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Alison O’Connor: The prison manager who helped confine Covid jail deaths to just one
Alison O’Connor: The prison manager who helped confine Covid jail deaths to just one
The Irish Prison Service's contact-tracing model is being used across the world

Fri, 19 Aug, 2022

Mother and Baby Home Redress Scheme
Alison O'Connor: Happily, the Government is rethinking this daft decision to erase women
You cannot disappear the word ‘woman’ to accommodate what must be a handful of trans men who give birth each year

Fri, 12 Aug, 2022

FILE PHOTO President Michael D Higgins and his wife Sabina have tested positive for Covid-19, according to a spokesperson for Ár
Alison O'Connor: Presidential couple can’t keep testing outer limits of the office
Both President Higgins and his wife are fully aware of the constraints that apply to speaking out on such issues

Fri, 05 Aug, 2022

Alison O'Connor: Reid is one of many who tried — and failed — to sort out the health service
Alison O'Connor: Reid is one of many who tried — and failed — to sort out the health service
Without the right money and power to implement change, it's likely that any new 'saviour' will face the same fate

Fri, 01 Jul, 2022

Alison O'Connor: Coming winter will see issues on food security and fuel availability
Alison O'Connor: Coming winter will see issues on food security and fuel availability
Only a few years ago the very idea of food security was far from everyone's mind at EU level, writes Alison O'Connor

Fri, 24 Jun, 2022

Alison O'Connor: We can have a rational discussion — and still protect trans people
Alison O'Connor: We can have a rational discussion — and still protect trans people
'This bullying and utterly totalitarian attachment to a particular ideology was always going to end badly'

Fri, 17 Jun, 2022

Alison O'Connor: Spotlight on apprenticeships the bright spot of this year's Leaving Cert
Alison O'Connor: Spotlight on apprenticeships the bright spot of this year's Leaving Cert
For the sake of young people who often end up being a square peg in a round college hole, and our wider economy, apprenticeships are an option worth exploring

Fri, 10 Jun, 2022

Alison O'Connor: The price we pay for ignoring climate change continues to spiral
Alison O'Connor: The price we pay for ignoring climate change continues to spiral
As Oisín Coghlan of Friends of the Earth Ireland says, our stark choice is disruption now or destruction later on from climate change. The latter is more likely, Alison O'Connor feels

Fri, 03 Jun, 2022

US-SCHOOL-CRIME-TEXAS
Alison O'Connor: Even slaughter of school children can’t change a polarised America
The divisions in US society are strong and are reflected in the population's political affiliations

Fri, 27 May, 2022

National Maternity Hospital
Alison O'Connor: Women risk hurting other women when vigilance turns into vitriol
The virtual scalpings would...make someone think twice and expressing a differing opinion, writes Alison O'Connor

Fri, 20 May, 2022

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