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Irish Times - Opinion

The world has enough countries prepared to go to war. It needs some with no axe to grind

13 hours ago

What could hunter-gatherer societies teach us about climate change?

15 hours ago

Why are AI firms bulk buying and pulping books? Because it's cheaper than paying writers

15 hours ago

To most, YouTube comments are a cesspit. To me, they're a glorious accidental archive

15 hours ago

Ireland's tech workers are learning the hard way about the risks of our economic model

1 day ago

How Jason Arday's fabulous life and dramatic fall became a culture war battleground

1 day ago

Government must stop enabling Sinn Féin's threats to Stormont

1 day ago

Political violence was the decisive factor in the creation of the Irish Free State

2 days ago

How animals behave in a solar eclipse is extraordinary

2 days ago

Here's a radical idea for the Government: Start telling us the truth

3 days ago

Do you sit on the fence? It could be your Irish Mind (but I'm not sure)

4 days ago

Three children were failed so badly, a judge found Tusla in contempt of court

6 days ago

Most of Ireland's big targets on housing, infrastructure and families are stuff of fiction

6 days ago

Norma Foley's tradwives awareness campaign is absurd

6 days ago

People who already have homes are denying them to others

6 days ago

We must kill the myth that Irish independence was achieved through violence

7 days ago

Christian Brothers' pursuit of this cynical legal strategy is abuse by other means

8 days ago

Greenway pedestrians could be saved by the bicycle bell

15 hours ago

Bizarre observation about violent offenders who are mothers

15 hours ago

Public right of way in Irish countryside is being neglected

15 hours ago

FAI 'brave' for not backing Infantino. What about Israel?

15 hours ago

Out of this world: Cian Flaherty on a shared experience of the solar eclipse

2 hours ago

Nigel Farage's facile victory in Clacton may not be his last byelection this year

1 hour ago

Ireland's economy depends on the security of its financial systems

1 day ago

Re-turn needs to come clean on executive and board pay

1 day ago

No end in sight for student accommodation crisis

2 days ago

Belfast's fleadh found space for Britishness in a celebration of Irishness

2 days ago

Europe needs to start treating the climate emergency as a threat to our national security

3 days ago

Encouraging public servants to take more risks is a terrible idea

3 days ago

Maybe it's better if we never know the full cost of hosting the Ryder Cup in Ireland

4 days ago

What would happen if Ireland followed Vienna by designing housing with women in mind?

4 days ago

'Spermageddon': The male fertility crisis we need to talk about

5 days ago

The Dunsink plan shows Ireland has a lesson to learn from the Soviets

5 days ago

If Elon Musk is right and AI makes jobs extinct, what will we do with our free time?

5 days ago

Limerick's experiment with a directly elected mayor may be last of its kind

5 days ago

The number of Pioneer pins has fallen – but so too has alcohol consumption

5 days ago

Netanyahu's career may be coming to a close, but what follows will not be much better

7 days ago

An 18m crater on the Moon is the smallest of our Elon Musk-shaped problems

7 days ago

When I briefly left home to go to a refuge, my housing assistance payment was stopped

8 days ago

Donald Trump is right for once. The EU is soft on slave labour

9 days ago

Ireland needs better hostels and more serviced camping sites

10 days ago

Why is the US engaged in a 'forever war' with the International Criminal Court?

10 days ago

Sardine Girl Summer: Now AI is deciding what we wear. Is that so bad?

11 days ago

We are living longer. This is how workplaces need to adapt

11 days ago

How can Ireland build a nuclear reactor when it can't even manage a children's hospital?

11 days ago

The scale of corruption in Trump's second administration is head-spinning

12 days ago