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Lynn Ruane: NDAs have been misused as a tool to enforce a culture of silence - this has to stop
Lynn Ruane: 'Christy, you inspired me to live longer, love deeper and fight harder'
Lynn Ruane: In all my years of community work I've never met the ones 'fighting for Ireland'
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Lynn Ruane: Some refugees are vilified for being from certain places or because they are men
Lynn Ruane: A mature society accepts that drug use is normal and does not punish addiction
Lynn Ruane: Global drug laws can be traced back to a small group of conserative American men
Lynn Ruane: Prohibition has never worked anywhere, and it never will
Lynn Ruane: My New Year gift to myself? Gratitude for my body
Lynn Ruane: Drug courts are not the solution to Ireland's drug problem
Lynn Ruane: Harm reduction should always come first with criminal drug policy
Lynn Ruane: Uniting movement groups in Ireland could lead to long-term change
Lynn Ruane: 'We can't keep failing young people with inadequate sex education'
Lynn Ruane: We should all support choice in education
Lynn Ruane: Sport is part of the solution to address young men's mental health
Lynn Ruane: 'You can't treat addiction like a business - and people with addiction like objects'
Lynn Ruane: 'Help for suicide prevention can be hard to identify - and even harder to access'
Lynn Ruane: Child maintenance reform would be good for children - and good for the country
Lynn Ruane: In Ireland we're forcing carers to change their children on toilet floors
Lynn Ruane: How this French charity shop treats the homeless should inspire us to help our own
Lynn Ruane: An inspirational school project reminds us of our shared humanity
Lynn Ruane: I'm tabling a bill to support the voices of community and advocacy groups
Lynn Ruane: 'Now is not the time to stop listening to David Attenborough'
Lynn Ruane: The overdose drug Naloxone can save lives so let's remove the barriers to accessing it
Lynn Ruane: This Mother's Day, let's celebrate those mothers doing a tough job in challenging circumstances
Lynn Ruane: 'It should be a source of major embarrassment to Ireland that we are yet to ratify this important treaty'
Lynn Ruane: 'We need to change society radically from the ground up'
Opinion: Pat was refused mental health services because of his addiction - now he's dead
Lynn Ruane: People with a criminal record for minor offences deserve a second chance
Lynn Ruane: In remembrance of my friend, Graham Jones
Lynn Ruane: We must pioritise people's lives over pharmaceutical companies' profits
'Amazing footballers see their talent as a distant memory - overpowered by isolation, addiction, homelessness'
Lynn Ruane: Examining morality through the prism of social class
Lynn Ruane: 20 years on from the introduction of the methadone strategy, where are we now?
'He chose to die at home. The hostel was his home': Lynn Ruane on hidden health problems in homelessness
Lynn Ruane on sexual assault: 'I carried a shame that wasn’t mine for years before I told anyone'
'The devastating impact of social class is not an abstract concept to hundreds of thousands on this island'
Lynn Ruane: 'She was pure goodness and spent her life sharing that goodness'