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Irish Times - Opinion

'It is vulgar to drink from your saucer': 37 rules for life by the Christian Brothers

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Ian Robertson: This comment by Kobe McDonald holds the secret to Mayo's win

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Were this summer's heatwaves caused by El Niño, or something even more terrifying?

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Meet the Irish woman standing at the most visible conducting podium in the world

1 day ago

Why do people in Ireland speak so few languages?

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'Embrace boredom' may not be the winning parenting strategy you think

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Hell is empty and all the devils are in my social media feed

2 days ago

Is the Irish economy really Trump-proof? We'd better hope so

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Ireland's Potemkin budget: figures belong in the fiction section of the library

3 days ago

Gay Byrne was the first big beast broadcaster. Claire Byrne was the last

3 days ago

Two psychologists are at war over children and phones. Which one is right?

3 days ago

There's a reason the State gets away with wasting so much of our money

3 days ago

Most important quality of any politician? A certain nonchalance

4 days ago

Andy Burnham likes to be liked. There could hardly be a worse qualification for the job

5 days ago

Why all the anti-Dublin bias?

5 days ago

What have Wayne Rooney and Jack Chambers got in common? They both need to cut the crap

6 days ago

Argentina should look to Kerry to learn how to lose with dignity

10 hours ago

MetroLink: A vanity project? Think of what else we could spend €20bn on

23 hours ago

Water rates could help alleviate Ireland's drought problem – but will they ever be introduced?

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We all were Mayo for that moment

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Retirement of sports journalist Seán Moran an end of an era

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Perfect confection: Cian Flaherty on that strange Irish concoction called gur cake

10 hours ago

Squeeze on house buyers tightens further

9 hours ago

Childcare will be one of the crunch issues of Budget 2027

9 hours ago

Government evasions on Aughinish are a failure of duty

1 day ago

Transatlantic trade tensions roll on

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Two mentally ill prisoners had to share a cell in an overcrowded prison. One lost his eye

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Human rights defender or dangerous criminal? A German court will decide Dubliner's fate

2 days ago

Search for the meaning of life is a wild-goose chase

3 days ago

Aughinish report is thin gruel as Russian demands for Irish alumina ramp up

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Lara Marlowe: Robots have brought a 'horrifying intimacy' to warfare

4 days ago

There's a bitter irony in the failure of a celebration of Friel's work to get funding

4 days ago

If you think public sector workers have it better, that's because we do

5 days ago

Viktor Orbán is gone, but the EU has a new headache in Bulgaria's leader Rumen Radev

6 days ago

I am a detective garda. Here's why an e-scooter ban is unenforceable

7 days ago

Move to a four-day week and ditch plastic straws: 10 steps to boost your sustainability

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What to do if you suspect a spy in your midst in Ireland

8 days ago

Will the 'Michael Lowry gambit' work for Marine Le Pen and Nigel Farage?

8 days ago

Garden cabins, rural sprawl and tiny apartments: housing has become a numbers game

9 days ago

Knock on the wall: A vision of Irish America in New York's St Patrick's Cathedral

10 days ago

What caused the Lorcan Murphy I knew to become a killer?

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Italia 90 changed Ireland, but the untold story of that year was the women's game

11 days ago

Despite renewed strikes and Trump's bluster, both sides want an end to Iran conflict

12 days ago

Politicians bemoan RTÉ's failures, then make them worse

13 days ago

What Vienna and Marino can teach Ireland about making housing affordable

14 days ago

We live on an island where we drink, swim and wash in water laced with our own excrement

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