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Column: We should ban smacking – but we also need to help parents to do their job
Martina Newe
4 Sep 2013
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Column: "Adopted" - the word spoken in hushed tones as I grew up
Noelle Brown
3 Sep 2013
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Column: The dole queue or the departure lounge? This is the choice Ireland's youth is facing
Joe O'Connor
3 Sep 2013
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Column: 'Pop up' projects are creative and positive – but can mask deeper social problems
Mick Byrne and Patrick Bresnihan
3 Sep 2013
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Column: ‘A tragedy of the very poor’ – Remembering the 1913 Church Street disaster
James Curry
2 Sep 2013
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Column: “What do you mean you have arthritis? Sure you’re only a child”
Laura Hickey
2 Sep 2013
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Column: Beware the passion killers – how to keep the spark alive in your relationship
Tony Moore
1 Sep 2013
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Extract: Ireland planned to ask the UK for help if Germany invaded in WW2
Michael Kennedy
1 Sep 2013
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Column: How to get the right work-life balance
Ciara Conlon
31 Aug 2013
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Column: 'Churching' women after childbirth made many new mothers feel ostracised
Louise Lewis
31 Aug 2013
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Aaron McKenna: The 'broadcasting charge' is a shake down – plain and simple
Aaron McKenna
31 Aug 2013
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A poem for Willie Bermingham: a man with 'a dream for the lame and old'
Vincent Caprani
30 Aug 2013
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Column: Destroying democracy to save democracy – Egypt’s power struggle
Colm Ó Broin
30 Aug 2013
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Rosanna Davison: Why I posed naked for a cause I believe in
Rosanna Davison
29 Aug 2013
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Column: Mathematics is a potential tonic for our ailing economy – but remains overlooked
Eoin Ó Colgáin
29 Aug 2013
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Column: Is our work culture killing us?
Fergus O'Connell
29 Aug 2013
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Column: 'Chemical weapons' are in the news for dreadful reasons – but what are they?
Ann Cronin
28 Aug 2013
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Column: Media and mental health – can we afford to take a “it’s not my job” approach?
Dil Wickremasinghe
28 Aug 2013
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Column: 'I Have a Dream'... we still have a lot to learn from those iconic words
Denise Charlton
28 Aug 2013
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Column: Irish regulators will soon be at the forefront of questions about data protection
Dan Hayden
27 Aug 2013
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Column: Sensible careers are all well and good – but I want the adventure of a religious life
Conor McDonough
27 Aug 2013
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Column: I am frustrated, I am committed, I am only human: I Am Your Doctor
Dr Brid McGrath
26 Aug 2013
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Column: The drama surrounding Manning and Snowden is diverting attention from what matters
John Devitt
25 Aug 2013
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Aaron McKenna: Finally they admit – we have too many EU directives to scrutinise
Aaron McKenna
24 Aug 2013
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Column: Those Syrian children are dead because the world didn't try to save them
Maurice McQuillan
23 Aug 2013
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Column: We have to do much more to increase organ transplant rates
Senator Colm Burke
23 Aug 2013
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Column: A Bridge for Rosie – Dublin should recognise one of its greatest daughters
Angelina Cox
22 Aug 2013
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Eyewitness: Cairo has changed from buzzing metropolis into a near ghost town
Diana Eltahawy
21 Aug 2013
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Column: The Special Criminal Court erodes our rights – it needs to be abolished
Jane Horgan-Jones
21 Aug 2013
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Lisa McInerney: Sharing of 'Slane Girl' pics does disservice to women and men
Lisa McInerney
20 Aug 2013
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Column: Why is the US still providing Egypt's military with weapons?
Neil Walsh
20 Aug 2013
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Column: Our medical culture denies women a say on how, and where, they give birth
Barbara Western
19 Aug 2013
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Column: There has never been a more dangerous time to be an aid worker
Dominic MacSorley
19 Aug 2013
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Column: A cultural shift is needed to properly address mental health problems
Orla Barry
19 Aug 2013
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Column: Women on Screen – must we stay on the fringes of film?
Deirdre McMahon
18 Aug 2013
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Column: Being self-aware is the key to good mental health
Dil Wickremasinghe
18 Aug 2013
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Column: The time has come to end the system of Direct Provision
Claire Cumiskey and Fiona Hurley
18 Aug 2013
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Column: To be a successful writer nowadays, you have to embrace social media
Stephen Downes
17 Aug 2013
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Column: The Hunger Games of Ireland's Budget leaks
Emer Delaney
17 Aug 2013
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Column: If I die, what will become of my partner and children?
Alan Flanagan
17 Aug 2013
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