It’s communion season — a perfect time to discuss our national giving trend

Katriona O'Sullivan's interview last Sunday about her latest memoir, Hungry, at the Cork World Book Fest was full of empathy. Something that needs to be taught to privileged people, writes Jennifer Horgan

My column last week prompted a febrile response online. Apparently, by questioning ‘angry’ men, I’d betrayed the people who lost their lives securing my freedom

Angry men's blockades stopped my mother being with her dying brother-in-law last week. She was not the only vulnerable person whose needs were trampled on

I notice that I need stories more than ever before. I am reading far more books, watching far more films, far more TV. It’s an escape from my own story, I think

We must be careful not to create this societal idea that young boys are a problem. They are not our problem; they are our responsibility

Increasingly panicked and sensationalised coverage of teen dilemmas means we are missing the real lived experience of young people — they're clever, empathetic and more emotionally intelligent than ever

The explosion in women-friendly raunch on the likes of Bridgerton, Rivals and Vladimir shows there's a huge appetite - but is it for fun, or to distract us from wider horrors?

A classroom works seamlessly when there is another adult in the room. It could be a team teacher, something increasingly common in countries like Austria, Denmark, and Italy, with positive results

From a distance we now see the grip the Catholic Church one had on our lives, few people can see we are part of a similarly oppressive system today — the  car culture we protect that is taking and destroying lives