My daughter watched my husband and I go through our cancer journeys and made up her mind
No amount of money, I am convinced, would have bettered the care my daughter got giving birth. The recovery in a noisy, clammy ward was a different story
No one’s laughing at Ireland’s unsophisticated ‘peann luaidhe’ elections now
An electoral system is only as good as the people believe it to be – and Irish people rightly have a lot of faith in ours
In an age of misinformation and provocation, here’s who stood by the people in recent byelections
These byelections were arguably the anti-immigration movement’s big moment
It’s hard to work up any outrage about yet another grubby payments controversy at RTÉ
As lesser-known politicians prepare for their daytime TV glow-up at the Oireachtas committee hearing, licence-fee payers have other things to worry about
Nigel Farage’s success is the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party meme come to life
It’s a bit late now for the British media to start asking hard questions about the Reform UK leader
An article about the big issue Irish people have stopped caring about
As Irish generosity to Ukrainians wanes, remember that rising costs are another result of war
Do character references serve any good in a court system bound by rules of evidence?
Revelation that former TD Jim Glennon wrote a character reference for a convicted child abuser should prompt a wider discussion
Fuel protests were a display of mine-is-bigger-than-yours machismo
The extreme machismo element was introduced by Christopher Duffy, the self-appointed leader who had ‘the country by the balls’
The real Donald Trump is the Trump of the foul-mouthed, late-night rant
The real Donald Trump is the Trump of that foul-mouthed diatribe, the man seen in the late night and early morning posts on social media
‘Low fares’ work but Ryanair’s treatment of a grieving woman was cruel
Manners, sympathy and empathy are being eroded - and not just in the Oval Office
Louis Theroux’s exploration into the manosphere chills the blood
The ones who should worry us are the boys who have been sold the idea of a matrix – a conspiracy designed to make men fail
A question some politicians would do well to ponder: where is your shame?
Without shame, everything is possible, and for Donald Trump, the most shameless man in the world, nothing is beyond the bounds of decency
Forget pinkwashing on International Women’s Day – this is what Irish women need
Places such as maternity hospitals and the family law courts, where women are most likely to need physical privacy and comfort, are the least likely to provide them
Boys should be told about the heroes and villains in Gisèle Pelicot’s story
Far from drowning in hatred, victimhood and despair, she has retained her faith in humanity and found new love
Double standards in evidence over the Seamus Culleton case are hard to take
We demand special treatment for our own while enacting laws that are all about ejecting immigrants with greater speed