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Don't take a toilet selfie... and everything else I learned from using Tinder
Delta Bravo
Looking for the next step in your career? Here are four tips to make it happen
Jackie Slattery
The secret to building a great business? Hire people you actually want to work with
John Rankin
What will happen when the bed-pledgers are contacted to make good on their promise?
Brian O'Flynn
'Part of you wants to tell someone, but you're afraid of their reaction so you keep it to yourself'
Marie Duffy
This woman has been living in a Galway hospital for three years waiting for her home to be made safe
Maggie Mcginley
Since becoming a dad I've realised what a piddling effort I've made with my friends' babies
Adrian Russell
Raped by her boyfriend while she slept, Niamh Ní Dhomhnail has seen how victims are judged
Niamh Ní Dhomhnail
Getting used to all that freedom, and other advice for new college students...
Larry Donnelly
These are some of the negative effects that broadcasting in court can have
Paul Lambert
Tourists just love Ireland for the craic and friendliness
Damien O'Neil
'Germany is taking in 800,000 refugees, were Ireland proportionally as welcoming, we would take in 40,000'
Donal O'Keeffe
Women will always be judged on appearance, I was told I 'let the side down' by wearing pink
Kate O'Connell
Here's why you need mindfulness and how to bring it into your everyday
Helen Byrne
Have we forgotten a time of 'No blacks, no dogs, no Irish'?
James Dunne
Holidays over for another year? Here are 10 pluses to returning home that will cheer you up
Claire Micks
'I don’t date based on gender, for me, gender doesn't determine attraction'
Oisín McKenna
'We cry about the Magdalene laundries but throw refugees into rat infested holiday camps'
Aaron McKenna
'Photos of Jennifer Aniston and Cindy Crawford highlights 'fat shaming' of women, when will it stop?'
Lorraine Courtney
Young girls are being told who to talk to and where to go by their boyfriends
Alex O'Keefe
'Seeing that boy's body reminded me of my little boy and it broke my heart'
Steve O'Rourke
Ireland's social welfare policy treats us like a country of scroungers
Ray Griffin and Tom Boland
In the wrong job? Here are 6 tips on how to successfully change career
Peter O'Connell
My Dad was a priest so I asked could I call him Daddy? I was told 'just Father like everyone else'
Anonymous
This former soldier says all that shouting and swearing IS needed
Declan Power
Consultant turned tap and pregnant woman told, 'That’s the volume of blood that will gush out of you'
Dil Wickremasinghe
Schizophrenia is not a split personality - there are four main symptoms
Dr Stephen McWilliams
Here's what you need to know about those huge spiders in your house
Billy Flynn
Is work stress following you into the bedroom? Try these 7 tips from a sex therapist
Nuala Deering
The story of the Cork 4-year-old who is the reason First Communion age is now 7
Donal O'Keeffe
'My four year old is ready to start school, but am I?'
Claire Micks
Here's why those 'All American heroes' who stopped the Paris gunman fed into our fantasies
Brian O'Flynn
What I learned... by contracting a deadly tropical disease
Blaine Doyle
Dublin won't save rural Ireland, it needs to grow up and be allowed to save itself
Aaron McKenna
What party will change this country's absurd inequalities? We already know who won’t
Brendan Ogle
The unknown story of the Irish who risked their lives to build the New York underground
Pavel Barter
What were we expecting? For all IRA members to lay down their rifles and work a 9 to 5?
Paul Allen
Do you think the people revealed on Ashley Madison got what they deserve?
Tony Moore
'I fear the lack of confidence I possessed as a girl will hold back my little girl in our masculine culture'
Ethna Quirke
This dietician says gluten is good for you and here's why
Fiachra Duffy