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Irish Times - Opinion

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

10 hours ago

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

10 hours ago

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

10 hours ago

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

1 day ago

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

1 day ago

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

1 day ago

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

2 days ago

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

3 days ago

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

3 days ago

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

4 days ago

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

4 days ago

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

5 days ago

Unionists have begun to think of themselves as a minority

5 days ago

Loyalists who burn people out of their homes are firebombing their own political futures

6 days ago

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

6 days ago

Elon Musk conjures up a fantasy for Wall Street and a nightmare for Belfast

7 days ago

Ask for help, people with mental health struggles are always told. Often there is none

10 hours ago

Can post-Brexit Britain become governable?

10 hours ago

Why underground bins wouldn't solve Dublin's waste problem

10 hours ago

The three-day wait, and condescension towards women seeking abortions

10 hours ago

To walk or to fly

10 hours ago

How much Beckett can one man take? Denis McClean goes to Venice to find out

21 hours ago

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

20 hours ago

Alan Greenspan leaves a mixed legacy and some key lessons

21 hours ago

Ireland's universities are moving up the rankings, but funding questions remain

1 day ago

Ireland must learn the lessons from the energy price shock

1 day ago

Dublin-based firms are also part of the military complex

1 day ago

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

2 days ago

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

2 days ago

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

3 days ago

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

3 days ago

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

4 days ago

Today's Makerfield byelection could be seismic for Ireland

3 days ago

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

7 days ago

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

7 days ago

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

7 days ago

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

8 days ago

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

8 days ago

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

8 days ago

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

9 days ago

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

9 days ago

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

10 days ago

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

12 days ago

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

13 days ago

District heating schemes could dramatically reduce Ireland's energy bills

14 days ago

Debate: Should Ireland start getting ready to go nuclear?

14 days ago