Voices

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Abuse

Aaron McKenna: Domestic violence is just that – violence. Why not treat it that way?

Aaron McKenna

17 May 2014

318

Equality

Opinion: Children with special needs are being failed – this is not inclusive education

Catherina Woods

16 May 2014

7.5k

HAE

Opinion: Misdiagnosed and misunderstood – the dramatic swelling disorder that can be fatal

Gerry Fahey

16 May 2014

994

Opinion

Opinion: My husband refused to believe he had bipolar disorder, and denial destroyed him

Kathleen Maloney

15 May 2014

88.1k

191

Water Charges

Opinion: With such a meagre allowance, our new water charges can't be about conservation

Jennifer Whitmore

15 May 2014

243

Respect

Opinion: We want to see an increase in wages – and respect – for fast food workers

Ciaran Garrett

15 May 2014

361

Climate Change

Opinion: A green lifestyle is a nice but trivial gesture – we must focus on nuclear fusion

Lorraine Courtney

14 May 2014

321

125

Jobs

Opinion: Social media can help you find a job (if you use it correctly)

Aoife Rigney

14 May 2014

194

Health

Opinion: Considering health insurance? The devil is in the detail.

Dermot Goode

14 May 2014

6.7k

Opinion

Opinion: Anxiety and depression are key in keeping the long-term unemployed out of work

Dr Keith Gaynor

13 May 2014

3.0k

gluten-free

Opinion: Hold the gluten please! Why we all need to understand coeliac disease

Dr Edel Keaveney

13 May 2014

817

home cooking

Darina Allen: A shared meal was once the bedrock of family life – its loss is a serious problem for society

Darina Allen

13 May 2014

463

Croke Park

Opinion: I couldn't clearly watch my brother play in Croke Park because I’m in a wheelchair

John O'Brien

12 May 2014

2.3k

Opinion

Column: 6 things I hate about restaurants

Ross Golden-Bannon

12 May 2014

567

volunteering

PJ Gallagher: 'You live more in five minutes on a bike than most people do in a lifetime'

PJ Gallagher

12 May 2014

947

column

Opinion: In Northern Ireland, we are literally lurching from crisis to crisis

Dr David McCann

11 May 2014

255

115

Blood Sports

Extract: How 'throwing at cocks' took root in Ireland

James Kelly

11 May 2014

723

Opinion

Damien Kiberd: They say €240 per year for water. Sure. For now.

Damien Kiberd

11 May 2014

305

135

always another year

Opinion: “Why Us?” - The reason Ireland has not won a Eurovision since 1996

Gerard Patrick Corless

10 May 2014

600

Eating Disorder

Opinion: I had to drop out of Gaelic football training. Why? Because I was bulimic

Alexandra Potter

10 May 2014

337

column

Aaron McKenna: Paying any new tax is galling, but water needs to be paid for

Aaron McKenna

10 May 2014

106

column

Diary of a First Time Dad: Teething time and becoming Don Draper

Patrick McCarry

9 May 2014

220

Doctors Without Borders

Opinion: I felt helpless. The child needed hospital treatment, but I could only give some medicine

Dr Natalie Robers

9 May 2014

186

mental health days

Opinion: There were days I struggled. I wished I could call in sick and not have to pretend

Anonymous

9 May 2014

1.2k

Method acting?

Opinion: Is James Franco trolling us all?

Lisa McInerney

8 May 2014

362

Drugs

Opinion: A new drug trade is hiding in the underbelly of the internet

Tony Duffin

8 May 2014

437

Opinion

Opinion: Let's talk about death (no, seriously)

Claire Micks

7 May 2014

271

Opinion

Opinion: Irish farmers must stand up for change – or else sleep with one eye open

Fergal Anderson

7 May 2014

660

stargazer

Opinion: We have found Earth's Cousin outside our solar system ... but what does that mean?

Conor Farrell

6 May 2014

272

Self Esteem

Opinion: Yes, social media sometimes makes us feel alone – but it also shows we're not

Fiona Kennedy

6 May 2014

2.4k

Young Social Innovators

Opinion: We wanted to make a difference as young people – we focused on Irish Sign Language

AFP

6 May 2014

408

South Sudan

Opinion: I see families waiting helplessly as certain famine approaches

David Adams

5 May 2014

284

boys to men

Opinion: Our increasingly touch-phobic society is bad for children

Joanna Fortune

5 May 2014

524

Peace

Opinion: I became a long-distance walker at 70 and have now covered thousands of miles

Donal Corcoran

5 May 2014

641

Dubliners

Video column: The Chiropodist – an inside look at working life in Dublin's city centre

Eoin Lynch and Deirdre Brennan

4 May 2014

444

Health

Opinion: How we deal with illness and ageing is painfully outdated

Robert Grant

4 May 2014

340

Opinion

Damien Kiberd: Some very solid reasons why the banking inquiry will fail to deliver

Damien Kiberd

4 May 2014

300

lost in translation

Opinion: The King of Monsters, America, and the legacy of the bomb – will Godzilla be done justice?

Darren Mooney

3 May 2014

522

Opinion

Column: How we lost our shame of being glued to the TV

Dave Winterlich

3 May 2014

294

Homelessness

Opinion: A man and his dog – being homeless in Dublin

Patricia Tsouros

3 May 2014

531

187