GearÃ³id Ã“ ColmÃ¡in

DÃºisigh agus bolaigh na tÃºilipÃ!

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Chonaiceamar réabhlóid bheag eile sa Phoblacht na Cirgise an tseachtain seo caite nuar a tháinig scaifte daoine amach ar na sráideanna chun deireadh a chur le rialtas d’Uchtarán Kurmanbek Baki-yev.

Daoirse agus Ã‰adÃ³chas sa HÃ¡itÃ go sÃoraÃ - cen fÃ¡th?

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Is minic a chloiseann muid faoi sháinn na Háití, an crith talún, an bochtanas agus mar sin de. Ach níor chloistear aon rud faoi stair na tíre agus troid na ndaoine um cheartais, um shaoirse is um shláindáil.

â€˜Unitedâ€™ EU rings hollow

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Of all the farcical ironies besetting the European Union, first prize must surely go to Belgium. Home to our super-state capital Brussels, the administrative centre of the European Union is also the capital city of a nation struggling to survive.

NÃos mÃ³ faoin gcogadh in aghaidh na sceimhlitheoireachta

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Cé go bhfuil an cogadh san Afganastán ar siúl anois le níos mó ná naoi bliain, níl aon dhíospóireacht oscailte sna meáin cumarsáide faoi chuspóir buanach an chogaidh sin.

France and the death of Freud

Last update: 13:22 | 29.04.10 | © Metro Éireann

French intellectual circles have been buzzing with the name of one outspoken philosopher: Michel Onfray. One of France’s best known and widely read philosophers, Onfray was born into a poor family and attended a Catholic school, where he was heavily

Irelandâ€™s sorry predicament

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“When sorrows come, they come not single spies but in battalions” – so spoke a morose Claudius in Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Claudius was a usurper of power; a liar, a murderer and a cad. His sad realisation that the shadows of his nemesis

An fhÃrinne faoi chinedhÃÃ³thÃº sa Ruanda

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Is minic a chloistear faoi chinedhíothú sa Ruanda i 1994 agus de réir an scéal oifigiúil a chothaíonn róinnt scannáin ó Hollywood, tuigtear go raibh an tréibh Huto taobh thiar den slad.

We need to think for ourselves

Last update: 13:41 | 01.04.10 | © Metro Éireann

Given the plethora of scandals surrounding clerical sex abuse in Ireland, stretching right back to the foundation of the State, is it not time we came to terms with the Catholic Church in Ireland? Shouldn’t we overcome the appalling legacy of this institution?

TÃ¡ rud Ã©igin nÃos drochthuarthaÃ ag tarlÃº anseo

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De réir fóinsí oifigiúila d’fheallmharaigh ETA póilín francach le déanaí. Dúirt uachtarán na Fraince Nicolas Sarkozy an lá ina dhiaidh sin go raibh an grúpa ETA taobh

The problem with Belarus

Last update: 12:19 | 25.03.10 | © Metro Éireann

There is no other nation in Europe so maligned and demonised as Belarus. Ever since former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice branded the democratically elected president of the country as “Europe’s last dictator” in 2008, the image

An fhÃrinne faoi an ChÃ³irÃ© Thuaidh

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Is minic a chloistear faoi bhagairt atá ag baint le Daon-Phoblacht Dhaonlathach na Cóiré. Déanann na meáin cumarsáide fíoriarracht ó am go chéile an tír sin a léiriú amhal

The decline of the west

Last update: 11:47 | 18.03.10 | © Metro Éireann

Although it has received little to no attention in the European media, the military coup in Honduras last year is highly significant. When the country’s president Manuel Zelaya tried to put constitution reform to a national vote last year, generals

The most democratic place on the planet

Last update: 10:50 | 11.03.10 | © Metro Éireann

Students, intellectuals, hu-man rights activists or anyone interested in understanding how a participative democracy works should consider a trip to Venezuela.

CoiriÃºlÃº an Easaontais san Aontas Eorpach

Nuair a bhí mé ag taisteal timpeall na Veiniséala an t-seachtain seo caite, bhuail mé le roinnt daoine ón gColóim. D’fiafraigh mé an raibh aon tacaíocht i measc na daoine sa Cholóim do mhilíste

Viva la revoluciÃ³n!

This week I’m travelling in Venezuela, home to one of the most extraordinary political revolutions of our time. Since coming to power in 1999, President Hugo Chávez has transformed politics in this oil-rich country.

Defending the tyrants

In this post-democratic age, any politician who defends democracy is denounced as a tyrant or dictator. Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus, Ahmadinejad of Iran and many others have been consistently demonised in the western press for their

UachtarÃ¡n Obama: Bush le cara nua

Le seacht bunáite mileata nua faoi thógháil i gColomóim, níos mó lastais d’airm á thraisloingiú chug Iosrael, anord agus sceimhlitheoireacht faoi lánseol san Iaráic agus an slogadh mileata

The hand of treachery

Thierry Henry’s ‘main de dieu’ has been a thorn in the side of French society since that fateful night in Paris a couple of weeks ago. As an Irishman living in France, I’ve been inundated with apologies and commiserations from French

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