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“Just because it’s digital, and not over coffee, doesn’t mean it’s not,” says Niamh Kirk, an associate professor at the University of Limerick.
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Cartoon of the Week: “News”
Coming soon from the government’s Strategic Communications Unit, perhaps? Cartoonist Harry Burton imagines.
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