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THERE IS A ridiculous amount of exciting Irish books set to be published in 2025 – so much so that it was difficult to whittle this list down.
But here are 22 Irish novels (and a short story collection) to look out for in 2025.
Nesting by Roisín O’Donnell (16 January, Scribner)
This highly anticipated debut novel by the prize-winning Roisín O’Donnell is about a woman named Ciara Fay, who makes a split-second decision to leave her home with her daughters one spring afternoon. The book explores why, and what happens next, when she finds herself trapped by Ireland’s precarious housing system. Many Irish authors are already praising this, with Roddy Doyle calling it “powerful”.
The Boy from the Sea by Garrett Carr(6 February, Picador)
Creative writing teacher Garrett Carr has previously written three novels for young adults. For his debut adult novel, he brings us to Ireland’s west coast, where a baby is found abandoned on a beach in 1973. The baby is adopted by a fisherman named Ambrose, and the book explores the impact of this as the boy grows up on Ambrose’s family and the local community.
Moving On by Roisin Meaney (6 February, Hachette Books Ireland)
One for those who like a bit of heartwarming romance, this is billed as One Day meets The Flatshare. It follows Ellen, who is caught between not two but three great loves – one a bookseller in Galway, another a fancy London banker, and the third a childhood friend.
May All Your Skies Be Blue by Fíona Scarlett (13 February, Faber & Faber)
Fíona Scarlett’s debut novel Boys Don’t Cry was a huge success, and her follow-up is an eagerly awaited novel that we’re told will make you cry. It follows Shauna and Dean’s youthful romance in 1990s Ireland and the legacy it leaves for them both.
Eimear McBride – The City Changes Its Face (13 February, Faber & Faber)
Eimear McBride is a truly singular author whose breakthrough was the fantastic A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing (2013). In her latest novel, she brings us to the 1990s and to Eily and Stephen, a couple with a large age gap who have fallen deeply in love. We then meet them again 18 months later, as they retrace their romance and Eily thinks about the future.
The Stolen Child by Carmel Harrington (27 February, Hachette Books Ireland)
Longtime author Carmel Harrington (a bestseller with 13 novels behind her) writes in her latest book about a mother named Kimberly who wakes while on a cruise ship to discover her two-year-old son Robert has vanished overnight. He is never found, but 40 years later Kimberly’s daughter Lily, a therapist, welcomes a client who has a shocking theory about what happened to Robert.
Twist by Colum McCann (11 March, Penguin)
Colum McCann’s latest novel has an intriguing premise – it’s about an Irish journalist who’s assigned to cover a story about underwater cables, which brings him to the west coast of Africa and a meeting with another Irishman, an engineer on a cable repair ship. The pair are sent on a trip to repair major underwater breaks, but at sea are forced to confront some serious stories about life and whether it’s possible to repair ruptures from the past.
Burn After Reading by Catherine Ryan Howard (13 March, Transworld)
Queen of the plot twist Catherine Ryan Howard always guarantees her reader a great time. In her latest book, a ghostwriter is tasked with writing the memoirs of a celebrity widely suspected of murder, but it turns out she has a guilty secret of her own… you’re in great hands here as Ryan Howard takes you on another twisty-turny journey into human behaviour.
I Want To Go Home But I’m Already There by Róisín Lanigan(20 March, Penguin)
Many will be intrigued by the premise of this book – that it’s a ghost story set in the rental crisis. It’s about Áine, who has just moved in with her boyfriend Elliot in a lovely and affluent neighbourhood. So why can’t she settle in, and why does she feel that there’s something not quite right about the place?
We Used to Dance Here by Dave Tynan (10 April, Granta)
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Fun and Games by John Patrick McHugh(24 April, Fourth Estate)
Fans of McHugh’s debut short story collection, Pure Gold, will be delighted to hear his first novel arrives this spring. The Galwegian (who has been called “one of the most exciting writers working in Ireland today” by none other than Sally Rooney), writes here about a teenage boy called John Masterson coming of age on the west coast of Ireland. We join him on his last summer on a small island as he is faced with many difficult choices around family, friends and the future.
