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Irish Times - Opinion

Irish Government remains silent on a shameful game - and it's not against Israel

17 hours ago

Bad political leadership is blocking Ireland's path to energy efficiency

21 hours ago

Help to Buy scheme is a money pit that benefits higher earners

14 hours ago

The Phoenix Park has an identity problem. But there is an easy fix

1 day ago

Why you should quit the coding job and retrain as a philosopher for hire

1 day ago

Europe can't have it both ways on migration

2 days ago

A brief history of the PDs, Ireland's most influential small party ever

3 days ago

Socialism is happening in Ireland under a so-called centre-right Coalition

3 days ago

What could hunter-gatherer societies teach us about climate change?

4 days ago

How Jason Arday's fabulous life and dramatic fall became a culture war battleground

5 days ago

Government must stop enabling Sinn Féin's threats to Stormont

5 days ago

Political violence was the decisive factor in the creation of the Irish Free State

6 days ago

How animals behave in a solar eclipse is extraordinary

6 days ago

Here's a radical idea for the Government: Start telling us the truth

7 days ago

Do you sit on the fence? It could be your Irish Mind (but I'm not sure)

8 days ago

Norma Foley's tradwives awareness campaign is absurd

10 days ago

If we support Irish farmers, let's look beyond beef

21 hours ago

The Newlands Cross hitchhiking trick that guaranteed a lift

21 hours ago

Would it be so hard to put the smartphone away?

21 hours ago

The only people to 'reach out' should be the Four Tops

21 hours ago

Is 'Yours, etc' an appropriate email sign-off?

11 hours ago

Frank McNally: My 135km journey in Ireland without a car

7 hours ago

The State's prisons are becoming intolerably overcrowded

6 hours ago

Ireland's electricity grid needs strengtheneing

7 hours ago

Horrific crash on M3 a product of reckless nihilism

1 day ago

Populist right threat to net zero must be resisted

1 day ago

Ireland needs an agriculture policy. Instead it has an agri-food industry

1 day ago

Twenty years on, Amanda Knox is still in trouble for laughing

2 days ago

Patrick Honohan: Why Anglo bankers were never sanctioned like those at INBS

2 days ago

The Danube ran dry, and revealed an overblown metaphor

2 days ago

Christian Brothers are an easy target but I am slow to stand in judgment

3 days ago

Putin's pact with the Russian people is fraying and his paranoia is deepening

2 days ago

To see the woman convicted of my sister's murder pictured with President Connolly broke me

3 days ago

To manage migration, Europe should help African countries improve their citizens' lives

3 days ago

Why are AI firms bulk buying and pulping books? Because it's cheaper than paying writers

4 days ago

To most, YouTube comments are a cesspit. To me, they're a glorious accidental archive

4 days ago

Ireland's tech workers are learning the hard way about the risks of our economic model

5 days ago

Belfast's fleadh found space for Britishness in a celebration of Irishness

6 days ago

Europe needs to start treating the climate emergency as a threat to our national security

7 days ago

Encouraging public servants to take more risks is a terrible idea

7 days ago

Maybe it's better if we never know the full cost of hosting the Ryder Cup in Ireland

8 days ago

What would happen if Ireland followed Vienna by designing housing with women in mind?

8 days ago

'Spermageddon': The male fertility crisis we need to talk about

9 days ago

The Dunsink plan shows Ireland has a lesson to learn from the Soviets

9 days ago

If Elon Musk is right and AI makes jobs extinct, what will we do with our free time?

9 days ago

Limerick's experiment with a directly elected mayor may be last of its kind

9 days ago