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Irish Times - Opinion

Struggling to get your children off Fortnite? There's a reason for that

8 hours ago

Byelections showed increasingly fractured politics with dangerous consensus on one issue

1 hour ago

Ireland's politics of strategic ambiguity served us well – until it didn't

8 hours ago

Tech workers are so well paid, many don't bother to join a union. That's going to change

8 hours ago

Fewer people are having babies. Could smartphones be the reason?

8 hours ago

Ireland is facing a cocktail of uncertainty - two key signs this week need to be heeded

23 hours ago

Who would want the most difficult job in Ireland? Quite a few people

1 day ago

Residents, not tourists, are the best way to re-energise our cities

1 day ago

The best exam essay I read this year was an angry – and refreshingly human – one

2 days ago

To call Irish people anti-Semitic is a collective punch to the stomach

2 days ago

UK's 'generational ban' on tobacco will give Dublin a headache

3 days ago

Christopher Nolan's Odyssey isn't evidence of a cultural void. It's the opposite

3 days ago

Trump accuses his opponents of treason. But it's clear who the real traitor is

4 days ago

It's hard to work up any outrage about yet another grubby payments controversy at RTÉ

4 days ago

Gerry Hutch and Bertie Ahern performed 'Lanigan's Ball racism'

5 days ago

Trump has taken a dodgy practice to a new level

6 days ago

Brought to book: Shane Ross's RTÉ 'fantasy'

1 day ago

Switching up annoying expressions

1 day ago

RTÉ aural dilemma is question of identity

1 day ago

I sat the Leaving Cert three times and I owe a lot to the experience

1 day ago

Food for thought on data centres and their demands

1 day ago

Surprise(d) guest: Frank McNally on the mysteries of Irish-English and the story behind the world's greatest collection of Joyceana

1 day ago

Meta cutbacks underline Ireland's tech exposure

1 day ago

Latest RTÉ controversy leaves some questions still unanswered

1 day ago

The jury is out on the Government's rent reforms

2 days ago

Key messages as Trump and Putin visit China

2 days ago

Presbyterian Church is celebrating 100 years of women in leadership

14 hours ago

The paradox of Donald Trump: his popularity has tanked, yet he remains untouchable

1 day ago

Why does this cheery, propulsive love song make me feel so wretched?

1 day ago

Ironic that data centres are contributing to job cuts in the world's data centre capital

2 days ago

Two-thirds of Ireland's wild bird species are in danger. So are the rules protecting them

2 days ago

We finally know how much money shapes Irish elections

4 days ago

These figures tell the real story of Fianna Fáil's impact on housing

5 days ago

As smart cities reduce car use, Ireland goes all in

5 days ago

Under-16s say a social media ban won't work. The Government needs to listen to them

6 days ago

We're all 'doing phone'. It's no way to spend a life

7 days ago

One year into his papacy, it's clear Pope Leo will be no quiet American

7 days ago

Boycott is a pernicious strategy silencing Jews, Israelis and Palestinians

6 days ago

How did Nigel Farage go from crank to bookies' favourite for prime minister after the next election?

7 days ago

What the three-pin plug teaches us about gender equality

10 days ago

People in Ireland want to know where our money goes. The answer is depressing

11 days ago

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

12 days ago

Nigel Farage's success gives Ireland an urgent deadline

12 days ago

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

13 days ago

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

12 days ago

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

14 days ago