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Yesterday
14th April 2025
Surviving a narcissist: What's this personality disorder and how can you manage one in your life?
Dr Stephen McWilliams
This week
13th April 2025 - 15th April 2025
Money Diaries: A project engineer on €57K living in Leinster
TheJournal.ie reader
Hot school meals: How can we do better for the children in Irish schools?
Dr Catherine Conlon
Last week
6th April 2025 - 12th April 2025
Analysis: What are the potential impacts of Trump's tariffs on the Irish supply chain?
Dr Kevin Byrne, Dr Chao Ji-Hyland & Dr Nikolaos Valantasis Kanellos
Surrealing in the Years: Protect our cultural history or solve the housing crisis? Neither, thanks
Carl Kinsella
World Autism Month: Life as a Second Language — an excerpt from new book, Wired Our Own Way
Naoise Dolan
Forest fires in Ireland: Preparation requires proper enforcement and the end of old practices
Pádraic Fogarty
Good Friday Agreement: So many families of those who died in the Troubles have been ignored
Emma DeSouza
Parenting: The pearl clutching over hot school lunches is a bit much — at least they're eating
Margaret Lynch
Passenger cap lift: Solar panels at Dublin Airport will not compensate for more people flying
Dr Ola Løkken Nordrum
Sauna and chill: 'As Robin Williams once said, it was hotter than a snake’s ass in a wagon rut'
Niamh O'Reilly
Money Diaries: An audit associate on €31K living in Dublin
TheJournal.ie reader
This month
April 2025
A dad's perspective: I watched Adolescence with my teenage son... here's what I learned
Derek Walsh
Surrealling in the Years: Keep your filthy hands to yourself
Carl Kinsella
Pop music history: 'Women music managers were few and far between'
Dr Michael Murphy
Opinion: School Avoidance is a crisis - here's how we can support children back into education
Marian Quinn
Farewell, Micko: The King is Dead, Long Live the King
Paul Collins
'Liberation Day' and its fallout: Trump thrives on the uncertainty and chaos he's created
Larry Donnelly
World Autism Day: 'My children deserve to be valued by the system for who they are'
Lucinda Murrihy
Opinion: Our focus should not be on 'toxic masculinity', but on why men and boys feel so lost
Dr Chris Luke
Opinion: 'Not only could he not get an appointment, he couldn't get a GP to take him on'
Anonymous
Last month
March 2025
Opinion: Ireland’s islands have a unique and captivating history — we should cherish them
Pamela de Brí
Opinion: This government is determined to turn its back on sustainable forestry in Ireland
Pádraic Fogarty
Money Diaries: A laboratory specialist on €70K living in Dublin
TheJournal.ie reader
Lukashenko: How Europe's last dictator figures in the thawing of US-Russian relations
Sasha Romanova
Mother’s Day: It's not gratitude that's needed, it's an honest conversation about motherhood
Dr Fiona Murphy
Eurovision: Do this year's picks show a continent seeking escapism from the harsh news cycle?
Louise Holst
Surrealing in the Years: Don't worry, they're only telling us to sit down with their fingers
Carl Kinsella
The Motherload: What mums really want for Mother’s Day (hint, it’s not a foot spa)
Niamh O'Reilly
Opinion: At the rate Trump is going, it will be a long four-year term
Emma DeSouza
Bugged out over nits: Are head lice just impossible to get rid of these days?
Niamh O'Reilly
Books: An extract from Róisín Lanigan's new novel, 'I want to go home, but I'm already there'
Róisín Lanigan
Opinion: After 14 years of conflict, Syria's women stand ready to rebuild
Doaa Ghadab & Zeina Ali Bajo
Mental health and physical illness: 'The system turns its back on some patients'
Dr Stephen McWilliams
Money Diaries: An interior designer on €45K living in Leinster
TheJournal.ie reader
Bookshop owner: 'The new Amazon.ie is bad news for Irish bookshops and other SMEs'
Sarah Kenny
Parenting: Buckle up, this is going to get itchy... we're talking threadworms
Margaret Lynch
Fighting for Justice: How Guatemala’s Indigenous communities recover from conflict
Alejandra Castillo
How fragile we are: Why Netflix drama Adolescence is essential viewing for everyone
Debbie Ging
Social Prescribing: What is it all about and how can it help our health?
Liz O'Hagan