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Irish Times - Opinion

How the right to plonk a bungalow in your dad's field caused all hell to break loose

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Trump's 'little excursion' could leave Iran even more fragmented, unstable and violent

12 hours ago

Price of our dependence on fossil fuels is becoming clear yet again

1 day ago

Iran now knows Trump's price point: soaring energy prices

2 days ago

Timothée Chalamet is right: no one cares about opera or ballet

12 hours ago

Donald Trump is mad, bad and dangerous. Only the midterms can save the US now

1 day ago

A question some politicians would do well to ponder: where is your shame?

1 day ago

Donald Trump is not mentally ill, but he is mad

2 days ago

In Ireland, we'll talk about anything except the meaning of life

3 days ago

All babies who die in the womb as a result of crime must be recognised as people

3 days ago

Government inquiry into home heating oil and petrol prices is a political diversion

5 days ago

There's no chance of an end to the Burke family circus – and maybe that's not a bad thing

5 days ago

Lara Marlowe: Trump wanted a distraction. So he turned the world into a lawless jungle

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Will Americans want to visit a Richard Nixon interpretive centre just outside Naas?

5 days ago

Disruption to gas rather than oil might hit Ireland most dramatically

5 days ago

UUP leader might have point about an Irish Government apology for conduct in Troubles

6 days ago

Savings habits driven by lack of trust

12 hours ago

Heartening return of Dublin riots Luas tram

12 hours ago

President's criticism is strangely selective

12 hours ago

Greenway decision woefully short-sighted

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Letting the past be the past

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Double trouble: Frank McNally on the dramatic effect of saying the same thing twice

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Starmer and Martin's summit in Cork has much to discuss

21 hours ago

Connolly and the Government are testing each other out

22 hours ago

EU's foreign policy weaknesses will not be solved by von der Leyen's overreach

1 day ago

The Plough and the Stars is an enduring classic with lessons for today's Ireland

1 day ago

We ran the British army. In Northern Ireland, let the past be the past

2 days ago

Here are five ways we can help bring life back to our towns and cities

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My wife, who is not Jewish, asks me if we'll know when it's time to leave Ireland

3 days ago

When will we declare Ireland's road-death toll the public health crisis it is?

3 days ago

'If you have one diagnosis, you end up with 10': Are we over-medicating mental distress?

4 days ago

The Dubai dream is over. Irish expats can no longer suspend their disbelief

4 days ago

Micheál Martin must strike right balance on nerve-racking Washington assignment

4 days ago

Within Islam, Iran is a country apart

4 days ago

Catriona Crowe: The one question women and girls need to ask about sex

6 days ago

The traditional arts degree has had its day. It needs to be reinvented, not dumped

7 days ago

US multinationals will not flee Ireland just because we stand up to Donald Trump

8 days ago

Park & ride and contactless payment: how to fix Dublin's broken transport system

9 days ago

This is a serious blow to the Iranian regime – but it is unlikely to be immediately fatal

10 days ago

A garda sergeant spied on two adult men having sex. But he wasn't prosecuted. They were

10 days ago

A row over horse manure has led to community tensions in my Dublin neighbourhood

10 days ago

Sam Altman's AI comments reveal a distinctly anti-human world view

11 days ago

The Bahá'ís in Iran have been suffering persecution since the 1800s

11 days ago

Simon Harris can't stop announcing his new investment scheme. This says a lot about him

11 days ago

Trump's goal in attacking Iran is unclear. So are the consequences

11 days ago

If Ireland can build a sewerage plant this beautiful, why allow such ugly data centres?

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