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Terry Keane was a fashion writer and columnist. Charles Haughey was Taoiseach and a political party leader. But behind the scenes, the couple engaged in a 27-year-long affair.

First, it was a nasty spat about promising to bribe voters with their own money via tax cuts. Then, as that dispute continued, two more big rows emerged over widely different plans to rewet boglands and introduce facial recognition technology for gardaí.

In the first months of a happy decade I spent in Brussels, some acquaintances used to play a trite bar room game called “Name 10 famous Belgians … OK, name five”.

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WALKING into a pub in Limerick city, I was taken by an unusual T-shirt worn by a young man I guess was in his early 20s. It depicted Seán South, one of the “Soldiers of Folly” who died in a most ill-judged IRA attack on an RUC police barracks in the North on January 1, 1957, far from his native city.

Up to now, Ireland’s plans to tackle the fallout from climate change have been largely on paper.

It started without any declaration of war and ended without any kind of peace deal. Yet the Irish Civil War – which ceased precisely 100 years ago tomorrow – framed much of the fledgling Irish State’s day-to-day life for the following century.

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For 30 years, I have listened to recurring warnings that a succession of Irish governments want to march the cream of Ireland’s youth into the ranks of an EU army.

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