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insights
'When my dad was let go, I remember thinking I never want to be in that situation'
Keith Moran
6 Aug 2017
23.5k
8
Read Me
'It wasn’t hard to decide to run away. FGM was just like death because of the bleeding'
Siobhán McGee
6 Aug 2017
6.7k
31
Opinion
'Irish blasphemy laws are a mild inconvenience. In other parts of the world, they're a matter of life or death'
Mairead McGuinness
6 Aug 2017
5.4k
76
column
Country living: 'We'll always be blow-ins but our sons are locals, and root us here'
Philip Judge
5 Aug 2017
15.4k
12
column
Grow it yourself: 'Onions - a phenomenally useful veg'
Michael Kelly
5 Aug 2017
6.4k
16
Health Fail
HSE system fault: 'We don't need a witch hunt now'
Niall Ó Tuathail
5 Aug 2017
5.7k
44
column
'Our reproductive health laws have come to the attention of the UN Torture Committee'
Niall Behan
4 Aug 2017
16.7k
179
Opinion
Senator Neale Richmond: 'Ireland should ask for a second Brexit referendum'
Neale Richmond
3 Aug 2017
15.0k
108
Opinion
'Move RTÉ outside Dublin and fund it through the sale of the Donnybrook studio'
Marc MacSharry
2 Aug 2017
16.0k
105
development levies
Johnny Healy Rae: 'Kerry farmers work for €2 to €3 an hour with no pension scheme or social welfare'
Johnny Healy Rae
1 Aug 2017
15.3k
121
Opinion
'We should follow Norway and publish everyone’s tax returns online'
Aengus Ó Maoláin
31 Jul 2017
13.0k
64
Read Me
Life on the minimum wage: 'I am on antidepressants to help me cope'
Caitriona O'Neill and William Gallagher
30 Jul 2017
42.8k
185
book extract
Fertility treatment: 'There may be no happy ending, but we wouldn't change anything'
Professor Mary Wingfield
30 Jul 2017
7.5k
15
fake medicine
Opinion: 'Fake medicines are a growing problem, around 7% of the global market'
Leonie Clarke
30 Jul 2017
4.1k
16
peruvian community
'Did you know Roger Casement helped to liberate natives in the Amazon jungle?'
Gianmarco Alvarado
29 Jul 2017
6.8k
43
Gardening
GIY: 'Turnips are perfect for late summer sowing'
Michael Kelly
29 Jul 2017
2.8k
10
Contempt of Court
'We need to protect jurors from attempts to influence them through social media'
Josepha Madigan
29 Jul 2017
4.3k
60
Opinion
Eamon Ryan: 'Electric cars are about to go mainstream in a dramatic way'
Eamon Ryan
28 Jul 2017
19.3k
181
wage equality
Opinion: 'It's easy to attack RTÉ but the pay gap is an issue where you work too'
Lorraine Courtney
26 Jul 2017
11.8k
121
prejudice
Disability: 'Are one in four people that I meet uncomfortable talking to me?'
Keith Hayes
25 Jul 2017
5.4k
22
health equality
Southeast cardiac service: 'Medical argument and simple logic are being ignored'
Matt Shanahan
24 Jul 2017
4.2k
7
insights
'After 10 years I wasn't enjoying the job at all. I was CEO, but I'm a nuts-and-bolts guy'
Jonathan Maliepaard
23 Jul 2017
13.1k
9
Gender Equality
Column: 'Is it possible to be Catholic and a feminist?'
Colleen Hennessy
23 Jul 2017
11.8k
107
east clare by-election 1917
'No victory was more emphatic than East Clare and no candidate more central to history'
Dr Daithí Ó Corráin
23 Jul 2017
5.4k
108
make way campaign
Column: 'We need fines for cars parked on footpaths and for wheelie bins'
Sean O'Kelly
22 Jul 2017
8.1k
56
slug hunting
Gardening: This week, a beer trap for pesky slugs and seasonal soups
Michael Kelly
22 Jul 2017
4.6k
8
national drugs strategy
LGBTI: 'We are pleased to see chemsex included in the National Drugs Strategy'
Adam Shanley
22 Jul 2017
10.5k
50
Opinion
'We're planning for the here-and-now, but we must future-proof our housing system too'
John O'Connor
21 Jul 2017
4.2k
35
Means Testing
Opinion: 'Our free legal aid system is being abused'
John O'Mahony
20 Jul 2017
5.8k
51
khulood
Debate Room: 'Saudi Arabia's dress codes are an affront to individual freedoms'
Caitriona O'Neill and William Gallagher
19 Jul 2017
9.3k
97
Read Me
Column: 'There's nothing for me in Kerry, no job to move home for'
Lorraine Courtney
19 Jul 2017
35.8k
129
climate action
Opinion: 'Just one week after banning fracking, we started drilling for oil'
Caitriona O'Neill and William Gallagher
18 Jul 2017
17.9k
76
column
Home care worker: '€10.10 an hour, no guaranteed hours and no sick leave'
Sinead Pembroke
17 Jul 2017
20.7k
49
a letter to my dad
Alcoholism: 'Dad, I don’t blame you. I never have'
Anonymous
16 Jul 2017
9.6k
55
column
'Education is important. The government should pay us students to go to college'
Declan Lavin
16 Jul 2017
18.8k
98
Opinion
'If you go to Pamplona to be chased by a bull, you’re participating in his long, painful death'
Grace McKeown
16 Jul 2017
3.9k
52
Read Me
J1 summer: 'I could be making more of my privilege, but I'm having an incredible time'
Donal MacNamee
15 Jul 2017
9.5k
70
elderflower cordial recipe
Gardening: Forage elderflowers now for a fresh, blossom-infused cordial
Michael Kelly
15 Jul 2017
5.6k
18
Read Me
'To The Bone does not elevate disordered eating behaviours as something to aspire to'
Barry Murphy
15 Jul 2017
2.1k
7
Analysis
However you might feel about internships, employers say they use them to spot new hires
Mark Mitchell
15 Jul 2017
2.3k
15
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