I decided to address the problem of my relationship to consumer electronics in the only way I know how: by purchasing more consumer electronics

Gerry Hutch knows he can gain ground by saying what other politicians won’t say, but what a growing part of the electorate wants to hear

There is something undeniably sinister in the combination of intimacy and detachment in footage taken by ‘first person view’ drones

His opposition to Donald Trump and the war on Iran is only a part of what makes Leo a unique and important figure in our time

McGregor may have some residual Irish fanbase, but this country – actual Ireland as opposed to “Ireland” – has very little time for him

There was something more beautiful, more moving than any of the photographs shot from the window of the Orion spacecraft

We exist, increasingly, in a cultural environment where we can never be quite sure whether what we are reading was written by a human or LLM

Nobody else representing Ireland in any official capacity seems prepared to speak out against the collective punishment of the Cuban people

If there is one thing that seems to complicate the US leader’s bottomless nihilism, it is the market

Pumped-up White House videos about Iran conflict are extreme even by recent US standards

A tourist trail that focuses on historical connections between Ireland and America – and which treats, say, Andrew Jackson as just as Irish-American in his way as JFK – is not a terrible idea

I’m not convinced that AI evangelists like Sam Altman really understand how strange and creepy they come across when they talk about the future

The reductive vision of a bucolic Irish past might seem absurd to most Irish people, but it lands in a different way for conservative Americans

Delusion that climate change might take the edge off Ireland’s rubbish weather has finally been laid to rest

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