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Surrealing in the Years: Good news! The weird online loudmouths are here to save Ireland
Thank you, Russell. Thank you, Tucker.
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Surrealing in the Years: Dublin riot shatters many of our shared delusions about Ireland
We cannot allow this cynical vision of Ireland to consume us.
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Surrealing in the Years: Irish public knows the moral event horizon has been crossed in Gaza
Also this week: David Cameron and Ryan Tubridy prove that London is the city for comebacks.
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Nov 18th 2023, 9:00 AM
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Cheer on Ireland's Jessica McKean at Junior Eurovision 2023 this Sunday
Jessica McKean will be representing Ireland at this year’s event, which is being shown live on TG4.
Surrealing in the Years: Only Suella Braverman knows what on earth she meant by Ulster comments
Suella Braverman’s comments about Northern Ireland were so strange that nobody even knows how to respond.
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Nov 11th 2023, 9:00 AM
Surrealing in the Years: Smaller venues not enough to hold Irish solidarity for Palestine
Irish politicians are facing pressure to take more concrete steps to push back against Israeli attacks.
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Nov 4th 2023, 9:00 AM
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Surrealing in the Years: RTÉ should utilise 'surprise Dolly Parton' strategy more often
Also this week: flood defence situation doesn’t exactly inspire confidence, does it?
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Oct 21st 2023, 9:00 AM
Surrealing in the Years: Thoughtless celebrity commentary on Gaza crisis will make things worse
Popular commentary on the crisis is leading us to the precipice of something even more dangerous.
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Oct 14th 2023, 9:00 AM
Surrealing in the Years: Bedbug apocalypse the least of our worries when it comes to neighbours
We don’t want France’s bedbugs, but the UK is offering even worse.
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Oct 7th 2023, 9:00 AM
Surrealing in the Years: Leo Varadkar is not good at pop culture references
Bono is going around calling us all frogs, by the way.
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Sep 30th 2023, 9:01 AM
Surrealing in the Years: Has the establishment finally noticed the far-right?
The far-right have been doing this, in public, for months.
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Sep 23rd 2023, 9:00 AM
Surrealing in the Years: Legacy Bill apparently not as juicy as three old men
I was supposed to be off this week.
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Sep 9th 2023, 9:28 AM
Surrealing in the Years: A modest proposal for a Donegal-Dublin Bay South constituency
More TDs! More TDs! More TDs!
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Sep 2nd 2023, 9:00 AM
Surrealing in the Years: Welcoming 40,000 American tourists by putting more guns on the streets
When was the last time you spent upwards of €200 at a Carroll’s gift shop?
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Aug 26th 2023, 9:00 AM
Surrealing in the Years: Let's not forget how uncool the housing crisis makes us look
Nation lives with parents.
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Aug 19th 2023, 9:00 AM
Surrealing in the Years: Get ready to hear about Covid again
Cue groans and possibly boos from the audience.
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Aug 12th 2023, 9:00 AM
Surrealing in the Years: Micheál Martin heals us through the power of podcasting
Good news: everything is fine.
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Aug 5th 2023, 9:00 AM
Surrealing in the Years: The week began with nationalist gold and only got weirder from there
Why do you have all of that gold? Why are you like this?
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Jul 29th 2023, 9:00 AM
Surrealing in the Years: Yes, the profits are enormous, but that doesn't affect our price hikes
We almost got through the whole column without mentioning RTÉ!
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Jul 22nd 2023, 9:30 AM
Surrealing in the Years: The martyrdom of a humble Toy Man
Ryan Tubridy sees himself as a victim of recklessness with the public purse, rather than a longstanding beneficiary.
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Jul 15th 2023, 10:30 AM
Surrealing in the Years: It's jollies all the way down at RTÉ as nation looks on in exasperation
Jollies on top of jollies.
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Jul 8th 2023, 9:00 AM
Surrealing in the Years: RTÉ's existential crisis has united the nation like little else
A sort of Italia ’90 for poor corporate governance.
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Jul 1st 2023, 9:00 AM
Surrealing in the Years: Between subs, Tubs and consultative forums, who knows where to look?
A slow news week.
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Jun 24th 2023, 9:00 AM
Surrealing in the Years: Maybe the time for political stunts is now
Another week of outrages reminds us of the value of urgency.
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Jun 18th 2023, 9:30 AM
Surrealing in the Years: Today is officially the day after tomorrow
Everybody’s gotta learn sometime.
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Jun 10th 2023, 9:00 AM
Surrealing in the Years: Mood of country hard to gauge amid sunshine, worsening housing crisis
A snapshot of the state of us.
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Jun 3rd 2023, 9:00 AM