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

When you hear the word 'refugee'. do you want to push the words 'Ireland first' up a flagpole, asks Clodagh Finn

The 13th-century noblewoman built an impressive fortress on a rocky outcrop in Castleroche, Co Louth, and then supposedly pushed the master mason out of the window so that he wouldn’t replicate the building’s design

She is not very well known here, in the country of her birth, but Rachel Hamilton, the towering navvy, labourer and peacekeeper, is celebrated with affection in her adopted Glasgow

It’s up to us to think about who benefits when we click and buy. We might not be able to stop the billionaire space odyssey, but we don’t have to help finance it.

The Dublin thoroughfare might be the flashy showcase but the Cork street arguably has a greater claim to the name