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Irish Times - Opinion

Focus on alleviating abuse survivors' suffering, not documenting harm

10 hours ago

Some fans won't forgive Jérémy Doku. Others will think he has real courage

7 hours ago

Keir Starmer made bad choices. Micheál Martin avoids choices altogether

11 hours ago

Security gaps leave Ireland vulnerable to foreign intelligence. The State is underprepared

1 day ago

Road deaths are not inevitable. Stop referring to them as 'accidents'

1 day ago

Making predictions about the world a year from now is a risky game, so here are mine

11 hours ago

Brexit launched a new era of 'not even wrong' politics

1 day ago

Underground bins for Dublin: Swap plastic bags for under-street waste collectors

2 days ago

Loneliness influencers: The odd appeal of 'living alone, no friends' diaries

2 days ago

Dublin's Dead Zoo is home to the funniest exhibit of all time. Please let it return soon

3 days ago

Lesson of Swiss vote may be that Ireland can't avoid immigration issue forever

4 days ago

Whatever Simon Harris says, we are far from a 'blueprint' for a united Ireland

4 days ago

As Popeyes opens in Ireland, it's clear we're becoming a fast food nation

5 days ago

Dublin and the east coast are bursting at the seams. Ireland needs another city

5 days ago

Could three glasses of wine derail your life? Only if you live like Steven Bartlett

6 days ago

Unionists have begun to think of themselves as a minority

6 days ago

Idea that some babies and mothers only survived because they went private is a myth

7 days ago

Proposed dismantling of centralised PhD scholarship programmes needs to be reconsidered

11 hours ago

Do we want to upload our personal details to access social media?

11 hours ago

Figuring out the airport cap

11 hours ago

In an increasingly unstable world, a stable UK voice matters

11 hours ago

Cursive Frankenstein – Frank McNally on the horrors of handwriting in middle age

22 hours ago

A litany of horrific abuse lay behind the conviction of Jeffrey Donaldson

21 hours ago

Important signals on house prices from the latest data

21 hours ago

Starmer is the latest UK political victim of the post-Brexit era

1 day ago

Alan Greenspan leaves a mixed legacy and some key lessons

1 day ago

Donald Trump is channelling the leadership style of the ancients, without even realising it

2 days ago

Dublin-based firms are also part of the military complex

2 days ago

Julia is kind, sweet and plans to raise two kids with her partner. There's just one catch

3 days ago

Revolut has had more success in Ireland than anywhere else. It's no mystery why

3 days ago

Glowing references for child abusers are not just offensive to victims, they're dangerous

4 days ago

The US at 250 is an edgy, doom-stalked place, not much in the mood to celebrate

4 days ago

Michael O'Leary's contradictions could fill an aircraft hangar. It's time we called them out

5 days ago

Today's Makerfield byelection could be seismic for Ireland

4 days ago

On Bloomsday, if you take just one message from Ulysses then it should be this one

8 days ago

Trump says US will be 'guardian of the Middle East'. How much more can the region endure?

8 days ago

Europe faces risks from both China and the US - but there are solutions

8 days ago

Some of Ireland's three-seater constituencies were drawn up to keep Fianna Fáil out of Government

9 days ago

If Jennifer Carroll MacNeill means what she says about women's choice, she needs to fund it

9 days ago

Divorce is not the reason many kids are growing up without a father figure

9 days ago

SpaceX is not just too big to fail. It is too essential to be allowed to

10 days ago

An Irish Catholic may be defined in the future as the son or daughter of someone from Manila or Lagos

10 days ago

How did an attack in a nationalist part of Belfast lead to rioting in loyalist areas?

11 days ago

Ireland's asylum system is flawed, but a factory for fast decisions is not the answer

13 days ago

13,633 DAYS SINCE MY HUSBAND WAS SHOT DEAD IN FRONT OF ME. 13,633 DAYS SEEKING THE TRUTH

14 days ago

District heating schemes could dramatically reduce Ireland's energy bills

15 days ago