John Moran says he won a mandate for change and he has been driving it hard, convinced that the prize is big for Limerick and Ireland. Amid the fallout, there is a challenge: locating the truth in the fog of conflict and the murk of accusation and counter-accusation.
The president backtracked on his threat to strike Iran’s power plants after a series of closed-door discussions led by Middle Eastern intermediaries, write Summer Said, Alexander Ward, Benoit Faucon and Laurence Norman, The Wall Street Journal.
John Moran became Ireland's first directly elected mayor in 2024. Willing to upset even JP McManus, he compares his uncompromising approach to Roy Keane's – but a three-month investigation including more than 40 interviews reveals deep divisions.
We’ve been here before: a war, an energy price shock, a government response. Blanket fuel subsidies should be ruled out.
To understand our divided world, the rational assessment of economic well-being offers us little. The sometimes-great joy, but often-great damage wrought by emotion, comparison and narrative offers us much more.
From Trump’s muddled geography in Davos to a $1bn “Board of Peace” and ICE raids in Vacationland, another week of slippery language, hard power and harder truths.
The purity peddlers of Gaeldom are growing louder, but English nationalism’s stubborn urge to drive our closest neighbour into a dead-end shows that trying to force our rich complexity into a bogus simplicity is doomed.
One operation looked like a clean win on screen. The other turned into a bleak cycle of footage, outrage and denial. Together, they say a lot about America’s relationship with force.
Even by Ireland’s record-breaking tax revenue standards, this year’s record is staggering. The Government has one year left to turn this gold mine into housing and infrastructure.
As Tennessee voters inch leftward and Trump lashes out at immigrants, allies and adversaries alike, Washington is consumed by economic alarm, foreign-policy fog and a restless MAGA base.
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