Sane or insane Breivik must not be releasedWORLD VIEW: Legal definition vied with psychiatric diagnosis in finding the Norwegian mass killer responsibleSat Sept 01 2012 - 01:00
Convention is a toothless piece of consultationWORLD VIEW: Constitutional forum’s narrow agenda rules out debate on major political reform issuesSat Aug 18 2012 - 01:00
Guilt blinds some to faults of RwandaWORLD VIEW: Rwanda’s support for a bloody militia in neighbouring Congo is deeply troublingSat Aug 04 2012 - 01:00
No easy retreat for UK from EU membershipWORLD VIEW : Reality of Norway’s link with EU should provide UK Eurosceptics with a political reality checkSat Jul 14 2012 - 01:00
Key goals to reduce poverty achieved ahead of target, says UN reportTHREE KEY goals set by the international community for reducing global deprivation – on poverty levels, access to water, and …Wed Jul 04 2012 - 01:00
The Handshake was belated but not historicMcGuinness’s meeting with queen represented a further step in Sinn Féin’s rebranding projectSat Jun 30 2012 - 01:00
South Africa's post-apartheid gains in perilWORLD VIEW: ANDREW FEINSTEIN, a former MP for South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC), has quit politics and now…Sat Jun 09 2012 - 01:00
Romney's US drum-banging causes concernWORLDVIEW: The front-runner extols muscle-flexing and not negotiating overseas. It is a dangerous narrativeSat May 26 2012 - 01:00
EU democratic deficit at core of fiscal impasseWORLD VIEW: WE ARE in the process – painfully, haltingly – of addressing the central deficiency in Europe’s single currency…Sat May 12 2012 - 01:00
Throwing a Punch in Ireland’s directionBy 1914, the influential political magazine 'Punch' was running half of its cartoons on Irish political themes - but it had developed a grudging acceptance of the inevitability of Home RuleWed Apr 25 2012 - 01:00
Salmond may be a great Scot but is no HitlerWORLD VIEW: Scotland’s first minister has sought to use the ‘home rule’ slogan for the separatist causeSat Apr 21 2012 - 01:00
Obama's key policy on line in court reviewWORLD VIEW: THERE WERE, in President Obama’s tiff with the supreme court this week, echoes of Paddy Donegan’s “thundering disgrace…Sat Apr 07 2012 - 01:00
Lecture hears of historian's view of two-nation IrelandTHE LOGIC that underpins the Belfast Agreement, the principle of consent, requires us to re-examine historical assumptions about…Sat Mar 10 2012 - 00:00
Washington loses its man in YemenWORLDVIEW: A US counterterrorism deal could be in jeopardy after the transfer of powerSat Feb 25 2012 - 00:00
Battleground staked out for EU reformWORLDVIEW: IT WAS as if the referendum campaign was already under waySat Jan 28 2012 - 00:00
Ultra-Orthodox Jews challenge secular orderWORLD VIEW: The sight of a girl being spat at and insulted on her way to school has shocked Israeli societySat Dec 31 2011 - 00:00
Immigration is 'slow poison' for RepublicansWORLD VIEW: NEWT GINGRICH didn’t actually use the word “amnesty”, but he opened the door wideSat Nov 26 2011 - 00:00
Diplomacy is not just about economicsWORLDVIEW: The closure of the Vatican Embassy does not chime with our ethical foreign policySat Nov 12 2011 - 00:00
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
