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Opinion [2]
Business [3]
Sport [4]
Life [5]
Style [7]
Entertainment [8]
Travel [9]

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Opinion

Top man: Edwin Poots, the new DUP leader, appears hostile to the Republic - but it may not be all bad news. Photo: Clodagh Kilcoyne

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John Downing Opinion Poots and Johnson are a dreary prospect – but Dublin holds more aces than you think

Edwin Poots appears hostile and Boris Johnson looks indifferent on a good day. So what now for British-Irish and North-South relations in a pivotal year ahead?

Caroline Sullivan of Tales for Tadpoles book store on Dublin's Drury Street pictured last week preparing the shop ahead of businesses reopening. Photo: Andres Poveda

Editorial

The problems are big – but so are reasons for hope

Republic of Ireland manager Jack Charlton after the World Cup 1990 Group F match between Republic of Ireland and Netherlands in Palermo, Italy, on June 21, 1990. Photo: Ray McManus/Sportsfile

Letters

Letters to the Editor Opinion Let’s have a pint and revisit Italia ’90 for a welcome lift

Breast is best, yet only 6pc of Irish babies are breastfed at six months (Stock image)

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Lorraine Courtney Opinion Mums need to feel welcome to breastfeed – so allocate more designated spaces

City slickers are dreaming of swapping their bedsit for a rural cottage. Photo: Jeanette DietlLudwigstr

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John Daly Opinion Country life is no picnic for romantic townies

Education Minister Norma Foley

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Senan Molony Opinion Let’s call a spade a spade, this is not the first turning of a sod for ‘ambitious new school project’

Professor Luke O'Neill who received his vaccine at the Aviva stadium from vaccinator Adam Reid. Picture by Mark Condren

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Luke O'Neill Opinion Antigen testing is a key weapon in the fight against Covid

The path ahead is unclear. Stock image

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Iseult White Opinion The strange twilight world we must face in exiting from a pandemic

Man at the top: The DUP's new leader Edwin Poots leaving Stormont, Belfast. Picture by Brian Lawless/PA

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Eilis O’Hanlon Opinion Challenge for new DUP leader Poots now is to reach out to the silent centre, not the loud extremes

The vast majority of younger adults are locked out of the housing market

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Wayne O'Connor Opinion Turning old shops and offices into homes may solve the housing crisis

Canal therapy and the magic of the waterways. The sun reflected on the Grand Canal in Kildare. Picture by Niall Carson/PA

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Six slow days on a boat on the Grand Canal that would change me forever

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Fiona Sherlock Opinion Millennials can change the world if we stop the blame game

Dublin traffic jam

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Colm McCarthy Opinion It’s time to consider charging drivers for using urban roads

John T McCracken who was killed in Derry in 1977

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Roslyn Dee Opinion My shy friend and the IRA hunger striker who murdered him

The penny is finally dropping for the Profits before People alliance

Gene Kerrigan

America’s sweetheart Chrissy Teigen hits sour note in toxic Twitter attack

Ciara O’Connor

Government plans for an outdoor summer could go horribly wrong

Conor Skehan

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Prince Harry (right) hopes to parent his children differently than how Charles treated him

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Chrissie Russell Opinion Come on, Prince Harry, the ‘blame the parents’ routine is just a bit too easy

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Philip Ryan Opinion Government was repeatedly warned about the imminent threat of a cyber attack, but invested pitifully in our defence

Top man: Edwin Poots, the new DUP leader, appears hostile to the Republic - but it may not be all bad news. Photo: Clodagh Kilcoyne

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John Downing Opinion Edwin Poots and Boris Johnson are a dreary prospect – but Dublin holds more aces than you think

City slickers are dreaming of swapping their bedsit for a rural cottage. Photo: Jeanette DietlLudwigstr

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John Daly Opinion Country life is no picnic for romantic townies

Breast is best, yet only 6pc of Irish babies are breastfed at six months (Stock image)

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Lorraine Courtney Opinion Mums need to feel welcome to breastfeed – so allocate more designated spaces

Education Minister Norma Foley

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Senan Molony Opinion Let’s call a spade a spade, this is not the first turning of a sod for ‘ambitious new school project’

Man at the top: The DUP's new leader Edwin Poots leaving Stormont, Belfast. Picture by Brian Lawless/PA

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Eilis O’Hanlon Opinion Challenge for new DUP leader Poots now is to reach out to the silent centre, not the loud extremes

The path ahead is unclear. Stock image

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Iseult White Opinion The strange twilight world we must face in exiting from a pandemic

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The UK National Cyber Security Centre comes under the remit of the GCHQ in Cheltenham

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Declan Power Opinion HSE cyber attack reveals how our IT infrastructure is lagging behind

A vaccination centre at the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan, on April 30, 2021. New York City is moving to fully reopen on July 1, the city's mayor Bill de Blasio has said. Photo: Gabby Jones/ Bloomberg

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John M Barry Opinion With end of Covid pandemic within our grasp, we must learn the lessons of 1918

Pop star Billie Eilish appears on the cover of Vogue embracing a ‘classic, old-timey pin-up’ look

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Iseult White Opinion Pop idols shape how girls believe the great body con

The nine flags designed by students of NCAD

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Rethinking our national emblem – what could a ‘United Ireland’ flag look like?

