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Readers' blog: Wisdom of years allows for better life experiences

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Readers' blog: Wisdom of years allows for better life experiences

Getting older need not be a frightening experience. Now you have the experience of having encountered, and of making mistakes, learning from them, and then moving on.

Readers blog: Amidst all the noise and loneliness don't forget the Gift Of Time

Readers blog: The body may age but keep your mind in eternal spring

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Wed, 28 Dec, 2016

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Tue, 13 Dec, 2016

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Sat, 19 Nov, 2016

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Thu, 17 Nov, 2016

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Fri, 11 Nov, 2016

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Tue, 01 Nov, 2016

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Mon, 24 Oct, 2016

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Tue, 18 Oct, 2016

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Sat, 17 Sep, 2016

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Thu, 04 Aug, 2016

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Sat, 30 Jul, 2016

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Mon, 18 Jul, 2016

Dear Sir... Readers' Views (29/06/16)

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Wed, 29 Jun, 2016

Dear Sir... Readers' Views (16/06/16)

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Thu, 16 Jun, 2016

Dear Sir... Readers' Views (09/06/16)

Dear Sir... Readers' Views (09/06/16)

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Thu, 09 Jun, 2016

Dear Sir....Readers' views (02/6/2016)

Dear Sir....Readers' views (02/6/2016)

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Thu, 02 Jun, 2016

Taxing time at the FG hotel

Taxing time at the FG hotel

After booking into Fine Gael’s Tax Budget Hotel, I went to the bar for a drink. “That will be €1 please!” said the blue-shirt barman.

Tue, 31 May, 2016

Dear Sir....Readers' views (30/5/2016)

Dear Sir....Readers' views (30/5/2016)

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Mon, 30 May, 2016

Health service

Health service

Florence Nightingale rides again.

Thu, 26 May, 2016

Wealthy ensure favourable economic policies for rich

Wealthy ensure favourable economic policies for rich

The common theme of the economically elite has always been to hold economic views in keeping with the politics and interests of the wealthier classes.

Fri, 20 May, 2016

Enjoy the freedom that comes with maturity and stay in eternal spring

Enjoy the freedom that comes with maturity and stay in eternal spring

As people age they become kinder to themselves and less critical of themselves. They become their own friend.

Tue, 10 May, 2016

TV vote would sort the wheat from the chaff

TV vote would sort the wheat from the chaff

Instead of another general election let’s have a TV vote.

Sat, 16 Apr, 2016

Fashion trend: Dynamic duos

Fashion trend: Dynamic duos

We love a juicy hook-up – especially when it comes to fashion. 

Sat, 03 Oct, 2015

Ministers heroic for going the distance on Paddy’s Day

Wonderful news for the 400,000 unemployed. Our Government ministers are on the Paddy’s Day march.

Sat, 22 Feb, 2014

Gilmore hams it up

Labour leader Eamon Gilmore’s laborious party address was embarrassing.

Wed, 19 Feb, 2014

Change for the better

The only obvious course of action to stimulate growth in the economy is to have a 5-year tax holiday for everyone.

Mon, 17 Feb, 2014

Send for a brain-hacker

Having emerged over the weekend that the Garda watchdog’s phone and internet were compromised in a highly sophisticated hacking operation, I think we should bring in Keith Barry to brain hack the culprits.

Wed, 12 Feb, 2014

Who will refereethe genetic revolution?

The announcement of the new stem cell factory in Galway brings us closer to the reality of genetic revolution.

Fri, 31 Jan, 2014

We’re underwriting bank losses twice over

The bailout enabled the very banks and financial institutions that created the global economy to write off the losses from their toxic deals for years to come further depriving the government of much-needed tax revenues.

Sat, 31 Aug, 2013

Creating more debt is not an option

It is the dependence of our political-economic system on economic growth that is causing our problems.

Thu, 08 Aug, 2013

Taxing dilemma

A worker on the helpline for the property tax has been suspended, amid allegations they used credit card details to attempt inappropriate transactions.

Thu, 16 May, 2013

Playing to gallery

President Higgins has castigated the very austerity measures his Labour Party colleagues so enthusiastically embrace.

Tue, 07 May, 2013

Pimps for banks

The new personal insolvency practitioners are called PIPS for short.

Wed, 24 Apr, 2013

Drug profits sky-‘high’

I went to a pharmacy to purchase flu pills.

Tue, 26 Mar, 2013

Thanks for the tax burden, Big Brother

Oh what joy! Government loves me!

Thu, 14 Mar, 2013

One word and a world of difference between us

The tiny Nordic European island country of Iceland is presently experiencing one of the greatest economic comebacks of all time.

Fri, 25 Jan, 2013

Complying with Big Brother’s rule of Law

IN light of the fact that the ESB has resorted to getting people jailed for planting trees on their own land, do I now need planning permission to cultivate some roses in my flower bed?

Mon, 10 Oct, 2011

Let’s get out of the EU

THE people who are in power today in this country and around the world have no idea bad it’s really going to be, because there will be no longer any place for freedom, intellectual freedom, spiritual freedom, monetary freedom, liberty, justice – none of that.

Sat, 17 Sep, 2011

Politicians are only in it for themselves

THERE is a great weakness in any political system: “government” is based on the idea that some individual or organisation is awarded more power than any human being should possess — the power to kill, to declare war, to steal, to defraud, to counterfeit, etc.

Tue, 13 Sep, 2011

Handling the truth

MOST of us continue to be losers in this economic battle, and have sacrificed our comfort, and our social and economic welfare, in favour of the Orwellian, economic, austerity banking measures imposed on us by our new masters that inhabit the Atlántida financial wonderland of the IMF.

Thu, 25 Aug, 2011

Real fraudsters go free

A PERSON defrauds the welfare system, and in no time is in court and convicted, and receives a huge prison sentence.

Sat, 23 Jul, 2011

Try some humble pie

MINSTER Joan Burton’s synopsis that living on the dole has become a lifestyle choice smacks of the usual blind assumptions that the well-heeled in society often make.

Thu, 21 Jul, 2011

Presidential contenders must prove their worth

I COULDN’T agree more with Anthony Woods when he said that “we can’t afford pomp and grandeur of Presidency” (Letters, June 21).

Sat, 25 Jun, 2011

We can’t afford pomp and grandeur of Presidency

ISN’T it farcical observing all these presidential candidates making their sales pitches to us voters?

Tue, 21 Jun, 2011