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Irish Times - Opinion

Does your life lack direction? Too much urgency may be to blame

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'An inside job': US public opinion on Israel has shifted

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What would a radical alternative look like for this island?

6 hours ago

Pope Leo's encyclical on AI is a striking manifesto of Christian humanism

1 day ago

It is no surprise people are inclined towards radical direct action given the level of dereliction in Dublin

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Irish senior cycle reforms have resulted in some farcical situations

23 hours ago

Maybe we should ask Ireland's small population of Jews what they think about anti-Semitism

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AI is moving fast. Official Ireland is not

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Mark Carney proves Donald Trump can win elections outside his own country

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Here is something the 'soft left' parties need to pay attention to

3 days ago

Social Democrats are attuned to the recycling young Gaelscoil parents – not so much lefty as modern

3 days ago

RTÉ should be accountable for its spending, but critics' focus is too selective

3 days ago

Arsenal have become the club of the Irish diaspora

4 days ago

Sinn Féin stance in Northern Ireland makes it plain its natural coalition partner is Fianna Fáil

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In an age of misinformation and provocation, here's who stood by the people in recent byelections

5 days ago

Post-byelection squabble among left-wing parties does not inspire confidence for future

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Letters to the Editor, June 1st: On road incidents and traumatic injuries, war, electricity prices and annoying expressions

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Some dynamic suggestions for dynamic pricing

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Why was there no boycott of the Ireland-Qatar match?

2 days ago

No more manual election counts? Count me out

2 days ago

Newton Emerson and the charge Sinn Féin cannot be trusted in government

2 days ago

Secret garden: the first Catholic cemetery built in Ireland since the Reformation

17 hours ago

Populism trumps planning in one-off rural home changes

16 hours ago

Food security should be a focus for Ireland's presidency

16 hours ago

Principles meet harsh realities in Occupied Territories Bill

2 days ago

Ireland's summer festivals continue to thrive

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Lack of flood-warning system raises the question: what is the State's job?

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Ireland's climate is on steroids. The extremes of recent days will become the norm

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Violence against women is increasing globally – and police forces are not immune

2 days ago

This, and worse, is what is happening to Palestinian prisoners in Israeli custody

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I'm a school principal. I find it unsettling what First Holy Communion has become

3 days ago

Taoiseach was wrong to dismiss comparisons with famine-era evictions. Here's why

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Should Ireland copy the UK's generational ban on smoking?

6 days ago

There is little interrogation of public spend on car parking amid bike shelter angst

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Women's role in boycotts: 'No woman in Ballinrobe would dream of washing him a cravat'

7 days ago

Amazon's 'flying rivers' are reaching a tipping point

7 days ago

Byelections showed increasingly fractured politics with dangerous consensus on one issue

7 days ago

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

8 days ago

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

8 days ago

Presbyterian Church is celebrating 100 years of women in leadership

8 days ago

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

9 days ago

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

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

10 days ago

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

10 days ago

We finally know how much money shapes Irish elections

12 days ago

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

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