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One million people have now read this @fotoole article: Trial runs for fascism are in full flow
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Opinion: Ireland could and should join South Africa’s genocide case against Israel via @IrishTimesOpEd.
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Fintan O’Toole: This could be the begining of the end for Brexit
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Opinion: I’m of Jewish ancestry, studying at Trinity, where hostility has festered via @IrishTimesOpEd.
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Opinion: Boycott is best response to illegal Israeli killings
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Opinion: Irish people are the victims of a disgraceful campaign of concealment by Government via @IrishTimesOpEd.
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Una Mullally: Fine Gael is completely disconnected and does not even realise it via @IrishTimesOpEd.
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Nigel Farage: Ireland should remember who its real friends are when Brexit comes
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Fintan O’Toole: What we may be about to experience is not so much Northern Ireland leaving the UK as Northern Ireland (and Scotland) being abandoned by England (via @irishtimesoped).
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Irish rebel music is more than an endorsement of the IRA, it is a way to connect with the past via @IrishTimesOpEd
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Opinion: Michael D Higgins is expending the goodwill that was once held in huge reserves for Ireland via @IrishTimesOpEd.
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There are plenty of examples of Leo Varadkar’s “well, actually” style of callousness, but I thought a recent interview he did with Gavan Reilly on Newstalk was frankly alarming, writes Una Mullally, via @IrishTimesOpEd .
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Una Mullally: Leo Varadkar is gaslighting the victims of the housing crisis via @IrishTimesOpEd.
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The 'Irish Times' view: Spanish government sleepwalking into a crisis over Catalan independence
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Fintan O'Toole: The English have been lied to by most of their press and made to believe that “Brussels” is a factory for mad schemes to meddle with their lives via @IrishTimesOpEd
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Politicians losing touch with public opinion on thorny issue of migration via @IrishTimesOpEd.
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'Dublin enclaves of privilege do not house large numbers of people seeking asylum. Until you shoulder some of the responsibility do you even have a right to say 'not in my name'?' writes Justine McCarthy (via @IrishTimesOpEd)
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The Irish State will pay nearly all the up-front cost of rural broadband, and will then gift this infrastructure to private interests. Take that in, writes David McWilliams
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Opinion: Fifty years later, I still think EU membership was a mistake writes Anthony Coughlan via @irishtimesoped
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Michael McDowell: We have a national right and duty to determine migration policy via @IrishTimesOpEd.
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Una Mullally: Why do the Sisters of Charity want to own a maternity hospital?
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Boris Johnson on Varadkar: ‘Why isn’t he called Murphy like all the rest of them’ via @IrishTimesOpEd.
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Fintan O’Toole: Boris has destroyed what is left of UK’s credibility via @IrishTimesOpEd.
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Una Mullally: Cars have to go. People can fight this all they want, but it has to happen via @IrishTimesOpEd.
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In the same way oil transformed Gulf States, wind, wave and tidal energy could transform Ireland, writes @davidmcw (via @IrishTimesOpEd)
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Fintan O’Toole: If Brexit is so great, why is Britain acting like it’s not happening? via @IrishTimesOpEd.
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Justine McCarthy: What part of branding refugees as potential rapists is not racist? via @IrishTimesOpEd
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Arséne Wenger can teach us all a lesson in decency
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Simon Coveney: We cannot bank on sensible politics prevailing in the UK on Brexit via @IrishTimesOpEd.
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UK is drunk on sovereignty – and all puffed up with no place to go
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Hugely popular with the young, at 77 Michael D Higgins also inspires the older generation
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Opinion: A Border poll this decade remains likely and preparing for it is essential, writes Colin Harvey via @irishtimesoped
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Oliver Callan: If this is a recovery, Ireland might be better off with the disease via @IrishTimesOpEd.
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Fintan O'Toole: What connects Brexit, the DUP, dark money and a Saudi prince?
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Leo Varadkar looks like an adult because the UK is acting like a spoilt toddler via @IrishTimesOpEd.
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Fintan O’Toole: Why I will not appear on Newstalk again
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Young voters don’t care about Bertie Ahern. They want to know if they’ll ever own a house via @IrishTimesOpEd.
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.@FOToole: The DUP has gambled the union on the belief that the Brexiteers are above all unionists and will never concede to any post-Brexit arrangements that differentiate Northern Ireland and Britain. In this they are deluded to the point of insanity.
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Opinion: To bandy about the serious accusation of anti-Semitism in unserious ways is dangerous via @IrishTimesOpEd.
