Neil Leslie
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 12
- Latest publication
- Sep 26, 2026
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- Jul 16, 2026
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'Celebrating the Dublin Street that has seen us at our best and worst' (opens the original)
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In the early part of our strange new millennium, some of us in what country TDs and GAA managers like to call the ‘Dublin-based media’ were in search of a new home. Like many a migration before and since, it ended in Dublin’s north inner city. In a building on Talbot Street. Naturally the first order of business was to agree on a watering hole. One veteran editor thought he had settled the issue, only to be politely asked to find a different haunt when the locals discovered his trade. "We don’t
The nugget of wisdom from TV's greatest ever show that the world needs now (opens the original)
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It remains, for many people’s money, television’s “Day of Days”. On September 7, 2001, HBO aired the first episode of a show that ushered in a new era of small-screen storytelling. It was probably still being discussed over watercoolers in places like the World Trade Center two days later when American Airlines Flight 11 came out of a clear blue sky. As the world remembered the 25th anniversary of 9/11 last week, Band Of Brothers (Legacy) also aired to mark the same milestone for a series that c
'Micheal Martin can tell Emperor Donald Trump he's not wearing any clothes' (opens the original)
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When confronted with some of the more ludicrous aspects of the world, a legendary newspaper lawyer of my acquaintance used to be known to exasperatedly wonder: "Have I entered the Truman Show?" That’s the movie in which Jim Carrey is unaware that his whole life is being staged for the amusement of a watching audience, and that everything he thinks he knows is a fantasy. These days we all live in an edition of the 'Donald Trumpman Show', a make-believe realm streamed for likes, where the reality
There was a place for every tribe except one as Ireland serenaded Katie Taylor (opens the original)
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But in the end Ireland got the sacred sing-song it seemed to badly want as well. As long as the old Republic endures they will argue into the night about who was the greatest of them all. There will be advocates for Roy, for Ruby, for Rory. For the giants of the GAA. But for one accolade there are no other challengers. If you want to know the ‘Greatest Irish Sport Story’ ever told, it opens: “Once upon a time there was Katie Taylor…” Its chapters are filled with the stuff of the Hollywood moguls
I've just one condition before paying new insurance levy for climate chaos (opens the original)
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Not all heroes were capes so the cliché goes. And in the week the world lost the battle to save itself from the worst impacts of climate collapse we could do with an unlikely one stepping up about now. Yesterday scientists at the United Nations Environment Programme almost quietly gave up on the pledge by 200 countries not to let the earth heat by more than 1.5 degrees from burning fossil fuels. You could nearly hear the sigh as they set a new ambition to limit the “overshoot” and to pin all our
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