'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

"The rise in unseen financial demands is really here ... and this week it arrived with a thud"

"While we busy ourselves in the comparison of two princesses and the dissection of Meghan, in 2022, isn't it time we took a look at ourselves, and the systems and platforms we use, populate and participate in?"

Be it young, dancing female prime ministers, high-profile, well-paid female broadcasters, or prolific producers of top-quality entertainment, there are some of us who are comfortable with women and power, and there are some of us who are not.

Childcare must be recognised as a critical infrastructure to the economy to allow women to remain active in the workforce