Voices

Last year

2025

for i have sinned

First Confession: Why are we still putting our children through this guilt grind?

Simon Tierney

19 Apr 2025

26.2k

keep it in the ground

Ban fossil fuel ads: Stop airlines, airports, cars and cruise liners from advertising

Dr Johnny Collins & Dr Ola Løkken Nordrum

18 Apr 2025

13.1k

fermented foods

Kombucha: What is it and is it good for you?

Dr Catherine Conlon

17 Apr 2025

14.3k

27 years on

Good Friday Agreement: Women’s voices must shape the future of this island, north and south

Orla O'Connor

16 Apr 2025

3.6k

GOAL VOICES

Engineering hope: Marwan’s story of displacement, resilience and humanitarian action

Marwan Al-Bakur

15 Apr 2025

4.2k

Narcissism

Surviving a narcissist: What's this personality disorder and how can you manage one in your life?

Dr Stephen McWilliams

14 Apr 2025

25.0k

HISMM

Money Diaries: A project engineer on €57K living in Leinster

The Journal reader

13 Apr 2025

27.2k

childhood obesity

Hot school meals: How can we do better for the children in Irish schools?

Dr Catherine Conlon

13 Apr 2025

11.1k

international trade

Analysis: What are the potential impacts of Trump's tariffs on the Irish supply chain?

Dr Kevin Byrne, Dr Chao Ji-Hyland & Dr Nikolaos Valantasis Kanellos

12 Apr 2025

14.6k

Surrealing in the Years

Surrealing in the Years: Protect our cultural history or solve the housing crisis? Neither, thanks

Carl Kinsella

12 Apr 2025

7.3k

Books

World Autism Month: Life as a Second Language — an excerpt from new book, Wired Our Own Way

Naoise Dolan

12 Apr 2025

7.4k

Nature

Forest fires in Ireland: Preparation requires proper enforcement and the end of old practices

Pádraic Fogarty

11 Apr 2025

4.8k

Anniversary

Good Friday Agreement: So many families of those who died in the Troubles have been ignored

Emma DeSouza

Updated 10 Apr 2025

5.0k

SCHOOL MEALS

Parenting: The pearl clutching over hot school lunches is a bit much — at least they're eating

Margaret Lynch

8 Apr 2025

11.7k

Opinion

Passenger cap lift: Solar panels at Dublin Airport will not compensate for more people flying

Dr Ola Løkken Nordrum

7 Apr 2025

10.9k

are saunas the new pubs?

Sauna and chill: 'As Robin Williams once said, it was hotter than a snake’s ass in a wagon rut'

Niamh O'Reilly

Updated 6 Apr 2025

12.3k

HISMM

Money Diaries: An audit associate on €31K living in Dublin

The Journal reader

6 Apr 2025

32.1k

Parenting

A dad's perspective: I watched Adolescence with my teenage son... here's what I learned

Derek Walsh

5 Apr 2025

40.6k

Surrealing in the Years

Surrealling in the Years: Keep your filthy hands to yourself

Carl Kinsella

5 Apr 2025

7.5k

book extract

Pop music history: 'Women music managers were few and far between'

Dr Michael Murphy

5 Apr 2025

4.1k

Youth Mental Health

Opinion: School Avoidance is a crisis - here's how we can support children back into education

Marian Quinn

4 Apr 2025

108k

GAA finest

Farewell, Micko: The King is Dead, Long Live the King

Paul Collins

Updated 3 Apr 2025

8.4k

trade tariffs

'Liberation Day' and its fallout: Trump thrives on the uncertainty and chaos he's created

Larry Donnelly

3 Apr 2025

11.5k

neurodiversity

World Autism Day: 'My children deserve to be valued by the system for who they are'

Lucinda Murrihy

Updated 2 Apr 2025

10.1k

supporting boys and men

Opinion: Our focus should not be on 'toxic masculinity', but on why men and boys feel so lost

Dr Chris Luke

Updated 1 Apr 2025

13.5k

InvestigatesThe GP Crisis

Opinion: 'Not only could he not get an appointment, he couldn't get a GP to take him on'

Anonymous

1 Apr 2025

15.6k

island history

Opinion: Ireland’s islands have a unique and captivating history — we should cherish them

Pamela de Brí

31 Mar 2025

6.2k

chop baby chop

Opinion: This government is determined to turn its back on sustainable forestry in Ireland

Pádraic Fogarty

31 Mar 2025

11.9k

HISMM

Money Diaries: A laboratory specialist on €70K living in Dublin

The Journal reader

30 Mar 2025

32.1k

Opinion

Lukashenko: How Europe's last dictator figures in the thawing of US-Russian relations

Sasha Romanova

30 Mar 2025

10.1k

nature of motherhood

Mother’s Day: It's not gratitude that's needed, it's an honest conversation about motherhood

Dr Fiona Murphy

30 Mar 2025

10.1k

eurovision 2025

Eurovision: Do this year's picks show a continent seeking escapism from the harsh news cycle?

Louise Holst

29 Mar 2025

6.1k

Surrealing in the Years

Surrealing in the Years: Don't worry, they're only telling us to sit down with their fingers

Carl Kinsella

29 Mar 2025

6.9k

we need a break

The Motherload: What mums really want for Mother’s Day (hint, it’s not a foot spa)

Niamh O'Reilly

29 Mar 2025

14.8k

the great disruptor

Opinion: At the rate Trump is going, it will be a long four-year term

Emma DeSouza

Updated 28 Mar 2025

12.0k

123

little feckers

Bugged out over nits: Are head lice just impossible to get rid of these days?

Niamh O'Reilly

27 Mar 2025

11.7k

Horror

Books: An extract from Róisín Lanigan's new novel, 'I want to go home, but I'm already there'

Róisín Lanigan

25 Mar 2025

4.6k

GOAL VOICES

Opinion: After 14 years of conflict, Syria's women stand ready to rebuild

Doaa Ghadab & Zeina Ali Bajo

Updated 25 Mar 2025

3.8k

Healthcare

Mental health and physical illness: 'The system turns its back on some patients'

Dr Stephen McWilliams

24 Mar 2025

8.2k

HISMM

Money Diaries: An interior designer on €45K living in Leinster

The Journal reader

23 Mar 2025

29.2k