Punching down on the far less powerful in our society, does nothing to hold those with actual legislative power to account

Twenty five years on, one can only wonder how the Good Friday Agreement would have worked out in today’s world of cyber arguments, where a flash-in-the-pan comment can rupture relations in an instant and further entrench opposing views

'Rights are rarely freely given, but instead requested, demanded and then fought for until finally won — and feminism, to which International Women's Day currently belongs, is often the vehicle'

“Our systems and society allowed this man and his views to flourish. Tate, therefore, could have been anyone”

'It's as if hate has become PC, the way in which to enact our free speech'

“There’s a sense that this country and its people are not necessarily behind, nor swayed by the Government's apparent financial prudence on this occasion“

While we reserved podium position for Patrick all these years, Brigid didn’t even make it to qualifying. But that’s more to do with patriarchy than meritocracy

Today is St Brigid's Day as we have always known it, but next Monday, depending on your line of work, you may be enjoying an extra day off thanks to our new public holiday of the same name. It will be an annual holiday — the first one ever to be called after a woman, writes Joyce Fegan

'Here was this oh-so-sophisticated audience in London laughing about the goings-on in a post office in Letterkenny'

For more than 20 years the vast majority of us turned a blind eye to the plight of thousands upon thousands of people in our direct provision system, to pick up megaphones of protest two decades later and call it free speech is a pot calling the kettle black