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Irish Times - Opinion

A staycation means staying put

17 hours ago

Do character references serve any good in a court system bound by rules of evidence?

20 hours ago

Trauma is ongoing for most children and families in Palestine. How can Ireland help?

20 hours ago

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

1 day ago

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

1 day ago

We must never repeat the colossal damage we inflicted on ourselves during Covid-19

20 hours ago

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

1 day ago

Leo Varadkar is seeking and gaining attention. But why?

2 days ago

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

2 days ago

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

3 days ago

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

3 days ago

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

3 days ago

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

4 days ago

The 1926 census has drawn me into a web of wonder

5 days ago

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

6 days ago

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

6 days ago

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

8 days ago

Disappointing coverage of women's sport

20 hours ago

The pungent aroma of Dublin

20 hours ago

Banks and the 'good old days of reckless lending'

20 hours ago

We must radically reduce dependence on the private car

20 hours ago

Walpurgis Night: Frank McNally on the superstition of April 30th

7 hours ago

The Government needs to ramp up its response to AI

6 hours ago

Time to halt the Children's Science Centre fiasco

6 hours ago

Pre-sentencing character references must be transparent to the public

1 day ago

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

1 day ago

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

2 days ago

'Shedsit' garden cabins could become a rental black market

2 days ago

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

3 days ago

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

4 days ago

Pope Leo is the religious leader non-believers needed

4 days ago

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

4 days ago

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

4 days ago

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

5 days ago

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

5 days ago

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

6 days ago

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

7 days ago

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

7 days ago

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

7 days ago

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

8 days ago

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

8 days ago

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

9 days ago

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

9 days ago

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

10 days ago

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

10 days ago

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

11 days ago