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Irish Times - Opinion

Live hares used as bait for muscular 35kg dogs is a depressingly Irish bedtime story

13 hours ago

We're ready to do a deal on public servants' pay - and everything is on the table

13 hours ago

How Ireland can make electricity cheap again - and cut emissions

1 day ago

Ireland's budget plan has a name: 'Sure it'll be grand'

1 day ago

Hints about a two-phase MetroLink should ring alarm bells

13 hours ago

We have already had glimpses of climate-induced societal breakdown

1 day ago

From axe-throwing to augmented darts: what's behind the rise in 'competitive socialising'?

2 days ago

Vote on three-day wait for abortion is a sign of leaders out of step with their parties

2 days ago

Delays on the line: If you want to know why public transport is poor, look at Luas Finglas

3 days ago

Peter Thiel's Irish gathering is not part of some secret plot. It's more blatant than that

3 days ago

People get promoted until they reach a job they can't do (and other lessons from the UK)

3 days ago

Alan Greenspan was so able and yet so blind

4 days ago

Messiah Andy Burnham will have to find a Thatcherite steel

5 days ago

Would Jeffrey Donaldson have faced justice if he committed his crimes south of the Border?

5 days ago

Why did economists get the impact of Brexit on Ireland so wrong?

5 days ago

Jeffrey Donaldson's downfall leaves the DUP battling a conspiracy theory

6 days ago

Climate science suggests worse is to come

13 hours ago

Learn the right way of getting to grips with your pen

13 hours ago

Moral consistency should apply to moment of silence at World Cup games

13 hours ago

We need more rigorous enforcement of road rules

13 hours ago

New customs charge is another assault by the Government on the squeezed middle class

13 hours ago

Bad beatitude: the Sermon on the Mount updated for the Gen Z faithful

7 minutes ago

Ireland's EU presidency: six months of horse-trading

22 hours ago

Budget overruns on State IT projects must be addressed

22 hours ago

Donaldson revelations spark gathering storm for DUP

1 day ago

Trump revives traiff threat in retaliation for digital taxes

1 day ago

Irish Rail's problems are bigger than my stolen suitcase or the non-existent tea trollies

2 days ago

Irish drivers' habit of 'running reds' is not a charming quirk

2 days ago

I read my daughter stories and hoped she tasted the strawberries. Our time was precious

3 days ago

'When it melts, it's ruined': We need act on this week's wake-up call

4 days ago

What should Ireland do as EU president? A to-do list by Fintan O'Toole, Lara Marlowe and others

4 days ago

Two elections are shaping war and peace in the Middle East

4 days ago

Stranger things have happened than the prospect of Messi vs Pico Lopes – but not many

5 days ago

People in Northern Ireland have been pawns in a political game played in England for too long

6 days ago

Keir Starmer made bad choices. Micheál Martin avoids choices altogether

7 days ago

Security gaps leave Ireland vulnerable to foreign intelligence. The State is underprepared

8 days ago

Road deaths are not inevitable. Stop referring to them as 'accidents'

8 days ago

Donald Trump is channelling the leadership style of the ancients, without even realising it

9 days ago

Dublin-based firms are also part of the military complex

9 days ago

Julia is kind, sweet and plans to raise two kids with her partner. There's just one catch

10 days ago

Revolut has had more success in Ireland than anywhere else. It's no mystery why

10 days ago

Glowing references for child abusers are not just offensive to victims, they're dangerous

11 days ago

The US at 250 is an edgy, doom-stalked place, not much in the mood to celebrate

11 days ago

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

12 days ago

Today's Makerfield byelection could be seismic for Ireland

11 days ago

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

15 days ago