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Irish Times - Opinion

Kerry's lesson in grace was the GAA at its most sublime

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Decriminalising prostitution would risk turning Ireland into Amsterdam or Germany

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Ian Robertson: This comment by Kobe McDonald holds the secret to Mayo's win

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Were this summer's heatwaves caused by El Niño, or something even more terrifying?

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Trump's most loyal supporters – white working-class men – are becoming disillusioned

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'It is vulgar to drink from your saucer': 37 rules for life by the Christian Brothers

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Why do people in Ireland speak so few languages?

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'Embrace boredom' may not be the winning parenting strategy you think

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

3 days ago

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

3 days ago

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

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

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

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

4 days ago

Most important quality of any politician? A certain nonchalance

5 days ago

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

6 days ago

GAA community feels the piercing glare of soccer's greedy eye

12 hours ago

Knowing how to speak a multitude of languages is vital, but which ones?

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MetroLink: Can the public trust the State with another project of this scale?

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Camaraderie suffers when we have to commute to work to show it

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Differences between e-bikes, e-scooters and e-mopeds

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Perfect confection: Cian Flaherty on that strange Irish concoction called gur cake

23 hours ago

Squeeze on house buyers tightens further

21 hours ago

Childcare will be one of the crunch issues of Budget 2027

22 hours ago

Government evasions on Aughinish are a failure of duty

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Transatlantic trade tensions roll on

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Meet the Irish woman standing at the most visible conducting podium in the world

2 days ago

Two mentally ill prisoners had to share a cell in an overcrowded prison. One lost his eye

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

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

3 days ago

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

4 days ago

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

5 days ago

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

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

6 days ago

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

7 days ago

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

8 days ago

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

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

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

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

10 days ago

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

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

11 days ago

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

12 days ago

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

13 days ago

Politicians bemoan RTÉ's failures, then make them worse

14 days ago

What Vienna and Marino can teach Ireland about making housing affordable

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