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Irish Times - Opinion

Budget day has lost all excitement. It is now an attritional struggle between ministers

2 days ago

There is no dignity in not being able to heat your home

5 hours ago

Paternity leave shouldn't be a privilege only the likes of Simon Harris can afford

10 hours ago

October 7th was a piercing, shrieking alarm call for all Jews

4 hours ago

AI music has become 'the Ozempic of the industry'. Everyone is on it

10 hours ago

Sinéad O'Sullivan: Europe is changing, but Ireland has yet to notice

1 day ago

France is caught in the politics of emergency, oscillating between nostalgia and extremism

10 hours ago

Sinn Féin and the DUP are happier arguing over a parade than agreeing a budget

1 day ago

University education has become meaningless – and now it doesn't even promise a job

1 day ago

It takes a giveaway budget of €8.5bn to not annoy anyone – except Patrick O'Donovan

2 days ago

Like Nikita Hand, Cornell case's Jane Doe is either uncommonly brave or a sadomasochist

2 days ago

Drumcree is theatre of the absurd, straight from Monty Python's Ministry of Silly Walks

3 days ago

A very touching thing happened on Capel Street last Thursday evening

4 days ago

Should I start a message with 'I hope you're well'? If not well, should I say so?

4 days ago

Oil companies profiting from a sick planet is obscene

5 days ago

Middle earners could be €750 better off post-budget, but they may not be impressed

6 days ago

The south sees Drumcree and thinks: we don't want that sectarian mindset down here

6 days ago

Tips from Australia for public transport

10 hours ago

Declining overseas aid illustrates worrying pattern

10 hours ago

Getting up later to avoid extra childcare costs

10 hours ago

Cut costs and abolish Ifac

10 hours ago

Top o' the mornin' to ya: Frank McNally on a piece of Route 66 that is forever Irish

21 hours ago

Shortfall in third-level funding has still not been tackled

19 hours ago

Barbaric US executions must end

5 hours ago

Talks on a new public pay deal need to start immediately

1 day ago

Conservatives in the UK have a mountain to climb

1 day ago

Should every motorway have an HGV lane? Ideas to tackle fuel crisis

3 days ago

The one thing Israel hasn't managed to take from us in three years is hope

3 days ago

Tuesday's budget may be the worst since Charles Haughey's wild spending

3 days ago

This year won't see the end of Trumpism. But it might see the beginning of the end

4 days ago

As a religious teen, I was against abortion. But even I could see the flaws in the logic

5 days ago

Today's Bible accurately represents what was originally written, despite differences in style

5 days ago

Chief Rabbi: All the good that might have come from Ireland v Israel has been lost

6 days ago

Fake listings, phantom bookings and unhelpful bots: Booking.com's credibility problem

6 days ago

Marina Hyde's last Guardian column: 'You have exactly 24 hours to complain before my inbox self-destructs'

6 days ago

Should we pause data centre development? Lynn Boylan debates Malcolm Byrne

8 days ago

What one Kerry road tells us about speed limits and road safety

9 days ago

Benefits of Ireland's solar boom should not go only to the big energy firms

10 days ago

Northern Ireland is staring into the abyss. The peace process is at its weakest since 1998

11 days ago

Here's how to do hot school meals right

11 days ago

Anna Daly: I had a miscarriage. I had one week to grieve

12 days ago

My son has missed a lot of school. Like many parents, I'm not too worried

13 days ago

Is Ireland still a place 'open to everything except for God'?

13 days ago

U2 are sometimes dismissed as do-gooders, but the last 50 years have proven it is no act

14 days ago

Trump media boycott is not the biggest threat to press freedom

15 days ago

Ireland's whack-a-mole approach to defence is profoundly concerning

16 days ago