Voices

fodder crisis

Opinion: 'We don't need more leaflets from Teagasc. We don't need grants to build more sheds'

Pippa Hackett

11 Apr 2018

12.7k

column

D4 accents: 'Yes, kids speak differently from their parents. But why should this be a bad thing?'

Prof Vera Regan

10 Apr 2018

11.4k

120

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Peter Hain: 'The UK government is playing a dangerous game with the peace process'

Peter Hain

9 Apr 2018

2.0k

Special Needs

Opinion: How is it legal for schools to refuse to set up special classes?

Graham Manning

9 Apr 2018

5.3k

accessibility

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

1.7k

Read Me

Marriage has some very tasty tax benefits attaching to it: Here's how to claim them

John Lowe

8 Apr 2018

36.8k

column

'Sonia was almost the perfect Irish hero: courageous, determined, yet fragile and all too human'

Dr Richard McElligott

8 Apr 2018

1.9k

Multiple Sclerosis

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

1.5k

GIY

Michael Kelly’s top tips for putting food and food growing at the centre of your workplace

Michael Kelly

7 Apr 2018

953

Opinion

Survivors of sexual violence are let down by the criminal justice system – here’s what should happen

Dr Simon McCarthy-Jones

7 Apr 2018

2.0k

mandatory and compulsory

Play golf on paternity leave? You're lucky to have time to breathe

Cianan Brennan

7 Apr 2018

1.4k

Opinion

Homelessness: Do we want an Ireland modelled on Vancouver where the majority prosper?

Richard MacCarthy

6 Apr 2018

2.7k

column

Opinion: 'Religious instruction and worship should take place outside core school hours'

David Graham

5 Apr 2018

2.6k

154

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Opinion: 'Consent can't be delivered in the same way as other subjects by embarrassed teachers'

Elaine Byrnes

4 Apr 2018

2.0k

Opinion

'We can't ignore the very real possibility of the emergence of a new disruptive politics'

Rory Hearne

3 Apr 2018

2.3k

108

column

Why I became a counsellor: 'Mentally, I’ve gone toe-to-toe with Mike Tyson'

Danny McNeive

2 Apr 2018

1.2k

Read Me

Stephen Hawking: 'I clearly remember being blown away by the mind-bending physics of the book'

Professor Peter Gallagher

2 Apr 2018

1.3k

Read Me

Peter McVerry: 'It should be made illegal for the next three years to evict people onto the street'

Peter McVerry

2 Apr 2018

1.6k

column

Irish emigrant: 'I'm more concerned now about the Great Barrier Reef than the Irish summer'

Philip Lynch

1 Apr 2018

830

Martin McGuinness

Eileen Paisley: 'I think there was a quietness and shyness about Martin. He was good company'

Jude Collins

1 Apr 2018

3.2k

Bereavement

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

1.9k

column

GIY: Our guru's 'nerdy' guide to growing onions for home-made marmalade

Michael Kelly

31 Mar 2018

1.2k

Biological clock

Opinion: 'Corporate egg freezing is a great idea for the women who want that option'

Meriem Ahmed

31 Mar 2018

837

column

Mary Magdalene: 'A queen of nobility wrongly cast as prostitute by womb-envying patriarchs'

Grace Vaughan

30 Mar 2018

3.9k

128

Opinion

'We need to help people who use drugs make healthier choices, not treat them as criminals'

Tony Duffin

29 Mar 2018

7.2k

Opinion

When consent is contested, both sides are fighting for a 'win'

Noeline Blackwell

28 Mar 2018

123k

Opinion

Russian diplomat expulsion: 'Ireland should have avoided jumping on this bandwagon'

Danielle Ryan

28 Mar 2018

57.5k

349

Opinion

'Ireland needs to invest in its neutral status - is expelling a Russian diplomat the best way?'

Tom Clonan

27 Mar 2018

19.9k

228

Paternity Leave

'Having seen how much my wife went through, it felt so wrong to be heading out the door'

Eric Nolan

27 Mar 2018

167k

Opinion

The lost decade is over: Our 7.8% GDP growth last year was comfortably the highest in Europe

Victor Duggan

26 Mar 2018

33.2k

Disability

Column: 'I have been asked if I mourn the healthy, normal son that I could have had'

Hesline Crawford

25 Mar 2018

34.9k

column

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

28.1k

Opinion

Hooded Men: Can the use of torture by a State be justified?

Conor Courtney

25 Mar 2018

14.1k

Growing

GIY: Secrets to growing your own juicy tomatoes

Michael Kelly

24 Mar 2018

14.6k

Opinion

American mom: 'Why I am marching for American gun control in Dublin'

Mary Farley

24 Mar 2018

20.2k

column

'People can live quite happily alongside cancer. I have been doing that for the past 11 years'

Liz Burke

23 Mar 2018

31.2k

column

An Irishman in Brexit Britain: 'The atmosphere has changed since the vote'

Peter Flanagan

22 Mar 2018

110k

117

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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

183k

173

Opinion

'The notion that RTÉ is the only public service broadcaster in the State is nonsense'

Brian Moss

20 Mar 2018

24.9k

Asylum seeker

'Since moving to Ireland I have been born again, I want to thank the country for that'

Nasir Elsafi

19 Mar 2018

92.9k

118