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Irish Times - Opinion

There is now serious talk about the end of the DUP

11 hours ago

Jaded rhetoric and trite stereotypes about neutrality are inflaming triple lock debate

12 hours ago

There's a reason comedians like Joanne McNally rarely make good Traitors

12 hours ago

DUP's tough talk on Sinn Féin exposes the bind Gavin Robinson's party finds itself in

1 day ago

A straight-up depiction of suicide is not ideal street decor, even at Halloween

1 day ago

What happens in Israeli and US elections may reshape the Middle East

1 day ago

Dublin officialdom virtue-signalled about Ukraine. People in rural Ireland did the work

2 days ago

What makes someone a murderer? Irish-born philosopher believed she had the answer

3 days ago

An Irish documentary on a relatively obscure American figure can illuminate so much

2 days ago

Every year, as I get ready to file a tax return, I experience a strange sort of reckoning

4 days ago

Was that a stock market wobble, or the start of something more serious?

4 days ago

Don't mistake protest votes for Democrat support in US midterms

4 days ago

What the British budget tells us about Irish politics

4 days ago

James McClean's stance on opening up may work for him but we are not all elite sportspeople

4 days ago

France is likely heading towards ECB support and a Marine Le Pen presidency

4 days ago

Shouty phone calls on buses, cyclists on footpaths ... Civilisation is falling apart

4 days ago

Overheated hospitals pose a big danger

12 hours ago

Palestinian student visas and scholasticide

12 hours ago

Life lessons learned as autumn leaves refuse to fall

12 hours ago

A transport question

12 hours ago

Instead of wasting money, let's draw up a defence plan Ireland needs and can deliver

12 hours ago

Focused strategy needed for rural Ireland

22 hours ago

Budget shows UK is still grasping for growth

22 hours ago

School meals scheme is a great achievement but can be improved

1 day ago

Youthquake in Belgrade as students oust authoritarian Vucic

1 day ago

Children being denied legal representation is yet another shameful failure by the State

2 days ago

Ireland is set to miss major climate targets. We should be angry

2 days ago

Ireland's left has failed to penalise government for decades of inaction but the right has

4 days ago

Who are the Burke children trying to impress? Could it be their mother?

4 days ago

I love Vinted. I just wish it loved me back when I was scammed

4 days ago

France may calm violence in the short term but it is a country infused with dread

4 days ago

What is the reason for the enduring public fascination with Elizabeth Holmes?

4 days ago

Australia welcomed tens of thousands of young Irish in recent years. That's about to change

4 days ago

Germany offers a stark vision of Ireland's possible future

4 days ago

The Annals of Inisfallen are part of Irish history. They don't belong in a British library

4 days ago

Quiet scaling back of BusConnects is a travesty

9 days ago

Leo Varadkar thinks we should apologise to northern nationalists for partition. Why?

9 days ago

Did the internet really get less toxic after Russian data centres went down?

10 days ago

A food delivery site that promises to deliver no food? At first, I didn't see the appeal

11 days ago

There has been a frightening shift in the way drug gangs intimidate their victims

11 days ago

The 'Irish pope' who was equally disliked by Irish patriots, Protestants and Britain

11 days ago

I was abused by swim coach Derry O'Rourke. The George Gibney case raises similar questions

12 days ago

€43bn should have been enough to build 110,000 homes. Only 27,000 were built

14 days ago

For Houthis, war in Gaza is a chance to strengthen role in Iran's 'axis of resistance'

15 days ago

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

16 days ago