Alex White
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Off the rails – An Irishman’s Diary on the 1920 munitions strike
- Opinion
- December 13, 2020, 18:01
The pandemic has curtailed public commemoration of the events of 1920. But it has not diminished our determination to remember the dead, and to expres(...)

Tokyo dreaming: Ireland’s Olympics team slowly taking shape
- Other Sports
- October 19, 2020, 06:00
With the golfers to be added, the boxing team to resume their qualification process, judo and badminton to ratify names, swimmers to swim and the rugb(...)

Election 2020: Dublin Rathdown constituency profile
- Politics
- January 21, 2020, 12:43
Dublin Rathdown (three seats) Current: 1 FG, 1 GP, 1 Ind It is very difficult to take anything for granted in this ferociously competitive and notor(...)

Paul Anthony McDermott a ‘fantastic father’ with ‘great sense of justice’, funeral hears
- Irish News
- December 14, 2019, 15:03
Barrister Paul Anthony McDermott was remebered as a “fantastic father” and a person with “a great sense of justice” during his funeral Mass in Dublin.(...)

Broadband timeline: how did we get here?
- Technology
- November 15, 2019, 13:04
August 30th, 2012: Minister for communications Pat Rabbitte announces the National Broadband Plan (NBP), describing it as “the rural electrification o(...)

Hold the mic: How Gay Byrne ruled the radio waves
- Culture
- November 4, 2019, 16:00
Lest there be any doubt just how deeply woven into Irish life Gay Byrne’s persona was, just listen to Tico’s Tune by Manuel and the Music of the Mount(...)

Former ministers fear national drug strategy being ‘undermined’
- Social Affairs
- October 30, 2019, 01:00
Former holders of the post of minister of state with responsibility for drugs have united to call on the Government to restore confidence in the natio(...)

Labour’s hopes of rebirth must wait
- Irish News
- May 26, 2019, 18:13
Behind Brendan Howlin in the RDS, hundreds of thousands of European election votes were counted in near-solemn silence. The solemnity matched much of (...)

Elections 2019: Green wave sees tide go out for Varadkar and Sinn Féin
- Politics
- May 25, 2019, 12:46
For some time now, it has been one of the obvious questions about Irish politics: why, at a time of unprecedented public concern about the environment(...)

Elections 2019: What we know so far
- Politics
- May 25, 2019
More than 900 of the 949 local council seats have been filled, with just 36 still vacant in the seven constituencies yet to be compl(...)