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Irish Times - Opinion

Too many Irish teachers are wrecked and hate their jobs

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Senator George Mitchell: Northern Ireland's peace must evolve. And if it is here to stay it must be shared

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Neuropsychologist Ian Robertson: McIlroy's reaction to double bogey was one of the strangest things at the Masters

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Netflix levy: A boost for homegrown television or a blow to consumers?

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Why are Donald Trump and his architects of chaos obsessed with Ireland?

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Latest controversy to engulf Stormont is over the definition of 'controversial'

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I was glad to see Conor McGregor mixing with Tucker Carlson. His stock is now even lower

1 day ago

Conor McGregor is the weirdest objection yet to plans for an elected Dublin mayor

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The fragmented EU will struggle in negotiations with the US

1 day ago

There's a psychosexual dimension to Trump's tariffs. You don't have to be Freud to see it

2 days ago

Could there be good reason to believe in life after death?

3 days ago

Why are most new housing schemes in Dublin city so terrible?

3 days ago

How is a school with €8,000 supposed to pay €10,000 worth of bills?

4 days ago

I've never thought of myself as a natural-born opinion columnist, I just say what I see

4 days ago

Turkish Trump Erdogan didn't reckon with the power of a younger generation

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This week has made one thing clear - there is no hidden masterplan behind Trump's tariff madness

5 days ago

Grimy Dublin in the 1980s

18 hours ago

Letters to the Editor, April 17th: On cycle lanes, inheritance planning, and butterflies and bogeys

18 hours ago

An upside of technology

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Letters to the Editor, April 16th: On access to the countryside, the cost of uniting Ireland and Minecraft the Movie

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Letters to the Editor, April 15th: On right of access, 'hell on Earth' in Gaza, and AI risks to artists

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All Yellow - Frank McNally on singing Emily Dickinson, Joyce's advanced maths, and quantum mechanics in Blackrock

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As the ECB cuts again, the transatlantic divide on interest rates is widening

3 hours ago

Trump's attack on US universities is a key step in his culture wars

4 hours ago

The latest Irish Times Ipsos B&A opinion poll shows there has been no honeymoon for the Coalition

16 hours ago

The gap between Ireland's two economies is growing

1 day ago

The antidote to Trump's tariff chaos is a clean and green trade agreement

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As famine warning lights flash red in Sudan, US aid cuts hamper the international response

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Efforts to expel two Irish citizens symptom of a growing exhaustion in Germany

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Commission on abuse in schools must examine how seminary training formed perpetrators

5 days ago

Spinal surgeries: When no one is responsible or accountable, shocking incidents likely to happen again

6 days ago

There is one risk to Ireland's future progress that dwarfs even pandemics, terrorism and tariffs

7 days ago

Harris and Martin squirmed as Sinn Féin found an emotive way to expose Government duplicity

8 days ago

When only wealthy fathers take paternity leave, something is broken

9 days ago

Independent journalism urgently needs better legal protection

10 days ago

Pope Francis's synodal reforms: Vatican II 60 years on

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More land, housing at scale and other myths about Ireland's housing crisis

11 days ago

When AI images become 'an insult to life itself'

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My son Ted is about to finish three years of leukaemia treatment. What happens now?

12 days ago

EU faces moment of truth as it faces threats from Trump's tariffs and Putin's war

14 days ago

'It's time to move on': Unease is growing among my friends in the tech sector

15 days ago

Debate: Should Ireland build more data centres?

16 days ago

Investment in public transport is key to success of revised national planning framework

16 days ago

Nobody wants to stay in hospital longer than necessary. There's a better way to handle patient discharge

17 days ago

'Mother' and 'Mammy' were words that meant only loss etched on a headstone - until they applied to me

18 days ago

How the two-income mortgage marked a turning point in Irish family life

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