Voices

All time

Older People

Opinion: Ageism is far too prevalent, we need a cultural shift in how older people are perceived

Lianne Murphy

30 Jul 2014

796

Human Rights

Opinion: 'At the heart of Irish law is an inescapable fact... we are second class citizens'

Amanda Mellet

29 Jul 2014

799

247

Iraq

Opinion: 'Our children wake up crying in the night... Isis has stolen our lives'

Donatella Rovera

29 Jul 2014

471

129

Irish

Opinion: The new Gaeltacht Minister has hit the ground running – despite not being fluent

Seán Mag Leannáin

29 Jul 2014

174

Twins

Opinion: Twinning with China – money maker or moral maze?

Joe Conway

28 Jul 2014

223

World War One

Column: 'Hell is Coming' - fragments of horror from World War One

Liam Hogan

28 Jul 2014

1.3k

transatlantic

Larry Donnelly: 10 things I still just don’t get about Ireland

Larry Donnelly

28 Jul 2014

4.7k

True Love

Opinion: Why do people continue to do 'the hardest job in the world'?

Andrea Mara

27 Jul 2014

193

abolition of slavery

Opinion: Following the money – Irish slave owners in the time of abolition

Liam Hogan

27 Jul 2014

17.1k

LGBT

Opinion: The journey for acceptance for transgender people is ongoing – in all parts of society

Christine Allen

27 Jul 2014

532

mojitos

Opinion: DIY cocktails – how to grow your own mojito

Fiann Ó Nualláin

26 Jul 2014

475

Parenting

Opinion: I admit it, I'm an Apple Parent... are you?

Lucy O'Connor

26 Jul 2014

126

NAMA

Aaron McKenna: Massive state intervention in house building? Welcome back to 2007

Aaron McKenna

26 Jul 2014

246

Democracy

Opinion: Voter turnout isn’t a problem, so let’s stop all the hand-wringing

Eoin O'Malley

25 Jul 2014

275

Addiction

Opinion: For drug service reform to work, we need to be brave and innovative

Tony Duffin

25 Jul 2014

212

Apathy and Empathy

Opinion: Young people are not 'apathetic' - we prioritise the collective good

Gary Gannon

24 Jul 2014

1.5k

peaches

Opinion: The sudden death of a young woman is not any less tragic for her being an addict

Claire Micks

24 Jul 2014

972

living cities

Opinion: Is the effort to ‘revive the property market’ pushing creative groups out of the Docklands?

Mick Byrne

24 Jul 2014

532

Research

Opinion: Ireland should be at forefront of modern science – Ireland should join CERN

Conor Farrell

23 Jul 2014

245

Catholic

Opinion: Ring them bells! Why Ireland should never get rid of the Angelus

Donal O'Keeffe

23 Jul 2014

2.5k

179

right to be forgotten

Opinion: 'Right to be forgotten' ruling opens a legal and ethical Pandora's box

Niall McGlynn

23 Jul 2014

355

Gaza

Opinion: In the name of 'defence' we are attacking civilians already under Israeli control

Yehuda Shaul

22 Jul 2014

168

Justice

Opinion: What does it actually take to establish an 'independent' policing authority?

Kirsten Roberts

22 Jul 2014

182

taboo

Opinion: My son is a little boy who happens to like pink... isn’t that allowed?

Sinéad Fox

22 Jul 2014

12.5k

HIV

Opinion: 'It's a terrible blow to Aids research – and not the first time lives have been needlessly lost'

Enida Friel

21 Jul 2014

124

Prostitution

Opinion: When you think of a sex worker, you might never think of someone like me

Anonymous

21 Jul 2014

2.0k

152

Children

Opinion: Struggling to entertain the kids over the summer holidays?

Aisling Lyons

21 Jul 2014

805

Gardening

Opinion: The lazy guide to fair-weather gardening

Fiann Ó Nualláin

20 Jul 2014

263

Traces of the past

The road to Petras: Why I gave up my job and became an archaeologist

Frank Lynam

20 Jul 2014

331

golden years

Opinion: We have made no preparations for our ageing population

Tadhg Daly

20 Jul 2014

885

confined

Opinion: Cast claustrophobia? It's very real and it's very unpleasant.

Aoibhin Fallon

19 Jul 2014

62.4k

living with mental illness

Opinion: The reality of mental illness doesn't fit into a sanitised sound bite

Sinead Fallon

19 Jul 2014

613

Reshuffle

Aaron McKenna: Gender, geography, age – focus on everything but quality in government reshuffle

Aaron McKenna

19 Jul 2014

187

families

Opinion: What will compulsory birth registration of unmarried fathers’ names mean for children?

Margot Doherty

18 Jul 2014

3.4k

9 to 5

Opinion: Why I hate the part of me that needs to return to work

Claire Micks

18 Jul 2014

261

Inquiry

Opinion: No person or institution can be left behind in the mother-and-baby home inquiry

Mairead Healy

17 Jul 2014

169

Human Rights

Opinion: A woman pregnant by rape is treated as 'a vessel and nothing more' by Irish law

Deirdre Duffy

17 Jul 2014

815

142

Child Abuse

Opinion: I became the first male survivor of Irish clerical sexual abuse to meet Pope Francis

Mark Vincent Healy

17 Jul 2014

1.3k

Opinion

Opinion: Older people and Gaeilgeoirí are right to be indignant – this Cabinet doesn't care about them

Peter Kavanagh

16 Jul 2014

388

Not good enough

Opinion: Once again, we've heard a depressingly familiar tune from Ireland on human rights

Kirsten Roberts

16 Jul 2014

424

180