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Voices

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Brittle bones: 'It means that my bones break easily and I cannot walk very far'
Amy Hassett
10 Dec 2017
13.4k
5
PTSD
Column: Celebrities shouldn't peddle misinformation about mental health
Amy Plant
10 Dec 2017
30.6k
54
column
Psychological abuse: 'He would criticise me, humiliate me and question my stability'
Patricia Tsouros
10 Dec 2017
43.6k
127
Read Me
Life with MS: 'Not only was I now disabled, I was a disabled bride'
Rosie McCormack
9 Dec 2017
56.6k
12
column
Supermarket promotions: 'Down the road there is a ruinous cost to cheap food'
Michael Kelly
9 Dec 2017
33.7k
30
column
'Like the Trump White House, we don't have an independent scientific adviser'
James Lawless
9 Dec 2017
7.9k
20
Consumerism
Opinion: 'I find Christmas so false. It’s all veneer, folks'
Michael Fortune
8 Dec 2017
26.8k
112
Opinion
Brexit: 'The DUP’s hardline policies could be the quickest road to a united Ireland'
Caoimhín De Barra
7 Dec 2017
67.2k
101
strategic communications unit
@campaignforleo: 'A powerful weapon in government’s communications artillery'
Amy Rose Harte
6 Dec 2017
16.5k
39
Homelessness
'You may not smell too good, and if they smell drink off ye at all, they’ll label you straight away'
Andrea Koenigstorfer
5 Dec 2017
21.6k
11
Disability Services
Opinion: Despite €67m spend we have poor management and a lack of accountability
Professor Christine Loscher
4 Dec 2017
24.7k
18
Read Me
Hep C and me: 'I was nauseous all the time. I couldn’t gain weight. My skin was itchy and raw'
Patrick Gallagher
3 Dec 2017
31.2k
18
column
Eddie Hobbs: Is the global recovery fake?
Eddie Hobbs
3 Dec 2017
61.4k
85
Opinion
14 cyclist deaths in 2017: 'Yet we victim blame cyclists who don’t opt for DayGlo clothing'
Ciarán Cuffe
3 Dec 2017
43.1k
293
column
Being an introvert: 'Don't let anyone tell you you're too quiet'
Pauline Dunne
2 Dec 2017
105k
38
Gardening
GIY leeks and a dish that will chase away the winter chills
Michael Kelly
2 Dec 2017
17.2k
4
Frances Fitzgerald
Opinion: How badly damaged has the Taoiseach been?
Larry Donnelly
2 Dec 2017
26.6k
98
column
HIV diagnosis: 'I went into a spasm of shock. My mother knew the result just by looking at me'
Anonymous
1 Dec 2017
36.0k
21
Opinion
Obesity: 'We have gained one pound a year over the past twenty years'
Dr John Sharry
30 Nov 2017
13.7k
26
column
Speaking Irish: 'Even though I’m surrounded by English, it’s not my language'
Osgur Ó Ciardha
29 Nov 2017
26.2k
86
column
Emmerson Mnangagwa: 'A changing of the guard or a genuine fresh start for Zimbabwe?'
Sarah McCann
28 Nov 2017
7.6k
13
Whistleblowers
Tom Clonan on the Maurice McCabe email: 'I suffered a similar campaign of character assassination'
Tom Clonan
27 Nov 2017
66.1k
93
education inequality
Opinion: We have an unacceptably high level of school suspensions and expulsions
Dr Áine Hyland
27 Nov 2017
21.7k
92
irish justice system
Sexual abuse: 'Did I consent? I was just a little girl, but yes, I let it happen'
Anonymous
26 Nov 2017
126k
43
Read Me
'An old man had been taken into Garda custody for knocking on a door. ALONE went to his rescue'
Valerie Cox
26 Nov 2017
35.5k
8
House Prices
Column: Hey Leo, we can't afford a €320K house
Eoin Ó Broin
26 Nov 2017
71.1k
113
Read Me
Short story: 'When Blue Snowflakes Fall' by Eoin Dolan Lane
Eoin Dolan Lane
25 Nov 2017
8.0k
4
column
GIY: 'School lunches shouldn't be about wolfing down a sandwich in ten minutes'
Michael Kelly
25 Nov 2017
30.9k
33
Electoral Register
Opinion: 'Young people should be automatically registered to vote at 18'
James Doorley
25 Nov 2017
9.1k
79
Northern Ireland
Tom Clonan: 'A land border would be provocative and divisive while Stormont is suspended'
Tom Clonan
24 Nov 2017
11.4k
51
traveller accommodation
Carrowbrowne site: 'Travellers have a right to a home that is culturally appropriate'
Joanna Corcoran
23 Nov 2017
37.1k
124
work life
Opinion: I want to stop women feeling like frauds in a corporate culture designed for our grandfathers
Aileen O'Toole
22 Nov 2017
13.5k
56
EXTRACT
Maria Edgeworth's letters: 'Sir Walter Scott punctual to his word arrived on Friday'
Valerie Pakenham
22 Nov 2017
6.7k
20
Opinion
World Cup bid: Why should taxpayers' money be given to sporting organisations?
Sean Byrne
22 Nov 2017
10.9k
59
anti-vaxxers
Measles outbreak: Should we pay doctors to track down unvaccinated children?
Jennifer Whitmore
21 Nov 2017
15.6k
166
Opinion
'We need an NCT-style certification system on minimum standards in the private rented sector'
John-Mark McCafferty
20 Nov 2017
15.8k
56
Read Me
Cerebral palsy: 'I’m like everyone else. I want to party, get drunk, make mistakes'
Paddy Smyth
19 Nov 2017
23.8k
37
Archaeology
Column: How has a major medieval abbey in the centre of Dublin been forgotten?
Dr Ruth Johnson
19 Nov 2017
66.7k
44
Opinion
David McCullagh on Eamon de Valera: 'People tended either to love him or to loath him'
David McCullagh
19 Nov 2017
15.2k
77
80th anniversary
Opinion: 'The Irish Constitution has served us well for the most part'
Dr Laura Cahillane
18 Nov 2017
12.4k
39
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