Ian O’Doherty

Ian O’Doherty is an Irish journalist.

Ireland’s deeply sinister hate crime bill

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These are certainly interesting times in Ireland. Like every other European country, there’s a cost of living crisis. Mortgages are going up. Inflation is wiping out savings and the ruinous impact of our strict lockdowns is still killing jobs.   We’ve even spent recent days convulsed in a bizarre national uproar over RTE’s highest paid star being

Ireland’s migrant hypocrisy

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‘Cead Mile Failte’, which means ‘a hundred thousand welcomes’, is a sentiment the Irish have long held dear.  We pride ourselves on our welcoming nature, our music, our famous pub culture and the fact that the average tourist will be almost overwhelmingly love-bombed by locals who are happy to see a new face and will