"This year the stakes have never been higher for Christmas. There's a lot riding on Christmas"

Christmas mass on Zoom; agnostic, atheist, or lapsed follower of faith, there will be no in-person rendition of 'Silent Night' or the spine-tingling witnessing of a singer reach the dizzyingly high notes of 'O Holy Night'.

With the binary nature of the internet — the place where conversations around social justice issues now tend to take place — wokeness has turned into war, writes Joyce Fegan

Girls are growing up in the world we have created for them. We are responsible for that. And we are responsible to help them navigate it, not vilify them for speaking out

When it comes to crimes of a sexual nature, offences that disproportionately affect women, the victim is always to blame in the court of public opinion, the perpetrator a ghost-like figure with no agency of his own, writes Joyce Fegan

With so much uncertainty surrounding the festive season this year, here are some ways to save Christmas: donate to charity, shop local, support Irish retailers, oh, and please, please boycott Amazon

What Donald Trump does is he pulls people towards the values of security, and he does this by priming them with fear first, and then offers security, says Joyce Fegan

For too long, survivors of sexual violence have been trained to deny that crimes were even committed against them, says Joyce Fegan

We are all more stressed because of Covid-19, but that cannot be blamed for the increase in domestic and sexual violence

We've had it all along. It is literally in our hands. We are not passive actors. We can make these next six weeks count. If enough of us do the right thing we can rapidly reduce the Covid-19 in our communities