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Volodymyr Zelenskyy has received an open-arms welcome in most other parts of the world and particularly so across Europe

It is clear to pretty much everyone that our world is not yet ready for fully electric motoring

Planet Earth has no favourites among the nations

The Photographs of the Week as selected by our Visual Media team. 02/08/2025

Not only has Ireland's army been under-strength, but our naval service is also unable to patrol Europe’s largest territorial waters

Urgent need to future-proof our energy system

Our apparent inability to meaningfully diversify away from gas-fired electricity generation is certainly a factor here and there is less competition amongst...

The Photographs of the Week as selected by our Visual Media team. 31/05/2025

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Given the chance, many would prefer going on our own terms to being shipped out en masse and under guard

all of us need to take more care on the roads throughout this holiday season

At the outset of another year, we mull over gloomy data on housing road deaths 

We have a duty of care to abolish the means test

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The Department of Education told this newspaper the Education (Admissions to schools) Act 2018 'explicitly prohibits' the charging of admission and enrolment...

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Actor Olwen Fouéré, filmmaker Margo Harkin, and American historian Kerby Miller have each refused the University of Galway's offer of an honorary doctorate

During the 46 shopping days before Christmas, the TV campaigns will present a mindscape of how our major retailers see us, and our priorities, in 2025

Irish Examiner View: ‘Ambitious targets’ can’t be all talk: A comprehensive series of articles on this topic

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The major new housing plan to be announced today is the fourth in 12 years. We hope it fares better than previous initiatives

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The latest threat highlights the lack of a plan and resources and an absence of organised co-ordination against foreign actors

A 10-year-old child is missing, and a National Review Panel report into Kyran Durnin cannot be published: The State must safeguard the welfare of the most...

While the scrapping of the planned business school development is significant enough in itself, Mick Clifford's report also raises some key underlying issues...

Its impressive 614-acre estate sits serenely into the rolling countryside

It’s not the loveliest word in the world, but there’s no room for ambiguity in what has become known as Betwixtmas, that often quiet sojourn between...

We must do more to get young people out of their rooms and connected to various activities and social groups

Irish Examiner View: Five families bereaved in an instant: A comprehensive series of articles on this topic

The Photographs of the Week as selected by our Visual Media team. 08/11/2025

Defence minister Helen McEntee announced a €1.7bn investment in Ireland’s defensive capabilities

The Photographs of the Week as selected by our Visual Media team. 18/05/2025

Irish Examiner View: Michael D Higgins served this State well: A comprehensive series of articles on this topic

As one of Ben Dunne's sons stated on social media, he was 'a good and decent man'. Rest in peace, Ben Dunne — 1949-2023

Cormac O’Keeffe's report on how susceptible our children are to online apps makes for sobering reading

We look back on a year of unforgettable sporting moments and look ahead to what 2026 may bring.

The Photographs of the Week as selected by our Visual Media team. 06/09/2025

Harvey Morrison Sherratt, who had scoliosis and spina bifida, died in July at the age of nine, having waited years for surgery. His parents have been vocal in...

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Vladimir Putin's audacity seems certain to frustrate every effort to get Russia to stop its senseless and unwinnable war on Ukraine

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Ireland's new National Tourism Policy Statement includes an aim to increase Ireland’s tourism revenues by 50% in six years, a stretching objective that would...

The general public perceives the charity’s management as out of touch

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Recent court cases in Cork and Wexford recount horrifying tales of coercive control. As an MEP, herself a survivor, says, such abuses 'must be treated with the...

System denying children their right to an education

The Photographs of the Week as selected by our Visual Media team. 20/12/2025

New President Catherine Connolly is in tune with the flourishing of the language and its adoption by the younger generation

The Photographs of the Week as selected by our Visual Media team. 01/11/2025