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Voices

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Opinion
'Enda, parents sent children to industrial schools because a court compelled them or they had no choice'
Sinead Pembroke
11 Mar 2017
4.0k
190
leprechaun economics
Column: The Leprechauns are at it again in the latest GDP figures for Ireland
Victor Duggan
10 Mar 2017
864
17
Women's Rights
''Free' legal aid isn't free; people are staying in domestic violence situations because they can't afford it'
Eilis Barry
10 Mar 2017
1.5k
25
national identities
Opinion: 'To say Britishness is authentic, while denying Irishness is quaffing one’s own Kool-Aid too deeply'
Caoimhín De Barra
9 Mar 2017
938
115
international women's day
Fair City's Úna Kavanagh: 'I had a social welfare book called 'Unmarried Mother's Allowance''
Úna Kavanagh
8 Mar 2017
4.1k
47
Read Me
President Higgins speaks out for women 'living in fear in their homes' of brutality and violence
Michael D. Higgins
8 Mar 2017
311
75
international women's day
What Irish women want: 'We must demand what is right and challenge what is frightening'
Caitriona O'Neill and William Gallagher
8 Mar 2017
611
92
lenten fast
Moncrieff: 'We decided not to mention Trump during Lent to see how much real news we miss'
Sean Moncrieff
7 Mar 2017
483
53
fair trade fortnight
Column: 'If Ethiopia started to develop its coffee industry, it could trade its way out of poverty'
Killian Stokes
6 Mar 2017
1.1k
33
column
Kate Beaufoy: 'Who cares about the carers? I was a fit fifty when I took on a job of care. I nearly cracked up'
Kate Beaufoy
5 Mar 2017
444
19
insights
'I had to come to terms with the fact that at my age, I was unemployable'
Fora Staff
5 Mar 2017
668
16
George Sigerson
Opinion: 'If we want to create a sustainable, successful, domestic industry, let's grow hemp'
Brian Houlihan
5 Mar 2017
2.0k
53
Seachtain na Gaeilge
Column: 'We speak Irish, but we’re pretty normal. We’re not Nazis. We’re not leprechauns'
Peadar Ó Caomhánaigh
5 Mar 2017
5.5k
66
Read Me
Going to university: 'It’s ridiculous in 2017, that grades define your path in life, and not your ability'
Declan Lavin
4 Mar 2017
6.9k
78
recipe
Luscious starter of broccoli gratin with anchovy-infused cream: Grow it yourself
Michael Kelly
4 Mar 2017
256
7
Read Me
Debate Room: Can you be pro-life and a feminist?
Caitriona O'Neill and William Gallagher
4 Mar 2017
3.6k
131
column
Castlepollard Mother and Baby Home survivor: 'We're not shocked by the news'
Paul Remond
3 Mar 2017
3.7k
86
Punk Economics
Good or evil?: McDonald's and low cost airlines opened up eating out and travel to us all
Louis Brennan
3 Mar 2017
556
38
Strike
Opinion: 'Taxpayers who earn significantly less than Bus Éireann drivers are being asked to foot the bill'
Paddy Smyth
2 Mar 2017
1.5k
121
cyclists v motorists
Debate Room: We need a minimum passing distance law or more cyclists will die on our roads
Caitriona O'Neill and William Gallagher
1 Mar 2017
1.0k
159
green socialism
Opinion: 'Ireland has become a pollution haven due to neo-liberal model of light-touch regulation'
Cian Prendiville
1 Mar 2017
756
66
teenage activist
The youth vote: 'My classmates are more interested in Netflix and Instagram than in politics'
Owen Cuskelly
28 Feb 2017
3.1k
64
column
Marriage equality?: 'There is no excuse for confining civil partnership solely to gay couples'
Fergus Ryan
27 Feb 2017
718
23
Eating Disorders Awareness Week
Bingeing: 'I eat until I feel sick. I don’t realise what I’ve eaten until after the binge'
Jodie Kenny
26 Feb 2017
24.7k
18
column
'Self-serving at the best of times, the Oscars are merely a marketing tool for Hollywood'
Steven Galvin
26 Feb 2017
215
38
Opinion
Compensation culture: 'We can’t apply health and safety standards to the great outdoors'
Andrew Doyle
26 Feb 2017
472
62
Read Me
Has political correctness gone mad? 'Comedians must be allowed to offend'
Seán Connolly
25 Feb 2017
3.9k
119
gardening column
Updates from the potting shed - and a recipe for spicy carrot and lentil soup
Michael Kelly
25 Feb 2017
236
4
keep people in their homes
Column: 'New Dáil Bill would help stop devastating home repossessions and evictions'
Julie Sadlier
25 Feb 2017
997
84
North Korea
Tom Clonan: Nerve, blood and choking agents sending state-sponsored message of terror
Tom Clonan
25 Feb 2017
120
11
Opinion
'No woman should have to cover her head for fear of offending religious values'
Lorraine Courtney
24 Feb 2017
3.2k
191
column
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 'I never pass pickets. We are all humans and need each other to survive'
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
23 Feb 2017
410
74
column
'Looking at the Mairead I was on assessment day breaks my heart. I don’t recognise her now'
Mairead Redmond
22 Feb 2017
358
9
solving homelessness
'In Dublin, there are 13 empty homes for every adult in homelessness'
Pat Doyle
22 Feb 2017
667
113
Brexit
Opinion: 'If we choose to stick with the UK, we will probably go backwards'
Seanán Ó Coistín
21 Feb 2017
2.2k
148
LARRY DONNELLY
The parallels between Irish and American controversies, in a wild week for politics
Larry Donnelly
20 Feb 2017
291
20
Medicinal Cannabis
Ming Flanagan: 'Our Minister for Health is like the God of the Old Testament - mean'
Luke Ming Flanagan
20 Feb 2017
291
59
medication nation
Column: 'I live with schizophrenia without taking any medication, but I'm an exception'
Nicola Hynds
19 Feb 2017
13.8k
26
science reporting
'Media coverage of science remains scant and tends to be uncritically promotional or celebratory'
Cormac Sheridan
19 Feb 2017
496
13
Opinion
Beyoncé: 'The onus is on everyone to study and understand what a lack of privilege really means'
Elva Carri
19 Feb 2017
362
85
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