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Model behaviour: cyclists in Copenhagen. Photograph: Ulrik Jantzen/Bloomberg
Riding too fast, running red lights, clipping wing mirrors

Cyclists have a bad reputation: riding too fast, running red lights, going against the traffic up one-way streets and clipping the wing mirrors of car(...)

The conservative Catholic schoolteacher from Mayo stood by his sense of duty
Country before Crozier for Catholic Kenny

They don’t make croziers like they used to. Never mind the belt of one – just the cold draught from an upward swing was once enough to cow entire gove(...)

Minister of State for Sport Michael Ring: “No scripts today! If you cannot speak without a script for thee minutes ye shouldn’t be in the job you’re in,” he told his EU counterparts. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins
Miriam Lord: Scourge of the scripts has a Ring of truth

What’s going to happen next month when we aren’t in charge of Europe any more? All we’ll have to amuse us is the fight to save the Seanad. It’s concen(...)

“I think it is a wake-up call, Taoiseach” said Micheál Martin. “There is nothing more important in our country than the children of the nation” replied Enda describing the programme as “a shocking expose” .
Reality check for Shattering class

How to silence the Dáil’s Shattering class?Inject a shot of reality.The giddiness that goes with the hunt for a ministerial scalp (no matter how optim(...)

“While Fianna Fáil were the culprits in office, Fine Gael and Labour were complicit in the policies that caused the crisis.” Clockwise from left: Enda Kenny, Eamon Gilmore, Gerry Adams and Micheál Martin at the interdenominational service of prayer for the assembly of the 31st Dáil in St Ann’s Church in Dublin. Photograph: Matt Kavanagh
Expectations of political change have been utterly dashed

Four and a half years ago there was a prospect our political culture was about to change utterly. The culture that recklessly drove the country(...)

A poster of Luke “MIng” Flanagan looks down over the Roscommon town of Castlerea, the TD's home base.
Miracle for Ming

With the Dáil in the throes of its annual Cheltdown and those not interested in horses switching attention to the Habemus Papam Handicap Chase,(...)

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