stubbornly skewed

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11 Feb 2020

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Lise Hand: Reckoning day as 531 candidates put themselves at the mercy of democracy

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8 Feb 2020

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Lise Hand: 'Nobody wiped the floor with anyone else... except perhaps Miriam O'Callaghan'

5 Feb 2020

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Lise Hand in London: 'Empires end, not with a bang, but with a last burst of delusion'

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2 Feb 2020

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Lise Hand: Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil are asking 'What can we do about Mary Lou?'

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30 Jan 2020

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Lise Hand: Most voters in the real world don’t give a monkey's if Leo Varadkar smoked hash

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26 Jan 2020

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Lise Hand: Will they? Won't they? Shades of Love Island as big parties can't avoid recoupling talk

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23 Jan 2020

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Lise Hand: Meticulous election planning meaningless as parties skid on first banana skins

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21 Jan 2020

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