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Irish Times - Opinion

As Popeyes opens in Ireland, it's clear we're becoming a fast food nation

3 hours ago

Michael O'Leary's contradictions could fill an aircraft hangar. It's time we called them out

4 hours ago

Today's British byelection could be seismic for Ireland

1 day ago

Europe faces risks from both China and the US - but there are solutions

2 days ago

Ireland is lopsided and Dublin bursting at the seams. The solution is obvious

4 hours ago

Could three glasses of wine derail your life? Only if you live like Steven Bartlett

1 day ago

Unionists have begun to think of themselves as a minority

1 day ago

Loyalists who burn people out of their homes are firebombing their own political futures

2 days ago

Idea that some babies and mothers only survived because they went private is a myth

2 days ago

Elon Musk conjures up a fantasy for Wall Street and a nightmare for Belfast

3 days ago

Trevor Dietz and Fontaines DC emerged in a Dublin that seems to be slipping away

4 days ago

There was no collusion in the failure to stop Bill Kenneally. There didn't have to be

5 days ago

I won't waste my time writing about this again ... definitely

4 days ago

Beware ideas which offer a pseudointellectual cover for racist rioting

5 days ago

Western Europeans won the lottery of life. But this is changing, culturally and economically

6 days ago

Europe must end its juvenile taboo against talking to Russia

6 days ago

Peace in our time?

4 hours ago

Irish and exemptions

4 hours ago

It is time guidelines were put in place to help cat owners

4 hours ago

Clear pattern of child poverty

4 hours ago

Reassurance of private maternity care

4 hours ago

From Monaghan to 'Spud Island', Canada: 1830 exodus back in focus after Mark Carney visit

15 hours ago

Criminal legal aid costs need to be tackled

15 hours ago

An important vote on abortion policy

15 hours ago

The Irish Times view on the Central Bank report: Ireland's window of opportunity

1 day ago

Ireland needs to find a way to improve water quality

1 day ago

On Bloomsday, if you take just one message from Ulysses then it should be this one

3 days ago

Trump says US will be 'guardian of the Middle East'. How much more can the region endure?

3 days ago

Some of Ireland's three-seater constituencies were drawn up to keep Fianna Fáil out of Government

3 days ago

If Jennifer Carroll MacNeill means what she says about women's choice, she needs to fund it

4 days ago

Divorce is not the reason many kids are growing up without a father figure

4 days ago

SpaceX is not just too big to fail. It is too essential to be allowed to

5 days ago

An Irish Catholic may be defined in the future as the son or daughter of someone from Manila or Lagos

5 days ago

How did an attack in a nationalist part of Belfast lead to rioting in loyalist areas?

6 days ago

Ireland's asylum system is flawed, but a factory for fast decisions is not the answer

8 days ago

13,633 DAYS SINCE MY HUSBAND WAS SHOT DEAD IN FRONT OF ME. 13,633 DAYS SEEKING THE TRUTH

9 days ago

District heating schemes could dramatically reduce Ireland's energy bills

10 days ago

Debate: Should Ireland start getting ready to go nuclear?

10 days ago

Ireland will be an 'honest broker' in the EU presidency – a bystander and abstainer

11 days ago

Should decisions about whether AI can be used in war be left to private companies?

12 days ago

All pregnant women should get continuity of care – not just those who can pay for it

13 days ago

Ireland's range anxiety: Denmark has a similar population, look at the amount of EV chargers there

13 days ago

Let's not make the same mistake as the UK. 'Sensible' degrees are overrated

14 days ago

Oliver Bond residents are suffering the slow violence of State neglect

14 days ago

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

15 days ago

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

16 days ago