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

The pandemic and the climate crisis might seem like two very different beasts, but they're not

Dangerous disinformation about mask-wearing, herd immunity and a weakened strain of Covid-19 is spreading faster than the virus.

People are become dependant on the dopamine hits generated by  the likes of Twitter

"Imagine, if like alcohol, we gave up social media for a month. What could we turn all that profitable attention to? We could combat climate change or help a neighbour instead of posting conspiracy theories on Facebook"