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Irish Times - Opinion

Everybody needs good neighbours. Like Ireland and Britain right now

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Israel's strategic aims, rather than America's, are shaping the war with Iran

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Catriona Crowe: The brave few risking everything to unmask Putin's Russia

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Ireland's plans to deliver housing and infrastructure are a roll of the dice

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Dolores Keane's honesty about her demons was as piercing as her singing

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We need to understand the financial cost of a divided society. It might surprise us

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Zohran Mamdani has no opinion on a united Ireland. That matters more than you think

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Louis Theroux's exploration into the manosphere chills the blood

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Nato allies must not save Donald Trump from himself

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Trump's war on Iran could spell the end of the EU

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An almost vacant shopping mall in Nairobi could be a template for Dublin

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There's something missing from Ireland's debates on foreign policy: our interests

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Pete Hegseth and Pedro Sánchez embody two types of virtue signalling

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Welcome to the first war of the brainrot era

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In Ireland's dysfunctional property market, the starter home has become the forever home

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Two Chinese companies, Shein and Temu, are undercutting retailers in every country

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Celebrating St Patrick's Day

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Time to rethink Ireland's energy policy

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Estate agents and property prices

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Shannon 'problem' is really an opportunity

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Barking mad greeting card

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The mystery of flying ships in ancient Meath that ended up in a Texas newspaper

19 hours ago

Even with more private supply, the State remains central in rental market

19 hours ago

EU Inc is a useful step forward, but more needs to be done to help SMEs

19 hours ago

The Government is right to extend planning exemptions

1 day ago

EU leaders must hold firm on support for Ukraine

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Ireland needs to grow up and get serious about its interests

2 days ago

Should the Tricolour be replaced in a united Ireland?

3 days ago

Maria Steen: St Patrick's Day is a celebration of everything other than Christianity

3 days ago

Violent aggression against violent repression will never bring peace to Iran

4 days ago

Ireland has long been an outlier in the EU. We've just never had the courage to admit it

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The majority of Americans oppose the Iran war. So why aren't they protesting?

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'Even if the US president is an idiot ...' Six lessons from Seán Lemass for today's politicians

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St Patrick's Day celebrations are not a new invention

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How Micheál Martin should handle Trump for St Patrick's Day: 'Lie back and think of Ireland'

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X, C, A, B, MZ: I'm thinking of the lonely alphabet of brave, anonymous women and girls

7 days ago

Ireland's power class has a colonial attitude to the Irish language

7 days ago

Trump's 'little excursion' could leave Iran even more fragmented, unstable and violent

8 days ago

Price of our dependence on fossil fuels is becoming clear yet again

9 days ago

Iran now knows Trump's price point: soaring energy prices

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We ran the British army. In Northern Ireland, let the past be the past

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Here are five ways we can help bring life back to our towns and cities

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My wife, who is not Jewish, asks me if we'll know when it's time to leave Ireland

11 days ago

When will we declare Ireland's road-death toll the public health crisis it is?

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'If you have one diagnosis, you end up with 10': Are we over-medicating mental distress?

12 days ago

The Dubai dream is over. Irish expats can no longer suspend their disbelief

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