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Irish Times - Opinion

The HSE has been ordered to destroy some patient records. This is wrong

2 days ago

Toxic nature of public debate drives decent people out of conversation

8 hours ago

What now for the Israel flags flying across the North?

2 hours ago

Jim O'Callaghan can look to UK to see if making life hard for immigrants helps integration

8 hours ago

Germany's past crashes into the present

1 day ago

The Anglo-Irish relationship is best explained by a scene in Mad Men

8 hours ago

It is not racist to have concerns about economic migrants abusing asylum laws

1 day ago

An obscene national exercise: Ireland tries to assuage Donald Trump's toddler volatility

1 day ago

The jihadists who inspired 9/11 have something in common with Donald Trump

2 days ago

The Magaverse is echoing the language of Ireland's most pro-data centre party

3 days ago

'If you wake up after a night in Phoenix Park, you think: What is the point?'

3 days ago

For all his delusion, Enoch Burke comes strangely close to acknowledging something real

4 days ago

'Community care' is exposed as an empty concept when a carer dies

4 days ago

There's no cost-of-living crisis for Ireland's quietly prosperous class. Who are they?

5 days ago

Your guide to the four basic camps in Irish politics

5 days ago

Free education was a gamble that is still paying off

6 days ago

Apathy and ignorance south of the Border remain significant blocks to Irish unity

6 days ago

New citizenship rules risk alienating people Ireland urgently needs to retain

8 hours ago

GAA reneging on integration is damaging own goal

8 hours ago

People of faith must raise their voices against Donald Trump

8 hours ago

Kenny Cunningham's comments are at odds with public sentiment

7 hours ago

The Great War: 'The heroic dead of Ireland have every right to the homage of the living'

5 hours ago

Tough talk on citizenship at odds with vagueness on objectives

18 hours ago

Dublin city's clampers are becoming an endangered species

18 hours ago

A political storm is gathering over Irish data centres

1 day ago

Red lines remain on both sides in Ukraine war

1 day ago

Shannon is a symptom of the failure to decentralise the State

3 days ago

Gardaí spending their time peering at NCT discs is one symptom of a wider problem

3 days ago

Why I walked away from the Leaving Cert maths reform group

4 days ago

A diplomat's advice on how Ireland should approach Trump's visit

4 days ago

Northern Ireland has had several false dawns, but fleadh felt like a turning point

4 days ago

I don't regret running for president. I do regret the sectarian undercurrent it exposed

5 days ago

One in three can't afford to benefit from Government's regressive new investment scheme

5 days ago

Europe does not need Patrick Collison to 'fix' it

7 days ago

Children are turning to AI for advice. We have terrifying examples of where this can lead

8 days ago

How worried should we be about this year's 'Super-Duper El Niño'?

9 days ago

Should new citizens have to pass a language test? Peadar Tóibín vs Neil Bruton

9 days ago

Many people who use crack cocaine are presenting in shocking conditions

10 days ago

'De-demonisation' of Europe's far right clears ground for resurgence of fascist ideas

10 days ago

I felt only confusion − even shame − about every choice I made as a parent

11 days ago

Attempts to pass AI off as punk rock are deeply bleak

11 days ago

Survivors experience Christian Brothers' litigation strategy as abuse by other means

11 days ago

'Say sorry and put an end to it': Why are Thalidomide survivors still waiting for a State apology?

12 days ago

The Irish Government is helping to usher in a new wartime economy in Europe

12 days ago

Early access to all drugs for rare diseases is pie in sky unless we tax to pay for it

13 days ago