EU crisis has defined shape of things to comeWORLD VIEW: THE BRITISH historian Timothy Garton Ash, pondering this week the parallels between the heated Europe debates in…Sat Oct 29 2011 - 01:00
A guide to making your vote countFor only the second time since 1938, a presidential election will ultimately be determined by the second, third, and fourth preferences…Wed Oct 26 2011 - 01:00
'Occupy' camps force debate on finance systemWORLDVIEW: WHEN RADICAL sociologist Naomi Klein addressed the Occupy Wall Street camp in Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan last…Sat Oct 15 2011 - 01:00
Texas 'cowboy' pretends to the White HouseWORLDVIEW: IS IT really conceivable that, having drawn breath briefly, indulging itself with an African-American experiment, …Sat Aug 20 2011 - 01:00
Like it or not, all roads lead to RomeWORLD VIEW: Bishop Magee has implicitly shown a firm line of church authority all the way to RomeSat Jul 16 2011 - 01:00
US needs to redefine its foreign policyWORLDVIEW: The waning days of outright US hegemony call for a reappraisal of US global roleSat Jun 18 2011 - 01:00
No hiding place for dictators breaking lawsWORLD VIEW: International attempts to end impunity for war crimes have been under way for several yearsSat Jun 04 2011 - 01:00
The escaped slave and the Irish 'Emancipator'COMMON GROUND ON ABOLITIONISM: O’Connell tormented the slave-owners of AmericaTue May 24 2011 - 01:00
War of attrition for opposition in ZimbabweWORLDVIEW: Many MDC MPs have been arrested and jailed in a systematic attack by Mugabe supportersSat Apr 23 2011 - 01:00
Call me a warmonger when it comes to LibyaWORLDVIEW: It is nonsense to say that since ‘our’ approach to tyrants is inconsistent, we should do nothingSat Mar 26 2011 - 00:00
Modernisers, or atavistic Islamists?WORLD VIEW : Journalists’ arrest has put the nature of Turkey’s ruling part back in the spotlightSat Mar 12 2011 - 00:00
Veteran republican and first 'Irish Times' Washington correspondent dies aged 91THE FIRST Irish Times Washington correspondent and veteran republican Seán Cronin has died in the city aged 91 after several …Thu Mar 10 2011 - 00:00
Left LineagesANALYSIS: Rocky road to Dáil success marked by sharp political turns for left-leaning TDsFri Mar 04 2011 - 00:00
Fianna Fáil massacred as left secures first majorityDUBLIN TRENDS: FROM 19 Dublin seats to oneMon Feb 28 2011 - 00:00
Pakistan and US at odds over CIA 'contractor'WORLDVIEW: The actions of a covert operative have created a major row about diplomatic immunitySat Feb 26 2011 - 00:00
Don't count on it but reporters' predictions may be correctFINE GAEL could expect to take 71 seats in the general election, up 20 on the outgoing Dáil, if the predictions made constituency…Thu Feb 24 2011 - 00:00
Proportional representation: what it is and how it worksSINCE 1921 Ireland has been using a voting system in elections to which, it appears, we have become strongly attachedWed Feb 23 2011 - 00:00
Despite West's paranoia, new regime will be closer to Ankara than TehranWORLD VIEW: THERE’S A nice, ironic symmetry to the discomfort of the Iranian regime at the Egyptian contagion and the continuing…Sat Feb 12 2011 - 00:00
Refusal to cede power a test for democracyWORLD VIEW: African leaders who use violence to stay in power are sending out a dangerous signalSat Jan 29 2011 - 00:00
Europe's last dictator lives on borrowed timeWORLD VIEW: The time has come for the EU to switch off life support for the Stalinist president of BelarusSat Jan 15 2011 - 00:00
Keeping an eye on them pesky OttomansWORLD VIEW: The idea of Sharia law as a threat to the US legal system emerged in recent monthsSat Dec 11 2010 - 00:00
Rewriting history will not remove wrongs of 'plantation' stateAMERICA: A referendum takes place in November to change the name of the smallest state in the US but many are blithely oblivious…Sat Jul 03 2010 - 01:00
Factory deaths and strikes reveal tough reality in 'workers' state'WORLD VIEW: A social timebomb is ticking away at the troubled heart of Chinese industrySat Jun 05 2010 - 01:00
Twists and turns likely in British electionNot only the Labour government is under scrutiny, but also the British electoral systemSat Mar 06 2010 - 00:00
'Irish Times' joins 55 newspapers in appeal to UN climate conferenceTHE IRISH Times and 55 other newspapers in 45 countries today launch an unprecedented joint appeal to the opening of the UN …Mon Dec 07 2009 - 00:00
This is no 'self-amending' treatyLISBON EXPLAINED/PART VIII: AMENDING ARTICLE 48: “Then there is a mechanism known as the ‘passerrelle’..Mon Sept 28 2009 - 01:00
