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Voices

All time
'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
'If someone requires an app to prove legal consent then you shouldn’t be having sex with them'
Filomena Kaguako
28 Apr 2018
46.9k
88
GIY: Courgettes are easy to grow and incredibly prolific, growing freakishly fast
Michael Kelly
28 Apr 2018
18.3k
19
'Building walls will not solve this problem. Neither can the EU provide a home for everyone'
Brian Hayes
28 Apr 2018
17.1k
68
'Between the doctor, antibiotics and the four days off, it was €600 that I will never see again'
Sinead Pembroke
27 Apr 2018
64.0k
55
'It wasn't about anything that happened in my life, it was about the black hole'
Rebecca McInerney
26 Apr 2018
27.8k
7
Most children born now will live to 100, so how do we prepare for an older population?
Dominic Campbell
26 Apr 2018
104k
81
'There are two choices: stay in Dublin and pay the price or leave Dublin and pay the price'
Colm Boohig
26 Apr 2018
322k
123
Have we broken the ocean?: 'Read the ingredient list before you buy your next batch of toiletries'
Professor Gordon Chambers
25 Apr 2018
25.4k
17
'Sarah Jane would like to live independently with support. No such service or plan is possible'
Suzy Byrne
24 Apr 2018
14.9k
8
'I'm getting better about ignoring the black dog, I've locked him outside and I haven't fed him in years'
Stephen Considine
23 Apr 2018
39.6k
18
Opinion: 'We need funding for councils to go house to house and check the status of the voters'
Sinéad Halpin
23 Apr 2018
15.3k
35
Column: 'Don’t judge a commuting parent. Smile at that noisy toddler'
Geraldine Walsh
22 Apr 2018
32.0k
44
Deep Atlantic: 'If you can’t stand up, what's the difference between two and two thousand metres'
Ken O'Sullivan
22 Apr 2018
35.9k
13
Fix it like Finland: 'Nowadays there isn’t a single rough sleeper on Helsinki streets'
Jack Maguire
22 Apr 2018
156k
73
Deleting Facebook: 'I wouldn’t date someone who wasn't on Facebook. They have secrets'
Amanda Geard
21 Apr 2018
59.3k
65
GIY: 'We really don’t need a heatwave – just a few days with the sun in the sky'
Michael Kelly
21 Apr 2018
18.6k
8
'Access to third level isn't on merit. It's a lottery based on which family you were born into'
Paul Gavan
21 Apr 2018
28.3k
96
Vaccines: 'Those of us from an earlier era must speak out to stop little lives being wrecked'
Dr Ida Milne
20 Apr 2018
148k
108
Kilkenny mosque debate: 'This could become dangerous. Tensions could escalate'
Malcolm Noonan
19 Apr 2018
89.9k
206
Womenomics: 7 steps to make gender equality the new normal
Victor Duggan
18 Apr 2018
19.5k
79
Rate my rape list: 'I'm angry at the silence of the men of Ireland'
Cliona Saidlear
17 Apr 2018
96.0k
180
Get ready world: 'Trump’s posturing is even more inconsistent and incoherent than Obama's'
Larry Donnelly
16 Apr 2018
31.5k
36
'My biggest regret is not reporting my rape. My rapist has a comfortable life with a wife and kids'
Morgan Barbour
15 Apr 2018
259k
112
Magdalene Laundries: 'Memorial needed for women detained under heartless, vicious regime'
Mary Lou McDonald
15 Apr 2018
17.0k
78
'Our parish universe straddled two counties and two States. We forged an identity as borderers'
Darach MacDonald
15 Apr 2018
15.5k
15
Column: So you think adoption has nothing to do with you?
Paul Redmond
15 Apr 2018
32.8k
44
An immigrant fits in: 'I added 'sh' sounds to words and repeated the phrase 'Bono is a pox''
Laura Gerulyte Griffin
14 Apr 2018
112k
89
In the garden: 'I find that my system is craving fresh greens after a long winter'
Michael Kelly
14 Apr 2018
11.5k
6
Why I'd pull up a deckchair, skive off work and queue in the rain to buy a house
Paul Hosford
14 Apr 2018
28.5k
61
Women in sport: 'We press pause on our lives, sacrificing friends, family and career'
Ailis Egan
14 Apr 2018
18.1k
43
Rape myths: 'Sexual assaults are traumatic. Incoherencies in the victims' accounts are inescapable'
Ciaran McCullagh
13 Apr 2018
29.0k
48
Are we about to see the opening shots of a third world war? Hopefully cool heads will prevail
Tom Clonan
12 Apr 2018
86.4k
119
Bliain na Gaeilge: 'My mother made a choice to speak to us in her mother tongue'
Róisín O’Hara
12 Apr 2018
20.9k
50
Opinion: 'We don't need more leaflets from Teagasc. We don't need grants to build more sheds'
Pippa Hackett
11 Apr 2018
12.5k
37
D4 accents: 'Yes, kids speak differently from their parents. But why should this be a bad thing?'
Prof Vera Regan
10 Apr 2018
10.9k
120
Peter Hain: 'The UK government is playing a dangerous game with the peace process'
Peter Hain
9 Apr 2018
1.8k
34
Opinion: How is it legal for schools to refuse to set up special classes?
Graham Manning
9 Apr 2018
5.1k
57
Column: 'We waited for three hours on the side of the road in the dark and cold. I'm sick of it'
Linda Byrne
8 Apr 2018
1.3k
40
Marriage has some very tasty tax benefits attaching to it: Here's how to claim them
John Lowe
8 Apr 2018
36.5k
60
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