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Irish Times - Opinion

Welcoming the historic meeting between David Ryan and Pope Leo XIV

15 hours ago

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

18 days ago

Try explaining to the people of Enniscorthy why it's hard to get things done

14 hours ago

Powerful men are being damaged by the Epstein files. But not Trump's friends

15 hours ago

New rent rules will make the market even more dysfunctional

2 days ago

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

3 days ago

Demands by farmers for the head of the Bord Bia chair are delusional and dangerous

14 hours ago

Christians tolerated Trump because they thought he would end abortion. They were wrong

14 hours ago

When crypto falls, it won't be pretty

14 hours ago

Melania Trump is the ultimate Stepford wife: silent, unseeing and uncaring

1 day ago

Social Democrats, Labour and the Greens have some serious thinking to do

1 day ago

Micheál Martin's caution has become a screen he hides behind

1 day ago

'John O'Dowd pints' proved the final straw for Sinn Féin in pub and hotel rates row

2 days ago

It's ironic how it took a Corkman to teach UK's Labour to sound like English patriots

2 days ago

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

3 days ago

Irish people fail to understand how fragile our electricity supply is

3 days ago

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

4 days ago

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

5 days ago

February is wine time, but low-alcohol looks like the way to go. Any suggestions?

15 hours ago

Why does Irish rugby team persist with failing tactics?

15 hours ago

Cyclists are forced to dress like construction workers as cars speed past with impunity

15 hours ago

St Patrick's Day visit to Washington is no time for politics

15 hours ago

Stage IRA Man – Frank McNally on the real and pretend 1916 Rising of actor Arthur Shields

1 day ago

Ipsos B&A poll shows voters irked by failure to deliver progress

15 hours ago

Why are contactless payments on Irish public transport so late and so expensive?

1 day ago

Tech has become a political battleground between EU and US

2 days ago

Revelations about Peter Mandelson have left Keir Starmer in deep trouble

2 days ago

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

4 days ago

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

4 days ago

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

5 days ago

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

5 days ago

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

6 days ago

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

7 days ago

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

8 days ago

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

9 days ago

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

11 days ago

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

11 days ago

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

9 days ago

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

11 days ago

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

12 days ago

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

13 days ago

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

13 days ago

Please Elon Musk, don't make me defend Ryanair

14 days ago

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

14 days ago

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

16 days ago

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

17 days ago