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Bliain na Gaeilge: 'My mother made a choice to speak to us in her mother tongue'
Róisín O’Hara
12 Apr 2018
20.9k
50
Opinion: 'We don't need more leaflets from Teagasc. We don't need grants to build more sheds'
Pippa Hackett
11 Apr 2018
12.5k
37
D4 accents: 'Yes, kids speak differently from their parents. But why should this be a bad thing?'
Prof Vera Regan
10 Apr 2018
10.8k
118
Peter Hain: 'The UK government is playing a dangerous game with the peace process'
Peter Hain
9 Apr 2018
1.8k
32
Opinion: How is it legal for schools to refuse to set up special classes?
Graham Manning
9 Apr 2018
5.0k
57
Column: 'We waited for three hours on the side of the road in the dark and cold. I'm sick of it'
Linda Byrne
8 Apr 2018
1.3k
40
Marriage has some very tasty tax benefits attaching to it: Here's how to claim them
John Lowe
8 Apr 2018
36.5k
60
'Sonia was almost the perfect Irish hero: courageous, determined, yet fragile and all too human'
Dr Richard McElligott
8 Apr 2018
1.7k
11
Column: 'I have to teach myself to smile (I didn't realise it was so easy to lose a smile)'
Fiach Lynch
7 Apr 2018
1.2k
14
Michael Kelly’s top tips for putting food and food growing at the centre of your workplace
Michael Kelly
7 Apr 2018
806
6
Survivors of sexual violence are let down by the criminal justice system – here’s what should happen
Dr Simon McCarthy-Jones
7 Apr 2018
1.8k
38
Homelessness: Do we want an Ireland modelled on Vancouver where the majority prosper?
Richard MacCarthy
6 Apr 2018
2.5k
96
Opinion: 'Religious instruction and worship should take place outside core school hours'
David Graham
5 Apr 2018
2.4k
154
Opinion: 'Consent can't be delivered in the same way as other subjects by embarrassed teachers'
Elaine Byrnes
4 Apr 2018
1.6k
56
'We can't ignore the very real possibility of the emergence of a new disruptive politics'
Rory Hearne
3 Apr 2018
2.1k
108
Why I became a counsellor: 'Mentally, I’ve gone toe-to-toe with Mike Tyson'
Danny McNeive
2 Apr 2018
998
3
Stephen Hawking: 'I clearly remember being blown away by the mind-bending physics of the book'
Professor Peter Gallagher
2 Apr 2018
1.2k
31
Peter McVerry: 'It should be made illegal for the next three years to evict people onto the street'
Peter McVerry
2 Apr 2018
1.4k
71
Irish emigrant: 'I'm more concerned now about the Great Barrier Reef than the Irish summer'
Philip Lynch
1 Apr 2018
582
41
Eileen Paisley: 'I think there was a quietness and shyness about Martin. He was good company'
Jude Collins
1 Apr 2018
2.7k
53
Column: 'I felt a wave of guilt come over me. How was I laughing in a world my mum wasn’t in?'
Mairead Doyle
31 Mar 2018
1.8k
11
GIY: Our guru's 'nerdy' guide to growing onions for home-made marmalade
Michael Kelly
31 Mar 2018
1.0k
5
Opinion: 'Corporate egg freezing is a great idea for the women who want that option'
Meriem Ahmed
31 Mar 2018
725
64
Mary Magdalene: 'A queen of nobility wrongly cast as prostitute by womb-envying patriarchs'
Grace Vaughan
30 Mar 2018
3.7k
127
'We need to help people who use drugs make healthier choices, not treat them as criminals'
Tony Duffin
29 Mar 2018
6.9k
39
Russian diplomat expulsion: 'Ireland should have avoided jumping on this bandwagon'
Danielle Ryan
28 Mar 2018
57.2k
336
'Ireland needs to invest in its neutral status - is expelling a Russian diplomat the best way?'
Tom Clonan
27 Mar 2018
19.7k
227
'Having seen how much my wife went through, it felt so wrong to be heading out the door'
Eric Nolan
27 Mar 2018
167k
58
The lost decade is over: Our 7.8% GDP growth last year was comfortably the highest in Europe
Victor Duggan
26 Mar 2018
33.0k
87
Column: 'I have been asked if I mourn the healthy, normal son that I could have had'
Hesline Crawford
25 Mar 2018
34.7k
48
Gen Z: We're looked down on by older generations and not given the chance to show who we are'
Keely Jenkinson
25 Mar 2018
27.8k
47
Hooded Men: Can the use of torture by a State be justified?
Conor Courtney
25 Mar 2018
13.8k
51
GIY: Secrets to growing your own juicy tomatoes
Michael Kelly
24 Mar 2018
14.4k
6
American mom: 'Why I am marching for American gun control in Dublin'
Mary Farley
24 Mar 2018
20.1k
43
'People can live quite happily alongside cancer. I have been doing that for the past 11 years'
Liz Burke
23 Mar 2018
31.0k
19
An Irishman in Brexit Britain: 'The atmosphere has changed since the vote'
Peter Flanagan
22 Mar 2018
110k
117
Retirement: 'For the first time in nearly forty years I could openly admit that I didn't believe in God'
Peter Gunning
21 Mar 2018
184k
173
'The notion that RTÉ is the only public service broadcaster in the State is nonsense'
Brian Moss
20 Mar 2018
24.7k
35
The Cattle Raid of Cooley is our national epic - and still has resonance for modern rural life
John Connell
19 Mar 2018
31.0k
29
Opinion: 'When we ask that question – why doesn’t she leave? - we abuse again'
Dr Carol Baumann
19 Mar 2018
43.6k
56
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