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2024
Surrealing in the Years: First week of the new year marked by "preventable trauma"
Carl Kinsella
Last year
2023
Surrealing in the Years: New retirement plan means 40 more years of this column
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Year 2023: Ireland has had a weird year, and absolutely not in a good way
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: Tornado in Leitrim steals the show during a season of extreme weather
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: President Conor is unlikely, but we're still in for a long two years
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: Good news! The weird online loudmouths are here to save Ireland
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: Dublin riot shatters many of our shared delusions about Ireland
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: Irish public knows the moral event horizon has been crossed in Gaza
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: Only Suella Braverman knows what on earth she meant by Ulster comments
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: Smaller venues not enough to hold Irish solidarity for Palestine
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: RTÉ should utilise 'surprise Dolly Parton' strategy more often
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: Thoughtless celebrity commentary on Gaza crisis will make things worse
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: Bedbug apocalypse the least of our worries when it comes to neighbours
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: Leo Varadkar is not good at pop culture references
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: Has the establishment finally noticed the far-right?
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: Legacy Bill apparently not as juicy as three old men
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: A modest proposal for a Donegal-Dublin Bay South constituency
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: Welcoming 40,000 American tourists by putting more guns on the streets
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: Let's not forget how uncool the housing crisis makes us look
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: Get ready to hear about Covid again
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: Micheál Martin heals us through the power of podcasting
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: The week began with nationalist gold and only got weirder from there
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: Yes, the profits are enormous, but that doesn't affect our price hikes
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: The martyrdom of a humble Toy Man
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: It's jollies all the way down at RTÉ as nation looks on in exasperation
Surrealing in the Years: RTÉ's existential crisis has united the nation like little else
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: Between subs, Tubs and consultative forums, who knows where to look?
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: Maybe the time for political stunts is now
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: Today is officially the day after tomorrow
Carl Kinsella
Surrealing in the Years: Mood of country hard to gauge amid sunshine, worsening housing crisis
Carl Kinsella