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Polling and politics
  • June 12, 2021
Crosswords – take me to your leader
  • June 12, 2021
Dying with Dignity Bill
  • June 12, 2021
Leprechaun economics
  • June 12, 2021
Opus Dei
  • June 12, 2021
A good news story or deflection?
  • June 12, 2021
Renaming Dublin Airport
  • June 12, 2021
You’ve got to know when to fold them
  • June 12, 2021
Unfair barriers to higher education
  • June 12, 2021
Reserved judgment
  • June 12, 2021
Sausage diplomacy
  • June 12, 2021
High maintenance
  • June 12, 2021
Vaccine delay
  • June 12, 2021
Our hands are tied
  • June 12, 2021
Protocol dilemma
  • June 11, 2021
Nuclear energy’s complications
  • June 11, 2021
Political polling
  • June 11, 2021
Hedges and ditches
  • June 11, 2021
Tsars in their eyes
  • June 11, 2021
Exam weather
  • June 11, 2021
Images and protest
  • June 11, 2021
Flights of fancy – renaming Dublin Airport
  • June 11, 2021
Online banking
  • June 11, 2021
President Higgins and higher education
  • June 10, 2021
A fair global taxation system?
  • June 10, 2021
Taking the knee
  • June 10, 2021
Dying with Dignity Bill
  • June 10, 2021
The environment and electric cars
  • June 10, 2021
Leprechaun economics
  • June 10, 2021
Crosswords – take me to your leader
  • June 10, 2021
NI – time for independence?
  • June 10, 2021
Advice to correspondents
  • June 10, 2021
Exam weather
  • June 10, 2021
Catholic weddings
  • June 10, 2021
Flight of fancy
  • June 10, 2021
The environment and electric cars
  • June 9, 2021
Outdoor drinking facilities – think big
  • June 9, 2021
Buses getting more Loop the Loopy?
  • June 9, 2021
Words and phrases we won’t miss
  • June 9, 2021
Judicial appointments
  • June 9, 2021
The housing crisis
  • June 9, 2021
Our priorities are skewed
  • June 9, 2021
Nuclear energy’s complications
  • June 9, 2021
Water treatment
  • June 9, 2021
Staycation costs
  • June 9, 2021
Time for a driver theory test amnesty
  • June 9, 2021
Renaming Dublin Airport
  • June 9, 2021
Quick on the draw
  • June 9, 2021
Crisis in the forestry sector
  • June 8, 2021
The housing crisis and the Constitution
  • June 8, 2021
MetroLink South
  • June 8, 2021
Lawns and grass verges
  • June 8, 2021
A dominion once again?
  • June 8, 2021
European-style social insurance
  • June 8, 2021
Climate crisis and nuclear energy
  • June 8, 2021
Benchmarking
  • June 8, 2021
Clued in
  • June 8, 2021
Mental health supports for young people
  • June 7, 2021
Catholic ethos in schools
  • June 7, 2021
Property tax and income tax
  • June 7, 2021
Energy-guzzling data centres
  • June 7, 2021
FF and FG – join the dots
  • June 7, 2021
Religion and hospitals
  • June 7, 2021
Advertisers and junk food
  • June 7, 2021
A session in the garden
  • June 7, 2021
Transport – look to the sea
  • June 7, 2021
There’s more to life than the Leaving
  • June 7, 2021
Inner and centre
  • June 7, 2021
Make the most of it
  • June 7, 2021
Dying with Dignity Bill
  • June 5, 2021
Tax breaks for ‘green’ funds
  • June 5, 2021
Staycation costs
  • June 5, 2021
Family input in psychiatry
  • June 5, 2021
Small classrooms – squaring the circle
  • June 5, 2021
National Maternity Hospital
  • June 5, 2021
Rosslare to Waterford rail line
  • June 5, 2021
UK immigration policies
  • June 5, 2021
Local property tax
  • June 5, 2021
Fresh vegetables
  • June 5, 2021
Garda drug testing
  • June 5, 2021
City living
  • June 5, 2021
Snow days and school
  • June 5, 2021
Outdoor thinking
  • June 5, 2021
Property and taxation
  • June 4, 2021
EU tax loopholes keep citizens in the dark
  • June 4, 2021
Snow days – an outdoor winter?
  • June 4, 2021
Dying with Dignity Bill
  • June 4, 2021
Boris Johnson’s wedding
  • June 4, 2021
Sport stars and the media
  • June 4, 2021
Top of the class
  • June 4, 2021
A clean bill of health?
  • June 4, 2021
Public conveniences
  • June 4, 2021
Give me a break
  • June 4, 2021
Taking a stand
  • June 4, 2021

Editorials

The Irish Times view on Northern Ireland politics

For Dublin and London, a distracted DUP leader is a bigger problem than an intransigent-sounding one

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Functions that are locally controlled in almost every other European country – policing, health and social care, schools – are in Ireland almost entirely controlled from the centre. Fintan O’Toole: Are we too stupid to be trusted with making choices about our own regions?
WB Yeats: arguably the arch sage. Photograph: Getty 8:20 David McWilliams: Educated elite have become more left wing
Tánaiste Leo Varadkar admitted Fine Gael engaged in ‘similar’ practices to Sinn Féin on door-to-door polling. File photograph: Nick Bradshaw/The Irish Times 5:53 Jennifer O’Connell: Public right to be cynical about Irish politics

Letters

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Crosswords – take me to your leader
Dying with Dignity Bill
Leprechaun economics
Opus Dei
A good news story or deflection?
Renaming Dublin Airport
You’ve got to know when to fold them
Unfair barriers to higher education
Reserved judgment

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