Sinn Féin is deliberately being obtuse about EU plan to help Ukraine
It’s not a simple question of spending money on services here or bolstering Ukraine’s defence
Investors are stockpiling gold. I’m stocking up on Aldi torches
That DoD leaflet soon to pop into your postbox is about preparing for extreme weather emergencies. Maybe we need to be be thinking more broadly - invasion, war, climate disaster, nuclear fall-out, AI
Irish people are wrong about immigration, but are we ready for our own Trump?
Real question why Irish and Irish-American Trump supporters haven’t already died of embarrassment
The misogynistic abuse of dying Renee Good is all too familiar
What most women will hear in the expletive and its tone is the cold rage of a disrespected man
Rampant cocaine use by normally decent people in Ireland is Trump-level hypocrisy
Cocaine is so readily available you can order a ‘bump’ from a handy menu over WhatsApp. But hypocrisy is as rampant as the drug
Leo Varadkar’s admission about empathy was a brave one
There is nothing mystical about empathy. Anyone – apart from sociopaths possibly – can learn it, because it’s a life skill that comes with practice
Whatever happened to joy to the world? You have to look hard
We can see with our own eyes how unmitigated ignorance, hatred and dehumanisation can turn a democratic country into a polarised hellscape in just a few years
Phones are here to stay – but so are cars, and we don’t let 11-year-olds drive
We may be overprotecting our children in the real world while leaving them exposed to online threats
We already had a perfectly good term for ‘rage bait’ – it’s hate speech
Look at the tech bros lined up at Donald Trump’s inauguration: their cumulative wealth has increased from $40 billion to $1 trillion in 13 years
‘Hello, are you in Galway tonight?’ Sex trafficking was here long before the Epstein files
Term 'sex industry' camouflages the reality of young women holed up in apartments and lonely houses, being transported in vans, being used and abused by Irish men
Where is the kindness when we talk about trans people?
Number of trans people in Irish society is tiny – and each one is a human being
I split the family home with my daughter. Here’s what the Government needs to do
You might assume that in a housing emergency there would be grants specifically for this kind of work. You’d be wrong
With its big, ridiculous mistake, the BBC played into the hands of an authoritarian liar
Does Trump have a reputation to defend where January 6th is concerned? A crowdfunding campaign may be in order
Anti-woke Ivan Yates must have seemed the obvious choice to toughen Jim Gavin up
Men such as Yates are indulged because they get to play the bombastic, slightly shocking counterpoint to their snowflake partner
Where are the patriots protesting when Irish men are the ones carrying out assaults?
Surely the so-called patriots should be trebly furious when one of their own commits an atrocity