# Michael Collins

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# finding their feet

"It's a bear pit" - 100 days in, our newest TDs talk the hours, income, and oddities that come with Dáil life

There are a huge amount of first-time TDs in the 32nd Dáil. Here’s how they’ve been finding life in their new home.

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Jun 5th 2016, 8:30 AM

# we go again

Dáil to vote for Taoiseach for the fourth time tomorrow

Some independent TDs are unhappy that certain items have been omitted from the draft document for government.

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May 5th 2016, 3:40 PM

# midweek movie

14 very Irish tweets about Michael Collins last night

The whole country was watching.

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Mar 17th 2016, 9:19 AM

# Interview

Neil Jordan: 'The kind of movies I'm known for making, they don't make them anymore"

We speak to the Oscar-winning director about Michael Collins, 20 years on.

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Feb 26th 2016, 8:00 PM

# dev

This Alan Rickman story from the set of Michael Collins is just so Irish

Dev, ye bollix.

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Jan 14th 2016, 6:20 PM

# green white and gold

Fan's tricolour depicts Jon Walters as another great Irish leader

The Stoke City man is dressed in full uniform as Michael Collins.

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Dec 11th 2015, 1:19 PM

# Michael Collins

9 very Irish cocktails every Irish person needs to try at least once

“One Mai Tai Baiii, please.”

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Nov 26th 2015, 12:09 PM

# Carrickmines

"We're going 'mother of God, how are we going to survive in this country?'"

Actor Michael Collins speaks to us about Traveller life in Ireland, and his latest role.

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Oct 24th 2015, 10:00 PM

# new to market

A Dublin home used by Michael Collins as a safe house is for sale...

And it’s really very swanky.

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Oct 15th 2015, 12:34 PM

# Lost and Found

These Irish fans pulled off a prank on the big screen before the rugby match in London

Would Michael Collins and Padraig Pearse please make their way to lost and found?

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Sep 27th 2015, 4:26 PM

# Your Say

Poll: Is too much being done to commemorate the 1916 Rising?

A commemorative event was held in west Cork for Michael Collins yesterday.

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Aug 24th 2015, 9:23 AM

# pres ref

Michael Collins would've been too young to run for president. Welcome to #PresRef

Yes vote campaigners say that age is no measure of experience.

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May 4th 2015, 6:30 PM

# 2016 commemorations

The government is going to buy the historic Moore Street site

Numbers 14-17 Moore Street have been designated as a site for a Commemorative Centre.

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Mar 31st 2015, 7:15 PM

# Criticism

Leo: Gerry Adams has quite an opinion of himself

“This is a man who likes to compare himself to Mandela, he is now comparing himself to Michael Collins.”

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Nov 13th 2014, 9:42 AM

# Shinner dinner

Gerry Adams's gunpoint comments 'a barely concealed threat to the modern media'

The Sinn Féin president will not withdraw remarks made at a fundraising dinner in New York last week.

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Nov 12th 2014, 3:43 PM

# house of cards

Blood-soaked hands of Michael Collins in Young Fine Gael recruitment poster is 'satire'

The poster is a take-off of the popular Netflix drama House of Cards.

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Sep 15th 2014, 4:57 PM

# Remembrance

Grand nieces of Michael Collins present his death mask to museum

A ceremony was held at the Cathal Brugha Barracks yesterday to mark Collins’ death in 1922.

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Aug 23rd 2014, 2:49 PM

# The Big Fella

Public urged to join "ramped up" Michael Collins commemoration today

The event will be the first attended by the Defence Forces in recent decades.

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Aug 17th 2014, 7:30 AM

# Breaking up is hard to do

'Bombshell' Fianna Fáil split in Limerick after election success

Four councillors have broken away from the party, meaning it no longer has a majority across the city and county council.

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May 30th 2014, 3:10 PM

Voices

Video column: The Writer – the life and work of Tim Pat Coogan

As part of a series of interviews with Dubliners, journalist Eoin Lynch and photographer Deirdre Brennan speak to writer and journalist Tim Pat Coogan.

