"Trying to pick a movie on Saturday nights can seem more complicated than negotiating the Good Friday Agreement. So, when there is an activity they all enjoy together, I tend to make the most of it."

Former colleagues working in Irish mental health services and Camhs appear to be at breaking point

"One of the significant challenges of working therapeutically with younger children is discussing emotions in a language they can understand. Many children are ‘visual’ learners at that age, so the Inside Out characters are an excellent template to help them discuss their feelings."

After the European Championships just gone, there’s something still so very twisted about the fact that one junior club in the Czech Republic has more professional coaches than all of Irish athletics.

When I was a child, we had visitors calling to our house most nights unannounced... now we don’t have visitors or visit others without at least a week’s notice

"Becoming a Premiership footballer is not an aspiration for either of us, so the primary purpose is for him to enjoy the game."

"Tradwife influencers are typically glamorous. Their content is often filled with beautiful imagery of gardening, baking, and a rather blissful life. While this might be deemed harmless, the Media Matters study also found that nearly every tradwife influencer pushed right-wing conspiracy theories..."

The prevalence of single-sex schools is a unique feature of the Irish second-level education system. This is likely due to the influence of the Catholic Church, writes Dr Colman Noctor

Without a significant reaction, we risk further fragmentation of our beliefs and values.

"While Cooper is not yet a year old, the strength of the attachment is such that my son is already trying to imagine how he might cope when he is no longer here. It got me thinking about the emotional process of having a family pet."