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Irish Examiner view: €1.7bn defence spending plan reflects a new era in geopolitics
Irish Examiner view: €1.7bn defence spending plan reflects a new era in geopolitics
Defence minister Helen McEntee announced a €1.7bn investment in Ireland’s defensive capabilities

Fri, 12 Dec, 2025

Irish Examiner view: Kenova secrecy is an insult to victims North and South
Irish Examiner view: Kenova secrecy is an insult to victims North and South
As the report itself states, the British security policy of 'neither confirm nor deny' (NCND) cannot be used to protect agents who commit grotesque serious crime

Thu, 11 Dec, 2025

Over the shoulder view of a child using a smartphone in a home environment
Irish Examiner view: We must keep kids safe online
Minister for communications Patrick O’Donovan briefed his Cabinet colleagues yesterday on plans to keep children safe online, a move which comes in the wake of a significant step taken by Australian legislators.

Wed, 10 Dec, 2025

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Irish Examiner view: Ireland must face up to security threats
The latest threat highlights the lack of a plan and resources and an absence of organised co-ordination against foreign actors

Tue, 09 Dec, 2025

DRCONGO-COBALT-MINNING-ECONOMY-REFORM
Irish Examiner view: Climate will suffer for mineral rush
Planet Earth has no favourites among the nations

Mon, 08 Dec, 2025

SWEDEN-MUSIC-ABBA
Irish Examiner view: Ask ABBA — Eurovision exit makes us feel like we win when we lose
Israel first took part in Eurovision in the year of the Yom Kippur War, 1973. Israel remains in the contest, and Ireland is gone

Sat, 06 Dec, 2025

Missing Child Silhouette
Irish Examiner view: Care of our most vulnerable must be given top priority
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 vulnerable and voiceless members of our society

Fri, 05 Dec, 2025

Irish Examiner View: Voice of solidarity has been heard during Zelenskyy visit
Irish Examiner View: Voice of solidarity has been heard during Zelenskyy visit
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed the joint Houses of the Oireachtas yesterday, a signal honour that puts him in select company.

Wed, 03 Dec, 2025

Irish Examiner view: Will the Government's infrastructure plan cut through red tape for the better?
Irish Examiner view: Will the Government's infrastructure plan cut through red tape for the better?
There are always potential issues with hasty legislation, while any hint of corners being cut should be strongly resisted

Tue, 02 Dec, 2025

Taoiseach Micheal Martin visit to Ukraine
Irish Examiner view: Unwavering Irish support for Ukraine
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has received an open-arms welcome in most other parts of the world and particularly so across Europe

Tue, 02 Dec, 2025

Phone in bed at night. Man with smartphone before sleeping. Secret texting, cheating or working late. Happy guy browsing online
Irish Examiner view: Dangerous misinformation in a post-truth era
Story about a cancer patient who became severely malnourished while following the advice of a 'wellness guru' should give us all pause

Mon, 01 Dec, 2025

Pensive middle-aged woman look in distance thinking
Irish Examiner view: Coercive control is as old as time — its perpetrators must be called out
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 seriousness they deserve'

Sat, 29 Nov, 2025

Irish Examiner view: Protest uses the power of polite dissent
Irish Examiner view: Protest uses the power of polite dissent
Actor Olwen Fouéré, filmmaker Margo Harkin, and American historian Kerby Miller have each refused the University of Galway's offer of an honorary doctorate

Fri, 28 Nov, 2025

Irish Examiner view: Numbers do not add up when it comes to special classes
Irish Examiner view: Numbers do not add up when it comes to special classes
System denying children their right to an education

Thu, 27 Nov, 2025

Irish Examiner view: Progress on environment protection
Irish Examiner view: Progress on environment protection
When it comes to keeping our environment safe and free from threats to both animals and humans, the public has to have complete confidence in the regulatory authorities

Wed, 26 Nov, 2025

Coronavirus - Fri Mar 19, 2021
Irish Examiner View: ‘Ambitious targets’ can’t be all talk
Timely access to basic healthcare should be one of the minimum asks of every health service, but once again ours has been found wanting.

