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Ireland Contracting Nightly Sports Call: May 21, 2026
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May 22 • 12:58 PM EDT • Sports • cbsnews.com
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Stapleton and Nolan return for crucial qualifiers

Jessie Stapleton and Hayley Nolan return to the Republic of Ireland squad for the upcoming World Cup qualifiers against Netherlands and France.

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May 22 • 5:45 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Ireland Contracting Nightly Sports Call: May 20, 2026
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May 20 • 11:17 PM EDT • Sports • cbsnews.com
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Fox Sports Series ‘All In: IndyCar’ From Tom Brady’s Shadow Lion Set For Sky In UK & Ireland

EXCLUSIVE: Sky Sports has acquired the UK and Ireland rights to All In: IndyCar, the Fox Sports docu-series from Tom Brady’s Shadow Lion. Sky is wasting no time in adding the series to its offer, running the first three episodes launching tomorrow (May 22) ahead the Carb Day practice on May 23, which precedes the …

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May 20 • 10:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Ireland Contracting Nightly Sports Call: May 19, 2026
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May 19 • 11:27 PM EDT • Sports • cbsnews.com
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Quantum science in the heart of Dublin

Trinity College Dublin is at the centre of a burgeoning quantum ecosystem in Ireland, and students on Trinity’s MSc Quantum Science and Technology are right in the middle of it all, not only reaping the benefits but also taking an active part in helping Ireland’s quantum community flourish

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May 19 • 4:42 AM EDT • Science • physicsworld.com
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More to come from Ireland after beating Scots

The 2026 Women's Six Nations has felt like another significant step forward for a young but talented Ireland side.

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May 18 • 3:27 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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‘Scazball’ taking Red Roses’ attack into new era

When Amy Cokayne crossed for England’s first try against Ireland, it looked like the Red Roses had reverted to type in the Women’s Six Nations; a forward-orientated game that has been much maligned in the past.

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May 17 • 3:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Diamond League: English wins 800m at Diamond League Shanghai

Ireland's Mark English produces a strong finish to take victory in the 800m at the Diamond League Shanghai.

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May 16 • 9:51 AM EDT • Sports • bbc.com
In a Fracturing UK, Nigel Farage Emerges as Nationalist Nemesis

With the UK government in crisis, the specter of a Reform leadership one day is shifting the political dynamic in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

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May 16 • 2:00 AM EDT • Politics • bloomberg.com
Ireland Contracting Nightly Sports Call: May 14, 2026
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Ireland Contracting Nightly Sports Call: May 13, 2026
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The Business Of “Summer”—How Summer Fridays Built Beauty’s Most Aspirational Feeling

Summer Fridays didn’t just build a beauty brand: it built a feeling. Eight years after launching with Jet Lag Mask, Marianna Hewitt and Lauren Ireland own "summer."

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May 11 • 8:00 AM EDT • Business • forbes.com
Ireland Contracting Nightly Sports Call: May 9, 2026
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May 9 • 11:27 PM EDT • Sports • cbsnews.com
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Wales progress stalls in sluggish Ireland showing

Wales' progress in the Women's Six Nations is halted by a disappointing performance away to Ireland.

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May 9 • 11:23 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
VAR will not be used in European play-off final

The Northern Ireland Football League [NIFL] confirms that the video assistant referee [VAR] will not be used during the European play-off final at Windsor Park.

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May 9 • 9:27 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Ireland Contracting Nightly Sports Call: May 6, 2026
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May 6 • 11:22 PM EDT • Sports • cbsnews.com
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Ireland Contracting Nightly Sports Call: May 5, 2026
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Treble winners Maxwell and McDaniel make Reds return

Cliftonville confirm Northern Ireland internationals Danielle Maxwell and Louise McDaniel have returned to the club after spending last season at Burnley.

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May 5 • 2:31 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Ireland Contracting Nightly Sports Call: May 4, 2026
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'Awesome' Armagh but Monaghan 'have a chance' in final

Former Armagh All-Ireland winner Oisin McConville says that Monaghan "absolutely have a chance" in the Ulster SFC final, despite Armagh's impressive dismantling of Down in Sunday's semi-final.

