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French elections
Opinion: 'Electing Macron last week could result in Le Pen winning the next election in 2022'
Read Me
'My interactions with Minister Fitzgerald have raised concerns about her willingness to be transparent'
Mental Health
Column: 'Everybody else seemed to 'get' life. I was lost, so lost, and tired of not feeling okay'
decriminalisation
Opinion: 'Ireland could lead the way in developing new human-centred approaches to drug use'
Special Needs
'I used to have dreams when he was little about him walking and talking. I would wake up sobbing'
Opinion
'Three doctors recently claimed saturated fat doesn't clog arteries. Their claim doesn't stand up'
Opinion
'If there was a creator of the universe, it wouldn't need its feelings protected by Dermot Ahern'
Coeliac Awareness Week
Gluten-free life: 'It's disheartening when gluten-free diets are slammed by the media as a fad'
Gardening
Fancy a nettle tea? Spring nettles are abundant right now and have lots of health benefits
column
Teachers' pay: 'Less interest will mean lower CAO points and new teachers of lower standards'
column
Welfare cheat?: 'I have an acquaintance who claimed the dole. There was no other way to afford university'
column
'There is a long history of intermingling of church and State funds with respect to St Vincent's'
Read Me
'When doctors and their loved ones are patients in hospital, the health insurance form tends to get signed'
US-NORTH KOREAN RELATIONS
'We're facing a crisis if the new South Korean government acts without US approval'
the black o'connell
'In 1845, Douglass had dinner with the Lord Mayor. Today he'd be put in direct provision'
EXTRACT
'Declan Murphy dies in horror fall': The jockey writes about that fall, reading his own obituary and his long recovery
unlikely entrepreneur
'Literally every day during the recession I'd come in and check how much cash we had'
Read Me
Stigma: 'When a doctor can say to you when filling out a sick cert: "Will I just put depression, or…?"'
darkness into light
'I phoned my mother at 4.30am. I couldn't say a word. She brought me to hospital'
darkness into light
'The hallucinations were 100% real to me. But people were telling me there was nothing there'
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