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15 Sep 2012
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Opinion
Column: Slashing wages will hurt everybody – the case for Croke Park
Michael Taft
15 Sep 2012
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Eoin Lynch
15 Sep 2012
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Column: The property tax shows our leaders are banking on another bubble
Aaron McKenna
15 Sep 2012
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Column: Giving away money can lead to priceless experiences
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14 Sep 2012
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Opinion
Column: Austerity has an unequal impact on women. So let’s fix this.
Orla O'Connor & Clara Fischer
14 Sep 2012
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Opinion
Column: Olivia O'Leary: Here's the main reason why the children's rights referendum matters
Olivia O'Leary
13 Sep 2012
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Opinion
Column: Times have changed and so should the Junior Cert
Noirin Walsh
13 Sep 2012
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Column: What does the Lord Mayor of Dublin actually do?
Andrew Montague
12 Sep 2012
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Opinion
Column: We're dedicated Labour members - but we're not happy with the party
Neil Warner
12 Sep 2012
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Opinion
Column: Why is Alan Ryan's funeral the face of republicanism?
Dr David McCann
12 Sep 2012
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Opinion
Column: Embarrassing bowel problem? We’d really rather not hear about it
Glendora Meikle
11 Sep 2012
105
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Opinion
Column: ‘Even the word itself, suicide, can be difficult to speak’
Derek Chambers
10 Sep 2012
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Opinion
Column: ‘I often wonder whether I’d be here, if abortion had been legal’
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10 Sep 2012
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Opinion
Column: Fifty Shades has changed lives – but not like the best chick lit
Paula Campbell
9 Sep 2012
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sitdown sunday
Sitdown Sunday: 7 deadly reads
Michael Freeman
9 Sep 2012
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Opinion
Column: Why Ireland should look to Europe as well as America
Kate Katharina Ferguson
9 Sep 2012
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Opinion
Column: How Ireland helped bring wine to the world
Susan Boyle
8 Sep 2012
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Opinion
Column: The personal assistant is so important, but government u-turn is no comfort
Rosaleen McDonagh
8 Sep 2012
266
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Read Me
Column: ‘You need passion to be an inventor’
Jane Ni Dhulchaointigh
8 Sep 2012
237
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Opinion
Column: Let’s get real – Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil should be in coalition
Aaron McKenna
8 Sep 2012
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Read Me
Opinion: There should be no debate – artists need money, says Dorothy Cross
Dorothy Cross
7 Sep 2012
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Opinion
Column: This wasn’t the Middle Ages, Bishop Kirby, it was the 1990s
Lisa McInerney
7 Sep 2012
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Opinion
Column: Watching my parents cope with long-term unemployment
Shaun Dunne
6 Sep 2012
123
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Read Me
Column: Everybody seems to be leaving, but what about those of us left?
Stefanie Preissner
5 Sep 2012
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Read Me: The shoes we walk in - being disabled in Ireland
Ann Kennedy
5 Sep 2012
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Opinion
Column: Why the Leaving Cert as we know it is redundant, by a headmaster
Arthur Godsil
5 Sep 2012
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Column: How my home is welcoming people back from around the world
John Collins
4 Sep 2012
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Opinion
Nick Leeson: This is what I wish for my daughter
Nick Leeson
3 Sep 2012
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Read Me
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Michael Freeman
2 Sep 2012
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Opinion
Column: Lingerie football? Our real sporting heroines deserve limelight first
Niamh O'Mahony
2 Sep 2012
902
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Column: Here’s why I directed an opera about IKEA flatpack furniture
Conor Hanratty
1 Sep 2012
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Read Me
Column: Why do Irish people have a special relationship with ice cream?
Kieran Murphy
1 Sep 2012
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Opinion
Column: Have we lost the ambition that put a man on the moon?
Aaron McKenna
1 Sep 2012
126
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Opinion
Column: Hurricane Isaac should make us think seriously about climate change
Gavin Harte
31 Aug 2012
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Column: ‘I will miss you’ – a mum writes to her son starting school
Deborah McCarthy
31 Aug 2012
300
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Opinion
Column: ‘People speak to me like I’m ET’ – why social labelling is a problem
Adam Harris
30 Aug 2012
550
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Column: Surely Loyalist marchers want a better image than this?
Dr David McCann
29 Aug 2012
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