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Thursday 26 November 2020
Live discussions on Science Week platform will hear what Irish citizens think the ‘new normal’ should look like.
Harry McCann says students involved in recent ‘partying’ are not representative of the majority trying to study and live within Covid guidelines.
Ireland needs a new model for forestry that does not damage nature, writes Minister of State for Agriculture Pippa Hackett.
Mary Brosnan, the director of nursing & midwifery, writes: “Babies wait for no one, even in a pandemic they will be born.”
‘Starting primary school was always going to be difficult but now I am concerned that it will be deeply traumatic and damaging.’
Following the attack on her friend, Tian Yu Lloyd, suggests Irish society takes time to reflect as racist aggression becomes more common through the pandemic.
The National Maternity Strategy recommendations have been watered down or sidelined, writes Dr Krysia Lynch of AIMS Ireland.
Orla Hegarty writes that lockdown has been a time to reflect on getting our new housing right.
Irish Seed Savers outline how support for organic heritage seed is the key to ensuring long-term food security on our island.
What we now reap is the harvest of decades of inaction on what voters just six short months ago told us were the major issues affecting our society, writes Dr Anthony O’Connor.
John Hume saw how people from a working class background were locked out of borrowing from banks, writes Gerry Thompson.
UCC researcher calls for a broader range of clean energy initiatives as small towns suffer air pollution from residential solid fuel burning.
The UN can’t defend people in Syria or even deliver aid, writes Barry Andrews. The least we can do is prepare for the prosecution of the terrible crimes that happen there.
Lawyer Paul Tweed says it’s ‘absurd’ for such companies to claim they are ‘merely a platform, not a publisher’.
It is useful to draw some comparisons with the West African Ebola crisis before Covid-19, John Farrelly writes.
We look to language when seeking a reassuring symbol of endurance, Darach Ó Séaghdha writes.
This week, our reader is a junior doctor saving to buy a house with her boyfriend.
Biden was all but counted out by most onlookers before recently, writes Larry Donnelly.
Dr Austin O’Carroll says decriminalisation would be a way of taking responsibility for the vicious effects of inequality.
There are plenty of linguistic similarities between Irish and other languages.
The two states play a key role in nominating presidential candidates.
The bleak first week of the election campaign meant any moment of lighter drama was welcomed by all, writes Lise Hand.
The problem with drawing up legislation on exclusion zones is that there are competing rights involved, writes lecturer in constitutional law Dr Laura Cahillane.
Word usage is like a conga line at a wedding – nobody thinks the person at the front is an artistic visionary, but the second and third people to join in create the legitimacy for others to attach themselves
It is a delicious vegetable included in mashed potato or even grated raw.
The deterioration of job quality and extreme working hours are a key driver of emigration for Irish doctors.
Let’s look back on some of the Irish words of the 2010s.
It’s time to start thinking about next year’s garden as 2020 creeps ever-closer.
A scenario of a highly deregulated UK has been dubbed as a Singapore-upon-Thames.
In December 1788, Whaley was struck by a malignant fever.
Of course, here among the bricks and the concrete of inner city terraces we know we are lucky, we are safe.
Mayo seems to have had a particularly savage spate of tree felling recently, writes Saoirse McHugh.
Between gift shopping and making the perfect dinner, burnout is easily felt this time of year.
What harm if we learn some words as Gaeilge along the way?
In other news, here’s a recipe for some creamy Brussels sprouts to posh up your Christmas dinner.
Sky-high premiums aren’t covering the cost of a ‘compo-culture’ but servicing the industry’s profits, writes Pearse Doherty.
Here are some traditions described in an Irish poem that claim to help find a suitor.
There is always a price to cheap food, writes Michael Kelly.
‘Feeder Schools’ tables show that students who attended private fee-paying schools go on to attend third-level education at higher rates than others.
It’s time for governments to fix the global tax system, for the sake of the planet.
THE GREYHOUND RACING industry has been put in the spotlight again this week, the Social Democrats put forward a motion proposing to end State funding of the sector.
Writing for TheJournal.ie this week, TD Holly Cairns explained that greyhound racing in Ireland will receive €19.2m in public funding next year – an increase of €2.4m on 2020.
Last year, an RTÉ investigation claimed that almost 6,000 greyhounds were killed for not racing fast enough in 2017.
But advocates for the sector have claimed it supports thousands of jobs and that annual Government funding represents an economic investment.
So, today we’re asking: Should the Government stop funding greyhound racing?
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