Furnace

Life

Relative strangers
Barbara Harding on the agency helping to bring together adopted children and their birth parents

A life less ordinary
Pat Nolan highlights the challenges of an Irish family living with autism

Witness protection ‘in a shambles’
Is the witness protection programme all it’s cracked up to be? Shea Tomkins takes a closer look

Reckoning with the dark side
Is there another side to paedophiles? Shanua Rahman asks the therapists responsible for their treatment

In the name of Justice
In a Furnace exclusive, Kate Hickey talks to the Guidford Four’s Paddy Armstrong, who’s no longer bitter about his past

It's a mad world
Caroline Downney meets a woman whose zest for life masks a childhood haunted by the spectre of mental illness

Bringing it all back home
Jeff Farrell wonders why home births are often still a no-no in 21st Century Ireland