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Patsy McGarry

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Joined November 2014
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Jews in Ireland face hostile atmosphere, commemoration for Holocaust survivor told irishtimes.com/ireland/socia…
Jews in Ireland face hostile atmosphere, commemoration for Holocaust survivor told

Jews in Ireland face hostile atmosphere, commemoration for Holocaust survivor told

‘What other community has simply learned to live like this?’ asks Tomi Reichental’s son David in reference to need for Garda presence at synagogues on certain days

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Roscommon will win the All-Ireland by 2030, according to one famous pundit irishtimes.com/culture/2026/…

Roscommon will win the All-Ireland by 2030, according to one famous pundit

In a Word ... Sam

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Ah Patsy, I was hoping it was Old Moore’s Almanac ( the data centre’s the world over would not have the storage capacity for the high hopes this piece will generate)
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Replying to @PatsyMcGarryIT
And my fat labrador will win the greyhound Derby! 🤣
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Roscommon need to get in a habit of winning big games in Croke Park especially back to back, they can always win big games in Connaught but struggle afterwards. Roscommon are always a difficult game for any team
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Of course you're right, Tom...and hopefully that will happen
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independent.ie/entertainment… There's a new and probably definitive biography of John McGahern, whose books I read avidly way back when. He has fascinated me, man and boy. Interview here with Frank Shovlin, author of the biography and McGahern scholar non pareil.
‘As a young man, John McGahern made peace with his own mortality. That made him different from...

‘As a young man, John McGahern made peace with his own mortality. That made him different from...

Biographer Frank Shovlin on the steeliness and singular talent of the great Irish writer

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Tommy, a terrific piece on John McGahern in yesterday's Sindo. Well done!
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Fear and misunderstanding continues to cloud discussions of women in Church leadership irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/…
Opinion: Fear and bad information continue to cloud discussions of women in Church leadership

Opinion: Fear and bad information continue to cloud discussions of women in Church leadership

Rite & Reason: In many countries, the more ‘liberal’ agenda is weeded out of the Synodal process as it evolves

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God bless America...
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Glenstal school closure unrelated to compensation paid in abuse cases, Benedictines say irishtimes.com/ireland/socia…
Glenstal school closure unrelated to compensation paid in abuse cases, Benedictines say

Glenstal school closure unrelated to compensation paid in abuse cases, Benedictines say

Closure has ‘no links, either financial or otherwise, to historic allegations of abuse’, order says

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November chimneys..
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I asked ChatGPT whether AI has a soul. Its answer was disturbing irishtimes.com/culture/2026/…
I asked ChatGPT whether AI has a soul. Its answer was disturbing

I asked ChatGPT whether AI has a soul. Its answer was disturbing

In a Word... Soul

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Why the silence of Ireland’s church leaders in these dark days of Donald Trump? irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/…
Why the silence of Ireland’s church leaders in these dark days of Donald Trump?

Why the silence of Ireland’s church leaders in these dark days of Donald Trump?

Rite and Reason: God is praised as the culture collapses, mired in pretence, corruption and a callous abuse of the poor

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Number of Catholic bishops in Ireland set to drop dramatically irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/…
Number of Catholic bishops in Ireland set to drop dramatically

Number of Catholic bishops in Ireland set to drop dramatically

Joining of administrative districts proposed at meeting involving Pope Leo shortly before his election to the papacy

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If you're a Rossie...this is for you - next Friday
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Halloween...here's some up to date horror (maybe).. AI apocalypse? ‘The end of the world is nigh’ is one of humanity’s oldest catch cries irishtimes.com/culture/2026/…
AI apocalypse? ‘The end of the world is nigh’ is one of humanity’s oldest catch cries

AI apocalypse? ‘The end of the world is nigh’ is one of humanity’s oldest catch cries

In a Word: Doomsday. Dire predictions have accompanied every so-called dangerous advance

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What the Burke family really need from us irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/…
Opinion: What the Burke family really need from us

Opinion: What the Burke family really need from us

Rite and Reason: Who are the controversial children trying to impress? Could it be their mother?

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...blue tranquility...
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The Irish Tricolour goes back further than Thomas Francis Meagher in 1848.. In a Word ... Tricolour irishtimes.com/culture/2026/…

In a Word ... Tricolour

‘Believing there could be a united Ireland before the end of the world is not so far-fetched any more’

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...Up!
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Catholic assembly backs further discussion on women’s ordination irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/…
Landmark Irish Catholic assembly backs further discussion on women’s ordination

Landmark Irish Catholic assembly backs further discussion on women’s ordination

Archbishop Eamon Martin tells delegates at Co Meath gathering that many Irish parishes will struggle to survive

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