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Jim Gavin’s name on the ballot paper raises troubling questions

Jim Gavin’s name should not be on the ballot paper for the presidential vote next week. It has been suggested that the decision not to remove his...

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Diarmaid Ferriter

Catherine Connolly can criticise the EU and still become president

Heather Humphreys says the first visitor she will invite to Áras an Uachtaráin if she is elected president will be Michael D Higgins because “he...

yesterday 10

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Justine Mccarthy

Micheál Martin and Simon Harris are not doomed. Yet

The outlook for the Government parties is beginning to seem ominous after less than a year in office. This is despite the fact that they won a...

yesterday 9

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Stephen Collins

No, the Irish language does not ‘belong to us all’. Stop insisting that it does

A policy so bad it causes a sectarian argument in Shandon Park has achieved a whole new level of failure in Northern Ireland. The tree-lined east...

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Newton Emerson

Donald Trump’s image may have received a boost, but he remains an unpredictable renegade

For US president Donald Trump’s first state visit to the United Kingdom in 2019, 100,000 people turned up on the streets of London to protest. In...

previous day 8

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Finn Mcredmond

Liberals must stop adopting lazy, woke stances on complex issues

I recently listened to a fascinating The Irish Times podcast interview between Hugh Linehan and Ronan McCrea, a law professor in the University...

wednesday 2

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Michael Mcdowell

Catherine Connolly should ask Jim Gavin what a smear campaign looks like

It’s time to bury Seamus Brennan’s famous analogy for the high-stakes political face-off. It took Jim Gavin’s hapless foray into the arena to...

wednesday 10

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Kathy Sheridan

This has become an election about the nature of the presidency itself

What the presidency is now reduced to is a question of damage limitation. We have one candidate who is harmless. And one who has the potential to...

14.10.2025 20

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Fintan O’Toole

Heather Humphreys tells us she’s a people person. Catherine Connolly shows us she is

If coming across as natural and personable counts in a presidential election – and it does – then Catherine Connolly is winning that particular...

13.10.2025 6

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Una Mullally

As a columnist, maybe I’m part of the problem

The ancient world gave us lots of things: Democracy, science, literature. It also gave us the columnist. Before Fintan O’Toole there was Simeon...

13.10.2025 10

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Joe Humphreys