'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

In combatting diet culture and the thin ideal, individuals are trying to face off centuries of fat phobia on their own, in a society that holds slim as a sacred virtue

When are we all going to get serious about tackling male violence?