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Irish Times - Opinion

Europe can't have it both ways on migration

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

4 hours ago

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

5 hours ago

The Danube ran dry, and revealed an overblown metaphor

5 hours ago

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

1 day ago

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

1 day ago

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

2 days ago

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

3 days ago

Government must stop enabling Sinn Féin's threats to Stormont

3 days ago

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

4 days ago

How animals behave in a solar eclipse is extraordinary

4 days ago

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

5 days ago

Do you sit on the fence? It could be your Irish Mind (but I'm not sure)

6 days ago

Three children were failed so badly, a judge found Tusla in contempt of court

8 days ago

Most of Ireland's big targets on housing, infrastructure and families are stuff of fiction

8 days ago

Norma Foley's tradwives awareness campaign is absurd

8 days ago

I am contacting you to let you know I have had enough of reaching out

1 day ago

School counselling service shelved because Government prefers cheapest option

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Nonstop hitchhiking across Continent – and a timely warning

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Joining the dots on Ireland's vast network of bog and forestry roads

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Childless people are being overly taxed by inheritance tax

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Out of this world: Cian Flaherty on a shared experience of the solar eclipse

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Ireland's towns are being hollowed out. A new vision is required

1 day ago

Nigel Farage's facile victory in Clacton may not be his last byelection this year

1 day ago

Ireland's economy depends on the security of its financial systems

2 days ago

Re-turn needs to come clean on executive and board pay

2 days ago

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

11 hours ago

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

4 hours ago

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

1 day ago

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

1 day ago

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

2 days ago

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

2 days ago

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

3 days ago

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

4 days ago

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

5 days ago

Encouraging public servants to take more risks is a terrible idea

5 days ago

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

5 days ago

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

6 days ago

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

7 days ago

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

7 days ago

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

7 days ago

Limerick's experiment with a directly elected mayor may be last of its kind

7 days ago

The number of Pioneer pins has fallen – but so too has alcohol consumption

7 days ago

Netanyahu's career may be coming to a close, but what follows will not be much better

9 days ago

An 18m crater on the Moon is the smallest of our Elon Musk-shaped problems

9 days ago

When I briefly left home to go to a refuge, my housing assistance payment was stopped

10 days ago