Open, Heaven by Sean Hewitt (24 April, Penguin)
Those who love a yearning literary novel about unrequited love should run, not walk to their local bookshop when this arrives on the shelves. Poet and author Hewitt once again shows off his considerable skill while telling the story of young teenager James, who falls for a charismatic newcomer to his small village.
The Secret Room by Jane Casey (24 April, Hemlock Press)
Bestselling author Jane Casey has gathered a fervent fanbase for her thrillers that feature DS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent. In the latest addition to the series, wealthy, privileged Ilaria Cavendish checks into a luxury hotel in central London – but her lover soon finds her dead. It might look like an accident, but was it murder? Tasked with investigating, soon Kerrigan urgently needs to call on Derwent, who’s struggling with a difficult situation himself.
Ordinary Saints by Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin (24 April, Manilla Press)
In her debut novel, Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin brings us an exploration of family, grief, queer identity, and the legacy of the Catholic Church in Ireland. The central character is Jay, who is living in London with her girlfriend and has to confront her past when she learns that her late older brother may be made into a Catholic saint. Intriguingly, this was inspired by Ní Mhaoileoin’s upbringing as well as the true story of Italian teenager Carlo Acutis.
The Children of Eve by John Connolly (8 May, Hachette Books Ireland)
Author of the Charlie Parker mysteries John Connolly is back with his latest, where private investigator Parker is hired to find out why the boyfriend of a rising artist called Zetta Nadeau has gone missing. Soon he finds out that the man has a connection to the abduction of four children from Mexico.
It Should Have Been You by Andrea Mara (8 May, Penguin)
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Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way by Elaine Feeney (29 May, Harvill Secker)
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Our Song by Anna Carey (5 June, Hachette Books Ireland)
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Long Story by Vicki Notaro (5 June, Penguin Sandycove)
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Before Dorothy by Hazel Gaynor (19 June, HarperCollins)
We all know the story of Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz, but what happened before all of that? Hazel Gaynor brings us back to Kansas in 1932 and to the world of Emily Gale (aka Aunt Em), who must care for her sister’s orphaned child, Dorothy. Life is relentless and the plains are unforgiving, but can Dorothy help Emily heal her heart?
The Benefactors by Wendy Erskine (19 June, Sceptre)
One of the island’s finest writers, Wendy Erskine has published two short story collections which have left fans eager for a novel. The Benefactors is all they must have hoped for and more. It centres on three women – Frankie, Miriam and Bronagh – who are all different but are mothers to 18-year-old boys. When their sons are accused of sexually assaulting Misty Johnson, the women are brought together. This is a deeply human book that casts a curious and empathic eye on contemporary Northern Ireland and the issues that affect people of all classes there.
Few and Far Between by Jan Carson (17 July, Doubleday)
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2 years ago when I was home from Australia Ryanair had been successful in driving Aer Arann and Aer Lingus out of the Dublin – Kerry route .. Ended up having to drive due to the lack of service. They obviously didn’t make money out of this as Aer Arann are back on the route. I’m only one customer on one day of the year. It’s frightening to think the cost and inconvenience any takeover would have on everyone.
in many cases where you don’t book months in advance Ryanair are more expensive that Aer Lingus on like-for-like flights. It would be a disaster if Aer Lingus were to be taken over by these cowboys. I have been let down too frequently flying Ryanair I would never use them again. How they stay in business by treating their customer like shit is staggering.
When Ryanair first started way back I was proud it was Irish and loved the jaunty harp on the tail and it’s corporate device.
It was welcome competition, the prices for flights with national carriers in the dark old days were hideous – so from that point of view the cheeky Irish airline did good.
Steadily they started to piss everyone off, the stupid website with it’s garish vulgarity, the silly news stories, a buffoon at the helm, safety concerns, accidents etc..
The new Aer Lingus with it’s corporate ethos of excellence, tasty food, convenient schedules, end-to-end airline service, partnerships with other airlines etc.. all at the best prices – can’t be beaten. Please don’t take that away from us.
Getting onto an Aer Lingus plane is like being welcomed home. You can’t say that about Ryanair.
