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Voices

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100 days of hate
'Trump's ban and inflammatory rhetoric have emboldened anti-Muslim behaviour'
Colm O'Gorman
28 Apr 2017
107
79
darkness into light
'I phoned my mother at 4.30am. I couldn't say a word. She brought me to hospital'
Anonymous
28 Apr 2017
610
18
Read Me
'I am genuinely sick worrying how I am going to pay for back to school costs this year'
June Tinsley
28 Apr 2017
189
26
100 days of Trump
'It isn't sustainable for our tax revenues to be so dependent on Washington'
Victor Duggan
27 Apr 2017
276
15
Read Me
Delayed maternity payment: 'It seemed my application had been "forgotten about"'
Nicola Cassidy
27 Apr 2017
5.3k
58
darkness into light
'The hallucinations were 100% real to me. But people were telling me there was nothing there'
Brian Scallan
26 Apr 2017
647
11
un chernobyl day
Adi Roche: 'I'm asking world leaders to help removing and storing Chernobyl's radioactive material'
Adi Roche
26 Apr 2017
464
34
darkness into light
'In my head, I didn't deserve to be helped. I was broken and couldn't be fixed'
Hannah Tyrrell
25 Apr 2017
1.0k
7
column
Drugs: 'How is arresting someone for something that they are addicted to helping?'
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
25 Apr 2017
1.8k
59
darkness into light
'Paul wanted to talk. But there was nobody to talk to'
Patricia Turner
24 Apr 2017
1.7k
33
Irish language
Column: 'The time has come. We demand the opportunity to live our lives through Irish'
Michael McCaughan
24 Apr 2017
1.4k
98
Read Me
'I am so proud that my body was Carragh’s safe haven for those 38 weeks, that it was her home'
Mandy O'Neill
23 Apr 2017
462
96
Read Me
Brain injury: ''Fighting' has become my mission in life since my son Pádraig’s catastrophic accident'
Reinhard Schaler
23 Apr 2017
668
12
column
'Racism isn't always malicious. It can be a white person asking me to “twerk like Beyoncé”'
Angela O
23 Apr 2017
6.0k
115
live a better life
No Facebook, no WhatsApp: Three things we learned from a digital detox
Dermot Heslin and Darren Ryan
22 Apr 2017
4.8k
13
GIY
Gardening: Grow your own ingredients for the Hairy Bikers' cheesy, oniony panhaggerty
Michael Kelly
22 Apr 2017
175
1
Read Me
Changing our county boundaries: 'There is far more at stake than just identity'
Michael Fitzmaurice TD
22 Apr 2017
703
48
First report
100 Days of Trump: 'There has been a great betrayal of vulnerable voters'
Larry Donnelly
22 Apr 2017
420
114
column
Sport snobbery: 'McGregor still has a tough fight if he wants to win over the home crowd'
Lorraine Courtney
21 Apr 2017
142
88
Opinion
'There’s a strong chance the Assembly won’t recommend repealing the Eighth Amendment outright'
Eoin Daly
21 Apr 2017
453
199
Maternity Hospital
Opinion: 'The government won't remove the Church from its authority over social services until we demand it'
Colleen Hennessy
20 Apr 2017
1.1k
64
column
Recycling: 'This can't go on. I want refundable deposits on bottles and cans. It can be done'
Victoria White
19 Apr 2017
1.4k
65
social contract
Opinion: 'What standard of living do people want? What is required to deliver this?'
Dr Seán Healy
19 Apr 2017
935
66
Opinion
Tom Clonan: We need to talk about how unprepared we are for a terror attack
Tom Clonan
18 Apr 2017
1.2k
124
Read Me
Zero-hour contracts: 'Clare has to live with her parents and can't afford to go to the doctor'
Sinead Pembroke
18 Apr 2017
567
54
column
Fitness goals: 'Be specific. Choose something concrete like running 5K in 30 minutes'
Carl Cautley
17 Apr 2017
266
4
column
'If we want to cherish all children equally, stop the subsidies to foreign executives'
Kieran Allen
17 Apr 2017
388
98
Read Me
Psoriatic arthritis: 'It is very much an invisible illness because I look and appear fine'
Sandra Quinn
16 Apr 2017
4.0k
31
column
'Ireland is slowly discarding its age-old loyalty card attitude toward established religions'
Terry Flynn
16 Apr 2017
394
124
Opinion
The case against female-only business groups in 2017
Marion Walshe
16 Apr 2017
301
33
Opinion
'Planners are trying to engage with us and we have a duty to join the conversation'
Carol Tallon
16 Apr 2017
314
11
Opinion
Shane Ross: 'If you could save one person's life, would you?'
Shane Ross
16 Apr 2017
680
70
happy easter
Column: 'I'd like to know the science of the resurrection but my belief goes beyond an empty tomb'
Fr Richard Gibbons
15 Apr 2017
355
170
Read Me
Grow it yourself: Seed sowing tips from our gardening guru
Michael Kelly
15 Apr 2017
758
28
Read Me
Big Little Lies: 'No woman just lets domestic violence happen. But maybe we do'
Lorraine Courtney
15 Apr 2017
1.4k
51
Social Media
'United Airlines forgot the courts of public opinion and law are two very different things'
Fora Staff
15 Apr 2017
508
18
column
Why I'm marching for science: 'The alternative, doing nothing, is unthinkable'
Dr Joseph Roche
14 Apr 2017
174
24
Opinion
Northern Ireland: 'Most people would probably welcome a redrawn border'
Caoimhín De Barra
14 Apr 2017
15.0k
157
Read Me
Luke Ming Flanagan: 'Regulation, like taxes, is only for the little people'
Luke Ming Flanagan
13 Apr 2017
458
56
Opinion
'Tribunals and commissions achieve nothing. They just shield the guilty from prosecution'
William Campbell
12 Apr 2017
444
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