From roadside kindness to theatre ambition, small acts of belief show Cork’s future need not be shaped by resignation

Celebrities are not close friends. Their woes are not ours to manage. It’s time our attention, our emotional energy, turned away from them to our own personal friends, writes Jennifer Horgan

Micheál Martin visiting Washington DC is no endorsement of the American president or his politics, writes Jennifer Horgan

Small injustices add up to big differences, so I'd prefer some real equality to the damp consolation prize that is a February bank holiday

In stark contrast to America, Ireland’s gardaí continue to police our streets unarmed — human lives matter to us and that is reflected in our policing. Let's keep it that way, writes Jennifer Horgan

Not everything is a move in a game demanding an instant response — perhaps we need to take a step back and think, rather than ramping it up, writes Jennifer Horgan 

Beyoncé's lyrics, 'If you like it then you should have put a ring on it', are empowering but in a depressing way, implying ownership, and not something women should celebrate

Buckley believes the arts can hold our suffering and our grief. In our secular world, it’s possible that they now do more than that — they hold us together

Plans to train teachers to identify misogyny ignore where the problem really lies — and place yet another burden on schools

No apologies if any of the following relate to you — offence very much intended