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Irish Times - Opinion

What happens in Israeli and US elections may reshape the Middle East

2 days ago

Referendum needed on plans to ditch the triple lock

13 hours ago

Dónal Lunny didn't just want to play the melody, he wanted to colour it

13 hours ago

Jaded rhetoric and trite stereotypes about neutrality are inflaming triple lock debate

1 day ago

There's a reason comedians like Joanne McNally rarely make good Traitors

1 day ago

DUP's tough talk on Sinn Féin exposes the bind Gavin Robinson's party finds itself in

2 days ago

Tory press is still screaming about the 'betrayal of Brexit', but few voters are listening

13 hours ago

The soldier's reply is more chilling than the image of scavenging dogs

13 hours ago

There is now serious talk about the end of the DUP

1 day ago

Dublin officialdom virtue-signalled about Ukraine. People in rural Ireland did the work

3 days ago

An Irish documentary on a relatively obscure American figure can illuminate so much

3 days ago

What makes someone a murderer? Irish-born philosopher believed she had the answer

4 days ago

Every year, as I get ready to file a tax return, I experience a strange sort of reckoning

5 days ago

Was that a stock market wobble, or the start of something more serious?

5 days ago

Don't mistake protest votes for Democrat support in US midterms

5 days ago

What the British budget tells us about Irish politics

5 days ago

Grandparents can be the first to notice a child's problems

13 hours ago

The one about an article of faith, a dean and a practically Protestant parishioner

13 hours ago

A visit to Dublin city's stores confirms Christmas season is well and truly under way

13 hours ago

Funding higher education is better use of money than repaying bailout loans early

13 hours ago

Pickleball has a ridiculous name and lots of rules. But it's addictive

32 minutes ago

Serious choices ahead in aftermath of Israeli election

12 hours ago

Approaching the housing shortage one bite at a time

23 hours ago

Focused strategy needed for rural Ireland

1 day ago

Budget shows UK is still grasping for growth

1 day ago

Children being denied legal representation is yet another shameful failure by the State

3 days ago

Ireland is set to miss major climate targets. We should be angry

3 days ago

Ireland's left has failed to penalise government for decades of inaction but the right has

5 days ago

Who are the Burke children trying to impress? Could it be their mother?

5 days ago

I love Vinted. I just wish it loved me back when I was scammed

5 days ago

France may calm violence in the short term but it is a country infused with dread

5 days ago

What is the reason for the enduring public fascination with Elizabeth Holmes?

5 days ago

Australia welcomed tens of thousands of young Irish in recent years. That's about to change

5 days ago

Germany offers a stark vision of Ireland's possible future

5 days ago

The Annals of Inisfallen are part of Irish history. They don't belong in a British library

5 days ago

Quiet scaling back of BusConnects is a travesty

10 days ago

Leo Varadkar thinks we should apologise to northern nationalists for partition. Why?

10 days ago

Did the internet really get less toxic after Russian data centres went down?

11 days ago

A food delivery site that promises to deliver no food? At first, I didn't see the appeal

12 days ago

There has been a frightening shift in the way drug gangs intimidate their victims

12 days ago

The 'Irish pope' who was equally disliked by Irish patriots, Protestants and Britain

12 days ago

I was abused by swim coach Derry O'Rourke. The George Gibney case raises similar questions

13 days ago

€43bn should have been enough to build 110,000 homes. Only 27,000 were built

15 days ago

For Houthis, war in Gaza is a chance to strengthen role in Iran's 'axis of resistance'

16 days ago

The 'Liveline effect' will be crucial to resolving the public sector strikes

17 days ago