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Voices

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Soldiers, sailors, diplomats: The forgotten Irish who changed Latin America
Tim Fanning
30 Dec 2016
549
5
Opinion: People living in rural Ireland cannot blame Dublin for the empty towns and villages
Shay Kelleher
29 Dec 2016
3.3k
133
'Marry me, so we don’t break up': The political proposals of 2016 that got it all wrong
Eoghan McDermott
29 Dec 2016
155
1
'It's not cancer, is it?' Jo Malone on the health scare that changed her life
Jo Malone
28 Dec 2016
4.4k
8
Syria's proxy war: 'The Irish government must call in the US and Russian ambassadors'
Jim Roche
28 Dec 2016
606
64
Hunger strikes, murders, and a war on terror: Ireland in 1976
Eamon Sweeney
28 Dec 2016
755
29
Irish in London: ‘Brexit and Trump made me feel less welcome in the UK’
Ruairí O'Grady
28 Dec 2016
602
58
'After Trump and Brexit, the centre ground of Irish politics shouldn't take their position for granted in 2017'
Larry Donnelly
27 Dec 2016
497
92
Women of 1916: 'Producers and organisers continue to assemble manels to tell us our grandmothers' stories'
Felicity Hayes-McCoy
27 Dec 2016
193
25
Executions, murder, and secrecy: The story of the notorious Cork jail Sing Sing
Gerard Murphy
27 Dec 2016
11.2k
7
Cavan Footballer Alan O'Mara on Depression: 'Why couldn’t I enjoy my Christmas?'
Alan O'Mara
27 Dec 2016
1.0k
19
Back to School: 'I was broke and suffered from depression, which I drowned out with alcohol'
Conor Reynolds
26 Dec 2016
233
14
GIY Chicory: Bring some colour to your vegetable patch and a bite to your salad bowls
Michael Kelly
26 Dec 2016
436
Kevin Barry: 'Sometimes writing no longer seems like the thing I do, it seems like the thing I am'
Kevin Barry
25 Dec 2016
4.7k
5
A Jewish 'Christmas': 'I suppose my mother had explained the cross-cultural situation to Santa Claus'
Melanie Brown
25 Dec 2016
240
13
An Irishman in Chile: 'This Christmas I will create my own memories and start my own traditions'
Brendan Farrell
25 Dec 2016
378
6
An American Christmas in Ireland: 'My ancestors could have said 'Amen' in this cathedral'
Justus Flair
24 Dec 2016
187
24
It's planned the first supervised injecting facility will open in 2017. So how did we get here?
Tony Duffin
24 Dec 2016
288
34
An Atheist Christmas: 'You can do Christmas even if you don't do god'
Ray Leonard
24 Dec 2016
2.7k
155
Caring at Christmas: 'I try to remember what my husband was like before he got sick but it gets harder'
Annie McGuinness
23 Dec 2016
253
20
Baby's First Christmas: 'Flashing lights, less routine, Care Doc, commotion and crabbiness'
Benny Finlay (aka Daddy Poppins)
23 Dec 2016
286
2
Christmas in Gaza: 'Mortars and missiles fly overhead; from Gaza into Israel, from Israel into Gaza'
Eoghan Rice
23 Dec 2016
674
144
A diplomatic Christmas: Ambassadors to Ireland explain what the big day means to them
Caitriona O'Neill and William Gallagher
22 Dec 2016
144
4
Column: How to get through Christmas if you're recovering from an eating disorder
Cora McEvoy
22 Dec 2016
1.1k
Apollo House Occupation: 'A well-intentioned but deeply flawed and patronising solution'
David O'Brien
22 Dec 2016
149
134
Karl Melvin: 'How to survive your family if things are more toxic than festive'
Karl Melvin
22 Dec 2016
576
5
Festive FOMO: 'Nobody is going to take a photo of a singed Christmas ham'
Amy Plant
21 Dec 2016
350
15
Hypocrisy: Should atheists lie to their children about Santa Claus?
Grace Vaughan
21 Dec 2016
2.3k
149
Christmas with depression: 'Even putting on clothes can be hard when there’s a lingering dark cloud'
Úna-Minh Kavanagh
20 Dec 2016
482
19
Tom Clonan: After a bloody year, all signs suggest 2017 will bring more of these lone wolf terror attacks
Tom Clonan
20 Dec 2016
113
54
Christmas after losing your Dad: 'I'm trying to accept the suddenness and unfairness of it'
Vicky Kavanagh
19 Dec 2016
8.8k
40
Column: 'It would be lunacy for the UK to proceed with Article 50 notice before agreeing terms'
Neil McCann
19 Dec 2016
196
56
Mibuna: The mustardy Japanese leaf that's super easy to grow
Michael Kelly
17 Dec 2016
8.0k
9
Tom Clonan: 'A Syrian solution will involve a pact with devils such as Bashar al Assad and others'
Tom Clonan
16 Dec 2016
182
92
Children in care: 'How many Government ministers would throw their children out at 18?'
Robbie Gilligan
15 Dec 2016
3.3k
27
Debate Room: Do we need gender quotas in sporting bodies?
Caitriona O'Neill and William Gallagher
14 Dec 2016
793
61
'If you are in favour of human rights, you must want them for everyone - including prisoners'
Frankie Gaffney
14 Dec 2016
2.0k
109
Eoin Ó Broin TD: 'Minister Coveney failed struggling renters yesterday'
Eoin Ó Broin
14 Dec 2016
295
93
Living in an Iron Lung: 'It was a long, airtight coffin-shaped box with my head sticking out at one end'
Jim Costello
11 Dec 2016
32.7k
26
'Being an entrepreneur is lonely. It's a bit like surfing - instinctive and solitary'
Ashleigh Smith
11 Dec 2016
233
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