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Trump turns up heat on US Senate to approve bigger stimulus
- US
- December 29, 2020
Donald Trump challenged Senate Republicans to approve an increase in stimulus cheques to $2,000 per person, defying his own party leaders in Congress (...)

US electoral college: An anomalous gift from the founding fathers
- Editorial
- November 7, 2020, 06:00
Quaint and eccentric it may be, but the US electoral college is in truth a stain on America’s democratic credentials. And, wthout it, we would all be (...)

US referendums: Win for Uber and marijuana more widely available
- US
- November 4, 2020, 13:50
In referendums across the US voters at state level directly engaged with a range of hot-button issues from abortion to tax policy which saw huge spend(...)

Madrid vs New York: A tale of two cities during Covid-19
- World
- September 24, 2020, 16:56
In May, Madrid sought to break free from the nightmare of Covid-19. Death rates and infections had fallen since the days when the Spanish capital’s in(...)

What to do about George Berkeley, Trinity figurehead and slave owner?
- Culture
- June 18, 2020, 05:00
As statues topple amid anti-racism protests, universities are looking at some of the hallowed names associated with their institutions with some nervo(...)

Coronavirus: New York cases ‘on a descent’, says Cuomo
- US
- April 19, 2020, 10:48
Governors in US states hardest hit by the coronavirus sparred with president Donald Trump over his claims they have enough tests and should quickly re(...)

We’ve gone from housing hens to online supermarket dependency
- Environment
- April 4, 2020, 06:00
The song thrush joins me half an hour before dawn, perching on the bare, topmost branch of the hawthorn outside my workroom window. He sings steadily(...)

From Irish citizen to American: ‘I learned in America – fake it till you make it’
- Abroad
- September 6, 2019, 12:37
Áine Greaney emigrated alone from Ireland to America aged 24. In her new book, Green Card and Other Essays, the author has written about her 30-year j(...)

Bill tabled in US Congress to outlaw ‘flag of convenience’ airlines
- Transport & Tourism
- July 18, 2019, 05:30
US legislators want to ban so-called “flag of convenience” airlines in a move one says was prompted by Irish-registered Norwegian Air International’s (...)

Shannon Airport predicts fall in passenger numbers over Boeing grounding
- Transport & Tourism
- June 12, 2019, 19:42
Shannon Airport believes passenger numbers will fall this year after Norwegian Air said it would continue re-routing transatlantic flights scheduled f(...)