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Irish Times - Opinion

Like Neville Chamberlain in 1938, Donald Trump is the errand boy of gangsters

17 hours ago

Europe is in danger of becoming a plaything, not a player

1 day ago

We should be very worried about AI taking over the classroom

2 days ago

Lucy Michael: Ireland's Taser pilot is bad science and bad policy

3 days ago

What would happen if Russians landed at Shannon and took over the airport?

16 hours ago

The seldom-seen Dee Forbes continues to influence RTÉ

16 hours ago

Politicians are bad at the internet. Just look at Simon Harris's TikTok

1 day ago

Real loser in row over EU observer status for Northern Ireland is the centre ground

1 day ago

We already had a perfectly good term for 'rage bait' – it's hate speech

2 days ago

Trump isn't a peace maker, he's a piece taker

2 days ago

Eurovision glitz is part of Israel's claim to be European – and that matters

3 days ago

Culture wars have come for Dublin's Winter Lights festival

4 days ago

The Complex is 'the only place that does it all': Dublin can't let another arts venue vanish

4 days ago

Ireland dodged a bullet this year. But there's a caveat

5 days ago

Leaving Cert AI reforms risk making a mockery of the principle of equality

5 days ago

In Ireland, the 'working poor' will determine future elections

6 days ago

Letters to the Editor, December 12th: On free fares on buses, nitrates, falling birth rates and a special Santa clause

22 hours ago

Loving the Luas

22 hours ago

Letters to the Editor, December 11th: On curbing traffic congestion, the Kenova report and standing up for yourself

1 day ago

A ban on social media

1 day ago

Letters to the Editor, December 10th: On missed opportunities to promote food culture, weather warnings and vanishing venues

2 days ago

The woman who enchanted Proust – Frank McNally on the rise and fall of Gladys Marlborough

4 hours ago

Ireland joins the objectors on migration

2 hours ago

This early flu surge exposes the health system's problems

3 hours ago

Trump's new security strategy is a wake-up call for Europe

1 day ago

Extending nitrates derogation is a road to ecological disaster

1 day ago

Mindful gifting need not make Christmas earnest and boring

2 days ago

'Rage bait' is an apt word of the year for 2025. Anger can be good

4 days ago

Tolls, buses and remote working: The short-term solutions to M50 gridlock

4 days ago

Christmas rituals assume women have endless free time

5 days ago

Bringing the Ukraine war to its endgame is going to mean messy compromises

5 days ago

Alice Leahy: I have learned there is no single story about being homeless

5 days ago

Ireland is brilliant at identifying problems and terrible at solving them

6 days ago

We can't keep objecting to wind farms 10km out to sea if we want Ireland to progress

7 days ago

PR campaigns are not enough to stop people dying on our roads. Here is what we need to do

5 days ago

Jack Chambers needs to tackle the culture issues in his own department

10 days ago

Ireland has a choice on migration: Follow the UK into the vortex or hold on to its values

11 days ago

Chief Rabbi: Move to erase Chaim Herzog's name and history is cruel hammer blow

11 days ago

ICC judges wanted Netanyahu arrested. Now they're being targeted by Trump

12 days ago

A short document with an enduring message: we belong to a single family with one origin and goal

12 days ago

A neuropsychologist's view: Arne Slot seeded a 'loser effect' in Liverpool. Here's how to fix it

13 days ago

In a normal country, Donald Trump and Steve Witkoff would be tried for treason

13 days ago

Rich are getting richer, poor are getting poorer and the middle class is disappearing

14 days ago

Ambassador Edward Walsh: Ireland's future is to be a bridge and interpreter between US and Europe

15 days ago

Judicial reviews are not the problem – and deregulation is no answer

16 days ago

How different it would be if politicians had to use public transport

17 days ago