Just like women who endure violence and coercive control, many male victims fear to speak out — but Men's Aid is listening

Tech makes communication immeasurably faster and more effecient — but also facilitates the proliferation of dark forces online 

Have you been following this? If not, get ready for a roller-coaster ride. I’m not sure what subscription you’ll need to be able to follow the twists and turn that lie ahead. But it’s going to be a political thriller. 

We’re all missing Lakers desperately. The craic is always great there, high-fiving when you come in, jokes and laughter and no shortage of hugs. All that has been stopped for months. Instead, the building is quiet. There’s a lonely feel to the place.

Almost nine million cubic metres of untreated sewage and storm waters has been discharged into Dublin Bay over the last four years

Partition built sectarianism into the polity of Northern Ireland. But it is through the Good Friday Agreement — not a border poll — that we will progress to a future built on consent 

Everyone is hemmed in by the pandemic, longing for our proper turn to come so that vaccination will make some normal life possible again. That’s why most of us are so nauseated by this carry-on

That Noeline Blackwell one — the woman from the Rape Crisis Centre — drives me crazy. I can’t listen to her on the radio without getting angrier and angrier.

I don’t know whether I’m previous or late. I want to wish you a happy Mother’s Day and a happy St Patrick’s Day, and I’m stuck slap bang in the middle of both of them. There was a lot of Mother’s Day going on all around me at the weekend.