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David Attenborough turns 100: He brought the natural world into focus for us, we owe him so much
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Opinion
Lynn Ruane: Pepper spray may be coming to Irish prisons - but you can't reduce violence through violence
Freedom Flotilla Coalition
Flotilla: If we don't act now, we'll be complicit in the annihilation of the Palestinian people
All time
Incarceration
Opinion: Repurposing Mountjoy's Progression Unit - a short-term solution to a long-term problem
NDAs
Lynn Ruane: NDAs have been misused as a tool to enforce a culture of silence - this has to stop
Protests
Lynn Ruane: In all my years of community work I've never met the ones 'fighting for Ireland'
Power structures
Lynn Ruane: Some refugees are vilified for being from certain places or because they are men
irish drug policy
Lynn Ruane: A mature society accepts that drug use is normal and does not punish addiction
just say no more
Lynn Ruane: Global drug laws can be traced back to a small group of conserative American men
column
Lynn Ruane: 'You can't treat addiction like a business - and people with addiction like objects'
column
Lynn Ruane: 'Help for suicide prevention can be hard to identify - and even harder to access'
column
Lynn Ruane: How this French charity shop treats the homeless should inspire us to help our own
column
Lynn Ruane: The overdose drug Naloxone can save lives so let's remove the barriers to accessing it
Opinion
Lynn Ruane: This Mother's Day, let's celebrate those mothers doing a tough job in challenging circumstances
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Lynn Ruane: 'It should be a source of major embarrassment to Ireland that we are yet to ratify this important treaty'
Opinion
'Amazing footballers see their talent as a distant memory - overpowered by isolation, addiction, homelessness'
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