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Irish Times - Opinion

Australia's social media ban for under-16s is an important test case

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Ireland dodged a bullet this year. But there's a caveat

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Christmas rituals assume women have endless free time

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Bringing the Ukraine war to its endgame is going to mean messy compromises

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Alice Leahy: I have learned there is no single story about being homeless

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Leaving Cert AI reforms risk making a mockery of the principle of equality

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In Ireland, the 'working poor' will determine future elections

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I would not quite say I admire Enoch Burke, but I do find him weirdly impressive

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Irish fretting about the triple lock seems faintly ridiculous in light of Russia threat

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If we're going to start renaming everything, we should dename Ireland

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Border was confirmed a century ago but the blame game is still a live issue

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Maybe it's time to scrap Spotify Wrapped?

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Northern Ireland may be left in a migration limbo. That's a problem for the Republic

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Falling in love with Robert F Kennedy jnr wasn't Olivia Nuzzi's biggest mistake

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Sinn Féin should study its own political history before demanding Herzog Park be renamed

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'Hello, are you in Galway tonight?' Sex trafficking was here long before the Epstein files

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Fintan O'Toole: Ireland has two economies, one bourgeois, one proletarian. Both are broken

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Letters to the Editor, December 6th: On RTÉ's Eurovision boycott, taxis, drones and commuter woes

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In praise of the M50

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Letters to the Editor, December 5th: On traffic congestion and the M50, refreshing RTÉ and a letter to Santa

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The decline of the rural pub

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Letters to the Editor, December 4th: On Herzog Park, e-scooter dangers and dysfunctional government departments

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Kerry colossus: Denis McClean remembers Con Houlihan, a giant of Irish journalism

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Ireland's infrastructure is an omnishambles which blights our lives

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Eurovision boycott shows song contest is not 'above politics'

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Evidence of the brutal legacy of Assad's Syria has been uncovered

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Ireland is brilliant at identifying problems and terrible at solving them

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We can't keep objecting to wind farms 10km out to sea if we want Ireland to progress

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PR campaigns are not enough to stop people dying on our roads. Here is what we need to do

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Jack Chambers needs to tackle the culture issues in his own department

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Ireland has a choice on migration: Follow the UK into the vortex or hold on to its values

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Chief Rabbi: Move to erase Chaim Herzog's name and history is cruel hammer blow

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ICC judges wanted Netanyahu arrested. Now they're being targeted by Trump

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A short document with an enduring message: we belong to a single family with one origin and goal

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A neuropsychologist's view: Arne Slot seeded a 'loser effect' in Liverpool. Here's how to fix it

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In a normal country, Donald Trump and Steve Witkoff would be tried for treason

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Rich are getting richer, poor are getting poorer and the middle class is disappearing

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Ambassador Edward Walsh: Ireland's future is to be a bridge and interpreter between US and Europe

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Judicial reviews are not the problem – and deregulation is no answer

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How different it would be if politicians had to use public transport

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Is processed food bad for you?

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Zohran Mamdani has scrambled the calculus of success for the Democrats

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The real migration crisis is not the one you've been hearing about

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A McCarthyite fervour has overtaken Ireland where Israel is concerned

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The belief that technology could allow us to speak to the dead is deeply human

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Two-thirds of humanity live in places where religious freedom is violated

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