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Irish Times - Opinion

Micheál Martin and Simon Harris are not doomed. Yet

13 hours ago

McVerry Trust saga could yet have a happy ending if it forces State to take responsibility

1 day ago

View from Israel: We can only hope Donald Trump is right and the world wins

2 days ago

The Debate: Will the new measures to boost apartment building deliver more homes?

3 days ago

If Catherine Connolly is an enemy of the EU, then Michael D Higgins is too

4 hours ago

Jim Gavin's name on the ballot paper raises troubling questions

12 hours ago

No, the Irish language does not 'belong to us all'. Stop insisting that it does

1 day ago

Donald Trump's image may have received a boost, but he remains an unpredictable renegade

1 day ago

Catherine Connolly should ask Jim Gavin what a smear campaign looks like

2 days ago

Liberals must stop adopting lazy, woke stances on complex issues

2 days ago

A Catherine Connolly presidency would be an alternative to official Ireland

3 days ago

This man spent 15 years translating Plato's dialogues. What he learned is vital for us all

4 days ago

Heather Humphreys tells us she's a people person. Catherine Connolly shows us she is

4 days ago

What is the justice system for if we don't believe in rehabilitation?

5 days ago

Ireland's squeezed middle and stealthy wealthy pick up the tab for wasteful spending

6 days ago

Jim O'Callaghan will bide his time, but the great game is on

6 days ago

Your letters: On Humphreys v Connolly, obesity drugs, and simple acts of kindness

13 hours ago

Does the Irish language belong to Presbyterians too?

13 hours ago

Letters to the Editor, October 16th: On reclaiming the national anthem, the presidency and Asian hornets

1 day ago

Apartment building costs don't add up

1 day ago

Letters to the Editor, October 15th: On giving convicted people a second chance, the presidency and solid hurling

2 days ago

Old Men of the Canal – Frank McNally on the herons of Percy Place

24 minutes ago

How many data centres is too many?

22 hours ago

Politics in Wales is being transformed

23 hours ago

Connolly in driving seat eight days out from election

1 day ago

Ireland must cooperate with neighbours on undersea security

1 day ago

Why is the Government delaying publication of the land use review?

3 days ago

Brian Leddin: Why I resigned from the Green Party over its backing of Catherine Connolly

3 days ago

Will this be the ceasefire deal that finally ends the war?

4 days ago

Trump is deploying the military to wage war against an imagined 'enemy within'

4 days ago

Questions about Ireland's neutrality on the ballot in this election

5 days ago

What was done to Victoria Beckham in the 90s was unspeakable. But are we any better now?

5 days ago

When Soline Humbert announced her vocation to be a priest, she got threats and abuse

5 days ago

I was part of the flotilla to Gaza. I'm proud we didn't let the experience break us

6 days ago

Luke Combs at Slane Castle 2026 feels like a return to the 'will this do?' years

7 days ago

Why are women still treated as a statistical anomaly in health research?

7 days ago

Imagine if Ireland could lay rail tracks as quickly as it builds roads

8 days ago

There's one constant in the chaos engulfing France: visceral rejection of Emmanuel Macron

9 days ago

Deletion of Jim Gavin ads shows we can't rely on big tech for democratic architecture

10 days ago

Jane Goodall modelled the behaviour we will need in a future world

10 days ago

Wild West nature of business of accommodating asylum seekers has been laid bare

11 days ago

Heather Humphreys would bring this one vital quality to the role of president

12 days ago

Tony Blair's Middle East record makes him an extraordinary choice to govern postwar Gaza

12 days ago

If James Browne wants to get 'radical' about housing, here are five things he must do

15 days ago

How the banking system became the main front in the new cold war

16 days ago

The process that left us with only three candidates for president needs an overhaul

16 days ago