I agree that you can get just as good value with aer lingus and other airlines as with Ryanair. Especially when you count things like the airports they fly into and times of the flights. London is a great example. Fly direct to Heathrow and you are directly on the subway line and less than an hour to a large part of the city. Fly to the other airports and you are an hour by bus to 1 point in the city (Paddington I think) and you then have to find your way to your hotel.
It’s a pyramid scheme… There’s a huge base of dumb and cheap people who can’t rationalise the cost/value of things, ryanair keeps just pulling from that pool. The question is what will happen when they have pissed off too many former customers and the pool isn’t there to expand any more. The answer is launch hostile takeover bids and drive out competition which is what we are seeing now.
Having said that I still have respect for Ryanair. They made it affordable for a lot of people to fly. As long as you play by the Ryanair rules you can get value. I just don’t understand some people who don’t even consider alternative airlines because they are “more expensive”
I remember missing a flight home to Cork from Heath row through my own time management ineptitude. I explained my case to Aer Lingus and they were ‘No problem sir, you can take the next flight in an hour’ A similar situation occurred at JFK when a connecting flight was delayed and they put me on a flight the following morning. Do you think Ryanair would be as accommodating? They would in their F*%k.
Well done. Please keep the freedom of choice.
If Ryanair remain the only company, be sure the flight tickets prices will hike up. Not to mention the creepy idea of Ryanair being the only Irish company. It makes me shiver.
No surprise there! Best news I’ve heard today although to give Ryanair their due, they did help bring down the cost of flying which seems to have crept up again due to fees, taxes, charges, etc. Yet now, they are as expensive, if not more, than Aer Lingus!
Ryanair were once the ‘Low Fares’ airline, they’re now the ‘Low Cost’ airline. It was a cute move my the lad in my profile picture but the fact is, Ryanair isn’t that cheap compared on some routes. Good decision today, Ryanair cannot be allowed to create a monopoly.
Sure, but I meant more generally. On the macro economic policy front, the EU, in the shape of Rehn & others are appalling, making the banking crisis a universal economic catastrophe (for the many, not the top few percent elites, that is).
I admire Michael O’Leary for how much of a success Ryanair is, but I would hate to have to only have the option of flying Ryanair out of Ireland. Imagine going on any sort of trip that involved bags or sports gear, would be an expensive disaster!
O’Leary’s main aim is to get rid of the competition on Spanish and Polish routes. Why? Because 20,000 Irish people bought holiday homes in Spain and regularly fly over and back (as do their families). And there are still 50,000 plus Polish people working and living in Ireland who regularly fly back home. Ryanair have already seen off several Spanish competitors (e.g. Spanair) and can easily undercut any airline who dares enter the market by even running at a loss for a time if necessary. Aer Lingus offer some competition on Spain/Poland but if O’Leary succeeds he will have a free hand and charge €300 each way to these destinations. Oh – plus “taxes” and “charges” of course.
EI are backing out of Poland, they no longer fly to Krakow…we fly there about 4 times a year and now FR are the only option. I like FR, and O’ Leary, I used to work for him, but I want choice….and this is a good decision by the EU but EI pulling oput of Krakow, when, from what I could see, they made a profit on the line is not good for competition.
Con , are those statistics official? I would love to know how you got the info that 20,000 Irish people bought houses in Spain. Was it all done in one day? How many in Portugal ? 18,277 ?
1. There is no way you can know if EI made a profit on the KRK route as the information isn’t available.
2. Do you really think they would pull off a profitable route??
You don’t get it Michael do you? You have turned full circle & forgot all the things that transformed Ryanair from a humble Irish operator into one of the leading world airlines.
Ryanair at first offered the ordinary person the opportunity to travel frequently to destinations at affordable prices,something the national airlines could not do. Ryanair also cut a lot of the red tape & stupid procedures that cut travel time and created great efficiencies.
The Ryanair of today is a totally different animal, it does not care about anything else just it’s own corporate greed. They have forced competition off some routes and then pulled out of the same routes leaving the consumer without a service. Their stringent if not bullying approach to carry on luggage has left many of the airport retailers throughout Europe with know option but to close,again leaving the consumer without a choice. They tried to bully the Irish government to force AerLingus from some areas of Dublin airport when they did’t succeed they transferred planned badly needed jobs abroad. The stories are endless…
Michael whoever told you that the Irish people wanted you to takeover & dismantle AerLingus? The truth is Michael the Irish people have fallen out of love with you where once they were so so proud of your achievements…..
