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Irish Times - Opinion

Enoch Burke v Glen Hansard: Where is the line when it comes to protest?

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

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We are living longer. This is how workplaces need to adapt

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How can Ireland build a nuclear reactor when it can't even manage a children's hospital?

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The US is shooting mirrors into space to redirect the sun. There may be a few issues

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Everyone agrees Irish house prices are overvalued. We're in risky territory

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AI will bring bankruptcies, bank failures and chaos in international financial sector

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Striking lawyers don't tend to evoke much public sympathy

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The Odyssey is so conservative, I am half surprised it wasn't written by Jacob Rees-Mogg

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Kerry's lesson in grace was the GAA at its most sublime

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Trump's most loyal supporters – white working-class men – are becoming disillusioned

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'It is vulgar to drink from your saucer': 37 rules for life by the Christian Brothers

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Why do people in Ireland speak so few languages?

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'Embrace boredom' may not be the winning parenting strategy you think

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Hell is empty and all the devils are in my social media feed

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Is the Irish economy really Trump-proof? We'd better hope so

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Letters to the Editor, August 3rd: On schools and day care, Patrick Collison and wealth tax and e-scooters

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Round and about the roundabout

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Patrick Collison is yet another billionaire using his fortune to protect billionaires

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How are Palestinians meant to supply Government with financial histories for student visas?

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No young person in any special school has participated in an equivalent transition year

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Doing time: Colm Keena reflects on how he has spent much of his career in lovely buildings

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Diplomacy not bluster is needed in response to events in Ceuta

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Worrying evidence of surveillance of journalists in Northern Ireland

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Nama, one of the last legacies of the crash, is no more

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Infantino's reckless move sparks football schism

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The scale of corruption in Trump's second administration is head-spinning

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Risks from Ireland's 'fire triangle' are being exacerbated by human actions

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Micheál Martin thinks voters reward delivery. Simon Harris is not convinced

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Pope Leo is right. There is no such thing as a 'just war'

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Ireland has become a colder house for artists like Glen Hansard

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France accepts that parents have a right to leisure. We should do the same

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Pussy Riot's Maria Alyokhina has a warning for Ireland and the rest of Europe

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My brother was put in the cell beside me. 'Prepare yourself for the worst,' he said

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Mary Robinson transformed what it meant to be president – and former president

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We shouldn't lose sight of the fact that e-scooters are a sustainable transport option

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Decriminalising prostitution would risk turning Ireland into Amsterdam or Germany

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A neuropsychologist's view: This Kobe McDonald comment holds the secret to Mayo's win

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Were this summer's heatwaves caused by El Niño, or something even more terrifying?

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Meet the Irish woman standing at the most visible conducting podium in the world

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Two mentally ill prisoners had to share a cell in an overcrowded prison. One lost his eye

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Human rights defender or dangerous criminal? A German court will decide Dubliner's fate

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Search for the meaning of life is a wild-goose chase

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Aughinish report is thin gruel as Russian demands for Irish alumina ramp up

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There's a bitter irony in the failure of a celebration of Friel's work to get funding

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Lara Marlowe: Robots have brought a 'horrifying intimacy' to warfare

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