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The Irish Times view on Belfast violence: bad actors prey on social divisions
The Irish Times 12 Jun 2026
The issue of the Common Travel Area has once more been raised, and it is true that cross-Border movement of asylum seekers creates real pressures that neither the British nor Irish governments have fully addressed.
The Irish Times view on Mark Carney: setting an example
The Irish Times 12 Jun 2026
Three of his four grandparents were from the west of Ireland and Carney held Irish citizenship until relinquishing it on becoming Canada’s prime minister ... In the less than two years since he entered ...
The Irish Times view on EU tech sovereignty: a tricky balance
The Irish Times 11 Jun 2026
The European Commission has unveiled a strategy to put the EU on a path to digital sovereignty ... The move is being assailed for not going far enough, while at the same time being depicted as a lurch towards protectionism.
The Irish Times view on interest rates: ECB should tread carefully
The Irish Times 11 Jun 2026
The quarter-point rise in European Central Bank interest rates, announced on Thursday, was widely expected ... It will hope it will not face the dilemma which a period of seriously rising inflation and falling growth would bring.
The Irish Times view on Irish exemptions: a worrying increase
The Irish Times 10 Jun 2026
A report published this week by Conradh na Gaeilge and written by a professor in Dublin City University notes that almost half of students who get an exemption from studying Irish on the basis of a ...
The Irish Times view on budget policy: on an increasingly risky course
The Irish Times 10 Jun 2026
The argument is familiar, but the extent of the exposure is growing all the time ... This fails to recognise that the increase in Irish net spending is already planned to be the fastest in the EU and will be well above the economy’s growth rate.
The Irish Times view on the World Cup: for the glory - and the revenue
The Irish Times 10 Jun 2026
This betrayal of the original lofty promises by Fifa that bringing the showpiece back to the US for the first time since 1994 would be the fulfilment of its mission to broaden the game’s global appeal should not be surprising.
The Irish Times view on the Kenneally report: a gross dereliction
The Irish Times 09 Jun 2026
The report of the Commission of Investigation published yesterday into Bill Kenneally’s decades of child sexual abuse in Waterford makes for grim reading ... ‘The almost unbearable guilt of having had a row last time I saw him’.
The Irish Times view on the conviction of Sean McGovern: a major blow to organised crime
The Irish Times 08 Jun 2026
It comes after the Kinahans’ Irish operation was dismantled following scores of prosecutions over the past decade ... A small Irish street gang was given the time and space to grow, initially out of sight in Spain.
The Irish Times view on the Nowak killing: a rallying cry for the far-right
The Irish Times 07 Jun 2026
Protests flared following reports from the trial of his killer that attending police had accepted his claims of racial abuse against Nowak and ignored the student’s dying pleas, backed up by shocking police bodycam footage ... As the world turns.
The Irish Times view on maternity services: choice should not depend on purchasing power
The Irish Times 07 Jun 2026
As the world turns ... Maternity care is one of the few areas of Irish healthcare without a full private-sector alternative ... While there have been welcome investments and improvements in Irish maternity services over the past decade, key gaps remain.
The Irish Times view on the latest economic data: Ireland’s economic exceptionalism on display
The Irish Times 05 Jun 2026
As the Irish Times reports today, many of the individual tax payments they make are enormous.READ MORE ... What this means for the Irish pharma sector remains to be seen – and there are some major new plants coming on stream in Ireland.
The Irish Times view on Aughinish Alumina: questions getting louder
The Irish Times 05 Jun 2026
The preliminary opinion of Swedish tax investigators, reported this week, that sanctioned oligarch Oleg Deripaska never actually relinquished control of Rusal, and by extension of Aughinish, should concentrate minds in Government.
The Irish Times view on the Healy-Rae split: a kingdom divided
The Irish Times 05 Jun 2026
It appears the brothers are not immune from Brendan Behan’s dictum that the first item on the agenda of any Irish organisation is the split ... What this week’s events revealed is that the machine has been running on bad fuel for some time.
The Irish Times view on the pilot scrappage scheme: a welcome initiative
The Irish Times 04 Jun 2026
But past scrappage schemes, which aimed to get old, dangerous and heavily polluting vehicles off Irish roads, were enthusiastically taken up by the public, and there is reason to expect the same appetite here.