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Hot school meals: They're so important, but we could be offering much better food

Hot school meals: They're so important, but we could be offering much better food

While Dr Catherine Conlon welcomes the hot school lunches for many reasons, she says other countries are doing much better on nutrition.

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Dr Catherine Conlon

Syria after Assad: Why humanitarian aid can’t stop now

Syria after Assad: Why humanitarian aid can’t stop now

Munaf Muadel from GOAL highlights the challenges in Syria since the fall of the regime, as well as the work they’re doing to assist local...

yesterday 3

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Munaf Muadel

Architect: A radical change is needed to solve Ireland’s housing and infrastructure crisis

Red tape and inefficient systems are preventing the building of more and better homes, according to RIAI President Sean Mahon.

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Sean Mahon

Irish nurses in the NHS: A new book charts the lives of Ireland's nurses who worked in the UK

Irish nurses in the NHS: A new book charts the lives of Ireland's nurses who worked in the UK

Louise Ryan, Grainne McPolin and Neha Doshi share learnings from their new book, Irish Nurses in the NHS: An Oral History.

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Louise Ryan

Boyzone documentary is a refreshingly real look at relationships of all kinds between men

The story of Boyzone is the story of the five men whose paths crossed by little more than chance.

sunday 10

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Carl Kinsella

Analysis: Irish vape users are being failed in the face of illegal products

Analysis: Irish vape users are being failed in the face of illegal products

Editor of The Journal Investigates Maria Delaney shows consumers can walk into many shops and be exposed to risk.

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Maria Delaney

Money Diaries: A stay-at-home mother in the South East who has left work after maternity leave

Money Diaries: A stay-at-home mother in the South East who has left work after maternity leave

This week, our reader realised that it wasn’t feasible for her to return to work so she’s learning to balance it all.

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Thejournal.ie Reader

Opinion: The Phoenix Park deer might be part of its heritage, but they're bad for biodiversity

Opinion: The Phoenix Park deer might be part of its heritage, but they're bad for biodiversity

Pádraic Fogarty says while they’re nice to look at, the deer are the worst thing for biodiversity in the Phoenix Park.

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Pádraic Fogarty

Parenting and sleepovers: 'I know too much about what happens to let my kids go on them'

Margaret Lynch says she had so much fun on her own ‘study sleepovers’ in her teens that she can’t relax and let her own kids go on one.

08.02.2025 20

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Margaret Lynch

Halloween comes early thanks to ghost buses, ghost houses and Regionals ghosting the government

Who ya gonna call?

08.02.2025 10

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Carl Kinsella

Larry Donnelly: Trump hasn't just torn up the rule book, he's burnt it to a crisp

Larry Donnelly: Trump hasn't just torn up the rule book, he's burnt it to a crisp

The world now sees the US led by a wilfully uninformed commander-in-chief convinced of the country’s ‘manifest destiny’, writes Donnelly.

07.02.2025 20

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Larry Donnelly

Trump’s threatened trade war: Should Canada and the EU band together?

Trump’s threatened trade war: Should Canada and the EU band together?

In the face of economic threats from the USA, Dr Seána Glennon asks if the time has come for a new and deeper relationship between Canada and the EU.

07.02.2025 2

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Seána Glennon