HeyJaredPaul Gillespie
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- Sep 28, 2026
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Worldview: If the EU continues to drift, disintegration is seen as a more plausible future (opens the original)
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Gaps between the European Unionâs advocacy of ambitious policy goals and its ability to implement them matter greatly in a world changed from market integration through globalisation to one dominated by power politics and growing security threats. Such incoherence risks losing the public support vital to EU success, according to influential EU policy experts. Irelandâs six-month EU presidency sits squarely astride these contradictory imperatives. Securing an EU budget deal for 2028-2034 is a
Worldview: Shannon is a symptom of the failure to decentralise the State (opens the original)
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An article in The Irish Times this week on Shannon, a town of 10,000 people â the size of Castlebar or Wicklow and badly lacking local amenities â illustrates many of the pathologies affecting government in Ireland. These problems are partly identified in the Governmentâs response to the report of the Local Democracy Taskforce it set up last year. The failure to meet the infrastructural needs of a growing and more diverse population is exacerbated by the highly centralised way those needs
Worldview: Europe-Africa relations are coming to the fore during the Irish EU presidency (opens the original)
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Ceuta was a carnival of reaction for the international far right. It weaponised the sudden migration surge from Morocco to the Spanish enclave into âa kind of border porn for the global far right: a locus upon which to project their most vivid and apocalyptic fantasiesâ as Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew eloquently put it. The incident raises longer-term issues about how Europeâs relations with north Africaâs authoritarian regimes are being intensified by securitised migration regimes.
Worldview: Why do people in Ireland speak so few languages? (opens the original)
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The ability to speak, read and think in several languages matters more and more in todayâs world of artificial intelligence, geopolitical reordering and economic reconfiguration. Skills of understanding, insight into other cultures and critical thinking about alternatives are indispensable tools for navigating a world dominated by big corporate entities using technology to reinforce their power. Ireland has progressive policy positions on language learning, but conspicuously lags in the school
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