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Irish Times - Opinion

Most important quality of any politician? A certain nonchalance

8 hours ago

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

8 hours ago

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

3 hours ago

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

1 day ago

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

1 day ago

Why all the anti-Dublin bias?

1 day ago

Ireland will remain dependent on gas unless we embrace nuclear

2 days ago

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

2 days ago

Odysseus is all around us, not just in Christopher Nolan's blockbuster

3 days ago

Scaling back remote working should be on the agenda as payback for public sector pay rises

4 days ago

Stories win elections. So why are some politicians so bad at telling them?

4 days ago

Nothing in my adult life can match the visceral joy and ecstatic anxiety of sport

7 days ago

Why Simon Harris will really struggle to move the dial on income tax in the Budget

5 days ago

Ann Widdecombe defended free speech. But it's hard to defend some reactions to her death

5 days ago

Should you put your Dryrobe on Vinted? 11 pressing heatwave-related questions

6 days ago

If you get up at a ridiculous hour to sit in horrendous traffic, there may be good news in the budget

4 days ago

Plea for religiously mixed schools bound to fall on deaf ears

8 hours ago

Ban on using nuclear power for infrastructure around Ireland should be repealed

8 hours ago

Childcare professionals deserve pay in line with their value to society

8 hours ago

Camaraderie is a poor reason for a return to the office

8 hours ago

Frank McNally: Dublin is dirtier than ever and badly needs a downpour

8 hours ago

Zelenskiy makes his choice amid military tensions

18 hours ago

The menace of Irish wildfires is becoming ever more common

19 hours ago

Prudence must not take second place in the framing of the budget

1 day ago

Is Northern Ireland a priority for Andy Burnham?

1 day ago

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

2 days ago

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

3 days ago

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

3 days ago

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

4 days ago

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

4 days ago

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

5 days ago

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

5 days ago

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

6 days ago

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

7 days ago

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

8 days ago

Politicians bemoan RTÉ's failures, then make them worse

9 days ago

What Vienna and Marino can teach Ireland about making housing affordable

10 days ago

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

10 days ago

Referendums aren't always a good idea. Ever tried to vote out 'the people'?

11 days ago

Why do goalkeepers dive right when their team is losing?

11 days ago

Irish Presbyterians still coming to terms with fallout from safeguarding issues

12 days ago

I've had near misses as a journalist. But a holiday swim was the closest I came to dying

12 days ago

Ireland's attitude to a 'flutter on the horses' is wrecking lives

13 days ago

Life in France in 40 degree heat: Parisian heat traps are only part of the equation

12 days ago

The Government is trying to undermine climate laws. President Connolly could stop it

15 days ago