diff --git a/ionic/components/item/item.scss b/ionic/components/item/item.scss
index bab7f5250e..9ce65209c1 100644
--- a/ionic/components/item/item.scss
+++ b/ionic/components/item/item.scss
@@ -140,8 +140,6 @@ ion-input.item {
   align-items: flex-start;
 }
 
-
-// TEMP hack for https://github.com/angular/angular/issues/4582
-[item-right] {
-  order: 1;
+ion-item-content + ion-item-content[cnt] {
+  display: none;
 }
diff --git a/ionic/components/item/item.ts b/ionic/components/item/item.ts
index 4c63759ba2..749cfccd3d 100644
--- a/ionic/components/item/item.ts
+++ b/ionic/components/item/item.ts
@@ -33,7 +33,8 @@ import {Component} from 'angular2/angular2';
   template:
     '<ng-content select="[item-left]"></ng-content>' +
     '<div class="item-inner">' +
-      '<ion-item-content>' +
+      '<ng-content select="ion-item-content"></ng-content>' +
+      '<ion-item-content cnt>' +
         '<ng-content></ng-content>'+
       '</ion-item-content>' +
       '<ng-content select="[item-right]"></ng-content>' +
diff --git a/ionic/components/item/test/text/main.html b/ionic/components/item/test/text/main.html
index dd050f4a91..202a8ee16a 100644
--- a/ionic/components/item/test/text/main.html
+++ b/ionic/components/item/test/text/main.html
@@ -44,6 +44,18 @@
       <p>Paragraph line 3</p>
     </ion-item>
 
+    <ion-item>
+      <ion-item-content>
+        Column 1
+      </ion-item-content>
+      <ion-item-content>
+        Column 2
+      </ion-item-content>
+      <ion-item-content>
+        Column 3
+      </ion-item-content>
+    </ion-item>
+
   </ion-list>
 
 </ion-content>