# read-me - Saturday 8 May, 2021
# Shutting The Door
# Shutting The Door
Joan O’Donnell writes that it’s time to ditch failing strategies and embrace an inclusive future of work.
# read-me - Wednesday 5 May, 2021
# Opinion
# Opinion
The great political challenge of the pandemic is fixing workplaces to be better than they are, writes Michael Taft.
# read-me - Saturday 24 April, 2021
# Lost For Words
# Lost For Words
Mary Phelan writes that lack of accredited training and poor service are having huge consequences and must be addressed by the State.
# read-me - Wednesday 7 April, 2021
# Racism At Work
# Racism At Work
Youth Against Racism and Inequality (YARI) activist writes that immigrants and people of colour are leading the force for change internationally.
# read-me - Saturday 27 March, 2021
# Wild Horses
# Wild Horses
DSPCA education and community outreach projects are trying to address welfare issues facing loose horses in the greater Dublin area.
# read-me - Friday 5 March, 2021
# Column
# Column
This country has a long history of treating pregnant women and girls appallingly; the pandemic should not be an excuse to continue to do the same, writes Seána Glennon.
# read-me - Tuesday 2 March, 2021
# Analysis
# Analysis
Two decades on from a landmark case in Britain, discrimination is still an everyday experience for Travellers, writes legal affairs journalist CJ McKinney.
# read-me - Friday 26 February, 2021
# False News
# False News
Misinformation is now local, global and transnational all at the same time, writes Shane Creevy.
# read-me - Sunday 7 February, 2021
# Opinion
# Opinion
Rather than looking for swingeing spending cuts or increased taxes on work, how about we start at the top, writes Victor Duggan.
# read-me - Saturday 23 January, 2021
# Funding Fertility
# Funding Fertility
The Government needs to take action and implement the model of care for infertility, writes Emma Mc Dade.
# read-me - Saturday 16 January, 2021
# Stolen Wheels
# Stolen Wheels
The serial number is reported to Gardaí for only one in 16 stolen bikes, writes Dublin Cycling Campaign’s David Timoney.
# read-me - Saturday 9 January, 2021
# Mental Health
# Mental Health
Psychiatrist Anne Doherty on how increased demand during Covid-19 has left already stretched services ‘drowning under the additional pressure’.
# read-me - Monday 4 January, 2021
# Infodemic
# Infodemic
Dr Jane Suiter explores how one of the biggest challenges to public health in 2021 will be conspiracy theories around vaccines.
# read-me - Sunday 20 December, 2020
# Dognapped
# Dognapped
Law where pets are a ‘low value possession’ alongside plant pots and mobile phones should be reviewed, writes vet Dr Sharon Alston.
# read-me - Saturday 19 December, 2020
# Opinion
# Opinion
The passing of Coco’s Law will prevent the sharing of intimate images without consent – regardless of the motivation for doing so.
# read-me - Wednesday 11 November, 2020
# Opinion
# Opinion
Live discussions on Science Week platform will hear what Irish citizens think the ‘new normal’ should look like.
# read-me - Tuesday 29 September, 2020
# University
# University
Harry McCann says students involved in recent ‘partying’ are not representative of the majority trying to study and live within Covid guidelines.
# read-me - Tuesday 22 September, 2020
# Opinion
# Opinion
Ireland needs a new model for forestry that does not damage nature, writes Minister of State for Agriculture Pippa Hackett.
# read-me - Monday 31 August, 2020
# Column
# Column
Mary Brosnan, the director of nursing & midwifery, writes: “Babies wait for no one, even in a pandemic they will be born.”
# read-me - Tuesday 25 August, 2020
# Assessing Autism
# Assessing Autism
‘Starting primary school was always going to be difficult but now I am concerned that it will be deeply traumatic and damaging.’
# read-me - Monday 24 August, 2020
# Shelly Xiong
# Shelly Xiong
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.
# read-me - Saturday 22 August, 2020
# Birth Place
# Birth Place
The National Maternity Strategy recommendations have been watered down or sidelined, writes Dr Krysia Lynch of AIMS Ireland.
# read-me - Thursday 20 August, 2020
# Lowering Standards
# Lowering Standards
Orla Hegarty writes that lockdown has been a time to reflect on getting our new housing right.
# read-me - Saturday 15 August, 2020
# Seed Revolution
# Seed Revolution
Irish Seed Savers outline how support for organic heritage seed is the key to ensuring long-term food security on our island.
# read-me - Friday 14 August, 2020
# Opinion
# Opinion
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.
# read-me - Wednesday 5 August, 2020
# Opinion
# Opinion
John Hume saw how people from a working class background were locked out of borrowing from banks, writes Gerry Thompson.
# read-me - Saturday 11 July, 2020
# Burning Issue
# Burning Issue
UCC researcher calls for a broader range of clean energy initiatives as small towns suffer air pollution from residential solid fuel burning.
# Justice
# Justice
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.
# read-me - Friday 10 July, 2020
# Opinion
# Opinion
Lawyer Paul Tweed says it’s ‘absurd’ for such companies to claim they are ‘merely a platform, not a publisher’.
# read-me - Sunday 5 April, 2020
# Coronavirus
# Coronavirus
It is useful to draw some comparisons with the West African Ebola crisis before Covid-19, John Farrelly writes.
# Narnia
# Narnia
We look to language when seeking a reassuring symbol of endurance, Darach Ó Séaghdha writes.
# read-me - Sunday 22 March, 2020
# Money Diaries
# Money Diaries
This week, our reader is a junior doctor saving to buy a house with her boyfriend.
# read-me - Wednesday 11 March, 2020
# US Election
# US Election
Biden was all but counted out by most onlookers before recently, writes Larry Donnelly.
# read-me - Wednesday 19 February, 2020
# Decriminalisation
# Decriminalisation
Dr Austin O’Carroll says decriminalisation would be a way of taking responsibility for the vicious effects of inequality.
# read-me - Sunday 2 February, 2020
# Column
# Column
There are plenty of linguistic similarities between Irish and other languages.
# read-me - Saturday 1 February, 2020
# US Politics
# US Politics
The two states play a key role in nominating presidential candidates.
# read-me - Sunday 26 January, 2020
# Column
# Column
The bleak first week of the election campaign meant any moment of lighter drama was welcomed by all, writes Lise Hand.
# read-me - Saturday 11 January, 2020
# Opinion
# Opinion
The problem with drawing up legislation on exclusion zones is that there are competing rights involved, writes lecturer in constitutional law Dr Laura Cahillane.
# read-me - Sunday 5 January, 2020
# Column
# Column
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
# read-me - Saturday 4 January, 2020
# Column
# Column
It is a delicious vegetable included in mashed potato or even grated raw.
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