Voices

Last year

2025

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

In Pictures

'Bricks instead of beer': Stark images from NI photographer tell story of the Ballymena riots

Tyler Collins.

14 Jun 2025

26.5k

bees in trouble

The Bee Guy: We're going global for bees - they need our help

Paul Handrick - The Bee Guy

14 Jun 2025

36.8k

Rafah crossing

Paul Murphy: Why I've joined thousands from around the world on a march to Gaza

Paul Murphy

13 Jun 2025

5.8k

institutional care

Opinion: After Leas Cross and Aras Attracta, how are we still failing people in nursing homes?

Amanda Phelan

13 Jun 2025

5.1k

child free cafes

Opinion: Should we have child-free zones? It's complicated...

Gwen Loughman

12 Jun 2025

13.7k

Sewage

Ecocide series: It's only a matter of time before Algal Blooms impact our water supply

Brian Murray

Updated 11 Jun 2025

41.1k

all is well

Dr Chris Luke: Leaving Cert students off on sun holiday shortly? Some tips for parents...

Dr Chris Luke

10 Jun 2025

12.8k

food as weapon

Hunger in Gaza: When starving babies is the strategy, not just the outcome

Dr Clare Patton

Updated 10 Jun 2025

13.3k

rté investigates

Care homes exposé: 'We need to reverse the privatisation of our social care sector'

Sinéad McGarry

9 Jun 2025

8.1k

HISMM

Money Diaries: An escalation manager on €120K living in Dublin

The Journal reader

8 Jun 2025

49.7k

DERELICTIRELAND

Dereliction in Ireland: 'Something is rotten in the Irish property industry'

Jude Sherry and Dr Frank O’Connor

8 Jun 2025

24.2k

filthy dirty

Opinion: Dublin's streets are a mess, and not enough is being done to fix them

Gus Landy

Updated 7 Jun 2025

62.8k

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Surrealing in the Years

Surrealing in the Years: Mayo Pride's 'Child of Drag' is a 'dreadful blasphemy'. So what?

Carl Kinsella

7 Jun 2025

12.9k

GUT BRAIN CONNECTION

Dr Catherine Conlon: Why gut bacteria matter to mental health and how to keep them thriving

Dr Catherine Conlon

7 Jun 2025

15.7k

Leaving Cert

Pádraig Rice TD on dyslexia: 'Growing up, I knew I was different'

Pádraig Rice

5 Jun 2025

7.3k

Freedom Flotilla Coalition

Flotilla: If we don't act now, we'll be complicit in the annihilation of the Palestinian people

Lynn Ruane

Updated 4 Jun 2025

12.8k

CLIMATE CRISIS

Ireland and marine life: 'We should hang our heads in shame at our failure to protect the sea'

Pádraic Fogarty

3 Jun 2025

9.3k

sipping it

Opinion: More 'sober sometimes' than 'sober curious', at least now I watch how I drink alcohol

Gwen Loughman

2 Jun 2025

13.8k

HISMM

Money Diaries: A public servant on €55K living in Co Westmeath

The Journal reader

1 Jun 2025

37.2k

US politics

Larry Donnelly: Are American politicians too long in the tooth and too long in the job?

Larry Donnelly

1 Jun 2025

7.8k

smartphone addiction

Doom and zombie scrolling: 'Some believe humans go through 300 feet of content in a single day'

Dr Catherine Conlon

31 May 2025

45.8k

Surrealing in the Years

Surrealing in the Years: Wait a minute, the British Army did WHAT to Irish civilians?

Carl Kinsella

31 May 2025

15.8k

parenting groups

Fed-up dad: Parenting WhatsApp groups are out of control - here are my new rules for you all

Anonymous Dad

31 May 2025

34.3k

irish neutrality

Opinion: Scrapping the Triple Lock is an ill-considered and potentially catastrophic step

Tom Clonan

30 May 2025

21.9k

Novels

Vicki Notaro: And Just Like That… midlife friendships take centre stage

Vicki Notaro

29 May 2025

19.1k

mayo pride

Pride under pressure: 'Rural LGBTQ+ events were the last to form, and we'll be the first to go'

Fiona Wilde & Shaun Lavelle

Updated 29 May 2025

22.7k

Trump presidency

Ciarán Cuffe: Greenland is at a crossroads, but its people are determined to stay strong

Ciarán Cuffe

28 May 2025

5.8k

Housing Crisis

Opinion: Access to social and affordable housing is the key issue for this generation

Donal McManus

27 May 2025

6.3k

Workplace Relations

Opinion: I can't help but think that if men got periods, the workplace would offer period leave

Niamh O'Reilly

26 May 2025

13.9k

HISMM

Money Diaries: A legal secretary on €39K living in Dublin

The Journal reader

25 May 2025

26.5k