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Irish Times - Opinion

What a shameful, disreputable clown Donald Trump is

9 hours ago

Ireland's approach to religious-run schools breaches many families' constitutional rights

2 hours ago

Bad political leadership is blocking Ireland's path to energy efficiency

1 day ago

Help to Buy scheme is a money pit that benefits higher earners

1 day ago

M9 crash: Grown-ups had a role to play in dangerous actions by children

8 hours ago

Irish Government remains silent on a shameful game - and it's not against Israel

1 day ago

Why you should quit the coding job and retrain as a philosopher for hire

2 days ago

Europe can't have it both ways on migration

3 days ago

A brief history of the PDs, Ireland's most influential small party ever

4 days ago

Socialism is happening in Ireland under a so-called centre-right Coalition

4 days ago

What could hunter-gatherer societies teach us about climate change?

5 days ago

How Jason Arday's fabulous life and dramatic fall became a culture war battleground

6 days ago

Government must stop enabling Sinn Féin's threats to Stormont

6 days ago

Political violence was the decisive factor in the creation of the Irish Free State

7 days ago

How animals behave in a solar eclipse is extraordinary

7 days ago

Here's a radical idea for the Government: Start telling us the truth

8 days ago

Aid workers should never be a target

9 hours ago

Finding solutions for motorway carnage

9 hours ago

Women and girls strategy is an important commitment to gender equality

9 hours ago

Palestine: For how long can UN, EU and Irish Government remain bystanders?

9 hours ago

Using the national flag to celebrate rather than exclude

9 hours ago

Frank McNally: My 135km journey in Ireland without a car

19 hours ago

The State's prisons are becoming intolerably overcrowded

19 hours ago

Ireland's electricity grid needs strengtheneing

19 hours ago

Horrific crash on M9 a product of reckless nihilism

4 hours ago

Populist right threat to net zero must be resisted

1 day ago

The Phoenix Park has an identity problem. But there is an easy fix

2 days ago

Ireland needs an agriculture policy. Instead it has an agri-food industry

2 days ago

Twenty years on, Amanda Knox is still in trouble for laughing

3 days ago

Patrick Honohan: Why Anglo bankers were never sanctioned like those at INBS

3 days ago

The Danube ran dry, and revealed an overblown metaphor

3 days ago

Christian Brothers are an easy target but I am slow to stand in judgment

3 days ago

Putin's pact with the Russian people is fraying and his paranoia is deepening

3 days ago

To see the woman convicted of my sister's murder pictured with President Connolly broke me

4 days ago

To manage migration, Europe should help African countries improve their citizens' lives

4 days ago

Why are AI firms bulk buying and pulping books? Because it's cheaper than paying writers

5 days ago

To most, YouTube comments are a cesspit. To me, they're a glorious accidental archive

5 days ago

Ireland's tech workers are learning the hard way about the risks of our economic model

6 days ago

Belfast's fleadh found space for Britishness in a celebration of Irishness

7 days ago

Europe needs to start treating the climate emergency as a threat to our national security

8 days ago

Encouraging public servants to take more risks is a terrible idea

8 days ago

Maybe it's better if we never know the full cost of hosting the Ryder Cup in Ireland

9 days ago

What would happen if Ireland followed Vienna by designing housing with women in mind?

9 days ago

'Spermageddon': The male fertility crisis we need to talk about

10 days ago

The Dunsink plan shows Ireland has a lesson to learn from the Soviets

10 days ago

If Elon Musk is right and AI makes jobs extinct, what will we do with our free time?

10 days ago