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Tribute: Kevin Flatley's death has shocked and saddened all of us in the extended Garda family
John O'Brien
Yesterday
11th May 2025
Jews against Zionism: 'What Israel has done in Gaza is barbaric - I'll never support it'
Ria Czerniak-LeBov
Money Diaries: Everything feeling expensive? Would you like to keep a diary for us?
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Opinion: Normalising the corporate funding of higher education in Ireland is a dangerous game
Jennie C Stephens & Conchur O Maonaigh
Last week
4th May 2025 - 10th May 2025
Parenting: Your child doing Junior or Leaving Cert? Sending thoughts and prayers...
Margaret Lynch
Johnny Fallon: The EBU is caught between a rock and a hard place when it comes to Israel
Johnny Fallon
Analysis: We're still not used to diversity in Ireland's electoral system
Dr Iker Erdocia
Opinion: David Attenborough's new film delivers a stark message about the world's oceans
Jack O’Donovan Trá
Fr Tony Flannery: We will know fairly quickly if this new pope is a reformer or not
Tony Flannery
Sweathouse: ‘People love this,’ she says, scrubbing the inside of my armpit
Rosanna Cooney
Opinion: Trans lives aren’t black and white, our conversations about them shouldn’t be either
Carol Ballantine
Money Diaries: A paralegal on $26/hr who moved to New York last year
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Dr Chris Luke: It's high time we talked about Ketamine
Dr Chris Luke
This month
May 2025
Opinion: Irish people being against immigration is like Brazilian people being against football
Peter Flanagan
Surrealing in the Years: Kneecap are NOT the story. And yet.
Carl Kinsella
Niamh O'Reilly: Are we becoming more dog friendly than child friendly?
Niamh O'Reilly
Opinion: Can the US still call itself the 'land of the free' while targeting legal residents?
Larry Donnelly
Aoife Martin: We are living through a moral panic about trans people
Aoife Martin
Bealtaine in Ireland: May Day rituals for a world on fire
Dr Fiona Murphy
Last month
April 2025
Gary Gannon: Grafton and Dawson Streets don't need regeneration, they're already gleaming
Gary Gannon
Opinion: Ireland has a dirty fossil fuel secret, supported by our FDI model and weak regulation
Caoimhe de Barra & Karol Balfe
Canada elections: A stunning comeback for the Liberals, but more uncertainty ahead
Dr Seána Glennon
Opinion: Ireland is changing — our schools need to change with it
Jen Cummins
Parkinson's: The gut-brain axis provides food for thought in the treatment of this disease
Oonagh O’Hagan
Opinion: Despite a welcome change in tone, it was business as usual under Pope Francis
Dr Mary McAuliffe
Money Diaries: An HR specialist on €78K living in Dublin
TheJournal.ie reader
Opinion: Ireland has much to learn when it comes to treating and valuing all people equally
Derval McDonagh
Surrealing in the Years: Ireland and the world at large descending into Dan Brown farce
Carl Kinsella
Dog behaviourist: Why it’s time to treat dogs more like children — not just animals
Suzi Walsh
Opinion: Farewell to The Climate Pope, who died during Earth Week
Dr Catherine Conlon
Parenting: Bed rotting — is it any wonder people want to 'take to the bed'?
Margaret Lynch
Opinion: Michael O'Brien's intervention was a watershed moment in our reckoning with abuse
Dr Sinéad Ring
Bobby McDonagh: To avert our eyes from Gaza would be a moral travesty
Bobby McDonagh
Just Stop Oil ends direct action: Being hated somehow worked for this climate campaign group
George Ferns
Opinion: AI is changing how we connect – but we still need each other as human beings
Finian Murphy
Next Pope: How the power base of the Church shifted (and why we won't see an Irish Pope emerge)
Michael Kelly
Fr Tony Flannery: I loved that man and that Pope — I will miss him
Tony Flannery
Trump’s America: Believe it or not, he's not always the main topic of conversation stateside
Larry Donnelly
Money Diaries: A healthcare worker preparing for retirement in the South East of the country
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Doctor: We need to talk about health insurance...
Domhnall McGlacken-Byrne