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Road deaths are not inevitable. Stop referring to them as ‘accidents’

By Sadhbh O'Neill

Donald Trump is channelling the leadership style of the ancients, without even realising it

By Clare Moriarty

Dublin-based firms are also part of the military complex

By Sineád O'Sullivan

Julia is kind, sweet and plans to raise two kids with her partner. There’s just one catch

By Lara Marlowe

Revolut has had more success in Ireland than anywhere else. It’s no mystery why

By Rachel O'Dwyer

Glowing references for child abusers are not just offensive to victims, they’re dangerous

By Orla Muldoon

The US at 250 is an edgy, doom-stalked place, not much in the mood to celebrate

By Jack Sheehan

Michael O’Leary’s contradictions could fill an aircraft hangar. It’s time we called them out

By Trevor White

Today’s Makerfield byelection could be seismic for Ireland

By Paul Gosling

On Bloomsday, if you take just one message from Ulysses then it should be this one

By Dermot Hodson

Trump says US will be ‘guardian of the Middle East’. How much more can the region endure?

By Vincent Durac

Europe faces risks from both China and the US - but there are solutions

By Eamon Ryan

Some of Ireland’s three-seater constituencies were drawn up to keep Fianna Fáil out of Government

By Harry McGee

If Jennifer Carroll MacNeill means what she says about women’s choice, she needs to fund it

By Gabrielle Colleran

Divorce is not the reason many kids are growing up without a father figure

By Clare Moriarty

SpaceX is not just too big to fail. It is too essential to be allowed to

By Sineád O'Sullivan

An Irish Catholic may be defined in the future as the son or daughter of someone from Manila or Lagos

By Declan McSweeney

How did an attack in a nationalist part of Belfast lead to rioting in loyalist areas?

By Kieran Connell

Ireland’s asylum system is flawed, but a factory for fast decisions is not the answer

By Nick Henderson

13,633 days since my husband was shot dead in front of me. 13,633 days seeking the truth

By Geraldine Finucane

District heating schemes could dramatically reduce Ireland’s energy bills

By Pauline O'Reilly

Debate: Should Ireland start getting ready to go nuclear?

By Dr Paul Dorfman, Prof Steve Thomas, and Sean Keyes

Ireland will be an ‘honest broker’ in the EU presidency – a bystander and abstainer

By Sineád O'Sullivan

Should decisions about whether AI can be used in war be left to private companies?

By Peter G Kirchschlaeger

All pregnant women should get continuity of care – not just those who can pay for it

By Chris Fitzpatrick

Ireland’s range anxiety: Denmark has a similar population, look at the amount of EV chargers there

By Michael McAleer

Let’s not make the same mistake as the UK. ‘Sensible’ degrees are overrated

By Aoife Monks

Oliver Bond residents are suffering the slow violence of State neglect

By Lorcan Sirr

‘Like the Eiffel Tower’: Trump’s cage fight plan sums up his presidency

By Bobby McDonagh

One by one, we are losing those who survived the Holocaust and could say ‘I was there’

By Yoni Wieder

Local authorities must take centre stage in fight against rising toll of road deaths

By Eamon Ryan

‘An inside job’: US public opinion on Israel has shifted

By Lara Marlowe

What would a radical alternative look like for this island?

By Matthew O'Toole

Pope Leo’s encyclical on AI is a striking manifesto of Christian humanism

By Kevin Hargaden

Lack of flood-warning system raises the question: what is the State’s job?

By Sineád O'Sullivan

Violence against women is increasing globally – and police forces are not immune

By Emily Logan

Ireland’s climate is on steroids. The extremes of recent days will become the norm

By John Sweeney

This, and worse, is what is happening to Palestinian prisoners in Israeli custody

By Mark O’Connell

I’m a school principal. I find it unsettling what First Holy Communion has become

By Simon Lewis

Taoiseach was wrong to dismiss comparisons with famine-era evictions. Here’s why

By Eoin McLaughlin and Richard Mc Mahon

Should Ireland copy the UK’s generational ban on smoking?

By Mark Murphy and Larissa Nolan

There is little interrogation of public spend on car parking amid bike shelter angst

By Sadhbh O'Neill

Women’s role in boycotts: ‘No woman in Ballinrobe would dream of washing him a cravat’

By Clare Moriarty

Amazon’s ‘flying rivers’ are reaching a tipping point

By Paul Gillespie

Byelections showed increasingly fractured politics with dangerous consensus on one issue

By Gerard Howlin

Ireland’s politics of strategic ambiguity served us well – until it didn’t

By Sineád O'Sullivan

Tech workers are so well paid, many don’t bother to join a union. That’s going to change

By Una Mullally

Presbyterian Church is celebrating 100 years of women in leadership

By Rev Trevor Morrow

The paradox of Donald Trump: his popularity has tanked, yet he remains untouchable

By Daniel Geary

Why does this cheery, propulsive love song make me feel so wretched?

By Rachel O'Dwyer