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Irish Times - Opinion

Fractures on the left may define next phase of politics

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A party that cannot get a tenth of the vote in Dublin or Galway retains power. This is dangerous

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Should Ireland copy the UK's generational ban on smoking?

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There is little interrogation of public spend on car parking amid bike shelter angst

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Women's role in boycotts: 'No woman in Ballinrobe would dream of washing him a cravat'

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Struggling to get your children off Fortnite? There's a reason for that

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Fewer people are having babies. Could smartphones be the reason?

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Ireland is facing a cocktail of uncertainty - two key signs this week need to be heeded

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Who would want the most difficult job in Ireland? Quite a few people

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Residents, not tourists, are the best way to re-energise our cities

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The best exam essay I read this year was an angry – and refreshingly human – one

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To call Irish people anti-Semitic is a collective punch to the stomach

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UK's 'generational ban' on tobacco will give Dublin a headache

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Christopher Nolan's Odyssey isn't evidence of a cultural void. It's the opposite

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Trump accuses his opponents of treason. But it's clear who the real traitor is

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It's hard to work up any outrage about yet another grubby payments controversy at RTÉ

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Gerry Hutch and Bertie Ahern performed 'Lanigan's Ball racism'

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More annoying expressions

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Resistance to meaningful sanctions on Israel raises question about economic complicity

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Data centre demands vs energy conservation

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Ireland can learn a lot from Italy's value-for-money health spend

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What the Dublin Central and Galway West byelections' results tell us

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Beyond words: Denis McClean on how music is helping Palestinian children to heal

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Iceland is considering EU membership, but its population is divided

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There is no easy way for the UK to undo the damage of Brexit

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Pope's plea for regulation of AI should be heeded

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Amazon's 'flying rivers' are reaching a tipping point

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Byelections showed increasingly fractured politics with dangerous consensus on one issue

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Ireland's politics of strategic ambiguity served us well – until it didn't

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Tech workers are so well paid, many don't bother to join a union. That's going to change

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Presbyterian Church is celebrating 100 years of women in leadership

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The paradox of Donald Trump: his popularity has tanked, yet he remains untouchable

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Why does this cheery, propulsive love song make me feel so wretched?

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Ironic that data centres are contributing to job cuts in the world's data centre capital

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Two-thirds of Ireland's wild bird species are in danger. So are the rules protecting them

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We finally know how much money shapes Irish elections

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These figures tell the real story of Fianna Fáil's impact on housing

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As smart cities reduce car use, Ireland goes all in

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Under-16s say a social media ban won't work. The Government needs to listen to them

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We're all 'doing phone'. It's no way to spend a life

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One year into his papacy, it's clear Pope Leo will be no quiet American

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Boycott is a pernicious strategy silencing Jews, Israelis and Palestinians

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How did Nigel Farage go from crank to bookies' favourite for prime minister after the next election?

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What the three-pin plug teaches us about gender equality

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People in Ireland want to know where our money goes. The answer is depressing

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Ireland's nuclear debate generates a lot of hot air but no clean energy

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