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Column: ‘You need passion to be an inventor’
Jane Ni Dhulchaointigh
Column: Let’s get real – Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil should be in coalition
Aaron McKenna
Opinion: There should be no debate – artists need money, says Dorothy Cross
Dorothy Cross
Column: This wasn’t the Middle Ages, Bishop Kirby, it was the 1990s
Lisa McInerney
Column: Watching my parents cope with long-term unemployment
Shaun Dunne
Column: Everybody seems to be leaving, but what about those of us left?
Stefanie Preissner
Read Me: The shoes we walk in - being disabled in Ireland
Ann Kennedy
Column: Why the Leaving Cert as we know it is redundant, by a headmaster
Arthur Godsil
Column: How my home is welcoming people back from around the world
John Collins
Nick Leeson: This is what I wish for my daughter
Nick Leeson
Read Me: 'I'm unique' - Joanne O'Riordan on a life without limbs
Joanne O'Riordan
Sitdown Sunday: 7 deadly reads
Michael Freeman
Column: Lingerie football? Our real sporting heroines deserve limelight first
Niamh O'Mahony
Column: Here’s why I directed an opera about IKEA flatpack furniture
Conor Hanratty
Column: Why do Irish people have a special relationship with ice cream?
Kieran Murphy
Column: Have we lost the ambition that put a man on the moon?
Aaron McKenna
Column: Hurricane Isaac should make us think seriously about climate change
Gavin Harte
Column: ‘I will miss you’ – a mum writes to her son starting school
Deborah McCarthy
Column: ‘People speak to me like I’m ET’ – why social labelling is a problem
Adam Harris
Column: Surely Loyalist marchers want a better image than this?
Dr David McCann
Column: Why politics and music aren’t a million miles apart, by Paul Gogarty
Paul Gogarty
Column: Ireland needs to become a fully secular state
Nathan Wheeler & Sean Cassidy
Column: The horrible consequences of telling men how 'real' men behave
Lisa McInerney
Interview: 'Citizenship I learnt from my father': Robert Ballagh on life & politics
Robert Ballagh
Sitdown Sunday: 7 deadly reads
Michael Freeman
Column: Homesickness - the emigrant's burden
Mark Boyle
Column: Tantrums, taunts & bills - the struggle of sending kids back to school
Lesley Anderson
Column: Breivik's victims have been largely forgotten during his trial
Ciara Galvin
Column: What a death row inmate had to teach Irish teens
Tony Griffin
Column: I'm not just from Cloyne, not just from Cork, not just a hurler. Not just a gay man.
Donal Óg Cusack
Column: Airport debacle shows how unions have lost touch with workers
Aaron McKenna
Column: Pretending this mortgage crisis isn't happening won't make it go away
Noeline Blackwell
Column: The Leaving Cert ‘points race’ is bad – but it’s better than alternatives
Joanna Tuffy
Column: GM crops aren’t just about science – this is a political decision
Fergal Anderson
Column: Sinn Féin's policies ARE aligned across Ireland
Phil Flanagan
Column: Forget about our ‘economic sovereignty’ – let’s look at what matters
Ronan Lyons
Column: I was raped and wouldn’t have chosen abortion – but we need a choice
Hazel Katherine Larkin
Column: You know what? Doing time does help you move on in life.
Nick Leeson
Column: Getting married will change my life… but no plastic willies, thanks
Molly Garboden
Column: How to stop crises becoming disasters
Anne O'Mahony