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Is it time to cut tax on alcohol in Ireland?

By Frank Murray and Donall O’Keeffe

Jonathan Anderson is a reminder why we shouldn’t push our kids into ‘bullshit jobs’

By Clare Moriarty

Keeping proper tabs on school attendance is the first step in protecting our most vulnerable children

By Niamh Murray

Was it just me who found the slogans on two men’s T-shirts so inappropriate?

By Rosita Boland

We used to vilify unwed mothers. Now we criticise women who don’t want to be mothers

By Laura Kennedy

Persecution of Irish Catholics led to foundation of Irish Francisan landmark in Rome

By Andy Devane

The housing crisis could erode Ireland’s middle class to a point of collapse

By Mark O’Connell

Los Angeles is only the beginning: Trump is normalising military enforcement of law and order

By Daniel Geary

Israeli attacks may give Iran’s nuclear programme greater impetus

By Vincent Durac

This is a housing strategy written by Flann O’Brien

By Lorcan Sirr

Many Northern nationalists doubt Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael’s commitment to Irish unity

By Cormac Moore

Even here in Israel, government statements about Greta Thunberg’s ‘selfie yacht’ are seen as crass

By Paul Kearns

I wrote the Leas Cross report. Two decades on, has anything changed in Irish nursing homes?

By Des O'Neill

We don’t need a floating liquefied natural gas facility. There is a better way

By Eamon Ryan

‘Skinny is social capital’: Extreme thinness is back and it’s more dangerous than ever

By Rachel O'Dwyer

Children’s health crisis will roll on until there is transparency about how public money is spent

By Priscilla Lynch

Storm surges of up to five metres are looming for some of Ireland’s cities

By Kevin O'Sullivan

‘The country is going to the dogs’: How agitators exploited the Carlow shooting

By Ciarán O'Connor

The Christian idea of ‘bearing witness’ has never been more vital

By Rev Myozan Ian Kilroy

The beaches here in Israel are full. Just an hour’s drive away Palestinians are starving

By Paul Kearns