Spectre of Turkish invasion another red herringLISBON EXPLAINED: SEVERAL NO campaign groups have raised the spectre of Turkish accession to the EU and specifically concerns…Fri Sept 25 2009 - 01:00
Rights push in Europe not based on treatyWORLDVIEW: IT IS possible that, a few months down the road, a European court may dramatically reshape the legal availability…Sat Sept 19 2009 - 01:00
It's possible to have too much democracyWORLD VIEW : Californian referendums mean the kind of ‘initiative’ that can bring an economy to its kneesSat Sept 05 2009 - 01:00
Former EU official and top diplomat dies in BrusselsTHE DEATH has occurred in Brussels of Eamonn Gallagher (82), formerly one of Ireland’s most senior EU officials and diplomats…Tue May 26 2009 - 01:00
Senior EU official Gallagher diesThe death has occurred in Brussels of Eamonn Gallagher (82), formerly one of Ireland's most senior EU officials and diplomats…Mon May 25 2009 - 01:00
Martin says Ireland has legal right to question Bolivia deathMINISTER FOR Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin last night insisted on Ireland’s right to raise questions with Bolivia about the …Thu Apr 23 2009 - 01:00
Autumn referendum for Lisbon Treaty still looks likelyTHE GOVERNMENT is still working with its EU partners to a Lisbon Treaty schedule that implies an autumn referendum, notwithstanding…Mon Feb 16 2009 - 00:00
Croatia willing to reassure Slovenia over land disputeCROATIA IS prepared to give legally binding guarantees to Slovenia that its EU accession negotiations will not prejudice the …Fri Feb 06 2009 - 00:00
Invaluable long view of our complex relationship with European UnionBOOK REVIEW : Ireland and the European Union By Brigid Laffan and Jane O'Mahony Palgrave Macmillan 303pp, £22.99Mon Dec 22 2008 - 00:00
EU chiefs urge free and fair vote in Zimbabwean presidential electionWORLDWIDE ISSUES: "ZIMBABWEANS SHOULD be allowed to choose their future freely," European Union leaders affirmed yesterday, …Sat Jun 21 2008 - 01:00
Opponents say the treaty is dead and call for fresh negotiationsSINN FÉIN AND SOCIALISTS: SINN FÉIN MEP Mary Lou McDonald and the Socialist Party's Joe Higgins both caleld for Fresh EU treaty…Fri Jun 20 2008 - 01:00
Further Lisbon talks planned for OctoberTaoiseach Brian Cowen and President of the European Commission Jose Mauel Barroso during a press conference in Brussels today…Thu Jun 19 2008 - 01:00
No side agrees Lisbon deal is deadThe message from Sinn Fein’s Mary Lou McDonald MEP and the Socialist Party’s Joe Higgins to the summit leaders was largely the…Thu Jun 19 2008 - 01:00
Veteran apartheid campaigner Asmal steps down from SA national assemblySOUTH AFRICA: IN A robust, and perhaps pointed, defence of the rule of law and the South African constitution, to whose drafting…Wed Feb 27 2008 - 00:00
So, what is it we really mean by 'sovereignty'?World View: As the troops muster in the trenches and the first shots are exchanged in the referendum battle on the Lisbon Treaty…Sat Jan 05 2008 - 00:00
Trinity 'riot' marred 1968 visitControversy surrounded a 1968 previous visit to Ireland by the Belgian royal familyMon Oct 08 2007 - 01:00
Voting figures at 67.3%, up 5% on 2002Turnout: Turnout in the election was significantly higher than in 2002, with 67Sat May 26 2007 - 01:00
Both coalition options may fall just shortConstituency profiles: Neither of the coalition options on offer to the electorate will achieve a majority, the collective wisdom…Wed May 23 2007 - 01:00
Law may permit abortion in such casesGovernment lawyers last year accepted that Irish law may actually permit abortion of foetuses that suffer from lethal abnormalities…Wed May 02 2007 - 01:00
Support from women increases dramaticallySupport for the legalisation of divorce has risen most dramatically among women and in the rural community since the 1995 referendum…Mon Feb 05 2007 - 00:00
Washington hawk brought crashing to earth by IraqRumsfeld and his legacy: The departure of Donald Rumsfeld from his post as defence secretary marks the end of an extraordinary…Thu Nov 09 2006 - 00:00
French honour 'Irish Times' journalist"In the name of the president of the Republic, under powers vested in me by him, I name you Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur…Sat Jun 24 2006 - 01:00
Irish champion of Bulgaria sleeps peacefully on a Balkan hillsideSofia Letter: We climbed the rough mountain path that led from Rila monastery up through the tall pines to the graveTue May 23 2006 - 01:00
Call came after days of waiting - 'Dad, it's me'For two days the phone had rung incessantly in the Carroll homeFri Oct 21 2005 - 01:00
