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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 energy policy: the grid needs strengthening irishtimes.com/opinion/edito…

The Irish Times view on energy policy: the grid needs strengthening

Investment in upgrading the power network must accelerate

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The Irish Times view on the Pope in France: Leo strikes a chord irishtimes.com/opinion/edito…

The Irish Times view on the Pope in France: Leo strikes a chord

The secular republic welcomed the visit with open arms

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Mark O'Connell: A mother stalking her 19-year-old online is demented - but not in the way you think irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/…

Mark O'Connell: A mother stalking her 19-year-old online is demented - but not in the way you think

The interesting and unsettling relationship here is not between the journalist and her son but between us and technology

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Breda O'Brien: It’s hard not to have sympathy for Lena Dunham. But there’s a darker side to surrogacy irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/…

Breda O'Brien: It’s hard not to have sympathy for Lena Dunham. But there’s a darker side to...

The unpalatable reality remains that rich women do not act as surrogates for poor women

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Anna Daly: I had a miscarriage. I wasn’t sick, I was grieving irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/…

Anna Daly: I had a miscarriage. I wasn’t sick, I was grieving

Miscarriage leave is about more than days off work. It’s about having a process in place that acknowledges and helps lift some of the silence that still surrounds the experience

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Our tax take used to be reliant on three companies. Now it hinges on one weight-loss drug irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/…

Our tax take used to be reliant on three companies. Now it hinges on one weight-loss drug

Ten years ago our total spending was half what it is now. And still we proceed with increase after increase

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My son has missed a lot of school. Like many parents, I’m not too worried irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/…

My son has missed a lot of school. Like many parents, I’m not too worried

New research suggests today’s parents may be more willing than previous generations to allow their children to stay home. I saw myself in the findings

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Cliff Taylor: Something critical happened to the ‘most important price in the world’ this week irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/…

Cliff Taylor: Something critical happened to the ‘most important price in the world’ this week

Interest rate on US government 10-year debt reached its highest level since 2007, with Ireland on an inflationary knife edge

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The Irish Times view on data centres: a rift between voters and Government irishtimes.com/opinion/edito…

The Irish Times view on data centres: a rift between voters and Government

Current policy deserves more rigorous scrutiny from Opposition and civil society

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Martyn Turner irishtimes.com/opinion/carto…

Martyn Turner

September 26th, 2026

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Hugh Linehan: Is Ireland still a place ‘open to everything except for God’? irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/…

Hugh Linehan: Is Ireland still a place ‘open to everything except for God’?

Public professions of faith induce a kind of culture cringe in post-Catholic Ireland. But when someone like Katie Taylor tells us what they believe, the least we can do is listen

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David McWilliams: Ireland’s tax and welfare system must change to keep up with migrant workforce irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/…

David McWilliams: Ireland’s tax and welfare system must change to keep up with migrant workforce

If we want to take in lots of low-skilled migrants – to do the jobs the Irish won’t do – financial realities must be addressed

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The Irish Times view on the Drumcree decision: reopening old wounds irishtimes.com/opinion/edito…

The Irish Times view on the Drumcree decision: reopening old wounds

The Parades Commission move is perplexing and unwise

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The Foggy Dew: Frank McNally on the Rising ballad’s confused origins and contested lyrics irishtimes.com/opinion/an-ir…

The Foggy Dew: Frank McNally on the Rising ballad’s confused origins and contested lyrics

Legend has it the song’s genesis can be traced to the first Dáil, but facts prove otherwise

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Opinion: U2 are sometimes dismissed as do-gooders, but the last 50 years have proven it is no act irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/…

Opinion: U2 are sometimes dismissed as do-gooders, but the last 50 years have proven it is no act

Macklemore’s dismissal from Ed Sheeran’s Loop Tour is a sign of how supine the modern music industry has become

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Martyn Turner irishtimes.com/opinion/carto…

Martyn Turner

September 25th, 2026

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Diarmaid Ferriter: There is something devastating about the words ‘Ireland doesn’t have a place for me’ irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/…

Diarmaid Ferriter: There is something devastating about the words ‘Ireland doesn’t have a place for...

Over two thirds of 18- to 24-year-olds say they are considering a move abroad, and 71% believe life would be better elsewhere

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Why did it take Michael O’Leary 10 days to cop on that his comments on rape were wrong? irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/…

Why did it take Michael O’Leary 10 days to cop on that his comments on rape were wrong?

For further education, he should read Nikita Hand’s memoir, Not the Perfect Victim

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The Irish Times view on social media regulation: always one step behind irishtimes.com/opinion/edito…

The Irish Times view on social media regulation: always one step behind

The antagonism these businesses have to official oversight of their activities was evident this week

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The Irish Times view on U2 at 50: spark that lit a fire irishtimes.com/opinion/edito…

The Irish Times view on U2 at 50: spark that lit a fire

Band went on to become one of the most successful in rock history, and the biggest ever to emerge from Ireland

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