Voices

All time

Middle East

Larry Donnelly: Moderate voices now matter most in the Middle East amid all the hate and anger

Larry Donnelly

13 Oct 2023

5.8k

New Figures

Analysis: Our new figures show we now need a national conversation about home care

Joseph Musgrave

13 Oct 2023

7.6k

budget 2024

Pádraic Fogarty: This week's budget signals the birth of a new nature economy

Pádraic Fogarty

12 Oct 2023

9.3k

childcare sector

Opinion: The budget gave us baby steps forward when a giant leap for young children was needed

Frances Byrne

12 Oct 2023

7.0k

Analysis

Apartheid has led to this Middle East escalation and it's civilians who will pay the price

Dr Brendan Ciarán Browne

Updated 12 Oct 2023

15.5k

budget 2024

Analysis: Older people are vulnerable to poverty - more should have been done for them

Mary Murphy

Updated 10 Oct 2023

12.9k

world mental health

Therapist: If we prioritise mental health as a society, we will reap the benefits

Séamus Sheedy

10 Oct 2023

6.5k

Opinion

Tom Clonan: International community needs to intervene to stop a catastrophe in the Middle East

Tom Clonan

Updated 9 Oct 2023

12.5k

Pensions Week

Pensions: Confusion and delay - when will the auto-enrolment train arrive at the station?

Ralph Benson

9 Oct 2023

9.2k

Fuel Poverty

Opinion: 'I am one of those trapped in fuel poverty - please don't forget us in the budget'

Anne

9 Oct 2023

13.7k

HISMM

Money Diaries follow-up: A data scientist on $175K who has moved to the US for work

TheJournal.ie reader

8 Oct 2023

46.0k

Cocaine

Dr Chris Luke: What exactly happens to your body when you take cocaine?

Dr Chris Luke

Updated 8 Oct 2023

48.4k

influencers

Parenting: When we were growing up, our parents weren't bombarded by images of perfection

Margaret Lynch

7 Oct 2023

20.7k

Surrealing in the Years

Surrealing in the Years: Bedbug apocalypse the least of our worries when it comes to neighbours

Carl Kinsella

7 Oct 2023

13.8k

EXTRACT

Gerry Creighton: You can learn sentience and emotional expression from animals

Gerry Creighton

7 Oct 2023

14.3k

art exhibition

The Art Riddler: 'What did I know about art or about mounting an exhibition? Nothing'

The Art Riddler

6 Oct 2023

7.2k

Disability

Opinion: My heart sank when I heard calls for the word 'care' to be added to Article 41.2

Ann Marie Flanagan

Updated 6 Oct 2023

19.0k

vacant property tax

Opinion: It's time we grasped the nettle and taxed those hoarding property in Ireland

Ciarán Casey

5 Oct 2023

16.4k

Interest Rates

Opinion: Banks are making a fortune from Irish savers - should you shop around?

Mark Coan

5 Oct 2023

21.3k

learning lessons

Opinion: The HSE must learn to listen to social workers in the wake of the 'Emily' case

Sinéad McGarry

4 Oct 2023

15.8k

a city neglected

Opinion: Dublin has long been promoted as a city of private enterprise and endless consumption

Emmett Scanlon

3 Oct 2023

9.6k

HISMM

Money Diaries: A 23-year-old mechanical engineer on £40K living in London

TheJournal.ie reader

1 Oct 2023

32.1k

deepnude images

Fake Porn, Real Victims: We must stop the easy use of AI to create nude images of women & girls

Dr Fiona Vera-Gray & Professor Clare McGlynn

1 Oct 2023

42.0k

checks and balances

Opinion: Recent scandals should show us just how important corporate governance is

Siobhán Finn

30 Sep 2023

11.3k

Surrealing in the Years

Surrealing in the Years: Leo Varadkar is not good at pop culture references

Carl Kinsella

30 Sep 2023

15.6k

extreme swim

Extract: 'This is why you are here', the inner voice repeated. 'Breathe and trust yourself'

Nuala Moore

30 Sep 2023

11.6k

US politics

Larry Donnelly: A poor GOP debate, questions about Biden and a dysfunctional Congress

Larry Donnelly

29 Sep 2023

10.2k

Teacher

Eoghan Cleary: The new sex ed curriculum is being misrepresented by a small but loud group

Eoghan Cleary

27 Sep 2023

31.8k

Rugby World Cup

Opinion: Let's face it, the crowd sang 'Zombie' because it just sounds great when thousands sing it

Tom Savage

Updated 26 Sep 2023

46.1k

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HISMM

Money Diaries follow-up: A student air traffic controller on €24K living in Shannon

TheJournal.ie reader

24 Sep 2023

35.6k

citizens assembly

Opinion: The Citizens’ Assembly on Drug Use needs more diversity of speakers and thought

Lynn Ruane, Ian Marder & Cian O’Concubhair

24 Sep 2023

11.1k

Smartphones

Parenting: 'We can't block technology for our kids - that ship has sailed'

Margaret Lynch

23 Sep 2023

14.9k

Surrealing in the Years

Surrealing in the Years: Has the establishment finally noticed the far-right?

Carl Kinsella

23 Sep 2023

13.8k

Housing Crisis

Cian O'Callaghan: We need 10,000 new affordable purchase & rental homes built every year

Cian O'Callaghan

21 Sep 2023

9.2k

dail violence

Tom Clonan: There is a real danger now of serious injuries or fatalities at a far-right protest

Tom Clonan

21 Sep 2023

41.7k

Analysis

Opinion: Why Stalin's 'fatal decision' means tens of thousands in Karabakh now live in terror

Donnacha Ó Beacháin

20 Sep 2023

15.9k

Northern Ireland

Brian Rowan: The head of the new Troubles legacy body will have a mountain to climb

Brian Rowan

20 Sep 2023

4.6k

creative arts

Fair City Photographer: 'It's not just a matter of pressing a button on an iPhone, senator'

Beta Bajgart

19 Sep 2023

21.5k

Erectile Dysfunction

Opinion: 'The Viagra was handed to me as though it were a live bomb'

Bob Mc Quaid

Updated 19 Sep 2023

38.9k

toxic culture

Aoife Barry: Clips of Brand and others from the mid-2000s show how change still needs to happen

Aoife Barry

Updated 19 Sep 2023

25.1k