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May 4 • 3:40 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Renaud to seal summer move to Hearts

Hearts linked with young defender on loan in Northern Ireland as French midfielder moves closer to Tynecastle switch.

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May 4 • 3:02 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Ireland Contracting Nightly Sports Call: May 3, 2026
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May 3 • 11:31 PM EDT • Sports • cbsnews.com
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Ireland Contracting Nightly Sports Call: May 2, 2026
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Ireland Contracting Nightly Sports Call: May 1, 2026
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Lynch unhappy with key calls in draw with Bohs

Derry City manager Tiernan Lynch felt several key decisions went against his side in their 1-1 draw away to Bohemians in the League of Ireland Premier Division.

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May 2 • 3:49 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Punk Politics/Camp Costume is a fashion exhibition curated by (some of my) brilliant Parsons students!

I have the most amazing students. I teach Fashion Journalism at Parsons, as part of its MA Fashion Studies degree, though I have students of all different disciplines throughout the New School in my class — from fine-art photographers to investigative journalists to textile designers. And I learn about all sorts of fascinating things from them, like that designers are adding faux sweat stains to their garments now (part of a trend piece about “anatomy core”) and that real “French girl style” is actually about being “cunti cunta” (aka loud, rude, too much, liberated). So when I found out that some of my students were curating a fashion exhibition opening tonight(!!!), I just knew that it would be brilliant too. Wearable Art is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscribe It’s called Punk Politics/Camp Costuming1, and it’s up through May 10 at La Sudestada, the wonderful gallery and concept store in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. I asked the exhibit’s lead curator, Ella Birney (a talented costume and knitwear designer from Belfast who also happens to be in my class), all about it. This conversation has been edited for length and clarity. Tell me about the idea of this exhibition and how it came about. Ella Birney: For our Fashion Curation class, we had to pitch [exhibition] proposals to our professor, Jessica [Glasscock], and I really wanted to continue on the themes that I was exploring in my BA when I was studying in London a couple of years ago. My BA was very punk-inspired and very political. Everything I do, as you know from my writing, always has a slight Irish, political twist to it2. So in my BA project, it was looking at knitwear as a conveyor for exploring political identity in somewhere like Ireland, where identity is such a point of contention. And looking at the images that I generated from that project, there was something so camp about the whole thing. Like, it’s so playful and in bad taste to do a political message — like a knitted Union Jack — out of mohair. There’s something very camp about that. So that’s where it kind of became punk politics/camp costuming — looking at how from the 1970s to now there’s been protest through costume and clothing. What was your BA in? It was fashion textiles, knitwear. Very craft heavy, which — craft is never taken seriously either. That’s also a kind of spin [on the punk/camp thing]. The Union Jack knit that you made is included in the show — what is camp about knitting a Union Jack out of mohair? The whole ethos of camp is kind of bad taste, doing things that are tongue in cheek and a bit wink, wink, nudge, nudge. Like, this is a bit silly. Everything I do is like, this is a bit silly. Like, being from the North of Ireland, everything you do is political. So it’s like, everything is going to be looked at in a certain lens anyway, so we may as well lean into it. So the Union Jack was because I come from a mixed