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Irish Times - Opinion

Balanced debate on Sitka spruce is needed

17 hours ago

Fianna Fáil created a middle class but has little to say to a generation unable to join it

19 hours ago

Should planning rules for one-off housing be relaxed? Opinions for and against

19 hours ago

Sadhbh O'Neill: Legal or illegal, Ireland's emissions failure will damage the world

10 hours ago

Trump's God complex is not a sign of madness but a belief in his absolute power

1 day ago

Leo Varadkar is seeking and gaining attention. But why?

1 day ago

Do you take the Peig Sayers or the Friedrich Nietzsche view of life?

1 day ago

Is Sinn Féin really any closer to achieving its goals than it was half a decade ago?

2 days ago

How can we square €500 Ryder Cup tickets and a €9bn surplus with talk of a world recession?

2 days ago

How will Catherine Connolly represent those beyond her own ideological orbit?

2 days ago

Could the US go downhill for good following Trump's war on Iran?

3 days ago

The 1926 census has drawn me into a web of wonder

4 days ago

Dear political parties. Now is really not the time to talk about deposing your leader

5 days ago

Unionists and Sinn Féin are like Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael – desperate to be loved

5 days ago

Ireland's governing philosophy is learned helplessness – and it is getting worse

7 days ago

What's driving the cultural obsession with the 1990s?

8 days ago

I loathe Conor McGregor, but I can't lie: something about him intrigues me

9 days ago

We need garden cities, not garden sheds

19 hours ago

The slow erosion of Dublin's historic core

19 hours ago

Child homelessness should be front-page news

19 hours ago

Was Peig Sayers a true fatalist?

19 hours ago

Cultural exchange: Frank McNally on the mutual benefits of being an occasional tour guide

6 hours ago

Pre-sentencing character references must be transparent to the public

5 hours ago

Britain's King Charles cannot repair the " special relationship"

5 hours ago

Trump urgently needs a way out of Iran war

1 day ago

Simon Harris's vague ideas on new energy supports need a proper focus

1 day ago

'Shedsit' garden cabins could become a rental black market

1 day ago

There's a voyeuristic thrill in snooping on others' homes, including Vogue William's pink kitchen

2 days ago

Ireland hasn't vanished over the past 50 years – it has simply changed

3 days ago

Pope Leo is the religious leader non-believers needed

3 days ago

Adi Roche: My nightmare is that the next Chernobyl event occurs at Chernobyl itself

3 days ago

Ireland's population is told it has never been richer, yet it has never felt poorer

3 days ago

Our message is always 'it's not your fault'. Why does society sometimes say otherwise?

4 days ago

In the middle of a housing crisis, why are our town centres so empty?

4 days ago

Plan for new 'inclusive special classes' is anything but inclusive

5 days ago

'Saving the family' is really about putting women back in their boxes

6 days ago

Any battle between Catherine Connolly and the Government will be purely symbolic

6 days ago

This autumn could see the return of remote learning. We need to start planning for it now

6 days ago

The simple text message that helped France cut its electricity usage by 10%

7 days ago

Ireland is 'delivering' more social homes, but that doesn't mean it is building them

7 days ago

Men might have coined the term, but women invented 'looksmaxxing'

8 days ago

Orbán was defeated by a vote 'too big to rig'. Could Trump follow?

8 days ago

Patrick O'Donovan's attack on RTÉ was wrong, but he had a point about the media

9 days ago

Jim O'Callaghan crossed a dangerous line when he threatened to call in the Army

9 days ago

Pope Leo's strong voice finds an audience - even among non-believers

10 days ago

Band-Aid solutions won't cut it in a world of tariffs, reckless wars and Chinese dominance

10 days ago