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I’ve never figured out why we named our familiar paedophile after a comic caricature of a Native American. In 1971, when I entered Coláiste Caoimhín, a Christian Brothers secondary on Parnell Road in Crumlin, he was already, in our surreal…

Consumer sentiment in Ireland weakened slightly in August, pointing to “caution rather than gloom” about the economy and ongoing cost-of-living issues, the latest Credit Union sentiment survey indicated. The barometer’s main index fell to 72 in August, down from a…