Voices

This month

February 2025

worker rights

Opinion: Has the long weekend had its day, or do we get too few?

Dr Laura Bambrick

2 Feb

13.6k

PHONE ADDICTION

Opinion: 'Why are we giving nine-year-olds smartphones?', she asks, holding her smartphone

Niamh O'Reilly

1 Feb

11.0k

Surrealing in the Years

Lowry's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle approach to Dáil speaking time isn't getting anything done

Carl Kinsella

1 Feb

14.2k

brigid festival

'Is the Biddy welcome here?' Rural St. Brigid’s Day traditions lost and revived

Dr Fiona Murphy

1 Feb

19.8k

Last month

January 2025

earth on fire

Opinion: Under Trump 2.0, the planet is in big trouble

Sadhbh O' Neill

31 Jan

5.6k

super duper ministers

Opinion: 'Super junior' ministers represent the pragmatic avoidance of a divisive referendum

Andrew Dunne

30 Jan

4.4k

generators and batteries

Opinion: In the face of storms, has our reliance on A-rated homes and EVs created a blind spot?

Harrison Gardner

Updated 28 Jan

24.6k

Gulf of America

Opinion: Can Trump just order new names for the Gulf of Mexico and Denali?

Innisfree McKinnon

28 Jan

8.4k

dont feed the deer

Opinion: The Phoenix Park deer need clear legal protection for stronger enforcement

Elizabeth Rymut

28 Jan

8.9k

letting children down

Parenting: Why are we letting parents off the hook for failure to pay child maintenance?

Margaret Lynch

Updated 27 Jan

12.6k

HISMM

Money Diaries: A production manager on €78K living and working in Co Meath

TheJournal.ie reader

26 Jan

36.6k

Averil Power

Cost of cancer: 225,000 of us are going to need this government to do more over next 5 years

Averil Power

26 Jan

7.4k

trump exec order

Opinion: Trump can do what he wants — Irish remote workers won't return to full-time office work

Deirdre Waldron

25 Jan

23.4k

Surrealing in the Years

Surrealing in the Years: There was real catharsis in watching TDs losing the rag this week

Carl Kinsella

25 Jan

7.4k

predictions for the year

January vibes: What state are we in so far this year?

Finian Murphy

25 Jan

5.0k

Human Rights

Opinion: We don’t need a new Occupied Territories Bill – improve this one and pass it quickly

Roderic O'Gorman

24 Jan

5.7k

holding power to account

Priest: Most bishops in America wouldn't have had the courage to speak to Trump like that — but one did

Tony Flannery

23 Jan

18.3k

154

dail melee

Johnny Fallon: This Dáil circus was entirely predictable, so why was the government blindsided?

Johnny Fallon

Updated 23 Jan

10.7k

Fossil Fuels

Opinion: An Irish fossil fuel lobbyist says he's part of the low carbon transition - let's get real

John Gibbons

Updated 16 hrs ago

6.5k

Sport

Opinion: Are our sporting heroes 'playing it safe' when it comes to their public image?

Paddy O'Dea

21 hrs ago

5.8k

US politics

Larry Donnelly: Trump is back with a bang. Buckle up. Uncertain times lie ahead.

Larry Donnelly

Updated 22 hrs ago

11.8k

Infrastructure

Ciarán Cannon: We cannot consider going ahead with the Galway Ring Road

Ciarán Cannon

21 Jan

32.6k

How I Spend My Money

Money Diaries: How is your spending and saving going? Would you like to keep a diary for us?

TheJournal.ie reader

19 Jan

9.0k

back to the US

US Ambassador: I leave with a heart full of gratitude - thank you for an incredible experience

Claire Cronin

19 Jan

14.8k

fleeing belarus

‘It was exactly like Paul Lynch’s Prophet Song': A Belarusian story of survival and hope

Sasha Romanova

19 Jan

6.1k

Parenting

Opinion: Why are we surprised that parents' value is underestimated?

Niamh O'Reilly

18 Jan

9.4k

Surrealing in the Years

Surrealing in the Years: Government formation is our problem, not theirs

Carl Kinsella

18 Jan

3.8k

Middle East

Under siege in the West Bank: Life and resistance in the shadow of settler violence

Oliver Moore

16 Jan

4.5k

New Job

Career coach: Stuck in a job rut? It doesn't need to be this way

Steph Brady

15 Jan

8.6k

column

Opinion: Let’s change the game for people living with HIV

Enda McGrattan (Veda Lady)

14 Jan

6.8k

Democracy

Life in a dictatorship: Why do Belarusian journalists risk their lives for the truth?

Sasha Romanova

13 Jan

6.7k

HISMM

Money Diaries: A public relations manager on €42K living in Dublin

TheJournal.ie reader

12 Jan

32.5k

a whiff of musk

Opinion: Elon Musk interfering in UK politics was not on our 2025 bingo card

Peter Flanagan

12 Jan

8.7k

US politics

Larry Donnelly: It appears Trump is starting as he means to go on

Larry Donnelly

11 Jan

19.8k

Surrealing in the Years

Surrealing in the Years: Met Éireann succeed in diabolical plot to warn us that it's cold

Carl Kinsella

11 Jan

13.1k

Mental Health

Opinion: When in the grip of anorexia, New Year's resolutions were huge for me — not anymore

Louise

11 Jan

5.7k

Opinion

The truth about Meta’s broadside against fact-checkers

Susan Daly

10 Jan

6.0k

new government

Opinion: The next government needs to adopt a new approach to the criminal justice system

Saoirse Brady

9 Jan

5.1k

Climate emergency

Opinion: Can native woodland flourish without farmers? They also deserve a just transition

Elizabeth Rymut

8 Jan

6.2k

Climate emergency

Opinion: Ireland will not move on climate until we have a truly democratic process

Pádraic Fogarty

5 Jan

9.5k