Tue, 25 Nov, 2025

Irish Examiner view: UCC ditching CUBS centre highlights crises in third-level education
Irish Examiner view: UCC ditching CUBS centre highlights crises in third-level education
While the scrapping of the planned business school development is significant enough in itself, Mick Clifford's report also raises some key underlying issues about education funding

Mon, 24 Nov, 2025

Irish Examiner view: Our energy grid gamble on when the next big one arrives
Irish Examiner view: Our energy grid gamble on when the next big one arrives
Urgent need to future-proof our energy system

Sat, 22 Nov, 2025

Irish Examiner view: Peter McVerry Trust hit by perception problem
Irish Examiner view: Peter McVerry Trust hit by perception problem
The general public perceives the charity’s management as out of touch

Fri, 21 Nov, 2025

Man using ChatGPT in the mobile phone. This app is a chatbot based on Artificial Intelligence developed by OpenAI. ROSARIO, ARGE
Irish Examiner view: EU simplifies digital rules 
Irish scrutiny of the digital omnibus will need to be rigorous and uncompromising

Thu, 20 Nov, 2025

Royal Canal Greenway opening
Irish Examiner view: We will all live with Paschal Donohoe's decisions
Ireland's finance minister Paschal Donohoe is stepping down to take on his new role with the World Bank 

Wed, 19 Nov, 2025

Irish Examiner View: Five families bereaved in an instant
Irish Examiner View: Five families bereaved in an instant
The deaths of five young people — all in their early 20s — in Saturday night’s horror crash in Dundalk illustrated just how thin the margin is between life and death on our roads. Tributes are paid in these pages today to those who died.

Tue, 18 Nov, 2025

Irish Examiner view: Dignity must be a part of deportations
Irish Examiner view: Dignity must be a part of deportations
Given the chance, many would prefer going on our own terms to being shipped out en masse and under guard

Mon, 17 Nov, 2025

Using mobile phone
Irish Examiner view: One is the loneliest number that you’ll ever do
We must do more to get young people out of their rooms and connected to various activities and social groups

Sat, 15 Nov, 2025

Harvey Morrison protest
Irish Examiner view: Getting to the root of CHI problem
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 calling for action on this issue

Fri, 14 Nov, 2025

Woman's hand holding keys
Irish Examiner view: Housing plan has to sidestep old pitfalls — for everyone's sake
The major new housing plan to be announced today is the fourth in 12 years. We hope it fares better than previous initiatives

Thu, 13 Nov, 2025

IRELAND-POLITICS
Irish Examiner view: Cultural high water mark for Gaeilge
New President Catherine Connolly is in tune with the flourishing of the language and its adoption by the younger generation

Wed, 12 Nov, 2025

Irish Examiner View: Michael D Higgins served this State well
Irish Examiner View: Michael D Higgins served this State well
Michael D Higgins’ 14-year term as Uachtarán na hÉireann has come to an end and, while his time in office has sometimes been controversial, there can be no doubt that it has coincided with a defining period in modern Irish history.

Tue, 11 Nov, 2025

Jamaica Extreme Weather
Irish Examiner view: Our planet has already run out of road
Generations of people have been crying ‘stop’ but now we could get to the point where the planet may say ‘stop’ on our behalf instead

Mon, 10 Nov, 2025

Irish Examiner view: Ad managers return to spirit of Christmas past
Irish Examiner view: Ad managers return to spirit of Christmas past
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

Sat, 08 Nov, 2025

Primary school girls are taught during a lesson by a male teacher
Irish Examiner view: 'Voluntary' school payment practice must stop
The Department of Education told this newspaper the Education (Admissions to schools) Act 2018 'explicitly prohibits' the charging of admission and enrolment fees for admission to, or for continued enrolment in, a school

