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Opinion: Time is running out to save planet earth so we are organising a campaign of civil resistance
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From the Garden: Learn to make nettle tea - it has a rich and earthy taste and is a super tonic
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Opinion: At a club football match on a cold and rainy, dismal evening - I fell in love with Gaelic games
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Opinion: Ireland's brightest kids may never fulfill their potential as most schools don't do enough to challenge them
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Tom Clonan: Compared with other EU countries, Ireland has a high rate of gun violence - so why is our government so complacent?
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Opinion: 'Mortgage rules are massively unfair on people who can't rely on their parents for a sizeable deposit'
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Winning the Francis MacManus Short Story Competition changed my life. It's like I'm floating outside myself
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We need to change the disabled parking logo - so people stop telling me that I'm not disabled when I am
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From the Garden: 'I worry about the implications of what Greta Thunberg’s saying for the cosy lives we lead'
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Parental Leave: 'Fathers have moved on from sitting in the pub next door to the hospital - Ireland has not'
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Brazilian student: Coming to Dublin was a dream come true but sharing a house with 14 others was a nightmare
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Opinion: My Sri Lankan relatives had a lucky escape from the bombings - I'm struggling to keep my hopes for peace alive
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Opinion: Creative spaces are under threat so councils must be proactive to ensure that the arts survive
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Giving birth in the 1960s: 'All the mothers were terrified of the doctors and matron so we never asked any questions'
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Child Protection: The failure to publish the report into Mother & Baby Homes is part of a continued cover-up
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Opinion: A variety of non-Christian historical sources support the idea that Jesus rose from the dead
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The Irish For: Why do we remember things from TV and what does that mean for learning languages?
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Opinion: In Colombia indigenous protests follow communities being displaced and leaders murdered
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From the Garden: Learn how to really grow parsnips, earth up spuds and make wild garlic pesto
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Catholic in 2019: 'Some cardinals and clerics appear trapped within a medieval mindset - but Pope Francis provides a glimmer of hope'
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Opinion: 'Big businesses will cry wolf and fire accusations of nanny-statism at any public health intervention'
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Opinion: At a cannabis dispensary in Colorado I found the only thing that offered relief for my chronic pain
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Lynn Ruane: The overdose drug Naloxone can save lives so let's remove the barriers to accessing it
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Opinion: 'I wanted to pursue my acting dreams - but having kids was a huge risk. What should I do?'
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Opinion: 'I was born with my organs outside my body and given the last rites but now I have two children of my own'
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