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Thank you, Diane Keaton, for teaching me one of life's important messages

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Irish Examiner

S Jennifer Horgan

I'm stumped by the maths in the movies

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Irish Examiner

Colm Oregan

Daniel Murray: Borrow to save - a radical new idea for the public finances

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The Business Post

Daniel Murray

The facts and the myths about ADHD

The facts and the myths about ADHD

For many people, ADHD still conjures up the image of a little boy bouncing around a classroom, unable to sit still, and causing trouble. But ADHD...

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Evening Echo

Evening Echo

John Arnold: Fair is fair... Macbeth play for Cork students has killer lines!

John Arnold: Fair is fair... Macbeth play for Cork students has killer lines!

I always thought I’d get Honours in English in the Leaving Cert in 1974 - yes, and in History and geography and Irish too! But it was all ‘vanity...

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Evening Echo

Evening Echo

Decline of water quality can’t become our legacy

Decline of water quality can’t become our legacy

World of Politics with Harry McGee Ireland’s land mass isn’t huge, but the State has a huge amount of waterway and water mass, with over 12,000...

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Connacht Tribune

Harry Mcgee

Good luck trying to unearth public reps purer than snow

Good luck trying to unearth public reps purer than snow

A Different View with Dave O’Connell You’d wonder how far any of us would get if every tiny detail of our lives to date was dragged up at a job...

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Connacht Tribune

Dave Oconnell

Salthill sizzle and then slump but do enough to topple champions Corofin

Salthill sizzle and then slump but do enough to topple champions Corofin

Inside Track with John McIntyre Salthill-Knocknacarra bolted from the traps like scalded cats at Pearse Stadium on Saturday night.  Nursing a...

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Connacht Tribune

John Mcintyre

Cape Verde emotion underlines Ireland's need for an identity 

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Irish Examiner

S Paul Rouse

Sport always follows the money but 'enhanced' sport is eye-opening dishonesty

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Irish Examiner

S Jack Anderson

Cork City's season of woe — month by month

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Irish Examiner

John Fallon

Young man: I was radicalised by social media. We need to stop it happening to others

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TheJournal

Tom Barton

Jim Gavin’s name on the ballot paper raises troubling questions

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The Irish Times

Diarmaid Ferriter

Micheál Martin and Simon Harris are not doomed. Yet

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The Irish Times

Stephen Collins

Catherine Connolly can criticise the EU and still become president

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The Irish Times

Justine Mccarthy

To win the war on dereliction, councils must be up for the fight

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The Irish News

Newton Emerson

No, the Irish language does not ‘belong to us all’. Stop insisting that it does

A policy so bad it causes a sectarian argument in Shandon Park has achieved a whole new level of failure in Northern Ireland. The tree-lined east...

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The Irish Times

Newton Emerson

Time to talk about menopause’s ‘nasty little sister’

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The Irish News

Lynette Fay

Dope Dreams - it's time for Ireland to sign up for the Enhanced World Cup 

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Irish Examiner

S Tommy Martin

I'm a little bit worried about the new public toilets opening up in Cork

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Irish Examiner

S Michael Moynihan

A chance for Cork youth to speak out on issues

A chance for Cork youth to speak out on issues

I am a student at Le Chéile Ballincollig and I’m a member of the local youth council Cork City Comhairle na nÓg. Comhairle na nÓg is a network of...

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Evening Echo

Evening Echo

Donald Trump’s image may have received a boost, but he remains an unpredictable renegade

For US president Donald Trump’s first state visit to the United Kingdom in 2019, 100,000 people turned up on the streets of London to protest. In...

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The Irish Times

Finn Mcredmond

Paul Sweetman: Ireland’s talent is our greatest strength — but immigration delays risk losing it

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The Business Post

Paul Sweetman

Opinion: Rehabilitated offenders should be able to move on with their lives - that includes jobs

People who have served their sentence should be able to have equal access to employment, writes Saoirse Brady of the Irish Penal Reform Trust.

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TheJournal

Saoirse Brady

MAYO GAA COLUMN: Jim Gavin, heartbreak and pouring concrete

MAYO GAA COLUMN: Jim Gavin, heartbreak and pouring concrete

It's Monday morning as I type this, before the workday starts, and being honest, I could have done with another hour or two in bed. Four games over...

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The Mayo News

Anne-Marie Flynn

GAA COLUMN: Embrace the madness of Mayo county final day

GAA COLUMN: Embrace the madness of Mayo county final day

In many ways, it's a blessing that Ballina and Westport have just a week to prepare for the Mayo county final. Not that it’s the right decision (an...

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The Mayo News

Ger Flanagan

Áilín Quinlan: My husband suggests maybe I’m not a housework type of person

Áilín Quinlan: My husband suggests maybe I’m not a housework type of person

“Our house,” I declared to my mother, “must have been really manky when the kids were young.” “Never!” she replied loyally. “You always...

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Evening Echo

Evening Echo

Our presidential contest illustrates just how far Irish women have come

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Irish Examiner

Sarah Harte

All bets are now off in this disunited kingdom of Britain

THE party conference season is over, now that both the SNP and Plaid Cymru have held theirs. While the emphasis in England is on the council and...

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The Irish News

Brian Feeney

Liberals must stop adopting lazy, woke stances on complex issues

I recently listened to a fascinating The Irish Times podcast interview between Hugh Linehan and Ronan McCrea, a law professor in the University...

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The Irish Times

Michael Mcdowell

Catherine Connolly should ask Jim Gavin what a smear campaign looks like

It’s time to bury Seamus Brennan’s famous analogy for the high-stakes political face-off. It took Jim Gavin’s hapless foray into the arena to...

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The Irish Times

Kathy Sheridan

Once more, Boks doing some serious block building

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Irish Examiner

S Donal Lenihan

Cormac Moore: How fate of Newry was seen as ‘acid test’ for new Irish border plan

During the negotiations that led to the tripartite agreement on December 3 1925 that resulted in the border remaining as it was – and still is –...

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The Irish News

Cormac Moore

Fionn Thompson: Albert Manifold pushing through BP’s mission as oil giant looks to rediscover mojo

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The Business Post

Fionn Thompson

Tuairim: Má táimid dáiríre faoin nGaeilge, tá sé réasúnta a bheith ag súil go mbeadh an tUachtarán in ann í a labhairt

Tá tiomantas ó chroí don Gaeilge riachtanach don Uachtarán, a scríobhann Prof Laura Cahillane agus Dr Seán Ó Conaill.

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TheJournal

Professor Laura Cahillane And Dr Seán Ó Conaill

Cork Views: Celebrating the arts at Cork's Blarney Street School

Cork Views: Celebrating the arts at Cork's Blarney Street School

Sometimes, I forget that I’m walking the halls of an inner-city DEIS primary school when I hear the distant fanfares of our Music Generation Brass...

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Evening Echo

Evening Echo

After the ceasefire, what next for those who have suffered so much in the Middle East? - The Irish News view

There will be enormous relief that the ceasefire deal so urgently required in Gaza has finally been completed, and appears to be holding, but there...

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The Irish News

The Irish News

Kathriona Devereux: My alternative to a smartphone, a ‘retro’ landline for my child

Kathriona Devereux: My alternative to a smartphone, a ‘retro’ landline for my child

“Mai has closed the chat session, you can now close this window.” No!!! Don’t cut me off! It’s the second time my chat has been abruptly...

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Evening Echo

Evening Echo