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

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