# column - Today’s News
While health inequalities affect people of different backgrounds, those who have precarious jobs are in especially difficult situations, writes Sinead Pembroke.
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# column - Yesterday’s News
The neverending race to secure affordable accommodation continues its painful existence in Dublin, writes Colm Boohig.
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# column - Wednesday 25 April, 2018
We need to recognise the damage our plastic addiction is having on our planet, writes Professor Gordon Chambers.
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# column - Tuesday 24 April, 2018
The Dáil finally voted to accept the Convention even though not all legislation has been passed or even enacted, writes Suzy Byrne.
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# column - Monday 23 April, 2018
I know of cases where all that is needed to remove a name from the register is a phone call request and a follow up email to the council, writes Sinéad Halpin.
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# column - Sunday 22 April, 2018
I sound begrudging but the harsh looks and disapproving glances made me angry, writes Geraldine Walsh.
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Ireland’s Deep Atlantic sees underwater cameraman Ken O’Sullivan embark on a series of voyages out into the open North Atlantic in search of large whales, sharks and cold water coral reefs.
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The government could replicate the necessary conditions for a Finnish style turnaround, writes Jack Maguire.
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# column - Saturday 21 April, 2018
But when you leave Facebook, your attention span increases. You look around you. You notice things, writes Amanda Geard.
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I don’t know how the poor plants will react if we skip spring altogether, writes Michael Kelly.
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Since 2011 State funding of third level education has plummeted by an incredible 25%, writes Paul Gavan.
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# column - Friday 20 April, 2018
New parents have so little knowledge of diseases like measles that they think the vaccine is more dangerous than the disease, writes Dr Ida Milne.
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# column - Thursday 19 April, 2018
This week I wished I lived in Ballaghadareen and not in Kilkenny, writes Malcolm Noonan.
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# column - Wednesday 18 April, 2018
Equality can improve men’s lives too, writes Victor Duggan.
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# column - Tuesday 17 April, 2018
In the wake of the ‘rate my rape’ list on a school wall, Dr Cliona Saidlear says we have to talk about rape culture in Ireland.
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# column - Monday 16 April, 2018
But the potential for a conflict between the United States and Russia was, and may still be, on the brink, writes Larry Donnelly.
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# column - Sunday 15 April, 2018
I am here, almost two years later, only just beginning to pick up the pieces of my own life, writes Morgan Barbour.
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Darach MacDonald’s book Hard Border traces the roots of a century-old, hotly contested border that, after Brexit, will be the only land frontier between the UK and the EU.
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Adoption affects more of us than we realise. 900,000 people are directly affected by adoption or close to 20% of the current population of Ireland, writes Paul Redmond.
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# column - Saturday 14 April, 2018
I knew very little about Ireland when I moved to Dublin almost 14 years ago, writes Laura Gerulyte Griffin.
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I just chop them and steam them over some boiling water for a few minutes and they are delicious, writes Michael Kelly.
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I look forward to the day where words like ‘struggle’ and ‘sacrifice’ are no longer synonymous with a female athlete’s story, writes Ailis Egan.
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# column - Friday 13 April, 2018
It is important to remind ourselves what the research on rape and sexual assault has established, writes Ciaran McCullagh.
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# column - Thursday 12 April, 2018
Tom Clonan analyses the case for the US to send a message with airstrikes in Syria – but the consequences could be far-reaching and costly.
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The best news story as regards the language, though, is the emergence of what I see as a new movement, writes Róisín O’Hara.
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Here’s Dean Merton’s weekly column.
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# column - Wednesday 11 April, 2018
The way our climate is going, budgeting for a six, seven or even eight-month winter period is not beyond the realms of fantasy, writes Pippa Hackett.
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# column - Tuesday 10 April, 2018
Using elements of D4 speech does not necessarily mean rejecting the region you come from, writes Prof Vera Regan.
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# column - Monday 9 April, 2018
Boris Johnston thinks that post Brexit, Armagh and Louth will be just the same as Camden and Westminster except with more Guinness, writes Peter Hain.
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Students with special educational needs have enough challenges place in front of them, they should not have to fight the education system as well, writes Graham Manning.
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# column - Sunday 8 April, 2018
This is an issue that wheelchair users face on a daily basis, writes Linda Byrne.
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The first big benefit of being married is that you get to choose how you are taxed, writes John Lowe.
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Moreover, Irish sport has continually demonstrated our nation’s capacity to unite behind certain events and certain individuals, writes Dr Richard McElligott.
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# column - Saturday 7 April, 2018
53-year-old Bandon native Fiach Lynch has MS and is running the Cork City Marathon in June.
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Food growing is a simple, practical way to really engage employees, writes Michael Kelly.
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The poor treatment of survivors, when combined with few perpetrators being convicted and a perception of lenient sentencing, could tacitly signal to society a “decriminalisation of rape”, writes Dr Simon McCarthy-Jones.
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# column - Friday 6 April, 2018
I live in Vancouver. Now, watching Ireland’s homelessness crisis developing from here, it’s hard not to see these two worlds coming closer and closer together, writes Richard MacCarthy.
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# column - Thursday 5 April, 2018
This proposal seeks to find a workable compromise between different belief groups at minimum cost, writes David Graham.
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# column - Wednesday 4 April, 2018
We need trained facilitators in schools to develop sexual competence and protect the sexual health of young people, writes Elaine Byrnes.
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# column - Tuesday 3 April, 2018
Irish politics remains volatile with the potential for alternative political parties emerging, writes Rory Hearne.
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