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Opinion: The Irish American community is still an influential force in US politics
Larry Donnelly
Opinion: What does it take to raise your children through Irish?
Caoimhín De Barra
Opinion: Let's drop the narrative of the undeserving poor and other myths that dehumanise people
Fionnuala Kennedy
Opinion: As a teacher should I encourage my students to strike against climate change?
Ronan Moore
Opinion: Is Brexit advancing the cause of Scottish independence from the UK?
Gareth Brown
Opinion: I visited North Korea and Kim Jong Un is a recreation of the emperors who ruled Korea for centuries
Tom Farrell
The Irish For: Some older words don't exist in English - clochscríbhinn means an inscription on stone
Darach Ó Séaghdha
Opinion: Claims culture is out of control - as play centres close due to being sued for kids falling
Grace Vaughan
From the garden: Grow, Cook, Eat is back on TV this month and we'll be tackling food waste
Michael Kelly
Opinion: Lone parents who work get up very early in the morning - but Varadkar doesn't represent us
Louise Bayliss
Opinion: We need a fair and transparent system for deciding which expensive new drugs to fund
Maebh Ní Fhallúin
Opinion: The Venezuelan government must go - it has failed its people and become utterly corrupt
Eamon Stack
Tom Clonan: Who is responsible for the incendiary devices posted from Dublin to London this week?
Tom Clonan
Opinion: There is a good reason why nobody plays golf in Manhattan
Paddy Smyth
Opinion: Had Denis O'Brien's suit succeeded, our democratic system could have been undermined
David Kenny
Opinion: A million people have no health cover as low-paid families are excluded from access to the medical card
Felim O'Rourke
Opinion: Long-awaited surrogacy laws still won't recognise many parents
Brian Tobin
Opinion: Is the Catholic Church still covering up child sex abuse on the grounds that it is a 'pontifical secret'?
Shane Dunphy
Opinion: How to deal with your child's fear of the monsters under the bed
Philippa Perry
The Irish For: While Europe was stuck in the Dark Ages - Ireland's Brehon laws were relatively enlightened
Darach Ó Séaghdha
Opinion: Families of murder victims have a legal right to information about the case
Joan Deane
From the Garden: 'Topsy turvy doesn’t begin to describe our weather'
Michael Kelly
Opinion: 'E-cigarettes may be an effective tobacco cessation tool but at what cost to society'?
Des Cox
Opinion: 'You often hear that the Irish language is badly taught in our schools but that is not true'
Caoimhín De Barra
Opinion: We need to be able to track where our charity donation goes. Here's how
Danny Curran
Opinion: 'My book club was my lifeline'
Bridget Ginnity
Opinion: There is a wonder-drug that all schools should be prescribing
Niall Moyna
Lynn Ruane: 'It should be a source of major embarrassment to Ireland that we are yet to ratify this important treaty'
Lynn Ruane
The Irish For: What does old Irish tell us about life in ancient Ireland?
Darach Ó Séaghdha
Opinion: A shock diagnosis left me a 30-year-old widower - here is how I survived
Noel Byrne
From the Garden: Learn how to grow peas in an old gutter pipe and to make a delicious gnocchi
Michael Kelly
Coveney: 'What's the new mega Bill? In simple language, it’s Irish Brexit law'
Simon Coveney
Opinion: It is time for change in the Catholic church and that starts with equality for women
Colm Holmes
Opinion: It is time to ban employers from keeping workers' tips
James Larkin
How I Spend My Money: A chartered surveyor on €50,000 splitting her week between Dublin and her partner's home out west
The Journal reader
Opinion: You’ve just won €175m in the euro millions - don't buy the yacht just yet
Eoin McGee
Opinion: 'I joined the army out of love for Israel... but I was just playing the part of the British soldier'
Dean Issacharoff
'Why can't I find comfortable, sweat-resistant, appropriate sportsgear? I'm a woman'
Sarah Geraghty
Opinion: Irish people travelled to Nicaragua in solidarity in the 1980s - now it needs our help again
Molly O'Duffy
How I Spend My Money: A secondary school teacher in Meath on €41,000 who saved up to buy her mother an apartment back home
The Journal reader