If God loves a trier, then the status quo hates a whistleblower. In any establishment’s antipathy of someone blowing the whistle, there is also the active condemnation of that person.

'We live in a world where a war has been described as a “situation” and been told that the incitement of violence is actually the practice of free speech, and therefore must be protected, in other words, allowed'

'Reflecting on life at the end of 2022, compared with your life towards the end of 2019, proves a useful exercise'

We know exactly what Fr Sheehy thinks about two people loving each other and we know what Elon dressed up for as Halloween, but have we paid these women and girls in Iran, who are risking it all to exercise their freedoms, as much attention or airtime?

'Many people's children, never mind grandchildren, will be in their late 70s when the reality of this is being lived out — we're no longer borrowing our children's future, we're burying it after cremation'

"Back home it looks like the empire next door is falling to pieces but walk its streets and it's business as usual"

This week a study found that Ireland ranked second worst out of 38 OECD countries for parental leave and worst for public family policies

When I was pregnant, the resolve to "be healthier" strengthened. Increasing the water consumption and not letting seven hours pass between meals were top of the list — endeavours I'd historically failed at over the years.

Last Sunday two things happened in Ireland. In the first half of the day, Tommy Tiernan’s testimony about his recent trip to Somalia was published in a Sunday paper.

For the majority of us, we get to keep our houses and affairs private, but for the royals, they walk the line of grieving in public with all their dirty laundry on display