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Surrealing in the Years

This month
May 2025
Surrealing in the Years
Surrealing in the Years: Kneecap are NOT the story. And yet.
Carl Kinsella
3 May
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April 2025
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Surrealing in the Years: Ireland and the world at large descending into Dan Brown farce
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26 Apr
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Surrealing in the Years: Protect our cultural history or solve the housing crisis? Neither, thanks
Carl Kinsella
12 Apr
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Surrealling in the Years: Keep your filthy hands to yourself
Carl Kinsella
5 Apr
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This year
2025
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Surrealing in the Years: Don't worry, they're only telling us to sit down with their fingers
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29 Mar
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Surrealing in the Years: Plámás is far too kind a word for what we witnessed this week
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15 Mar
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Surrealing in the Years: Granny flat plan would have us living like garden gnomes
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22 Feb
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Surrealing in the Years: Ná bí ag insint bréaga, le do thoil
Carl Kinsella
15 Feb
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Camping out for houses, waiting for ghost buses - has Halloween come early?
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8 Feb
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Lowry's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle approach to Dáil speaking time isn't getting anything done
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1 Feb
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Surrealing in the Years: There was real catharsis in watching TDs losing the rag this week
Carl Kinsella
25 Jan
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Surrealing in the Years: Government formation is our problem, not theirs
Carl Kinsella
18 Jan
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Surrealing in the Years: Met Éireann succeed in diabolical plot to warn us that it's cold
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3 hrs ago
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Surrealing in the Years: 2025 begins on a Dickensian note, and not in a fun way
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4 Jan
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Last year
2024
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Surrealing in the Year 2024: A year that exposed Ireland's shortcomings when it comes to women
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28 Dec 2024
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Surrealing in the Years: Ceann Comhairle ballot could have used just a little more backstabbing
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21 Dec 2024
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Surrealing in the Years: It was a good week for the kind of people who have a lot of good weeks
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14 Dec 2024
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Surrealing in the Years: Tired five-second hoist a perfect symbol of Irish political climate
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7 Dec 2024
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Surrealing in the Years: Election has foregrounded empathy, or the lack thereof, in Irish politics
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28 Nov 2024
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Surrealing in the Years: How dare you?
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23 Nov 2024
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Surrealing in the Years: Has everyone in this country forgotten how to run for election?
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16 Nov 2024
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Surrealing in the Years: Halloween hoax proves that we have to get smarter, like, right now
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2 Nov 2024
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Surrealing in the Years: Irish government finds brand new reason not to take action on Gaza
Carl Kinsella
26 Oct 2024
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Surrealing in the Years: Calling an election now would be nakedly cynical, but nobody cares
Carl Kinsella
19 Oct 2024
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Surrealing in the Years: RTÉ's far-right documentary tells us what we should already know
Carl Kinsella
21 Sep 2024
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Surrealing in the Years: Country waits with bated breath to see how we waste €14 billion
Carl Kinsella
14 Sep 2024
15.1k
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Surrealing in the Years: Hallelujah, we're finally talking about housing again
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7 Sep 2024
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Surrealing in the Years: Irish parties' star-power strategy ushers in new era of elections
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31 Aug 2024
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Surrealing in the Years: Ireland's new approach to road safety is good old-fashioned bullying
Carl Kinsella
24 Aug 2024
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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 2024
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Surrealing in the Years: Easily misled culture warriors can overshadow even the Olympics
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3 Aug 2024
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Surrealing in the Years: Sinéad O'Connor waxwork scandal reaffirms the power of Liveline
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27 Jul 2024
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Surrealing in the Years: Wow, who could have seen this coming?
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20 Jul 2024
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Surrealing in the Years: Climate of violence against women casts shadow over yet another week
Carl Kinsella
13 Jul 2024
8.9k
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Surrealing in the Years: Waiting for the bus to take contactless payment - and for our election
Carl Kinsella
6 Jul 2024
9.9k
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Surrealing in the Years: €475,000 'affordable' homes just the latest insult to our intelligence
Carl Kinsella
29 Jun 2024
23.2k
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Surrealing in the Years: Eamon Ryan gave us climate targets we'll never meet, and memories
Carl Kinsella
22 Jun 2024
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Surrealing in the Years
Surrealing in the Years: You want me to sum up that election in one headline? Not happening
Carl Kinsella
15 Jun 2024
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Surrealing in the Years
Surrealing in the Years: Election cycle has been much messier than Simon Harris' melting 99
Carl Kinsella
6 Jun 2024
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Surrealing in the Years
Surrealing in the Years: Wham, BAM, where the hell is our hospital, ma'am?
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1 Jun 2024
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