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Irish Times - Opinion

The Leaving Cert is dense, demanding and far superior to the UK's A-levels

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'Like the Eiffel Tower': Trump's cage fight plan sums up his presidency

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Sinn Féin's opt-out powersharing plan is historic. No wonder it's being ignored

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Remigration and the Irish Abroad

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Driver behaviour has deteriorated over the past decade

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Why Arsenal's time-wasting tactics make a 30-year season ticket wait look absurd

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IRFU, hang your heads in shame

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National Children's Hospital is a failure like no other

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One by one, we are losing those who survived the Holocaust and could say 'I was there'

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Local authorities must take centre stage in fight against rising toll of road deaths

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No one's laughing at Ireland's unsophisticated 'peann luaidhe' elections now

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The US will face a reckoning one day. In the meantime, Trump just gets more volatile

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Rotunda's defiance of public policy shows us how some are born more equal

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Does your life lack direction? Too much urgency may be to blame

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It is no surprise people are inclined towards radical direct action given the level of dereliction in Dublin

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Irish senior cycle reforms have resulted in some farcical situations

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Maybe we should ask Ireland's small population of Jews what they think about anti-Semitism

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AI is moving fast. Official Ireland is not

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Mark Carney proves Donald Trump can win elections outside his own country

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Here is something the 'soft left' parties need to pay attention to

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Social Democrats are attuned to the recycling young Gaelscoil parents – not so much lefty as modern

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Aldous and Joyce too: Frank McNally on a literary pilgrimage to Zurich

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Government's absurd logic fails to make case for data centres

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Continuity in Copenhagen as new coalition is formed

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Israel's latest move on Lebanon is a dangerous escalation

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Interest rate cycle turns upwards

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'An inside job': US public opinion on Israel has shifted

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What would a radical alternative look like for this island?

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Pope Leo's encyclical on AI is a striking manifesto of Christian humanism

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Lack of flood-warning system raises the question: what is the State's job?

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Violence against women is increasing globally – and police forces are not immune

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Ireland's climate is on steroids. The extremes of recent days will become the norm

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This, and worse, is what is happening to Palestinian prisoners in Israeli custody

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I'm a school principal. I find it unsettling what First Holy Communion has become

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Taoiseach was wrong to dismiss comparisons with famine-era evictions. Here's why

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Should Ireland copy the UK's generational ban on smoking?

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There is little interrogation of public spend on car parking amid bike shelter angst

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Women's role in boycotts: 'No woman in Ballinrobe would dream of washing him a cravat'

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Amazon's 'flying rivers' are reaching a tipping point

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Byelections showed increasingly fractured politics with dangerous consensus on one issue

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Ireland's politics of strategic ambiguity served us well – until it didn't

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Tech workers are so well paid, many don't bother to join a union. That's going to change

11 days ago

Presbyterian Church is celebrating 100 years of women in leadership

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The paradox of Donald Trump: his popularity has tanked, yet he remains untouchable

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Why does this cheery, propulsive love song make me feel so wretched?

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Ironic that data centres are contributing to job cuts in the world's data centre capital

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