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Meat consumption and its impact on the environment
  • January 22, 2019
Brexit – reality and rhetoric
  • January 22, 2019
Planning fallacy and cost overruns
  • January 22, 2019
Marriage equality in Northern Ireland
  • January 22, 2019
No fada on Leap card
  • January 22, 2019
‘Poetry of the Dáil’
  • January 22, 2019
Seasonal songs
  • January 22, 2019
Midges
  • January 22, 2019
Organ donation and transplants
  • January 21, 2019
Central America and migration
  • January 21, 2019
Sinn Féin and Venezuela
  • January 21, 2019
‘Young Scientists’ a source of pride
  • January 21, 2019
Religion, schools and rights of parents
  • January 21, 2019
Irish citizens in the North
  • January 21, 2019
Focus on Drogheda
  • January 21, 2019
Stately columns
  • January 21, 2019
The Irish at Versailles
  • January 21, 2019
Brexit – deal or no deal?
  • January 19, 2019
The law and funding of Irish NGOs
  • January 19, 2019
Meat, health and climate change
  • January 19, 2019
The picture of health
  • January 19, 2019
Drink-driving checkpoints
  • January 19, 2019
Out, damned popcorn
  • January 19, 2019
Dear Diary
  • January 19, 2019
Tackling litter at the source
  • January 19, 2019
A song for the season
  • January 19, 2019
Brexit – a question of time
  • January 18, 2019
International funds for NGOs and the law
  • January 18, 2019
Schools, patronage and parental rights
  • January 18, 2019
Al-Shabaab and Nairobi massacre
  • January 18, 2019
Eating meat and the climate crisis
  • January 18, 2019
Dear Diary
  • January 18, 2019
Brexit deal rejection – red lines and hard choices
  • January 17, 2019
Red meat – the impact on human health and the environment
  • January 17, 2019
History and political violence
  • January 17, 2019
National Children’s Hospital
  • January 17, 2019
Adult children and grown-up choices
  • January 17, 2019
Dealing with an impasse
  • January 17, 2019
Ayes to the right
  • January 17, 2019
Strange times
  • January 17, 2019
Murder of Gdansk’s mayor
  • January 16, 2019
History and political violence
  • January 16, 2019
The Palestinian right of return
  • January 16, 2019
Brexit and enduring divisions
  • January 16, 2019
Schools and patronage
  • January 16, 2019
Property tax dilemma
  • January 16, 2019
Social media – the new smoking?
  • January 16, 2019
The arts and market forces
  • January 16, 2019
Taoiseach right to highlight overseas aid
  • January 16, 2019
Data protection – a chilling effect
  • January 16, 2019
Pass or offload?
  • January 16, 2019
Headlights
  • January 16, 2019
Visit to male-only monastery
  • January 16, 2019
Price of a non-alcoholic drink
  • January 16, 2019
Abortion protests
  • January 16, 2019
Status of Palestinian refugees
  • January 15, 2019
Brexit and a question of leadership
  • January 15, 2019
US constitutional crisis beckons
  • January 15, 2019
‘Can coursing be good for hares?’
  • January 15, 2019
The forgotten centenary of January 1919
  • January 15, 2019
‘Varadkar defends visit to monastery’
  • January 15, 2019
Yellow vests and the media
  • January 15, 2019
Public interest and public services
  • January 15, 2019
Votes for emigrants
  • January 15, 2019
Hard questions
  • January 15, 2019
Fray Bentos pie chart
  • January 15, 2019
Action needed on school divestment
  • January 14, 2019
National Cultural Institutions
  • January 14, 2019
Palestinian refugees
  • January 14, 2019
Plans for students with disabilities
  • January 14, 2019
‘Active hope’ springs eternal
  • January 14, 2019
Donald Trump’s wall – a literary parallel
  • January 14, 2019
Folk medicine
  • January 14, 2019
Valuing our Defence Forces
  • January 14, 2019
‘Nobody wants a hard border’
  • January 14, 2019
Cultural institutions
  • January 12, 2019
Children’s hospital and spiralling costs
  • January 12, 2019
Anti-abortion protests at medical facilities
  • January 12, 2019
GPs and the health service
  • January 12, 2019
Women and work in the home
  • January 12, 2019
Waiting for Bojo
  • January 12, 2019
Dogs and leads
  • January 12, 2019
Take me to your leader
  • January 12, 2019
Hard question
  • January 12, 2019
Larry Gogan – golden memories
  • January 12, 2019
Abortion services and protesters
  • January 11, 2019
The Abbey Theatre and cultural life
  • January 11, 2019
More to accessing nature than uplands
  • January 11, 2019
Time for a national ID card system
  • January 11, 2019
Repossession of secondhand cars
  • January 11, 2019
Paddy Ashdown and Northern Ireland
  • January 11, 2019
Eir and customer service
  • January 11, 2019
Donald Trump and a wall
  • January 11, 2019
On the trail of the onager
  • January 11, 2019
The Abbey and cultural institutions
  • January 10, 2019
Nurses, pay and the health service
  • January 10, 2019
Tourism and our cities
  • January 10, 2019
Diplomacy and male-only organisations
  • January 10, 2019
Time to protect the badger
  • January 10, 2019

Editorials

The Irish Times view on Northern Ireland’s impasse: when stalemate leaves a vacuum

Deadlock will prevail in the North at least until Brexit is resolved, but that is no excuse for violence

The Irish Times view on the children’s hospital: managing the fallout

The project will put a significant strain on the health capital budget, potentially jeopardising other important works

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Brexit is an act of aggression against globalisation; this will not be forgotten quickly by international investors. Photograph: EPA/Neil Hall David McWilliams: Brexit is terrible for Ireland? I don’t buy that
Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney shakes hands with German foreign minister Heiko Maas at Dublin Castle. Photograph: Paul Faith/AFP/Getty Images Fintan O’Toole: Hard Brexiteers think Germany will blink first
No Brexit is the result which suits Ireland most. It has been the fervent but silent objective of Irish diplomats and politicians all along No Brexit more likely now than at any point since June 2016

Letters

Meat consumption and its impact on the environment
Brexit – reality and rhetoric
Planning fallacy and cost overruns
Marriage equality in Northern Ireland
No fada on Leap card
‘Poetry of the Dáil’
Seasonal songs
Midges
Organ donation and transplants
Central America and migration

Our Columnists

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David McWilliams: Brexit is terrible for Ireland? I don’t buy that

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It’s way too early to be writing off the risk of a no-deal Brexit

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Diarmaid Ferriter: Tory Brexiteers should study War of Independence

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