marriage — Protestant-Catholic. And in the North of Ireland, that’s still a big deal. And even though I’m a Catholic and brought up in a very like Catholic Nationalist family, there [were] Union Jacks [the symbol of the United Kingdom] on my street. So I was like, then I’m gonna make your Union Jack out of knitwear. And then that kind of all linked back to the punk movement that Vivian Westwood forefronted in the late 70s, [with her stores] Let It Rock and Seditionaries. How did you source your items? Once we decided on this exhibition idea, everyone in the class was put to [think about] what do you think can fit into punk politics/camp costuming and finding designers that fit that brief. Me and my co-curators, Dulcinea Flores and Allison Gramando, made a brief to send out — with a mood board and color stories, stuff like that — and then everyone kind of got to work emailing people. We reached out to other Parsons grads. Even through Instagram stories we’ve been able to reach so many people who were like, Yeah, of course, I’ll write something for this, or Please — let me submit stuff. It actually was quite easy sourcing things. … The Parsons thing gets you quite far. What were some great pieces you got? There’s a Brooklyn-based, nonbinary artist called Buzz Slutsky. I can’t even remember how I found them, but I came across this crazy, shoe thing — they had made all these different shoes out of papier-mâché, and the story behind them is so fantastic, so interesting. They were just so obliging, like, Of course, you can have these for a few weeks. I was really happy about that. And then we have art from a collective here called Art Comes First. And they lent loads of really amazing pieces that just tied everything together. You have your Union Jack knit in the show too. Any other pieces that you made? There’s three of my BA mohair knits. There’s the Union Jack. There’s a mohair with the word “No” — which is based on an old political campaign in Ireland that was “Ulster says no to sodomy.” And then there’s another one that is red, white and blue, like the Union Jack, but has the word “Catholic” on it and lots of holy medals. I’m so happy I got to include those. How many pieces are in the show? Between 49 and 52, something like that. A load of clothing and accessories, shoes. There’s a Brooklyn-based Irish photographer who’s given us photos. There’s also a shopping cart that is an art piece by Art Comes First that has gold knuckle dusters as the handles. There’s also lots of T-shirts, original pins from the 70s and 80s that were from people’s dads. I also brought my record player, and all of [co-curator] Allison’s dad’s original albums so everyone could play records. Oh my gosh! Yeah, it’s cool. Anything else you would like to add? If we get to do an exhibition, why would we not make it political in this day and age? I hope that people come. There’s a lot of history, because it starts back in the 70s. It’s not like chronological or anything, but there are historical objects. I hope people come out of it thinking, out of all the really horrendous decades of the 70s and 80s and 90s, all these amazing subcultures happened. There are horrible political times, but there’s art that comes out of it that lasts. Punk Politics/Camp Costume is on view May 1-10 at La Sudestada, 67 West St. Suite 513, Greenpoint, Brooklyn. RSVP for the opening Friday May 1 6pm-8pm here. There’s also a button-making and patch-making workshop and artist talk May 9. Follow the show’s Instagram page @punkxcamp.parsons. Special shout out to all the students who put on this show: Ella Birney (lead curator), Dulcinea Flores (curator), Allison Gramando (curator), Pierre Sanon (lead exhibition designer), Eliana Daneshvari (exhibition designer), Reilly Lowell (editor), Jess Gayo (researcher/writer), Joyce Gayo (researcher/writer), Maria Magdalena Ugarte Montero (researcher/writer), Cassidy Colarik (exhibition press officer), Shelby Shovein (educator), Sarah Mahnke-Baum (educator), Trinidy Coleman (graphic designer), and Leonie Soravia (project manager). Jessica Glasscock was the faculty advisor. 1 The website is definitely worth checking out. 2 This is true!

