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Irish Times - Opinion

As controversy grows over Leaving Cert reform, Northern Ireland is going the other way

6 hours ago

Trump media boycott is not the biggest threat to press freedom

2 hours ago

Ireland's whack-a-mole approach to defence is profoundly concerning

1 day ago

Irish people don't want to live in 'mostly awful' apartments. Here are five ways to fix them

22 hours ago

From quiet quitting to iced coffee: What is Gen Z's problem with work?

6 hours ago

Donald Trump acts as Putin's puppet for reasons shrouded in secrecy

20 hours ago

The new map of Earth is a wake-up call for Ireland

2 days ago

Israel's settlement policy is designed to bury the idea of a two-state solution

3 days ago

The Ed Sheeran controversy made Irish artists the biggest in the world

3 days ago

If AI has a '10% chance' of killing us all by 2030, should I invest in a pension?

3 days ago

My train fare may go up by €606 and that doesn't include the seat

4 days ago

Nobody else is going to turn your child's phone off. But you can't do it alone

4 days ago

Any Celtic crusade against the imperialists in London would be very unwise

4 days ago

Ireland's corporate tax advantage is over. So what's the plan?

5 days ago

For 10 years, I've listened to people say AI will kill us all. Here's what I think

5 days ago

Students are screen hostages. They're losing the ability to switch off and knuckle down

5 days ago

Government is telling us the car comes first

6 hours ago

Some educators are more valued than others

6 hours ago

Regrets? I've forgotten a few − which is one of the benefits of being in my 70s, Ed

6 hours ago

Where are the safe roads?

5 hours ago

Blue-sky thinking: Áine Ryan on the joys of an Indian summer

17 hours ago

New Irish Times poll reveals a fragmenting political landscape

6 hours ago

Trump has sabotaged the UN

17 hours ago

Xi and Trump: a meeting of peers and rivals

1 day ago

Young Irish people say they don't want to stay in the country

1 day ago

What if Lucy Letby never killed a baby? What if no crime was committed?

2 days ago

What links Ireland to Tuvalu, a tiny coral island on the other side of the world?

1 day ago

It is not the will of God that apartments be built on what may be babies' unmarked graves

3 days ago

When two in five Irish people would 'let it burn', we've got a problem

4 days ago

Meet the Irish-American TV star bishop who is about to be beatified

4 days ago

Why do farmers wield such disproportionate power in Ireland? Look at Leinster House

5 days ago

Confusion over Oireachtas expenses exposes how generous TDs' leave really is

1 day ago

Donald Trump's comments on unity crossed a line. Unionists feel let down

8 days ago

Europe is entering a new phase. Ireland may lose out

8 days ago

When almost every fact has a set of alternative facts, good journalism matters more than ever

9 days ago

Donald Trump may have been Britain-baiting, but his statement on unity still mattered

9 days ago

People who would never normally get bail are walking free because of the legal aid row

10 days ago

Ireland's failure premium: All the property schemes do one thing. It's not help buyers

11 days ago

Do data centres pay their own way? The answer is not straightforward

11 days ago

'He was only 88': There is a cosy familiarity to Irish funerals

11 days ago

Both men and women built the GAA. It's time women were given equal treatment

12 days ago

My funny Irish-American mother would be appalled by the things done in her name since 9/11

13 days ago

Jim O'Callaghan can look to UK to see if making life hard for immigrants helps integration

14 days ago

Germany's past crashes into the present

15 days ago

Here is something you do not often see: an optimistic column on the climate crisis

16 days ago