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    Jan 18, 2022
    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
    You do not need any academic or professional qualification to write an oped, but you must offer some reason as to why our readers would be interested in your views on the subject about which you are proposing to write. Photograph: Getty Images
    How to write an opinion piece for The Irish Times
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    Jul 16, 2018
    One million people have now read this @fotoole article: Trial runs for fascism are in full flow
    US president Donald Trump: his claim that immigrants “infest” the US is test-marketing of whether his fans are ready for the next step-up in language towards “vermin”. Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo
    Fintan O’Toole: Trial runs for fascism are in full flow
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    Jan 10, 2024
    Opinion: Ireland could and should join South Africa’s genocide case against Israel irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/0… via @IrishTimesOpEd
    A Palestinian boy accompanies the body of a relative killed during Israeli airstrikes in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, in December. Photograph: Ahmad Salem/Bloomberg
    Ireland could and should join South Africa’s genocide case against Israel
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    May 18, 2025
    Jennifer O’Connell: Ruth Coppinger seems to think free speech applies only to views she likes
    Ruth Coppinger TD: The issue here isn’t actually very complex, despite Coppinger’s attempt to roll it up into everything from an ideological clash between right and left to her perception of the failings of individual journalists. Photograph: Alan Betson
    Jennifer O’Connell: Ruth Coppinger seems to think free speech applies only to views she likes
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    Aug 16, 2025
    Sally Rooney: I support Palestine Action. If this makes me a ‘supporter of terror’ under UK law, so be it
    Police officers arrest an 89-year-old protester at a demonstration in support of the proscribed group Palestine Action, in Parliament Square, London, last weekend. Photograph: Chris J Ratcliffe/AFP via Getty
    Sally Rooney: I support Palestine Action. If this makes me a ‘supporter of terror’ under UK law, so...
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    Mar 19, 2019
    Fintan O'Toole: Are the English ready for self-government? irishtimes.com/opinion/fintan… via @IrishTimesOpEd
    Former Ukip leader Nigel Farage addresses marchers from a pro-Brexit bus: Brexit is a dead horse, a form of nationalist energy that started to decompose on June 24th, 2016, as soon as it entered political reality. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty
    Fintan O'Toole: Are the English ready for self-government?
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    Jul 14, 2025
    Una Mullally: Keir Starmer was quick to condemn Kneecap, but strangely silent on Moygashel
    Effigies of migrants in a boat burn atop a bonfire at Moygashel, Co Tyrone. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire
    Una Mullally: Keir Starmer was quick to condemn Kneecap, but strangely silent on Moygashel
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    Dec 8, 2017
    Fintan O’Toole: This could be the begining of the end for Brexit
    “The problem that the Brexiteers most relentlessly ignored has come to determine the entire shape of their project”
    Fintan O’Toole: Ireland has just saved the UK from the madness of a hard Brexit
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    Feb 4, 2019
    Deep empathy of Irish for Palestinians is in no way anti-Semitic irishtimes.com/opinion/deep-e… via @IrishTimesOpEd
    A new Israeli road divided into a side for Palestinians and another to be used exclusively by Israelis and settlers, in East Jerusalem. Dubbed the “Apartheid Road”, it is divided by an 8m-high wall. File photograph: Thomas Coex/AFP/Getty
    Deep empathy of Irish for Palestinians is in no way anti-Semitic
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    Jan 30, 2025
    Opinion: Michael D Higgins is expending the goodwill that was once held in huge reserves for Ireland irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/0… via @IrishTimesOpEd
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    Finn McRedmond: Michael D Higgins is expending the goodwill that was once held in huge reserves for...
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    May 19, 2024
    Opinion: I’m of Jewish ancestry, studying at Trinity, where hostility has festered irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/0… via @IrishTimesOpEd
    In Ireland, what we saw in TCD and UCD mirrors the sentiments of a concerning portion of Irish society. Photograph: Sasko Lazarov / © RollingNews.ie
    Rachel Moiselle: I’m of Jewish ancestry, studying at Trinity, where hostility has festered
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    May 15, 2018
    Opinion: Boycott is best response to illegal Israeli killings
    A Palestinian carries an injured protester during clashes with Israeli forces near the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel east of Gaza City on May 14th, 2018. Photograph: Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty
    Boycott is best response to illegal Israeli killings
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    May 22, 2024
    Opinion: Irish people are the victims of a disgraceful campaign of concealment by Government irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/0… via @IrishTimesOpEd
    In retrospect, it is obvious that the proposed family amendment would have profound implications for family law, succession law, taxation law, immigration law, welfare law and pensions law. Photograph: Tom Honan
    Michael McDowell: We are victims of a disgraceful campaign of concealment by Government
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    Aug 21, 2025
    Finn McRedmond: Ireland is turning itself into chief ‘finger wagger’ on the world stage
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    Finn McRedmond: Ireland is turning itself into chief ‘finger wagger’ on the world stage
    It’s doubtful anyone is willing to listen to our lectures on affairs of international morality
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