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Irish Times - Opinion

Sinn Féin condemns dissident violence, but does it truly back the police?

22 hours ago

This May Day, remember the vital role protest plays in a vibrant democracy

20 hours ago

Trauma is ongoing for most children and families in Palestine. How can Ireland help?

1 day ago

Should planning rules for one-off housing be relaxed? Opinions for and against

2 days ago

Ireland should learn a lesson from UK's futile efforts at pleasing Trump

15 hours ago

Do character references serve any good in a court system bound by rules of evidence?

1 day ago

We must never repeat the colossal damage we inflicted on ourselves during Covid-19

1 day ago

Fianna Fáil created a middle class but has little to say to a generation unable to join it

2 days ago

Leo Varadkar is seeking and gaining attention. But why?

3 days ago

Do you take the Peig Sayers or the Friedrich Nietzsche view of life?

3 days ago

Is Sinn Féin really any closer to achieving its goals than it was half a decade ago?

4 days ago

How can we square €500 Ryder Cup tickets and a €9bn surplus with talk of a world recession?

4 days ago

How will Catherine Connolly represent those beyond her own ideological orbit?

4 days ago

Could the US go downhill for good following Trump's war on Iran?

5 days ago

The 1926 census has drawn me into a web of wonder

6 days ago

Dear political parties. Now is really not the time to talk about deposing your leader

7 days ago

Role of Protestant churches in mother and baby institutions

11 hours ago

Understanding the Army's role

20 hours ago

Where is the Government's promised emergency booklet?

22 hours ago

Once-off housing, garden cities and garden sheds

22 hours ago

Vulnerable road users and e-bikes

22 hours ago

Road to perdition: Frank McNally on the strange, tragic fate of a Kerry historian in 1920s America

8 hours ago

Implementation will be everything with Ireland's nature plan

7 hours ago

The ECB has only given borrowers a temporary reprieve

8 hours ago

The Government needs to ramp up its response to AI

1 day ago

Time to halt the Children's Science Centre fiasco

1 day ago

Legal or illegal, Ireland's emissions failure will damage the world

21 hours ago

Trump's God complex is not a sign of madness but a belief in his absolute power

3 days ago

'Shedsit' garden cabins could become a rental black market

3 days ago

There's a voyeuristic thrill in snooping on others' homes, including Vogue William's pink kitchen

4 days ago

Ireland hasn't vanished over the past 50 years – it has simply changed

5 days ago

Pope Leo is the religious leader non-believers needed

5 days ago

Adi Roche: My nightmare is that the next Chernobyl event occurs at Chernobyl itself

5 days ago

Ireland's population is told it has never been richer, yet it has never felt poorer

5 days ago

Our message is always 'it's not your fault'. Why does society sometimes say otherwise?

6 days ago

In the middle of a housing crisis, why are our town centres so empty?

6 days ago

Plan for new 'inclusive special classes' is anything but inclusive

7 days ago

Any battle between Catherine Connolly and the Government will be purely symbolic

8 days ago

This autumn could see the return of remote learning. We need to start planning for it now

8 days ago

'Saving the family' is really about putting women back in their boxes

8 days ago

The simple text message that helped France cut its electricity usage by 10%

9 days ago

Ireland is 'delivering' more social homes, but that doesn't mean it is building them

9 days ago

Men might have coined the term, but women invented 'looksmaxxing'

10 days ago

Orbán was defeated by a vote 'too big to rig'. Could Trump follow?

10 days ago

Patrick O'Donovan's attack on RTÉ was wrong, but he had a point about the media

11 days ago

Jim O'Callaghan crossed a dangerous line when he threatened to call in the Army

11 days ago