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Ireland Contracting Nightly Sports Call: April 29, 2026
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The ancient mountain kingdom where fantasy comes to life

They’re Westeros in “Game of Thrones.” They’re “Krypton” in the Superman prequel. The dense forests, twisting rivers and granite peaks of Northern Ireland’s Mourne Mountains have lived many lives and

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The ancient mountain kingdom where fantasy comes to life

They’re Westeros in “Game of Thrones.” They’re “Krypton” in the Superman prequel. The dense forests, twisting rivers and granite peaks of Northern Ireland’s Mourne Mountains have lived many lives and

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Your daily coffee habit may be quietly reshaping your gut and mood, study finds

A new study from APC Microbiome Ireland finds that habitual coffee consumption alters gut bacteria, influencing mood, stress and cognitive sharpness.

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Apr 24 • 5:35 PM EDT • Health • foxnews.com
‘James Joyce: A Political Life’ by Frank Callanan

The writer left his native Ireland when he was a young man, but the nation’s frustrated struggle for independence haunted the fiction he wrote in exile.

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Apr 24 • 11:20 AM EDT • Politics • wsj.com
Ireland Contracting Nightly Sports Call: April 22, 2026
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Shaky political science: using "simulated" elections over real-world elections

[Dear DSOS readers – this article is the latest in our “Shaky Political Science” series. In our 38 page report, “Shaky political ‘science’ misses mark on ranked choice voting,” released in early December, we examined over 40 studies focused on ranked choice voting. We found that many of these studies suffered from puzzling research methodologies, poorly constructed surveys, unrealistic simulated elections, cherry picked data, and faulty analyses that often were contradicted by results from real-world elections (a link to our full paper is here). Here are links to the first three articles in our series: the first one summarizing the overall results of our report, the second one analyzing a study co-authored by University of Minnesota academic Larry Jacobs, which was one of the most error-prone of all the research we reviewed in our report, and a third article showing an admirable example of two political scientists holding two other political scientists accountable for their flawed, sloppy research]. In this fourth article in our “Shaky Political Science” series, we shine a spotlight on seven studies that were web-hosted and funded by New America’s Political Reform Program and its Electoral Reform Research Group (the ERRG is an ad hoc committee headed by New America’s Political Reform Program and joined by the American Enterprise Institute, the Unite America Institute and Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law). This research consortium has been led by Lee Drutman, senior fellow with New America’s Political Reform Program. These seven studies are simply not credible from any objective standard about how political “science” is supposed to illuminate our understanding of either ranked choice voting or politics in general. The feature that six of these seven studies have in common is that they all used surveys – artificial, simulated elections -- to attempt to say something cogent or interesting about ranked choice voting (RCV) elections. None of them used real world data from actual RCV elections – either the 1000+ elections in the US or the many thousands of elections from places like Australia, Ireland and elsewhere where RCV has been used for 100 years. While a few of these studies conclude with some mixed positives about RCV, our analysis here is content neutral. The idea that, with a political reform like RCV, you can ask respondents in a mock, artificial election to vote with that method, with only the barest of explanation about how RCV works or its likely impacts (i.e. no spoiler candidates, majority winners, voters liberated to pick their favorite candidates, coalition-building), and then ask them their thoughts/reactions about voting in that system, with fake candidates and no real campaigning, no real exposure to an actual election or actual candidates, rests on some very puzzling assumptions. The findings of these seven studies actually are contradicted by the findings from many other studies based on real-world RCV elections. These New America studies also failed to list the real-world RCV studies in their own citations, instead including those studies that reinforced their conclusions. The seven studies featured in this article were chosen because they form a cohesive cohort which precisely illustrates one of the main points of our research paper, namely that using surveys, i.e. artificial elections, or mathematical/theoretical models, instead of real-world data, is in fact “shaky political science.” Below are summaries of our analysis of five of the seven New America studies. You can read our complete analysis of all seven studies at our paper, “Shaky political ‘science’ misses mark on ranked choice voting.” Choosing to “Vote As Usual” by Andre Blais, Carolina Plescia, and Semra Sevi. New America. (Blais et al., 2021). This study, web-hosted and funded by New America’s Political Reform Program and its Electoral Reform Research Group, used two surveys in which respondents completed ballots for simulated elections using plurality, approval, RCV and point (Score) voting. In both cases the authors