From 'Stand by Me' to Sleepless in Seattle' to 'Being Charlie', Rob Reiner explored what it means to be a parent, and showed incredible empathy in his films and in his private life

Ireland's harsh new rules on family reunification reveal a wider disdain for caring and care workers — and it betrays our emigrant past 

Irish people used to be known for their ability to think in 'grey areas' and not reduce everything to a binary argument. Jennifer Horgan asks if we have now lost it

The views of older men on working from home are not worth listening to if you're a mother who has made the juggle work

A dream highlights an unresolved feeling of jealousy, prompting Jennifer Horgan to think about how relationships change when we become parents 

The neglect of women’s health, the health of every second person, is baked into medical science, writes Jennifer Horgan

I know I’m not the only one who exhausts themselves scrolling through films and series, feeling so depleted that I end up watching 'Schitt’s Creek' again

I was once told that you should only break silence if you can improve on it — in today's noisy world, it's difficult to live by that credo 

Tá Gaeilge agam, you may say, to which I ask: cén saghas Gaeilge?

'Something's Gotta Give' is one of my favourite movies — a film that is joyously, unapologetically hopeful