The truth is that today most people look on Ryanair in the same way that they used to look on the old national carriers,time to cop on Michael!
Everyone would be travelling off this island on ferries or have to travel to Belfast international airport if OLeary had a monopoly. He’ll charge whatever he can get away with.
Does anyone seriously think he would operate any cheap fares if he got his monopoly? Whatever price he would have to pay for Aer Lingus would quickly be recouped from the flying public.
Booking a flight with Ryanair you would need a degree in computer science, no I don’t want a suitcase a hotel room, a car priority boarding I just want to book a flight and to the destination I want not 100 miles away-lottery tickets no-fake cigarettes no the last thing Ryanair want to give a passenger is a pleasant flight long live Aer Lingus
I dont mind paying the extra few quid not to be treated like a head of cattle and to actually arrive in the city I wish to travel to. i.e. Vienna-Bratislava now that was a joke I will never forget.
I fly Newcastle – Dublin at least once a month and when I book a couple of weeks in advance I have never paid more than £70 return for my flights.
Recently owing to a family funeral I booked last minute (night before I flew home) and if cost me £150.
Ryanair are the only airline flying Newcastle-Dublin. They have a “monopoly” on this route and yet are priced competitively in line with many of their other routes. They run at least one flight a day, more often two, and the times are fairly reasonable. Also, having flown on almost off of them at this stage they are all full or close to capacity… Because they are competitively priced.
Some people seem to have a weird an distorted perception of Ryanair and an equally of Aer Lingus.
Now Alan you know your not allowed speak nicely or good of Ryanair, you’ll upset all the loyal Shamrocks that comment and give out about Ryanair even though they have never even flown with them or dealt with them.
Fred, you seem to have missed the substantive point. Despite the relative monopoly on the Newcastle-Dublin route Ryanair continue to charge competitively for seats and as a result of that maintain close to capacity on all their flights. The fears expressed here are that they will gain a monopoly and begin gouging customers to fly out of Ireland. I have provided an example, mind you just one, of a situation where they are the only carrier on a route and retain their “low fares” principle. I do not doubt there this is reflected on other such routes.
I, for one, would not fly as often of prices didn’t allow me to.
My nearest aer Lingus served Air port is Edinburgh. It’s also served by Ryanair. On the same days (19th-21st April) the lowest Aer Lingus flight is almost twice as expensive (£82) as the cheapest Ryanair flight (£44) at similar times.
Leeds Bradford also only Ryanair serving Dublin shows a similar story as Newcastle. A consistent £76 for a tern trip to Dublin.
Sure Dublin-London may be slightly different but there is competition on that route with so many airports and airlines.
I wasn’t disagreeing with your overall point, Alan, just pointing out that price isn’t necessarily the main reason the flights are full. I agree with you that Ryanair isn’t the money-gouging demon it is often portrayed as. Of course it is in any airline’s interests to keep prices at a certain level so they have full flights.
It is interesting though, that it costs only £44 to get to Edinburgh when there is a competitor on the route and £70 to get to Newcastle when there is no competitor. Obviously there could be many factors influencing the price difference, and picking out two fares and two airports from hundreds proves nothing. Still interesting though.
Couldn’t agree more with the court’s decision. Ryanair have brought the cost of air travel down, but these days their low prices are few and far between. The big pitfall with them, I have found, is you book a trip a few months out to get a good fare, then they completely change their schedule, screwing up your plans. You might be arriving 5 or 6 hours later than you were originally or they’ve stopped flying on that day of the week, and all because they probably saved a fiver swapping the landing slots with someone else. I’ve been caught more than a few times by this Ryanair maneuver. Their lack of commitment to customer satisfaction means they chop and change their routes as often as it suits them with little or no regard for the ripple effect the changes have on passengers. Letting them take over Aer Lingus would be a disaster for the travelling public.
