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Women-only professorships
  • November 15, 2018
Disability and abortion
  • November 15, 2018
Brexit and its supporters
  • November 15, 2018
Galway 20/20 – time for action
  • November 15, 2018
Atheists and the Constitution
  • November 15, 2018
Waiting for home help
  • November 15, 2018
Presidential flight of fancy
  • November 15, 2018
Close encounters in Irish skies
  • November 15, 2018
Housing and policy
  • November 15, 2018
Ripped jeans and future fashions
  • November 15, 2018
Women-only professorships
  • November 14, 2018
Brexit – another referendum?
  • November 14, 2018
Atheists and oaths of office
  • November 14, 2018
General practitioners and abortion
  • November 14, 2018
Aung San Suu Kyi and the Rohingya
  • November 14, 2018
When the facts change
  • November 14, 2018
Ripped jeans and future fashions
  • November 14, 2018
Age gap
  • November 14, 2018
Awaiting Reg
  • November 14, 2018
Medical training and competence
  • November 13, 2018
‘What is wrong with our hospitals’
  • November 13, 2018
Glass ceiling and higher education
  • November 13, 2018
Grayson Perry at the NCH
  • November 13, 2018
Presidential inauguration
  • November 13, 2018
Rugby – time for a change
  • November 13, 2018
Irony supplement
  • November 13, 2018
Taking note
  • November 13, 2018
Trump’s rain
  • November 13, 2018
Kerbside flooding
  • November 13, 2018
Wait-and-see approach
  • November 13, 2018
The future of Northern Ireland
  • November 12, 2018
End-of-life issues and professional ethics
  • November 12, 2018
The price of oil
  • November 12, 2018
Sutton to Sandycove cycleway
  • November 12, 2018
Patsy Dan Rodgers, King of Tory
  • November 12, 2018
Opposition needs to oppose
  • November 12, 2018
The Taoiseach and the health service
  • November 12, 2018
The Taoiseach, winter and the HSE
  • November 10, 2018
Centenary of the armistice
  • November 10, 2018
Overseas medics in the health system
  • November 10, 2018
President has solid mandate
  • November 10, 2018
Time to declutter street signage
  • November 10, 2018
Brexit and the backstop
  • November 10, 2018
Taking note
  • November 10, 2018
Spoke and mirrors
  • November 10, 2018
A turn for the surreal?
  • November 10, 2018
Baby boomers
  • November 10, 2018
Taoiseach’s comments on HSE staff
  • November 9, 2018
Trump and the US midterm elections
  • November 9, 2018
Free speech in Ireland
  • November 9, 2018
Travellers and employment
  • November 9, 2018
Abortion and the law
  • November 9, 2018
Brexit – ‘ Dad’s Army’ or an EU army?
  • November 9, 2018
The neighs have it
  • November 9, 2018
Insurance claims
  • November 9, 2018
Waning interest
  • November 9, 2018
What’s the good news?
  • November 9, 2018
High days and holidays
  • November 9, 2018
Brexit and the backstop
  • November 8, 2018
US midterm elections
  • November 8, 2018
Health service and seasonal leave
  • November 8, 2018
Will health spending ever be enough?
  • November 8, 2018
EU digital sales tax and saving shops
  • November 8, 2018
The HSE and accountability
  • November 8, 2018
Being Irish in Britain
  • November 8, 2018
Belt and braces
  • November 8, 2018
Abortion and disability
  • November 7, 2018
Francophonie and Ireland
  • November 7, 2018
Turning public toilets into cafés
  • November 7, 2018
SF and political arithmetic at Westminster
  • November 7, 2018
What next for Labour?
  • November 7, 2018
Marking centenary of Northern Ireland
  • November 7, 2018
Religion, science and education
  • November 7, 2018
Down with smut?
  • November 7, 2018
Public money
  • November 7, 2018
Ireland and the Francophonie
  • November 6, 2018
‘Capital Ideas’ for Dublin
  • November 6, 2018
Climate change and human nature
  • November 6, 2018
A fashionable liberalism?
  • November 6, 2018
Being Irish in England
  • November 6, 2018
The price of oil
  • November 6, 2018
Blasphemy referendum
  • November 6, 2018
The largest parties
  • November 6, 2018
Lewes talk
  • November 6, 2018
At your convenience
  • November 6, 2018
Coping with contentious centenaries
  • November 5, 2018
Marking centenary of Northern Ireland
  • November 5, 2018
Road space for BusConnects
  • November 5, 2018
Presidential question
  • November 5, 2018
Is this a refuse record?
  • November 5, 2018
Aftermath of presidential election
  • November 5, 2018
Reviving a ferry service at Dún Laoghaire port
  • November 5, 2018
A religious education
  • November 5, 2018
A marathon effort on plastics
  • November 5, 2018
Changing working times, not clocks
  • November 5, 2018
Brexit and the sealed trucks of the border past
  • November 5, 2018
Aftermath of presidential election
  • November 3, 2018
Ireland should offer asylum to woman acquitted of blasphemy
  • November 3, 2018
Blasphemy referendum vote
  • November 3, 2018

Editorials

The Irish Times view on the UK/EU withdrawal agreement: In search of the least worst Brexit

It is clear that significant guarantees on the Border issue have, indeed, been achieved

The Irish Times view on home-care services: Stark inequality

Those who remain at home are happier, healthier and live more fulfilling lives

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An estimated one-third of unionists voted Remain, almost all of whom are certain to still be unionists. Many will be open to a workable Brexit compromise. Photograph: Getty Images Unionists failing to grasp precious Brexit opportunity
'We live in a ‘Banana’ Republic – Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything.' Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times David McWilliams: Want to find the cause of the housing crisis? Look in the mirror
Former HSE chief executive Tony O’Brien gave some insight into the failings of the health system. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times Noel Whelan: Tony O’Brien row shows media is failing us on health

Letters

Women-only professorships
Disability and abortion
Brexit and its supporters
Galway 20/20 – time for action
Atheists and the Constitution
Waiting for home help
Presidential flight of fancy
Close encounters in Irish skies
Housing and policy
Ripped jeans and future fashions

Our Columnists

Stephen Collins Stephen Collins -

Theresa May’s task has echoes of challenge faced by Michael Collins

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Unionists failing to grasp precious Brexit opportunity

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Women not hallucinating about glass ceilings in Irish universities

Una Mullally Una Mullally -

Una Mullally: It took a nation of immigrants to bring Irish hip hop to life

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