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Dog behaviourist: Why it’s time to treat dogs more like children — not just animals

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Suzi Walsh

Surrealing in the Years: Ireland and the world at large descending into Dan Brown farce

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Carl Kinsella

Opinion: Farewell to The Climate Pope, who died during Earth Week

Dr Catherine Conlon pays tribute to the Pope Francis ahead of his funeral, for his steadfast support of climate action.

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Dr Catherine Conlon

Opinion: Michael O'Brien's intervention was a watershed moment in our reckoning with abuse

Dr Sinéad Ring of Maynooth University says Ireland owes a huge debt of gratitute to Michael O’Brien, survivor of abuse, who passed away this week.

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Dr Sinéad Ring

Just Stop Oil ends direct action: Being hated somehow worked for this climate campaign group

George Ferns of University of Bath looks at the controversial climate activists who have decided to end their campaign of direct action.

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George Ferns

Bobby McDonagh: To avert our eyes from Gaza would be a moral travesty

Former ambassador Bobby McDonagh says the horrors of what has happened in Gaza are tough to witness, but we cannot turn our backs.

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Bobby Mcdonagh

Parenting: Bed rotting — is it any wonder people want to 'take to the bed'?

Margaret Lynch says she’d happily embrace any trend that involves getting some serious downtime.

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Margaret Lynch

Opinion: AI is changing how we connect – but we still need each other as human beings

Finian Murphy says techology has upended so much of how we interact, and now that AI is here, it’s speeding up again.

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Finian Murphy

Next Pope: How the power base of the Church shifted (and why we won't see an Irish Pope emerge)

Michael Kelly looks at what happens now within The Catholic Church now that it has lost Pope Francis.

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Michael Kelly