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The Irish Times Business Person of the Month: Aimee Connolly, CEO of Sculpted by Aimee

The Irish Times 15 May 2026
Irish entrepreneur Aimee Connolly has been chosen as The Irish Times Business Person of the Month for April, an award run in association with Bank of Ireland ... States in the fourth quarter of this year.
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The Irish Times view on budget planning: surrounded by an air of unreality

The Irish Times 15 May 2026
There is an air of unreality about the prolonged build up to Budget 2027 in October ... Unfortunately, this is not the case. There may yet be a deal between the US and Iran, though even then a return to normality in energy markets will take time.
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The Irish Times view on the Eurovision boycott: the future is unclear

The Irish Times 15 May 2026
When the 70th Eurovision Song Contest begins on Saturday evening, there will be no Irish presence ... There will be no “hello from Dublin” during the jury votes, no Irish televote and no broadcast of the show on Irish television.
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The Irish Times view on the Dublin Central byelection: transfers will be vital

The Irish Times 14 May 2026
The latest Irish Times/TG4 Ipsos B&A poll from Dublin Central suggests that the byelection in the capital is just as finely balanced as the one in Galway West ... a Sinn Féin stronghold for some time.
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The Irish Times view on the ambulance strike: negotiations must recommence

The Irish Times 13 May 2026
Glamour, sheer excruciation and the vanishing Irish-shot film Bucking Fastard ... A solution may, in time, form part of the successor to the current public sector pay deal, which expires in July.
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The Irish Times view on the Trump/Xi summit: Iran war hangs over vital talks

The Irish Times 13 May 2026
China responded to the tariffs by choking off the supply to the US of rare earth minerals used in modern manufacturing and Trump backed down ... Glamour, sheer excruciation and the vanishing Irish-shot film Bucking Fastard.
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The Irish Times view on 100 years of Fianna Fáil: party of power and pragmatism

The Irish Times 12 May 2026
One hundred years ago this week, the inaugural public meeting was held for what would become one of the most electorally successful political parties in the democratic world ... So too do the failures and missteps.
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The Irish Times view on housebuilding: inflation posing a challenge

The Irish Times 12 May 2026
T he uncertainties caused by the conflict in the Middle East and the knock on to higher inflation has led to some slowdown in housebuilding ... In time, incomes and tax payments to the Government, may adjust.
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The Irish Times view on AI and the workplace: women could be the losers

The Irish Times 11 May 2026
By November last year, more than one in nine job postings here referenced AI-related terms, roughly three times the European average ... Five to watch at this week’s US PGA Championship, including an Irish star in the mix at Aronimink.
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The Irish Times view on Russia-Ukraine war: the calculus shifts

The Irish Times 11 May 2026
As Lara Marlowe’s recent reports for The Irish Times have shown, Ukraine’s rapid development of its drone capacity – it now produces most of the drones it uses – has led to increasing battlefield superiority against Russian infantry.
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How Hizbullah fought back against Israel’s northern offensive – The Irish Times

Virtual Jerusalem 10 May 2026
The Lebanese militant group was sharply diminished by its 2024 war with Israel – but the latest conflict has shown it is not a spent force. | Read More Google Alert – Israel ....
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The Irish Times view on Oliver Bond House: State has a moral obligation

The Irish Times 10 May 2026
The name Herbert Simms is not as well known as it should be ... The complexes Simms designed represented a transformative improvement in living standards for thousands of working-class Dublin families ... I covered the Katie Simpson case from the start.
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The Irish Times view on the UK elections: British politics is fragmenting

The Irish Times 10 May 2026
Labour won a massive parliamentary majority on only one third of the vote. Nigel Farage made it into the Commons for the first time but with only five seats, muttering about the need for electoral reform. But the danger signs were there.
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The Irish Times view on early airport drinking: time for last orders

The Irish Times 08 May 2026
The Irish Aviation Authority annual safety performance review released last August noted 1,432 “events” during 2024 involving a difficult or unruly passenger, compared to 426 in 2023 ... The problem is getting worse ... The French revolutionary.
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The Irish Times view on the Galway West byelection: a close contest ahead

The Irish Times 08 May 2026
The results of the Irish Times/TG4 poll in the Galway West constituency, carried out by Ipsos B&A, have given the parties and independent candidates the first reliable benchmark of support as the byelection campaign swings fully into gear.
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