Fintan O’Toole: This has become an election about the nature of the presidency itself irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/1…

The developer of ICEBlock, the app that Apple recently removed from its App Store, pointed out to me that Apple's own Maps app allows for people to people to report police activity such as speed checks He said this undermines Apple's justification for removing ICEBlock

Continually adding to a cloud of low-orbit debris risks making future missions more dangerous than they need to be. Opinion | Declan McVeigh Declan McVeigh via The National thenationalnews.com/opinion/commen…

As in historic treatments of Ireland, the sympathetic English character is a benignly neutral observer, trying and failing to bring the enlightened governance of the main island to a polity dysfunctional for reasons not worth delving into

AI deepfake video disrupts Irish presidential race thenationalnews.com/news/europe/20…

Pro-Palestine Catherine Connolly to be new Irish president after landslide vote thenationalnews.com/news/europe/20…

absolute corker of a question for Richard Madelyn in his Telegraph Agony Uncle capacity. telegraph.co.uk/gift/2fc39c23b…

Irish surnames do sound cooler and better as Gaeilge

Food for thought from Fintan O'Toole: "... the State has no capacity even to imagine the possibility that partition might end in the next 40 years". irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/1…

Very sorry to hear of the passing of photographer Brendan Murphy - one of the great snappers of the Troubles and beyond. Always up for chat whenever I was in and around the Irish News, or in the city centre. Here's a couple of his images: Holy Cross, and 'The Last Gunman'

"İçimizdeki İrlandalılar" 😀1770'lerde İrlandalılar ilk kez sarıklı bir Türk ile karşılaşmıştı. 2 metreye yakın boyu ve karizmasıyla hayranlık uyandırıyordu. Dublin'e ilk Türk hamamını kazandırdı. Peki gerçekten Türk müydü? +

Prejudice is a way of life in the UK. Nothing can be done it seems.

Níl gach rud d'fhoghlaimeoirí.

The Armenia-Azerbaijan peace process is shifting regional dynamics and challenging Iran’s influence, argues Richard Giragosian in our Weekend Essay #Opinion | Richard Giragosian thenationalnews.com/opinion/commen…

What could be more emblematic of a dirty-war problem than the failure to even put the 'Stakeknife' asset's name in the seven-year investigation? Opinion | Damien McElroy Damien McElroy via The National thenationalnews.com/opinion/commen…

trillion dollar idea: sports bar but just for situation monitoring with live X feeds, flight radar, a bloomberg terminal, and Polymarket screens

The National’s Sinan Mahmoud reflects on Iraq’s experience of regime change, drawing parallels between the fall of Saddam Hussein and the capture of Nicolas Maduro.

“Gonna be home late tonight babe, I’m out monitoring the situation with a couple of guys. We might even stay and monitor a second situation if something comes up”

A must-read from Chris Blackhurst on #Greenland and DJT still "chasing the block at 725 Fifth between East 56th and 57th and scheming for Trump Tower" | The National thenationalnews.com/opinion/commen…