provided the respondents with only minimal explanation of each method. For example, the entire explanation for RCV was “For this vote, rank the candidates from your first to your last choice (you do not need to rank them all). This is called the ranked vote.” That’s it. The study did not provide any context or explanation to survey respondents about why she/he might want to rank multiple candidates. Participants were not even told that ballots would be tabulated using an “instant” runoff, not to mention any description of RCVs ability to eliminate the spoiler effect or liberate voters to rank their favorite candidates without fear of helping the “greater evil” candidate to win. That’s like taking an iPhone back in time to 1970 and asking someone if they like it better than their rotary phone without explaining how it works. Their first survey targeted states that held 2020 Super Tuesday Democratic primaries and used the real candidates’ names in the survey; the second survey used fictitious candidates. In other words, they surveyed respondents who had only ever participated in plurality elections, had no history or background with using RCV or any of the other methods, had no clue about its likely impacts, and did not communicate how the alternative methods would be counted, and then asked them: “How satisfied are you with using each system?” Predictably, the winner was plurality elections, the system used for president, Congress, gubernatorial and state legislative elections – in other words, the method they have been using, year after year, all their voting lives. With so little explanation of RCV and its impacts, this study is simply not credible in discovering anything useful about real-world RCV elections. It merely shows that a basic voter education campaign is needed when adopting a new election system. Additionally, the result contradicts many other post-election surveys following real RCV elections, asking opinions from voters who had just participated in a RCV election, that showed a great deal of satisfaction with RCV (see details on that in Studies 22-25 in our paper, as well as the four studies cited in the review for Study 28). Share Other studies on “satisfaction” and “understanding” make similar mistakes, in terms of basing their surveys on inadequate explanation to respondents and lack of education about context. How could any survey ever hope to measure accurately, in essence simulate a real-world election, without actual campaigning candidates, the media writing about those candidates, organizations endorsing candidates and voters being inundated with crucial information? More than anything, what these “studies” based on surveys show is that if you ask voters about something they don’t know very much about, and fail to adequately educate them, their responses will unsurprisingly reflect their confusion. Equally puzzling is that New America’s Electoral Reform Research Group, headed by political scientist Lee Drutman, found this to be a credible enough study that they not only published it but highlighted it in Drutman’s own discussion of research related to ranked choice voting. This pattern was repeated in study after study featured by New America’s Electoral Reform Research Group. For example in Ranked-Choice Voting and Political Expression: Voter Guides Narrow the Gap between Informed and Uninformed Citizens by Cheryl Boudreau, Jonathan Colner, and Scott MacKenzie, the researchers based their analysis on a survey which found that respondents who were asked to vote in a simulated RCV election, with minimal explanation of RCV or how it works, displayed less evidence of being informed about how to use RCV effectively, with the least informed voters ranking fewer candidates. As pointed out under the study above, in a real election voters are informed by a wide variety of methods, including public education by the election administration, by interested political groups, the media, and the candidates themselves who benefit from voters being aware of how to vote in the new system. In Support for Ranked-Choice Voting across Race and Partisanship by Joseph Anthony, David C. Kimball, Jack Santucci and Jamil Scott, the researchers used respondents from different parties and races voting in simulated plurality and RCV elections, who indicated their satisfaction with each voting method. Instead of using real world election results, the authors fell back on the easy, armchair and less reliable academic research methodology of making up mock elections. As with the other studies, little explanation was given of how RCV works or what its implications might be (electing majority winners or eliminating spoilers, for example). Unsurprisingly, this study found that respondents were not very satisfied with RCV. However, when the authors added an explanation that RCV has a tendency to elect more women and people of color, they found that this greater explanation increased the preference for RCV. The more voters were familiar with it, and the more they understood potential positive impacts – surprise! -- the more they were open to switching away from the status quo. Of note, the results from this study are thoroughly contradicted by a number of other studies whose data was obtained from real RCV elections with real voters. Those studies show a great deal of satisfaction with RCV. More “fake election” research An interesting wrinkle on this “research by fake elections” approach, which only served to illustrate how unreliable such “research” can become, was taken in Ranked-Choice Voting, Runoff, and Democracy: Insights from Maine and Other U.S. States by Joseph Cerrone and Cynthia McClintock_,_ also web-hosted