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Opinion: David Attenborough's new film delivers a stark message about the world's oceans

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Jack O’Donovan Trá

Jews against Zionism: 'What Israel has done in Gaza is barbaric - I'll never support it'

Jewish diaspora members are so afraid of saying the wrong thing, they often don’t say anything at all, says Ria Czerniak-LeBov.

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Ria Czerniak-Lebov

Fr Tony Flannery: We will know fairly quickly if this new pope is a reformer or not

The Redemptorist priest says many popes before Francis were not reformers, and it won’t be long before we see what way a new pope is going to go.

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Tony Flannery

Sweathouse: ‘People love this,’ she says, scrubbing the inside of my armpit

Rosanna Cooney shares a chapter from her new book, Sweathouse, which looks at the ancient Irish sauna tradition.

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Rosanna Cooney

Opinion: Trans lives aren’t black and white, our conversations about them shouldn’t be either

Carol Ballantine says she worries about parents like her trying to make sense of gender in an ever-more polarised context.

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Carol Ballantine

Dr Chris Luke: It's high time we talked about Ketamine

Dr Chris Luke: It's high time we talked about Ketamine

The retired emergency medicine specialist discusses the controversial, man-made medical drug that was developed in clinical settings, but has now...

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Dr Chris Luke

Money Diaries: A paralegal on $26/hr who moved to New York last year

Money Diaries: A paralegal on $26/hr who moved to New York last year

This week, our reader is enjoying life in the Big Apple and making those dollars work as far as they can.

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