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Irish Times - Opinion

Hell is empty and all the devils are in my social media feed

8 hours ago

Human rights defender or dangerous criminal? A German court will decide Dubliner's fate

7 hours ago

Search for the meaning of life is a wild-goose chase

14 hours ago

Aughinish report is thin gruel as Russian demands for Irish alumina ramp up

1 day ago

Is the Irish economy really Trump-proof? We'd better hope so

8 hours ago

Ireland's Potemkin budget: figures belong in the fiction section of the library

1 day ago

Gay Byrne was the first big beast broadcaster. Claire Byrne was the last

1 day ago

Two psychologists are at war over children and phones. Which one is right?

1 day ago

There's a reason the State gets away with wasting so much of our money

23 hours ago

Most important quality of any politician? A certain nonchalance

2 days ago

Andy Burnham likes to be liked. There could hardly be a worse qualification for the job

3 days ago

Why all the anti-Dublin bias?

3 days ago

Ireland will remain dependent on gas unless we embrace nuclear

4 days ago

What have Wayne Rooney and Jack Chambers got in common? They both need to cut the crap

4 days ago

Odysseus is all around us, not just in Christopher Nolan's blockbuster

5 days ago

Scaling back remote working should be on the agenda as payback for public sector pay rises

6 days ago

The Ryanair experience

1 day ago

Readers would surely like to hear what the Irish position is on next EU budget

1 day ago

'Shedsit' is a misleading term

1 day ago

Opposition, cost and availability means going nuclear will never be a viable solution

1 day ago

Aughinish Alumina report leaves Ireland's reputation in ruins

1 day ago

Paddy Englishman: Frank McNally on a 'multimillionaire playboy' namesake with Monaghan roots

1 day ago

Time for comprehensive action on e-scooters

1 day ago

The Odyssey: from epic poem to blockbuster

1 day ago

Zelenskiy makes his choice amid military tensions

2 days ago

The menace of Irish wildfires is becoming ever more common

2 days ago

There's a bitter irony in the failure of a celebration of Friel's work to get funding

2 days ago

Lara Marlowe: Robots have brought a 'horrifying intimacy' to warfare

2 days ago

If you think public sector workers have it better, that's because we do

3 days ago

Viktor Orbán is gone, but the EU has a new headache in Bulgaria's leader Rumen Radev

4 days ago

I am a detective garda. Here's why an e-scooter ban is unenforceable

5 days ago

Move to a four-day week and ditch plastic straws: 10 steps to boost your sustainability

5 days ago

What to do if you suspect a spy in your midst in Ireland

6 days ago

Will the 'Michael Lowry gambit' work for Marine Le Pen and Nigel Farage?

6 days ago

Garden cabins, rural sprawl and tiny apartments: housing has become a numbers game

7 days ago

Knock on the wall: A vision of Irish America in New York's St Patrick's Cathedral

7 days ago

What caused the Lorcan Murphy I knew to become a killer?

8 days ago

Italia 90 changed Ireland, but the untold story of that year was the women's game

9 days ago

Despite renewed strikes and Trump's bluster, both sides want an end to Iran conflict

10 days ago

Politicians bemoan RTÉ's failures, then make them worse

11 days ago

What Vienna and Marino can teach Ireland about making housing affordable

12 days ago

We live on an island where we drink, swim and wash in water laced with our own excrement

12 days ago

Referendums aren't always a good idea. Ever tried to vote out 'the people'?

13 days ago

Why do goalkeepers dive right when their team is losing?

13 days ago

Irish Presbyterians still coming to terms with fallout from safeguarding issues

14 days ago

I've had near misses as a journalist. But a holiday swim was the closest I came to dying

14 days ago