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Column: The 'Mammy Wars' – do we judge each others' choices?
Andrea Mara
18 Mar 2014
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Column: In our daily lives, we can form powerful campaign groups to demand change
Oliver Tattan
17 Mar 2014
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Column: Mental health traffic lights (or, an easy way to answer 'how are you?')
Fiona Kennedy
17 Mar 2014
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Column: Autism – moving beyond labels and limits
Karen O’Connor
17 Mar 2014
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Column: Radical change on the way for (some) unmarried fathers
Margot Doherty
16 Mar 2014
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Column: Going to see with the pirates... memories of an early Phantom FM
Richie McCormack
16 Mar 2014
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Damien Kiberd: The real reason why Frank Flannery's head was served up on a plate
Damien Kiberd
16 Mar 2014
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Column: In Irish America, there’s far more to the celebration of St Patrick’s Day than parades
Larry Donnelly
15 Mar 2014
69
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Column: Three years into civil war, families deprived of food are forced to eat stray cats
Peter Power
15 Mar 2014
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Column: Relationship and sex education should be consistently provided in all schools
Aaron McKenna
15 Mar 2014
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Column: There's a viral spread of increasingly restrictive laws curtailing human rights
Mary Lawlor
14 Mar 2014
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Column: How we lost St Patrick's Day
Paul Allen
14 Mar 2014
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Column: The strength of our 'Irishness' lies in our differences
David Burns
14 Mar 2014
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Column: Sadness has always been a part of living, we need to accept that
Dr Keith Gaynor
13 Mar 2014
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Column: The Troika created a social experiment – and Ireland was the unlucky lab rat
Nessa Childers
13 Mar 2014
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Column: 'Singing together, standing equally, our backgrounds didn't matter'
Aisling McCormick
13 Mar 2014
213
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Column: Is anybody interested in the silent destruction of our communities?
Dr Rory Hearne
12 Mar 2014
159
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Column: Ancient brewing in Ireland and the legacy it left behind
Reuben Gray
12 Mar 2014
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Column: There are fewer bankruptcies than expected so far this year. Why?
Anthony Joyce and Karl Deeter
12 Mar 2014
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Column: Until imbalance is deliberately corrected, women won’t be attracted into politics
John Verling
11 Mar 2014
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Column: Passionate or possessive? Shakira forbidden from appearing in videos with men
Lisa McInerney
11 Mar 2014
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Column: New thinking about tackling extreme deprivation in Europe
Emer Costello MEP
11 Mar 2014
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Column: What does it mean to be an Irish American today?
Sean Dunne
10 Mar 2014
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Column: Poverty cannot be eradicated in a world where gender discrimination exists
Rosamond Bennett
10 Mar 2014
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Column: It's unrealistic to expect oppression to disappear overnight, but we now have hope
David Carroll
10 Mar 2014
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Extract: A divorce or break-up is much like a bereavment
Helen Collins
9 Mar 2014
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Column: I call bulls*** when people say to me 'we only ever see you at election time'
The Secret Candidate
9 Mar 2014
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Damien Kiberd: Why are the Irish not more critical of the EU?
Damien Kiberd
9 Mar 2014
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Column: Music and austerity – how do we express the time we live in?
Toner Quinn
8 Mar 2014
143
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Column: Today let's celebrate, recognise, and show solidarity with the women and girls
Bernadette Crawford
8 Mar 2014
132
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Column: A tribute to Margaret Hinchey, one of Ireland's most remarkable daughters
Liam Hogan
8 Mar 2014
375
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Column: Awarding top athletes extra CAO points makes total sense
Aaron McKenna
8 Mar 2014
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Fine Gael chair: This government needs to implement dynamic political reform
Charlie Flanagan TD
7 Mar 2014
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Column: Paddy Power’s ‘Oscar Time’ gets a guilty verdict in the court of public opinion
Alan Tyrrell
7 Mar 2014
82
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Column: Irish financial consumers are bewildered, frightened and angry
Noeline Blackwell
7 Mar 2014
111
13
Column: Ireland can't replicate the US shale gas boom – and it shouldn't try
John O'Donnell
6 Mar 2014
281
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Column: We are not approaching a homeless crisis, we are here – the crisis is underway
Catherine Murphy TD
6 Mar 2014
64
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Column: Bye, Bye Babycinno – why I'm ditching my child's favourite treat
Claire Micks
6 Mar 2014
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Column: Are you frustrated by the number of 'gay' stories in the media? Then read on ...
Christine Allen
5 Mar 2014
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Column: I’ve been involved in politics since before I could vote – but it's still a man’s world
Emer Higgins
5 Mar 2014
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