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I was led to believe there was 'no future' with with my diagnosis. Well, I beg to differ.
Corina Duyn
There’s no shame in redundancy – hold your head high and try again
Peter O'Connell
We must challenge myths about females in IT (before girls start applying for college)
Ciara Heavin, Gaye Kiely and Patricia Lynch
Did social media really turn 'No' votes to a 'Yes'?
Kevin McPartland
Inside the Night Cafe: 'People are just so relieved to be indoors for the night'
Mark Kennedy
An average of 137 people drown in Ireland each year - how to protect yourself
Graham Kerr
Forget your preconceptions – this is what social anxiety is really like
William Dunphy
The weather's getting better – finally! – so it's time to get stuck into the vegetable patch
Michael Kelly
Ireland and the UK should double team the EU on tax
Aaron McKenna
Young people are powerful. Let's harness our newfound voting spirit to change Ireland.
Eoin Neylon
"The Rohingya people are seen as a group to be eliminated"
Mary Lawlor
5 reasons you should go to Bloom this weekend
Kevin Dennis
'Averil did us an amazing disservice and I feel like her inconvenient truth'
Paul McAuliffe
Nepal earthquake survivor: 'More than anything now, the women need safety'
Gyaneshwori Thapa
Whatever about What Averil Did Next, what about the future of the Soldiers of Destiny?
Donal O'Keeffe
Meeting a food hero who once only served food grown in a prison garden
Michael Kelly
"In that moment, looking 'gay' no longer felt like a negative thing. It no longer felt dangerous."
Christine Allen
To shape a fairer Africa in the next 50 years, we must listen to women
Gillian Wylie
I salute the gluten-free trend (but let’s recognise real coeliacs from the fashion followers)
Emma Clarke Conway
The New Parenting: Nowadays, are mum and dad the ones seen and not heard?
Claire Micks
This referendum will be remembered as a victory for equality, democracy and love
Laurence Davis
'Ireland's maternity units are facing chronic and dangerous understaffing'
Sinéad Redmond
What an extraordinary, historic and momentous day for Ireland
Larry Donnelly
Mad Max: Fury Road – this generation may have found its Ellen Ripley
Darren Mooney
The 'gay cake' row and freedom of speech: Being offended isn't a right
Aaron McKenna
Open letter to Ban Ki-Moon: 'Ireland’s commitments to human rights are being weakened '
Michael O’Flaherty
'My life in Ireland is the normal tapestry of pleasure and pain – but the good far outweighs any bad'
Thabi Madide
It’s not scaremongering to look at the bioethical implications of the marriage referendum
Louise Doris
'My experience in Ireland has been quite simply incredible'
Niwel Tsumbu
I get annoyed when it is assumed that older people in rural Ireland will vote No
Mamo McDonald
'Children are being targeted by snipers and civilians shot in the street'
David Adams
That handshake was a publicity coup for Sinn Fein – why were the opposition missing in action?
Paul Allen
The story of us: "I have never felt luckier or like I was on a bigger adventure"
Caitriona O'Neill and William Gallagher
'The marriage referendum proposal could affect future laws relating to children'
Eileen King
What are the economics of same-sex marriage?
Daragh McGreal
That 'other referendum' could bridge a gap between the Irish and English versions of our Constitution
Barry Ward
It's official: I've found my first grey hair... The inevitable is happening.
Christine Allen
We're being short-changed by the 'other referendum'
Oliver Moran
I don’t want to 'lose' my stutter – I want to be someone who accomplishes great things, and also stutters
Simon Walsh
What I've learned through my career as a counsellor
Maeve Halpin