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Gardening
Fancy a nettle tea? Spring nettles are abundant right now and have lots of health benefits
Michael Kelly
6 May 2017
1.1k
25
column
Teachers' pay: 'Less interest will mean lower CAO points and new teachers of lower standards'
Cionnaith Ó Duibhir
6 May 2017
447
118
column
Welfare cheat?: 'I have an acquaintance who claimed the dole. There was no other way to afford university'
Gavin Mendel-Gleason
5 May 2017
2.3k
164
column
'There is a long history of intermingling of church and State funds with respect to St Vincent's'
Elizabeth Fitzgerald
4 May 2017
1.1k
22
Read Me
'When doctors and their loved ones are patients in hospital, the health insurance form tends to get signed'
Anonymous
3 May 2017
1.2k
39
US-NORTH KOREAN RELATIONS
'We're facing a crisis if the new South Korean government acts without US approval'
Dr Dong-Jin Kim
2 May 2017
355
13
Read Me
Column: 'I became labelled as my mental illness. I was ridiculed and excluded'
Siobhán Brady
1 May 2017
669
17
alternative facts
Column: 'Shakespeare’s solo authorship of certain plays remains in question'
Rory Loughnane
1 May 2017
715
13
the black o'connell
'In 1845, Douglass had dinner with the Lord Mayor. Today he'd be put in direct provision'
Donal O'Kelly
1 May 2017
279
37
Read Me
Maia Dunphy: 'I’d feel my IBS coming on like a spasm and I’d have to go home'
Maia Dunphy
30 Apr 2017
5.2k
60
insights
'We kicked ourselves for not expanding during the boom, but it would have crippled us'
Fergal Doyle
30 Apr 2017
1.8k
3
EXTRACT
'Declan Murphy dies in horror fall': The jockey writes about that fall, reading his own obituary and his long recovery
Declan Murphy and Ami Rao
30 Apr 2017
1.9k
7
100 days of Trump
Column: 'Trump's speech style has become more presidential and a lot less fun'
Amy Rose Harte
30 Apr 2017
144
45
unlikely entrepreneur
'Literally every day during the recession I'd come in and check how much cash we had'
Paschal Naylor
30 Apr 2017
497
5
Read Me
Stigma: 'When a doctor can say to you when filling out a sick cert: "Will I just put depression, or…?"'
Jen Ronan
29 Apr 2017
4.2k
61
gardening column
When to use horticultural fleece: 'The Irish spring can bite you in the bum'
Michael Kelly
29 Apr 2017
1.8k
2
childcare policy
Opinion: 'The State should pay for mothers to stay at home'
Pauline O'Reilly
29 Apr 2017
6.3k
110
100 days of hate
'Trump's ban and inflammatory rhetoric have emboldened anti-Muslim behaviour'
Colm O'Gorman
28 Apr 2017
109
79
darkness into light
'I phoned my mother at 4.30am. I couldn't say a word. She brought me to hospital'
Anonymous
28 Apr 2017
611
18
Read Me
'I am genuinely sick worrying how I am going to pay for back to school costs this year'
June Tinsley
28 Apr 2017
191
26
100 days of Trump
'It isn't sustainable for our tax revenues to be so dependent on Washington'
Victor Duggan
27 Apr 2017
279
15
Read Me
Delayed maternity payment: 'It seemed my application had been "forgotten about"'
Nicola Cassidy
27 Apr 2017
5.3k
58
darkness into light
'The hallucinations were 100% real to me. But people were telling me there was nothing there'
Brian Scallan
26 Apr 2017
650
11
un chernobyl day
Adi Roche: 'I'm asking world leaders to help removing and storing Chernobyl's radioactive material'
Adi Roche
26 Apr 2017
473
34
darkness into light
'In my head, I didn't deserve to be helped. I was broken and couldn't be fixed'
Hannah Tyrrell
25 Apr 2017
1.0k
7
column
Drugs: 'How is arresting someone for something that they are addicted to helping?'
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
25 Apr 2017
1.8k
59
darkness into light
'Paul wanted to talk. But there was nobody to talk to'
Patricia Turner
24 Apr 2017
1.8k
33
Irish language
Column: 'The time has come. We demand the opportunity to live our lives through Irish'
Michael McCaughan
24 Apr 2017
1.4k
98
Read Me
'I am so proud that my body was Carragh’s safe haven for those 38 weeks, that it was her home'
Mandy O'Neill
23 Apr 2017
469
96
Read Me
Brain injury: ''Fighting' has become my mission in life since my son Pádraig’s catastrophic accident'
Reinhard Schaler
23 Apr 2017
671
12
column
'Racism isn't always malicious. It can be a white person asking me to “twerk like Beyoncé”'
Angela O
23 Apr 2017
6.0k
115
live a better life
No Facebook, no WhatsApp: Three things we learned from a digital detox
Dermot Heslin and Darren Ryan
22 Apr 2017
4.8k
13
GIY
Gardening: Grow your own ingredients for the Hairy Bikers' cheesy, oniony panhaggerty
Michael Kelly
22 Apr 2017
177
1
Read Me
Changing our county boundaries: 'There is far more at stake than just identity'
Michael Fitzmaurice TD
22 Apr 2017
704
48
First report
100 Days of Trump: 'There has been a great betrayal of vulnerable voters'
Larry Donnelly
22 Apr 2017
420
114
column
Sport snobbery: 'McGregor still has a tough fight if he wants to win over the home crowd'
Lorraine Courtney
21 Apr 2017
144
88
Opinion
'There’s a strong chance the Assembly won’t recommend repealing the Eighth Amendment outright'
Eoin Daly
21 Apr 2017
455
199
Maternity Hospital
Opinion: 'The government won't remove the Church from its authority over social services until we demand it'
Colleen Hennessy
20 Apr 2017
1.1k
64
column
Recycling: 'This can't go on. I want refundable deposits on bottles and cans. It can be done'
Victoria White
19 Apr 2017
1.4k
65
social contract
Opinion: 'What standard of living do people want? What is required to deliver this?'
Dr Seán Healy
19 Apr 2017
937
66
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