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Irish Times - Opinion

A very touching thing happened on Capel Street last Thursday evening

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Tomorrow's budget may be the worst since Charles Haughey's wild spending

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This year won't see the end of Trumpism. But it might see the beginning of the end

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Should I start a message with 'I hope you're well'? If not well, should I say so?

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Over-regulation is choking the property market

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Visible speed limit signs often nowhere to be seen

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As a religious teen, I was against abortion. But even I could see the flaws in the logic

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Oil companies profiting from a sick planet is obscene

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Middle earners could be €750 better off post-budget, but they may not be impressed

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The south sees Drumcree and thinks: we don't want that sectarian mindset down here

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If we're going to listen to women, we need to listen to all women

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What is really going on in the Irish housing market? The numbers don't add up

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Andy Burnham has a mission. Now he needs a mandate to deliver it

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Drumcree proves that unification of Ireland is the North's best bet

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Weather whiplash leaves us with no illusions about the reality of climate change

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Pressing the Brexit 'I told you so' button is tempting for Ireland, but we should hold fire

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You don't boycott an Ed Sheeran tour just to look cool with a peace sign. Boycotts hurt

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Drumcree row is a useful smokescreen for cynical Sinn Féin and DUP

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Well done to Ireland's football team

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Ministers must not be spared blame when taxpayers money is wasted

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Irish citizenship reforms should address discrepancy affecting PhD students

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'They never made it out': The biggest loss of life in the history of Dublin Fire Brigade

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Budget must slow the runaway spending train

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Irish prison conditions are increasingly inhumane

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Drumcree's re-emergenece shows peace has not ended sectarian division

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With or without EU is the question for Britain

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Today's Bible accurately represents what was originally written, despite differences in style

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Chief Rabbi: All the good that might have come from Ireland v Israel has been lost

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Fake listings, phantom bookings and unhelpful bots: Booking.com's credibility problem

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Marina Hyde's last Guardian column: 'You have exactly 24 hours to complain before my inbox self-destructs'

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Should we pause data centre development? Lynn Boylan debates Malcolm Byrne

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What one Kerry road tells us about speed limits and road safety

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Benefits of Ireland's solar boom should not go only to the big energy firms

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Northern Ireland is staring into the abyss. The peace process is at its weakest since 1998

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Here's how to do hot school meals right

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Anna Daly: I had a miscarriage. I had one week to grieve

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My son has missed a lot of school. Like many parents, I'm not too worried

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Is Ireland still a place 'open to everything except for God'?

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U2 are sometimes dismissed as do-gooders, but the last 50 years have proven it is no act

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Trump media boycott is not the biggest threat to press freedom

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Ireland's whack-a-mole approach to defence is profoundly concerning

12 days ago

Irish people don't want to live in 'mostly awful' apartments. Here are five ways to fix them

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What if Lucy Letby never killed a baby? What if no crime was committed?

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What links Ireland to Tuvalu, a tiny coral island on the other side of the world?

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It is not the will of God that apartments be built on what may be babies' unmarked graves

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When two in five Irish people would 'let it burn', we've got a problem

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