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Irish Times Opinion@IrishTimesOpEd
18 Jan 2022
We are always looking for fresh voices. Particularly from writers coming from backgrounds currently underrepresented on the oped page. How to write an opinion piece for The Irish Times via @IrishTimes irishtimes.com/opinion/how-t…

How to write an opinion piece for The Irish Times

The most important rule is to have a clear point to make and get to it quickly

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Jennifer O'Connell: There was no collusion in the failure to stop Bill Kenneally. There didn’t have to be irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/…

Jennifer O'Connell: There was no collusion in the failure to stop Bill Kenneally. There didn’t have...

Shame and social status were the powerful currencies of the time, and Kenneally had both on his side

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Cliff Taylor: I won’t waste my time writing about this again irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/…

Cliff Taylor: I won’t waste my time writing about this again

The danger of Ireland’s reliance on a few big companies and their fortunes rise ever higher - but no-one wants to hear it

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Sineád O'Sullivan: Space X is not just too big to fail. It is too essential to be allowed to irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/…

Sineád O'Sullivan: Space X is not just too big to fail. It is too essential to be allowed to

A firm that is a rocket-maker, broadcaster, chatbot and arm of the Pentagon is many things, but a foundation for national infrastructure is not one of them

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Breda O'Brien: Beware ideas which offer a pseudo-intellectual cover for racist rioting irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/…

Breda O'Brien: Beware ideas which offer a pseudo-intellectual cover for racist rioting

A book coining the ugly phrase ‘suicidal empathy’ has been on the NYT bestseller list. At its heart is the idea that ‘misdirected’ empathy is destroying western civilisation

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Rite & Reason: An Irish Catholic may be defined in the future as the son or daughter of someone from Manila or Lagos irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/…

Rite & Reason: An Irish Catholic may be defined in the future as the son or daughter of someone...

Rite & Reason: A recent report found that 18 per cent of the Republic’s Catholics were born elsewhere. Far from their threatening the old culture, as xenophobes so often suggest, they are keeping it...

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David McWilliams: Western Europeans won the lottery of life. But this is changing, culturally and economically irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/…

David McWilliams: Western Europeans won the lottery of life. But this is changing, culturally and...

Europe, one of the most impressive cultural enterprises of the past few hundred years, is at a crossroads

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Europe must end its juvenile taboo against talking to Russia irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/…

Europe must end its juvenile taboo against talking to Russia

Worldview: Preparing to bring Russia back in from the cold does not mean capitulating to Putin’s interests

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Martyn Turner irishtimes.com/opinion/carto…

Martyn Turner

June 13th, 2026

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Mark O'Connell: Argentina’s AI chief executives are a scary thought. But will we notice any difference? irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/…

Mark O'Connell: Argentina’s AI chief executives are a scary thought. But will we notice any...

The idea of a world run by machines might seem far fetched, but only until you think about it

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Kieran Connell: How did an attack in a nationalist part of Belfast lead to rioting in loyalist areas? irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/…

Kieran Connell: How did an attack in a nationalist part of Belfast lead to rioting in loyalist...

AI-generated images with the Union Jack and Irish Tricolour displayed side by side circulated on social media before this week’s riots, but loyalists were at the centre of the disturbances

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The Irish Times view on Belfast violence: bad actors prey on social divisions irishtimes.com/opinion/edito…

The Irish Times view on Belfast violence: bad actors prey on social divisions

Mainstream politicians and powerful platform owners competed and collaborated to dominate the radical right agenda

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The Irish Times view on Mark Carney: setting an example irishtimes.com/opinion/edito…

The Irish Times view on Mark Carney: setting an example

Former central banker has emerged as political leader of real substance

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Saturation point: Shane Hegarty on attending gigs during an Irish summer irishtimes.com/opinion/an-ir…

Saturation point: Shane Hegarty on attending gigs during an Irish summer

You imagine sunglasses, shorts and a sunset to rival the pyrotechnics on stage

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Justine McCarthy: Ireland’s refusal to say sorry to men convicted of Sallins train robbery is shameful irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/…

Justine McCarthy: Ireland’s refusal to say sorry to men convicted of Sallins train robbery is...

The men wrongfully convicted have suffered physical and psychological consequences from the injustice done to them

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Stephen Collins: Do we really want to stop Intel trading with its sister plant in Israel? irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/…

Stephen Collins: Do we really want to stop Intel trading with its sister plant in Israel?

Ireland's Government doesn’t have the luxury of ignoring the real world consequences of its actions

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Diarmaid Ferriter: ‘Neutral venue’ won’t placate the three in four fans opposed to Ireland playing Israel irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/…

Diarmaid Ferriter: ‘Neutral venue’ won’t placate the three in four fans opposed to Ireland playing...

Ireland v Israel shows the notion that sport and politics do not mix is risible

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The Irish Times view on interest rates: ECB should tread carefully irishtimes.com/opinion/edito…

The Irish Times view on interest rates: ECB should tread carefully

The central bank was correct to leave its options open after Thursday’s increase

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The controversial origins of a Dún Laoghaire hospital, 150 years old this week irishtimes.com/opinion/an-ir…

The controversial origins of a Dún Laoghaire hospital, 150 years old this week

Parish priest Canon McCabe was the driving force behind the creation of St Michael’s Hospital, which officially opened in Kingstown on June 12th, 1876

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The Irish Times view on EU tech sovereignty: a tricky balance irishtimes.com/opinion/edito…

The Irish Times view on EU tech sovereignty: a tricky balance

Europe needs to develop autonomy in key areas of technology, but this cannot be a protectionist tool

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Newton Emerson: Northern Ireland’s politicians can do little but condemn brutal Belfast attack and racist rioting irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/…

Newton Emerson: Northern Ireland’s politicians can do little but condemn brutal Belfast attack and...

Racism has been associated with unionist areas because that is where immigrants have been able to find housing. Republican communities take pride in behaving better

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