Irish Times is a surprisingly good paper.
I read the Irish Times every day and I agree that their standards of factual reporting are usually excellent but I'm afraid the bias of writers like Conor O'Cleary, Lara Marlowe (read her today), Paddy Agnew, Eddie Holt etc. simply oozes out. Remember these are correspondents not opinion writers don't get me started on Fintan O'Toole or Vincent Browne. Robert Fisk used to be treated like the word of God at the IT. Kevin Myers is really the only reason why I read the paper these days.
The IT is the only paper I know that publishes letters to the editor addressed to 'Dear Madam' come on, other newspapers with woman editors don't do that that's just barf!