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From the Papers

The IRA say sorry? Interviewed on a British radio program, leader of Sinn Fein Mary Lou McDonald said she was ‘sorry’ for the death of Louis Mountbatten and the three others who were killed by the IRA in a boat off the coast of Sligo in 1979. Whether this constituted an ‘apology’ is not clear, … Continue reading →

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Editorial

‘People are less defensive about being Irish now,’ wrote Bob Scally in The New York Times, back in the 1990s. That obviously referred to America, but applied to Australia also, now as then. Although ‘Irish’ was the third highest reported ancestry in the 2016 Australian census, at 10.2%, only 0.4% of the population in 2016 … Continue reading →

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