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Citizenship and the Constitution
  • July 17, 2019
Change to census question on religion
  • July 17, 2019
The HSE and reorganisation
  • July 17, 2019
Budgeting and the health service
  • July 17, 2019
Trump’s Twitter outburst
  • July 17, 2019
Parking charges and Ranelagh
  • July 17, 2019
Zimbabwe and the Commonwealth
  • July 17, 2019
The price of insurance
  • July 17, 2019
Voting rights
  • July 17, 2019
National debt
  • July 17, 2019
Wimbledon finals
  • July 17, 2019
The HSE and incessant reorganisation
  • July 16, 2019
Benzodiazepine usage: cause for concern
  • July 16, 2019
The will of the people?
  • July 16, 2019
Bonfires and parades
  • July 16, 2019
Forests and climate change
  • July 16, 2019
Smear test results and a ‘glitch’
  • July 16, 2019
Taoiseach’s views on the UK
  • July 16, 2019
Mindfulness and health
  • July 16, 2019
Probation Service research project
  • July 16, 2019
Children and critics
  • July 16, 2019
Flower power
  • July 16, 2019
‘Religion is simply irrelevant to science’
  • July 15, 2019
Political expediency and patient safety
  • July 15, 2019
A mountain of debt
  • July 15, 2019
Sharing the road
  • July 15, 2019
Remembering Noel Whelan
  • July 15, 2019
Storm in a coffee cup
  • July 15, 2019
What we pick up on the beaches
  • July 15, 2019
Dr Ethna MacCarthy
  • July 15, 2019
Hold the avocado
  • July 15, 2019
‘Charter for Compassion’
  • July 15, 2019
Patient safety and hospital restructuring
  • July 13, 2019
Time for the DUP to accept defeat?
  • July 13, 2019
Brexit and compromise on the backstop
  • July 13, 2019
Diplomatic remarks
  • July 13, 2019
Remembering Brendan Grace
  • July 13, 2019
Mindfulness and health
  • July 13, 2019
Children and restaurants – food for thought?
  • July 13, 2019
House prices and warnings
  • July 13, 2019
German children in postwar Ireland
  • July 13, 2019
A bit rich?
  • July 13, 2019
Needing an army
  • July 13, 2019
Not out
  • July 13, 2019
Pack up your worries
  • July 13, 2019
Public health and the price of alcohol
  • July 12, 2019
Orange Order and the 12th
  • July 12, 2019
The price of Brexit
  • July 12, 2019
Cannabis, medicine and the law
  • July 12, 2019
Remembering Noel Whelan
  • July 12, 2019
Resignation of British ambassador to US
  • July 12, 2019
The DUP’s unionist credentials
  • July 12, 2019
TDs and travel allowance
  • July 12, 2019
The role of charities
  • July 12, 2019
Bus Connects and Dublin’s trees
  • July 12, 2019
When the cat’s away
  • July 12, 2019
Wild about Harding
  • July 12, 2019
Brexit, the backstop and the economy
  • July 11, 2019
Do we even need the Army?
  • July 11, 2019
Forestry and the climate emergency
  • July 11, 2019
Political expediency and patient safety
  • July 11, 2019
Air quality in Dublin
  • July 11, 2019
Plastic waste and ocean life
  • July 11, 2019
Talking about adoption
  • July 11, 2019
Today and tomorrow
  • July 11, 2019
State pensions and pensioners
  • July 11, 2019
Leinster House intruder
  • July 11, 2019
Wimbledon – fists of fury
  • July 11, 2019
Not so sweet
  • July 11, 2019
A bit rich?
  • July 11, 2019
Defending the Defence Forces
  • July 10, 2019
Ordaining married men to the priesthood
  • July 10, 2019
Brexit and defending national interests
  • July 10, 2019
Alcohol Bill to boost profits of retailers
  • July 10, 2019
Diplomacy in the age of Trump
  • July 10, 2019
Travellers and life expectancy figures
  • July 10, 2019
Mobile phone and road users
  • July 10, 2019
In thrall to global capitalism?
  • July 10, 2019
Founder of Penneys
  • July 10, 2019
Switching utilities
  • July 10, 2019
Charity and the housing crisis
  • July 10, 2019
Political expediency and patient safety
  • July 9, 2019
Time to evacuate Libyan detention sites
  • July 9, 2019
Adoption and the right to information
  • July 9, 2019
Charity and the housing crisis
  • July 9, 2019
Why Brexit is not the problem
  • July 9, 2019
Sharing the road
  • July 9, 2019
‘Okay for everything?’
  • July 9, 2019
A cone-shaped economic indicator
  • July 9, 2019
Pensions and pensioners
  • July 9, 2019
Diplomatic insights
  • July 9, 2019
Today and tomorrow
  • July 9, 2019
As pretty as a picture
  • July 9, 2019
Minister needs to implement Alcohol Bill
  • July 8, 2019
Responsibility for fallout from Brexit crash-out
  • July 8, 2019
Brexit calls for greater North-South co-operation
  • July 8, 2019
More than beef at stake in trade deal
  • July 8, 2019
Will cyclists get the message?
  • July 8, 2019
Between the covers
  • July 8, 2019

Editorials

The Irish Times view on the tracker mortgage scandal: a partial reckoning

We still don’t know who made the key decisions and on what grounds they did so

The Irish Times view on global hunger: progress has stalled

More than 820 million people are going hungry in the world

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Yes votes at the referendum count in the RDS. The 2004 referendum “effectively amended not just the Constitution but also the Belfast Agreement”. File photograph: Joe St Leger Fintan O’Toole: The 2004 referendum on citizenship was a disgrace to Irish democracy
NTMA head Conor O’Kelly stated with “100 per cent” certainty that Ireland will enter a recession. When the man charged with borrowing money for the State announces such calamitous news, people sit up and worry.’ Photograph: Nick Bradshaw David McWilliams: Stop the recession talk. It’s not happening
Institutional investors have been attracted by high rents, not vice versa. Photograph: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg Foreign investors have been made scapegoats for Ireland's housing crisis

Letters

Citizenship and the Constitution
Change to census question on religion
The HSE and reorganisation
Budgeting and the health service
Trump’s Twitter outburst
Parking charges and Ranelagh
Zimbabwe and the Commonwealth
The price of insurance
Voting rights
National debt

Our Columnists

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Kathy Sheridan: Water crisis and Brexit mess show we are still living in 1977

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Una Mullally: Noel Whelan was a hero and an ally

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David McWilliams: Stop the recession talk. It’s not happening

Pat Leahy Pat Leahy - Political Editor

Pat Leahy: Greens well-positioned for the next election

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