Erosion — exacerbated by climate change — is gnawing away at a coastal heritage that is, quite literally, falling into the sea

Body dissatisfaction has also been working away, quietly and corrosively, behind closed doors over the last 15 months.

As we approach the 25th anniversary of her murder, the very least we can do is to rescue her and all those women murdered in 1996 from the brutality of their end, and remember them for who they were and all they might have been.

Sad irony in knowing that Ernest Shackleton’s exploration of the southernmost tip of the world is widely remembered while his sisters' adventuring days, at the opposite pole, and in warn-torn Europe and Canada, passed almost completely under the radar

As Covid-19 restrictions are gradually lifted, we now have a choice between falling back into our old habits or reinventing our world

Nothing offends quite like a politician’s swaggering hubris and sense of superiority

If she were still alive, Josie Airey, the Cork hospital cleaner, poet, and legal aid campaigner who went all the way to the European Court of Human Rights to secure civil legal aid in Ireland, would be celebrating her 89th birthday on May 4.

It is heartrending to think that Ireland’s most successful tennis player, five-time US Open tennis champion Mabel Esmonde Cahill, spent her final days in a workhouse and was buried in an unmarked grave.

Imagining the changing colours of the mountains is only the start of our virtual road trip. And, this time, I am the one asking — are we there yet?

The contrast between the stated aims of Autism Awareness Week and the practices revealed by a civil servant whistleblower last week could not be more pronounced