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

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Opinion

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Colin Murphy Opinion We might be resilient, but we should be roaring our discontent this winter

Are we facing into a winter of discontent? Even before the depressing turn in the Covid news, the country was irritable. Walking through Dublin’s city centre midweek, it was striking how desolate and abandoned it still felt.

More than 93pc of women feel unsafe walking home at night. (Picture posed by models)

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Eilis O’Hanlon Opinion Culture change is needed to end women’s terror of attack

The deft first touch that Leo Varadkar used to show has deserted him

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Eoin O'Malley Opinion Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael need to start getting strategic in preparing for the next election and stop copying Sinn Féin

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Luke O'Neill Opinion With such a good vaccination programme, why are case numbers here still going up?

Taoiseach Micheál Martin, Leo Varadkar, Eamon Ryan, and Michael McGrath at the launch of the National Development Plan. Picture by Julien Behal

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Colm McCarthy Opinion Recasting your wishlist as ‘infrastructure’ does not make it worthwhile

Britain's Queen Elizabeth with President Michael D Higgins

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Sam McBride Opinion Death notice unionists are dreading

RTÉ broadcaster Claire Byrne said being a working mother has taken a toll on her

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Julia Molony Opinion Mother of all dilemmas for women considering a baby

President Michael D Higgins

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Shane Coleman Opinion Depressing return to lazy fireside republicanism will achieve nothing except ensure ‘fourth green field’ remains out of reach

Sally Rooney. Picture by Tony Gavin

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Alan Shatter Opinion Sally Rooney's wrongful labelling of Israel as ‘an apartheid state’ lacks awareness

Public Expenditure Minister Michael McGrath

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Shane Ross Opinion As a politician with a small ego, Michael McGrath is a pretty rare creature

Paschal Donohoe

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Fiona Sherlock Opinion Policing our carbon footprint distracts us from the real culprits

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Gene Kerrigan Opinion Victims of abuse are treated like enemies of the State

Homeschooling: we did it once, and we are pleased with ourselves for having got through it... but we’re not going back. Picture by iStock/PA

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Brendan O'Connor Opinion A meaningful Halloween, anyone?

Electric car charging point

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Geraldine Herbert Opinion Knowing the true cost of motoring can help us make greener choices

Drowning in magnificent lies and bull

Joe Brolly

Will politicians and media ever see gambling as a scourge? Don’t bet on it

Declan Lynch

We are rethinking the workplace, so why not the home?

Fiona Sherlock

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Gene Kerrigan Opinion Victims of abuse are treated like enemies of the State

Breaking News

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Sophie White Opinion Having children is incredibly taxing physically and painful — though not in the ways you might have expected

Homeschooling: we did it once, and we are pleased with ourselves for having got through it... but we’re not going back. Picture by iStock/PA

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Brendan O'Connor Opinion A meaningful Halloween, anyone?

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Luke O'Neill Opinion With such a good vaccination programme, why are case numbers here still going up?

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Colin Murphy Opinion We might be resilient, but we should be roaring our discontent this winter

Taoiseach Micheál Martin, Leo Varadkar, Eamon Ryan, and Michael McGrath at the launch of the National Development Plan. Picture by Julien Behal

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Colm McCarthy Opinion Recasting your wishlist as ‘infrastructure’ does not make it worthwhile

Britain's Queen Elizabeth with President Michael D Higgins

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Sam McBride Opinion Death notice unionists are dreading

RTÉ broadcaster Claire Byrne said being a working mother has taken a toll on her

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Julia Molony Opinion Mother of all dilemmas for women considering a baby

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John Gilligan outside Dublin's Supreme Court in 2008

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Paul Williams book extract: Inside the secret criminal underworld of gang leader John Gilligan

Trainee teacher Deirdre Jacob (18) was last seen on July 28, 1998. Photo: Collins Agency

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‘We had no evidence of a serial killer, but this search could yet change everything’

French schoolchildren hold a picture of teacher Samuel Paty, one year after he was beheaded outside his school in a Paris, during a ceremony at the Nice Education offices in Nice, France. Photo: REUTERS/Eric Gaillard

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John Downing Opinion Remembering a beheaded teacher points up fierce tensions

Britain's chief negotiator David Frost in Whitehall, London, on October 14, 2021. Photo: Leon Neal/Getty Images

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Richard Curran Opinion Here’s hoping Frost isn’t simply waiting to pull the plug as protocol talks get started

Cut-out figures of women at the headquarters of London's Metropolitan police force in the wake of the Sarah Everard murder. Photo: Sophie Wingate / PA

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Martina Devlin Opinion The threat of violence against women is not a problem they can solve on their own

Former Facebook employee Frances Haugen at a US Senate hearing last week. Picture by Alex Brandon/AP

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Sarah Caden Opinion It’s up to us to start a new chapter on regulating Facebook

The US Capitol building. Picture by Stefani Reynolds

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Dick Roche Opinion The US, fossil fuel firms and banks won the battle over global tax reform

Sarah Everard, who was murdered in London by police officer Wayne Couzens

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Julia Molony Opinion We have a long way to go before women feel An Garda Síochána are allies in the fight against gender-based violence

Letters

Medical staff are fighting an uphill battle

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Hospital system needs major surgery to be fit for purpose

In recent weeks 6,000 pigs were culled on UK farms due to a shortage of butchers. Photo: Phil Noble

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Letters to the Editor Opinion Queues at filling stations, empty supermarket shelves – somebody made a pig’s ear of Brexit

Sally Rooney. Photo: Tony Gavin

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Letters to the Editor Opinion Rooney’s book action could translate as discrimination

Ireland manager Stephen Kenny celebrates after Callum Robinson scored the first goal of Tuesday evening's 4-0 win over Qatar at the Aviva Stadium, Dublin. Photo: Sam Barnes/Sportsfile

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Letters to the Editor Opinion Recent displays prove Kenny is right man for Ireland job

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Letters to the Editor Opinion Taxes alone are not enough for motorists to shift gears on electric vehicles

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Letters to the Editor Opinion Banks have again kicked the people while they are down

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This modern fetishisation of coffee is not my cup of tea

William Shatner, right, as Captain Kirk with Leonard Nimoy as Spock and Nichelle Nichols as Uhura in 'Star Trek'

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Letters to the Editor Opinion Star who made us dream can boldly go to the final frontier at last

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The collective responsibility of vaccination has proved a huge success in bringing Covid-19 under control. Picture by Fergal Phillips.

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Now is not the time to go backwards on Covid

Deputy chief medical officer Dr Ronan Glynn

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Time to put an end to mixed messages over public health

Professor Philip Nolan. Photo: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin

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Hectoring people who have put a chunk of their lives on hold for the past 20 months won’t get us out of this

Taoiseach Micheál Martin. Photo: Maxwells

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Another potential Covid setback demands caution

Confirmations and Communions: If you want a bit of day out, Catholicism is as good as any. Picture posed

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Bill Linnane Opinion As you get older, you can see the appeal of religion. It makes reality a little gentler

Education Minister Norma Foley

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Government will hope that giving a little in the Budget to a lot of people will lead to a bounce in polls

Missing women Deirdre Jacob (left) and Jo Jo Dullard

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Families of missing women have suffered too long and deserve answers

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Chrissie Russell Opinion I fell out of love with Halloween when it became a month-long event – and such hard work

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