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Irish Times - Opinion

Wilful ignorance is not an acceptable dodge when it comes to Aughinish Alumina

13 hours ago

Let's not make the same mistake as the UK. 'Sensible' degrees are overrated

13 hours ago

Oliver Bond residents are suffering the slow violence of State neglect

13 hours ago

'Like the Eiffel Tower': Trump's cage fight plan sums up his presidency

1 day ago

Sinn Féin's opt-out powersharing plan is historic. No wonder it's being ignored

1 day ago

The Leaving Cert is dense, demanding and far superior to the UK's A-levels

1 day ago

No one's laughing at Ireland's unsophisticated 'peann luaidhe' elections now

2 days ago

The US will face a reckoning one day. In the meantime, Trump just gets more volatile

2 days ago

Rotunda's defiance of public policy shows us how some are born more equal

3 days ago

Does your life lack direction? Too much urgency may be to blame

4 days ago

It is no surprise people are inclined towards radical direct action given the level of dereliction in Dublin

4 days ago

Irish senior cycle reforms have resulted in some farcical situations

5 days ago

Maybe we should ask Ireland's small population of Jews what they think about anti-Semitism

5 days ago

AI is moving fast. Official Ireland is not

6 days ago

Mark Carney proves Donald Trump can win elections outside his own country

6 days ago

Here is something the 'soft left' parties need to pay attention to

7 days ago

Ireland can keep pencil-and-paper voting approach and still get faster results

13 hours ago

Questioning the validity of the HSE's autism assessment

13 hours ago

Darragh O'Brien's hypocrisy in full flight with electric vehicle grants

12 hours ago

Leaving Cert needs a rebuild

12 hours ago

Taoiseach is out of this world in RTÉ report

13 hours ago

Soul sanctuary: Frank McNally on 'staggeringly beautiful' library of St Gall

40 minutes ago

Ireland's economic exceptionalism on display

11 hours ago

Government's pilot scrappage scheme is timely and well-judged

23 hours ago

Government's absurd logic fails to make case for data centres

1 day ago

Continuity in Copenhagen as new coalition is formed

1 day ago

One by one, we are losing those who survived the Holocaust and could say 'I was there'

2 days ago

Local authorities must take centre stage in fight against rising toll of road deaths

3 days ago

'An inside job': US public opinion on Israel has shifted

4 days ago

What would a radical alternative look like for this island?

4 days ago

Pope Leo's encyclical on AI is a striking manifesto of Christian humanism

5 days ago

Lack of flood-warning system raises the question: what is the State's job?

6 days ago

Violence against women is increasing globally – and police forces are not immune

6 days ago

Ireland's climate is on steroids. The extremes of recent days will become the norm

6 days ago

This, and worse, is what is happening to Palestinian prisoners in Israeli custody

6 days ago

I'm a school principal. I find it unsettling what First Holy Communion has become

8 days ago

Taoiseach was wrong to dismiss comparisons with famine-era evictions. Here's why

9 days ago

Should Ireland copy the UK's generational ban on smoking?

10 days ago

There is little interrogation of public spend on car parking amid bike shelter angst

10 days ago

Women's role in boycotts: 'No woman in Ballinrobe would dream of washing him a cravat'

11 days ago

Amazon's 'flying rivers' are reaching a tipping point

11 days ago

Byelections showed increasingly fractured politics with dangerous consensus on one issue

12 days ago

Ireland's politics of strategic ambiguity served us well – until it didn't

12 days ago

Tech workers are so well paid, many don't bother to join a union. That's going to change

12 days ago

Presbyterian Church is celebrating 100 years of women in leadership

12 days ago

The paradox of Donald Trump: his popularity has tanked, yet he remains untouchable

13 days ago