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Irish Times - Opinion

The US is shooting mirrors into space to redirect the sun. There may be a few issues

18 hours ago

The scale of corruption in Trump's second administration is head-spinning

16 hours ago

Risks from Ireland's 'fire triangle' are being exacerbated by human actions

9 hours ago

Micheál Martin thinks voters reward delivery. Simon Harris is not convinced

18 hours ago

Everyone agrees Irish house prices are overvalued. We're in risky territory

1 day ago

AI will bring bankruptcies, bank failures and chaos in international financial sector

1 day ago

Striking lawyers don't tend to evoke much public sympathy

3 days ago

The Odyssey is so conservative, I am half surprised it wasn't written by Jacob Rees-Mogg

3 days ago

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

4 days ago

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

4 days ago

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

5 days ago

Why do people in Ireland speak so few languages?

6 days ago

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

6 days ago

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

7 days ago

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

7 days ago

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

8 days ago

Patrick Collison is yet another billionaire using his fortune to protect billionaires

1 day ago

How are Palestinians meant to supply Government with financial histories for student visas?

1 day ago

No young person in any special school has participated in an equivalent transition year

1 day ago

Respecting sex workers' agency does not diminish commitment to tackling exploitation

1 day ago

Glen Hansard's charm and humility

1 day ago

Doing time: Colm Keena reflects on how he has spent much of his career in lovely buildings

5 hours ago

Diplomacy not bluster is needed in response to events in Ceuta

5 hours ago

Worrying evidence of surveillance of journalists in Northern Ireland

3 hours ago

Nama, one of the last legacies of the crash, is no more

2 days ago

Infantino's reckless move sparks football schism

2 days ago

Pope Leo is right. There is no such thing as a 'just war'

1 day ago

Ireland has become a colder house for artists like Glen Hansard

1 day ago

France accepts that parents have a right to leisure. We should do the same

1 day ago

My brother was put in the cell beside me. 'Prepare yourself for the worst,' he said

2 days ago

Pussy Riot's Maria Alyokhina has a warning for Ireland and the rest of Europe

2 days ago

Mary Robinson transformed what it meant to be president – and former president

2 days ago

We shouldn't lose sight of the fact that e-scooters are a sustainable transport option

3 days ago

Decriminalising prostitution would risk turning Ireland into Amsterdam or Germany

4 days ago

A neuropsychologist's view: This Kobe McDonald comment holds the secret to Mayo's win

2 days ago

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

5 days ago

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

6 days ago

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

6 days ago

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

7 days ago

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

8 days ago

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

8 days ago

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

9 days ago

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

9 days ago

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

10 days ago

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

11 days ago

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

12 days ago