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Irish Times - Opinion

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

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

15 hours ago

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

15 hours ago

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

15 hours ago

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

15 hours ago

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

1 day ago

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

2 days ago

Government must stop enabling Sinn Féin's threats to Stormont

2 days ago

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

3 days ago

How animals behave in a solar eclipse is extraordinary

3 days ago

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

4 days ago

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

5 days ago

Norma Foley's tradwives awareness campaign is absurd

7 days ago

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

7 days ago

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

7 days ago

People who already have homes are denying them to others

7 days ago

Nonstop hitchhiking across Continent – and a timely warning

15 hours ago

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

15 hours ago

School counselling service shelved because Government prefers cheapest option

15 hours ago

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

15 hours ago

Childless people are being overly taxed by inheritance tax

15 hours ago

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

1 day ago

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

15 hours ago

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

1 day ago

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

2 days ago

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

2 days ago

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

1 day ago

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

1 day ago

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

2 days ago

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

3 days ago

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

4 days ago

Encouraging public servants to take more risks is a terrible idea

4 days ago

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

5 days ago

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

5 days ago

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

6 days ago

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

6 days ago

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

6 days ago

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

6 days ago

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

6 days ago

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

8 days ago

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

8 days ago

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

9 days ago

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

10 days ago

Ireland needs better hostels and more serviced camping sites

11 days ago

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

11 days ago

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

12 days ago