Voices

Hannah Tyrrell
'In my head, I didn't deserve to be helped. I was broken and couldn't be fixed'
Hannah Tyrrell
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
Drugs: 'How is arresting someone for something that they are addicted to helping?'
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
Patricia Turner
'Paul wanted to talk. But there was nobody to talk to'
Patricia Turner
Michael McCaughan
Column: 'The time has come. We demand the opportunity to live our lives through Irish'
Michael McCaughan
Mandy O'Neill
'I am so proud that my body was Carragh’s safe haven for those 38 weeks, that it was her home'
Mandy O'Neill
Reinhard Schaler
Brain injury: ''Fighting' has become my mission in life since my son Pádraig’s catastrophic accident'
Reinhard Schaler
Angela O
'Racism isn't always malicious. It can be a white person asking me to “twerk like Beyoncé”'
Angela O
Dermot Heslin and Darren Ryan
No Facebook, no WhatsApp: Three things we learned from a digital detox
Dermot Heslin and Darren Ryan
Michael Kelly
Gardening: Grow your own ingredients for the Hairy Bikers' cheesy, oniony panhaggerty
Michael Kelly
Michael Fitzmaurice TD
Changing our county boundaries: 'There is far more at stake than just identity'
Michael Fitzmaurice TD
Larry Donnelly
100 Days of Trump: 'There has been a great betrayal of vulnerable voters'
Larry Donnelly
Lorraine Courtney
Sport snobbery: 'McGregor still has a tough fight if he wants to win over the home crowd'
Lorraine Courtney
Eoin Daly
'There’s a strong chance the Assembly won’t recommend repealing the Eighth Amendment outright'
Eoin Daly
Colleen Hennessy
Opinion: 'The government won't remove the Church from its authority over social services until we demand it'
Colleen Hennessy
Victoria White
Recycling: 'This can't go on. I want refundable deposits on bottles and cans. It can be done'
Victoria White
Dr Seán Healy
Opinion: 'What standard of living do people want? What is required to deliver this?'
Dr Seán Healy
Tom Clonan
Tom Clonan: We need to talk about how unprepared we are for a terror attack
Tom Clonan
Sinead Pembroke
Zero-hour contracts: 'Clare has to live with her parents and can't afford to go to the doctor'
Sinead Pembroke
Carl Cautley
Fitness goals: 'Be specific. Choose something concrete like running 5K in 30 minutes'
Carl Cautley
Kieran Allen
'If we want to cherish all children equally, stop the subsidies to foreign executives'
Kieran Allen
Sandra Quinn
Psoriatic arthritis: 'It is very much an invisible illness because I look and appear fine'
Sandra Quinn
Terry Flynn
'Ireland is slowly discarding its age-old loyalty card attitude toward established religions'
Terry Flynn
Marion Walshe
The case against female-only business groups in 2017
Marion Walshe
Carol Tallon
'Planners are trying to engage with us and we have a duty to join the conversation'
Carol Tallon
Shane Ross
Shane Ross: 'If you could save one person's life, would you?'
Shane Ross
Fr Richard Gibbons
Column: 'I'd like to know the science of the resurrection but my belief goes beyond an empty tomb'
Fr Richard Gibbons
Michael Kelly
Grow it yourself: Seed sowing tips from our gardening guru
Michael Kelly
Lorraine Courtney
Big Little Lies: 'No woman just lets domestic violence happen. But maybe we do'
Lorraine Courtney
Fora Staff
'United Airlines forgot the courts of public opinion and law are two very different things'
Fora Staff
Dr Joseph Roche
Why I'm marching for science: 'The alternative, doing nothing, is unthinkable'
Dr Joseph Roche
Caoimhín De Barra
Northern Ireland: 'Most people would probably welcome a redrawn border'
Caoimhín De Barra
Luke Ming Flanagan
Luke Ming Flanagan: 'Regulation, like taxes, is only for the little people'
Luke Ming Flanagan
William Campbell
'Tribunals and commissions achieve nothing. They just shield the guilty from prosecution'
William Campbell
Julien Mercille
Julien Mercille: Liberals are wrong to cheer on Trump's bombs
Julien Mercille
Éilis Ryan
'Do we invest money into private pockets, or into public housing, that we own?'
Éilis Ryan
Katie McEneaney
Column: 'I can look an animal in the eye, knowing I'm not contributing to their suffering'
Katie McEneaney
Christine Allen
Column: 'I've discovered the joy of doing a fitness activity with others'
Christine Allen
Colm Ó Broin
Column: Debunking the most common 'alternative facts' about the Irish language
Colm Ó Broin
Else Berit Eikeland
Secrets to Norwegians' happiness: 'We don't boast. We don't express happiness openly'
Else Berit Eikeland
Michael Kelly
GIY column: This week, it's time to start sowing your vegetable seeds
Michael Kelly