and funded by New America’s ERRG. It gets high marks for creativity, but an eye-roll for thinking this could possibly add anything meaningful to our understanding of real world RCV elections. This study tried to determine whether RCV, plurality or two-round runoff elections provided greater voter satisfaction and acceptance of election results. To determine that, the authors conducted a survey asking if voters were satisfied with a fictional newspaper report of an election, with three different versions given to respondents – plurality, runoff and RCV, with variations of Republican/Democrat winners and variations of “come-from-behind” winners,” i.e. candidates not initially in first place but who win the “runoff.” Again, a minimal explanation of RCV or how it works was given, and the survey showed that respondents had the greatest unfamiliarity with RCV than the other methods. The unsurprising result? Respondents were much more satisfied with “come-from-behind” victories in a traditional two-round runoff election than in RCV, even though RCV is also a runoff system but with a single round of counting. Interestingly, the dissatisfaction with RCV disappeared for those who were more familiar with RCV. In fact, among those respondents who were “very familiar” with RCV, they were equally satisfied with RCV, runoff and plurality. Surprise, surprise. Again, what this study revealed, more than anything, is not only the inadequacy of the explanation for RCV given by the authors of this study, but the failure of the research format itself, thinking that such an artificial mock election could somehow simulate what actually happens in the real world in a real RCV election. Those four studies reviewed above are fitting examples of inadequate and shaky political “science.” Other studies reviewed in our paper from the New America/Electoral Reform Research Group cohort which also used mock elections included: Ranked-Choice Voting is an Acquired Taste by Joseph Anthony and David C. Kimball. New America. (Anthony et al., 2021). Ranked-Choice Voting is No Refuge for Extreme Candidates by Melissa Baker. New America. (Baker, 2021). Also included in this New America cohort is Does Ranked-Choice Voting Reduce Racial Polarization? by Yuki Atsusaka and Theodore Landsman, which actually did use real-world election results data but applied an odd and unconventional methodology to the data which relied on shaky assumptions and non-real-world scenarios that were too divorced from reality. To determine levels of “racially polarized voting,” the researchers imagined “ethnic parties,” by which they mean political parties for each ethnic group, which was especially odd since the election data they were using came from nonpartisan RCV races. But then they made an even odder assumption, namely that since race and ethnic characteristics of studied voters were not available, the authors tried to infer that information based on who voters selected and the racial make-up of voters in each district. This amounted to little more than vague and ambiguous guesswork dressed up with a bunch of mathematical equations used to give it a veneer of scientific appearance. Indeed, it seemed to assume racial polarization in order to prove racial polarization. Based on this questionable methodology, the authors concluded that RCV doesn’t reduce racial polarization. But the premise of this study missed an obvious reality: since RCV incentivizes more candidates to run and can result in more diverse fields of candidates, one would expect more racially-polarized voting in voters’ top rankings, not less, because more voters would have someone on that ballot who represents their racial or ethnic identity and more freedom to vote for their real first choice. By encouraging more diverse candidates and eliminating the spoiler effect, RCV facilitates voting for a favorite candidate of your own race and then selecting a second choice with the best likelihood of winning. The real measure is what voters do with their additional rankings – do they consider other candidates and vote “for the best of the rest”? This study didn’t tell us anything useful about that. But readily available data shows this is common in real RCV elections, and candidates act on this knowledge by engaging with voters outside their racial group. So the authors of this study failed to consider or account for what actually happens in real-world elections, and their conclusions are tainted by this failure. New America has contributed a great deal over the past 2.5 decades to our understanding of many policy areas, including politics and political reform (full disclosure: Steven Hill, one of the authors of this article and of the “Shaky Political Science” research paper and series, is a former senior fellow and former director of New America’s political reform program, 2005-2010). So it was especially disappointing that New America funded and published such a large batch of dubious studies about ranked choice voting. The stated praiseworthy goal of its Electoral Reform Research Group was to inspire new academic research about ranked choice voting that would shed light and help the public better understand the impacts of RCV. Instead, the ERRG research did just the opposite. It produced dubious research that created more confusion and misinformation. In so doing, New America’s political reform program contributed to “shaky political science.” Steven Hill and Paul Haughey Share Upgrade to $5 subscription Thanks for reading DemocracySOS, a reader-supported digital portal for the pro-democracy movement. Subscribe for only $5 per month to receive full benefits and to support our work. Subscribe