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❝ The Constitution is no place for abortion. That was clear in 1983 and it is even clearer now.
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Debate on united Ireland can’t wait until unionists are ready, writes Colin Harvey (via @IrishTimesOped)
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David McWilliams: Truth is the union with Britain has been an economic calamity for Northern Ireland via @IrishTimesOpEd.
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Una Mullally: ❝ As the No campaign scraped the barrel, the Yes campaign always acted with dignity, with facts to the fore, and never once stooped.
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Fintan O'Toole: Liz Truss will make Johnson seem a political genius, May a mistress of empathy, Cameron a beacon of sincerity (via @IrishTimesOpEd)
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Fintan O’Toole: One homeless child is a tragedy. Four thousand homeless children is a policy via @IrishTimesOpEd.
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Higgins is right that history should be compulsory for Junior Cert
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Fintan O'Toole (@fotoole) : One Irish political party has the power to change the balance of power at Westminster (via @IrishTimesOpEd)
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"One can be utterly opposed to abortion on a personal level, and yet still be pro-choice. The converse however is not true – pro-life advocacy enforces a particular moral position on others"
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Fintan O'Toole: Because the Brexiteers cannot articulate the force that drives them, they cannot set its boundaries (via @IrishTimesOpEd)
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Fintan O’Toole: The United Hates of America has raised its middle finger to the world
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Fintan O'Toole: Babies in cages were not a ‘mistake’ by Donald Trump. They were trial runs for fascism.
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Kathy Sheridan: Piers Morgan’s Trump interview was toe-sucking PR
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Una Mullally: ❝ In the RDS, people burst into tears when the Together For Yes bosses came into the room.
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Una Mullally: ❝ The brilliantly eclectic make-up of the campaign brought in doctors, mothers, lawyers, students, trade unionists, the LGBT community, feminists, and everyone in between.
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Fintan O’Toole: Covid-19 has come to tell us that we are not the kings of the world via @IrishTimesOpEd.
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'Britain needs to realise that if your country becomes a haven for dodgy people like Berezovsky, then dodgy things are likely to happen'.
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'Boris Johnson is of weak character. He supposes himself to be Winston Churchill, while in reality being closer to Alan Partridge' (via @IrishTimesOpEd).
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President Higgins’s pronouncements on foreign policy are reckless, inappropriate and dangerous via @IrishTimesOpEd.
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The Irish Times view on US troops in Syria: a cynical betrayal of the Kurds via @IrishTimesOpEd.
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Martyn Turner's take on the burning issue of Brexit and the future of the union (via @IrishTimesOped)
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Frances Black: Ireland must act against Israel’s war crimes
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Fintan O’Toole's unexpurgated version of ‘Up the ‘Ra’: Up cutting the legs off young women shopping for wedding dresses. Up torturing kids with Black & Decker drills through their kneecaps (via @irishtimesoped).
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Ursula Halligan: Referendum pointed me towards telling the truth about myself http://t.co/9MvLHamgqZ
http://t.co/8NrY0yJX10.
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Kathy Sheridan: Journalists must stop giving legs to fake news stories via @IrishTimesOpEd.
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Una Mullally: Decent men are despondent. The men I know are livid
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Una Mullally: Dublin will fail unless housing crisis is tackled
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One of our most-read this week: We cannot go back to a hard Border any more than Berlin could return to the Wall, writes Eoin McNamee.(via @IrishTimesOpEd).
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Sinn Fein: Our plan to persuade unionists to support a united Ireland
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Most read right now: History of Ireland and England deserves better than egregious nonsense, writes Fintan O'Toole (via @IrishTimesOpEd)
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Plan for ‘traditional’ Leaving Cert pushes obsession with the exam to new levels via @IrishTimesOpEd.
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Irish America is hostile to the exclusion of Sinn Féin from government via @IrishTimesOpEd.
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Una Mullally: ❝ To those women who have suffered under the eighth amendment, as a nation, we need to apologise to them.
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David McWilliams: As both jurisdictions integrate further, the economic distinctions between Northern Ireland and the Republic may have almost disappeared by the time a Border poll is called, via @IrishTimesOpEd
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Fintan O’Toole: Robert Troy should quit or be sacked. Ireland’s fragile progress depends on it via @IrishTimesOpEd.
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Nothing could be more financially prudent for Ireland than eliminating child poverty (via @IrishTimesOpEd)
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