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Voices

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'I'm not amoral, not stupid, and not promiscuous. I took every precaution. I still got pregnant'
Anonymous
18 May 2018
61.6k
241
Maria Walsh: 'It might be a questioning glance or a curt refusal to shake my hand'
Maria Walsh
17 May 2018
42.2k
20
Column: 'Why did I fall so hard? Why did I make myself so vulnerable to him?'
Patricia Tsouros
16 May 2018
38.5k
39
Replacing Phil Hogan: 'Other countries have a different attitude and send their elite'
Dominic Hannigan
15 May 2018
33.3k
58
It's been a worrying two weeks - but please don't stop getting smear tests
Prof Donal Brennan
14 May 2018
19.4k
12
Column: 'We are haemorrhaging €5-6bn per year to pay for expensive and dirty fuels'
Grattan Healy
14 May 2018
38.3k
168
Justice Minister: 'I have seen many women shake with fear of not being believed by a Garda or a court'
Charlie Flanagan TD
13 May 2018
47.5k
48
Column: 'We are ill. We are not faking this illness. It is not in our heads'
Corina Duyn
13 May 2018
141k
59
Brian Merriman: 'Identity theatre is always relevant'
Brian Merriman
13 May 2018
14.2k
2
Sharon Donnery: 'There were no female role models, no one I could aspire to be like'
Sharon Donnery
13 May 2018
28.5k
74
'I was the first of my family to go to university and this week I paid off the last of my loan'
Gavin Nugent
12 May 2018
73.3k
26
Chickweed: 'Not only is it edible, it’s considered to be a nutritional powerhouse'
Michael Kelly
12 May 2018
30.4k
8
Column: 'I was lucky, but women's healthcare must not come down to luck'
Stephanie Regan
12 May 2018
13.6k
22
Larry Donnelly: 'There is a definite sense that the net is tightening around Donald Trump'
Larry Donnelly
11 May 2018
68.8k
76
'I was nine weeks pregnant when I took an abortion pill - after staring at it for hours'
Anonymous
10 May 2018
182k
292
Column: 'Farmers are asking 'where’s my share of this economic boom?''
Richard Moeran
9 May 2018
21.1k
47
'I look at my kids and I think there is so much I would have missed had I gone through with it'
Christy Galligan
8 May 2018
23.0k
4
Floundering forests: The challenges facing the Irish forestry industry
Dermot McNally
8 May 2018
29.5k
29
Borderline Personality Disorder: 'My emotions are overwhelming and almost impossible to regulate'
Lucie Kavanagh
7 May 2018
85.0k
20
Standoffs with scorpions: The reality of filming in Sub-Saharan Africa
Brian Gray
7 May 2018
25.4k
4
'I'm 27. I'm living at home. Going through the same hall door since I was in a school uniform'
Nicola Quinn
7 May 2018
161k
148
'Mad, loony, mental, psycho or schizo': Behind every mental health diagnosis is a person
Nicola Hampson
6 May 2018
68.8k
14
'As Ireland prepares for its referendum, I'm in the middle of another divisive campaign'
Kieran Duffy
6 May 2018
28.8k
1
'There are days I don’t speak to another grown-up. Online chats keep me going'
Andrea Mara
6 May 2018
28.7k
15
The past isn't the past, it's not even over: We can't discard Junior Cert History
John Connell
5 May 2018
66.6k
41
Alison Curtis: 'I don't sound Irish - but don't tell me to go back to Canada'
Alison Curtis
5 May 2018
193k
130
Bio-insecticide Supernemos: 'Sometimes GIYing is not for the faint hearted'
Michael Kelly
5 May 2018
11.7k
1
‘You might see a successful business and fancy having a go, but you rarely see the sacrifices made’
Catriona Coyle
5 May 2018
15.0k
6
Opinion: 'The DUP has a talent for fusing bungled governance with election success'
Thomas Muinzer
5 May 2018
15.7k
25
Dr Anthony O'Connor: 'It’s not about your rage or sorrow, deputies. It's about what we do next'
Dr Anthony O'Connor
4 May 2018
32.9k
35
'The nurses asked how we planned to keep him cold. This wasn't something we were prepared for'
Anonymous
4 May 2018
133k
185
'He told us his head was melted. The help didn't come quick enough'
Aiveen Cully-Dunne
3 May 2018
56.7k
7
Column: Do we really need mandatory standardised testing in primary schools?
Peter Gunning
3 May 2018
32.5k
23
Roisin Shortall: 'Harvesting the personal data of children for marketing purposes is repugnant'
Róisín Shortall
2 May 2018
10.2k
12
'I never thought I'd end up at a funeral at 18 watching everyone in my school break down'
Rachel O'Neill
1 May 2018
68.9k
7
Sugar Tax: Nanny State gone mad or a step in the right direction?
Sarah O'Brien
1 May 2018
20.0k
89
Paschal Donohoe: 'Our stance on bankers' pay has remained unchanged. This is the right thing to do'
Paschal Donohoe
30 Apr 2018
21.1k
55
My unplanned homebirth: 'You can’t help but think "what if?"'
Jessica O'Neill
29 Apr 2018
29.9k
23
Column: 'In 1857 Patrick Sheehan was arrested for begging on Grafton St'
Tom Hurley
29 Apr 2018
21.9k
8
'She was frantic, her boyfriend had assaulted her and was going to make her do sex work'
Tony Duffin
29 Apr 2018
62.4k
19
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