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Prime minister Anthony Albanese says implementation will be difficult as teens post farewell messages

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

Online safety taskforce was set up in recognition of social media’s harm to children’s physical and mental health

Boy had been given a tablet computer when he was aged just five, Central Criminal Court is told

Patrick O’Donovan is to brief the Cabinet on plans to introduce a ‘digital wallet’ pilot programme to verify the age of social media users

The country is trying to wean children under 16 off TikTok, Snapchat, YouTube and Instagram with a new law. Teenagers are sceptical

Social media encourages a kind of roleplaying of rage that is mostly futile and impotent

Attorney General is to advise on proposed age verification system but senior Government figures stop short of backing Australia-style ban

Parents and schools are working together to impose community-wide bans on smartphones until their children reach certain ages

Racist attitudes have solidified, driven by social media and prominent far-right campaigners in the local community

Revenue only names people with serious tax debts who have ignored several opportunities to get their affairs in order

The use of internet banking is also increasingly common among people aged over 75

Thousands queue to mourn victims, highlighting tensions between public grief and Beijing’s strict controls on dissent

Instagram and Facebook start closing accounts of young people in Australia believed to be under 16 following ban

Social media figures risk having home address published if they appear on list published every three months

RCSI survey finds ‘strong’ link between high social media use and poor mental health among 15-16 year olds

Couple married a year ago in Italy but Jamie Gill began cancer treatment soon after

The founder of Sculpted by Aimee is leading the Irish beauty boom, but scaling a global brand means bigger ambitions and bigger scrutiny

Stephen Byrne (26), with an address in Terenure, began accessing images as a 13-year-old

‘We know kids as young as eight or nine are seeing pornography, violent pornography, on a daily basis,’ says TD

Staff numbers down by 20% with employees averaging €147,959 in salary before share-based pay and other benefits

We asked three workers in Ireland’s technology sector to share their views on the country – its past, present and future

We missed the chance to shape social media before it shaped us – with AI there will be no second bite of the cherry

Challenges particularly difficult for women, Taoiseach says, after Gráinne Seoige described election regret

The Professionals is a series of articles in which people from one field share their views of Ireland today

Enterprise wary of upsetting social media giants by asked them to verify promoters of investment products on their platforms

The broadcaster on getting her start, navigating her career and starting her new podcast

Buying online via social media links to products have the highest incidence of fraud with 42% of users reporting they lost money

The singer-songwriter, whose new album, Modern Mythologies, is about to come out, has returned to his roots on a tour of small Irish venues

So much of the social order depends on the mutual attention inherent in normal sensory experience. When we funnel 90 per cent of our working attention down into screens, we miss a lot

Department of Enterprise went to bat for Big Tech in online investment scam row with Department of Finance, emails show

Academic studies found that people who rely heavily on AI for tasks like writing generally perform worse than those who don’t

Investing from your phone has brought great advantages, but pitfalls too

Nursing board found there was no clinical justification for nurse posting photo of surgery on Facebook and Instagram in 2023

Women soccer commentators still regular targets for prejudice and misogyny

Most far-right groups subscribe to an ideology propagating patriarchal view of women’s role in society, says expert

My dream is for a middle-aged Irish woman to come to my house and fix my life

With their depictions of fun buddy bonding – harking back to a time before technology swallowed communication – Madison Avenue is modelling the sort of friendships that are waning in society

Can she be president for voters who stayed at home as well as those who came out to vote in protest?

From Addams Family Values to Dawn of the Dead, the genre is a political Trojan horse concealing all manner of subversive social messages. Here are 10 of the best political horror films for Halloween