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Adult Education
Back to School: 'I was broke and suffered from depression, which I drowned out with alcohol'
Conor Reynolds
26 Dec 2016
237
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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
246
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
388
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Christmas
An American Christmas in Ireland: 'My ancestors could have said 'Amen' in this cathedral'
Justus Flair
24 Dec 2016
189
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
293
2
Read Me
Christmas in Gaza: 'Mortars and missiles fly overhead; from Gaza into Israel, from Israel into Gaza'
Eoghan Rice
23 Dec 2016
679
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
154
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Read Me
Column: How to get through Christmas if you're recovering from an eating disorder
Cora McEvoy
22 Dec 2016
1.1k
Opinion
Apollo House Occupation: 'A well-intentioned but deeply flawed and patronising solution'
David O'Brien
22 Dec 2016
151
134
family therapy
Karl Melvin: 'How to survive your family if things are more toxic than festive'
Karl Melvin
22 Dec 2016
583
5
social media anxiety
Festive FOMO: 'Nobody is going to take a photo of a singed Christmas ham'
Amy Plant
21 Dec 2016
366
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Opinion
Hypocrisy: Should atheists lie to their children about Santa Claus?
Grace Vaughan
21 Dec 2016
2.3k
149
column
Christmas with depression: 'Even putting on clothes can be hard when there’s a lingering dark cloud'
Úna-Minh Kavanagh
20 Dec 2016
483
19
Berlin
Tom Clonan: After a bloody year, all signs suggest 2017 will bring more of these lone wolf terror attacks
Tom Clonan
20 Dec 2016
114
54
grief at christmas
Christmas after losing your Dad: 'I'm trying to accept the suddenness and unfairness of it'
Vicky Kavanagh
19 Dec 2016
8.8k
40
brexit negotiations
Column: 'It would be lunacy for the UK to proceed with Article 50 notice before agreeing terms'
Neil McCann
19 Dec 2016
198
56
giy guru
Mibuna: The mustardy Japanese leaf that's super easy to grow
Michael Kelly
17 Dec 2016
8.0k
9
Read Me
Tom Clonan: 'A Syrian solution will involve a pact with devils such as Bashar al Assad and others'
Tom Clonan
16 Dec 2016
185
92
Opinion
Children in care: 'How many Government ministers would throw their children out at 18?'
Robbie Gilligan
15 Dec 2016
3.3k
27
Equality
Debate Room: Do we need gender quotas in sporting bodies?
Caitriona O'Neill and William Gallagher
14 Dec 2016
795
61
leon wright
'If you are in favour of human rights, you must want them for everyone - including prisoners'
Frankie Gaffney
14 Dec 2016
2.0k
109
rental crisis
Eoin Ó Broin TD: 'Minister Coveney failed struggling renters yesterday'
Eoin Ó Broin
14 Dec 2016
301
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POLIO
Living in an Iron Lung: 'It was a long, airtight coffin-shaped box with my head sticking out at one end'
Jim Costello
11 Dec 2016
32.8k
26
Atlantic Equipment
'Being an entrepreneur is lonely. It's a bit like surfing - instinctive and solitary'
Ashleigh Smith
11 Dec 2016
238
4
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Family in tracker mortgage error: 'My budget is €70 per week for food for four of us'
Caitriona Redmond
11 Dec 2016
507
46
Gardening
GIY Yacon: The Peruvian tuber that looks like a potato but tastes like a pear
Michael Kelly
10 Dec 2016
3.7k
5
Burqa ban
Debate Room: Should we ban the burqa in Ireland?
Caitriona O'Neill and William Gallagher
10 Dec 2016
4.2k
468
UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
'Those with a disability have the right to choose where to live, to an education and to a sexual relationship'
Kathleen O'Meara
9 Dec 2016
2.0k
30
Read Me
DEBATE ROOM: Is the insurance industry to blame for spiralling insurance prices?
Caitriona O'Neill and William Gallagher
8 Dec 2016
411
59
column
Filmmaker Risteard Ó Domhnaill: 'It's time for us to take ownership of our natural resources'
Risteard Ó Domhnaill
8 Dec 2016
395
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Whitaker at 100
One of the key people in the making of modern Ireland turns 100 today
Dr David McCann
8 Dec 2016
1.5k
45
Opinion
"For people in pain like me, medicinal cannabis could be a matter of life and death"
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7 Dec 2016
571
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Opinion
'A sense of perspective about what Trump's presidency may be like is badly needed'
Larry Donnelly
7 Dec 2016
368
72
Read Me
Column: What the Department of Social Protection doesn't want you to find out
Tom Boland & Ray Griffin
5 Dec 2016
27.7k
103
leprechaun museum
'Tourist bodies don't want us to be seen as a leprechaun country. I found that interesting'
Tom O'Rahilly
4 Dec 2016
581
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