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Apr 21 • 9:31 AM EDT • Science • democracysos.substack.com
Britain Politics

Britain's Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Hilary Benn leaves after a cabinet meeting at Downing Street in London, Tuesday, April 21, 2026.(AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

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Sony will require age checks in the UK and Ireland to access PlayStation communication features

Sony is adopting new age verification policies for PlayStation users in the UK and Ireland.

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Apr 20 • 3:49 PM EDT • Technology • engadget.com
PS5 Age Verification Coming to UK and Ireland, Needed for Messages and Voice Chat

Get your phone out

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Dining across the divide: ‘I think property is a right, not a business – he thinks differently because he’s a landlord’

They disagree on the private rented sector. Can they find common ground over a united Ireland?

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Ireland Contracting Nightly Sports Call: April 17, 2026
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Northern Ireland Minister of Health visits Vanderbilt Health

Mike Nesbitt, Health Minister of Northern Ireland, talked with Vanderbilt Health leaders about innovation and community-based health care.

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Ireland Contracting Nightly Sports Call: April 14, 2026
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Ireland Contracting Nightly Sports Call: April 13, 2026
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Northern Ireland swimmers ready to take on best in Commonwealth

BBC Sport NI looks at swimmers hoping to be confirmed as part of the Northern Ireland squad for the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

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Ireland Contracting Nightly Sports Call: April 11, 2026
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Police remove fuel protesters from Dublin center as disruption over soaring costs continues

Police have broken up a blockade in Dublin by protesters who have disrupted Ireland for a week over the soaring cost of fuel.

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Women's Six Nations 2026: England 33-12 Ireland - hosts open title defence with victory

England open title defence with comfortable win over Ireland in front of a record Women's Six Nations crowd of 77,120 at Allianz Stadium.

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Ireland Contracting Nightly Sports Call: Apr. 9, 2026
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Ireland Contracting Nightly Sports Call: April 6, 2025
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Ireland Contracting Nightly Sports Call: Apr. 2, 2026
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Ireland Contracting Nightly Sports Call: Apr. 1, 2026
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Ireland Contracting Nightly Sports Call: Apr. 1, 2026
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How Rubio's and Vance's differing stances on Iran war point to challenges ahead of 2028 election

With both seen as the party's strongest potential candidates in a 2028 primary, the two Cabinet members have to balance their roles in the Trump administration with their future political plans.

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Ireland Contracting Nightly Sports Call: Mar. 30, 2026
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Mar 30 • 11:22 PM EDT • Sports • cbsnews.com
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Two teams, three games, six days

BBC Sport NI looks at how Northern Ireland and Blackburn Rovers manager Michael O'Neill will navigate a unique six-day stretch that will include games against Wales, Birmingham City and a relegation six-pointer against West Brom.

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Mar 30 • 6:50 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Sport NI CEO leaves role after two-year absence

Antoinette McKeown has left the post of Sport NI chief executive after a two-year absence from the role. Chair Gavin Boyd confirmed to employees in a message seen by BBC Sport NI that Ms McKeown had left the post on 24 November 2025 to "take up new opportunities" and the recruitment process to replace her was "progressing". Sport NI, the lead­ing pub­lic body for the devel­op­ment of sport in Northern Ireland, has come in for criticism in recent years.

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Mar 30 • 8:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Who could get Northern Ireland chance in Wales?

After their World Cup dreams came to an end in Italy, who could get a chance for Northern Ireland in Wales on Tuesday?

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Mar 30 • 2:33 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Ireland Contracting Nightly Sports Call: March 29, 2026
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Ireland Contracting Nightly Sports Call: March 28, 2026
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Alli earns first Republic of Ireland call-up

Republic of Ireland manager Heimir Hallgrímsson calls Portsmouth winger Millenic Alli into his squad for Tuesday's friendly against North Macedonia in Dublin [19:45 BST].

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'Growth' for Republic of Ireland despite Prague pain

Republic of Ireland boss Heimir Hallgrimsson says there are plenty of reasons to be optimistic following his side's World Cup play-off shootout defeat by the Czech Republic.

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Ireland Contracting Nightly Sports Call: Mar. 26, 2026
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Coleman sets tone for resurgent Irish before Prague play-off

Before Thursday's World Cup play-off against the Czech Republic, Seamus Coleman eloquently captures the mood inside the Republic of Ireland camp.

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Ireland Contracting Nightly Sports Call: Mar. 24, 2026
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Ballard set to miss Northern Ireland's Italy play-off

Dan Ballard is set to miss Northern Ireland's crucial World Cup play-off semi-final against Italy on Thursday because of a hamstring injury.

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Kathy Ireland Accuses Business Managers of Looting Her Fortune

The model-turned-entrepreneur and lifelong Santa Barbara resident claims decades-long deception left her virtually broke.

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Kathy Ireland alleges decades-long fraud in lawsuit against business partners

Mogul claims betrayal cost her family more than $100 million.

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Kathy Ireland alleges decades-long fraud in lawsuit against business partners
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US politicians attend event to celebrate links to Northern Ireland

More than 200 people attended the event organised by Communities Minister Gordon Lyons.

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Ireland Contracting Nightly Sports Call: Mar. 17, 2026
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ISO Ian Hyland, president, Ireland INC

Ian Hyland, president of Ireland INC, discusses Irish business, investment, and the role Irish companies play in the U.S. economy.

