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Voices

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An Irish nurse: 'I began to hate my job. I questioned my career. There were days when I came home crying'
Anonymous
10 Jan 2017
18.8k
101
mcguinness resigns
Opinion: 'Brexit and a weak economy mean that Northern Ireland has little time to be stuck in neutral'
Dr David McCann
9 Jan 2017
82
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column
Endometriosis: 'It's the kind of pain that takes the breath from you and makes you fall to your knees'
Julie Ronaghan
8 Jan 2017
8.2k
18
feeding the trolls
Debate: Should Twitter do more to protect its users from trolls?
Caitriona O'Neill and William Gallagher
8 Jan 2017
163
84
GIY
Gardening guru: January to-do list plus a delicious recipe for buttery colcannon
Michael Kelly
7 Jan 2017
372
7
trolleys no more
An ED Consultant on the trolley crisis: 'There are solutions and they are multifactorial'
Dr Jim Gray
7 Jan 2017
784
20
column
Nollaig na mBan 2017: 'Do we trust Irish women to make the best decisions for themselves in pregnancy?'
Orla O'Connor
6 Jan 2017
247
139
Opinion
'The media should tell the truth about the alt-right'
Julien Mercille
6 Jan 2017
1.2k
188
Opinion
Children online: 'Is 13 the appropriate age for digital consent?'
Avril Ronan
5 Jan 2017
1.4k
29
January Sales
Be a better shopper: Fast fashion kills people, animals and our environment
Siobhan O'Brien-Selway
4 Jan 2017
2.1k
14
EXTRACT
Arthur Corrie Lewin - the Irishman who went missing while flying over Africa
Turtle Bunbury
3 Jan 2017
699
5
new year's resolutions
Fitness truths: 'Exercise might be uncomfortable, overwhelming. It's supposed to be'
Carl Cautley
2 Jan 2017
1.9k
8
new year new you
Life Coach: 2017 is the year for you. Ditch your old-but-comfy habits
Derval Chambers Petit
1 Jan 2017
5.2k
18
you're grand
New Year's Resolutions: 'Forever chasing a whole new us isn’t self-help, it’s self-harm'
Lorraine Courtney
1 Jan 2017
167
8
new year's resolutions
The diet is dead: 'Many of us spend far too long feeling unhappy with our bodies'
Karina Melvin
31 Dec 2016
508
36
Gardening
GIY: For first-time vegetable growers, leeks are an easy and tasty option
Michael Kelly
31 Dec 2016
584
5
review 2016
The Top 20: What was the ‘biggest thing’ to happen in 2016?
Kevin Cunningham
31 Dec 2016
4.9k
12
EXTRACT
Soldiers, sailors, diplomats: The forgotten Irish who changed Latin America
Tim Fanning
30 Dec 2016
555
5
Planning
Opinion: People living in rural Ireland cannot blame Dublin for the empty towns and villages
Shay Kelleher
29 Dec 2016
3.3k
133
Opinion
'Marry me, so we don’t break up': The political proposals of 2016 that got it all wrong
Eoghan McDermott
29 Dec 2016
159
1
Opinion
'It's not cancer, is it?' Jo Malone on the health scare that changed her life
Jo Malone
28 Dec 2016
4.4k
8
Syrian Conflict
Syria's proxy war: 'The Irish government must call in the US and Russian ambassadors'
Jim Roche
28 Dec 2016
608
64
EXTRACT
Hunger strikes, murders, and a war on terror: Ireland in 1976
Eamon Sweeney
28 Dec 2016
764
29
column
Irish in London: ‘Brexit and Trump made me feel less welcome in the UK’
Ruairí O'Grady
28 Dec 2016
606
58
Opinion
'After Trump and Brexit, the centre ground of Irish politics shouldn't take their position for granted in 2017'
Larry Donnelly
27 Dec 2016
500
92
column
Women of 1916: 'Producers and organisers continue to assemble manels to tell us our grandmothers' stories'
Felicity Hayes-McCoy
27 Dec 2016
194
25
EXTRACT
Executions, murder, and secrecy: The story of the notorious Cork jail Sing Sing
Gerard Murphy
27 Dec 2016
11.3k
7
column
Cavan Footballer Alan O'Mara on Depression: 'Why couldn’t I enjoy my Christmas?'
Alan O'Mara
27 Dec 2016
1.0k
19
Adult Education
Back to School: 'I was broke and suffered from depression, which I drowned out with alcohol'
Conor Reynolds
26 Dec 2016
237
14
Gardening
GIY Chicory: Bring some colour to your vegetable patch and a bite to your salad bowls
Michael Kelly
26 Dec 2016
438
EXTRACT
Kevin Barry: 'Sometimes writing no longer seems like the thing I do, it seems like the thing I am'
Kevin Barry
25 Dec 2016
4.7k
5
Read Me
A Jewish 'Christmas': 'I suppose my mother had explained the cross-cultural situation to Santa Claus'
Melanie Brown
25 Dec 2016
241
13
Read Me
An Irishman in Chile: 'This Christmas I will create my own memories and start my own traditions'
Brendan Farrell
25 Dec 2016
387
6
Christmas
An American Christmas in Ireland: 'My ancestors could have said 'Amen' in this cathedral'
Justus Flair
24 Dec 2016
188
24
drug policy
It's planned the first supervised injecting facility will open in 2017. So how did we get here?
Tony Duffin
24 Dec 2016
290
34
Read Me
An Atheist Christmas: 'You can do Christmas even if you don't do god'
Ray Leonard
24 Dec 2016
2.7k
155
Read Me
Caring at Christmas: 'I try to remember what my husband was like before he got sick but it gets harder'
Annie McGuinness
23 Dec 2016
255
20
column
Baby's First Christmas: 'Flashing lights, less routine, Care Doc, commotion and crabbiness'
Benny Finlay (aka Daddy Poppins)
23 Dec 2016
290
2
Read Me
Christmas in Gaza: 'Mortars and missiles fly overhead; from Gaza into Israel, from Israel into Gaza'
Eoghan Rice
23 Dec 2016
676
144
Read Me
A diplomatic Christmas: Ambassadors to Ireland explain what the big day means to them
Caitriona O'Neill and William Gallagher
22 Dec 2016
152
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