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John Daly: The message of ‘Saoirse?’ showed the futility of war
David Furnish: Bigotry is festering so Pride is now more important than ever
Catherine Conlon: If Leo Varadkar was a frog slowly boiling in a pot of water, he might want to take action – we need the same rapid move on climate change
Lorraine Courtney: We need to embrace motherhood and end this culture of fear around having children
Fionnán Sheahan: Asserting your core values is grand but Varadkar can’t afford a bad local election
David Quinn: Ireland might be turning more secular, but we aren’t all atheists yet
Brighid McLaughlin: To be truly woke, you have to understand a dictionary-load of sh*te that couldn’t be any more impenetrable
Gene Kerrigan: ‘Organic farmer’ is now an insult
Fiona O’Connell: For a lousy free dinner, our fluffy ducklings are no more
Conor Skehan: Measuring success by home ownership is a wealth-wrecking lie
Eilis O’Hanlon: Puberty is not a disease that needs to be cured
Malcolm Noonan: Fight to restore biodiversity and renew farming are two sides of same coin
Sam McBride: Macabre trade in Nazi tat could be replicated in North with Troubles memorabilia
Eoin O’Malley: Calls for public inquiries have become political play-acting
Fiona O’Connell: For a lousy free dinner, our fluffy ducklings are no more
Declan Lynch: It’s Tom Wambsgans’ world – and we just live in it
Joe Kennedy: Beware — danger lurks behind some of nature’s beautiful bounty
Maia Dunphy: It’s no crime to gift your children an early summer getaway
Brendan O’Connor: It turns out Armageddon isn’t all bad news
Paul Kimmage: David Corkery has been shunned in his hour of need
Shane Ross: Why the DAA must not be allowed buy the 260 acres beside Dublin Airport
Colin Murphy: You know where you are with a nuke, but AI threat is a worrying mystery
The trouble with Phillip Schofield: Let’s face it, a cheating sleazebag is still a cheating sleazebag no matter his, or her, sexual orientation
Hats off to RTE’s ‘Ulysses’ – even Joycean scholars agree it should be heard, not read
Enough lazy waffle about naming five famous Belgians, there are plenty
Louise McSharry: It would be naive to think children aren’t scarred by school voluntary payment system
Mary and her little lamb and Bugs Bunny have cost mutton and rabbit industries millions
Richard Curran: The truth about Leo Varadkar’s €1,000 tax cut plan is that Budget giveaways usually don’t work
Kathy Donaghy: If summer was food, it would be vinegar-soaked chips
Finola Meredith: Banning Hitler’s items will only make them more desirable
John Connell: Anthony Bourdain was honest, raw and real and inspired adventure in an entire generation
Minnie Mooney: Keeping up with the 24-hour news and opinion cycle is exhausting
Tanya Sweeney: Is it finally time for the Other Woman to have her moment? Welcome to Side Piece Summer...
Mark Keenan: To solve the housing crisis we need the LDA as a market force, not a sideshow
Martina Devlin: Five years ago we voted to trust women, but the Yes vote on abortion has become shop-soiled
Ellen Coyne: Why is our generation giving its tacit support to ‘momfluencers’ and the commercialisation of childhood?
Richard Curran: Scorching European summers will present new tourism opportunities for Ireland, if we take them
John Downing: Choosing Moldova for security summit sends a clear message to Putin’s Russia
Ann Hornaday: Story of US whistleblower is stranger than fiction
Mary McCarthy: Census shows we need to teach Irish to everyone, but exams should be optional
Angie Gough: Refugee crisis throws up challenges, but lateral thinking and unity can tackle them
Aoife Barry: It’s scary some Irish women still have to travel abroad to get an abortion
Ambushed Boris Johnson, man who put the ‘bum’ in bumbling
Ellen Coyne: The darkest nightmare a mind could conjure – report outlines cold truth of family suffering after loved one is murdered
Adam Lashinsky: As Elizabeth Holmes heads to jail, has Silicon Valley learned anything?
Sinead Ryan: Why there’s no splitting hairs in the shower
Ian O’Doherty: Bagatelle, Bermuda shorts and BBQ bugs aside, this weather doesn’t half cheer us up
Mary Kenny: Story of Jesus still grips the imagination – just look at the viewing figures of new series The Chosen
John Daly: Artist Graham Knuttel's brushstrokes showed us the good, the bad, and the ugly of life
Mark Bain: Eamonn Holmes vs Phillip Schofield – An undignified but fascinating clash of the TV titans
Miriam O’Callaghan: Italy floods prove climate crisis has slammed into Europe, yet we carry on with our cheap carry-ons
Max Boot: Inside the hi-tech offices where future victories on the battlefield are being plotted
Ellen Coyne: Maybe a sanction against their own team would make fans think twice about abusing a child
Frank Coughlan: Getting shirty over a rugby rivalry worthy of its name