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Money and clothing aren’t all that can be laundered – narratives are capable of receiving the same treatment. Russia hasn’t only attacked Ukraine, but the information space, with a snowstorm of alternative facts designed to deceive, seed doubt and confuse people.

In times of national trauma, private sorrow becomes public property. It happened in the aftermath of the Omagh bomb, when the grief suffered by individual families became a loss felt communally.

In times of national trauma, private sorrow becomes public property. It happened in the aftermath of the Omagh bomb, when the grief suffered by individual families became a loss felt communally.

In times of national trauma, private sorrow becomes public property. It happened in the aftermath of the Omagh bomb, when the grief suffered by individual families became a loss felt communally.

Kerry and its people have charmed for centuries. Arthur Young, the famous 18th-century travel writer, spoke of their attractive looks – despite their poverty – and the splendour of their landscape in his 1780 book A Tour in Ireland.

Her home was linked with death and destruction, but to writer Victoria Amelina it was much more than the sum of those parts, because she knew it as a place of love, support, friends and companions-in-arms. Her thoughts lingered on Ukraine when she was away from it.

Carr has dedicated his new collection to late friend and former Horslips band member Johnny Fean.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar predicted in the Dáil that “it will be an interactive forum”. Little did he know quite how interactive. Dissenters were pushed and dragged from the room by gardaí. The Tánaiste went mano a mano with hecklers, shouting at them about democracy, even as their voices were silenced.

Remember when women were finally told they could be trusted with decisions about their own bodies? Of course you do – it was only five years ago, when the Repeal referendum returned a landslide Yes to legislating for abortion. But it turns out there’s a yawning discrepancy between that vote and what happened afterwards.

Hardwired into our folk memory is the Famine, which led to a million deaths and another million people fleeing on emigrant ships. The tents pitched in Dublin city centre, containing refugees who felt driven to leave their homelands, call to mind our own generations of huddled masses who travelled in search of a better life.