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Patrick Freyne

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Sep 26, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 26, 2026 · Patrick Freyne

    Naomi Klein: The super rich need to be abolished and ‘prescribed a middle-class life’ (opens the original)

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    Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor’s End Times Fascism is a surprisingly uplifting book. Don’t misunderstand me – their analysis of the amoral tech billionaires, apocalyptic fundamentalists, ethno-nationalists and opportunistic crooks currently setting the agenda in the United States (and worldwide) is terrifying. But Klein and Taylor are activists as well as writers, and this affirmative read contains a hopeful prescription for community resistance. They seem surprised by the optimism themselve

  2. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Patrick Freyne

    U2 perform special gig at their former school Mount Temple to mark 50th anniversary (opens the original)

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    I’m at Mount Temple Comprehensive on the Malahide Road on Dublin’s northside watching one of their school bands going through their set in a podium in the yard. It’s two in the day on a Friday. This quartet are called, depending when you ask, Feedback or The Hype or U2. Fifty years on from drummer Larry Mullen sticking a note up on a noticeboard seeking bandmates (Bono gives him kudos later in the gig) they’re still going. They played their last gig in this exact location in 1978. It has

  3. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Patrick Freyne

    U2 play special gigs at Mount Temple Comprehensive and Grafton Street to mark 50th anniversary (opens the original)

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    I’m at Mount Temple Comprehensive on the Malahide Road on Dublin’s northside watching one of their school bands going through their set on a podium in the yard. It’s two in the day on a Friday. This quartet are called, depending when you ask, Feedback or The Hype or U2. Fifty years on from drummer Larry Mullen sticking a note up on a noticeboard seeking bandmates (Bono gives him kudos later in the gig) they’re still going. They played their last gig in this exact location in 1978. It has

  4. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Patrick Freyne

    U2’s new album Carnaval De Luz features Dolly Parton and Bono duet (opens the original)

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    U2’s new album, Carnaval De Luz, features the late country music genius Dolly Parton duetting with Bono on the album’s final song Torn. Described as “a tender country song detailing broken family ties”, Torn was cowritten by U2, Parton and Johnny McDaid Carnaval De Luz is U2’s first album in nine years and will be released on Friday, November 13th. The title of the record was first revealed to Irish Times journalist Róisín Ingle in her excellent Drummer Seeks Musician podcast. It’s

  5. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Patrick Freyne

    Patrick Freyne: Lola Petticrew, a bearded grump and Siobhán McSweeney’s sneaky Irish: My top TV shows of 2026 so far (opens the original)

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    When I was a boy, they had not yet fully eradicated smallpox, and we would spend our time, as a family, watching the cube in the corner (a television, not my brother David). Now, we have our own portable viewing machines, and none of us has shared a livingroom in years. Nonetheless, we still have television “shows” in which Americans, Britons and worse (Dubliners) dramatise reality for us, which we then harvest from the sky using the arcane magic of our enchanted pocket rectangles. Indeed, a

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