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Column: Uganda’s anti-gay law… what can you do?
Paul OKeeffe
24 Dec 2013
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Column: What was Christmas food like in medieval Ireland?
Fin Dwyer
24 Dec 2013
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Column: A disabled person’s view on the charity crisis
Chris Lowe
23 Dec 2013
115
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Column: I volunteer with Samaritans every Christmas. Here's why...
Anonymous Samaritan
23 Dec 2013
419
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Column: Separation and divorce is hard for everyone – especially at Christmas
Bernadette Ryan
22 Dec 2013
771
123
Column: Selfies and the history of self-portrait photography
Kandice Rawlings
22 Dec 2013
616
2
Damien Kiberd: Drop the goody-two-shoes approach to economic policy
Damien Kiberd
22 Dec 2013
115
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Column: Let's look at the full story around social housing in Ireland...
Dr Padraic Kenna
21 Dec 2013
303
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Column: In much of Europe, ‘asylum-seeker’ and ‘refugee’ have become dirty words
Sherif Elsayed-Ali
21 Dec 2013
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Aaron McKenna: A functioning charity sector needs to pay well
Aaron McKenna
21 Dec 2013
118
63
Column: Technology is a double-edged sword – it can both liberate and enslave
Sergiusz Prokurat
20 Dec 2013
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Column: We need to talk about 'The 12 Pubs'
Mick McCarthy
20 Dec 2013
139
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Column: For many this Christmas, loneliness will turn the minutes into hours
Gareth O’Callaghan
19 Dec 2013
82
34
Column: Will the State meaningfully combat racism in Ireland?
James Carr
19 Dec 2013
106
63
Column: Have we become numb to the figures on clerical child abuse?
Mark Vincent Healy
18 Dec 2013
610
45
Column: The tobacco industry promotes a killer product – we should limit all interactions with it
John Crown
18 Dec 2013
156
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Column: Our lack of willingness to promote transparency is damaging developing countries
Morina O’Neill
18 Dec 2013
119
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Column: Thousands of people in Ireland can't afford a basic meal every second day
Emer Costello MEP
17 Dec 2013
239
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Extract: Looking for the farmer of your dreams?
Lorna Sixsmith
17 Dec 2013
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Column: I’ve been the bullied and the bully – and here’s my advice to young people
Clare Hartwieg
17 Dec 2013
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Eamon Ryan: Who really won in the ESB dispute?
Eamon Ryan
16 Dec 2013
375
47
Extract: ‘Soldiers have an affinity with the detainees in Guantanamo. It would be bad to shoot them – it’ll be lethal injection’
Tom Clonan
16 Dec 2013
253
27
Column: This “Ireland as a success story” rhetoric is based on empty spin
Paul Murphy
15 Dec 2013
152
118
Column: Goodbye Mandela. Now it is up to us.
Ruairí McKiernan
15 Dec 2013
72
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Video blog: A brief history – Christmas, cheer, and commercialisation
Katie Varvos
15 Dec 2013
102
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Damien Kiberd: We recover part of our sovereignty - but banks still losing their senses
Damien Kiberd
15 Dec 2013
134
22
Column: How planning can make sure Christmas is fun
Ciara Conlon
14 Dec 2013
48
13
Column: Stargazing for beginners – get the most out of these dark winter nights
Conor Farrell
14 Dec 2013
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29
Aaron McKenna: Reports of drug users shooting up on public transport stops people using the service, not class
Aaron McKenna
14 Dec 2013
72
130
Column: Atheist gatherings take the positive aspects of church like the sense of community and self-reflection
Deirdre McMahon
13 Dec 2013
276
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Column: In a post troika world, we must move our economy away from the failed model of the past
Derek Nolan
13 Dec 2013
28
43
Column: Families who assist their loved ones to die will continue to feel the full wrath of the law if it is not changed
Dr Eimear Spain
13 Dec 2013
146
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Column: We can be the healthy masculinity we wish to see
Carlos Andrés Gómez
13 Dec 2013
153
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Column: Is the work Christmas party past its sell-by date?
Tony Moore
12 Dec 2013
91
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Column: Michael O'Leary turned Santa because he had to
Paul Allen
12 Dec 2013
134
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Column: What’s the future for the Irish language and do politicians want to preserve it?
Seán Mag Leannáin
12 Dec 2013
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128
Column: Heartbreak, misery and cloying sentimentality – the ingredients of any good Christmas song
Kate Bellamy
11 Dec 2013
62
12
Column: One month on from Typhoon Haiyan it’s essential we get people back to work
Clare Ahern
11 Dec 2013
54
2
Column: Our fragile health insurance market faces collapse if age groups aren’t balanced
Patricia Conboy
11 Dec 2013
426
25
Column: ‘I attended Nelson Mandela’s inauguration in 1994 and he will be missed’
Joe Murray
10 Dec 2013
455
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