Fri, 07 Nov, 2025

Irish Examiner view: Fota Wildlife Park merits State support
Irish Examiner view: Fota Wildlife Park merits State support
We wholeheartedly endorse the appeal for support from Fota Wildlife Park as it remains shut amid the bird flu outbreak

Thu, 06 Nov, 2025

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Irish Examiner view: Survey could shape the future of our education system
The parents of 826,000 children are to be asked by the Department of Education for their views on primary schooling

Wed, 05 Nov, 2025

Irish Examiner view: Security at Ipas centres needs review
Irish Examiner view: Security at Ipas centres needs review
To terrorise innocent people in this way is almost beyond comprehension and there is little by way of consolation in the fact that the forces of law will inevitably catch up with the person responsible

Tue, 04 Nov, 2025

Sudan
Irish Examiner view: Ireland cannot look away from Sudan
To look away is a luxury. To care is a duty. To act is the minimum requirement of a civilised nation

Mon, 03 Nov, 2025

BRAZIL-CLIMATE-COP30-BELEM-PREPARATION
Irish Examiner view: Inclination is flattening for Cop 30
Cop 30 in a city on the edge, for now, of the rain forest may produce some solutions. But that is not the way to bet

Sat, 01 Nov, 2025

Donald Trump,Xi Jinping
Irish Examiner view: Trump trading one distraction for another
The main consequence of Trump’s belligerence towards China appears to be a return to the relationship between the two countries before he took office for the second time

Fri, 31 Oct, 2025

Fake reviews on Amazon
Irish Examiner view: Amazon job losses may be just the tip of the iceberg
The jobs which are specifically threatened by this week’s news are endangered not by robotics, but by artificial intelligence

Wed, 29 Oct, 2025

Irish Examiner View: Micheál Martin must heed lesson of 1990 vote
Irish Examiner View: Micheál Martin must heed lesson of 1990 vote
The presidential election might be concluded, but the controversies it set in motion continue to roll.

Wed, 29 Oct, 2025

A young woman protects herself by exposing her hand in front of her
Irish Examiner view: Societal cancer that is gender-based violence must be cut out
The moves to introduce Jennie’s Law, which would allow for a public register of people convicted of domestic violence against a partner or former partner, are welcome, overdue, and should be accelerated

Mon, 27 Oct, 2025

Irish Examiner view: Trash talk that might save the Earth
Irish Examiner view: Trash talk that might save the Earth
emanding that all waste must be managed by each country at the point at which it is created will do the world a favour

Sat, 25 Oct, 2025

Irish presidential election
Irish Examiner view: A vote for democracy over chaos
Anyone expressing reticence about voting today should bear in mind that the alternative to the democratic process was visible this week in Dublin

Fri, 24 Oct, 2025

Migrant accommodation
Irish Examiner view: We cannot protest crime with crime
Protesting against a perceived lack of safety on our streets by committing crimes on our streets is a paradox which needs to be called out

Thu, 23 Oct, 2025

Casket in a Hearse
Irish Examiner view: Grieving families should not face further trauma due to autopsy delays
A halt to coroner-requested autopsies at University Hospital Waterford could delay families from burying their loved ones

Wed, 22 Oct, 2025

Child abuse concept, silhouette of child confined in a dark room, prisoner or child abduction, child abuse human trafficking.
Irish Examiner view: We still don't know the full extent of child sexual abuse
One in Four's report suggests we are not close to uncovering the extent of damage done to generations of Irish children

Tue, 21 Oct, 2025

Irish Examiner view: You could see neurodiversity as different flavours of our shared humanity
Irish Examiner view: You could see neurodiversity as different flavours of our shared humanity
Enlightening article in 'Irish Examiner Feelgood' points out the realities of neurodivergence in the workplace

Mon, 20 Oct, 2025

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