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Irish Times - Opinion

A realistic emergency preparedness booklet would say 'prepare for a slow decline'

5 hours ago

Ireland's failure premium: All the property schemes do one thing. It's not help buyers

6 hours ago

Do data centres pay their own way? The answer is not straightforward

6 hours ago

'He was only 88': There is a cosy familiarity to Irish funerals

12 hours ago

People who get up early were left disappointed by Varadkar. Harris is ready to try again

6 hours ago

There is a landmine posing a big danger to next month's budget

20 hours ago

We need leaders with the courage of a Kennedy or a de Gaulle

1 day ago

Death of Ireland's nightlife is yet another reason for young people to leave

23 hours ago

Frank McDonald was critical of Dublin because he believed it was 'well worth fighting for'

2 days ago

Northern nationalists are right to detect bias from their counterparts in the Republic

2 days ago

What now for the Israel flags flying across the North?

3 days ago

The Anglo-Irish relationship is best explained by a scene in Mad Men

3 days ago

It is not racist to have concerns about economic migrants abusing asylum laws

4 days ago

An obscene national exercise: Ireland tries to assuage Donald Trump's toddler volatility

4 days ago

The jihadists who inspired 9/11 have something in common with Donald Trump

5 days ago

The Magaverse is echoing the language of Ireland's most pro-data centre party

5 days ago

Falling standards are falling standards

1 day ago

Senator's travel expenses

1 day ago

Children and young people need offline support as well as online protection

1 day ago

Moving the goalposts on citizenship rules is deeply unfair

1 day ago

Remembering Frank McDonald

1 day ago

A leisurely visit to the Bayeux tapestry when it was still in Normandy

1 day ago

This weekend Ireland plays host to the worst president Americans have ever elected

1 day ago

Equality has been deferred in the GAA

1 day ago

After 25 years, 9/11 still casts a long shadow

2 days ago

The Irish Times view on interest rates: a slow squeeze on borrowers

2 days ago

Both men and women built the GAA. It's time women were given equal treatment

1 day ago

My funny Irish-American mother would be appalled by the things done in her name since 9/11

2 days ago

Jim O'Callaghan can look to UK to see if making life hard for immigrants helps integration

3 days ago

Germany's past crashes into the present

4 days ago

Here is something you do not often see: an optimistic column on the climate crisis

5 days ago

The HSE has been ordered to destroy some patient records. This is wrong

4 days ago

Shannon is a symptom of the failure to decentralise the State

6 days ago

Gardaí spending their time peering at NCT discs is one symptom of a wider problem

5 days ago

Why I walked away from the Leaving Cert maths reform group

6 days ago

A diplomat's advice on how Ireland should approach Trump's visit

7 days ago

Northern Ireland has had several false dawns, but fleadh felt like a turning point

7 days ago

I don't regret running for president. I do regret the sectarian undercurrent it exposed

8 days ago

One in three can't afford to benefit from Government's regressive new investment scheme

8 days ago

Europe does not need Patrick Collison to 'fix' it

10 days ago

Children are turning to AI for advice. We have terrifying examples of where this can lead

11 days ago

How worried should we be about this year's 'Super-Duper El Niño'?

12 days ago

Should new citizens have to pass a language test? Peadar Tóibín vs Neil Bruton

12 days ago

Many people who use crack cocaine are presenting in shocking conditions

13 days ago

'De-demonisation' of Europe's far right clears ground for resurgence of fascist ideas

13 days ago

I felt only confusion − even shame − about every choice I made as a parent

14 days ago