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Irish Times - Opinion

More honest conversation on housing and infrastructure delays is needed

4 hours ago

Sinn Féin's immigration policy will need to be tougher than everyone else's to stand out

4 hours ago

Confusion over Holly Cairns's expenses exposes how generous TDs' leave really is

4 hours ago

Donald Trump's comments on unity crossed a line

1 day ago

Europe is entering a new phase. Ireland may lose out

1 day ago

Spare me the fury about Sydney Sweeney. What I see here is a sense of humour

4 hours ago

Citizenship by descent is not racist, and language tests make perfect sense

1 day ago

Living in Milwaukee with a Mayo granny automatically makes you Irish. Living here doesn't

2 days ago

It's easy to look tough on immigration. It's much harder to build empathy

3 days ago

Rollout of the reformed Leaving Cert should be suspended

3 days ago

What would your last words be? Here are some of the best deathbed one-liners

3 days ago

A realistic emergency preparedness booklet would say 'prepare for a slow decline'

4 days ago

People who get up early were left disappointed by Varadkar. Harris is ready to try again

4 days ago

There is a landmine posing a big danger to next month's budget

4 days ago

We need leaders with the courage of a Kennedy or a de Gaulle

5 days ago

Death of Ireland's nightlife is yet another reason for young people to leave

4 days ago

Northern nationalists are right to detect bias from their counterparts in the Republic

6 days ago

Age-friendly parking spaces should be added at supermarkets

4 hours ago

Revised EU directive could protect against some AI risks

4 hours ago

Dazzling headlights a worrying feature of night-time driving

3 hours ago

Non-binding indicative vote on Border poll is best way forward

4 hours ago

Bally-aric Island: Frank McNally on feeling surprisingly at home in Menorca

15 hours ago

EU's invitation to Canada: come join us

14 hours ago

Why are people not reporting petty crimes?

14 hours ago

New evidence shows housing delivery must accelerate

1 day ago

Farming and politics are too cosy for the national good

22 hours ago

When almost every fact has a set of alternative facts, good journalism matters more than ever

2 days ago

Donald Trump may have been Britain-baiting, but his statement on unity still mattered

2 days ago

People who would never normally get bail are walking free because of the legal aid row

3 days ago

Ireland's failure premium: All the property schemes do one thing. It's not help buyers

4 days ago

Do data centres pay their own way? The answer is not straightforward

4 days ago

'He was only 88': There is a cosy familiarity to Irish funerals

4 days ago

Both men and women built the GAA. It's time women were given equal treatment

5 days ago

My funny Irish-American mother would be appalled by the things done in her name since 9/11

6 days ago

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

7 days ago

Germany's past crashes into the present

8 days ago

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

8 days ago

Here is something you do not often see: an optimistic column on the climate crisis

9 days ago

Shannon is a symptom of the failure to decentralise the State

10 days ago

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

9 days ago

Why I walked away from the Leaving Cert maths reform group

10 days ago

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

11 days ago

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

11 days ago

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

12 days ago

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

12 days ago

Europe does not need Patrick Collison to 'fix' it

14 days ago