Winter Nights
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CNN’s John King: Biden became president because he’s ‘stubborn Irish’
- Culture
- January 29, 2021, 23:30
“I’m constantly accused of being a Washington elitist. I grew up on food-stamps. My father was a janitor,” CNN commentator John King told columnist Fi(...)

Gabriel Byrne: ‘We stayed long enough to see the blood seeping through the Brother’s hair’
- Culture
- January 29, 2021, 23:23
“It hasn’t gone away. It’s still there. Children are still being violated, maybe not in Irish schools, but across the world, children are being traffi(...)

Dara McAnulty: ‘The wonder of the natural world makes it worth fighting for’
- Culture
- January 29, 2021, 20:50
“It’s the wonder of the natural world that makes it worth fighting for. And if we solve the problems of the natural world out of wonder – rather than (...)

Luke O’Neill, professor of biochemistry at Trinity College Dublin, has called for antigen testing to be used in schools and workplaces to track Covid-(...)

Micheál Martin: ‘We need to engage in a prolonged suppression of the virus’
- Culture
- January 28, 2021, 22:25
Irish Times Political Correspondent Jennifer Bray asked Taoiseach Micheál Martin a question that is doubtless on the minds of many people: “Are we goi(...)

Nicola Sturgeon: ‘Brexit makes a united Ireland more likely’
- Culture
- January 28, 2021, 21:00
Brexit has made a united Ireland more likely, the Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon has stated. Sturgeon said the outcome of a Border poll was a(...)

Dara Ó Briain reveals his quest for his birth mother: ‘She said there was no choice in this’
- Culture
- January 27, 2021, 23:40
Dara Ó Briain was told at an early age that he had been adopted. The comedian, broadcaster and author said he had a happy childhood growing up in(...)

Mairead McGuinness: They don’t call me ‘Elbows McGuinness’ to my face
- Culture
- January 27, 2021, 21:00
EU Commissioner Mairead McGuinness has spoken about the double standards in political life, in which “this idea of being pushy or ambitious” is seen a(...)

Emma Dabiri: George Nkencho’s death ‘brought me back to the Ireland I grew up in’
- Culture
- January 27, 2021, 20:45
Circumstances surrounding the killing of George Nkencho were “unconscionable and horrific” author Emma Dabiri said in an interview for the Irish Times(...)

Edith Eger: ‘In Auschwitz, I discovered they couldn’t murder my spirit’
- Culture
- January 27, 2021, 06:00
“I learned a great deal in Auschwitz. I discovered my inner resources and that they couldn’t murder my spirit,” said Edith Eger, Holocaust survivor an(...)