11/04 Letters: Life on Mars surely can’t be any crazier than it is these days in Washington
-With all the wild statements coming from Donald Trump, I’m waiting for him to announce he has bought some real estate on Mars from Elon Musk and is going to call it Mars-a-Lago .
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22/02 Letters: Conversion of business premises into houses will just leave us with soulless towns
-A disturbing trend in recent years has been the conversion of business premises in towns into housing.
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20/02 Frank Coughlan: It’s not a great leap to link US education neglect to support for the cult of Trump
-Many of us are familiar with a telling early scene from Breaking Bad, that compulsively watchable drama that gave us one of modern TV’s most compelling and tragic characters. Walter White, a brilliant but disillusioned chemistry teacher in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is obliged to earn some extra dollars by washing cars. One day he is rumbled by a gloating student who takes his photo and tells him to
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11/01 Letters: Ireland does funerals well, so it would be only right to ensure we keep that tradition going
-I would love to see Ireland’s National Lottery provider to step in and fund a national website for funeral announcements countrywide. For the country’s diaspora, it’s a vital service to help stay updated on local bereavements. Ireland’s traditional approach to funerals is famous worldwide and, especially in rural areas, it’s the mourners who don’t attend that are most noticed.
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12/03 Frank Coughlan: Saint Patrick wasn’t always green – we made him that way
-It was never one of my favourite days. If I could avoid getting caught up in the surrounding hullabaloo I gratefully took advantage of it.
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23/01 Frank Coughlan: Ireland is far from perfect but Small Things Like These is a chastening reminder how far we’ve come
-It seems an inspired decision to cast Cillian Murphy as the intense and taciturn Bill Furlong in the screen adaptation of Claire Keegan’s stunning novella Small Things Like These.
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23/01 Frank Coughlan: Ireland is far from perfect but here is a reminder of how far we’ve come
-It seems an inspired decision to cast Cillian Murphy as the intense and taciturn Bill Furlong in the screen adaptation of Claire Keegan’s stunning novella Small Things Like These.
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