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Irish Times - Opinion

Ireland set to feel the heat from Washington's Maga brigade over Occupied Territories Bill

20 hours ago

Can you have too much democracy?

6 hours ago

As the presidential race begins, ordinary citizens must speak up for democratic principles

1 day ago

Letting gardaí access our WhatsApps and chats to investigate crime could backfire

2 days ago

Entrenched views remain barrier to a proper discussion about Irish unity

20 hours ago

We cannot police the streets if online material is not regulated

20 hours ago

JD Vance hasn't mastered the art of the political holiday

1 day ago

Scotland shows how an apparently unstoppable national cause can stall when mishandled by one party

1 day ago

Israeli hostages not a priority for ministers planning Gaza takeover

2 days ago

Why would 35-year-old CEO Gareth Sheridan want to be entombed in the Áras for seven years?

3 days ago

We in Ireland forget how recently we were the 'crap-job' migrants

3 days ago

Co Clare village's bid to reopen a local pub spells hope for Irish trad music sessions

4 days ago

This presidential election is unlikely to be dull – but remember how crazy 2011's contest was?

5 days ago

Ireland is in an adolescent stage where everything that smacks of Old Ireland is embarrassing

5 days ago

How Ireland's economic future is being carved up in talks in the White House

6 days ago

Ireland's massive problem with 'in-your-face' crime is feeding fear

6 days ago

Letters to the Editor, August 16th: In defence of the Angelus, SUVs, and worshipping Oasis

1 hour ago

An airline and the Small Claims Court

2 hours ago

Winding up Michael O'Leary

20 hours ago

Letters to the Editor, August 15th: On Michael O'Leary, Tony Honohan for president, and shooting dogs

1 day ago

Letters to the Editor, August14th: On MetroLink arguments, calling time on the Angelus, and immigrants and jobs

2 days ago

Barns ignoble – Frank McNally on Tom Waits's barn obsession (and why Macbeth is innocent)

7 hours ago

Oasis in Dublin: a long, lucrative after-party

6 hours ago

The presidential race now looks very different

1 day ago

Effective roads policing is a matter of life and death

1 day ago

The Government must avoid backsliding on vital climate goals

1 day ago

Are school holidays too long? A mother of two and school principal debate

3 days ago

Have we ever really considered what the future of transportation will look like?

3 days ago

The trouble with always having to be right

4 days ago

Diaspora sidelined again in presidential election

4 days ago

Trump seems determined to square the circle of making anti-science work, no matter what the cost

5 days ago

Commission of inquiry into abuse in day and boarding schools must become truly survivor-centred

6 days ago

Why has Gazans' hunger attained the status of 'moral crisis' when Israel's genocidal slaughter did not?

6 days ago

The Irish presidency is a moral role much more than a political one

6 days ago

Oasis revival is 2025's Brat Summer. It lets us dream of a better time

6 days ago

We all need to consume less if we are to save our environment from catastrophe

8 days ago

Sinn Féin, DUP and UUP have united to block plan to fix Lough Neagh

9 days ago

Has Ireland become too pricey for tourists? An economist and a tourism industry representative debate

10 days ago

It's about to get much harder to blame population growth for the climate crisis

10 days ago

Body positivity fell from favour as soon as Ozempic brought thinness back

11 days ago

I am a university lecturer witnessing how AI is shrinking our ability to think

11 days ago

No one sent up Nazi rocket scientist Wernher von Braun better than satirist Tom Lehrer

11 days ago

There's more to Irish history than eight centuries of British oppression and failed uprisings

12 days ago

What will Ireland's costly five-year schools abuse inquiry achieve?

13 days ago

Give me Helen Mirren's refusal to 'age gracefully' over the tech bros who refuse to age at all

13 days ago

How much do landlords in Ireland really earn? You might be surprised

13 days ago