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Stitch up the X Case’s dangling loopholes and then hold a referendum to legalise abortion in Ireland – because no woman wants an abortion just for the hell of it, writes Carol Redmond.
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# help - Yesterday’s News
With youth unemployment at 23 per cent, the European Union and policy makers have a collective responsibility and obligation to help the “Lost Generation”, writes Liam Aylward.
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# help - Sunday 19 May, 2013
National Volunteering Week ends today. Here Donnacha Maguire, who is in Ethiopia, tells us about some of the work being done by Irish volunteers in the country.
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# help - Sunday 12 May, 2013
Oxfam says that about 90 per cent of high rise buildings in Dhaka, where last week’s tragic building collapse occurred, are not built even to local standards.
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# help - Wednesday 8 May, 2013
Figures show that nearly 1,000 of those who contacted the suicide and self-harm crisis centre were aged between 25 and 44.
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# help - Tuesday 30 April, 2013
New Beginning have organised free, debt advice seminars across Ireland.
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# help - Monday 29 April, 2013
Today, seven judges from the Supreme Court dismissed an appeal by Marie Fleming, who had sought to be allowed an assisted suicide without the risk of prosecution for anyone who helped her, but where to next with this contentious debate, asks Dr Eimear Spain.
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# help - Wednesday 24 April, 2013
With new media comes new risks, writes Julie O’Neill who says many employers might not know they could be liable for statements made by their employees outside of working hours.
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Single Irish mother, Jillian Godsil, who tried to sell her Georgian mansion on YouTube, has documented her personal slide into insolvency in a new book, Does my Debt look big in this? Here she writes about debt and never giving up.
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Having just moved to the US, Jan Schneider had planned to go watch the Boston Marathon. Luckily, other things came up and he never made it. Here’s his account of living in the aftermath of the Boston bombings.
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# help - Tuesday 16 April, 2013
While other countries are showing signs of difficulty, it’s Spain’s deterioration which could bring the euro crisis to its most dangerous point, writes Tom McDonnell, who asks where Europe goes from here?
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Are the scare stories about teenage discos really true? Sheila O’Malley has some advice on how to navigate this rite of passage.
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# help - Sunday 7 April, 2013
Men are constantly criticised for ‘not talking’ but they simply communicate in a different way to women; if we want to tackle male suicide we need to tackle their self esteem first, writes Tony Moore.
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# help - Friday 29 March, 2013
From famine in North Korea to the genocide in Rwanda, these photographs offer an insight into global crises – and how the world has dealt with them.
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It’s true Northern Ireland has come a long way over the last fifteen years, but we cannot afford to hang the ‘mission accomplished’ banner over the peace process, writes David McCann.
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# help - Friday 22 March, 2013
The research also revealed that almost two thirds of people believe it is more acceptable to talk about their problems than it was in the past.
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# help - Wednesday 20 March, 2013
Being too positive can end up making people more miserable and make the situation worse.
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# help - Tuesday 19 March, 2013
The choosing of a new pope has brought a positive feeling about the Roman Catholic Church and a sense of new beginnings, says Patricia McNally, who explains why her faith is so important to her.
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Appeals for information have been issued by local gardaí.
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# help - Saturday 16 March, 2013
The clichés we take for granted like “life’s not a dress rehearsal” take on renewed meaning after you have survived cancer. This second chance is one I won’t be squandering, writes Tom Molloy.
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# help - Saturday 2 March, 2013
The announcement that 400 of new Irish Water jobs are to be set aside for graduates, the unemployed and small businesses is welcome – but we should be doing this for all our large scale projects by including social inclusion clauses, writes John Lyons.
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Calls from domestic violence services said: “It shouldn’t take days, weeks, months or sometimes years for a woman’s needs to be met.”
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# help - Tuesday 19 February, 2013
No matter what the challenge, flanker Kelly Browne is determined to meet it head on.
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# help - Saturday 16 February, 2013
Following the horrendous Magdalene revelations, can we continue to pretend to ourselves that abuses aren’t happening right here and now in our society and in our homes, asks Paula McGovern.
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# help - Friday 8 February, 2013
Being told you have a tumour can be a devastating shock, but there is no need to face the battle alone, says cancer survivor Sheila Hyde.
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# help - Thursday 7 February, 2013
If the economic downturn has taught us anything, it is the importance of exposing systemic wrong doing, writes Louise Bayliss.
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# help - Saturday 26 January, 2013
Those with mental health problems do not deserve the indignities they suffer – but they have always been the poor relation in our system.
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# help - Thursday 10 January, 2013
The Government is desperate to avoid “abortion on demand”, writes Sarah McCarthy – but in reality, women should be trusted to make the choice.
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# help - Sunday 6 January, 2013
All these critiques don’t spur us to action, writes Tom Boland, so why do we keep buying them?
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# help - Thursday 27 December, 2012
Connect has fully-trained psychotherapists on hand to speak to adult victims of childhood abuse.
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# help - Wednesday 26 December, 2012
Older people are a wealth of information, knowledge and experience, writes Seán Moynihan – so why not stop in on a neighbour over the Christmas break?
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# help - Tuesday 25 December, 2012
‘Mike’ has no home to go to this Christmas. He describes what life is like on the streets – and how common death is.
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# help - Saturday 22 December, 2012
Garry Williams has never liked Christmas – but this year, he writes, it will be different.
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# help - Wednesday 19 December, 2012
This was the busiest year yet for Samaritans, with longer calls to their helpline and more face-to-face contact at its branches.
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# help - Monday 17 December, 2012
The Irish Cancer Society has said that it has seen a rise in people applying to its Financial Aid Scheme in the past year.
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# help - Friday 7 December, 2012
The failings of Government to take simple steps to help mortgage holders has caused further damage – and the Insolvency Bill is by no means our saviour, writes David Hall.
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# help - Thursday 6 December, 2012
St Vincent De Paul said it is worried yesterday’s budget will put added pressure on the charity during the festive season.
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