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We are always looking for fresh voices. Particularly from writers coming from backgrounds currently underrepresented on the oped page. How to write an opinion piece for The Irish Times via @IrishTimes
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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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Nigel Farage: Ireland should remember who its real friends are when Brexit comes
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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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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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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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'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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Una Mullally: Why do the Sisters of Charity want to own a maternity hospital?
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Fintan O’Toole: Boris has destroyed what is left of UK’s credibility 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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Hugely popular with the young, at 77 Michael D Higgins also inspires the older generation
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Fintan O'Toole: What connects Brexit, the DUP, dark money and a Saudi prince?
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Ireland must speak up for the starving in Tigray 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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Fintan O’Toole: Why I will not appear on Newstalk again
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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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Here's the latest Martyn Turner 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 ( @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: Babies in cages were not a ‘mistake’ by Donald Trump. They were trial runs for fascism
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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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'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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Ursula Halligan: Referendum pointed me towards telling the truth about myself http://t.co/9MvLHamgqZ http://t.co/8NrY0yJX10
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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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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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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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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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Irish America is hostile to the exclusion of Sinn FĂ©in from government via @IrishTimesOpEd
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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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❝I recently visited the Iveagh Markets in Dublin 8, and it was hard not to cry at the state of the place. What could be a star of the city is an open sore via @IrishTimesOpEd
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Nigel Farage: Ireland, if you think Apple is bad you ain’t seen nothing yet
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