Hopefully this will be the last that we hear from Ryanair and their take over bid, Also a part from flying passengers to European&US destinations Aer Lingus operate freight services which a lot of Irish and FDI companies rely on also the postal services.
Ryanair was modeled on a US airline called Southwest Airlines but MOL wanted to cut even more off for profits, Anyone that works in the industry knows that the approx 75% of the Ryanair pilots are self employed contractors, The cabin crew and the majority of ground crew are working via an agency probably not knowing if and when they could be let go with no real job security.
And as for the Ryanair website I remember a few years back while booking flights for a stag I could not find the opt out for the insurance policy.
Ended up having to call a mate who informed me that the opt out feature is in the country of origin tab between Latvia&Lithuania, Talk about a sneaky shower of f**ks and so much for MOL flying around Europe with a logo for the yes to Europe on his planes.
I want it Mummy, I need it Mummy, and I am going to get it Mummy, not yet dear Boy not this time, but you do have the taxi money rebate every year I know it is only € 93,000 euro but you cannot have it all, can you?
Much as a despise Ryanair and their apparent contempt for the customer, I recently used a similar airline in the US (for a couple of flights) and found them to be every bit as bad.
And I’d use Air Lingus more in a heartbeat if they’d expand their airports across Europe a bit more :(
Having said that, glad Ryanair won’t be monopolising the industry just yet.
No matter where you fly always use http://www.skyscanner.net to ensure you’re getting the cheapest fare ! Best flight price comparison site out there and owned by an Irishman too !
Michael scratching his head.
“It says here that our proposed competition remedies left them f@$%n short!!!”
Isn’t that what we’re known for?
Destination – almost.
Luggage – not enough.
Service – minimal
Value for money – mostly.
Integrity – If necessary.
What the @$%& is their problem???
A rare good decision from the comission alright. Its pretty plain to see from the responses so far that effectively no one wanted to see this happen except Ryanairs board and shareholders. They were attempting to buy a profitable airline with a €1 billion pile of cash for something like €650 million For a start, Aer Lingus’s short haul operations out of Ireland would ahve been decimated. The whole Flybe Ireland idea of allaying competition fears would have been a puppet for ryanair, gladly taking the €100 million Ryanair would “give” them to start operations, but pulling out of routes after a few years as soon as they were not obliged to continue them (3 yearsd IIRC). This would have been a disaster for the country if it had been allowed go ahead, at least the EU sayw sense and blocked it
easyJet or BA would be far more desirable would-be suitors.
I mention easyJet cause they don’t currently serve airports in the Republic, and unlike Ryanair, they fly to airports in the cities they say they’re flying to! So many (though not all) of Ryanair’s destinations save you a couple of euro, only to have to pay the same or more to waste ages on a bus, to get the bloody city it said you were going to in the first place!
I can take the no food-no drinks on intra-Europe flights. I can even take Ryanair’s ridiculously stringent application of the rules on baggage weight etc. But the prospect of the only service to “Paris” and “Frankfurt” being Beauvais and Hahn (among others) is where I’d draw the line.
And that would happen. Because no other low-cost carrier flies to these destinations. A monopoly Ryanair could easily cut service to Charles de Gaulle to save a few cent, and unless you wanted to fly with Air France at a much higher price, there’d be very little anyone could do about it.
No one is forcing people to travel with Aer Lingus, if they are exploiting the routes they have monopolies on other airlines will come in and seize that opportunity. It’s a business model that works, they pay tax in Ireland and use their reinvested profits to expand. As opposed to Aer Lingus which leaks money.
Try reading the Aer Lingus annual reports. It’s a business that has been profitable for several years and generates a strong annual cash flow. You’ll swiftly find facts are better than propaganda.
There is some dichotomy in EU’s decision however. Air France and KLM were allowed merge, as were British Airways and Iberia. I’m sure those airlines also had a lot of routes in common they would have had to compete over.
All four airlines serve similar destinations outside of Europe, yes, but their hubs are in different cities (Paris, Amsterdam, London and Madrid) meaning the majority of their flights originate in different places. So their main routes do not overlap.
Also there is a big difference between carriers forming an alliance to pool passengers on round the world itineraries and one airline acquiring another.
