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Ta-Nehisi Coates’ new book, “The Message,” is a trio of interconnected essays that examine how the stories people tell — or avoid telling — can shape and even distort reality: “I am most concerned always with those that don’t have a voice.” cbsn.ws/4gJxe2g

Government has a windfall of cash but no coherent sense of how to spend it. - Fintan O'Toole irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/0…

"Temporary measures don’t solve permanent problems." Good piece on the Irish government's attempts at vote-buying via the Budget. irishtimes.com/your-money/202…

Opinion: When you’re struggling to make ends meet, it’s hard to watch the Government throwing cash around irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/1… via Irish Times Opinion

This year’s theme ‘Open Channels / Bealaigh Oscailte’ will centre on themes of dialogue, movement and exchange. In an ever more fractured world, this tenth edition will seek to give voice to why collective discourse and interchange are indispensable to our shared future and what

Beautiful new "dazzling medical utopia" children's hospital in Zurich. Dublin's unfinished children's hospital will cost around three and a half times more than this place, and rising. theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

Irish Times receives almost 50 nominations for Irish Journalism Awards irishtimes.com/media/2024/10/…

Documents obtained from US courts detail TikTok moderation failures and internal discussion of potential harm to children. WATCH Kate McDonald's report: RTÉ News | #rtept

Opinion: The 9% VAT battle is lost, but here are 4 ideas to help save the hospitality industry irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/1… via Irish Times Opinion

Bold yet effective choice for the panel launching this report to visually represent its repetitiousness.

The hardline Israeli settlers planning their future homes in Gaza

Last year just 846 apartments were bought by individuals and families. 6,203 were bought up by investment funds to be rented out at exorbitant prices. It's no wonder homeownership is at its lowest level in more than 50 years. independent.ie/business/gover…

Troublesome new data for the government from the CSO. Taoiseach Simon has claimed close to 40,000 new homes will be built this year. Government are 18,400 short of that level with only a quarter left to go businesspost.ie/news/governmen…

Opinion: Government shouldn’t be so quick to yell Gotcha! at Sinn Féin. Its record on children is shameful irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/1… via Irish Times Opinion

Darragh O’Brien is the housing minister during a housing crisis. But on the eve of an election, he’s warbling on about bringing the Open to Portmarnock. Are we really that cheap a date? Today’s column. irishtimes.com/sport/golf/202…

New! Ten articles explaining the 2024 Election, in one place, for free. sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/ten-articles…

“The ages most represented among the dead were five to nine-year-olds.”

Some big news... Following the multi-award winning 'Where Is George Gibney?', here's the new investigative series from Mark Horgan & Ciaran Cassidy for BBC Sounds. 3 years in the making, Stakeknife is coming Nov 22nd. Listen to the incredible trailer🎧 bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/…

"I hope it will have a garden. I have anger issues and all, but my mam is good all the time. She is trying to get rid of my anger issues and to get me a house. I love her."