Arlene Foster. Picture: PA

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Suzanne Breen Opinion Foster is hardly radical but her politics has proved too liberal for DUP amid leadership heave

Brexit is at the root of the Scottish case for independence and has weakened ties between London and the administrations in Belfast and Cardiff. ALBA Party leader Alex Salmond at their party manifesto launch on Wednesday April 21. Photo: Andrew Milligan/ PA Wire

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John Bruton Opinion UK’s ‘make it up as you go along’ mode of government has run out of road

Britain's Prince Philip in 2012. Picture: Reuters

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Mary Kenny Opinion Prince Philip: the penniless exile who overcame a nomadic childhood marked by tragedy

Dr Ronan Glynn said: 'Businesses have been ruined by the pandemic and by the virus, not by the likes of us.' Photo: Gareth Chaney/Collins

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Gabija Gataveckaite Opinion The pressure showed as Dr Ronan Glynn defended Nphet’s ‘conservative’ advice – and it struck the right note

Letters

Republic of Ireland manager Jack Charlton after the World Cup 1990 Group F match between Republic of Ireland and Netherlands in Palermo, Italy, on June 21, 1990. Photo: Ray McManus/Sportsfile

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Letters to the Editor Opinion Let’s have a pint and revisit Italia ’90 for a welcome lift

Eoghan Harris. Picture by Leon Farrell

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Readers’ letters: departure of Eoghan Harris from the Sunday Independent divides opinion

Taoiseach Micheál Martin at a homes development in Dublin in October. Photo: Paul McCarthy

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Letters to the Editor Opinion Politicians could do worse than read up on how public housing was achieved in poorer times

State-owned bank mortgage payers fork out, on average, an additional €190 per month on repayments. (Stock image)

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Letters to the Editor Opinion State-owned banks clash with cheaper housing drive

Taoiseach Micheál Martin got his Covid vaccine earlier this week but as the pandemic recedes the crisis in our health service remains. Photo: Daragh McSweeney/Provision

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Letters to the Editor Opinion Our various crises are not mistakes, they are choices

Flames and smoke rise during Israeli air strikes yesterday amid a flare-up of Israel-Palestinian violence in the southern Gaza Strip. Photo: Reuters/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa

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Opinion Jerusalem’s other heritages have to be lawfully respected

Vultures have 'unjustly been ascribed a ruthless streak' by humans. (Stock image)

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We shouldn’t deflect our ills onto vultures and cuckoos

Shelter has been identified by psychologists as a basic human need

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Time to ban cuckoo funds from buying up homes

Editorial

Caroline Sullivan of Tales for Tadpoles book store on Dublin's Drury Street pictured last week preparing the shop ahead of businesses reopening. Photo: Andres Poveda

Editorial

The problems are big – but so are reasons for hope

Prof Philip Nolan, Dr Tony Holohan and Dr Ronan Glynn at a Covid -19 press conference

Editorial

A time to enquire and a time to grieve

The hackers swooped to lock the HSE out of its own systems. Photo: Yeko Photo Studio

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Editorial Opinion Cyber security has to be addressed on a global basis

Taoiseach Michéal Martin and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Photo: Brian Lawless/Getty Images

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Editorial Opinion Dark energies must not fill political void on protocol

Catherine Murphy TD. Photo: Gareth Chaney Collins

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The State’s response to our housing crisis lacks a sense of scale

Mary Kate Quinn, niece of John Laverty, speaking at an event involving families of people who were killed by members of the British Army at Ballymurphy in 1971. The event took place at Corpus Christi Youth Centre in Belfast. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

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Editorial Opinion Crimes perpetrated during the Troubles cannot simply be forgotten about

People in the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, as a phased reopening following Government guidance began on Monday, May 10. Photo: Clodagh Kilcoyne

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Editorial Opinion After the longest winter ever, let us proceed with care

Fans will warmly welcome the return to action in Gaelic games. Photo: Ray McManus

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Editorial Opinion Time for hope and smiles as country begins to open up

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