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Browsing: Current Affairs
Varadkar Leak: Broaden the Investigation
The ongoing criminal investigation into an alleged breach by Tánaiste Leo Varadkar – while Taoiseach…
Dublin Anti-War Protest for Yemen
A month on from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, European states, including Ireland, are faced with…
Refugee Pushbacks in the Balkans
On the last day of February, the first Ukrainian refugees arrived in Serbia. Radoš Đurović,…
Travels in Ukraine 2015
Frank Armstrong recalls two overland trips into Ukraine in 2015. The first was through the…
George Monbiot’s Hall of Mirrors
In 2010, having advocated for veganism in 2002, George Monbiot wrote: ‘I was wrong about…
Russia-Ukraine: Everything to Lose
A hundred years on from the blood-stained birth of a partitioned island of Ireland, another…
Walking at Night
Night Walking Deserves a Quiet Night I’ve always walked alone in the city after dark.…
The Good Terrorist
Even if these operations are shocking revelations to those who have a romantic notion of…
Notes from a Segregated Island
Your antennae are up months before it comes. You’ve gotten to the point where, if…
“Nuances”: Fellipe Lopes in Conversation
“Nuances” is a work in progress by South American documentary maker Fellipe Lopes. Since May…
In the Blink of an Eye
In the blink of an eye everything can change in the way we live our…
Interview: Father Peter McVerry
Father Peter McVerry has been working with homeless people for over forty years. When he…
Anger at Hillary Clinton’s Appointment at Queen’s University in Belfast
A protest organised by Lasair Dhearg, and involving representatives from People Before Profit and Academics…
Is This Where We Are Heading?
As a journalist, I receive a variety of emails, Facebook messages and text messages almost…
Watering Down the Vodka
In response to COVID-19: how are we to explain people drawing starkly differing conclusions from…
What Next for Aghanistan?
So where do we go from here? Better still how do we even begin to…
Interview: Belfast on the Twelfth
In interview with Daniele Idini, photographer Graham Martin reveals he was drawn to cover the…
Greece: Refugee Pushback Award Withdrawn
Continuing tensions in Greece over that State’s handling of the refugee crisis contradicts a carefully…
Killing Kelly?
The strange death of Dr. David Kelly was explored in celluloid at the premiere of…