# read-me - Thursday 24 January, 2019
A proposed new EU Directive aims to develop a secondary market for non-performing loans and poses a serious threat to the rights of borrowers and consumers, writes Matt Carthy.
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# read-me - Saturday 12 January, 2019
There are clear victims here – the men, women and children who were forced to flee their homes, Dr Fiona O’Reilly writes.
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# read-me - Wednesday 2 January, 2019
If Ireland is committed to peace between Israel and Palestine then we must show it and pass this legislation, writes Niall Collins.
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# read-me - Saturday 29 December, 2018
People using drugs should be dealt with exclusively via the health system, writes Tony Duffin. Let’s make the change in 2019.
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As usual, the aubergines were a disaster – at this stage, I think I only bother sowing them because there’s not much else to do in February, writes Michael Kelly.
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# read-me - Friday 28 December, 2018
And yet there are some potential concerns to look out for in 2019, writes Victor Duggan.
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# read-me - Tuesday 25 December, 2018
Each week, photographer and filmmaker Donal Moloney shares a small piece of Ireland that reflects the bigger picture.
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# read-me - Sunday 23 December, 2018
Graham Jones, who died earlier this month, lived an extraordinary life. Here, Lynn Ruane explains about the difference he made to the people around him.
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# read-me - Saturday 22 December, 2018
Larry Donnelly looks back on 2018 and ahead to 2019 in American politics.
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# read-me - Friday 21 December, 2018
15-year-old Beth Doherty is here to hold you accountable for your lack of action on climate change. ‘As an adult reading this – you have power, I don’t have any,’ she writes.
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# read-me - Thursday 20 December, 2018
Yesterday, the Taoiseach asked why the Sinn Féin leader was not in the chamber.
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# read-me - Tuesday 18 December, 2018
Now is the time for a mature and sensible discussion about sex and porn. We really need mandatory modern sex education introduced in schools too, writes Caroline West.
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# read-me - Saturday 24 November, 2018
Because cocaine is illegal, if people choose to use it they have little choice but to indirectly support organised crime and human trafficking, experts argue.
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# read-me - Tuesday 20 November, 2018
It’s been three years since the WHO released its guidelines about processed meat – so why aren’t we listening?
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# read-me - Monday 12 November, 2018
The boom in renting and the decline in home ownership are remarkable developments in Ireland, writes Professor Tony Fahey.
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# read-me - Saturday 10 November, 2018
The war was never forgotten among those who had fought it or those who lost loved ones, writes historian Donal Fallon.
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# read-me - Thursday 8 November, 2018
Given the political realities, Nancy Pelosi must simultaneously do battle and business with President Trump, writes Larry Donnelly.
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# read-me - Monday 5 November, 2018
The Democrats need to retain Senator Joe Donnelly’s seat if they are to have any chance of taking back the Senate, writes Eunan McKinney.
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# read-me - Sunday 28 October, 2018
Darach Ó Séaghdha talks us through the meaning of some spooky words like Cendail, a collective noun for the heads of one’s decapitated enemies.
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Bigotry never openly acknowledges its existence, writes Caoimhín De Barra.
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# read-me - Saturday 27 October, 2018
Ireland may be resistant to the temptations of populism but we are not immune, writes Larry Donnelly.
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# read-me - Friday 26 October, 2018
Barrister Anthony Moore writes about whether deportation law reform is throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
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# read-me - Thursday 25 October, 2018
After yesterday’s cúpla focal in the House of Commons, Neil Glackin takes a look back at the first occasion Irish was spoken in the British parliament.
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# read-me - Wednesday 24 October, 2018
It is hard to quantify grand corruption but the fact is that what evidence we have speaks against Ireland being a particularly corrupt country, writers economist and corruption expert Dr Robert Gillanders.
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# read-me - Sunday 21 October, 2018
How effective has the strategy been and what is the legacy we are left with when so many people are on the drug for so long?
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# read-me - Wednesday 17 October, 2018
There has been much debate and anger, some of it stemming from a misunderstanding of the Supreme Court decision, writes Aoife McMahon.
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# read-me - Sunday 14 October, 2018
Macedonia and Greece have been involved in a decades-long dispute over the name Macedonia and Alexander the Great.
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# read-me - Saturday 13 October, 2018
Each week, photographer and filmmaker Donal Moloney shares a small piece of Ireland that reflects the bigger picture.
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A new documentary looks at how a 23-year old introvert from east Belfast overcame the mob, US Immigration, poverty, and his own tricky personality, to make one of the most enduring and best-loved albums ever recorded.
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# read-me - Thursday 11 October, 2018
As a general principle, politicians should not engage in any activity where they would do better from the State doing worse, writes Conor Crummey.
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# read-me - Tuesday 9 October, 2018
Listening to the Budget speech from Pascal Donohoe today you would have no sense we are at such a historical turning point, writes Eamon Ryan.
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# read-me - Monday 8 October, 2018
The US mid-terms will be the first nationwide referendum on Donald Trump, writes Larry Donnelly.
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# read-me - Sunday 7 October, 2018
Sugar should be an occasional treat but it shouldn’t be an everyday habit for our young kids, writes nutritionist Ciara Wright.
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# read-me - Saturday 6 October, 2018
Each week, photographer and filmmaker Donal Moloney shares a small piece of Ireland that reflects the bigger picture.
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# read-me - Friday 5 October, 2018
The landscape has changed since the VAT rate was cut for the hospitality sector in 2011, writes Eamon Murphy.
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Security expert Tom Clonan raises concerns about why Ireland is one of the last EU member states not to have an air ambulance service.
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# read-me - Wednesday 3 October, 2018
Let’s hope our romance with the donut ends before it really does some lifelong damage, writes nutritionist Ciara Wright.
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# read-me - Tuesday 2 October, 2018
Fianna Fáil’s Darragh O’Brien writes about why affordable housing is key to this year’s Budget and a priority for his party.
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# read-me - Monday 1 October, 2018
Students are growing in confidence about their immediate job prospects, writes Ruairi Kavanagh, editor of Gradireland.
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# read-me - Saturday 29 September, 2018
The Tánaiste also used tonight’s speech to the the UN to state the Israel-Palestine conflict is a big foreign policy priority for the Irish government.
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