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Irish Times - Opinion

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

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

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

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

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

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

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What the British budget tells us about Irish politics

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

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

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

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History shows there's no room for ambiguity when it comes to drinking and driving

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Were bad landlords partly to blame for race riots in Northern Ireland?

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Andy Burnham making TikToks about parking tickets seems to be missing the point

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When words fail, we still turn to the priest to find them

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France is falling to the extremes of left and right. Ireland cannot be complacent

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Zionism is not racism, any more than Irish nationalism is sectarianism

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How to run a train service around a marathon

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How does abandoning the triple lock make the people of Ireland safer?

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Public service retention crisis

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Women need to be supported from a young age to express their right to bodily autonomy

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A rational solution to ballooning healthcare budgets has been talked about for 10 years

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The first Irish-language book to top the bestseller list

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Time is short to avert a food security crisis

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Market concern on AI investment needs to be watched

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Seeds of revival are evident around Dublin's O'Connell Street

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Triple lock debate needs more light and less heat

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

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

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

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Germany offers a stark vision of Ireland's possible future

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

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Quiet scaling back of BusConnects is a travesty

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

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

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

7 days ago

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

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

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

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

10 days ago

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

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

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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?

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

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

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

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