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?

Have we become so used, so immune, to the homeless crisis, that we have lost touch with the human beings behind the numbers?

With just eight years left of the IPCC's predicted 12 years to limit climate catastrophe, Joyce Fegan speaks to the environmental activists planning to make 2023 the year the world pays attention

This week it was announced that Formula One drivers will be banned from displaying political or religious statements without prior approval from next season. It has all the hallmarks of what goes on over at Fifa

Just like Shane MacGowan and Kirsty MacColl's enduring work of art, Christmas, like life, is a bit more shades of grey than one red-and-green colour palette fits all