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Irish Times - Opinion

Europe can't have it both ways on migration

18 hours ago

Twenty years on, Amanda Knox is still in trouble for laughing

17 hours ago

Patrick Honohan: Why Anglo bankers were never sanctioned like those at INBS

17 hours ago

The Danube ran dry, and revealed an overblown metaphor

18 hours ago

A brief history of the PDs, Ireland's most influential small party ever

1 day ago

Socialism is happening in Ireland under a so-called centre-right Coalition

1 day ago

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

2 days ago

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

3 days ago

Government must stop enabling Sinn Féin's threats to Stormont

3 days ago

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

4 days ago

How animals behave in a solar eclipse is extraordinary

4 days ago

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

5 days ago

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

6 days ago

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

8 days ago

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

8 days ago

Norma Foley's tradwives awareness campaign is absurd

8 days ago

I am contacting you to let you know I have had enough of reaching out

1 day ago

School counselling service shelved because Government prefers cheapest option

1 day ago

Nonstop hitchhiking across Continent – and a timely warning

1 day ago

Joining the dots on Ireland's vast network of bog and forestry roads

1 day ago

Childless people are being overly taxed by inheritance tax

1 day ago

Paper cut: Noel Costello on feeling the heat of this newspaper's former editor Douglas Gageby

5 hours ago

Clock is ticking on whether to reverse fuel subsidies

3 hours ago

Northern Ireland Executive needs new rules to function properly

4 hours ago

Ireland's towns are being hollowed out. A new vision is required

1 day ago

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

2 days ago

Christian Brothers are an easy target but I am slow to stand in judgment

23 hours ago

Putin's pact with the Russian people is fraying and his paranoia is deepening

17 hours ago

To see the woman convicted of my sister's murder pictured with President Connolly broke me

1 day ago

To manage migration, Europe should help African countries improve their citizens' lives

1 day ago

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

2 days ago

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

2 days ago

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

3 days ago

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

4 days ago

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

5 days ago

Encouraging public servants to take more risks is a terrible idea

5 days ago

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

6 days ago

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

6 days ago

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

7 days ago

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

7 days ago

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

7 days ago

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

7 days ago

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

8 days ago

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

9 days ago

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

9 days ago

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

10 days ago