Category: First person stories
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Campus Pride : TUD LGBTQ Society
In recent years, Ireland has made huge progress in equality and representation for queer communities, with our country even being the first in the world to legalise gay marriage by popular vote in 2015. Yet, for many young people, questions around identity, belonging,…
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“The people are your employers” – Former Labour party TD Eithne Fitzgerald
Politicians come and go; some remain elected for years while others serve in government for a short term, and there are those who persist. The third could be said for former TD Eithne Fitzgerald, who ran for national office seven times. Eithne Fitzgerald…
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‘My beloved trade is in crisis and journalism itself is suffering – but we can’t lose hope’
As print sales continue to suffer in the era of smartphones, TheCity.ie’s Paul Caffrey reveals what it was like to endure a savage round of newsroom redundancies and examines the current state of the Irish newspaper industry The newspaper business is in crisis…
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‘God willing, the world won’t forget the sacrifices my people made’: a Kobani woman’s experience of the Syrian Civil War
Cameron Weymes interviews one young woman from Kobani, northern Syria, about her experiences during the Civil War
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