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A Week of Impact: Showcasing Inclusive Health at Special Olympics Ireland Site Visits

A weeklong series of site visits across Ireland highlighted innovative partnerships, athlete led initiatives, and institutional leadership advancing inclusive health for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

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Farage Mega Donor Exposes Vulnerability in UK Politics

Britain’s biggest political donor is a crypto investor and aviation entrepreneur who has lived in Thailand for more than two decades. The £12 million ($16 million) that Christopher Harborne gave to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK last year wouldn’t be permitted in France, Canada or Ireland. If you’re sensing something askew with the UK’s rules for campaign finance contributions, you’re not alone.

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Ireland Contracting Nightly Sports Call: Mar. 15, 2026
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Ireland Contracting Nightly Sports Call: Mar. 11, 2026
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Kathy Ireland sues business managers for allegedly swindling multimillion-dollar fortune

Kathy Ireland accused her former team of fumbling her multimillion-dollar fortune, according to documents obtained by Fox News Digital.

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Casualties and the Cost of War | WSJ Politics Blog for March 11

Plus, the U.S. and Israel at odds over how long the war should last, an erroneous tweet by the energy secretary, and Ireland changes tack for St Patrick’s Day.

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Former supermodel says business managers stole millions

Kathy Ireland and her husband Greg Olsen filed suit in Santa Barbara against their longtime managers.

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Ireland Contracting Nightly Sports Call: Mar. 10, 2026
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EA-Inside Politics Podcast: The Modern Face of Irish America

37 minutes on state of Irish America: its power may be waning but with St. Patrick's Day in White House, can Ireland use it for "soft power"?

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Kathy Ireland sues business managers for allegedly swindling multimillion-dollar fortune

Kathy Ireland sued her business managers for allegedly stealing tens of millions, which left the former Sports Illustrated model in debt after decades of trust.

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Kathy Ireland Accuses Business Managers of Looting Her Wealth

Kathy Ireland and her husband sued their longtime business managers, saying they had looted millions of dollars and left them deeply in debt.

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O'Connor headlines Ireland's World Athletics Indoor team

World indoor and outdoor silver medallist Kate O'Connor and Irish national champion Nick Griggs are named in Ireland's team for the World Athletics Indoor Championships.

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Ireland Contracting Nightly Sports Call: Mar. 9, 2026
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Penguins' shootout woes, March Madness, and a playoff push | Ireland Contracting Nightly Sports Call
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Evan Ferguson’s Roma career likely over after surgery decision

Evan Ferguson’s career at Roma is likely over, as the Republic of Ireland international is expected to miss the remainder of the 2025-26 season through injury according to reports in Italy.It has be...

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Moving to Ireland from US: Everything I wish I knew before I did it

Moving from the United States to Ireland was a great choice, but there are things I wish I knew about housing, savings, and cons before I did it.

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Ireland Contracting Nightly Sports Call: Mar. 3, 2026
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Fin Smith set to start as Borthwick shakes up England

England's entire backline could change from the game against Ireland for the Six Nations match in Italy on Saturday.

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Ireland Contracting Nightly Sports Call: Mar. 2, 2026
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Woodman and Assiratti join Wales' Six Nations squad

Cardiff's Keiron Assiratti and Dragons' Ryan Woodman have been added to Steve Tandy's Wales squad who resume their Six Nations campaign in Ireland on Friday.

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Mar 1 • 7:54 AM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Ireland’s native goats date back to Bronze Age

With their massive horns and furry bodies, old Irish goats are the real GOAT.

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Feb 26 • 4:00 PM EST • Science • popsci.com
Notre Dame MBA’s ‘Grow Irish’ Program Goes Irish - Notre Dame Business Mendoza College of Business

MBA students in the Grow Irish Program work on high-impact projects that provide them with global learning opportunities.

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Feb 26 • 7:50 AM EST • Business • mendoza.nd.edu
Ireland Contracting Nightly Sports Call: Feb. 25, 2026
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NI's Coulter to turn professional in the summer

Northern Ireland golfer Beth Coulter confirms that she will turn professional after competing in her second Augusta National in the summer.

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Ireland Contracting Nightly Sports Call: Feb. 23, 2026
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