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Irish Times - Opinion

Closer EU-Canada integration could transform Ireland's place in bloc

2 hours ago

Workers' demands for a cost-of-living package won't be easily dismissed

7 hours ago

Confusion over Holly Cairns's expenses exposes how generous TDs' leave really is

1 day ago

Donald Trump's comments on unity crossed a line

2 days ago

Europe is entering a new phase. Ireland may lose out

2 days ago

Donald Trump is less interested in Ireland than in creating mayhem

7 hours ago

A little boy gave us two fingers as we protested at Doonbeg, and my heart ached

7 hours ago

Sinn Féin's immigration policy will need to be tougher than everyone else's to stand out

1 day ago

Spare me the fury about Sydney Sweeney. What I see here is a sense of humour

1 day ago

Citizenship by descent is not racist, and language tests make perfect sense

2 days ago

Living in Milwaukee with a Mayo granny automatically makes you Irish. Living here doesn't

3 days ago

It's easy to look tough on immigration. It's much harder to build empathy

4 days ago

Rollout of the reformed Leaving Cert should be suspended

4 days ago

What would your last words be? Here are some of the best deathbed one-liners

4 days ago

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

5 days ago

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

5 days ago

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

5 days ago

Nothing funny about the return of sexist advertising

7 hours ago

Stricter rules needed on headlights in era of LEDs, SUVs and automatic dipping

7 hours ago

Any Ireland player who chooses not to play against Israel can be assured of one thing

7 hours ago

Training without mandatory personal therapy falls short of professional requirements

7 hours ago

Asterisked de Gaulle: Frank McNally on the lesser-known, and Irish-speaking, namesake of the general

18 hours ago

AI giants cannot define their own regulatory regime

18 hours ago

Centre-left won in Sweden – but will struggle to form a government

2 hours ago

EU's invitation to Canada: come join us

1 day ago

Why are people not reporting petty crimes?

1 day ago

When almost every fact has a set of alternative facts, good journalism matters more than ever

3 days ago

Donald Trump may have been Britain-baiting, but his statement on unity still mattered

3 days ago

People who would never normally get bail are walking free because of the legal aid row

4 days ago

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

5 days ago

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

5 days ago

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

5 days ago

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

6 days ago

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

7 days ago

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

8 days ago

Germany's past crashes into the present

9 days ago

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

10 days ago

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

9 days ago

Shannon is a symptom of the failure to decentralise the State

11 days ago

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

11 days ago

Why I walked away from the Leaving Cert maths reform group

11 days ago

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

12 days ago

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

12 days ago

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

13 days ago

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

13 days ago

Europe does not need Patrick Collison to 'fix' it

15 days ago