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Irish Times - Opinion

The European Central Bank needs to curb its obsession with inflation

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Trump said something unexpectedly revealing in an old interview with Playboy

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Why I won't be using most SEAI grants to retrofit my house

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Homelessness has been a problem in Dublin for decades

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This week's events brought us no closer to understanding the enigma that is Gerry Adams

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Now that my children live abroad, my uncle's 'bás in Éirinn' has a new meaning

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Ruins of Meath house should be preserved as a monument to Celtic Tiger hubris

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The energy crisis is completely unpredictable – how should the Government help Irish households?

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Trump is stuck and looking for options – an Irish former US adviser warns this is risky

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Entrepreneurial, local Irish business is the real employment miracle in Ireland

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Everybody needs good neighbours. Like Ireland and Britain right now

2 days ago

Dolores Keane's honesty about her demons was as piercing as her singing

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We need to understand the financial cost of a divided society. It might surprise us

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Zohran Mamdani has no opinion on a united Ireland. That matters more than you think

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Louis Theroux's exploration into the manosphere chills the blood

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Nato allies must not save Donald Trump from himself

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Trump's war on Iran could spell the end of the EU

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The Irish rail network's absurd lack of connectivity

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Delivering on housing

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Time to ban greyhound racing

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Dublin tourist tax proposal 'sensible and fair'

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The Irish airman who survived one of the most dangerous jobs of the second World War

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Micheál Martin's good week abroad not matched by vision at home

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One-off rural housing is a symptom of planning failure

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Even with more private supply, the State remains central in rental market

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EU Inc is a useful step forward, but more needs to be done to help SMEs

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Israel's strategic aims, rather than America's, are shaping the war with Iran

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Catriona Crowe: The brave few risking everything to unmask Putin's Russia

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Ireland's plans to deliver housing and infrastructure are a roll of the dice

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Ireland needs to grow up and get serious about its interests

4 days ago

Should the Tricolour be replaced in a united Ireland?

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Maria Steen: St Patrick's Day is a celebration of everything other than Christianity

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Violent aggression against violent repression will never bring peace to Iran

6 days ago

Ireland has long been an outlier in the EU. We've just never had the courage to admit it

7 days ago

The majority of Americans oppose the Iran war. So why aren't they protesting?

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'Even if the US president is an idiot ...' Six lessons from Seán Lemass for today's politicians

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St Patrick's Day celebrations are not a new invention

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How Micheál Martin should handle Trump for St Patrick's Day: 'Lie back and think of Ireland'

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X, C, A, B, MZ: I'm thinking of the lonely alphabet of brave, anonymous women and girls

9 days ago

Ireland's power class has a colonial attitude to the Irish language

9 days ago

Trump's 'little excursion' could leave Iran even more fragmented, unstable and violent

10 days ago

Price of our dependence on fossil fuels is becoming clear yet again

11 days ago

Iran now knows Trump's price point: soaring energy prices

11 days ago

We ran the British army. In Northern Ireland, let the past be the past

12 days ago

Here are five ways we can help bring life back to our towns and cities

10 days ago

My wife, who is not Jewish, asks me if we'll know when it's time to leave Ireland

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