A merged Ryanair-Aer Lingus would have had 100% monopoly on all routes between Dublin and London, except those to LCA (which are comparatively few anyway). Even if Dublin is not in Europe’s largest capital cities, this route is still one of the busiest in Europe.
Already BA had to give up the route due to intense competition. A merged entity could easily force out Air France through aggressive medium-term pricing strategies.
Ryanair has no friends including his staff.Thank God he did not get his hands on Aerlingus .Always fly aerlingus and always will .Good service good customer base .Everyone could see your deal was bad for Ireland .Hey try Russia see how you get on bye bye .
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Information regarding which advertising is presented to you and how you interact with it can be used to determine how well an advert has worked for you or other users and whether the goals of the advertising were reached. For instance, whether you saw an ad, whether you clicked on it, whether it led you to buy a product or visit a website, etc. This is very helpful to understand the relevance of advertising campaigns.
Measure content performance 61 partners can use this purpose
Information regarding which content is presented to you and how you interact with it can be used to determine whether the (non-advertising) content e.g. reached its intended audience and matched your interests. For instance, whether you read an article, watch a video, listen to a podcast or look at a product description, how long you spent on this service and the web pages you visit etc. This is very helpful to understand the relevance of (non-advertising) content that is shown to you.
Understand audiences through statistics or combinations of data from different sources 76 partners can use this purpose
Reports can be generated based on the combination of data sets (like user profiles, statistics, market research, analytics data) regarding your interactions and those of other users with advertising or (non-advertising) content to identify common characteristics (for instance, to determine which target audiences are more receptive to an ad campaign or to certain contents).
Develop and improve services 84 partners can use this purpose
Information about your activity on this service, such as your interaction with ads or content, can be very helpful to improve products and services and to build new products and services based on user interactions, the type of audience, etc. This specific purpose does not include the development or improvement of user profiles and identifiers.
Use limited data to select content 37 partners can use this purpose
Content presented to you on this service can be based on limited data, such as the website or app you are using, your non-precise location, your device type, or which content you are (or have been) interacting with (for example, to limit the number of times a video or an article is presented to you).
Use precise geolocation data 47 partners can use this special feature
With your acceptance, your precise location (within a radius of less than 500 metres) may be used in support of the purposes explained in this notice.
Actively scan device characteristics for identification 27 partners can use this special feature
With your acceptance, certain characteristics specific to your device might be requested and used to distinguish it from other devices (such as the installed fonts or plugins, the resolution of your screen) in support of the purposes explained in this notice.
Ensure security, prevent and detect fraud, and fix errors 93 partners can use this special purpose
Always Active
Your data can be used to monitor for and prevent unusual and possibly fraudulent activity (for example, regarding advertising, ad clicks by bots), and ensure systems and processes work properly and securely. It can also be used to correct any problems you, the publisher or the advertiser may encounter in the delivery of content and ads and in your interaction with them.
Deliver and present advertising and content 100 partners can use this special purpose
Always Active
Certain information (like an IP address or device capabilities) is used to ensure the technical compatibility of the content or advertising, and to facilitate the transmission of the content or ad to your device.
Match and combine data from other data sources 73 partners can use this feature
Always Active
Information about your activity on this service may be matched and combined with other information relating to you and originating from various sources (for instance your activity on a separate online service, your use of a loyalty card in-store, or your answers to a survey), in support of the purposes explained in this notice.
Link different devices 55 partners can use this feature
Always Active
In support of the purposes explained in this notice, your device might be considered as likely linked to other devices that belong to you or your household (for instance because you are logged in to the same service on both your phone and your computer, or because you may use the same Internet connection on both devices).
Identify devices based on information transmitted automatically 91 partners can use this feature
Always Active
Your device might be distinguished from other devices based on information it automatically sends when accessing the Internet (for instance, the IP address of your Internet connection or the type of browser you are using) in support of the purposes exposed in this notice.
Save and communicate privacy choices 69 partners can use this special purpose
Always Active
The choices you make regarding the purposes and entities listed in this notice are saved and made available to those entities in the form of digital signals (such as a string of characters). This is necessary in order to enable both this service and those entities to respect such choices.
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