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Voices

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'My interactions with Minister Fitzgerald have raised concerns about her willingness to be transparent'
Catherine Murphy TD
11 May 2017
102
44
'HIQA does not yet have the legal mandate to assess the services of the most vulnerable'
Phelim Quinn
11 May 2017
625
15
Column: 'Everybody else seemed to 'get' life. I was lost, so lost, and tired of not feeling okay'
Neil Kelders
10 May 2017
6.5k
29
'We still don't know how the government will ensure an autonomous maternity hospital'
Jason O'Sullivan
10 May 2017
277
53
'If Theresa May holds on to power, it will be the end of the NHS and the welfare state'
Rob Winkel
9 May 2017
341
66
'There was nothing gained from punishing women who couldn't afford the morning after pill'
Kate O'Connell
8 May 2017
562
81
Opinion: 'Ireland could lead the way in developing new human-centred approaches to drug use'
Dr John Collins
8 May 2017
456
15
'I used to have dreams when he was little about him walking and talking. I would wake up sobbing'
Tracy McGinnis
7 May 2017
643
14
'Three doctors recently claimed saturated fat doesn't clog arteries. Their claim doesn't stand up'
Janis Morrissey
7 May 2017
708
81
'If there was a creator of the universe, it wouldn't need its feelings protected by Dermot Ahern'
Michael Nugent
7 May 2017
937
202
Religion in schools: 'My son comes home saying things like, 'God makes it rain''
Caitriona O'Neill and William Gallagher
7 May 2017
15.0k
420
Gluten-free life: 'It's disheartening when gluten-free diets are slammed by the media as a fad'
Aoife O’Neill
6 May 2017
1.3k
47
Fancy a nettle tea? Spring nettles are abundant right now and have lots of health benefits
Michael Kelly
6 May 2017
1.1k
25
Teachers' pay: 'Less interest will mean lower CAO points and new teachers of lower standards'
Cionnaith Ó Duibhir
6 May 2017
440
118
Welfare cheat?: 'I have an acquaintance who claimed the dole. There was no other way to afford university'
Gavin Mendel-Gleason
5 May 2017
2.3k
164
'There is a long history of intermingling of church and State funds with respect to St Vincent's'
Elizabeth Fitzgerald
4 May 2017
1.1k
22
'When doctors and their loved ones are patients in hospital, the health insurance form tends to get signed'
Anonymous
3 May 2017
1.2k
39
'We're facing a crisis if the new South Korean government acts without US approval'
Dr Dong-Jin Kim
2 May 2017
348
13
Column: 'I became labelled as my mental illness. I was ridiculed and excluded'
Siobhán Brady
1 May 2017
661
17
Column: 'Shakespeare’s solo authorship of certain plays remains in question'
Rory Loughnane
1 May 2017
710
13
'In 1845, Douglass had dinner with the Lord Mayor. Today he'd be put in direct provision'
Donal O'Kelly
1 May 2017
273
37
Maia Dunphy: 'I’d feel my IBS coming on like a spasm and I’d have to go home'
Maia Dunphy
30 Apr 2017
5.1k
60
'We kicked ourselves for not expanding during the boom, but it would have crippled us'
Fergal Doyle
30 Apr 2017
1.8k
3
'Declan Murphy dies in horror fall': The jockey writes about that fall, reading his own obituary and his long recovery
Declan Murphy and Ami Rao
30 Apr 2017
1.8k
7
Column: 'Trump's speech style has become more presidential and a lot less fun'
Amy Rose Harte
30 Apr 2017
142
45
'Literally every day during the recession I'd come in and check how much cash we had'
Paschal Naylor
30 Apr 2017
493
5
Stigma: 'When a doctor can say to you when filling out a sick cert: "Will I just put depression, or…?"'
Jen Ronan
29 Apr 2017
4.1k
61
When to use horticultural fleece: 'The Irish spring can bite you in the bum'
Michael Kelly
29 Apr 2017
1.7k
2
Opinion: 'The State should pay for mothers to stay at home'
Pauline O'Reilly
29 Apr 2017
6.2k
110
'Trump's ban and inflammatory rhetoric have emboldened anti-Muslim behaviour'
Colm O'Gorman
28 Apr 2017
105
79
'I phoned my mother at 4.30am. I couldn't say a word. She brought me to hospital'
Anonymous
28 Apr 2017
607
18
'I am genuinely sick worrying how I am going to pay for back to school costs this year'
June Tinsley
28 Apr 2017
187
26
'It isn't sustainable for our tax revenues to be so dependent on Washington'
Victor Duggan
27 Apr 2017
274
15
Delayed maternity payment: 'It seemed my application had been "forgotten about"'
Nicola Cassidy
27 Apr 2017
5.3k
58
'The hallucinations were 100% real to me. But people were telling me there was nothing there'
Brian Scallan
26 Apr 2017
646
11
Adi Roche: 'I'm asking world leaders to help removing and storing Chernobyl's radioactive material'
Adi Roche
26 Apr 2017
460
34
'In my head, I didn't deserve to be helped. I was broken and couldn't be fixed'
Hannah Tyrrell
25 Apr 2017
1.0k
7
Drugs: 'How is arresting someone for something that they are addicted to helping?'
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
25 Apr 2017
1.7k
59
'Paul wanted to talk. But there was nobody to talk to'
Patricia Turner
24 Apr 2017
1.7k
33
Column: 'The time has come. We demand the opportunity to live our lives through Irish'
Michael McCaughan
24 Apr 2017
1.4k
98
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