Now that the Australian social media ban is here, surveys that suggested 80% of parents supported it in theory are beginning to look wildly optimistic

Trump uses bullying and personal attacks on his enemies - but we should be wary of the impulse to do the same

A rebellious woman used to be someone who took up arms; now it’s Miriam O’Callaghan revealing she leaves her eye make-up on for a week

Why are we so starved of big ideas that it takes an oped or a throwaway remark by a billionaire to start a national conversation?

Other vulnerable young people like Adam Raine are growing dependent on machines they believe understand them

Some day, if women keep playing our cards right, one us might get to be appointed Minister for Finance or president of the GAA

The eruption of Tricolours by a small group of people who want to make a point about immigration has left the rest of us in a bind

Part of the RTÉ show’s appeal was that it made space for the kind of people we don’t see enough of on our screens

If only Britain had been paying attention, the Irish courts offered a masterclass in how to avoid getting drawn into the culture wars

Spoiler alert: the solution, in many cases, is ‘granny’ or, perhaps less often, ‘granddad’

The photographs coming in on the wires are unfathomable: children with horribly protruding ribs, hollow eyes, scabbed lips and noses, distended bellies

Construction workers who ‘vanished’ from the sector after the Celtic Tiger were humans whose way of life was obliterated

Ireland, I have often thought smugly since my return from California, wouldn’t tolerate such pretentious, self-destructive nonsense as a ban on clothes lines. Enter the row over EV charging arms

Their popularity is a grim statement about a property market in which your best prospect of owning a house may well be to win one in a lottery

We should be wary of narratives that present women – especially those accused of crimes – as either the evil witch or Snow White