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Kevin Myers

Spring is in the air but winds of change won’t stop blowing

It is a popular myth that the Eskimo people have 50 words for snow. It's not true, apparently: they have just one, in much the same way that we have one word for our equivalent, namely rain.

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Saying ‘yes’ to Europe isn’t the answer to the problem

Friday, 2 March 2012

The warning by the Republic’s minister for European affairs, Lucinda Creighton, about the consequences of a ‘No’ vote in the next Eurovote — that it would give out a “wrong” signal to investors — will probably turn out to be the intellectual high point in the referendum campaign.
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Who really wants to see the sun go down on Galway Che?

Friday, 24 February 2012

Galway City Council is considering a proposal to raise a statue to Che Guevara. Excellent: a monument to a ruthless killer is just what Ireland’s tourism industry needs.
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Tackling the self-destruct button in our rugby psyche

Friday, 10 February 2012

After my triumphant declaration last week that Wimbledon would never succumb to the sisters' witless demands for equal pay for unequal work, some four years after that spineless place had actually folded on the issue, you might think that I would never offer another opinion on sport.
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It’s game, set and match to the groaning feminist camp

Friday, 3 February 2012

The fictions of the equality industry are never quite as ludicrous as they are in tennis, a sport infested with egalitarian mumbo-jumbo and feminist voodoo.
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A reputable US president? That would be a precedent

Friday, 20 January 2012

This year divides by four. Bad news. It means that the world has to endure both the Olympic Games and the US presidential primaries: rather like the third battle of Ypres and the siege of Leningrad inhabiting our brains for the next six months.
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Society is failing those who believe suicide is painless

Friday, 13 January 2012

An epidemic of suicide is sweeping the country this winter. It is not taking the usual victims, young males, but the middle-aged — and of both sexes.
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Lying about our bloody past will lead to even worse future

Friday, 6 January 2012

Some friends had builders in last May, for a job to be completed in July. So, of course, they spent the third week of December desperately trying to get the builders to finish by Christmas.
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Smoke and mirrors obscure debate over global warming

Friday, 2 December 2011

If it's winter here, the global warming conference must be in the southern hemisphere. And yes, of course, it's in Durban, whither thousands of global warmists are now flying in order to confer at colossal expense and tell us to cut our carbon dioxide emissions — or else. Else what?
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If you want to see the best television, watch US shows

Friday, 18 November 2011

All ideologies are wrong, including the one that says all ideologies are wrong. But generally speaking, the free market is the best way of getting the best out of society.
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There are consequences to letting Greece off the hook

Thursday, 3 November 2011

Yes, I know I do bang on about these historical things a lot, but that's because I believe they're important. The most important event in world history since the Reformation was the Great War.
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Truly great servant whose actions we will never forget

Thursday, 27 October 2011

It was on the last weekend of autumn, the first days of winter, as an evil and ferocious monsoon lashed the bleak mud of the Wicklow hills, that a young off-duty garda, Ciaran Jones, freely went out and gave his life, so that others might live.
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The silence is deafening as a terrorist seduces Ireland

Thursday, 13 October 2011

The clock clicks by. Irish democracy sleeps, the lullaby of Sinn Fein lies wooing it to a deadly slumber. Electors under 30 have little memory of the Troubles; those under 25 none.

No offence, but for the love of God, stop this PC idiocy

Thursday, 6 October 2011

Listen to the Irish rugby players in New Zealand. They don't speak any more of ‘lads’ or ‘fellows’ or ‘chaps’. Nowadays, they'll only say ‘guys’.
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Why we mustn’t give keys of the Aras to McGuinness

Thursday, 29 September 2011

I see. The poor, broken Republic clearly still has some way to sink.
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Shame on Ireland for always burying her head in the sand

Thursday, 22 September 2011

Look. I've been living in Ireland longer than most Irish people have been alive, but sometimes I think I understand the country no more than I did the day I arrived at Mrs Higgins's boarding house at the back of the Stella Cinema, Rathmines.
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Why I’m seeing red after my brush with modern art

Thursday, 15 September 2011

Let me acknowledge a personal interest at the outset here: I wrote the foreword to the catalogue for the latest exhibition of paintings by the artist Anthony Murphy at the Ib Jorgensen gallery in Dublin.
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Truths so twisted even this hack couldn’t have made up

Thursday, 8 September 2011

It is not within the powers of mere journalists to comment on, never mind invent, the following story: Tony Blair, garbed in white and on the banks of the River Jordan, last year became godfather to the twin children of 80-year-old Rupert Murdoch and Wendi Deng Murdoch.
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