MATT TREACY: Citizenship is easy to acquire in Ireland, and new figures show the main country of origin is Nigeria. Non-nationals made up almost all population growth last year while more Irish citizens continue to leave than return.

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Significant parts of the British government’s Illegal Migration Act, commonly known as the Rwanda law, should not apply in Northern Ireland because those provisions breach human rights laws, the NI High Court has ruled.

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“We live in a bizarro nanny state that infantalises adults and adultifies infants,” says Ben Scallan 🇮🇪, as the government moves to raise the smoking age to 21:

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‘Unconscious bias’ training has been made available to civil servants which states that being part of the majority group makes you “naturally privileged” and encourages participants to talk to others about bias.
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Barrister LAURA PERRINS (@lperrins) doesn't hold back on the Eurovision:

'The Tánaiste and the rest of Modern Ireland should stop lying to themselves and everyone else by celebrating this garbage. That’s what it is – filth and garbage.'

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'I can't say to a person you can't stand because of the colour of your skin, for me to do that would be deeply wrong' - Aontu's Peadar Toibin responds to online attacks on his party for running candidates born overseas. Listen to the full interview ahead of the elections on June…

“It seems like the Dublin-New York portal is more of an ‘arse-exhibition’ than an art-installation,” writes FATIMA GUNNING as she considers some of its most groundbreaking offerings so far.

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PREMIUM: Why did RTE feel it necessary to inform the public that our gangland criminals are 'diverse'? That tells you more about who RTE are than who our criminals are, writes JOHN MCGUIRK:

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Free speech and freedom of the press are “under threat” from the far-right, Labour Party leader Ivana Bacik has said, warning that such elements would “use the police to suppress, not protect.”

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JOHN MCGUIRK reviews Eurovision and the Irish entry's performance:

'Like it or lump it, this is how a significant portion of the global population, as well as many of us at home, see this country now – dark, lost, screechy, and weird.'

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US tourist (80s) injured during mugging in Killarney writes letter thanking locals for their kindness as 23-year-old man appears in court charged in relation to the incident.

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Patrice Johnson, a candidate for the Irish Freedom Party in Drogheda, says that online abuse won't stop her from standing in the election after a video she posted was met with personalised attacks, including repeated references to her being mother to five children…

KEVIN MYERS: 'If the Israelis had wanted to commit genocide, they could have done it in a week - which is also precisely how long it took Trinity College Dublin to surrender entirely to the adolescent tantrums of a fraction of its student body'.

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PODCAST: RTE struggle to understand firearms; a new poll says Independents Others are more popular than any party, at least in the Euros; and the Garda release new figures on hate crime, but it may shock you to hear that they don’t really stand up.

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Ordinary people with concerns about immigration are being labelled 'terrorists' - at the same time that organised, drug-related, gang murders with semiautomatics are taking place says LAURA PERRINS

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Séamus Ó Maolchathaigh. An duine deireanach nach mór de na cainteoirí dúchais i dTiobraid Árainn. Ba as an Chaisleáin Nua i dTiobraid Árann Theas do, ar cheantar Bhreac – Ghaeltachta é go deireadh na gcaogaidí.

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