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Get ready world: 'Trump’s posturing is even more inconsistent and incoherent than Obama's'
Larry Donnelly
16 Apr 2018
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36
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'My biggest regret is not reporting my rape. My rapist has a comfortable life with a wife and kids'
Morgan Barbour
15 Apr 2018
259k
112
Honour Magdalenes
Magdalene Laundries: 'Memorial needed for women detained under heartless, vicious regime'
Mary Lou McDonald
15 Apr 2018
17.0k
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'Our parish universe straddled two counties and two States. We forged an identity as borderers'
Darach MacDonald
15 Apr 2018
15.5k
15
voices
Column: So you think adoption has nothing to do with you?
Paul Redmond
15 Apr 2018
32.8k
44
column
An immigrant fits in: 'I added 'sh' sounds to words and repeated the phrase 'Bono is a pox''
Laura Gerulyte Griffin
14 Apr 2018
112k
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column
In the garden: 'I find that my system is craving fresh greens after a long winter'
Michael Kelly
14 Apr 2018
11.5k
6
Opinion
Why I'd pull up a deckchair, skive off work and queue in the rain to buy a house
Paul Hosford
14 Apr 2018
28.5k
61
Opinion
Women in sport: 'We press pause on our lives, sacrificing friends, family and career'
Ailis Egan
14 Apr 2018
18.1k
43
Opinion
Rape myths: 'Sexual assaults are traumatic. Incoherencies in the victims' accounts are inescapable'
Ciaran McCullagh
13 Apr 2018
29.0k
48
Analysis
Are we about to see the opening shots of a third world war? Hopefully cool heads will prevail
Tom Clonan
12 Apr 2018
86.4k
119
column
Bliain na Gaeilge: 'My mother made a choice to speak to us in her mother tongue'
Róisín O’Hara
12 Apr 2018
20.9k
50
fodder crisis
Opinion: 'We don't need more leaflets from Teagasc. We don't need grants to build more sheds'
Pippa Hackett
11 Apr 2018
12.5k
37
column
D4 accents: 'Yes, kids speak differently from their parents. But why should this be a bad thing?'
Prof Vera Regan
10 Apr 2018
10.9k
120
Read Me
Peter Hain: 'The UK government is playing a dangerous game with the peace process'
Peter Hain
9 Apr 2018
1.8k
34
Special Needs
Opinion: How is it legal for schools to refuse to set up special classes?
Graham Manning
9 Apr 2018
5.1k
57
accessibility
Column: 'We waited for three hours on the side of the road in the dark and cold. I'm sick of it'
Linda Byrne
8 Apr 2018
1.3k
40
Read Me
Marriage has some very tasty tax benefits attaching to it: Here's how to claim them
John Lowe
8 Apr 2018
36.6k
60
column
'Sonia was almost the perfect Irish hero: courageous, determined, yet fragile and all too human'
Dr Richard McElligott
8 Apr 2018
1.7k
12
Multiple Sclerosis
Column: 'I have to teach myself to smile (I didn't realise it was so easy to lose a smile)'
Fiach Lynch
7 Apr 2018
1.3k
14
GIY
Michael Kelly’s top tips for putting food and food growing at the centre of your workplace
Michael Kelly
7 Apr 2018
809
6
Opinion
Survivors of sexual violence are let down by the criminal justice system – here’s what should happen
Dr Simon McCarthy-Jones
7 Apr 2018
1.9k
38
mandatory and compulsory
Play golf on paternity leave? You're lucky to have time to breathe
Cianan Brennan
7 Apr 2018
1.3k
23
Opinion
Homelessness: Do we want an Ireland modelled on Vancouver where the majority prosper?
Richard MacCarthy
6 Apr 2018
2.5k
95
column
Opinion: 'Religious instruction and worship should take place outside core school hours'
David Graham
5 Apr 2018
2.5k
154
Read Me
Opinion: 'Consent can't be delivered in the same way as other subjects by embarrassed teachers'
Elaine Byrnes
4 Apr 2018
1.7k
56
Opinion
'We can't ignore the very real possibility of the emergence of a new disruptive politics'
Rory Hearne
3 Apr 2018
2.1k
108
column
Why I became a counsellor: 'Mentally, I’ve gone toe-to-toe with Mike Tyson'
Danny McNeive
2 Apr 2018
1.0k
3
Read Me
Stephen Hawking: 'I clearly remember being blown away by the mind-bending physics of the book'
Professor Peter Gallagher
2 Apr 2018
1.2k
31
Read Me
Peter McVerry: 'It should be made illegal for the next three years to evict people onto the street'
Peter McVerry
2 Apr 2018
1.5k
71
column
Irish emigrant: 'I'm more concerned now about the Great Barrier Reef than the Irish summer'
Philip Lynch
1 Apr 2018
597
41
Martin McGuinness
Eileen Paisley: 'I think there was a quietness and shyness about Martin. He was good company'
Jude Collins
1 Apr 2018
2.8k
53
Bereavement
Column: 'I felt a wave of guilt come over me. How was I laughing in a world my mum wasn’t in?'
Mairead Doyle
31 Mar 2018
1.8k
11
column
GIY: Our guru's 'nerdy' guide to growing onions for home-made marmalade
Michael Kelly
31 Mar 2018
1.0k
5
Biological clock
Opinion: 'Corporate egg freezing is a great idea for the women who want that option'
Meriem Ahmed
31 Mar 2018
728
64
column
Mary Magdalene: 'A queen of nobility wrongly cast as prostitute by womb-envying patriarchs'
Grace Vaughan
30 Mar 2018
3.7k
128
Opinion
'We need to help people who use drugs make healthier choices, not treat them as criminals'
Tony Duffin
29 Mar 2018
6.9k
44
Opinion
When consent is contested, both sides are fighting for a 'win'
Noeline Blackwell
28 Mar 2018
123k
Opinion
Russian diplomat expulsion: 'Ireland should have avoided jumping on this bandwagon'
Danielle Ryan
28 Mar 2018
57.2k
349
Opinion
'Ireland needs to invest in its neutral status - is expelling a Russian diplomat the best way?'
Tom Clonan
27 Mar 2018
19.7k
228
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