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Surrealing in the Years: How dare you?

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Surrealing in the Years

Surrealing in the Years: Halloween hoax proves that we have to get smarter, like, right now

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Surrealing in the Years

Surrealing in the Years: Irish government finds brand new reason not to take action on Gaza

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26 Oct

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Surrealing in the Years: Calling an election now would be nakedly cynical, but nobody cares

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19 Oct

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2024

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Surrealing in the Years

Surrealing in the Years: RTÉ's far-right documentary tells us what we should already know

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21 Sep

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Surrealing in the Years: Country waits with bated breath to see how we waste €14 billion

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14 Sep

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Surrealing in the Years

Surrealing in the Years: Hallelujah, we're finally talking about housing again

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7 Sep

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Surrealing in the Years

Surrealing in the Years: Irish parties' star-power strategy ushers in new era of elections

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31 Aug

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Surrealing in the Years: Ireland's new approach to road safety is good old-fashioned bullying

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24 Aug

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Surrealing in the Years: We don't need to read Eoghan Murphy's book, we lived it

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17 Aug

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Surrealing in the Years: Easily misled culture warriors can overshadow even the Olympics

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3 Aug

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Surrealing in the Years: Sinéad O'Connor waxwork scandal reaffirms the power of Liveline

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27 Jul

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Surrealing in the Years

Surrealing in the Years: Wow, who could have seen this coming?

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20 Jul

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Surrealing in the Years: Waiting for the bus to take contactless payment - and for our election

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6 Jul

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Surrealing in the Years: €475,000 'affordable' homes just the latest insult to our intelligence

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29 Jun

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Surrealing in the Years: Eamon Ryan gave us climate targets we'll never meet, and memories

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22 Jun

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Surrealing in the Years: You want me to sum up that election in one headline? Not happening

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15 Jun

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Surrealing in the Years: Election cycle has been much messier than Simon Harris' melting 99

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6 Jun

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Surrealing in the Years: Wham, BAM, where the hell is our hospital, ma'am?

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1 Jun

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Surrealing in the Years: Ireland recognises Palestine, Mattie McGrath not quite so sure

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25 May

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Surrealing in the Years: We don't need AI to start freaking out about politics in Ireland

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18 May

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Surrealing in the Years: New York portal runs risk of showing world what Ireland is really like

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11 May

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Surrealing in the Years

Surrealing in the Years: United Kingdom trying to drag Ireland down to its level on immigration

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4 May

15.1k

Surrealing in the Years

Surrealing in the Years: Well Simon, the jamboree period is over

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13 Apr

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Surrealing in the Years: €1.90 for bag of Tayto is proof that the social contract is broken

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6 Apr

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Surrealing in the Years: Varadkar feels sorry for whoever has to write about his legacy. Same.

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Surrealing in the Years

Surrealing in the Years: Irish diplomacy differs greatly between Texas and DC

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16 Mar

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Surrealing in the Years: The results are in ... referendums remain nation’s messiest pastime

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10 Mar

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Surrealing in the Years: Snow nice but nation could use heads up next time

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2 Mar

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Surrealing in the Years: UK Pleasure Boys can teach us all a valuable lesson

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24 Feb

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Surrealing in the Years: Joe Brolly and Kneecap join forces against the Tory government

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10 Feb

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Surrealing in the Years: End of 'Global Greening' a brave step towards becoming less embarrassing

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3 Feb

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Surrealing in the Years: Finally, a national conversation about throuples

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20 Jan

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Surrealing in the Years: First week of the new year marked by "preventable trauma"

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6 Jan

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2023

Surrealing in the Years

Surrealing in the Years: New retirement plan means 40 more years of this column

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30 Dec 2023

10.7k

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Surrealing in the Year 2023: Ireland has had a weird year, and absolutely not in a good way

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Surrealing in the Years: Tornado in Leitrim steals the show during a season of extreme weather

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