Voices

Last year

2025

peace of mind

Dancing for Ulster: Instead of 'othering', dancing like no one is watching brings us together

Dylan Quinn

10 Jul 2025

4.2k

flash floods

Marion McKeone: Texas is hurting after the floods, but it won't hurt Trump

Marion McKeone

9 Jul 2025

16.3k

cost of living crisis

Opinion: Want to curb rising grocery prices? Force supermarket chains to publish their accounts

Jennifer Whitmore

Updated 8 Jul 2025

10.2k

do the right thing

College fees: 'Some students are wondering if they should now take up their CAO offer'

Bryan O’Mahony

7 Jul 2025

13.6k

government plans

Opinion: So now it's cost over design for new state buildings? What could possibly go wrong?

Andrea Horan

Updated 6 Jul 2025

10.7k

spending and saving

Money Diaries: An engineer on €65K living in Co Galway

The Journal reader

6 Jul 2025

33.1k

POCKET MONEY

Parenting and chores: Dishwasher, bins overflowing? Call the staff to complain

Margaret Lynch

5 Jul 2025

16.1k

Surrealing in the Years

Surrealing in the Years: At least 4,844 children homeless, and we ain't seen nothin' yet

Carl Kinsella

5 Jul 2025

6.5k

College Fees

Laura Harmon: College shouldn't be a luxury - we need a promise that fees won't increase

Laura Harmon

4 Jul 2025

5.5k

brexit summer

For the craic: I taunted those poor, sunburned British tourists with my Irish passport

Peter Flanagan

3 Jul 2025

23.2k

muslim and irish

Racism in Ireland: 'This is our Ireland too, and we can no longer stay silent'

Fatima Ahmed

Updated 3 Jul 2025

32.9k

Glastonbury

Opinion: Rather than moral panic over musicians, where's the moral clarity on genocide?

Emma DeSouza

Updated 2 Jul 2025

6.6k

heatwave in europe

Heatwaves, oligarchs and global chaos: Welcome to the era of climate change

John Gibbons

Updated 1 Jul 2025

9.6k

re-imagining the GPO

Marie Sherlock: Honour the history of the GPO by making it an artists' hub

Marie Sherlock

1 Jul 2025

7.4k

hot dog days

Dog behaviourist: Tips for keeping dogs safe in hot weather

Suzi Walsh

Updated 30 Jun 2025

7.2k

jews against zionism

Granddaughter of a Holocaust escapee: 'I never thought I'd see Israel committing such crimes'

Ria Czerniak-LeBov

Updated 29 Jun 2025

19.2k

HISMM

Money Diaries: A trainee accountant on €33K living in Dublin

The Journal reader

29 Jun 2025

21.4k

the joy of a book

For book worms: Are apps gaming the joy of reading?

Aoife Martin

28 Jun 2025

5.7k

Surrealing in the Years

Surrealing in the Years: Screw it, let's put a Carroll's Irish Gifts in the GPO then

Carl Kinsella

28 Jun 2025

10.2k

mother nature

Ecocide series: Grass cutting, there's no need for it!

Brian Murray

28 Jun 2025

20.8k

world microbiome day

Balancing your gut flora: 'The advice is lots of fibre and lots of variety'

Dr Catherine Conlon

27 Jun 2025

7.6k

health led approach

Tony Duffin: Why Ireland needs to rethink the stories we tell about drug use

Tony Duffin

26 Jun 2025

5.6k

Middle East

Opinion: Don’t let Israel-Iran take your focus from the genocide in Gaza

Dr Brendan Ciarán Browne

Updated 26 Jun 2025

3.9k

tipperary woodlands

Farming for nature: How we turned our farm into a regenerative tourism spot

Niall Heenan

Updated 26 Jun 2025

6.9k

international law

Opinion: The US joining in Israel’s attack on Iran is the Iraq War all over again

Emma DeSouza

25 Jun 2025

6.5k

Washington

Opinion: No wonder Trump is angry — he's playing high-stakes poker

Larry Donnelly

Updated 24 Jun 2025

11.3k

European Union

Fintan Drury: Von der Leyen's unwavering support of Israel is proving disastrous

Fintan Drury

Updated 23 Jun 2025

14.5k

Iran

Opinion: You can’t bomb, shoot and kill your way to peace, despite what Trump thinks

Tom Clonan

Updated 22 Jun 2025

11.7k

HISMM

Money Diaries: An administrator on €37K living in the Midlands

The Journal reader

22 Jun 2025

24.8k

column

We Irish like the news - a lot - but can we learn to love it?

Susan Daly

22 Jun 2025

4.5k

working parents

Parenting: Affordable childcare? For lone-parent families? You're having a laugh...

Margaret Lynch

21 Jun 2025

6.9k

Surrealing in the Years

Surrealing in the Years: Dublin city needs a new motto. I have some suggestions.

Carl Kinsella

21 Jun 2025

8.5k

Polluter Pays

Opinion: Why don't we regulate farms like we do pharmaceuticals?

Pádraic Fogarty

21 Jun 2025

13.7k

no such thing as bored

Opinion: Let kids be bored, it's how they become creative

Gwen Loughman

19 Jun 2025

7.1k

An Garda Síochána

John O'Brien: It's wrong to say rank and file gardaí have treated Drew Harris unfairly

John O'Brien

18 Jun 2025

11.0k

Russian Empire

Books: Imperialism is Russia's forte — we underestimate it at our peril

Donnacha Ó Beacháin

17 Jun 2025

6.4k

make it stop

End-of-year school events: 'Much as I love them, there are just too many'

Niamh O'Reilly

16 Jun 2025

19.0k

HISMM

Money Diaries: A finance manager on €60K living in Dublin

The Journal reader

15 Jun 2025

29.4k

Opinion

Larry Donnelly: LA riots may look like a banana skin for Trump, but his base remains happy

Larry Donnelly

15 Jun 2025

9.5k

book extracts

Manchán Magan on our forgotten kin: Tracing Ireland’s hidden legacy in Iceland

Manchán Magan

14 Jun 2025

13.9k