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US president elect Donald Trump. Over 140 pro-Trump fake-news websites were manned by youngsters in the Macedonian town of Veles, writing fake news stories to generate clicks for cash. Photograph: Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Images Una Mullally: Pro-Trump propaganda shows fakery has gone viral
  • Una Mullally
  • November 21, 2016

Fake news was clickbait frivolity until its Orwellian role in the US election race

  • 42 comments
Fr Brendan Hoban: Ireland’s last priests are a lost tribe
  • Brendan Hoban
  • November 21, 2016

As we grow old as priests, we realise how little care, esteem or affection is in our lives

  • 23 comments
  • 13 shares
File image of ASTI teachers on strike. Photograph: Cyril Byrne John Geary: Public sector pay talks are a matter of urgency
  • John Geary
  • November 21, 2016

Delays risk further claims and will undermine the credibility of union leadership

  • 5 comments
 Olga Murphy.  Photograph: Kim Haughton/UNHCR The ‘Magyar from Moyross – An Irishman’s Diary on a refugee’s journey from Hungary to Limerick in 1956
  • Ciarán D’Arcy
  • November 21, 2016

The Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut. Photograph: Linda Tancs/iStock At home with Mark Twain – An Irishwoman’s Diary on the delights of Hartford, Connecticut
  • Joan Scales
  • November 20, 2016

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US secretary of state John Kerry speaking at the COP22 climate change conference in Marrakech, Morocco, on Wednesday. Photograph: Reuters/Mark Ralston Breda O’Brien: breaking the silence on climate change
  • Breda O'Brien
  • November 20, 2016

Irish people may not realise how important the conversation is on climate change

  • 6 comments
  • 13 shares
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg: “The idea that fake news on Facebook . . . influenced the election in any way is a pretty crazy idea.” Photograph: Peter Dasilva/EPA Fake news in US election becomes bad press for Facebook
  • Patrick Smyth
  • November 19, 2016

World View: Social media giant faces questions over accountability as editor of feeds

  • 7 comments
  • 12 shares
The worst harm Donald Trump might achieve would be to deprive us of our belief in democracy. Photograph: AP Photo Trump should fear democracy more than it fears him
  • Philip Pettit
  • November 19, 2016

Contestatory form of democratic power should contain new president’s excesses

  • 8 comments
  • 36 shares
Taoiseach  Séan Lemass and president Éamon DeValera signing the proclamation to dissolve Dáil Éireann in March 1965. Photograph:  INM/Getty Images Diarmaid Ferriter: Ireland needs a new leader in critical times
  • Diarmaid Ferriter
  • November 19, 2016

Kenny is a ruthless survivor with no vision and Martin’s FF is entrenched in tribalism

  • 8 comments
  • 22 shares
Instead of focusing on a rail route used by 73 people, Alan Kelly needs to get behind the National Broadband Plan, which could improve life for nearly a million households. Photograph: Michael Smith/Getty Images Cliff Taylor: Ballybrophy needs broadband not railway lines
  • Cliff Taylor
  • November 19, 2016

Forget the trains – rural TDs needs to work on speeding up the broadband service

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 Ireland’s Kieran Marmion. Marmion is  said to be  a nickname from the Old French ‘marmion’, meaning ‘monkey’ or ‘brat’ – both good qualities in a scrum-half. Photograph: Billy Stickland/Inpho The Game of the Name – An Irishman’s Diary about a new study of British and Irish family names
  • Frank McNally
  • November 19, 2016

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Given the precedents set  by  the Luas drivers and  gardaí, Minister for Public Expenditure  Paschal Donohoe faces a horrendously difficult task in trying to hold the line. Photograph: Cyril Byrne Stephen Collins: some home truths about public sector pay claims
  • Stephen Collins
  • November 19, 2016

It has not registered that pay rises for public servants mean cuts in services or tax increases

  • 4 comments
  • 14 shares
Facebook: “A friend of mine said she could no longer deal with waking up, grabbing her phone, and scrolling through other people’s drivel.” Photograph: Patricia de Melo Moreira/AFP/Getty Images Una Mullally: I never liked Facebook, but now I am actually worried about it
  • Una Mullally
  • November 18, 2016

The mindless new channels we’ve created across social media are screwing us up

  • 36 comments
  • 327 shares
Donald Trump and  sons Eric  and  Donald Jr attend a “Celebrity Apprentice All Stars” press conference in 2012. The property mogul became a reality TV megastar in 2004 as the ringmaster of “The Apprentice”. Photograph:  Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images Noel Whelan: Election shows that publicity is key to winning
  • Noel Whelan
  • November 18, 2016

Above all else, Donald Trump’s shock victory comes down to his massive celebrity

  • 6 comments
  • 4 shares
Donald Trump: “He did three or four rallies a day in the places that mattered, where  his core voters got to see him in person.” Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images Ryanair marketing boss gives verdict on winning Trump campaign
  • Kenny Jacobs
  • November 18, 2016

As Hillary Clinton discovered, a massive media spend is no guarantee of victory

  • 2 comments
  • 28 shares
Children  in the Bab al-Salama camp: “There could be no prospect of rearing a family in Syria.” Photograph: Saleh Abo Ghaloun/AFP/Getty Images Out of Syria: ‘My wife and children are trapped back home’
  • Mustafa
  • November 18, 2016

It is approaching a year since I saw my then pregnant wife and our little girl

  • 1 comment
  • 6 shares
Donald Trump, played by Alec Baldwin on Saturday Night Live, right, was easily the most parodied candidate in US election history and he still won Oliver Callan: Donald Trump has killed satire
  • Oliver Callan
  • November 18, 2016

Satire exaggerates to make a point but just serves to confirm prejudice

  • 10 comments
A frame from ‘The Battle of the Somme’ showing a soldier carrying a wounded comrade. Moving picture – An Irishman’s Diary about the original film version of the Battle of the Somme
  • Frank McNally
  • November 18, 2016

Campaigns with contempt: “If they ever get their referendum, their contempt may lead to the same type of shock result liberals have just experienced here in the US.” Repeal campaign making the same mistake as Hillary Clinton
  • Phelim McAleer
  • November 17, 2016

Pro-abortion activists not addressing the concerns of people who want to be convinced

  • 57 comments
  • 11 shares
National Museum of Ireland - earmarked as a temporary home for the Seanad Colum Kenny: A radical idea to solve Seanad accommodation problem - it should get on the road
  • Colum Kenny
  • November 17, 2016

Forgot the museum plan, a Seanad roadshow to village halls would show a spirit of reform

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