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'The sanctity of the confession box is still an issue when it comes to keeping children safe'
Tanya Ward
'It is time to step up and bring an end to the destruction of Palestinian homes, lives and livelihoods'
Patrick Costello
Referendum: 'In this campaign Ireland got real and Ireland got talking'
Grainne Conroy
Column: 'We need to learn from how we treated each other during the referendum'
Philip Kirwan
Column: 'While my friends were out enjoying a busy social life, I received my last rites'
Clara Caslin
Column: 'What is holding you back from getting the results you want?'
Jamie Smart
'I’m tired of all the feel-good campaigns when there's no real debate around entry into mental health services'
Anonymous
The politics of black women's hair: 'There is a struggle attached to this hair'
Ola Majekodunmi
Opinion: 'In modern Ireland, you are invisible without money'
Audry Deane
'For Mary Lou McDonald, the lack of IRA baggage may prove to be both a blessing and a curse'
Danny Rigg
'She was not a baby with a fatal foetal abnormality, she was my baby, and she was perfect'
Vicky Wall
John Bruton: 'Abortion ends a life. Once it has happened there is no going back'
John Bruton
Surrogacy: 'Infertile couples will still have to go abroad to make their dream a reality'
Dr Brian Tobin
Debate Room: Two lawyers on the 8th Amendment and if we should retain or repeal it
Barrister Benedict Ó Floinn & Prof Alan Green
Epilepsy: 'My emotions are heightened and I'm overwhelmed by difficult or upsetting situations'
Eva-Jayne Gaffney
'I had always found work soul destroying, but had accepted this as the norm'
Ian Cumbers
Column: 'Those who beat the health insurance penalty deadline are at risk of overpaying'
Dermot Goode
GIY: Get creative with delicious new potatoes using this Spanish tortilla recipe
Michael Kelly
Lad culture: 'We need to tackle masculinity head-on'
Stephen Todd
'I'm not amoral, not stupid, and not promiscuous. I took every precaution. I still got pregnant'
Anonymous
Maria Walsh: 'It might be a questioning glance or a curt refusal to shake my hand'
Maria Walsh
Column: 'Why did I fall so hard? Why did I make myself so vulnerable to him?'
Patricia Tsouros
Replacing Phil Hogan: 'Other countries have a different attitude and send their elite'
Dominic Hannigan
It's been a worrying two weeks - but please don't stop getting smear tests
Prof Donal Brennan
Column: 'We are haemorrhaging €5-6bn per year to pay for expensive and dirty fuels'
Grattan Healy
Column: 'We are ill. We are not faking this illness. It is not in our heads'
Corina Duyn
Brian Merriman: 'Identity theatre is always relevant'
Brian Merriman
Sharon Donnery: 'There were no female role models, no one I could aspire to be like'
Sharon Donnery
'I was the first of my family to go to university and this week I paid off the last of my loan'
Gavin Nugent
Chickweed: 'Not only is it edible, it’s considered to be a nutritional powerhouse'
Michael Kelly
Column: 'I was lucky, but women's healthcare must not come down to luck'
Stephanie Regan
Larry Donnelly: 'There is a definite sense that the net is tightening around Donald Trump'
Larry Donnelly
'I was nine weeks pregnant when I took an abortion pill - after staring at it for hours'
Anonymous
Column: 'Farmers are asking 'where’s my share of this economic boom?''
Richard Moeran
Floundering forests: The challenges facing the Irish forestry industry
Dermot McNally
Borderline Personality Disorder: 'My emotions are overwhelming and almost impossible to regulate'
Lucie Kavanagh
Standoffs with scorpions: The reality of filming in Sub-Saharan Africa
Brian Gray
'I'm 27. I'm living at home. Going through the same hall door since I was in a school uniform'
Nicola Quinn
'Mad, loony, mental, psycho or schizo': Behind every mental health diagnosis is a person
Nicola Hampson
'As Ireland prepares for its referendum, I'm in the middle of another divisive campaign'
Kieran Duffy