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Irish Times - Opinion

Drumcree row is a useful smokescreen for cynical Sinn Féin and DUP

10 hours ago

What one Kerry road tells us about speed limits and road safety

10 hours ago

Benefits of Ireland's solar boom should not go only to the big energy firms

1 day ago

Northern Ireland is staring into the abyss. The peace process is at its weakest since 1998

2 days ago

You don't boycott an Ed Sheeran tour just to look cool with a peace sign. Boycotts hurt

10 hours ago

Drumcree standoff puts a significant achievement of the peace process at risk

1 day ago

Micheál Martin did something unique in our history, making what happened next even worse

1 day ago

Not everyone wants to be in a nursing home. A Dutch dementia village is one alternative

2 days ago

As Traitors Ireland shows us, you shouldn't be ashamed to cry

2 days ago

If the EU continues to drift, disintegration becomes a more plausible future

2 days ago

A mother stalking her 19-year-old online is demented – but not in the way you think

3 days ago

It's hard not to have sympathy for Lena Dunham. But there's a darker side to surrogacy

3 days ago

Our tax take used to be reliant on three companies. Now it hinges on one weight-loss drug

3 days ago

Something big happened to the 'most important price in the world' this week

4 days ago

Ireland is experiencing a surge in immigration. This raises questions for our tax and welfare system

4 days ago

Why did it take Michael O'Leary 10 days to cop on that his comments on rape were wrong?

5 days ago

Let's have less of seen and done

10 hours ago

Putting Ireland's property tax in perspective

10 hours ago

Permanent price reductions, not temporary measures

10 hours ago

The sadness of not being present for your child

2 hours ago

Electricity is vital for life, so should be supplied as cheaply as possible

2 hours ago

Shunning victory: Frank McNally on 146 years of the 'boycott'

21 hours ago

Ireland's education system performs well on many metrics

19 hours ago

Andy Burnham has taken his first big gamble

21 hours ago

The budget and energy: hope is not a strategy

1 day ago

Scoliosis inquiry must meet needs of families

1 day ago

Here's how to do hot school meals right

2 days ago

Anna Daly: I had a miscarriage. I had one week to grieve

3 days ago

My son has missed a lot of school. Like many parents, I'm not too worried

4 days ago

Is Ireland still a place 'open to everything except for God'?

4 days ago

U2 are sometimes dismissed as do-gooders, but the last 50 years have proven it is no act

5 days ago

Trump media boycott is not the biggest threat to press freedom

6 days ago

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

7 days ago

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

7 days ago

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

8 days ago

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

7 days ago

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

9 days ago

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

10 days ago

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

10 days ago

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

11 days ago

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

7 days ago

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

14 days ago

Europe is entering a new phase. Ireland may lose out

14 days ago

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

15 days ago

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

15 days ago

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

16 days ago