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Irish Times - Opinion

There is something devastating about the words 'Ireland doesn't have a place for me'

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

8 hours ago

Trump media boycott is not the biggest threat to press freedom

1 day ago

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

2 days ago

Why did it take Michael O'Leary 10 days to cop on that his comments on rape were wrong?

8 hours ago

As controversy grows over Leaving Cert reform, Northern Ireland is going the other way

1 day ago

From quiet quitting to iced coffee: What is Gen Z's problem with work?

1 day ago

Donald Trump acts as Putin's puppet for reasons shrouded in secrecy

1 day ago

The new map of Earth is a wake-up call for Ireland

3 days ago

Israel's settlement policy is designed to bury the idea of a two-state solution

4 days ago

The Ed Sheeran controversy made Irish artists the biggest in the world

4 days ago

If AI has a '10% chance' of killing us all by 2030, should I invest in a pension?

4 days ago

My train fare may go up by €606 and that doesn't include the seat

5 days ago

Nobody else is going to turn your child's phone off. But you can't do it alone

5 days ago

Any Celtic crusade against the imperialists in London would be very unwise

5 days ago

Ireland's corporate tax advantage is over. So what's the plan?

6 days ago

Is anyone ever held to account for failures in the public sector?

8 hours ago

Juggling work and children: why the childcare burden must be eased

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Criteria for a Border poll: context is key in Belfast Agreement

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Donald Trump's UN address was an affront to basic decency

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Not just for Christmas: Brussels sprouts tasting better than ever

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Hecht off – Frank McNally on the testing testimony of a brilliant newspaper man

19 hours ago

Regulation of social media always appears to be one step behind

17 hours ago

Fifty years on, remembering the birth of U2

18 hours ago

New Irish Times poll reveals a fragmenting political landscape

1 day ago

Trump has sabotaged the UN

1 day ago

Irish people don't want to live in 'mostly awful' apartments. Here are five ways to fix them

2 days ago

What if Lucy Letby never killed a baby? What if no crime was committed?

3 days ago

What links Ireland to Tuvalu, a tiny coral island on the other side of the world?

2 days ago

It is not the will of God that apartments be built on what may be babies' unmarked graves

4 days ago

When two in five Irish people would 'let it burn', we've got a problem

5 days ago

Meet the Irish-American TV star bishop who is about to be beatified

5 days ago

Why do farmers wield such disproportionate power in Ireland? Look at Leinster House

6 days ago

Confusion over Oireachtas expenses exposes how generous TDs' leave really is

2 days ago

Donald Trump's comments on unity crossed a line. Unionists feel let down

9 days ago

Europe is entering a new phase. Ireland may lose out

9 days ago

When almost every fact has a set of alternative facts, good journalism matters more than ever

10 days ago

Donald Trump may have been Britain-baiting, but his statement on unity still mattered

10 days ago

People who would never normally get bail are walking free because of the legal aid row

11 days ago

Ireland's failure premium: All the property schemes do one thing. It's not help buyers

12 days ago

Do data centres pay their own way? The answer is not straightforward

12 days ago

'He was only 88': There is a cosy familiarity to Irish funerals

12 days ago

Both men and women built the GAA. It's time women were given equal treatment

13 days ago

My funny Irish-American mother would be appalled by the things done in her name since 9/11

14 days ago

Jim O'Callaghan can look to UK to see if making life hard for immigrants helps integration

15 days ago

Germany's past crashes into the present

16 days ago