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Irish Times - Opinion

Sport cannot pretend to exist in a moral vacuum

19 hours ago

Stop demonising one-off rural housing. Not everyone wants to be surrounded by neighbours

19 hours ago

Sinéad O'Sullivan: People in Ireland want to know where our money goes. The answer is depressing

13 hours ago

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

1 day ago

Nigel Farage's success gives Ireland an urgent deadline

1 day ago

Nigel Farage's success is the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party meme come to life

19 hours ago

How do we get from a cattle fair in Macroom in 1992 to the possible next governor of California?

1 day ago

All hell wouldn't break loose if Irish people were allowed a few cans in the park

2 days ago

I don't want to shoe-shame anyone, but is wearing €500 super shoes on a Parkrun ethical?

2 days ago

What the Dublin and Galway byelections could tell us about the future of Irish politics

3 days ago

If MV Hondius isn't the start of a hantavirus pandemic, it might prove the end of something else

4 days ago

Gerry Hutch is a smart man. He knows what he's doing with immigration comments

4 days ago

Honeymoon for Pope Leo will eventually come to an end. As it should

4 days ago

Iran war is now an international hostage situation - with UAE the hostage

4 days ago

Ireland's squeezed-out middle has had enough

5 days ago

War games in the Strait of Hormuz and debates over nuclear energy – it's the 1970s again

5 days ago

Finn McRedmond: Let's not cling to ugly buildings because a few Dubliners are allergic to change

6 days ago

Picture this: Michael O'Leary

19 hours ago

Creche staffing crisis deepens as graduates face low pay and sector barriers

19 hours ago

MetroLink could undermine St Stephen's Green park

19 hours ago

Climate change: Ireland is big enough to matter

19 hours ago

Remembrance Day: Peter Murtagh on a Wicklow golf club's 100-year-old tradition and a very special trophy

6 hours ago

Iran war hangs over summit between Xi and Trump

5 hours ago

Talks to solve the ambulance dispute need to recommence

5 hours ago

Fianna Fáil reflects on 100 years of pragmatism and power

1 day ago

Rising costs are posing a challenge to Government housing targets

1 day ago

Why is the US conspiracy theorist who championed 'pizzagate' so interested in Ireland?

2 days ago

Ireland appears to be running out of patience with social media firms

1 day ago

I covered the Katie Simpson case from the start. The police failures were appalling

3 days ago

GDP is meaningless. We need new ways of measuring the economy

3 days ago

'I find it too very ugly': The statue so divisive it was hidden in a Dún Laoghaire garden

4 days ago

This is how I got three Irish hospitals built on time and on budget

6 days ago

A win for the Scottish National Party does not mean the UK is 'cracking at the seams'

6 days ago

We are now experiencing the terrible cost of the feedback loops of climate change

7 days ago

Climate under attack from those who thrive on the division of identity politics

8 days ago

Rose Anne Kenny: Why are ages 30, 50 and 70 vital moments in determining how we grow old?

8 days ago

We underestimate the true impact of our dangerous roads

9 days ago

Why do we want to live forever?

9 days ago

When you're in crisis the world is kinder and you're kinder to yourself

10 days ago

The International Protection Act does the precise opposite of what it says on the tin

11 days ago

Attack drones have captured the most disturbing images of war I've seen

11 days ago

Every time we take the easy route and let AI think for us first we risk weakening our brains

11 days ago

The performance of Irishness for outside approval is finished

11 days ago

Aer Lingus flight cancellations: I was not even asked if changed flight date would suit me

12 days ago

This May Day it is important to remember the vital role protest plays in a vibrant democracy

13 days ago

Trauma is ongoing for most children and families in Palestine. How can Ireland help?

14 days ago