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May 18th 2014, 7:30 PM

# The Big Fella

The REAL story of the assassination of Michael Collins

Everything you know is a lie.* (*Not really)

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May 4th 2014, 12:30 PM

# From the Archives

Video: Watch Michael Collins address a crowd before it gets broken up by gunshots

Collins gives an impassioned speech before shots are fired and some fights break out.

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Apr 20th 2014, 10:15 AM

# civil war politics

Seven life-sized roadside posters of Michael Collins stolen in Kilkenny

The chairperson of the Kilkenny Musical Society said feelings on this time in Irish history still run high in certain quarters.

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Mar 25th 2014, 9:45 PM

# Irish Film

Charming video asks people to name their favourite Irish film

Into The West? Michael Collins? The Snapper? We can’t decide.

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Mar 4th 2014, 2:32 PM

# Smithwick Tribunal

'Insulting, offensive, quite outrageous': Sinn Féin criticised over Smithwick response

The party is under pressure this morning over its response to the report of the Smithwick Tribunal which found collusion over the murder of two RUC officers by the IRA.

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Dec 5th 2013, 9:54 AM

# Michael Collins

Defence Forces celebrate birthday of Michael Collins

Visitors to the barracks in Cork will have an opportunity to see armoured fighting vehicles including the ‘Sliabh na mBan’, which accompanied Collins at the Béal na mBláth ambush in 1922.

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Oct 16th 2013, 7:15 AM

# rebel week

Fury in Cork as brochure calls Michael Collins a 'langer'

The brochure with the reference to the Irish revolutionary leader has since been withdrawn from circulation.

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Oct 1st 2013, 10:57 AM

# in remembrance

Defence Forces unveils memorial to Michael Collins

On the anniversary of his death, Collins’ grand-niece unveiled the memorial and placed a wreath.

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Aug 22nd 2013, 2:40 PM

# great irish journeys

Michael Collins' heartbreak and naivety explored in new documentary

The final journey of the ‘big fella’ is travelled by the RTÉ broadcaster John Creedon in a programme to be shown this evening.

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Jul 21st 2013, 8:15 AM

# Talking tax

Senators insists Ireland IS a tax haven, despite ambassador’s letter

Carl Levin and John McCain have dismissed the Irish ambassador’s account of Ireland’s corporate tax system.

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May 31st 2013, 5:01 PM

# coola boola

Fran from Love/Hate is back... in this new Irish movie

The first clip from King of the Travellers shows a sulky race on Dublin streets.

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Mar 11th 2013, 10:04 AM

# Famous son

Liam Neeson awarded freedom of his home town Ballymena

The 60-year-old says despite his globetrotting and international fame, he remains “99.9 per cent Ballymena”.

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Jan 28th 2013, 8:14 PM

# Back to Work

Hillary Clinton returns to work, to meet with American ambassador to Ireland

Following a series of health problems including a blood clot in her head, the US Secretary of State has a full schedule this week ahead of her departure later this month.

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Jan 7th 2013, 10:27 AM

# review 2012

First Irish TV, Titanic, a famous ceiling: the big anniversaries of 2012

The Titanic disaster, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Anglo-Irish Treaty: 2012 has been a big year for commemorations. Here’s your guide to the bigger commemorations held this year.

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Dec 26th 2012, 7:47 PM

# Historic

Free State came into being 90 years ago this week

Flashback to the turbulent beginning of Saorstát Éireann, which was hurtling towards civil war even as it gained statehood.

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Dec 9th 2012, 7:45 AM

# Michael Collins

First military census shows pressures faced by 1922 army

Head of the new National Army Michael Collins faced serious administrative challenges as new force took over British barracks.

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Nov 13th 2012, 8:23 AM

# History

How holy ‘apparitions’ pressed pause on War of Independence

Visitations of the Virgin Mary to a teenage boy and ‘bleeding’ statues in Templemore, Co Tipperary seized the country – even causing Michael Collins to get involved in the mysterious case.

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Nov 4th 2012, 8:45 AM