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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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The Irish Times view on the EU and China: a fragile peace on trade irishtimes.com/opinion/edito…

The Irish Times view on the EU and China: a fragile peace on trade

EU leaders should approve last week’s deal, but there is more work to do

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The Irish Times view on Ireland’s climate policy: rhetoric sounding hollow irishtimes.com/opinion/edito…

The Irish Times view on Ireland’s climate policy: rhetoric sounding hollow

Last week’s budget raised worrying questions about policy

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Sinéad O'Sullivan: What one Kerry road tells us about road safety www.​irishtimes.​com/opinion/2026/09/30/sinead-osullivan-what-one-kerry-road-tells-us-about-road-safety/
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Martyn Turner www.​irishtimes.​com/opinion/cartoon/2026/09/30/martyn-turner/
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Kathy Sheridan: You don’t boycott an Ed Sheeran tour just to look cool with a Peace sign. Boycotts hurt www.​irishtimes.​com/opinion/2026/09/30/kathy-sheridan-you-dont-boycott-an-ed-sheeran-tour-just-to-look-cool-with-a-peace-sign-boycotts-hurt/
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Michael McDowell: Drumcree row is a useful smokescreen for cynical Sinn Féin and DUP www.​irishtimes.​com/opinion/2026/09/30/michael-mcdowell-drumcree-standoff-serves-a-useful-smokescreen-for-cynical-sinn-fein-and-dup/
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The Irish Times view on Ireland’s education system: a detailed comparison with some surprises irishtimes.com/opinion/edito…

The Irish Times view on Ireland’s education system: a detailed comparison with some surprises

Despite spending less than the OECD average, its educational outcomes are impressive

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The Irish Times view on UK Labour’s conference: Burnham’s big gamble irishtimes.com/opinion/edito…

The Irish Times view on UK Labour’s conference: Burnham’s big gamble

The UK’s tight public finances limit the options facing the new prime minister

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Shunning victory: Frank McNally on 146 years of the ‘boycott’ irishtimes.com/opinion/an-ir…

Shunning victory: Frank McNally on 146 years of the ‘boycott’

Coventry was the proverbial destination in a popular metaphor that meant the same thing

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Newton Emerson: Drumcree standoff puts a significant achievement of the peace process at risk irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/…

Drumcree standoff puts a significant achievement of the peace process at risk

Political leadership on all sides means supporting talks that are open to the possibility of a walk

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The Irish Times view on the budget and energy prices: hope is not a good strategy irishtimes.com/opinion/edito…

The Irish Times view on the budget and energy prices: hope is not a good strategy

Energy is a central issue for the next week’s package and there are no quick wins

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Fintan O'Toole: Ireland stood up to Israel - and then left it to 26 footballers to follow through irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/…

Fintan O'Toole: Ireland stood up to Israel - and then left it to 26 footballers to follow through

With his speech to the UN, Micheál Martin did something unique in our history. It makes what happened next even worse

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Sadhbh O'Neill: Benefits of Ireland’s solar boom shouldn’t go only to the big energy firms irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/…

Sadhbh O'Neill: Benefits of Ireland’s solar boom shouldn’t go only to the big energy firms

Looking at the list of solar farm projects, one thing stands out: an absence of farmers

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The Irish Times view on the scoliosis inquiry: families must be heard irishtimes.com/opinion/edito…

The Irish Times view on the scoliosis inquiry: families must be heard

Minister should seek a model that commands their confidence

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Schools of rock: Denis McClean on the fifth member of U2 – the fans irishtimes.com/opinion/an-ir…

Schools of rock: Denis McClean on the fifth member of U2 – the fans

Mount Temple may have produced a U2, but my school, St Paul’s in Raheny, produced a Gerry Ryan and a Marty Whelan

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Alex Kane: Northern Ireland is staring into the abyss. The peace process is at its weakest since 1998 irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/…

Alex Kane: Northern Ireland is staring into the abyss. The peace process is at its weakest since...

Elements of unionism are fed up with what they regard as the enabling of all-Ireland culture, history, narrative and Irish unity inevitability at their expense

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Protesters disperse after blocking contentious Orange Order parade along Garvaghy Road irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/…

O’Neill rejects ‘gross discourtesy’ accusations as large numbers remain on Garvaghy Road

Drumcree parade, which had previously sparked serious disorder, was due to go ahead for the first time in nearly 30 years

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Una Mullally: Not everyone wants to be in a nursing home. A dementia village is one alternative irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/…

Una Mullally: Not everyone wants to be in a nursing home. A dementia village is one alternative

If we need an extra 1,000 nursing home beds every year, then we also need other models of care

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Gerry Godley: Here’s how to do hot school meals right irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/…

Gerry Godley: Here’s how to do hot school meals right

What children are being offering currently is closer to a ration than a meal - tired, unappealing and depleted of its nutritional purpose

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Worldview: If the EU continues to drift, disintegration is seen as a more plausible future irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/…

Worldview: If the EU continues to drift, disintegration is seen as a more plausible future

Worldview: Rightward-shifts in major EU states like Germany, France, Poland and Italy present a real threat

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