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Irish Times - Opinion

Lara Marlowe: Trump wanted a distraction. So he turned the world into a lawless jungle

2 days ago

Will Americans want to visit a Richard Nixon interpretive centre just outside Naas?

2 days ago

Young Iranians never chose this war

2 days ago

Women should not be the target audience for International Women's Day

2 days ago

In Ireland, we'll talk about anything except the meaning of life

18 hours ago

My wife, who is not Jewish, asks me if we'll know when it's time to leave Ireland

18 hours ago

When will we declare Ireland's road-death toll the public health crisis it is?

18 hours ago

'If you have one diagnosis, you end up with 10': Are we over-medicating mental distress?

1 day ago

All babies who die in the womb as a result of crime must be recognised as people

18 hours ago

Government inquiry into home heating oil and petrol prices is a political diversion

2 days ago

There's no chance of an end to the Burke family circus – and maybe that's not a bad thing

2 days ago

Disruption to gas rather than oil might hit Ireland most dramatically

2 days ago

UUP leader might have point about an Irish Government apology for conduct in Troubles

3 days ago

Donald Trump's pressure-cooker approach to Iran was always going to explode

3 days ago

Why shouldn't Irish politicians be allowed to have nice things?

4 days ago

No wonder Tommy Robinson has become a Maga hero

4 days ago

Potholes say a lot about the similarities between the two parts of Ireland

4 days ago

If Putin was wrong to invade Ukraine, Trump is wrong to invade Iran

5 days ago

Letters to the Editor, March 9th: On teenage binge drinking, war in the Middle East and late post

18 hours ago

A solution to oil price increases

2 days ago

A cast of characters: Hamnet, Hamlet, William Shakespeare and James Joyce

5 hours ago

High economic stakes are at play in Gulf conflict

3 hours ago

Difficult choices lie ahead on the economy

1 day ago

The EU Savings and Investment Union is a project worth supporting

1 day ago

Conflict in the Gulf leading to chaos and possible civil war

3 days ago

The Dubai dream is over. Irish expats can no longer suspend their disbelief

1 day ago

Micheál Martin must strike right balance on nerve-racking Washington assignment

1 day ago

Within Islam, Iran is a country apart

2 days ago

Catriona Crowe: The one question women and girls need to ask about sex

3 days ago

The traditional arts degree has had its day. It needs to be reinvented, not dumped

4 days ago

US multinationals will not flee Ireland just because we stand up to Donald Trump

5 days ago

Park & ride and contactless payment: how to fix Dublin's broken transport system

6 days ago

This is a serious blow to the Iranian regime – but it is unlikely to be immediately fatal

7 days ago

A garda sergeant spied on two adult men having sex. But he wasn't prosecuted. They were

7 days ago

A row over horse manure has led to community tensions in my Dublin neighbourhood

7 days ago

Sam Altman's AI comments reveal a distinctly anti-human world view

8 days ago

The Bahá'ís in Iran have been suffering persecution since the 1800s

8 days ago

Simon Harris can't stop announcing his new investment scheme. This says a lot about him

8 days ago

Trump's goal in attacking Iran is unclear. So are the consequences

8 days ago

If Ireland can build a sewerage plant this beautiful, why allow such ugly data centres?

9 days ago

The most significant overhaul of asylum law in three decades shouldn't be this rushed

11 days ago

Parents of children with special needs should not have to fight for everything

9 days ago

Why Dún Laoghaire should have a full naval base

11 days ago

Four years on, Ukrainians no longer believe in anything but the weapons they carry

13 days ago

Why former supermodel Tyra Banks is prompting unexpected philosophical questions

14 days ago