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Category: Irish politics

Cheating students & embarrassed newspapers: A bad month for ‘AI’ abuse

Shouldn't cavalier abuse of 'AI' tools inspire some sort of revulsion and punishment? A clash of values is playing out, where genuine intelligence, human experience, artisanship and hard work is set against hollow facsimile and outright charlatanry. What do we want to win?

Ryan Culture, Irish politics, Literature, Politics Leave a comment 1st Jun 202519th Feb 2026 4 Minutes

Loyalism’s Napoleon

Finally, a profile of a man who once said he'd "rather choke on [his] own blood in NI than live on streets paved with gold in a United Ireland". Unfortunately, it does little to interrogate his corrosive influence or why he enjoys such access to power.

Ryan Blog, Irish politics, Politics Leave a comment 24th Jan 2024 2 Minutes

Eamonn McCann at a picket line in Ballymena & 21st century Popish Plots

Eamonn McCann and John Hume "wrecked this country", while imagined green conspiracies are afoot.

Ryan Blog, Irish politics, Politics Leave a comment 26th Aug 202327th Aug 2023 4 Minutes

Scary accents, outsiders & why you should watch The Bear

How the northern accent is scary to the people in the south of Ireland and why you should waste no time and start watching The Bear

Ryan Blog, Culture, Film & TV, Irish politics, Literature, Politics Leave a comment 13th Aug 202313th Aug 2023 3 Minutes

Ireland, World Cup opener & seven million people

Brief reflections on Ireland's opening game at the 2023 Women's World Cup and the casual partitionism of southern society

Ryan Blog, Football, Irish politics, Politics, Sport 1 Comment 24th Jul 202324th Jul 2023 2 Minutes

Bringing back the unionist veto?

In a 1989 essay in the London Review of Books, John Hume wrote that, “the fundamental change that has taken place as a result of the Anglo-Irish Agreement is a change that is deeply and fully understood by every Unionist. What it means is that their exclusive hold on power has gone and is not coming back."

Ryan Blog, Irish politics, Politics Leave a comment 20th Apr 202321st Apr 2023 4 Minutes
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