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Inclusive education: 'Nobody with a print disability should get left behind'
Chris White
Affordable housing: 'Taxing high end real estate transfers could fix the problem'
Chuck Collims
'If we overcome the fears that keep us silent and stuck, we can achieve so much'
Helen Cullen
Adrienne Corless: 'It looks like the consultation facilitators dug deep to find resistance to full excavation'
Adrienne Corless
Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill: 'A huge step forward, and one Ireland needs to take'
Paul Healy
'Ireland is the second-worst performing EU member state in tackling climate change'
Stephen Wheeler
Column: 'Bord Bia need to stop asking vegetarians and vegans why we don't eat meat'
Eva Dowling
The Free-Time Formula: 'Your 'priorities' are making you less productive'
Jeff Sanders
Opinion: 'Parents need to raise their voices in the divestment debate'
Peter Gunning
Advice column: How to lower your car insurance premium
Jonathan Hehir
In the garden: GIY cucumbers to make the perfect Tzatziki
Michael Kelly
Do we want our beaches strewn with stranded dolphins?
Sinead Mercier
Opinion: Do we need a Minister for Construction for Ireland?
Andrew Power
'If the British government refuses to do the right thing by Ireland decisions should be taken out of its hands'
David Cullinane TD
Ireland's Security Council bid: Is it worth the effort?
Dominic MacSorley
'Trump should have no place in your remarks about Irish media, Taoiseach'
Susan Daly
'Childhood is short and we are robbing it from thousands of children'
Cliodhna O'Neill
Consent: 'The purchase of sex is conducted without regard for women’s pleasure'
Samantha Slater
Column: 'You couldn’t let your students know you were gay, so you had to hide it from them'
Sheila Nunan
Opinion: 'My tiny family is not a family in the eyes of Bunreacht na hÉireann'
Sinéad Gibney
Column: '61% of girls my age are embarrassed about their period'
Niamh Dunne
How to have a great life: 'We rarely give thought to the legacy we’re creating'
Paul McGee
'Therapists were relieved when the WHO listed gaming addiction as a mental health condition'
Stella O'Malley
Media stereotyping: 'The person with an intellectual disability is treated as either 'heroic' or 'tragic''
Nuala Macklin
GIY: 'The Khaki Campbell is one of the most prolific backyard ducks'
Michael Kelly
'Pride will only cease to be a protest when there is nothing left to fight for'
Danny Rigg
'Growing up in Donegal was a privilege, but growing up LGBTI+ in any county is not easy'
Ayrton Kelly
Pearse Doherty: 'We would invest the €1.4bn available, putting us on our way to a new society'
Pearse Doherty TD
Eamon Ryan: Open letter to Shane Ross on the need for a review of the Metrolink design
Eamon Ryan
Opinion: The immigration crisis may spell the end of the European dream
Antonio Tajani
Donor-conceived children: It's time to ban anonymous sperm donation
Dr Brian Tobin
'We spend €400 million each year on drugs while only €10 million is spent on counselling'
Sean Byrne
Kate McGrew: 'I came out to my parents as a sex worker on national television'
Kate McGrew
'The Irish healthcare system is in desperate need of new ideas and new solutions'
Prof John R Higgins
'I’ve always hated the term 'the UK'. I find it an insult to me as an Irish person'
Michael Fortune
'If prison does not serve and rehabilitate offenders, they will return to life as before, or worse'
Charlie Flanagan TD
'Having been in direct provision for such a long time I had started to lose confidence'
Ellie Kisyombe
GIY: 'As we move in to summer, it’s important to keep sowing'
Michael Kelly
'There are gardaí, politicians and doctors who have taken something illegal at some point'
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
Can Ireland's vast monoculture conifer carpets be changed into biodiverse deciduous woodlands?
Dermot McNally