From reproductive choices to childcare and war, Joyce Fegan says that motherhood should be understood as a shared societal responsibility

Joyce Fegan questions whether Silicon Valley’s AI revolution can address the messy, human problems that technology cannot simply automate away

As another row over women's maternity care gets laid to rest, the pressing question is why do 25% of women giving birth in Ireland feel the need 'to go private' in the first place?

Cui bono — who benefits — from all of us blindly adopting another Silicon Valley tool we never even asked for? 

The industry was a long time learning they had gotten into bed with an activist and artist, not someone seeking fame and fortune

'Body dissatisfaction, including a desire for a thinner body, is present in many girls by 6 years of age'

There is that moment when your beloved niece or nephew turns around and offers to buy you a drink at the bar, and you realise the child you still dote on has actually come of age.

There was no mysterious Vanishing Triangle in Ireland, no serial killer on the loose, because in many cases most signs pointed to stalking, abuse and intimate partner violence

'What role are the village, or the State, playing, or not playing, when it comes to maternal mental health?'

This is also a story of Ireland — how a girl could end up giving birth alone in a grotto, and what systems and strata of social control led to these circumstances?