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Irish Times - Opinion

Sympathy for politicians Michael Cahill and Colm Keaveney is misplaced

5 days ago

St Stephen's Green Shopping Centre would be 'ideal' for a food market

4 hours ago

Sinn Féin is deliberately being obtuse about EU plan to help Ukraine

9 hours ago

Ireland's justice system is operating with too many data blind spots

9 hours ago

Should Ireland introduce a legal 'duty of care' for rainwater?

1 day ago

Have we a right to know where company directors live? A journalist and a lawyer debate

1 day ago

Irish people fail to understand how fragile our electricity supply is

9 hours ago

Tony Blair and Peter Mandelson will go down in history as crawlers and creeps

1 day ago

We talk a lot about the risks of technology for children. What about adults?

2 days ago

Six qualities make you cool, according to science. Trying too hard isn't one of them

2 days ago

We owe Mark Carney thanks for the reminder that the arc of history doesn't bend to bullies

2 days ago

Transgender rights misinformation is the last thing schools need

3 days ago

Is sending Verona Murphy off to Los Angeles really in the national interest?

3 days ago

This is the one thing you'll never hear a politician say

4 days ago

Trump is learning he can't always get what he wants. But neither can Ireland

4 days ago

The world has put too many financial eggs in a country run by a basket case

4 days ago

A new magazine is a reminder that the 'end of the West' isn't the end of the world

4 days ago

Driving lessons in secondary school? Not everyone's convinced

9 hours ago

Children are better off having no contact with parent convicted of a domestic abuse murder

9 hours ago

Time for parents to turn their screens off

9 hours ago

'If a private landlord acted like Dublin City Council, they would be in court and paying fines'

9 hours ago

Pucking for peace: Frank McNally joins the Irish Friends of Canada on a trip to watch ice hockey in Belfast

20 hours ago

The Epstein files fuel the worst suspicions about how power really works

18 hours ago

There are signs of a softening in the Irish jobs market

2 days ago

Strains are showing in the US/UK "special relationship"

1 day ago

Dangerous tensions building in the Gulf

2 days ago

Churches in Ireland are taking steps to be better stewards of what is painful and broken

2 days ago

Blaming Met Éireann for floods is wrong. Who rezoned the floodplains?

2 days ago

Ireland's debate about e-scooters and scramblers is unmoored from reality

3 days ago

'My comrades are struggling and freezing and dying.' Exhaustion is sapping Ukraine's spirit

4 days ago

No, objecting to the enormous wealth of billionaires is not begrudgery

5 days ago

Ireland's reluctance to speak out against Trump's Board of Peace is shameful

6 days ago

Storm Chandra commuter chaos is made far worse by a dysfunctional transport system

7 days ago

Ursula von der Leyen: Europe is not retreating behind tariff walls, but diversifying

8 days ago

Could Ireland be the connecting point for a subsea super-cable linking Europe and Canada?

6 days ago

One man whose family were on Schindler's list chatted with the son of an SS officer

8 days ago

Dublin Bus is offering €15,000 for ideas. Here's one for free: channel Michael O'Leary

9 days ago

Why is Steve Bannon so determined to find an 'Irish Trump'?

10 days ago

Time to restore Brigit's distaff as a symbol of peace and healing

10 days ago

Please Elon Musk, don't make me defend Ryanair

11 days ago

One big idea: Fintan O'Toole, Maria Steen, Joseph O'Connor and others offer a to-do list for Government

10 days ago

Donald Trump's claim that he won't take Greenland by force is not reassuring

13 days ago

Dublin's northside needs a maternity hospital that is fit for purpose

14 days ago

Ireland has much to learn from Pakistan when it comes to scaling up on solar energy

15 days ago

This crisis is not ultimately about Greenland. It's about something much bigger

15 days ago

Four ways to reduce prison overcrowding, without building new jails

16 days ago