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Dónal Hassett

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Dr Dónal Hassett is a Lecturer in the Department of French at UCC

The polls are saying Socialist Party candidate Anne Hidalgo has little chance of beating incumbent Emmanuel Macron in this year's French presidential election.

Why left-wing parties are in a dire situation in France

The collapse in popularity of the left in France has created a political crisis for once dominant parties

Politics • 09 Feb 22

Eric Zemmour: the man who is causing consternation across the French political spectrum. Photo: Chesnot/Getty Images

How Éric Zemmour is shaking up the French presidential election

While the journalist turned polemicist has yet to declare his candidacy, Zemmour has already turned the polls upside down

Politics • 15 Oct 21

Ahmad Tawfiq Al-Madani in 1950. Photo: Photo12/UIG/Getty Images

How the War of Independence inspired an Algerian nationalist

For Ahmad Tawfiq Al-Madan, Ireland was an inspirational story of a small nation that won its freedom from the world's most powerful empire

History • 21 Aug 20

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The strange tale of the Irish republicans and François Mitterrand

How the "Irish of Vincennes" affair in 1982 caused a major political scandal for the French president

History • 25 Mar 20

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