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Irish Times - Opinion

Cancelling Wednesday's Dáil sitting is step in wrong direction

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The blue-green smoothie ruling the country has no plan and even less passion

12 hours ago

The 'Liveline effect' will be crucial to resolving the public sector strikes

12 hours ago

When did children stop playing outside?

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Are Simon Harris and gen Z about to turn Ireland into a nation of investors?

1 day ago

No, you don't need AI to read your child a bedtime story

1 day ago

How to talk to boys about masculinity and the meaning of life

1 day ago

A playground for the living built over the bones of the dead

2 days ago

Ireland may not have the death penalty, but we have no reason for complacency

2 days ago

There is nothing more Irish than a former housing minister lobbying on behalf of a developer

2 days ago

France seeks another de Gaulle. The far-right thinks it's Jordan Bardella

2 days ago

The most interesting assessment of the budget is the one you haven't yet heard

3 days ago

The remaking of Jack Chambers

3 days ago

We have just seen a perfect example of Ireland's fiscal incontinence

3 days ago

France is caught in the politics of emergency, oscillating between nostalgia and extremism

4 days ago

Paternity leave shouldn't be a privilege only the likes of Simon Harris can afford

4 days ago

Sinn Féin and the DUP are happier arguing over a parade than agreeing a budget

5 days ago

GAA continue to prove Mary McAleese right

12 hours ago

Who needs AI?

12 hours ago

The punishment or the crime?

12 hours ago

We risk finding the carcasses of rare birds across the countryside in the coming months

12 hours ago

'Fancy' food and the 'priest's sugar': hosting a station Mass at home

23 hours ago

George Gibney sentencing: landmark day in a dark and devastating saga

22 hours ago

Trump's imaginary energy ceasefire

5 hours ago

Fragile peace on trade between the EU and China

1 day ago

Ireland's climate rhetoric is sounding hollow

1 day ago

Role of women, married priests and sexuality featured early in the synodal pathway

2 days ago

Siobhán Fenton: Sinn Féin might have an ulterior motive for its actions at Drumcree

3 days ago

October 7th was a piercing, shrieking alarm call for all Jews

4 days ago

AI music has become 'the Ozempic of the industry'. Everyone is on it

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Europe is changing, but Ireland has yet to notice

5 days ago

Should every motorway have an HGV lane? Ideas to tackle fuel crisis

7 days ago

The one thing Israel hasn't managed to take from us in three years is hope

7 days ago

Tuesday's budget may be the worst since Charles Haughey's wild spending

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This year won't see the end of Trumpism. But it might see the beginning of the end

8 days ago

As a religious teen, I was against abortion. But even I could see the flaws in the logic

9 days ago

Today's Bible accurately represents what was originally written, despite differences in style

9 days ago

Chief Rabbi: All the good that might have come from Ireland v Israel has been lost

10 days ago

Fake listings, phantom bookings and unhelpful bots: Booking.com's credibility problem

10 days ago

Marina Hyde's last Guardian column: 'You have exactly 24 hours to complain before my inbox self-destructs'

10 days ago

Should we pause data centre development? Lynn Boylan debates Malcolm Byrne

12 days ago

What one Kerry road tells us about speed limits and road safety

13 days ago

Benefits of Ireland's solar boom should not go only to the big energy firms

14 days ago

Northern Ireland is staring into the abyss. The peace process is at its weakest since 1998

15 days ago

Here's how to do hot school meals right

15 days ago

Anna Daly: I had a miscarriage. I had one week to grieve

16 days ago