As we embark on the next 100 years of the Irish State, three vignettes offer valuable lessons on how we might work together to shape a better next century

Just as Cop26 will hear about the 'code-red threat to humanity' posed by the climate change emergency, it will also hear there is still time to act

Why aren’t we willing to embrace a system that teaches us not just to have sympathy for others, but to understand them and emotionally identify with them? 

Writers, illustrators, dukes, even Charles Darwin called on the Irish ladies who dressed like men who fled their homes and families in Ireland to live together in peace in Wales, writes Clodagh Finn.

The nationwide expression of genuine feeling makes it all the more disquieting that our own Government has so abjectly failed to listen to hundreds of women affected by the CervicalCheck scandal

Why should we turn to the US for inspiration when we have so many under-celebrated dates in our own calendar?

It really means something when a company with such global reach publishes a 10-year sustainability plan, as Penneys/Primark did last week, though it was greeted with a healthy dose of scepticism

If anyone deserves a central place in history, it is the sister of Charles Stewart Parnell who mobilised ordinary women to take real action against landlord rule

The deleted tweet with its unfortunate omissions was an honest mistake, but it does show that we really have a visibility-of-women problem

While we may never reinstate art as an Olympic sport, the opening of a Jack B Yeats exhibition at the weekend gives us the perfect platform to evoke a time when it was, and imagine a future that puts culture at its centre