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'Seeing that boy's body reminded me of my little boy and it broke my heart'
Steve O'Rourke
Ireland's social welfare policy treats us like a country of scroungers
Ray Griffin and Tom Boland
In the wrong job? Here are 6 tips on how to successfully change career
Peter O'Connell
My Dad was a priest so I asked could I call him Daddy? I was told 'just Father like everyone else'
Anonymous
This former soldier says all that shouting and swearing IS needed
Declan Power
Consultant turned tap and pregnant woman told, 'That’s the volume of blood that will gush out of you'
Dil Wickremasinghe
Schizophrenia is not a split personality - there are four main symptoms
Dr Stephen McWilliams
Here's what you need to know about those huge spiders in your house
Billy Flynn
Is work stress following you into the bedroom? Try these 7 tips from a sex therapist
Nuala Deering
The story of the Cork 4-year-old who is the reason First Communion age is now 7
Donal O'Keeffe
'My four year old is ready to start school, but am I?'
Claire Micks
Here's why those 'All American heroes' who stopped the Paris gunman fed into our fantasies
Brian O'Flynn
What I learned... by contracting a deadly tropical disease
Blaine Doyle
Dublin won't save rural Ireland, it needs to grow up and be allowed to save itself
Aaron McKenna
What party will change this country's absurd inequalities? We already know who won’t
Brendan Ogle
The unknown story of the Irish who risked their lives to build the New York underground
Pavel Barter
What were we expecting? For all IRA members to lay down their rifles and work a 9 to 5?
Paul Allen
Do you think the people revealed on Ashley Madison got what they deserve?
Tony Moore
'I fear the lack of confidence I possessed as a girl will hold back my little girl in our masculine culture'
Ethna Quirke
This dietician says gluten is good for you and here's why
Fiachra Duffy
Gerry Adams: 'Sinn Féin has no special responsibility to respond to allegations about the IRA'
Gerry Adams
Where do you pay €1,000 a night for lumpy Weetabix and white toast? An Irish hospital
Áine Bonner
'While I love living in Abu Dhabi right now, my heart is still in Ireland'
Dearbhla Gilroy
The stages of breaking up and the five steps you need to take to move on
Rena Maycock
Why should part-time students have to pay fees that full-timers do not?
Mary Daly
Equality for women? It won't happen with the Irish childcare system in its current state...
Orla O’Connor
Fire nearly destroyed my business - this is how I picked up and started again
Simon Evans
Ongoing legality of wild hare coursing sums up this government's contempt for our natural heritage
Eric Dempsey
"Working with Johnny could be a stomach churning, white-knuckle ride. But he had a gaffer's talent"
Stephen Doyle
Grow your own divine tomatoes at home and leave the consumer-bred blandness of the supermarket variety behind
Michael Kelly
Ginger people don't need your sympathy, we're doing just fine thanks
Paul Hosford
Unless you can magic up a few houses, welfare recipients will need to move away from Dublin
Aaron McKenna
The LGBT community's quest for respectability in Ireland is leaving so many trans activists behind
Leighanna Rose Walsh
We're facing the prospect of students turning down college places because they can't afford to survive
Kevin Donoghue
Should bloggers have to say when they're being paid to advertise? Damn right they should
Becky Johnston
Why is this man on the brink of one of the greatest upsets in political history?
Neale Richmond
Vaping is now officially less harmful than smoking, and it's time the Irish health authorities acknowledged that fact
Joe Dunne
Revenue and gardaí need to clamp down hard on the owners of rickshaws before it's too late
Derek Keating
You shouldn't be afraid to speak out after being sexually assaulted. I know, because I did
Ione Wells
I learned how to write in the dirt as a child soldier - now I'm an aid worker in the same conflict
GOAL