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Peter Murtagh

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Ireland is riding two horses galloping in different directions across the Atlantic

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Ben Tonra: Ireland is riding two horses that are now galloping in different directions

Nostalgia can not blind us to the new realities of the collapsing alliance between the US and Europe

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October 29, 2025 at 8:10 AM

Peter Murtagh

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Ed Moloney obituary: Secret historian of the IRA and one of Ireland’s ‘most brilliant’ journalists

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Ed Moloney: Secret historian of the IRA and one of Ireland’s ‘most brilliant’ journalists

Author and co-author of several groundbreaking books, including the exceptionally detailed A Secret History of the IRA

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October 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM

Peter Murtagh

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Anyone in Bray/Greystones interested in pressurising Wicklow County Council into opening the Cliff Walk, closed by them for almost five years, please come to this 👇

October 14, 2025 at 9:37 PM

Peter Murtagh

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Little Museum of Dublin to reopen after year-long €4.3m makeover

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Little Museum of Dublin to reopen after year-long €4.3m makeover

Museum’s Irish Times room features several new items from the newspaper’s history

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June 2, 2025 at 1:45 PM

Peter Murtagh

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Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan among 380 writers and groups to call Gaza war ‘genocide’

Letter also signed by Hanif Kureishi and Russell T Davies urges ceasefire and unrestricted distribution of aid

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May 28, 2025 at 6:44 AM

Peter Murtagh

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The hallmark of governmental/societal failure (next up - electricity) Housebuilding in Dublin to stall within three years if wastewater plant not delivered

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Housebuilding in Dublin to stall within three years if wastewater plant not delivered

Utility’s starkest warning yet on water constraints follows Government’s revised 2030 housing target

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May 26, 2025 at 6:31 AM

Peter Murtagh

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This👇100%: “I am afraid something has gone badly wrong with the way the State is run. It seems incapable of saying to people – and enshrining in law the idea – that, yes, you may not like it, but we are going to do it because it’s in the wider public interest.”

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Pat Leahy: Could we build Ardnacrusha now? Not a chance

We should not fall into the trap of thinking that everything is a disaster, but I am afraid something has gone badly wrong with the way the State is run

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May 19, 2025 at 6:44 AM

Peter Murtagh

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Donald Trump’s chilling assault on universities mirrors that of the Nazis in 1930s Germany

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Diarmaid Ferriter: Trump’s assault on universities mirrors that of the Nazis in 1930s Germany

Expect book burnings soon to further scapegoat the “enemies of the nation”

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May 9, 2025 at 5:39 AM

Peter Murtagh

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A good opp for the State/govt to flag a culture change: reject and repudiate this report; query the professional competent of author and staff; ensure author gets no further State work.

Minister meets Solicitor General after intervention on ‘Grace’ report

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Minister meets Solicitor General after intervention on ‘Grace’ report

Marie Claire Butler issued an unusual statement ‘in the public interest’ on Tuesday

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April 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM

Peter Murtagh

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I had to tell my mother that her father had been tortured for 11 days and murdered

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Oliver Sears: I had to tell my mother that her father had been tortured for eleven days and murdered

Everyone who encounters the Holocaust becomes implicated, a new witness to the mystery and the horror, with the responsibility to recount its history honestly

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April 21, 2025 at 7:32 AM

Peter Murtagh

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Teachers warn of rise in misogyny and racism in UK schools

April 19, 2025 at 7:05 AM

Peter Murtagh

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Rory McIlroy’s wish to be identified as Northern Irish is typical of his generation

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Rory McIlroy’s wish to be identified as Northern Irish is typical of his generation

Support for Sinn Féin is growing in the North, but support for a united Ireland isn’t. This is not as strange as it might seem

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April 18, 2025 at 7:05 AM

Peter Murtagh

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The world, America, needs more like her. . .

Abigail Disney: ‘Every billionaire who can’t live on $999m is kind of a sociopath’

April 7, 2025 at 7:00 AM

Peter Murtagh

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Look at this — Cliff Walk, a new craft beer inspired by the activism of Friends of the Cliff Walk! Tastes great too…

April 4, 2025 at 1:26 PM

Peter Murtagh

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Speaking rights for Michael Lowry would not be on my list of issues critical to our democracy

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Speaking rights for Michael Lowry would not be on my list of issues critical to our democracy

Row is yet more evidence of politicians’ preoccupation with trivia as storm clouds gather abroad and housing crisis worsens at home

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March 29, 2025 at 7:31 AM

Peter Murtagh

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No limits? Why the United States could be on the verge of a constitutional crisis

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No limits? Why the United States could be on the verge of a constitutional crisis

Donald Trump and his closest advisers have taken steps to circumvent the constraints upon the executive authority of president in pursuit of vaguely defined goals. Can they be stopped?

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March 29, 2025 at 7:24 AM

Peter Murtagh

@peter-murtagh.bsky.social

Inspired by the beauty of Bray Head Cliff Walk, closed for over 4 years by “do nothing” Wicklow County Council, Wicklow Wolf craft brewery has produced a new IPA, Cliff Walk, to help the Friends of the Cliff Walk campaign.

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Pls RT

March 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM

Peter Murtagh

@peter-murtagh.bsky.social

…water and sewerage systems “are in a desperate state” because of “extraordinary complacency” and “passive indifference” around investment in infrastructure, says Uisce Éireann chairman, Jerry Grant … well, there’s a surprise

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Water system ‘in a desperate state’, says Uisce Éireann chair

New approach needed if goal of 50,000 homes a year to be achievable, according to Jerry Grant

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March 28, 2025 at 7:39 AM

Peter Murtagh

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Presidential election starting to look like a lose-lose bet for Sinn Féin (written by one with an interesting pedigree)

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