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Irish Times - Opinion

Politicians are bad at the internet. Just look at Simon Harris's TikTok

12 hours ago

Europe is in danger of becoming a plaything, not a player

15 hours ago

We should be very worried about AI taking over the classroom

1 day ago

Lucy Michael: Ireland's Taser pilot is bad science and bad policy

2 days ago

Real loser in row over EU observer status for Northern Ireland is the centre ground

15 hours ago

We already had a perfectly good term for 'rage bait' – it's hate speech

1 day ago

Trump isn't a peace maker, he's a piece taker

1 day ago

Eurovision glitz is part of Israel's claim to be European – and that matters

2 days ago

Culture wars have come for Dublin's Winter Lights festival

3 days ago

The Complex is 'the only place that does it all': Dublin can't let another arts venue vanish

3 days ago

Ireland dodged a bullet this year. But there's a caveat

4 days ago

Leaving Cert AI reforms risk making a mockery of the principle of equality

4 days ago

In Ireland, the 'working poor' will determine future elections

5 days ago

I would not quite say I admire Enoch Burke, but I do find him weirdly impressive

5 days ago

Irish fretting about the triple lock seems faintly ridiculous in light of Russia threat

5 days ago

If we're going to start renaming everything, we should dename Ireland

6 days ago

Letters to the Editor, December 11th: On curbing traffic congestion, the Kenova report and standing up for yourself

20 hours ago

A ban on social media

21 hours ago

Letters to the Editor, December 10th: On missed opportunities to promote food culture, weather warnings and vanishing venues

1 day ago

Abuse victims and sentencing

1 day ago

Letters to the Editor, December 9th: On vulnerable Ireland, supporting Ukraine and some M50 suggestions

2 days ago

'He never said that': Frank McNally is tired of hearing a phantom WB Yeats quote

2 hours ago

Trump's new security strategy is a wake-up call for Europe

31 minutes ago

Extending nitrates derogation is a road to ecological disaster

1 hour ago

Kenova report shows some lives in Northern Ireland were considered to be expendable

1 day ago

International confidence in Ireland's public finances must be protected

1 day ago

Mindful gifting need not make Christmas earnest and boring

1 day ago

'Rage bait' is an apt word of the year for 2025. Anger can be good

3 days ago

Tolls, buses and remote working: The short-term solutions to M50 gridlock

3 days ago

Christmas rituals assume women have endless free time

4 days ago

Bringing the Ukraine war to its endgame is going to mean messy compromises

4 days ago

Alice Leahy: I have learned there is no single story about being homeless

4 days ago

Ireland is brilliant at identifying problems and terrible at solving them

5 days ago

We can't keep objecting to wind farms 10km out to sea if we want Ireland to progress

6 days ago

PR campaigns are not enough to stop people dying on our roads. Here is what we need to do

4 days ago

Jack Chambers needs to tackle the culture issues in his own department

9 days ago

Ireland has a choice on migration: Follow the UK into the vortex or hold on to its values

10 days ago

Chief Rabbi: Move to erase Chaim Herzog's name and history is cruel hammer blow

10 days ago

ICC judges wanted Netanyahu arrested. Now they're being targeted by Trump

11 days ago

A short document with an enduring message: we belong to a single family with one origin and goal

11 days ago

A neuropsychologist's view: Arne Slot seeded a 'loser effect' in Liverpool. Here's how to fix it

12 days ago

In a normal country, Donald Trump and Steve Witkoff would be tried for treason

12 days ago

Rich are getting richer, poor are getting poorer and the middle class is disappearing

13 days ago

Ambassador Edward Walsh: Ireland's future is to be a bridge and interpreter between US and Europe

14 days ago

Judicial reviews are not the problem – and deregulation is no answer

15 days ago

How different it would be if politicians had to use public transport

16 days ago