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John Bruton: 'Abortion ends a life. Once it has happened there is no going back'
John Bruton
Surrogacy: 'Infertile couples will still have to go abroad to make their dream a reality'
Dr Brian Tobin
Vincent Browne: Let’s cease demanding more of women than we would dare demand of men
Vincent Browne
Short story: 'To all their dues'
Wendy Erskine
Debate Room: Two lawyers on the 8th Amendment and if we should retain or repeal it
Barrister Benedict Ó Floinn & Prof Alan Green
Epilepsy: 'My emotions are heightened and I'm overwhelmed by difficult or upsetting situations'
Eva-Jayne Gaffney
'I had always found work soul destroying, but had accepted this as the norm'
Ian Cumbers
Column: 'Those who beat the health insurance penalty deadline are at risk of overpaying'
Dermot Goode
'We're so conditioned to keep quiet. I notice it in myself all the time'
Liz Roche
GIY: Get creative with delicious new potatoes using this Spanish tortilla recipe
Michael Kelly
Lad culture: 'We need to tackle masculinity head-on'
Stephen Todd
'I'm not amoral, not stupid, and not promiscuous. I took every precaution. I still got pregnant'
Anonymous
Maria Walsh: 'It might be a questioning glance or a curt refusal to shake my hand'
Maria Walsh
Column: 'Why did I fall so hard? Why did I make myself so vulnerable to him?'
Patricia Tsouros
Replacing Phil Hogan: 'Other countries have a different attitude and send their elite'
Dominic Hannigan
It's been a worrying two weeks - but please don't stop getting smear tests
Prof Donal Brennan
Column: 'We are haemorrhaging €5-6bn per year to pay for expensive and dirty fuels'
Grattan Healy
Justice Minister: 'I have seen many women shake with fear of not being believed by a Garda or a court'
Charlie Flanagan TD
Column: 'We are ill. We are not faking this illness. It is not in our heads'
Corina Duyn
Brian Merriman: 'Identity theatre is always relevant'
Brian Merriman
Sharon Donnery: 'There were no female role models, no one I could aspire to be like'
Sharon Donnery
'I was the first of my family to go to university and this week I paid off the last of my loan'
Gavin Nugent
Chickweed: 'Not only is it edible, it’s considered to be a nutritional powerhouse'
Michael Kelly
Column: 'I was lucky, but women's healthcare must not come down to luck'
Stephanie Regan
Larry Donnelly: 'There is a definite sense that the net is tightening around Donald Trump'
Larry Donnelly
'I was nine weeks pregnant when I took an abortion pill - after staring at it for hours'
Anonymous
Column: 'Farmers are asking 'where’s my share of this economic boom?''
Richard Moeran
'I look at my kids and I think there is so much I would have missed had I gone through with it'
Christy Galligan
Floundering forests: The challenges facing the Irish forestry industry
Dermot McNally
Borderline Personality Disorder: 'My emotions are overwhelming and almost impossible to regulate'
Lucie Kavanagh
Standoffs with scorpions: The reality of filming in Sub-Saharan Africa
Brian Gray
'I'm 27. I'm living at home. Going through the same hall door since I was in a school uniform'
Nicola Quinn
'Mad, loony, mental, psycho or schizo': Behind every mental health diagnosis is a person
Nicola Hampson
'As Ireland prepares for its referendum, I'm in the middle of another divisive campaign'
Kieran Duffy
'There are days I don’t speak to another grown-up. Online chats keep me going'
Andrea Mara
The past isn't the past, it's not even over: We can't discard Junior Cert History
John Connell
Alison Curtis: 'I don't sound Irish - but don't tell me to go back to Canada'
Alison Curtis
Bio-insecticide Supernemos: 'Sometimes GIYing is not for the faint hearted'
Michael Kelly
‘You might see a successful business and fancy having a go, but you rarely see the sacrifices made’
Catriona Coyle
Opinion: 'The DUP has a talent for fusing bungled governance with election success'
Thomas Muinzer