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Voices

All time
'The 'No' side feel let down by people and country. Nobody understands this feeling more than us'
Denise Coakley
Column: 'Some 90 years after my maternal grandparents left Ireland, I am returning'
Matthew Conway
'Slug patrols with a torch after dark have resumed, as have my attempts to lure them into beer traps'
Michael Kelly
'We need maternity care providers who respect women and who listen to women'
Various
What's next?: Breaking religious influence over education with a Citizens Assembly model
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
'The sanctity of the confession box is still an issue when it comes to keeping children safe'
Tanya Ward
'It is time to step up and bring an end to the destruction of Palestinian homes, lives and livelihoods'
Patrick Costello
Referendum: 'In this campaign Ireland got real and Ireland got talking'
Grainne Conroy
Column: 'We need to learn from how we treated each other during the referendum'
Philip Kirwan
Column: 'While my friends were out enjoying a busy social life, I received my last rites'
Clara Caslin
Column: 'What is holding you back from getting the results you want?'
Jamie Smart
'Ireland in 2018 is not just a post-Catholic country, it's a pro-choice country'
Larry Donnelly
'I’m tired of all the feel-good campaigns when there's no real debate around entry into mental health services'
Anonymous
The politics of black women's hair: 'There is a struggle attached to this hair'
Ola Majekodunmi
Opinion: 'In modern Ireland, you are invisible without money'
Audry Deane
'For Mary Lou McDonald, the lack of IRA baggage may prove to be both a blessing and a curse'
Danny Rigg
'She was not a baby with a fatal foetal abnormality, she was my baby, and she was perfect'
Vicky Wall
John Bruton: 'Abortion ends a life. Once it has happened there is no going back'
John Bruton
Surrogacy: 'Infertile couples will still have to go abroad to make their dream a reality'
Dr Brian Tobin
Vincent Browne: Let’s cease demanding more of women than we would dare demand of men
Vincent Browne
Short story: 'To all their dues'
Wendy Erskine
Debate Room: Two lawyers on the 8th Amendment and if we should retain or repeal it
Barrister Benedict Ó Floinn & Prof Alan Green
Epilepsy: 'My emotions are heightened and I'm overwhelmed by difficult or upsetting situations'
Eva-Jayne Gaffney
'I had always found work soul destroying, but had accepted this as the norm'
Ian Cumbers
Column: 'Those who beat the health insurance penalty deadline are at risk of overpaying'
Dermot Goode
'We're so conditioned to keep quiet. I notice it in myself all the time'
Liz Roche
GIY: Get creative with delicious new potatoes using this Spanish tortilla recipe
Michael Kelly
Lad culture: 'We need to tackle masculinity head-on'
Stephen Todd
'I'm not amoral, not stupid, and not promiscuous. I took every precaution. I still got pregnant'
Anonymous
Maria Walsh: 'It might be a questioning glance or a curt refusal to shake my hand'
Maria Walsh
Column: 'Why did I fall so hard? Why did I make myself so vulnerable to him?'
Patricia Tsouros
Replacing Phil Hogan: 'Other countries have a different attitude and send their elite'
Dominic Hannigan
It's been a worrying two weeks - but please don't stop getting smear tests
Prof Donal Brennan
Column: 'We are haemorrhaging €5-6bn per year to pay for expensive and dirty fuels'
Grattan Healy
Justice Minister: 'I have seen many women shake with fear of not being believed by a Garda or a court'
Charlie Flanagan TD
Column: 'We are ill. We are not faking this illness. It is not in our heads'
Corina Duyn
Brian Merriman: 'Identity theatre is always relevant'
Brian Merriman
Sharon Donnery: 'There were no female role models, no one I could aspire to be like'
Sharon Donnery
'I was the first of my family to go to university and this week I paid off the last of my loan'
Gavin Nugent
Chickweed: 'Not only is it edible, it’s considered to be a nutritional powerhouse'
Michael Kelly